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  • JoBo
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    10 months ago

    Tate is just your common or garden sado-misogynist (reminds me a lot of this psychopath).

    Trump is a wannabe Putin and Musk is a wannabe Trump.

    The Fox News fascists are just amoral, well-paid lackeys.

    All risen or rising to prominence as part of the same global fascist spasm, of course. But Tate is street-fry. He poisons minds but he’s got no real power. And he’ll most likely disappear into obscurity very soon, like so many before him.

    • TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      He’s a symptom of the capitalist disease. Essentially, he’s what happens when a person is hollowed out and nothing remains except capitalist ideology. My point is that they’re all garden variety scum, but they’re uplifted into power by a cultural corruption that’s as old as consciousness. The religions of old warned about this kind of mental programming when the dominant form of ignorance on the planet was building pyramids and colluseums.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        In some ways he is. In other ways though, no he’s just a person who is like that. And speaking as a pagan you’re fucking insane if you think this wasn’t happening under pagan rule. Our rot is the same that the Roman republic had.

        Maybe something could’ve made him not this way, but he seems to have been emptier than most before anything. Whether or not their soul is still intact is a question for them and the gods to discuss. But the reality is that in a healthy ancient society he probably would’ve been either dealt with violently or expelled to die. In an unhealthy one, he’d’ve sought to build power with disaffected young men, raped unprotected women who were unable to defend themselves, and either come to power or died trying. Patriarchy is fucking old and he’s got it bad.

      • irmoz@reddthat.com
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        10 months ago

        Yes, such authoritarian charlatans are symptoms of capitalism. This does not mean they are in any way connected.