This is what happens when we dont have basic rights like universal healthcare or stable jobs. And the “lesser evil” political party has nothing to offer besides vague phony optimism.

More and more people are being pushed to the fringe right due to the failures of capitalism.

We need better.

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      Nah, it’s a warhammer dipshit, and everyone knows that warhammer “fans” never actually play the game because they’re too busy bitching about women custodes.

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        Average warhammer enjoyer: I am a power gamer and also cheat, all my armies are commission painted because I just want whatever is top of the meta on any given week, also the imperium of man is not satire it is actually awesome

        Me: I just like to glue elves together and paint them at a rate of about 5 figures per year. plastic machine go brrr

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          “NOOOOO Eldar are lame! If they’re so good, why don’t they like the space fascists?!?!”

          “Hehe this warlock has some funny space eel friends”

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            (I’m actually extremely slowly painting high elves for TOW, haven’t played 40k since the mid-2000s, that model is cool as hell tho it’s like the two eels from little mermaid)

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              Thanks, it’s sooo much better than the monopose warlocks GW sells (and cheaper to boot!). There’s also a secret third eel hiding behind her hand. You should post your elves to /c/hobby once they’re done! Always love to see people’s work.

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          I feel like the sort of person that is like that is actually a really tiny minority that takes up a lot of space by being loud, shit, and purchasing a lot of miniatures, and think that a “competitive community” that hasn’t kicked them out yet is the only “real” hobbyists.

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      this is so funny because there’s never been a better time in history for enjoyers of video game boobs. who cares if it’s in the base game? there’s mods, rule34s, source filmmaker porn, e-girl cosplayers, and now with AI you can easily generate all the vidya smut your horny little ass desires

      like our society literally could not cater more to the fantasies of the straight male gooner gamer and they’re still mad??

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        There’s tons of booba in the base game of current games. Don’t even talk about mods, because that shit gets real disgusting real quick

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    Brocoli hair is not an “immutable characteristic”

    Edit: * charactaristic

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    This is what happens when we don’t have basic rights like universal healthcare or stable jobs. And the “lesser evil” political party has nothing to offer besides vague phony optimism.

    More and more people are being pushed to the fringe right due to the failures of capitalism.

    Nah.

    These are just right-wing psychos.

    You don’t need to analyze literally everything through the lens of “the more-right-wing party won the latest bourgeoisie election which means everyone but me is right-wing”.

    Maybe there’s a case for left-wing propaganda not being widespread enough. But even in that case, I don’t think “capitalism is bad and causes all our problems” is some secret thing that young people have never heard.

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      I don’t think it’s a bad theory, although maybe there’s some recency bias in bringing up current US electoral politics to try to explain something much more general. Reactionary antisocial behavior is a consequence of alienation, i.e. people are pushed to the fringes because of capitalism’s failure to maintain the social bonds that stops people from becoming misanthropic edgelords like OOP.

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        Some people really want to moralize and get defensive when materialist explanations are given.

        We need to understand what causes fascists to exist if we want to eradicate them after all, and just believing they’re an eternal evil of the universe doesn’t help that. It’s not about whether they are good or bad, we are going to have to deal with them they stand in our way, and we want to study the phenomena and conditions of their absurd existence so we can prevent future fascists from developing once we take power.

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        Plus I think socialized medicine and healthcare would help a lot of problems fix themselves. Lets be real, a lot of these people are just sick in the head qnd desperately need help they probably cant afford. Im sure some of them would refuse but just having free access to that help would definitely have a positive long term impact.

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          Lets be real, a lot of these people are just sick in the head qnd desperately need help they probably cant afford

          Agreed, and alongside a whole host of other issues the most glaring ones are a colonial mentality/indoctrination, many over their whole life and even perhaps generations back. In truth as a PoC who came from a very mentally colonized family, a large chunk of PoC (of all communities) in the west, as well as across the world, also could use some serious help in this regard too.

          The medicine/healthcare they need is re-education, basically psychiatric help. Whether they will or can get it is another matter, and the extent of damage they will do in the meantime is immense.

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    “There’s nothing as toxic as unmet expectations.”

    Part of the problem here is that white cis hetero males are still bathed in sense that they should be on top of the pile throughout childhood and are suddenly getting dropped out of high school into a world where that’s no longer the case. Stable jobs and healthcare will help but I think this is also a situation where a cultural shift needs to happen.

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      I think it’s not even 100% a superiority thing, but the loss of position, purpose, place.

      Stable jobs and healthcare would do so much to defuse the “I need to outcompete/hobble everyone else to WIN” grindset hustle mentality.

      In my field (a “successful” one in the modern economy), the conventional wisdom is to intentionally change jobs every two years or so to get a bigger raise than loyalty yields. Other fields have either intentional high turnover or mismanagement that sabotages long-term employment. Nobody develops a pride of position and it creates more easily replacable workers. Of course this ripples to “nobody even stays in the same neighbourhood anymore” as we Grapes of Wrath ourselves across the map looking for opportunity.

      If you aren’t forced to chase the ever-moving brass ring, maybe you can find satisfaction in being part of long-lived communities which encourage mutual support. If you know your needs are going to be taken care of, different faces and lifestyles are less of a risk to destabilize your world.

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    What a loser lmao. I was a misanthropic teenager and even I wasn’t this cringe lol. If I’m giving teenage me props you’ve basically hit maximum loser points

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    corrupted our hobbies

    :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone:

    :cool-zone: FUCK OFF AND CREATE SOMETHING ON YOUR OWN PARASITE! :cool-zone:

    :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone: :cool-zone:

    There is a reason this demographic is 20-25, because they are a bunch of entitled coddled man-children who finally had contact with the cold harsh reality and they can’t cope. You grow out of it and later see it as cringe.