#aesthetics of fascism

[bandofchimeras]

this also has me thinking about increasingly realistic gore, violence and militarization of aesthetics in video games. it smells like fascism bc frankly it's an aesthetic development towards fascism in our culture. Ever wonder why fucking everything in the US is gunmetal gray and navy and black and dun lately, houses and cars and furniture?

I'm not saying "video games and Halloween decor causes violence" I'm saying there is overt evidence of both our overall desensitization as the audience for the spectacle of violence, and that as people harden and care less about eachother it is reflected in the overall aesthetic sensibilities of entertainment and production

Is it is just me or have Halloween decorations gotten more unhinged violent and gore fetishizing in the past decade

Something about white people hanging corpses from their trees and limbs everywhere and bloody violated looking effigies of children doesn't sit well w me

esp watching the physical impact of bombing and massacres live on Instagram over the past year I feel unsettled and heavy.

Spiderwebs and haunting faces and skeletons and monsters and pumpkins and rats and bugs and ghouls and folk figures and vampires yay

dismembered children's corpses maybe please not???? it's kinda sick to make everyone who drives by your house see that

[sporesgalaxy]

the truth about me is that i get so insanely mad every time im reminded of the barben heimer phenomenon. we could have laughed at the bizarreness of quasi-modernized cold war propoganda and how out of touch with reality that propoganda has always been but instead they erected a pathetic simulacrum of the doom crossing momeny by way of aesthetic resemblance alone

[bullshityounot]

[beauty-funny-trippy]

[whywoulditho]

i was doing a rewatch of nickelodeon's victorious and there's about twenty thousand things wrong with that show but one thing that really struck me was the character of jade and how she's the shallowest representation of an 'alt girl'. and this is definitely an issue that mainstream media is still suffering from but it's like at that time they had absolutely no idea how to write a goth girl. i can assure you it is so much worse than you remember.

i don't think they were going for a specific subculture when they picked out her outfits, they kind of just threw a bunch of styles together to create 'some sort of an alt girl'. her outfits looked like a softer/more casual version of trad goth, i think. since she would be wearing them to school or in her daily life i think the outfits were fine. but they failed with her personality SO BAD.

because tell me why this "goth girl" was a loud transphobe and a misogynist. this girl insulted other people's looks, their weight, their outfits ALL THE TIME. she made fun of "manly looking girls" and i know robbie possibly being a trans boy was a laughing stock for the whole show but it was still so weird seeing jade, with her red doc martens and fishnet stockings and a hairdye that would send conservatives into the grave even today, make jokes about it.

i get that this show is from 2013 and on nickelodeon so they couldn't be *gasp* queer allies BUT even for that time, her being misogynistic is fucking ridiculous... she would call girls ugly back and forth, she would make everyone feel bad about everything about themselves for fun. that wasn't something tori or cat or even trina would do, only jade because she was "an angry person". not to mention they painted her to be this dangerous, violent person that would threaten to harm people if they so much as looked at her wrong.

and the thing is, gothics are angry people. but their anger is towards inequality, patriarchy, fast fashion/consumerism, corrupt governments. hollywood looks at these kind of subcultures in the most surface level way possible, they focus on the part that they're angry people, and never stop to ask what they're angry about.

and this is NOT just lazy writing. because if you want to depoliticize the youth you start by making up rumors about the politicized youth. you push this literal propaganda in mainstream media until the vast majority of your country is convinced that hippies are junkies, punks are violent, goths are scary. alt people are weird and angry and dangerous. you make jokes about it, you use their names like an insult, and if you do it well and for long enough, no one will take them seriously anymore. no one will stop to ask alt people what they believe in and what they stand against. they'll just see them as soft kids looking for attention.

so we end up with characters like jade west, who could only have two effects on society, both of them in favor of a corrupt government looking to depoliticize people. 1) she would make goth/alt people seem too angry and violent so parents would be cautious of them and never take them seriously, 2) she would take all the political and philosophical aspects out of this subculture so the next generation of girls would just buy goth clothes from hot topic and never understand what the subculture actually stands for.

[a-girl-called-bob]

[thatfanfictionchick]

[kkarmalade]

[yoan-le-grall]

[rustchild]

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[ajmakoko]

Summary of what may have happened: Trump is a Russian asset working for Putin (see American Kompromat by journalist Craig Unger or Active Measures documentary with Hillary Clinton). Trump stole election software in 2020 (see below). Starlink, Elon's satellite company was installed in voting tabulation machines across the country. In September, Politco had an investigation finding Russian malware on a state voter registration database. Also there were malicious fake texts and fake DNC organizations likely fishing voter info. Elon and Trump are working together. Elon had results of election on an app 4 hours before official counts had it. They will release more info admitting their fraud because they are a Russian asset trying to start a civil war here (speculation).

Also speculation, and please do your own citizen journalism, are reports of widespread ballot rejection, especially for signatures. There are articles claiming already that it is because GenZ does not know cursive - except the signature simply must match your driver's license. It's not a cursive writing test.

https://fortune.com/2024/11/07/gen-z-voters-basic-skill-signing-names-vote-counting-chaos-election-official/

https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-voters-struggle-signatures-cast-mail-ballot-problems-2024-11

Imo Russia did a 3 pronged attack: ballot signature denials for younger leftists, especially college students; tabulation manipulation; and text fishing which especially impacted 45-65 year olds who aren't as internet scam savvy but still have access to phones and use them.

News Links

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/10/pro-trump-dark-money-network-tied-to-elon-musk-behind-fake-pro-harris-campaign-scheme/

Fishing scam to get voter info tied to Elon Musk

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/trump-infiltrate-voting-machines-georgia-2020.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/inside-georgias-effort-to-secure-voting-machines-as-experts-raise-concerns

Trump campaign stole software from voting machines in 2020

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnewsvideo/comments/1gnxqmw/elon_musks_company_starlink_praised_by_tulare/

Starlink was used this election

nbcnews.com/news/ncna1112436

'Online and vulnerable': Experts find nearly three dozen U.S. voting systems connected to internet

politico.com/news/2024/09/01/us-election-software-national-security-threats-00176615

Russian malware found in voter registration database

Personal Testimony from the Literal Foreign Assets Trying to Kill Us

https://grabien.com/story.php?id=499986

Joe Rogan says Elon had data for election results on his phone 4 hours before official counts via a personal app

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-airs-melania-trumps-nudes-primetime-1982683

" [Melania, naked] lying on a blue carpet with the U.S. seal, as though the editors of lthe men’s magazine knew something in advance about the future of their model."

They are just confirming she’s their asset.

youtube.com/live/HBPNfAUPz08?si=PZQa_D_wbN9VoA6y

In the first minute, Trump says:

"Your votes are rigged. We can win New Mexico."

"Too Big to Rig" (Russian sarcasm)

"If you can watch your vote counter, if we can bring God down from heaven (he's referencing Starlink), we can win this, win California, win a lot of states."

youtu.be/Zmc0EN8XAY8?si=5u_mJNte37r4JmUb

"Our little secret is having a big impact"

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Djinn_kazama (@/devildjinn) via instagram

[hazardsoflove]

finding out jackboot jump is hozier’s least streamed song is crazy

[olddustorange]

yayyy i actually really like the Jason Todd is Ugly discourse and i think its a lot of fun and i wish we had it more because it is so fun

[sleepymountainman]

[pochapal]

associating the gold with kinzo's occultism...thinking thoughts here. thoughts that correlate to some of the more obvious darker political associations of mid 20th century western aesthetics married with certain strains of occult practice and then also considering the intersection of gold with all of these things.