No, you can’t has a normalization!
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This is what I have been trying to say all along! It stings them worse than pointing out their fascist tendencies, because they still pretend that they are normal in some way. Their whole con is built upon being the “silent majority”, so exposing them as exactly that which they spend so much time demonizing is like salt on these slugs.
And that is what needs to be hammered home: these are perverts in the original sense. They take values like self determination and twist them, using them to hurt others. They are frauds: corrupt, hollow shells like something out of a David Lynch movie.
Terms like “fascist” or “socialist” are too abstract for most, but “weird” and “creepy” are visceral, and grab attention. Especially when instead of embracing the weird, the target falls into frantic denial.
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Also, who sits down to eat at the register?
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There does need to be an intervention with whatever is going on on that plate - a splodge of tomato sauce abandoned in a quadrant of plate and that hot dog appears to be leaking mustard. 
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How did you know that the couch was beige?
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Well, in many diner type places (such as local places or at like chain places like Waffle House) there is counter seating and it’s right up to the register. 
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Vance has to sit at the counter because they are worried about what he will do to the bench and booth cushions. 
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I’m sure that Vance can phone up David Cameron to commiserate about being called out on his choice of paramours.
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It’s in the seldom-quoted footnotes on page 180 of Hillbilly Elegy.
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Good weird
Creepy weird
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I find “weird” a frustratingly mild and genteel substitute for “fascist monsters who will destroy everyone and everything you care about”. I mean, they ARE weird, but it feels like criticizing Hitler solely on his choice of mustache. But if it seems to actually be working, I guess I’m all for it.
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Oof. Those later Narnia books got…well…weird!
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The Republican Party has spent years selecting for creepy edgelords.
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All these years we thought laughing at fascists was their weak point. Turns out there’s something they can stand even less.
I wonder who came up with this brilliant strategy. And whether it works on other fascists. Has anyone tried calling the AfD seltsam or Fratelli d’Italia strani?
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MAGA has been deeply, unsettlingly, uncanny valley inhuman for a long time. It’s good that this is now the focus.
It’s not even “mean” or any stretch of the truth: these people twist themselves into the strangest cultural knots to achieve party purity. The brain worms do not lead to well-adjusted individuals.
About time people consistently named why they’re uncomfortable when these people speak.
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There’s so much speculation going on about this photo I feel compelled to weigh in.
The Hot Dog is clearly drenched in what counts as “chili” and “cheese” in a chili cheese dog. On a seemingly untoasted bun.
The dollop of red stuff is clearly the stuff he dips his fries in: cord blood.
And he sits near the register because otherwise no one will get within 10 feet of him.
Hope that clears everything up 
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