I have no idea who this Destiny mf is but he is giving me some very strong Ben Sharpiro vibes. Just talks really fast with rapid fire bad faith arguments and dragging things down to the lowest common denominator.

It's fun watching Big Dick Wolff get really irritated by this little shit stain lol.

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    liberal sophistry, and the inevitable repressed fascistic urges that go along with it

    I've always been interested in this. What do you think it is about libs that give them said repressed fascistic urges?

    • duderium [he/him]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism

      edit: also:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny_(streamer)

      Steven Kenneth Bonnell II, known as Destiny, had a pretty rough life. He is basically a case study in fascism and fits with Reich's thesis pretty well. (Sorry to keep beating this horse.) He had a very religious, petite bourgeois upbringing, and his petite bourgeois life collapsed just as he was entering puberty. The conservative petite bourgeois was proletarianized. All of this must have made his sex life frustrating, to say the least. His weird approach to sex is probably what makes his politics so fucked up. Basically, in his mind, because he is not allowed to enjoy sex, and because all sex must take place in order to serve the established order (women must be babymaking machines so that capital can keep consuming human flesh), the entire world must suffer—all of us have to pull together to support capitalism / Biden / dad. Of course he would deny all of this if you asked him. Any questions about it would enrage him. The process is mostly unconscious.

      I mean, Steve has a girlfriend and doesn't have any kids abandoned his son to play video games, but my guess is that he has a lot of weird habits and inner monologues, and feels guilty every time he has sex without getting his girlfriend pregnant. When he runs into socialists, who are clearly in favor of total sexual liberation—meaning that people have a right to enjoy safe sex without necessarily having shitloads of babies—he goes completely nuts.

      Steve also managed to use Twitch to escape the proletariat and return to his petite bourgeois status, which means he thinks that the system works. To say that actually, it was his privilege as a white dude in the imperial core which enabled him to escape—and not necessarily any inherent skill—must also drive him out of his mind, since he is a g*mer and spends most of his life in neoliberal / fascist fantasy worlds where individual hard work and intelligence is literally the only factor in success.

      I'm looking through wikipedia's sources on Steve's life. This one from Mother Jones is alternately boring / hilarious / appalling:

      https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/destiny-twitch/

      edit: still reading. Steve also has weird issues with going to the bathroom. He streams for like twelve hours a day, doesn't eat, and takes one bathroom break. This reminds me of Jane Meyer writing about how the Koch brothers, as children, were ordered by their literal Nazi nanny to shit at exact times on command and (I believe) beaten if they were unable to comply. Freudians can rejoice, as Steve clearly has weird oral, anal, and phallic fixations. He is, both on the inside and outside, a total shitstorm of a human being who needs a lot of help. Had he never discovered Twitch, he probably would have committed murder-suicide in a mass shooting a long time ago, but thanks to the glories of capitalism, he is a Twitch millionaire we are discussing here on hexbear.

        • duderium [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Jesus I didn't know that. Feel sorry for the kid. Genetics is not destiny (lol) so although he's been dealt a shitty card right from the beginning, all we can hope for is that he'll be less of a shitty person than his dad.