https://nitter.1d4.us/elonmusk/status/1629538776111280130
A 50 year old boomer is tweeting out furry twink erotica in a sad attempt to try to get people to like him, the future is wild
Tfw you're the engineer who gets fired when this tweet doesn't get enough engagement.
Musk is spiritually a redditor so I expect him to post things like this
All the bazingas I know think Elon is a genius who’s saving twitter money by firing useless engineers while he’s really living inside his office day and night posting Reddit memes and arguing with strangers
Elon is a genius in so far as he's figured out how to convince enormous numbers of people he's a genius without demonstrating any evidence to that effect
Also getting loads of government subsidies and tricking government officials he'll be useful like the Hyperloop garbage in LA
Showing this to my grandpa next time he says this is the smartest man on earth
"I don't get it, explain the joke to me?"
"Well, grandpa..."
So I'm one of those people who constantly beats themselves up over past things said or done that may have been cringe. Seeing this clown buy a website for $44 billion and then run it into the ground, while constantly posting extreme cringe that's seen by billions of people, definitely makes my past mistakes seem pretty tame in comparison.
There seems to be some strange mechanism among reactionaries in which they seem to be extremely horny for the people they hate. This is a fine example but you can find similar examples targeting the proletariat or the lumpen, targeting ethnic minorities or people in colonies.
How does this weird mixture of sex and supremacist hate work? It must serve some function in their worldview.
When you think of it hating the people you're horny for seems to be a reactionary staple. And it's not only minorities, they also love to slut shame heterosexual women for being too sexy, despite obviously desiring them.
A common explanation is that reactionaries use bigotry to hide their true sexual desires from themselves and their surroundings, ie. they are scared and ashamed of how much thinking about having gay sex turns them on so they double down on homophobia so nobody, themselves included, will think they're gay. While this might be true in some cases (like all those homophobic evangelical preachers being found having sex with male sex workers) I don't think it is the general case and using it has some potentially homophobic/transphobic connotations.
I think it works in a different way most of the time. Most homophobes are straight, most transphobes would never actually have sex with a trans person. To reactionaries sex is inherently shameful and undignified, due to the weird Victorian prudishness that still lingers in conservative ideology. Their misogyny makes them see sex as an act in which the dominant male part takes something from the conquered female part. They simply think of sexuality in the same way they think of bigotry. By sexualising the objects of their hate they are really denigrating them, and separating them from their ideal of the chaste Übermensch.
Dehumanization of "the enemy" leads to reactionaries viewing them as objects rather than people. They also view the women they're attracted to as objects. Perhaps the wires get crossed and they go from "women are attractive" to "objectified people are attractive".
