bigotry and hate comes from weakness. As pointed out, American society atomizes to the deepest infinitesmal possible, therefore any fascism made in its image carries that along with it to its detriment (probably a good thing tbh). In a bourgeois context, it makes for an identity that can't coalesce materially outside of specific circumstances. For most, it is only emergent in an ephemeral, non physical sense. These 'highborn' individual sticks of the fasces are only bound in spirit and likeness, coming from a cohort that has been taught from birth that they are a main character.
The collective identity is one of atomized white men with specific class identities trying to singularly assert a one man will to power narrative, and it doesn't fucking work except that it cultivates a stock of loyal sychophantic influencers that the ruling class can select from to spread 'useful' lumpen messaging and to-fascism pipelines, as if they were speaking from their own mouth. That said, I think this the face of their influencers, and is not the entire picture. It would be a mistake to think this is the depth of that movement.
Another side of fash are the militias and gangs whose leaders are almost universally informants and state assets, and I think these really don't fit any kind of "soy" narrative, but are, in fact, fairly dangerous outfits that, if the domestic fascism has any kind of coherent organizational structure, will be the vanguard when that movement makes its move for overt power, which I do think is somewhat inevitable if the movement isn't properly crushed or if political circumstance doesn't take the wind from its sails.
These are a PMC type role for this new fascism, and yeah it's pathetic the same way a lanyard is.
To me it's a sign that there are parallel social structures and identities being built to serve the needs of the far right. It's long in the making - you can properly trace this stuff back to before most people alive right now were even born - we are witnessing a pretty mature movement midst a metamorphosis that seeks to use the united states and its failing institutions as a chrysalis.
Any kind of replacement of a state needs either access to extant civil/cultural structures, or to build paralllel ones - it's a step the left needs to take some day as well - but the far right has always been several steps ahead of the left in this regard, and I think these soy nazi dorks are just a sign that they're starting to populate non-essential roles of the society they want to build
bigotry and hate comes from weakness. As pointed out, American society atomizes to the deepest infinitesmal possible, therefore any fascism made in its image carries that along with it to its detriment (probably a good thing tbh). In a bourgeois context, it makes for an identity that can't coalesce materially outside of specific circumstances. For most, it is only emergent in an ephemeral, non physical sense. These 'highborn' individual sticks of the fasces are only bound in spirit and likeness, coming from a cohort that has been taught from birth that they are a main character.
The collective identity is one of atomized white men with specific class identities trying to singularly assert a one man will to power narrative, and it doesn't fucking work except that it cultivates a stock of loyal sychophantic influencers that the ruling class can select from to spread 'useful' lumpen messaging and to-fascism pipelines, as if they were speaking from their own mouth. That said, I think this the face of their influencers, and is not the entire picture. It would be a mistake to think this is the depth of that movement.
Another side of fash are the militias and gangs whose leaders are almost universally informants and state assets, and I think these really don't fit any kind of "soy" narrative, but are, in fact, fairly dangerous outfits that, if the domestic fascism has any kind of coherent organizational structure, will be the vanguard when that movement makes its move for overt power, which I do think is somewhat inevitable if the movement isn't properly crushed or if political circumstance doesn't take the wind from its sails.
These are a PMC type role for this new fascism, and yeah it's pathetic the same way a lanyard is.
To me it's a sign that there are parallel social structures and identities being built to serve the needs of the far right. It's long in the making - you can properly trace this stuff back to before most people alive right now were even born - we are witnessing a pretty mature movement midst a metamorphosis that seeks to use the united states and its failing institutions as a chrysalis.
Any kind of replacement of a state needs either access to extant civil/cultural structures, or to build paralllel ones - it's a step the left needs to take some day as well - but the far right has always been several steps ahead of the left in this regard, and I think these soy nazi dorks are just a sign that they're starting to populate non-essential roles of the society they want to build