• @rtxn@lemmy.world
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      5110 months ago

      They’re angry because their own craniometry told them they were rejects.

      (tangential - Disco Elysium had some really funny racists. Fucking Measurehead.)

      • @LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml
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        I just started Disco ELysium and the last thing I did was talk to measurehead. Hot damn is “ham sandwich race” such a good racial insult

  • MadMaurice
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    To be fair this is not the first infamous fascist with a bad hairdo, but this one certainly raised the bar. It looks like a bowl cut, but with different size bowls used…

  • Phoenixz
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    His hair looks like it’s cosplaying the tesla cyber truck

    • Altima NEO
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      3010 months ago

      I mean there’s Boris Johnson and his goofy ass haircut.

      • @Denjin
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        It’s been reported by several people, both reporters and those close to Johnson, that his wild hair is an affectation, he intentionally roughs it up before he does anything in the public eye.

        • @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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          This. He’s trying to look goofy and harmless while being a vile, machiavellian, dangerous politician.

      • leo
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        I thought Boris was a case of a UK wide comb shortage

    • @jballs@sh.itjust.works
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      410 months ago

      Is there some sort of strategy going on here? Like, these dudes looked at Trump and whatever the fuck is happening on his head and went, “well if it worked for him it’ll work for me?”

      • @Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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        From what I read, yes, the idea is you see his picture, look him up and next thing you’re listening to his vile hatred.

        It probably works in Estonia 😂

  • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    Ugh seriously it’s so often these dipshits who think their race makes them special. Like I get that they probably are reaching deep into the barrel to find anything that makes them special it’s not like they can fall back on their personalities, intelligence, appearance, or achievement. So they’ve got to brag about not having much melanin when for other folks it’s just a physical feature we have that’s unfortunately got several centuries of baggage to it.

    • @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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      3210 months ago

      Like I get that they probably are reaching deep into the barrel to find anything that makes them special it’s not like they can fall back on their personalities, intelligence, appearance, or achievement.

      This one detail is responsible for the kernel of sadness I feel for many on the far right. These are despicable people who were once kids who just wanted to be grownups and do grownup things. And whether due to genetics or due to upbringing, anything else that might have given them a sense of pride and competence is not something they have. As you say - all they have left is trying to push others down, hoping this lands them on top. Damn it’s truly sad.

      • Scrubbles
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        1110 months ago

        Nail on the head. Racism now stems from people feeling like they’re no one, but they have an excuse to feel better than this person for an arbitrary reason so they take it.

        There’s a reason most of the racists are poor uneducated white people

        • @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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          910 months ago

          The thing is - I feel bad for them for feeling like they are no one, for feeling like this is all they have. I can pretty easily get myself into a mindset where I want to give some of these folks a hug, and tell them they matter. I think many of us have felt worthless at times, either due to circumstances, due to depression, whatever.

          But then I see what their voting habits are doing to this country and to our governing bodies, and that gets buried under piles of anger.

          • @eezeebee@lemmy.ca
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            110 months ago

            But then I see what their voting habits are doing to this country and to our governing bodies, and that gets buried under piles of anger.

            Unfortunately it’s a problem outside of Estonia, too

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        Exactly. Like I’m not going to pretend that racism isn’t a problem at all levels of society. But at a certain level of doing shit with my life worthy of pride people building their life around racism went from wrong and stupid to also being pathetic. Either your skin color is all you have going for you which is fucking pathetic or you’ve achieved something with your life and you still manage to think that your whiteness is one of your most important features which says something is seriously wrong with you. There’s no pride or specialness in being the cultural default.

        Like my family immigrated to America recently enough that where we’re from is slightly relevant to my life experiences, and so it has some value to me. But how could I be such a delusional jackass that I can’t see that in others. If grandpa was an immigrant well then I oughta welcome folks here like he wished he’d been welcomed. I appreciated getting to celebrate grandpa’s culture, so maybe other people would like to too and maybe I’ll enjoy celebrating other people’s culture. If America is better for folks like my family being in it then who am I to say other families can’t make it better too.

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    Found him. Rain Epler. He was environmental minister until 2021. He’s part of the conservative party.

    This is what he looked like in 2017 - a typical conservative type.

    • Nightwatch Admin
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      I swear, those (almost-)extremist-rightwing tossers are some kind of clones, remember Donald Trump, Geert Wilders and Boris Johnson? This guy fits right in.

      • haui
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        When I was underprivileged, uneducated youth, I got sucked into football hooligan/neo-nazi circles and actually met some „high ranking nationalist party members“. Two brothers, same haircut as this dude, 300 pounds, 30 yrs old and still living with their mommy in a smoke filled, dirty apartment with a giant swastika flag in the living room.

        Thats what got me out of fascist circles. I was so shocked that people looked up to these morons.

        This actually led to my belief that fascists actually mostly are uneducated and unloved people who get exploited by psychopaths. Those would one would need to take out (by legal means, naturally).

  • @Sarmyth@lemmy.world
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    3010 months ago

    I recall something about this with Boris Johnson being intentional. That may be what’s happening here. It’s so bad that your political opponents fixate on it, and half the articles written about you are about your dumb looks instead of your monstrous policies.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    It’s always remarkable to see what awful physical specimens these fascists and Nazis are.