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Donald Trump, Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, joe Rogan and Alex Jones have done a fuckton of damage redefining masculinity to the White nationalist consensus (the warboys that won in November 2024)
When I was growing up the man code (circa 1982) was:
πΈοΈ DON'T launch the LGM-30 Minuteman nuclear-tipped ICBM. Evar. Even if the President of the United States orders you to. (He's bluffing.)
In the 1990s we learned women are perfectly capable of not launching the LGM-30 Minuteman nuclear-tipped ICBM.
And I wouldn't trust Joe Rogan to do the same.
Or, for that matter, President-Elect Donald Trump.
Don' youz dare call deez krumpen gitz Warboyz! Theyz don' even know a propa WAAAAAAAGH!
MOST DEEZ BOYZ GOTZ NO DAKKA!
I was thinking Immorten Joe's warboys from Mad Max / Furiosa ( Witness Me! ) rather than Space Orks. They don't have any ambition (nor are really allowed any in the States) except to throw themselves into the breach and hope for to be judged worthy by V8 / God-Emperor Trump.
And to be fair to them, our neglect to confined education to bottom-rung worker / soldier employment pipeline -- in which they're regarded generally as ineligible for human relationships -- really screws them over and our educations system cranks out these guys by the millions.
(I was one in the 1980s, before there was internet or alt-right and social media was local or constrained to tech nerds on BBS. But I was sexually frustrated enough to be a social hazard, and in retrospect, wonder how they figured I'd be able to learn math. As a neurodivergent, I eventually learned how to human through 12-step programs when I was 25. The education system has only gotten worse since, so the alt-right is flush with recruits like the Rebel Alliance after Alderaan.)