For me the easiest tell is the up front, unprompted, and unsolicited declaration of nonpoliticalness. When someone takes the time and expends the breath to announce how nonpolitical they are, what follows is almost always a rant about how everything/everyone else is too political these days, and that of course leads into something between status quo advocacy and outright reactionary/regressive sentiments for some fabled time before those wicked politics were visible to the nonpolitical ranter. centrist

People that are hostile to service workers. Some just want to take some ideological stand against tipping when the service worker doesn’t really have a choice and needs those tips to survive in the current unjust system in a way where ideological purity gestures toward that service worker just look like being a greedy and sanctimonious asshole. The worst of such people will actually declare, shamelessly, that they believe that service workers don’t deserve a living wage. The implications of that are gulag worthy.

I may get shit for this, but I’ll say it anyway: this hair and beard combo, seen on living people. yes-chad I have yet to meet anyone in person with that look that wasn’t a chud.

(If one of you is a comrade with that look, I am sorry in advance for the prejudice and if I ever meet you in person I will atone by buying you a drink or something.)

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    I think we have at least two of them on this board who are really defensive about the validity of Justified Genocide ™ in Goblin Slayer.

    We have, yeah.

    I remember one such cryptofascist weeb claiming, Thermian Argument and all, that “according to the setting’s lore, the goblins are not conscious or sapient! They’re more like a fungus that requires sexual violence on non-goblins to reproduce! That makes genociding them cool and good and funny actually!” morshupls

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Tell me about it

      Ah, but have you considered that because the characters say sexual violence is bad, that means its lurid depiction of sexual violence is good and also not lurid because I totally think women’s spines bend that way! Are you saying sexual violence shouldn’t be depicted? Should such topics be censored?! Because clearly if it is to be depicted, this is the best way to do it!