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Elon’s being weird again. Threatening everyone on twitter for calling his weird friends weird.

I love this new direction on the Musk free speech platform

They really hate being called 'weird,' huh?

I mean like... I've been called 'weird' my whole life and pretty much immediately started owning it. But I'm also much more the 'makes art from discarded items' weird and less the 'show us your genitals' weird.

They use it like a slur lol

Years ago I casually mentioned that I'm weird to my pro-trump dad and his wife and they got bafflingly offended and insisted that I'm NOT weird.

Being abnormal is the worst thing to those people because they've always wanted it to have a death sentence.

It's kind of funny to see them use it like that because I've been 'weird as a point of pride' for like 30 years. Essentially 'you can't call us that, that's our word for making fun of you!'

Elon actually called it a 'slur' and is trying to prevent people on Twitter from using it. Like... yall want to be oppressed so bad.

I love how benign it is. You can call someone a fascist for years and they don't even blink, bur call them 'weird....' love it.

fascists goal is to become mainstream and normal. In his book The Authoritarians, Bob Altemeyer found that people who scored high on an authoritarian scale would say that they would want to be around the middle of the scale, while medium and low authoritarians would say that they would like to be low on the scale. Altemeyer notes that when asked, high authoritarians tend to rank "being normal" as one of the best things a person can be. This is why when you call them a fascist, they can brush it off like it's nothing, but when you call them weird it hurts so bad. The thing they want the most is to be normal. They want their bigotry, their hatred, their violence to be normal. And it is vital that we do not allow that. They are not normal, they will never be normal and we will make sure that they are not normal. Always push back on their ideas, call them on how weird they are, and organize against them to make sure they stay weird.

the most annoying takes right now are the people twitter theorizing about why calling conservatives & fascists "weird" is Bad Actually and listen i'm sorry you missed the memo but there is no greater moral or philosophical purpose to this besides cyberbullying them in a way that actually hurts their feelings and diminishes their sway. they love portraying themselves as normal and they love being portrayed as evil and powerful. they extraordinarily hate being seen as weird little freaks everyone laughs at. i believe in the human capacity to hold both weirdo, freak, pervert (highly affectionate) and weirdo, freak, pervert (extremely derogatory) and to know the difference between them

One of the foundational cornerstones of fascist self-justification is that secretly everyone thinks and feels the same way they do, but normies are all too afraid of societal backlash to speak up, so they're doing us a favor by saying it out loud, and it's inevitable and good and just that one day they'll win.

Saying instead, no, I think you're weird and a freak (and not even in a frightening way, just an embarrassing way), is in fact phenomenally disrupting to this whole paradigm, and that's why it fucks them up so much.

“The Republican digital ecosystem is much more decentralized than its liberal counterpart. During the 2010s, spearheaded by publishers like Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, and Ben Shapiro, conservatives learned that if they threw enough racist 4chan posts at the wall, and then aggregated them for platforms like Facebook, some of it would eventually bubble up onto cable news and break through. This strategy does not work now, though. First, the age of algorithmic video is a very different beast than the Facebook era. Most Americans’ timelines are not full of content being shared by friends and family, but, instead, content delivered via algorithms made by strangers and professional posters. And, two, after a decade of exclusively reading the most insane internet content to ever exist, most conservatives have become impossibly weird.

And this weirdness is exactly what the Democrats are now attacking directly. I mean this literally. The official X account for the Democrats posted over the weekend that Trump is “old and weird.” That was it, that was the whole post lol.

And being weird is a hard thing for Trump and his supporters to refute because, yeah, they are. Libs Of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik spent the weekend proving no one in her life cares about her enough to do a wellness check, feverishly sharing out-of-context queer fetish content, stolen TikToks from trans teenagers, and innocuous videos of drag queens and black women, claiming that no, it is, actually, the libs who are weird, not her. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, Jr., a bunch of evangelical Christians, and various QAnon landlords thought the best way to prove they aren’t huge fucking weirdos was to admit they got scared by the Olympics opening ceremony. Vivek Ramaswamy got ratio’d by the Menswear Guy after he tried to prove he wasn’t weird in a post that, also, accidentally revealed he doesn’t know how to wear shoes. And Robert F. Kennedy hung out with Hawk Tuah girl at a karate match at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville. Great stuff. Not weird at all. You’re all doing great.”

Two wonderful lines from this:

Amen Brother u_u A-Fucking-Men u_u u_u

libsoftiktok going after a beloved inventor furry for some reason

if you're wearing a fitbit, you're using spottacus's technology. be grateful.

oh boy

he has a picture of an asriel (in hyperdeath form) dakimakura on his website

Republicans are such weird creeps >:T

I think it's a bit silly when people are like "democrats shouldn't be attacking republicans by calling them Weird, that's just entrenching Normalcy and Weirdness as cultural concepts." first off they're already pretty well entrenched without the DNC's help. second, reactionary forces draw a significant amount of their ideological power from the idea that they represent the forces of Healthy, Normal, Natural Behavior against the Degenerate Freaks. Working to erode that is a good thing!

Yeah, and also like: Republicans started calling this shit a culture war for a reason.

Whether we like it or not, we are(and have been for decades) fighting over what it is and isn't acceptable to be, because Republicans decided to start a fight over it. It SHOULD be acceptable to be gay, to be queer, to be a childless woman, to be multiracial. This stuff is, and BY RIGHTS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, "Normal".

Likewise, hating people for being these things, wanting to have the legal right to attempt to force ppl to STOP being queer or childless or multiracial(and what does that even means??!?!?), should be considered "Weird" or, even better!, CREEPY, because it demands an authority over other people's lives that is unnatural, destructive, invasive, and insulting.

Republicans have called us freaks for decades and when they have what they've meant is "unacceptable", "unnatural". But we ARE Acceptable and we ARE Natural. We are HERE and so we are **MEANT** to be here. THIS is our Place and WE BELONG. People who think they are magic; who think they are God's Own Special Little Wizards divinely invested with the knowledge of How Things Should Be(damn you're lying eyes!) and the power to dictate to other people who they are and how they should live ARE Weird Gross Freaks. They ARE Irrational Ridiculous Creeps. They ARE Arrogant, Self-Deluded Tyrants. There's nothing wrong with telling them that.

The way Republicans talk about and treat other people is Gross and Creepy and Cruel and NOT HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BEHAVE!

It isn't Civil, It isn't Polite, It damn-sure isn't Kind, and it's about fucking time our political leaders started saying so.

Last week if you told me you had "Trump accuses Kamala Harris of racefaking in front of an audience of black journalists" on your bingo card, I would've chastised you for an incredibly poor-taste joke, but apparently you can mark that square today

In case you thought I was making an incredibly poor-taste joke,

So, something to understand is that he does not listen to his advisors or follow the strategy they set out for him, almost ever. His campaign strategists and advisors have been pretty staunchly pushing the GOP and the public-facing side of the campaign to avoid attacks on the basis of race or gender, because it loses them poll numbers and gains her support. This hasn't stopped him, or any of the other Republicans, they just can't help themselves, but his advisors are practically begging him to cut this shit out. The other important thing to understand about this event is that the appearance was cut short because his own campaign requested they end it, that's how bad a job he did following his advisors' strategy

This panel was set for an hour, his advisers had to cut the panel short and pull him away because he was so bad during the whole thing.

Also, if you watch this video, the FIRST THING he's going to do is start complaining about how THEY made him wait to avoid answering the interviewer's first question and I just want to set this straight: The ACTUAL reason it's start was delayed is he spent, like 30 MINUTES trying to browbeat them into A Promise Not to Do Live Fact-Checking of anything he said.

creeps 👁👁

Sophie Turner talking about adult people waiting for the cast of Stranger Things in order to take their photos to then abuse them when they refuse.