• DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Two types of fascists:

    • Popular kids who peaked in high school and become losers in real life, so hierarchal philosophies make their pathetic ass relive the glory days

    • Nerds who were bullied by the former, but either go fash so they can finally be the popular lovable assholes they wish they were.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      I think that’s missing a few important elements, like later modest success in a capitalist context leaving someone with some land and capital and all the reactionary material interests that go along with that. There’s also increasing evidence that high school (and college, and professional) football inevitably results in personality-altering brain damage as just a normal and inevitable part of it, even without big discrete impacts or diagnosed concussions, which can further increase the risk factor for fascist brainworm infections when it goes along with other risk factors like a loss of special good boy status or land and business ownership.