Post AkbcYMu1LSqcjaQnrM by itty53@beige.party
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(DIR) Post #AkbbzhqrSuQFZTQR4y by stevesilberman@newsie.social
2024-08-03T23:21:45Z
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I know it's the general opinion that these mentions of Lecter are manifestations of dementia or syphilis, but I think they're more like Freudian slips: some part of his brain he can no longer control is acknowledging that he's a hollowed-out monster, an evil freak. https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/C-OYXt1ocfH?xmt=AQGzBvVgXrEdSCdlCgocsKMp4w1Ocb8rclv1F1jItTUtkQ
(DIR) Post #Akbbzilw2i4mQU812W by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-03T23:49:21Z
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@stevesilberman IDK I think it's just a thing that some guys do where they really like a certain movie tough guy or bad guy and just think about them all the time ... maybe even with pretenses of being interested in "film"It's the impulse that make dudes hang "Scarface" posters in their dorm.Over on tumbler this kind of obsession is called "having a blorbo" Lecter is just Trump's blorbo.
(DIR) Post #AkbcLBJx5vY738GxiC by VirginiaHolloway@urbanists.social
2024-08-03T23:53:13Z
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@futurebird @stevesilberman I think the "impulse that makes dudes hang Scarface posters in their dorm room" is a profound lack of imagination.
(DIR) Post #AkbcRmvgBDkRQa4Mng by tob@hachyderm.io
2024-08-03T23:54:24Z
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@futurebird @stevesilberman the best theory so far is that Trump's says cheese brain mixed up the meaning of the word "asylum."It doesn't really matter where it came from. Like the sharks. Like outlawing combustion engine cars. He babbles nonsense, and then it takes on a life of its own.
(DIR) Post #AkbcTTsnxsq0w4X3Oi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-03T23:54:38Z
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@VirginiaHolloway @stevesilberman Well I didn't say it was a particularly interesting blorbo
(DIR) Post #AkbcYMu1LSqcjaQnrM by itty53@beige.party
2024-08-03T23:55:37Z
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@futurebird @stevesilberman There's two things I think at play, you touch on one: Lecter was feared, if nothing else. Trump wants to be feared. So yeah, he'll appreciate the association. On a deeper level though, despite anyone including him knowing the difference between insane asylum and political asylum, the human brain doesn't care. The human brain has one entry way for that word, and anything secondary is just that, secondary. Cognitive framing is at play. By constantly referring to Lecter in relation to asylum he's building cognitive pathways in his base: whenever they hear asylum they'll picture Lecter first. That's the idea and the goal. Demonizing political asylum in the mind of the electorate. And before anyone thinks Trump is too stupid to do any of that, he doesn't have to realize any of it. Just his handlers who keep telling him to stick with it. And they absolutely realize this stuff, they play with cognitive frames routinely. Every day.
(DIR) Post #Akbd5COtPdhhidWh0a by franktaber@mas.to
2024-08-04T00:01:32Z
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@futurebird @VirginiaHolloway @stevesilberman I am partial to the explanation that he does not know the difference between "insane asylum" and "political asylum" and thinks that is what is going on at the border.
(DIR) Post #AkbdXf4iOXIOlAf06K by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-04T00:06:43Z
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@WesternInfidels @stevesilberman Tumblr culture is... Listen. I'm not even really from there. They just let me hang around. I never know what's going on exactly but it seems OK mostly.
(DIR) Post #AkcPsdXm4wmNtLJuZE by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-08-04T09:08:20Z
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@futurebird @WesternInfidels @stevesilberman tumblr culture is old yogurt come to life, surrounded by mysteriously empty containers, leaving you wondering: who would put an empty container back in the fridge?
(DIR) Post #AkhKqD6hs1RpLATzFI by funkula@goblin.camp
2024-08-06T18:03:57Z
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@chronos @futurebird @WesternInfidels @stevesilberman important to note that tumblr hasn't gotten any better, it's just stayed the same while everywhere else got incredibly worse
(DIR) Post #AkhKqEKZJy898RyZUW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-06T18:05:23Z
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@funkula @chronos @WesternInfidels @stevesilberman Very true. For one thing there is a corner of the place infested with TERFS for some reason. They are not treated well by most people there, but the people running tumblr haven't acted to deal with that with the zeal they have removed porn. And that is very questionable IMO.
(DIR) Post #AkhN3ZC9G9rJW8Wa2q by IntrepidVector@glaceon.social
2024-08-06T18:30:13Z
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@futurebird @funkula @chronos @WesternInfidels @stevesilberman@newsie.social even more than that, there's been this trend of trans women getting their posts taken down and their accounts nuked from space, for little to nothing.It became really visible when the CEO started harassing this one specific trans woman, even so far as to argue with her on another site