Trump Taps the "Rootless White Male" Manosphere for ICE agents.
Alyssa Mercante's must-read article for The Guardian linked here.
A recent spate of posts has garnered attention, but Trump and his allies have long been using gaming imagery to mobilise a toxic subculture of ‘rootless white males’
Mercante traces the linking of the toxic Manosphere subculture—so incredibly present at the January 6th insurrection attempt—to election efforts spawn by Bannon and subsequently tapped last year by J.D. Vance, who urged them out to vote for Trump. So we have adolescent jerks who have been playing fantasy shoot-’em-up for years, who have digital dementia and have no prospects for a marriage and kids and maybe even a date, getting bonuses up to $70,000 to join plus access to WAR WEAPONRY and the permission to mask up so nobody can hold them accountable for what they do flooding ICE application sites. Great.
Also, of course, this new GAMER CAMPAIGN coincides with the notice that Hegseth is setting up a special National Guard contingent to monitor the elections next year.
Here’s the link to Mercante’s article.
And here are links to a few of ours that will deepen perspectives on what’s going on with these guys:
In the following article, we lay out the major groups that took part in January 6th. There are five CLUSTERS of them, and four of them are directly connected to toxic white male rage. Everybody in this country needs to understand this chart.
Misogyny, Terrorism and the Manosphere
To view a larger (actually readable!) interactive version of this map, compiled by the University of Maryla…
And one from our sister site that lays out the four major types of groups that make up the Manosphere. They’re all dangerous to women, but also to democracy. They want control of it all.
Ok, more to come … Meanwhile, stay out there. Go to rallies. PROTECT THE VOTE. Protect each other.
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Good LORD!!! That picture of the orange pedophilic sadist is truly unbelievable. I just saw the video of this fat old, confused, clumsy man who was very unsteady on his feet amble aimlessly around the formal greeting area in Japan. It was horrible to know that this is our "leader". And then for someone to have the gall to post that picture of Dear Leader as a handsome, fit, military man (bone spurs, anyone?) is nauseating. Will someone not rid us of this meddlesome man?