About Face: Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men (opens in new tab)

I really enjoyed reading this piece right up until he labeled Steve Bannon a fascist. Because this comment is so wildly nonsensical, I lost interest in the rest of the piece and hit the back button.

A wonderful exercise in forced narrative. A pastiche of turgid ramblings and half-glimpsed reasoning. A tour-de-force of self congratulation and confirmation biased wrapped in the used-toilet-paper-sheet of ideological agenda. As emetics go I can not recommend it highly enough.

urgh - so simplistic and completely without nuance, just merrily spinning it's own logic and coming to weird ultimate conclusions. This stuff is seductive because of it's format, but conspiracy theories also layer the logic on slowly until it's so thick you don't know where to begin to pick it apart.

Started out interesting, got out-of-hand pretty quickly.

I've been noticing lately how politically-motivated clubs constantly need to incense their base by exaggerating the problems of the era. This is true right or left. Be it "war on Christmas" or "polluting black punisher pickup-trucks of death" (i.e. this cartoon). I see it in newspapers, youtube videos, podcasts (even more balanced ones like Joe Rogan).

Of course, really in the end you can't put the blame on the pedagog. People opt-in to following angry blow-hards for a surrogate sense of purpose in their otherwise dull lives.

Are there really police forces in the US with large punisher skulls on the hood of their cars? Or on their uniform?

That was a giant logical leep pretty early in, I had to stop reading. He says his father was in the military which allows him to claim some kind of inherited expertise. That's not how it works. Making sweeping generalizations about uniform of the day when he isn't even familiar with that term is absurd. Tangential pathologic mental processes are going on here.

Not at all what I was expecting, but a great read nonetheless.

Loved it.

If you liked this, you should read Art Spiegelman's Maus.

Could use some editing but brings up some interesting points.

Wow. What a different website compared to most styles.

FWIW, my tastes in military attire run a bit old-school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Regiment_(United_S...

Oh, and the illustration of the poor peds being mowed down by the big truck - Bravo!

Long, slow, sardonic clap follows...

Funny how a complaint against dehumanization resorts to dehumanization.