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Consider: making fun of the way they look not only hurts anyone who looks like them through no fault of their own (say, can only afford a shitty cut once every few months) but actively plays into the hands of those shitheels - they made you do a classism.
Let’s ridicule them for their garbage beliefs and their shitty actions; they sure deliver plenty of those.
do you have any thoughts on why these wealthy and powerful public figures have all chosen this extraordinarily unusual aesthetic
Yeah, why do they dress expensively but shit? My suspicion is so that the kind of elites the Kravattennazis don’t like can snub them. Gives them street cred, the “elites” don’t like them!
The British elected a guy who wears a mop on his head. You cannot convince me that is his actual hair.
I still have occasional intrusive visions of Johnson busting into an unattended supply closet in the Palace of Westminster to steal a fresh mop head, shouting, "BLOODY LABOUR NICKED ME TOUPÉE!"
@istewart @techtakes Spoiler: it's not his natural hairstyle, he's been caught deliberately mussing it up before going on camera. Also, his friends and family call him "Alex" (short for Alexander), not "Boris". It's all an act.
He's really sold the bit, hasn't he?
Yet, if you cover up his hair, he easily scans as "generic English aristocrat."
And his actual name, Alexander de Pleffel-Johnson, also scans “generic English aristocrat.”
Hence the stage personality.
mild guess: "golden boys, with the the 30+ years required to look Politically Evolved"? and of course the selection factors involved from even just getting to that point and the stylist/image handling that that involves
there's also an element of the system does as designed, and there's an element of self-reinforcing delivery/production of these ghouls
Oddly parodied before it happened in the tv series community (the dad of the somewhat racist main character. The dad itself is very racist).
E: I do wonder what Javier Milei looks like if he would dye his hair
You can excuse racism?
he would continue to look like shit
People probably asked the same question about the first Habsburgs.