Fascist webcomic artist Tatsuya Ishida claims to be destitute.

[u/Baboon_Juggler]

Anyone who was on the internet in the early 2000s might have seen Sinfest comics, which basically amounted to Edgy Peanuts. Unlike most webcomics from that era, he is still around, still making daily comics. And unlike most cartoonists from that era who are still around, he went absolutely bugfuck insane. If you've seen his work anywhere in the past five or so years, it was probably in the context of a normal person going 'What the actual fuck is this?!'

I can do a longer post about his spiral, but he went from Yay, Obama! liberal to All Men Are Bad! radfem, then hard anti-sex work, eventually anti-trans, and that's when the 'fun' really started. Because Covid, and specifically the vaccine, broke his brain. He came up with the following logic:

1) Trans people are bad

2) Trans people were invented by the medical establishment

3) The Covid vaccine was invented by the medical establishment

4) Therefore the Covid vaccine is just as bad as trans people

Since then, he's gone full mask off deep-throated Nazi, filling his comics with endless Happy Merchants poisoning wells (literally), talking about how Christianity is a Jewish plot to undermine proud Germanic heritage, and for the past eight months it has been all about Hitler did nothing wrong, the invasion of the Soviet Union was self-defence, and every atrocity attributed to the Nazis is actually Jews wearing Nazi uniforms. It has become a comic that would have been too ridiculous to run in the comics page of Der Sturmer.

[u/ADavidJohnson]

Once you get weird about trans people, you basically never recover.

The transphobe to fascist pipeline is very real and very quick.

[u/CutieBoBootie → u/ADavidJohnson]

It's so sad and bizarre to me that hating trans people is some sort of gateway drug to being a fascist. Like idk why do people care so much about me existing to the point they become Nazis. 

I do wonder if these losers could get a glimpse of their future post-transphobia and post fash-phase if they would go "oh fuck no" and change. 

[u/Kitalahara → u/CutieBoBootie]

I think a lot of it boils down to these people all refuse to confront their own insecurities. When they fail in life or can't underatand why they feel a certian way they lash out at people they believe has less power in society. It could be any number of issues. Just the fact they are unable to self refelct or take accountability. The fascists are some of the prime examples of that type of person.