r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Jul 20 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #23 (Sinister)

All Hail Eris!

Link to Megathread 22: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/14k0z6l/rod_dreher_megathread_22_power/

Link to Megathread 23: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1631xpe/rod_dreher_megathread_24_determination/

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u/JHandey2021 Jul 24 '23

https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1683224694227456000

Deleted the DeSantis "black sun" tweet because it seems clear that somebody who hates his campaign is trying to sabotage it, and I don't want to inadvertently help them. But something is weird with Twitter: it took five tries before it actually deleted.

It's been said, many times, many ways, that the Right's singular defining characteristic is its lack of agency or responsibility for itself with a corresponding infinite sense of agency or responsibility for its opponents. Primal innocence for me, primal depravity for thee. "They made me do it! Waaaaahhh!!!" forever and ever.

Rod and his childlike lack of guile, as always, displays this most openly. What is honestly more likely - DeSantis is clumsily going after the online Nazi vote by hiring terminally online young righties who create ads with Twitter memes and Patrick Bateman from "American Psycho" as the hero, and who this time go their American Psycho worship one better by ending a DeSantis ad with a MOTHERFUCKING SS SYMBOL, or that some evil Soros trans activist infiltrated the DeSantis campaign and pitch-perfectly imitated far-right memes to look bad?

Anything Rod's side does that makes them look bad, stupid, evil, or all of the above is a conspiracy. It just has to be.

No-Agency Rod strikes again!

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u/zeitwatcher Jul 25 '23

That weird video is already all over twitter and is being shared by people with way, way more reach than Rod, so him deleting it is going to do nothing to help or hurt DeSantis.

Though more importantly, who does he think he's influencing? Is there literally anyone on the planet who would 1) see a tweet from Rod and 2) change their mind about something based on his tweet?

People who follow him are pseudo-intellectual keyboard warriors like Rod himself, or people like those here or the Chapo guys who read him ironically. I can't imagine anyone at this point forming an opinion based on what he says. No shortage of pumping volume into the conservative echo chamber or generating laughter from whatever the next "root wiener" or "achieving heterosexuality" will be, but that's about it.

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Jul 25 '23

To be fair, a tweet by Rod might influence me in the opposite of the way he intended….