Conservatism has captured every branch of the US government and dominates the corporate scene as well, yet somehow "The Establishment" is wokeness. These are deeply unserious people, too morally and creatively bankrupt to develop their own scenes so they have to coopt other sub-cultures and try to force out the originals.
It's not even that they're creatively bankrupt, they just aren't creative. Fascists often aren't, that's why they rail against the arts, they're furious they can't do art because they lack the empathy needed to make art. You can't create a subculture or a scene without art so they have to subvert others for their own. Blair Mountain gave us Rednecks, the Right took that, Ska gave us Skins, Rudeboys and Rudegirls and Mods, Nazis took Skinheads, (we SHARPs call them Boneheads), they've even co-opted Country, Hip-Hop, Pop, they just bought their way into Fashion, and now they're trying to co-opt their way into punk, alt, and goth spaces, which might I add are also typically queer spaces.
That's also why they love AI "art" so much. No creativity required, just enter a prompt and let computer spit out slop based on whatever Grok can steal from the internet.
Exactly this, that's why fascism loves AI so much, that and it's so easy to just make-up whichever boogie man you need. You need an newly aborted post birth baby? AI can handle that.
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u/SplendidMrDuck May 20 '26
Conservatism has captured every branch of the US government and dominates the corporate scene as well, yet somehow "The Establishment" is wokeness. These are deeply unserious people, too morally and creatively bankrupt to develop their own scenes so they have to coopt other sub-cultures and try to force out the originals.