He probably doesn't have one of "his own". He's got representation though, in part because he owns Slenderman and there are a lot of for-profit projects that use his intellectual property, and whoever's representing him's probably got someone.

When it comes to cars, at least, it's for a decent reason. A lot of ornamental elements can mean the difference between injury and death if the vehicle hits someone.

Also, kudos on the Daria reference.

Look at the neo-reactionary movement. They all started off as libertarians, but now they're strident crypto-fascists. What didn't change? Their aesthetic sensibilities. How they imagine the way in which that hero is enshrined and reified through social and political constructs has changed radically.

That's the fuck of it though, isn't it? I mean, isn't every internet nerd who dismisses contemporary art basically in agreement with Hitler when it comes to aesthetics? Isn't every Very Serious Person who embraces corporatism essentially a fetishist for Albert Speer? '

Romanticism is ur-fascism. Especially in a post-modern context. It cultivates fascist attitudes people who are not consciously fascist. vOv

Oh, Moorcock is really weird and messed up, no doubt, but the dude writes good critique of the right-wing/tory tendencies of SF&F.

Oh god. Setting aside The Iron Dream, there are a huge number of great essays on the topic of the problematic conservatism of fantasy and science fiction. Epic Pooh and Starship Stormtroopers by Moorcock, Mieville's skewering of Tolkien, and so on. There are also a lot of strong texts on the reactionary tendencies of…

There's more to it than that though... I think that the proto-typical genre writer extends a lot of fascist concepts by default. Look at, for instance, the overemphasis on singular, martial heroes, and the knee-jerk reaction that a lot of genre readers have against texts that don't satisfy their yen for the kind of…

Fantasy and Science Fiction are actually super fascist, and it's been a problem for a while. There are very few overtly fascist writers of any note... but that's not really the issue. To paraphrase Umberto Eco, it's possible to have a fascist world view and behave as a fascist without consciously identifying as one.

If you're ever in New York, check out the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.

More modern ones use a more effective system that has water coming from both above and below, which also bounces off the sides. They're way more effective.

Dishwashers with clear doors, Lemon.

Right, because Data's all that matters.

Well, Obsidian has had shitloads of Mormons in one of their games. I doubt that jews would be off the table.

Cicada's almost definitely not MI6. They actually used to recruit analysts that way, but it didn't really bring in a higher caliber of applicants, and some of the ones that they *did* get were... not great.

Fun Fact! Bob Hare once told a journalist that the PCL-R low-balled the number of psychopaths in the general population because it relies in part on records of chronic criminality, which means that the young and the wealthy have lower scores than they otherwise would have.

I think counter-messaging is a good tactic as well. Make it clear that, ultimately, he's still pathetic.

He was sick. I think these men are sick. That doesn't make their misogyny disappear in a puff of sparkles and unicorn farts. They're dangerous misogynists and that does not just spring, fully formed, from the chasm. It comes from the culture around them.

I think the impulse to just say "Mental Illness!" any ignore all the other factors (the availability of firearms, the echo-chamber effect of these toxic online communities, and of course, the deeply ingrained cultural misogyny) comes from ignorance about mental illness.