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- hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
It turns out you canāt post Malfoids and Anakin when diesel is $6 a gallon and expect America to vote for you.
Many right-wing personalities went into Tuesday somehow expecting to win despite a disastrous war, a disastrous economy, disastrous polls, and a doddering president whose closing argument seemed to be more about his ballrooms, golf courses, and the Reflecting Pool than anything else.
Since Trump was re-elected, these same people have called everyone else out of touch, convinced by their X algorithm and prediction markets that no blue wave would materialize. The media has similarly spent many thousands of words suggesting that Bluesky is an out-of-touch leftist echo chamber while mostly failing to suggest anything of the sort about the AI-pilled Silicon Valley executives, bots, and racists shitposting on X.
Tuesdayās election wipeout highlights how detached from reality the Malfoid/Anakin-shipping, X-brained billionaires and their acolytes have actually become.
The Malfoid/Anakin stuff is incredibly weak. It isnāt even basing their entire political identity on a joke subversion fan theory - itās just the right shitposting trolling itself and liking it.
In the end, Anakin is a comically evil character who happens to suffer from being evil, but heās still evil. He kills those younglings. Malfoid is especially funny for right-wingers to embrace because itās effectively a trans fantasy situation that puts them as a sub in a D/s relationship.
Overall, the memes seem to be right-wing edgelords asking, āWell, yes, weāre the baddies, but what if we enjoyed it!?ā And the answer isā¦you still suck?
Iām not surprised that Musk doesnāt get or need any level of irony deeper than ālook at my cool AI generated picture of Anakin,ā but Iām glad it turns out that it doesnāt seem to have legs with any redeemable online communities.
Just like Anakin!
LMAO! Well done.
Just like Anakin!
This joke chain has me wheezing.
No.
Wait, sorry, I meanā¦
Nnnnnoooooooooooo!
Just like Anakin!
Wait. I thought the whole fem-malfoy thing was a fuck you to HP terfs. What about it is appealing to conservatives?
They see fem malfoy as cis so jokes on you for thinking sheās trans nananana sort of thing
Thatāsā¦dumb.
Once Malfoy realizes itās okay to live as herself, she has an entire change of personality and is rehoused into Hufflepuff, and it turns out sheās actually very sweet and caring when her true self shines through! She was just carrying all that pain for so long from trying to live up to her parentsā expectations.
(Source: I just made it up)
I donāt like the fact that she was rehoused. Thereās no prescient for it in canon. Not even Luna Lovegood was rehoused when she was being bullied in Ravenclaw.
But whatās the point of fanfiction if we canāt disregard canon?
I personally would prefer a story where he/she redefines what it means to be a Slytherin. Gender bend not required.
In the headcannon that Iām building as I type this, she petitions the school for the rehousing because she realizes her old slytherin friends are toxic. Also they only pretend to support her transition to her face, but she can tell they still try to treat her like a boy, and some of the others bully her.
I feel it.
Use this comments section until AO3 is back up.
Whatās that? š¤£ Iām not actually familiar with fanfic or HP lingo, Iām just dabbling in it in this thread because it seemed funny
Archive of our own. Itās a free place to put your fiction. Itās currently down for 2-4 weeks following a security issue.
Oh cool, that sounds fun. Thanks for letting me know!
āWell, yes, weāre the baddies, but what if we enjoyed it!?ā This is kind of old too but a recent one I remember was āride the kaliyugaā or if I am the bad guy I might as well enjoy it