Many Such Takes: Hitler vs. Churchill, Annoying Toddlers, Raw Milk, Checking in on MAGA
Many Such Takes: Hitler vs. Churchill, Annoying Toddlers, Raw Milk, Checking in on MAGA
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Hitler vs. Churchill
This week, WW2 was hot discourse! From Tucker Carlson’s Holocaust-skeptical guest to a descendant of Dresden bombing survivors, all week it was giving “just asking questions.”
*Laughs nervously* what the fuck:
Anyway, this weird Twitter account is purportedly the same guy:
This led to quite the community note, vis-a-vis the “Jewish problem:”
Then this guy showed up:
The replies to the thread were pretty top-tier:
Raw Milk
Mom, pick me up, the girls are fighting! For context, raw milk is a sacred talisman of the crunchy right. I can’t explain it but something about the fact that it’s pastoral and also illegal and therefore contrarian makes it extra enticing. Of course, raw milk can also carry listeria, which is something you really don’t want to get (especially while pregnant.) So far, nobody has been able to convince me that raw milk is especially beneficial. People will argue that listeria is rare, which it is, and that’s partially because foods that are high risk for listeria are not frequently sold—such as, wait for it—raw milk.
Of course, the opposite of raw milk is pasteurized milk, and that just means the milk was heated ahead of being bottled which would kill harmful bacteria. It feels relevant to note that in the past, people on crunchy right-wing Twitter have said things like, “How could raw milk be dangerous if you boil it before storing?” which is literally the definition of pasteurization.
Anyway, this tweet graced our TLs…
Shockingly, this provoked a rebuke from far-right commentator Matt Walsh, who seems like exactly the kind of person who would drink raw milk:
The left, regrettably, had to agree with Matt Walsh on something. But Matt Walsh’s audience was not happy with him:
Just as things were starting to get a bit stale, renowned former Congressman and current cartoon villain George Santos showed up to endorse Matt Walsh’s view of pasteurization:
It is now my dream to start discourse that ultimately ends with a tweet from George Santos. I would also accept Ezra Miller.
Annoying Toddlers
There must be something wrong with my algorithm because all I’m seeing is right wing content these days. Notably, this tweet from right wing darling Bronze Age Pervert, asserting that women’s ability to play with toddlers for long periods of time means that they don’t have the same mental capacity as men:
This was picked up by Radfem Hitler, who also said that men like Bronze Age Pervert want "a genetic legacy, not to be dads.”
Me: Radfem Hitler is sparring with Bronze Age Pervert
My mother-in-law: What
Anyway, this was the moment when the discourse left the fringey weird dissident right and entered into the sphere of Mom Twitter. The gateway, of course, was Christian/trad mom Twitter with this tweet about how there’s something wrong with you if you ever get annoyed or frustrated by something your toddler does:
This user roughly coined the term “pick me ass mom” which I’m going to have to use at some point:
Modesty Police Boyfriend
On September 6, a Twitter user posted a text exchange between her and her roommates’s boyfriend. Apparently, he texted her at 3 AM to let her know not to be in her underwear when he’s over.
I was actually pretty shocked at how few Twitter users even picked up on what was going on. He was obviously hitting on her, attempting to look like a good guy by telling her to cover up but secretly revealing some degree of lust (the sweating emoki!!! Come on! What the fuck is he sweating about?) while also maintaining plausible deniability.
The vast majority of QTs are about how he shouldn’t police her clothes—which, fair, but also that’s not really what he’s doing. Also, the entire thing could be fake. Remember Lana Del Rey’s swamp boyfriend’s “daughter” from last week?
Let’s check in on the MAGAverse
Oh, okay!
A few other highlights:
Barron Trump started school at NYU and some folk debated over whether such a college would turn him into a hippie/hipster/leftist:
This one is more of an actual news story, but get your Resist Lib pussy hat on because this one is going to make you feel really vindicated. This person is smiling somewhere:
Anyway, you know how some right-wing influencers constantly get accused of being Russian assets? Well, if they were anyone under Tenet Media, turns out they really were! The influencers affected (such as beanie aficionado Tim Pool) insist they were victims of this scheme and didn’t know about the Russian talking points that they were being asked to spread. This led to Tim Pool doing le epic troll by including the Ukraine and Israel flags in his bio after spending quite a bit of airtime referring to Ukraine as “our greatest enemy.” Gee, I wonder whose idea that was!
I mean, does this look like something a Russian asset would do?
Of course, Tim probably needs a good lawyer, and if he keeps posting this antisemitic stuff it’ll be hard to find a good one.
Anyway, it wouldn’t be a MAGA check-in without checking on on the center of MAGA, Donald Trump himself. I wonder how he’s doing!
Oh:
Best Tweets of the Week
This isn’t even new, but I stumbled upon this 14 second clip of a song on TikTok that has had me cackling out loud all week. I can’t explain it, you just have to watch it. My husband isn’t even online and he found it funny immediately. Enjoy.
This police news thumbnail that looks suspiciously like a video game still:
Whatever this is:
It’s funny to me that BAP apparently thinks women have endless patience for toddlers and children while men don’t, because I feel like the stereotype was often the opposite. For example, I’m thinking of the idea that dads are the “fun parents” while moms are the ones who have to lay down the law and keep everyone in line, and all the “wine mom” memes.
In reality, it totally depends on the mom, the kid, and the family as a whole. Some moms are going to have more patience and energy for toddlers than other moms. Some toddlers are going to be easier to deal with than other toddlers. Some families are going to be in better situations for managing the stress of parenting toddlers than others. I am once again asking far right men to actually learn about real life women and children, because they are not simplistic monoliths.
I grew up on raw milk the first 10 years of my life, then the state formed a dairy co-op that pasteurized the same milk. We'd literally have the milkman come with the cow, and he'd milk the cow in front of you and give you the milk. You had to boil the milk soon after, and make into yogurt what remained after 24 hrs.
The thing I notice about American milk is it's not only pasteurized but also homogenized and the fat is taken out to make 2%, and whole milk is reconstituted with 4% fat. And maybe a few other things. So I get the appeal of getting milk straight from the cow and only boiling it to kill the bugs, especially if you get the cream on top. Buuuuut I don't think the average RWer, especially men, are ready for the amount of work it takes to run their life with raw milk, just like they don't really want to put in all the work it takes to raise 8 children right. They just like the idea of being the kind of person who manages a life with raw milk and many kids while still having their current lifestyle.