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Jeff Verge's avatar

I would argue there's more to it, not less. The absurdity is the means rather than the end. The end is oligarchical gangsterism, like say Russia today or America in the gilded age (the other one).

These powerful people that publicly bow to the Trump, do the shitposting and get successfully elected doing it, and do things like incite mobs to terrorize elected politicians doing their jobs in the Capital Buildings; they're all looking ahead to when state power is reduced and they can do whatever they want, with no consequences. For some that would be rising the South again, for others enacting an Ayn Randian fantasyland, for others again it's just power and wealth and nothing deeper than that, etc. etc.

When you frame it in the lens of that endgame, a lot of the bits fall into place. Democracy is the obstacle to achieving more power. All the other somewhat apolitical absurdities, like the bitcoins and the nft's and all the rest of it, create an atmosphere of noise and confusion. Though it may be largely unintentional, the internet froth in general helps Team Shitposter move their ball.

Speculation of course. Open to counter.

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Chris Danforth's avatar

I kind of rationalize it like this: we live in a society (fuck, restart this)...there are a bunch of people whose art is completely reflective of those people's culture and this culture believes that donald trump literally rode into DC on the hood of a fucking Panzer with single showering him like ticker tape while screaming bald eagles flew overhead. Some of these people sell this art of t-shirts and flags from roadside stands along Highway 67/167 between Marshall and Greenbriad, Arkansas, while others made it their desktop background as they bought tacticool plate carriers and joined the intellectual dark web. This latter group (rightly) realized that our financial systems were stacked against them and (thinking they admired the Winklevoss kids but really just being into Armie Hammer (eww, David)) leeched onto the crypto world. Once that happened, Elon Musk and Elon Musk's Massive Swaddled Dong were inevitable.

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