Ben Shapiro is mad that kids like a cartoon dog, so his company The Daily Wire is debuting a right-wing alternative.

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    1 year ago

    This is what happens once conservative politics has degenerated to literally “I’m an asshole, and there’s nothing you can do about it”, to crude dominance displays, performative cruelty and rolling coal. Not that it was much better, but at least the assholery used to need some sort of high-minded, principled rationalisation, rather than being self-justifying.

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      1 year ago

      Self-justified assholery, or at least not caring if you’re being an asshole, would be an improvement, at least it’s a consistent world view based on self interest (see: Max Stirner and egoism). They’d still be assholes, but I can at least respect the owning up to it.

      When you think you’re justified in being an asshole because you’re not actually an asshole you’re great actually it’s those scary people who are coming here to attack you and your sacred way of life, that is definitely not made up and you’re entitled to, who are wrong, you’re just defending yourself and your people (you’re a hero actually), that’s when you start buying alpha male supplements and yelling at cartoon dogs.