It turns out you can’t 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.
Tuesday’s 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 isn’t even basing their entire political identity on a joke subversion fan theory - it’s 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 he’s still evil. He kills those younglings. Malfoid is especially funny for right-wingers to embrace because it’s 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, “Well, yes, we’re the baddies, but what if we enjoyed it!?” And the answer is…you still suck?
I’m not surprised that Musk doesn’t get or need any level of irony deeper than “look at my cool AI generated picture of Anakin,” but I’m glad it turns out that it doesn’t seem to have legs with any redeemable online communities.
Just like Anakin!
LMAO! Well done.
Just like Anakin!
This joke chain has me wheezing.
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 she’s trans nananana sort of thing
Once Malfoy realizes it’s okay to live as herself, she has an entire change of personality and is rehoused into Hufflepuff, and it turns out she’s 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 parents’ expectations.
(Source: I just made it up)
“Well, yes, we’re the baddies, but what if we enjoyed it!?” This is kind of old too but a recent one I remember was “ride the kaliyuga” or if I am the bad guy I might as well enjoy it