Recently, the culprit has often been the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security is putting out white-nationalist dog whistles on X. President Trump posted a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The subtext of every egregious shitpost from the administration is the same: These people are in charge now, and the old rules don't matter. A great deal of what I find myself scrolling past exudes a threatening, almost anarchical aura. Just before New Year's, my timeline offered murmurings of a livestreamer who appeared to have run a person over with his Cybertruck. A week later I would come to know this man as the 20 year-old 'looksmaxxer' who goes by the name Clavicular. He hits his face with a hammer to strengthen his jawline and pals around with the white-supremacist streamer Nick Fuentes. Last month, the men were recorded in a club'with other charming manosphere personalities, such as the alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate'enjoying Ye's song 'Heil Hitler.'...
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