Kenshi spaces have been trending reactionary for a bit, having a religious bigot faction that is clearly evil with a crusader aesthetic combined with them being nice to their preferred demographic (white human male) has attracted a certain type of guy.

I work a job where I go to people's homes, and a guy actually denied the service call because I was wearing a mask. I'm sure I have other customers who hate masks, but none of them really care about what someone else is doing, especially when that someone else is fixing your shit.

I remember listening to the litrpg fantasy series He Who Fights with Monsters and I vividly remember when the author started using "Authoritarian" as a visual aesthetic unironically. Like saying "The costume was more like a uniform, and had authoritarian elements," or something like that and it was just so... ugh. When the author wasn't writing about "real world" politics, it was an otherwise interesting read which is saying something about the genre.

Mod team in exile

One answer that doesn't seem to be around is that it is/was literally in tv advertisements. Security systems and insurance companies love to run ads showing scary people dressed in black forcing windows open and shit, and chuds probably see a lot of ads.

The state of things has fucked up my perception of things, there's a story circulating about a Russian attack hitting a grocery store, killing 50+ and my first reaction is "oh is this another Ukrainian missile gone off course, like the last two highly publicized events?"

If you think over the pants isn't a handjob, you aren't a leftist.

(I flipped a coin to figure out which side I was on)

I want to believe

We have no choice but to abandon Hexbear.

I do not log off, I make my enemies log off -The guy from Struggle Session idk it's been years since I listened