It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman Ginga.
And it's Pizzagate again. Nearly a decade after that craziness leaked out, Muir starts buying it whole, and brings it out in a fascistic rant against the evil decadent elites so different from Muir's herrenvolk heroes. Aside from the... you know, clear antisemitic undertone, there's the simple fact that Muir rants about the wealthy... after numerous strips where he praises the wealthy. But that's the Right Wing trick. Their rich people, who are selfish, racist, and bigoted are following the natural order and good. Your rich people, who are supporting some effort to make society at least somewhat more equitable, are not--and thus they have to be malignant child molesters. Their cruelty only seems more evil, and even that's only because the decadent filth have messed with your perceptions and played on your sentiments to make you weak--it's actually just how things are. The others' apparent kindness is not, it's an evil, unnatural ploy to weaken you, and also, it's a mask, to hide the fact that they're evil degenerates. Because if that is wrong... well, then Muir and is ilk are cruel. And stupid. And people who are weakening society instead of strengthening it. And they can't have that.
I don't remember if Muir bought into Pizzagate at the time, but from what I remember he was already far gone enough for it.
ReplyDeleteMuch like QAnon, he was ambivalent at the time, but shifted to a believer behind the herd.
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