In the past few days, the American media has informed that billionaire Elon Musk will retract his leadership role in the administration of President Donald Trump. This is after his great work as an informal president Doug Non -Governmental Agency (The Ministry of Governmental efficiency) and various political initiatives – recently his campaign to elect a conservative judge to the Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin.

How and when the musk will remain his exit, it still must be seen, but there is one certain thing: it will leave behind permanent damage that goes beyond the subversive action of the invention, Dog. Through his online behavior and incompatible, MUSK introduces an incredibly toxic and satirical policy from the mysterious margin of the Internet to the power rooms in the first great power in the world.

His Nazi gesture was in an event after Trump’s opening on January 20 was an ideal clarification. The musk immediately accused of making a Nazi greeting with a mixture of denial and humor, which makes a large group of Nazi jokes bearing their topic on the account of its X.

Carrying out something raised and then denial of what is clear is a clear state of “hunting” – a preferred practice in marginal internet spaces where toxic and satirical political views dominate. Among them is a reputable website called 4chaan, which is believed to be frequent musk. Only at the beginning of this year, he decided to change his X’s account name to “Kikius Maxius And the image of his profile to a frog image – the memes were taken directly from 4chan. He also publicly referred to Site on his X account.

Although many have heard about the 4chan website, there is still a very little general understanding of what it is and how it is associated with the rise of the far right in the United States.

Simply put, it is a website where people can share text messages and images unknown without registration or login for users. It is a space for discussions, humor and the creation of a community online. Founded in 2003, it reached 4chand 8.2 million Visitors monthly in 2010 and 22 million In 2021.

Due to the unknown cover that the site’s structure provides, users feel confident in expressing political views full of problems and margins usually with the hijab of humor. This paradoxical form of political expression came to location. You often see that racist, sexual insults and/or gay homosexuals are gay. Anyone who calls this irony makes fun of their naivety or sincerity.

The evacuation of the responsibility under the main forum stipulates 4chaan, /B /,: “Stories and information published here are artistic works for imagination and falsehood. Only the fool will take anything published here as a fact.”

This is exactly the reason why journalists and commentators who took Mossk’s denial of the Nazi greeting at the nominal value were completely absent from this point. For those right -wing extremist fans in Musk, the attractiveness of his actions was actually strengthened by denying it, with the fact that he had a very brutal fascist gesture and then “get rid of that”.

Musk participated in a transgressive work against what he describes as a “mind virus” or more traditional “personal computer” [political correctness] Culture. ”By adding humor to the equation, musk and its fans were able to overcome any serious discussion and sweat about the effects of normalization of Nazi symbols.

All this is the main function of “hunting”. It was presented as just a form of play, or a way to push people’s buttons “for LOLZ” (laughs), advanced right-wing actors can use this technology to change the Overton-or-term terms or views-to the right.

Immediately after greeting musk, right -wing personalities like Nick Ventis and Andrew TateIt mimics the same greeting and using the same distant excuses that musk used. These are the people who have acquired huge amounts of social and political capital through sub -cultures online.

However, it is not only the extreme right that employs the memes and other expressions that have been developed online to enhance its political goals. In fact, some may argue that these sub -cultures have emerged as a reaction to what is described as the “Memefision” of politics.

In her book Kill all standardsOnline culture wars from 4chaan and Tumblr to Trump and Alt-Right, Angela Nagel tracks the origins of these sub-cultures to the 2008 American electoral session. Many will remember the “hope” posters of Barak Obama’s presidential campaign, which has moved online. For Nagle, this was a decisive turning point in the use of memes, which was at this stage a new and exciting way, in American policy.

Despite the speech of hope and change, the Obama administration did not fulfill its mysterious and bright promises. This motivated the incompatibility between the correspondence and the reality online discussions that strengthened the lack of confidence as a healthy reaction to the sincerity of the political class.

After that, on 4chan and other platforms, anyone who expressed strong support for any party, cause or movement became a target of ridicule. This mainly formed a kind of sarcastic view of the world and our place in it.

Quickly forward to the 2024 election session, these dynamics were largely present again. The Kamala Harris campaign has relied on the renaming of the Obama campaign and used the same empty aimals, rather than focusing on politics or anything else that is actually rooted. She did not rely heavily on celebrity approvals, but she also wrote a X account banner with the same line and color like Mimi “naughty”A direction inspired by the cover of the XCX pop album.

The liberal political establishment in the United States, which also revealed its deep faults throughout the year and a half last year, did not learn to ignore the conflicts of the poor Americans and support the victory of the Israeli war in Gaza, lessons in the decade and a half of the past decade. Dependence on hollow correspondence while issues gather for most Americans – from high inflation to increased inequality to climate collapse – voters are not active.

Politics is not just the battle of Mimi. This is a lesson that the broader audience, especially those who operated the reputable greeting in the form of satire or irony. Although many may think they were bothering him by adding insults or jokes to it, in fact, they helped spread and legitimize the same act as a scene.

It is time to admit that we cannot get our way out of fascism. The only way to defeat the fascist plots is to refuse to enter the arena, and refuse to play their terms. That is, to insist on providing discussions and procedures in reality, to reject any of their awareness processes and build an actual (unlawful) force to resist the ups of the extreme right.

It is definitely not an easy task, especially when the far right entered the highest power room in the United States and achieved strong gains in South America and Europe. The marriage of the right -wing rhetoric and the extreme symbolism corresponds to the unprecedented capacity of the wealth by the growing billionaire and authoritarian class within these countries has threw many despair and despair.

In response to the rise of the likes of Musk, we need a kind of hope in combating the deliberate despair that feeds on the extreme right. We need a loyal, rooted hope in confession that we cannot do anything and that there is a way to resist through teamwork, build new alternatives and embrace new visions for the future.

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