To be fair this is not the first infamous fascist with a bad hairdo, but this one certainly raised the bar. It looks like a bowl cut, but with different size bowls used...
It's been reported by several people, both reporters and those close to Johnson, that his wild hair is an affectation, he intentionally roughs it up before he does anything in the public eye.
Is there some sort of strategy going on here? Like, these dudes looked at Trump and whatever the fuck is happening on his head and went, "well if it worked for him it'll work for me?"
Ugh seriously itās so often these dipshits who think their race makes them special. Like I get that they probably are reaching deep into the barrel to find anything that makes them special itās not like they can fall back on their personalities, intelligence, appearance, or achievement. So theyāve got to brag about not having much melanin when for other folks itās just a physical feature we have thatās unfortunately got several centuries of baggage to it.
Like I get that they probably are reaching deep into the barrel to find anything that makes them special itās not like they can fall back on their personalities, intelligence, appearance, or achievement.
This one detail is responsible for the kernel of sadness I feel for many on the far right. These are despicable people who were once kids who just wanted to be grownups and do grownup things. And whether due to genetics or due to upbringing, anything else that might have given them a sense of pride and competence is not something they have. As you say - all they have left is trying to push others down, hoping this lands them on top. Damn it's truly sad.
Nail on the head. Racism now stems from people feeling like they're no one, but they have an excuse to feel better than this person for an arbitrary reason so they take it.
There's a reason most of the racists are poor uneducated white people
The thing is - I feel bad for them for feeling like they are no one, for feeling like this is all they have. I can pretty easily get myself into a mindset where I want to give some of these folks a hug, and tell them they matter. I think many of us have felt worthless at times, either due to circumstances, due to depression, whatever.
But then I see what their voting habits are doing to this country and to our governing bodies, and that gets buried under piles of anger.
Exactly. Like Iām not going to pretend that racism isnāt a problem at all levels of society. But at a certain level of doing shit with my life worthy of pride people building their life around racism went from wrong and stupid to also being pathetic. Either your skin color is all you have going for you which is fucking pathetic or youāve achieved something with your life and you still manage to think that your whiteness is one of your most important features which says something is seriously wrong with you. Thereās no pride or specialness in being the cultural default.
Like my family immigrated to America recently enough that where weāre from is slightly relevant to my life experiences, and so it has some value to me. But how could I be such a delusional jackass that I canāt see that in others. If grandpa was an immigrant well then I oughta welcome folks here like he wished heād been welcomed. I appreciated getting to celebrate grandpaās culture, so maybe other people would like to too and maybe Iāll enjoy celebrating other peopleās culture. If America is better for folks like my family being in it then who am I to say other families canāt make it better too.
I swear, those (almost-)extremist-rightwing tossers are some kind of clones, remember Donald Trump, Geert Wilders and Boris Johnson? This guy fits right in.
When I was underprivileged, uneducated youth, I got sucked into football hooligan/neo-nazi circles and actually met some āhigh ranking nationalist party membersā. Two brothers, same haircut as this dude, 300 pounds, 30 yrs old and still living with their mommy in a smoke filled, dirty apartment with a giant swastika flag in the living room.
Thats what got me out of fascist circles. I was so shocked that people looked up to these morons.
This actually led to my belief that fascists actually mostly are uneducated and unloved people who get exploited by psychopaths. Those would one would need to take out (by legal means, naturally).
I recall something about this with Boris Johnson being intentional. That may be what's happening here. It's so bad that your political opponents fixate on it, and half the articles written about you are about your dumb looks instead of your monstrous policies.
It's because idiots that follow them don't care, some undecided will check him out because of the haircut and listen to what he says, and everyone else is making fun of his haircut instead of commenting on the vile shit he spouts.
To make them stand out I guess so that you can identify with them easier. And all dear leaders or nazis had their special weird take on hair & mustaches.
Iām not convinced this isnāt a nice wig being worn that was then absolutely butchered, right before this photo was taken. Really quick in the bathroom in a āoh fuck you bought a womenās wig?ā Moment.
Itās nationalism (the idea that different peoples deserve their own separate countries) with the people in question being white people. It manages to combine the most problematic aspects of nationalism such as its propensity to drive governments to commit countless atrocities with the most problematic aspects of whiteness as an identity. In short, itās modern naziism.
What even is white? Like who is considered white seems to change every 5 or so years and the people in Europe usually don't even identify as white.
Like in my native language calling someone white doesn't even make sense or exist. Also calling someone back in my native language is actually insulting since black and dirty are the same word and people assume the former.
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jordanlund@lemmy.world · 149 pts · 2y
rtxn@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 2y
They're angry because their own craniometry told them they were rejects.
(tangential - Disco Elysium had some really funny racists. Fucking Measurehead.)
LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 2y
I just started Disco ELysium and the last thing I did was talk to measurehead. Hot damn is "ham sandwich race" such a good racial insult
Jagermo@feddit.de · 10 pts · 2y
Always apropriate preacher comic.
madcaesar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
We're at a point where even the characters in the comic are better looking than the real world dipshits š
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Man, it's super hard finding SFW pics of Humperdoo... I guess that's why the Preacher adaptation inevitably had to fail.
GunValkyrie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
It failed? I thought it got through the whole story?
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
Large parts of the original story are missing and most of what's left is so poorly adapted it's untecognizable. Season 1 was a freaking travesty.
yukichigai@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
Came for this, leaving satisfied.
madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de · 90 pts · 2y
To be fair this is not the first infamous fascist with a bad hairdo, but this one certainly raised the bar. It looks like a bowl cut, but with different size bowls used...
Localhorst86@feddit.de · 67 pts · 2y
It's the square cutout on the ears that absolutely sells it.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 2y
He used the weird cup we use to wash my daughter's hair.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 2y
I wanna know how tf he bowl cut the moustache
mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 2y
glass bowl
Mango@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 2y
Something something Donald Trump.
Upvotes to the left.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 2y
When I grow up, I want to be a Playmobil. But a nazi Playmobil.
Say no more!
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 2y
This cannot be real š¬
Edit - Jesus fuck
altima_neo@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 2y
I mean there's Boris Johnson and his goofy ass haircut.
Denjin@lemmings.world · 48 pts · 2y
It's been reported by several people, both reporters and those close to Johnson, that his wild hair is an affectation, he intentionally roughs it up before he does anything in the public eye.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 48 pts · 2y
This. He's trying to look goofy and harmless while being a vile, machiavellian, dangerous politician.
grue@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
Boris Johnson wishes he could fuck up his hair as badly as this guy.
leo@lemmy.l0l.city · 9 pts · 2y
I thought Boris was a case of a UK wide comb shortage
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 2y
Michael Fabricant is feeling left out.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Is there some sort of strategy going on here? Like, these dudes looked at Trump and whatever the fuck is happening on his head and went, "well if it worked for him it'll work for me?"
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
From what I read, yes, the idea is you see his picture, look him up and next thing you're listening to his vile hatred.
It probably works in Estonia š
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 57 pts · 2y
His hair looks like it's cosplaying the tesla cyber truck
klemptor@startrek.website · 23 pts · 2y
What a rare and accurate insult lol
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 2y
Ugh seriously itās so often these dipshits who think their race makes them special. Like I get that they probably are reaching deep into the barrel to find anything that makes them special itās not like they can fall back on their personalities, intelligence, appearance, or achievement. So theyāve got to brag about not having much melanin when for other folks itās just a physical feature we have thatās unfortunately got several centuries of baggage to it.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml · 32 pts · 2y
This one detail is responsible for the kernel of sadness I feel for many on the far right. These are despicable people who were once kids who just wanted to be grownups and do grownup things. And whether due to genetics or due to upbringing, anything else that might have given them a sense of pride and competence is not something they have. As you say - all they have left is trying to push others down, hoping this lands them on top. Damn it's truly sad.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 11 pts · 2y
Nail on the head. Racism now stems from people feeling like they're no one, but they have an excuse to feel better than this person for an arbitrary reason so they take it.
There's a reason most of the racists are poor uneducated white people
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y
The thing is - I feel bad for them for feeling like they are no one, for feeling like this is all they have. I can pretty easily get myself into a mindset where I want to give some of these folks a hug, and tell them they matter. I think many of us have felt worthless at times, either due to circumstances, due to depression, whatever.
But then I see what their voting habits are doing to this country and to our governing bodies, and that gets buried under piles of anger.
eezeebee@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Unfortunately it's a problem outside of Estonia, too
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Exactly. Like Iām not going to pretend that racism isnāt a problem at all levels of society. But at a certain level of doing shit with my life worthy of pride people building their life around racism went from wrong and stupid to also being pathetic. Either your skin color is all you have going for you which is fucking pathetic or youāve achieved something with your life and you still manage to think that your whiteness is one of your most important features which says something is seriously wrong with you. Thereās no pride or specialness in being the cultural default.
Like my family immigrated to America recently enough that where weāre from is slightly relevant to my life experiences, and so it has some value to me. But how could I be such a delusional jackass that I canāt see that in others. If grandpa was an immigrant well then I oughta welcome folks here like he wished heād been welcomed. I appreciated getting to celebrate grandpaās culture, so maybe other people would like to too and maybe Iāll enjoy celebrating other peopleās culture. If America is better for folks like my family being in it then who am I to say other families canāt make it better too.
4am@lemm.ee · 53 pts · 2y
When you hit random in the character creator only like 6 times
Agent641@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2y
This is why they wear hoods
IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2y
Found him. Rain Epler. He was environmental minister until 2021. He's part of the conservative party.
This is what he looked like in 2017 - a typical conservative type.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl · 11 pts · 2y
I swear, those (almost-)extremist-rightwing tossers are some kind of clones, remember Donald Trump, Geert Wilders and Boris Johnson? This guy fits right in.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com · 13 pts · 2y
When I was underprivileged, uneducated youth, I got sucked into football hooligan/neo-nazi circles and actually met some āhigh ranking nationalist party membersā. Two brothers, same haircut as this dude, 300 pounds, 30 yrs old and still living with their mommy in a smoke filled, dirty apartment with a giant swastika flag in the living room.
Thats what got me out of fascist circles. I was so shocked that people looked up to these morons.
This actually led to my belief that fascists actually mostly are uneducated and unloved people who get exploited by psychopaths. Those would one would need to take out (by legal means, naturally).
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2y
Iām just gonna leave this hereā¦
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
The sentence... Is woof.
SomeBoyo@feddit.de · 31 pts · 2y
That's some LEGO hair
Gilles_D@feddit.de · 10 pts · 2y
I think Playmobil will press charges soon
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
Now I want to pop it off and see if there's a stud on top.
Sarmyth@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y
I recall something about this with Boris Johnson being intentional. That may be what's happening here. It's so bad that your political opponents fixate on it, and half the articles written about you are about your dumb looks instead of your monstrous policies.
samus12345@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y
"Look what I can do!"
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
this cant be real... can it? why?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
It's always remarkable to see what awful physical specimens these fascists and Nazis are.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 2y
So called masterrace
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y
the conservative party in Estonia claims they "support Ukraine"
BilboBargains@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
Hey leave some pussy for the rest of us.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
Fascists and bad haircuts, name a more iconic combo.
aliteral@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Javier Milei in Argentina is staying true to the combo.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y
Same picture
Thorry84@feddit.nl · 21 pts · 2y
What's the deal with Nazi leaders and hair? Trump, Wilders, Johnson and this Epler dude...
Maybe if we get enough Nazi leaders we can make a calendar? A new haircut for each month.
JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 2y
It's because idiots that follow them don't care, some undecided will check him out because of the haircut and listen to what he says, and everyone else is making fun of his haircut instead of commenting on the vile shit he spouts.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com · 5 pts · 2y
To make them stand out I guess so that you can identify with them easier. And all dear leaders or nazis had their special weird take on hair & mustaches.
amio@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
"What will help me connect with my base? Ah yes, the haircut of a child molester!"
Both the guy and his barber must've been on PCP. At a certain point "just fuck my shit up" doesn't even cover it anymore.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com · 2 pts · 2y
Didn't say this guy is good at it :-D but look at johnsson, trump etc. They do stand out IMO.
ComradeR@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
You forgot: Javier Milei and his brazilian friend Jair Bolsonaro.
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y
His name (sorry but I assume he identifies as he) is Rain Epler
ItsAFake@lemmus.org · 29 pts · 2y
Mango@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
I might do something with this later.
Edit:
ItsAFake@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 2y
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com · 5 pts · 2y
Maybe we shouldn't say who he is, just what he is?
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
It's just because people thought he couldn't be real or was AI generated
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com · 1 pts · 2y
Ha ha fair enough!
Zeon@lemmy.world · -47 pts · 2y
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 2y
Deceptichum@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y
One joke
EvokerKing@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
No I think he meant that as a joke...
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 2y
Jeez, who shat in your cereal?
IkarusHagen2@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y
I did hehehe
swag_money@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Tetsuo@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 2y
Also was it Y shaped ?
ItsAFake@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 2y
You haunted by that picture as well?
gigachad@feddit.de · 5 pts · 2y
I guess it's a good sign for lemmys user growth when trolls like these appear lol. For our health it may be worse
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 2y
Iām not convinced this isnāt a nice wig being worn that was then absolutely butchered, right before this photo was taken. Really quick in the bathroom in a āoh fuck you bought a womenās wig?ā Moment.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Looks exactly like that.
Dude is likely bald, but bald doesn't get votes unless you're Mussolini.
So it's the awkwardly cut women's wig instead!
I bet he's got an iron cross or something tattooed to his head.
Hotspur@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Alternatively, itās a clever way to disguise himself. Be a fascist dickbag at work, but vacation as just another bald Estonian dude.
don@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y
This cannot be real š¬
dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
Incredibly, it is
grue@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Holy shit.
TheHottub@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
He looks like he lives in a coo coo clock.
MaxPower@feddit.de · 13 pts · 2y
This guy to the barber: "Give me the LEGO helmet cut please"
"Right away, sir!"
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc · 13 pts · 2y
Skyblivion looking good
thorbot@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
How do you say ājust fuck my shit upā in Estonian?
Mango@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Lihtsalt perse mu jama.
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
You kinda have to define the shit otherwise it doesn't make sense but this would be the equivalent of just fuck my haircut up:
Lihtsalt keera mu sonks perse
thorbot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Light salt, Keira: my socks, per se.
Lightly salted socks indeed.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y
It would be funnier if these populist supremacy chin weasels weren't dominating the international platforms so easily these days...
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
He's 46! Looks about 10ā20 years older. Hate really does age you
520@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
Unfortunately wearing a mop the same way a child would does not give you the mature look one would hope to find even in one who looks older.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Is that real? Amazing.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
I swear they do this on purpose so that their base thinks "He looks like me, therefore he must be right!".
rompe@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
More than that, he is far right!
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Ba Dum Tss
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Spaghet
S3verin@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 2y
Looks like he is cosplaying as Andrea Merkel
FleetingTit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Andrea Merkel
moshtradamus666@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
All fascist politics have crazy ugly hair. I wish someone could explain why.
hannes3120@feddit.de · 10 pts · 2y
Possibly to look more harmless so people underestimate them? Or to divert attention from their policies?
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Looks like Ninja from Die Antwoord
DevilOfDoom@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 2y
I was thinking about Aurora.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 2y
Somehow it made me think of this music video
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
When you're a cute anime girl in the inside.
mp3@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y
It's a Limecat cosplay.
gnate@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
We all know that's a wig, right? Makes it easier(?) to cut on your own. I doubt he's healthy enough to grow his own hair.
LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
People like this HAVE to believe in some inherent, unearned superiority they have, because otherwise, they're exactly what they look like they are
And for those who want to know his name, I did the legwork. This is Rain Epler
Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
It has a mustache now...
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch · 4 pts · 2y
Lego man?
Agent641@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Live action lego movie!
CuttingBoard@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y
That guy looks HOT! -Norm MacDonald
BustinJiber@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Pierce's dad on Community ass vibes.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y
That's just Gareth from The Office (UK).
Still looking for whoever put his stapler in jelly.
cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
100% friends with Cornelius Hawthorne
doingless@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
The human race is the master race.
esserstein@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
He's clearly Romulan though
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
All hail the emperor?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
https://youtu.be/uK2YyfJAdGo?t=118
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CenturionKing@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y
Mostly viewed on Tender ..
CenturionKing@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y
It was top trend in year 1002 š
Outtatime@sh.itjust.works · -44 pts · 2y
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
Nazis.
Deceptichum@kbin.social · 15 pts · 2y
7% would be 566,035,294 total
251,000,000 in US alone
That leaves only 315,000,000 in Europe
And thatās even before adding in another ~hundred mil from Commonwealth countries or who knows how many immigrants elsewhere in the world.
Only an idiot (or white supremacist) would think Europe is less than 42% white. Your 7% number was pulled out of your arse.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
This one's not worth your time.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Deceptichum@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
They didnāt say 7% of the world were shite supremacists.
520@kbin.social · 11 pts · 2y
Another name for white supremacy. Think KKK and Nazis
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
I think that you maybe meant 1 out of 7 instead of 7%?
That said, being white is not the same as being a white nationalist. They are extremists and a minority withing the white population
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Itās nationalism (the idea that different peoples deserve their own separate countries) with the people in question being white people. It manages to combine the most problematic aspects of nationalism such as its propensity to drive governments to commit countless atrocities with the most problematic aspects of whiteness as an identity. In short, itās modern naziism.
Outtatime@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 2y
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
So explain the people marching with swastikas last summer or at Charlottesville or hell the American Nazi party which was founded after wwii.
Outtatime@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 2y
You think a few knuckle heads waving that stupid fucking flag means the Nazis are back??! š š
You also believe in the Boogeyman? You have momma check under your bed at night?
dutchkimble@lemy.lol · 4 pts · 2y
We all black when the lights are off
zrose@lemmy.l0l.city · 4 pts · 2y
This number only bolsters them because they want a feel good hate club where they're a special snowflake
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
What even is white? Like who is considered white seems to change every 5 or so years and the people in Europe usually don't even identify as white.
Like in my native language calling someone white doesn't even make sense or exist. Also calling someone back in my native language is actually insulting since black and dirty are the same word and people assume the former.