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subrosa wrote (edited )

Idk. Could be both. Probably more on the anti-capitalist side of things though, but without any systemic or cultural critique or analysis. If that makes sense.

I remember some posts about the "beta-male" nature of being a "wagie", by the same people who would talk about hikikomori, and collecting welfare as alternatives. Besides "NEET pride" there was some overlap with MGTOW stuff, sometimes coupled with financial independence investment strategies. Not quite the entrepreneurs and hustlers that would get enthusiastic about free markets n shit, but also not anti-capitalist.

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subrosa wrote

Not sure if it helps complete the picture, but a quick look at the mod log of the past week; users who throw around 'wagecuck' are active on:

r/wallstreetbets, r/Chadposting, r/PublicFreakout, r/gunpolitics, r/LateStageCapitalism, r/moderatepolitics, r/stupidpol, r/antinatalism, r/collapse, various crypto subreddits

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GlangSnorrisson wrote

I remember seeing it a lot from people who believed they were gonna make it big off crypto or stocks or whatever.

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lettuceLeafer wrote

Yeah it's actually really anti capitalist when used on 4chan. It's not really shaming people who are "wagecucks" but emfacising that working for a wage will not result in a good life. To do more than just get by the "wagecuck" should speculate on crypto currency as that is really their only hope at a brighter future.

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lettuceLeafer wrote (edited )

It's not internalize shame tho it's "look how those damn Jews are oppressing us". I just stated objective fact without opinion it's physically impossible for me to have defended them.

Just bc anti capitalist fascism exists that doesn't mean I like it.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

anti capitalist fascism exists

inevitably, all political projects in this mode of production will tend toward neoliberalism in practice, unless it has idealist anti-politics ancillary to it, or something destabilizes the entire framework.

In fact, fascism is driven historically by the channeling of alienation, which of course will have anti-capitalist tinges from time to time. But this is just spectacle until it starts to drive anti-politics to the fore of the alienated's minds. This doesn't usually happen when they are winning politically, although it can certainly confuse things and play to their advantage by eroding other's understanding of what fascism is (a political project of manipulating alienated downwardly mobile people back into hegemony, even if it is a chaotic hegemony)

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lettuceLeafer wrote

Sure I agree tho anti capitalist facism is Often the terminology used. I'm not really practical to invent a whole new adjective/way to describe a political group for a one off comment.

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