it's my party and i can choose the hyperfixation

all of the roy siblings are fashy, but the specific forms of fascism that appeal to roman and shiv respectively are telling. roman backs mencken, with whom he has obvious sexual chemistry, because mencken styles himself as a dictator daddy type. he sees mencken as basically a political spectacle, but a seductive one, because he eroticises that type of masculinity and believes in natural, biological hierarchies. shiv on the other hand gets into bed with matsson, whose team are described as a "nasdaq master race" of young, healthy athletes and fullbright scholars. shiv's liberalism means she finds these types of appeals to meritocracy far more persuasive than mencken's simple display of dominance. shiv and matsson are no less fashy than roman and mencken, but they have different rules for determining who's 'worthy'. of course at the end of the day, both siblings and their respective partners end up reifying the same eugenic and white supremacist beliefs, because that's what fascism does and why capitalism finds it useful.

when my friends say bo burnham’s stuff isn’t that good and i’m like they will never understand what it’s like to be a tumblrpilled girlblogger straddling the pseudo public figure line since age 14 they will never understand what it was like to write star wars hamilton brooklyn 99 marvel acequeer tumblypoo discourse posts garnering thousands of notes and people saying something vaguely rude in your inbox that you would exploit for sympathy with a generically humorous response they will never understand what it was like to be an annoying 16 year old with a god complex because of an irrelevant website and exerting a fleeting sense of control through cultivating an online persona 13 layers of irony never serious but terribly honest even posting in this format is in the genre of the current tiktok trend satirizing male redditors but the satire is slowly being lost until the irony and sincerity is indistinguishable they will never know what it’s like to be rewarded for never maturing never understanding or learning that every day cant be about you there’s other people you selfish asshole