Honest to god, it was ingrained into my head as a child that he wanted to kill anyone who used a computer. But seeing how ridiculous that sounds today and how it sounds eerily similar to any critique of capitalism, I’m thinking he has parts of a communist ideal.

It really looks just like someone who could be a radical leftist but decided to become a fascist at the last minute. And it’s also so fucking absurd it helps me understand why there’s a guy that thinks everything big is an op

I guess I’m basically asking how he is read by the hexbear powers that be

  • MF_COOM [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    He fucking sucked ass. Chickenshit eco-fash trash sucked so much at his one thing that he mostly just ended up mutilating administrative assistants. He's the definition of what no theory does to a mf.

    We don't only have emotes of historical figures we like dem bolso-pain hillary putin-wink bojo macron blinken-pain billionaire-tears freedom-and-democracy

    Show mission-accomplished

  • CommunistBear [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    This website has many emojis of anti communist figures. Mostly as jokes and ironically. While he saw some of the issues plaguing modern life he was in no way a communist and was quite explicit in his hatred of the left in general

  • drinkinglakewater [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    To me the Kaczynski emoji represents a cynical and nihilistic desire to abandon civilization and live in the woods. It's used ironically when one is presented with bleak details about modern life and technology, not to indicate that Kaczynski is correct, but that something is depressing enough it implies the poster is briefly lowered to Kaczynski's awful politics.

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    Sometimes it's just an "industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race" kind of day

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    a-guy

    Uncle Ted is used to represent hatred for new technology that denigrates human dignity

  • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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    2 months ago

    Could transition have saved her? Rest in power, victims of MKULTRA. Get strapped, go to the woods.

      • loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 months ago

        A significant mental shift took place in graduate school, Kaczynski reported, during a period when he considered having a sex-change operation.

        He said he recalled setting up an appointment at the University of Michigan’s health center after weeks of fantasizing about becoming a female. By the time of his consultation, however, he lost his nerve and lied to the psychiatrist. Leaving the building in shame, Kaczynski said, he developed a violent hatred for the psychiatrist.

        https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/09/12/unabombers-psychiatric-profile-reveals-gender-identity-struggle/

        • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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          2 months ago

          Medical gatekeeping was still really harsh back then, too. Julia Serano devotes an entire chapter to it in Whipping Girl. Either way, I don't think HRT alone would have been enough, sadly; there were a lot of other brainworms to untangle there.

        • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
          hexagon
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          2 months ago

          Absolutely wild

          It truly is something about masculinity that damages fucking everything

  • ssj2marx@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Not a good person or someone to emulate, but he's a meme (like anarcho primitivism in general) and we have the emote because we're extremely irony poisoned.

  • Xx_Aru_xX [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    There's a guy who sells pattesserie in my village who looks just like Ted

  • InappropriateEmote [comrade/them, undecided]
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    2 months ago

    If you want to read further but past hexbear discussion on the topic of "Uncle Ted," he was talked about quite a bit around here when he died a year ago. I remember a couple threads where people were debunking the mythology you'll sometimes see portraying him as a kind of based anarchist. I can't seem to find the exact one I was thinking of, but here is another with 100 comments.