re: #21 LudwigVanQuixote

It is very instructive to notice how many of them have wolves and military logos as their little nic photos. They are after all, such dashing screen berets in their own minds. The psychology is so basic. These really are downtrodden losers filled with fer and rage, making gross overcompensations for their perceived, and in most cases, very real lack of manhood.

Men who have it together do not greet the world with lame threat displays.

Toadies who are routinely laughed at for being belligerent fools and shown their impotence in a world which is beyond their grasp, control or understanding do.

That’s pretty much the case for any of the sites in the fever swamps of the right, not just the stalkers of LGF. Really laughable avatars, claims of military prowess, — Jimmah and I will do a series of posts in the future focusing solely on wingnut fantasies. Specifically, the fantasies they post that always start out with them being ‘threatened’ in some way and ‘fighting off’ libs or attackers—always presented as a true story and personal experience, yet always very clearly esprit de l’escalier —at best.
It’s an entire wingnut genre, and one which needs recording.

I assume you have read this or run across it before— slight tangent, but not entirely:
Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History

Theweleit studies the art and literature of a particular group of men—the Freikorps—who were essentially disaffected former soldiers in Germany after the First World War. These men developed their own groups and their own culture, and became the firsts-in-line to man Hitler’s new army in the ’30s (the Brown Shirts and Black Shirts).

Largely the sort of lit crit yadda yadda I have no patience for, but the basic idea is certainly sound— and applies to these freaks as well.