…part of Trump’s love of fossil fuels – and his accompanying hostility to climate change mitigation, green initiatives, and nature conservation – might be less transactional than libidinal. Because to him, part of the appeal of climate-destroying, future-inhibiting, polluting energy industries is not merely that their executives are writing him checks. It’s that he sees these industries, and these forms of energy consumption, as more manly.

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    1 month ago

    What’s with conservatives and their love of hyper-masculinity? Are they fucking gay or something?

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      1 month ago

      It’s basically like horseshoe-theory, but for sexuality.

      The most hardcore, hyper-machismo homophobes are just so deep in the closet they are coming out in the next room.