• Hegar@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      I have no idea if you’re being serious.

      Tbh I struggle with that myself sometimes.

      But mar-a-lago face is a real thing and while the first instinct is to recoil in horror at what these people have done to themselves, elites have a long history of this kind of extreme identity signalling. And I do think this phenomenon is best understood as part of that tradition.

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          3 months ago

          that face is a consequence, not a goal.

          My understanding is that it is a goal. It’s not just a botched face job or over use of botox. People walk in and ask for a face like that.

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        3 months ago

        I used to call it real-housewife-face, because that seemed to be where the desire to do this to themselves started.

        But is does seem to overlap a lot with visitors or wanna be visitors to that Nazi bar down in Florida.