![]() ![]() RELATED: Gun crazy: For too many Americans, guns are tied to masculinity, patriotism and white powerįascism, as an ideology and movement, is contradictory, often incoherent and difficult for outsiders to understand. Those reactions are valid in their own terms. But they are also examples of looking but not truly seeing - that is, of failing to understand the message and meaning being communicated in Massie and Boebert's family Christmas photos. Others used this episode to point at these two far-right members of Congress as illustrations of how deranged and cartoonish today's Republican Party has become. That should not be understood as a coincidence: The Boebert and Massie photos were intentional provocations, demonstrating cruel indifference toward the victims of gun violence, as well as their families and communities. There have been complaints that Massie and Boebert's behavior is not that of "good Christians." There was anger at the timing: Both photos were posted on social media within days of a mass shooting in Michigan, in which a 15-year-old boy allegedly killed four of his classmates and injured eight more. Many responses to Boebert and Massie's Christmas cards from the mainstream media and other public voices have struck typical notes of performative outrage and disgust. There's nothing unique about them. Such a "tradition" is fairly common among a particular subculture of American gun fetishists and "ammosexuals." This is but another symptom of America's unhealthy infatuation with gun violence. In the spirit of holiday cheer, Massie and Boebert recently shared family Christmas photos on social media - in which every family member is brandishing a gun. Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert, two of the most blatantly fascistic Republican members of Congress, are dreaming of a White Christmas - with the emphasis on "White." ![]()
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