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I introduced the political compass grid mostly because of the tendency among anarchists to dismiss/demonise all rightist movements as "far-right". Regarding the anti-lockdown protests and conspiracy stuff for example. I don't know the boogaloo scene well but my general impression is that they're *mostly* right-libertarians. Sovereign citizens for example have used a similar discourse for decades.

I'm not sure how far they fit the Theweleit soldier-male model, though I get strong impressions of this in US gun culture. I also don't know if the gun as technology/tool encourages this type of power-formation or if it's basically neutral. Small-arms disperse power, but also seem to encourage banditry rather than production/creation, and make it far easier to stalemate social conflicts than to build anything. I wonder if they also favour authoritarian armies and bands which can use them more effectively - the same way production lines favour authoritarian labour-relations.

I've also seen this kind of argument (various phenomena as "masculine") made rather badly by idpols who want to argue (for example) that preppers are actually scared of losing their masculinity and not of disaster or SHTF, they're yearning for a return to a world where traditional masculine skills are needed. That's a pretty absurd way to spin things IMO, obviously there's a lot of macho prick preppers but their discourse is speaking to widespread anxiety and social collapse, not mainly to gender. The people making these arguments seem to think we'd be better off all living in cities so we're close to "the people" and "accepting our vulnerability" instead of preparing for collapse or creating our own alternatives. However, it seems that there's differences between male and female preppers, women are more likely to be hippy and communal about it - so gender comes into it somehow.