The Psychology Of Lapel Pins

Continuing my development of the Totalitarian concept, the Hollow Man, let’s talk about symbology, an important and overlooked psychological topic. Humans have always identified themselves using symbols… uniforms, flags, mannerisms, architecture, even attributing meanings to simple colors. God himself took a nationless clan and turned them into history’s biggest, most stiff-necked metaphor. Open the Bible to a random page, drop a coin on it and you’ll probably hit something symbolic.

Our choice of symbols is a form of self-expression. People cannot see our beliefs and loyalties, and explaining them to everybody would be very time-consuming. It’s easier to display a symbol. I would wear the American flag to show my citizenship, or the Gadsden flag to show my dissident political leanings. Or the Ukrainian flag, if I was a spiteful mutant wanting my people to be ethnic-cleansed by an transnational death cult.

That is all simple and obvious. So I thought, until this minor scandal hit a nerve among the Hive-minded.

RIGHT WING EXTREMISM
‘Absolutely Repulsive’: Some House Republicans Are Now Wearing an Assault Weapon Lapel Pin

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By David Badash, 2 February 2023

At least three House Republicans this week began wearing pins in the shape of an assault weapon on their clothing. U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY), U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), and U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) were all caught on camera with the pins, leading some to express outrage.

U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) was among the first to circulate images of the two Republicans wearing the pins.

“Where are these assault weapon pins coming from? Who is passing these out?” he asked.

Why do you care, Gomez? Serious question. George Santos in particular is a pathological liar and deceiver with enough insider-status that it took an honestly bipartisan outrage just to get him removed from his committee assignments. He’s also a textbook example why I just cannot stop thinking the pejorative “pedoface”. In other words, he’s a gun rights activist like Satan is an angel of light: giving the appearance just long enough to gain a dishonest, momentary advantage. Santos wearing a rifle lapel pin means literally nothing.

Aaron Fritschner, the Deputy Chief of Staff and Communications Director for U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), captured an image of Congressman Clyde wearing the pin on his tie.

Uhh… Aaron secretly snapped a picture of Clyde secretly displaying his loyalty to the Second Amendment, while Clyde was speaking in chamber next to a sign saying “shall not be infringed”? This is comparable to a nutcase proclaiming that John Kerry secretly gave a Masonic gesture while speaking at Davos about how best to starve humanity down to “sustainable numbers”.

Not exactly a big reveal. To me. But what about to Hollow Men? What do they see?

“Absolutely repulsive,” Duke University Professor of Global Health and Public Policy, Gavin Yamey said in response to the assault weapon pins. “We have mass shootings almost daily, and the Republicans are wearing assault weapon pins FFS.”

One of the Members wearing the pins, Congresswoman Luna, on Wednesday also participated in a House Natural Resources panel debate to push back on Democrats’ attempt to ban firearms inside the Committee’s hearing room.

She tweeted later, “The same Democrats who are voting to send firearms to Ukraine are telling me I can’t carry one.”

Oookay… politics aside, Luna is using symbols to express her internal beliefs, in a context where those beliefs are relevant. This is normal behavior.

And continuing to ignore politics, the Hive triggered HARD about this:

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) also pointed to National Gun Violence Survivors Week. “While gun violence continues to be the leading cause of death for children in our country, @GOP members are wearing assault rifle pins during #GVSurvivorsWeek. Shameful.”

American historian of Christianity Diana Butler Bass did not mince words: “Always said it was just a matter of time before the GOP replaced the cross with an assault rifle. Guns are their god.”

Democratic Texas state Rep. Gene Wu said the GOP “has stopped playing coy and is now openly and unabashedly praising mass shooters. Will there be special versions to celebrate specific mass shootings?”

Professor of International Relations Nicholas Grossman said: “Legislators from party that defends recent coup attempt by their up-til-recently—and possibly still—party leader replace traditional patriotic flag pin with a pin depicting a rifle.”

California state Sen. Dave Min weighed in, saying, “The debate over 2A [the Second Amendment] has never been about 2A. It’s about ‘disrupting’ civilized society as we know it, and trolling the ordinary Americans concerned about our insane levels of gun violence. That’s why it’s the biggest assholes who are most loudly touting irresponsible gun access.”

The addition of the assault weapon pins to Republican Members’ clothing comes on the heels of U.S. Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) distributing grenades to fellow Members last week. In a note he declared they are “inert.”

Snicker, I missed “Grenade-gate”. I can see why that stunt would make some people uncomfortable.

But lapel pins being worn by gun rights advocates? It was Democrats who started the trend of wearing lapel pins. Why aren’t they priding themselves on being “influencers”?

Let’s ask a credentialed expert:

Sociology professor and author Samuel Perry observed, “Republican members of congress are wearing AR-15 lapel pins. That’s not just tone deaf. We find Republicans value gun rights more than any other right, including freedom of speech or religion. No need for a flag or cross pin. The gun is both their patriotic & religious symbol.”

My current conception of the Hollow Man is he has an inverted soul. Instead of his behavior being expressions of his internal beliefs, he protects his body by behaving however the Hive requires, which makes the possession of ANY internal beliefs impossible because they get contradicted from one Narrative to the next. As Luna tweeted, “The same Democrats who are voting to send firearms to Ukraine are telling me I can’t carry one.”

It would follow, then, that while Normals wear lapel pins to communicate who they are, the Hollow wear lapel pins to DEFINE who they are. Such symbols are marks of ownership… brands upon the Social Justice Warrior.

An interesting experiment: keep a necklace or lapel pin of the Cross in your pocket. The next time you talk to a Social Justice type about Christ, pull it out and put in on after a minute of conversation. I bet it would shut them up faster than anything you might say, because while words are nothing to them but spell components to control other people, a worn symbol is a fait accompli of unchallengeable beliefs.

That explains why the SJWs are freaking out over AR-15 lapel pins like they didn’t when 2A advocates were merely stating their beliefs and even legislating their beliefs. The SJWs thought they still had an opening… that they could lie and deceive those advocates.

But now that he’s wearing a symbol of rifles, they believe that Rep. Clyde has changed religions from Christ to “shall not be infringed”. That picture above? The sign was just words. Words can change. The tie pin was ownership. The Hollow Man sees that and thinks that so long as Clyde is wearing it, he’ll never be turned against the Second Amendment.

Come to think of it, my proposed experiment was already run. Back in the day… you youngsters won’t believe this… schoolteachers were required to take oaths of loyalty to the United States. It was just a scrap of paper. Basically unenforceable. But oh, the Communists HATED that loyalty oath.

I never understood that. The same people who could put their hand on a Bible and perjure themselves from here to Hades with a smug smirk on their face, freaked out about a piece of paper with their name on it saying they wouldn’t betray the USA if given the chance. Isn’t it just another lie, in a lifetime of lies?

But now, it makes sense. That paper was not a statement of loyalty, it was a symbol of loyalty. It was something that a fellow Communist could use to attack him with. Something that wouldn’t disappear with a shift in the Narrative. An objective reference point.

Lapel pins are a sign of ownership. The subject cannot change his beliefs without first ditching the lapel pin, which won’t happen during a word-spell.

And now, I understand what the freakout was regarding Musk buying Twitter. He wasn’t buying a social media company. He was buying the souls of the Hollow Men, who were recorded on Twitter supporting Current Things that are no longer the Current Thing. Those tweets were deleted but the archive is forever, and now Musk owns the archive. The Hollow Man’s true beliefs are only what is seen, so if you display his deleted tweets praising Bernie Sanders before Biden was (s)elected, you’re forcing a soulless man to have consistent and long-standing internal beliefs.

The pain must be exquisite.

Troll 11/10. Expect suicides!

Editorial: AR-15 lapel pin reveals the void in rep’s soul

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By San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board, 12 February 2023

Just reading that headline, whoa, talk about projection.

Art of the Gentleman is a sartorial website advertising itself as “home to the Gentleman Set that was curated by your resident gentlemen, sure to make your dapper days easy.”

In the section on lapel pins, it says, “A lapel pin is a small pin worn on the lapel of a jacket. Lapel pins serve no functional purpose to a gentleman’s outfit rather it adds a decorative touch to the overall look.”

Correct so far.

To the question “What type of lapel pin should I wear?” one of the answers is to choose one that ensures you don’t stand out at work for the wrong reason.

Huh? I’ll choose a non-political pin for work, sure, because my work is not politics. Ahh, now I see the Hollow Man’s addition… “choose one that ensures you don’t stand out at work for the wrong reason“.

The Hollow Man MUST stand out for the CORRECT reason. ESPECIALLY in a political context! Specifically, whatever reason best protects his body and its appetites.

In the U.S. Congress, members are fond of referring to each other as “the gentleman or gentlewoman from” their respective home state, even if there’s little evidence the subjects are worthy of such a dignified description.

This brings us to Republican U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, the “gentleman” from Georgia who recently stood out for wearing a lapel pin in the shape of an AR-15. He not only wore one but handed them out to colleagues, who also wore them. This includes serial liar U.S. Rep. George Santos, R-New York.

People expressed outrage that Clyde was showcasing and celebrating a weapon of mass destruction synonymous with names like Sandy Hook, Parkland, El Paso, Buffalo and Uvalde.

The words didn’t matter. The symbol of bodily ownership mattered. A total POS can call himself honorable and no SJW complains, but when a total POS like Santos wore a lapel pin, the wailing began.

A gentleman would have considered the criticism, perhaps offered, at least, a halfhearted apology and replaced the AR-15 lapel pin with something [socialist].

Never apologize. The words don’t matter and you’re demonstrating weakness to wild animals.

[Clyde was] wrong for thinking that his sporting of the AR-15 lapel pins only bothered his Democratic colleagues. They represent something very specific and painful to families who have lost loved ones to the pulling of AR-style triggers.

Textbook Social Justice. “I am offended on behalf of people who aren’t here, did not appoint me or know I exist, and don’t even know about the offense that I believe you just committed against them, despite your claim that no offense was given or intended.”

Clyde benefits from the same free speech that has allowed grieving family members to touch the deepest reaches of our shared humanity with grace and wisdom. He has no such depth. He has triggered no one, but he has revealed his heart.

BOOM, there it is! I may be wrong about the Hollow Man… but these Hollow Men say I’m right.

No one with even a thimble of compassion or common sense can be so insensitive and clueless to fail to understand the pain that symbol brings to too many families.

The Editorial Board is speaking of their own pain, obviously. The AR-15 symbol burned them like a Cross waved at a vampire.

During President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, Tuesday Night, some members of Congress wore pins in the shape of crayons to signal support for federal investment in child care.

Does the “gentleman” from Georgia understand there are hands that cannot hold crayons because of the hands that have held AR-15s?

That’s what the crayons were supposed to represent? In the context of listening to Dementia Joe run his mouth? I had no idea.

But now that I have the idea, that SJWs have this severely allergic reaction to worn symbols of political allegiance… hmm… my mind whirls at the possibilities.