Let me try to decode the Cuties thing: The Cuties thing is all about an aggrieved class wanting to expose their perceived elites to be immoral demons.
Populist, anti-elite sentiments are always driven by the desire to cast the opposition as the immoral class (which is natural, morality is how we govern our world). This is what is behind QAnon's obsession with pedophilia — the desire to expose an elite cabal as morally depraved.
When people hit back at the anti-Cuties people (anti-anti-Cuties) — calling them QAnon dummies and what not — that's the elites sensing the revolt and whacking the plebs back into their place. The elites are telling the people who are revolting that they are stupid.
Telling the people that they are stupid is a primary counter-revolution tactic of elites. It affirms the social and moral hierarchy that is being threatened. Stupid people are unfit to govern society.
(As an aside, the usual charge against these people is that they are racist. Why? Racism is immoral, and immoral people shouldn't be in charge. Again, morality is what we fight over to decide who should be in charge.)
If we had a healthier political and media environment, we'd have more open and direct ways of addressing the immorality and decadence of our political and economic systems. Instead we have these clown show proxy wars.
And yes I am sidestepping the question of whether Cuties is good or bad. I haven't seen it. If/when I do, I'll be sure to not share my opinion here.
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