Trump fans celebrate his N.H. victory with racist cartoons, anime memes, and Pepe

Unrelated to anything, but I know we have a few ace/aro regulars, so: Did anybody else hear that Jughead from the Archie comics has come out as being canonically ace? Both awesome and makes ridiculous amounts of perfect sense for the character. (And it’s pissing off the #Gaters, which is always a nice bonus.)

My grandparents were in Germany before Hitler came into power and he was still making speeches and trying to rally people to his side. He was saying also that he would ‘make Germany great again’ after the humiliation of the 1st world war. The only difference is his rhetoric appeal to the common people in such a way that even my reasonable liberal grandparents bought into the idea that he seemed to be pushing something positive. They went back to their home country with positive veiws of Hitler (really disgusting isn’t it?) Until of course he gained the power and revealed himself as a mass murdering fuckhead. The difference here is trump already comes across as unreasonable and as a loose cannon which means that even right wing voters will not put their trust in him. That, plus the lessons learned from the Holocaust, makes me hopeful that the American’s will see sense on this matter.

A Man in Black had a great breakdown of how the inherent issues with how chan culture ends up fetishizing an anonymous hive-mind sort of white maleness and the ideology of practiced faux indifference leads itself quite naturally to misogynist and racist social movements:
https://storify.com/a_man_in_black/how-chan-style-anonymous-culture-shapes-gamergate

On top of that, you also have the fact that white supremacists have spent a good number of years actively recruiting on /pol/, turning “ironic” racism and bigotry into the quite non-ironic bigotry it always was (let’s not kid ourselves) and directly using that to increase the numbers of neo-nazis (especially in the last 8 years).

Honestly, it’s a natural extension of “toxic white dude” culture since the 90s. Bitterly misogynistic, but in a “lol, joking” way when caught. Obsessed with the idea that to care about an issue is the worst thing in the world, especially if it’s a rights struggle (a convenient marriage of the idea that art should be “apolitical” and the South Parkification of culture where “mocking ‘both’ sides” is the name of the game so long as it upholds the status quo and allows smug white boys to pretend their politics are “only natural”) (this also is heavily related to fears of showing vulnerability in toxic masculinity. If you don’t care about “anything”, nothing can hurt you or be used to ostracize you). “Ironically” racist but with a genuine nasty edge of resentment for the growing inclusion of diverse voices in culture and society. And obsessed with “shock value” as a means of pretending ones old-hat retrograde values are somehow new and edgy and make you the real brave person for clinging to old hatreds and cultural baggage (which is how 4chan in particular became so toxic in the first place).

The anime is there in 4chan in particular and toxic nerd culture in general because it ostensibly started as an anime discussion board and anime was a major cultural phenomenon among young geeks around the time the internet was coming into being and thus enjoys disproportionate attention on the interwebs.

Probably doesn’t help that Japanese “otaku” culture has its own measure of major problems that got exported as well (the normalizing and apologia for pedophilia, child molestation, and casual sexual assault and harassment, the prevalence of rape, especially in porn, the treatment of women’s bodies as commodities, and the tendency for overly homogenous cultures that either fetishizes or displays negatively other races).

Valentine:

That, plus the lessons learned from the Holocaust, makes me hopeful that the American’s will see sense on this matter.

I hope you’re right, but all too many Americans’ attitude to the Holocaust is “it didn’t happen, and it was awesome”.

Unrelated to anything, but I know we have a few ace/aro regulars, so: Did anybody else hear that Jughead from the Archie comics has come out as being canonically ace? Both awesome and makes ridiculous amounts of perfect sense for the character. (And it’s pissing off the #Gaters, which is always a nice bonus.)

What? That’s amazing! Great way to introduce the concept to people, especially kids who are wondering why they are ‘broken’. If fewer people have to go through that, i would be really happy.

… Just missed the edit window. This is a lesson (once again) to never read comments on a news article.

They boil down to ‘blah blah blah we all knew it, why did anyone need to say it, keep your PC crap outta my comics!’ WHile other people point out that representation is good, since maybe you eventually won’t need an ‘ace 101’ lecture when coming out to people?

On topic: i really don’t understand trump. How can you look at these memes made by fans and not rethink your appeal? Also the composition in the one with planes flying AT HIS HEAD is baffling. They fly AWAY from the centre of interest, not crashing in to him. Come on, people!

The anime thing isn’t too hard to pin down, some people have touched on it already.

A lot of people like anime, but notice the common thread with these troglodytes: The avatars are almost always female and younger characters. Why? Because they’re often drawn from animes that are designed with each female character being a different attractive archetype.

This element in anime is often the specific element that appeals to these guys, either because they’re lonely, are somewhere on a scale from trouble talking to women to hating women, or otherwise lacking the feminine presence they want in their life. You then adopt your favourite girl as your “waifu” half-jokingly. Anime does this because favourite characters sell merch, and a diverse personality cast with a division of favourites sells more.

Hence anime captures a lot of these young men in their audience. While it obviously captures a lot more than these rotten folk, they fall squarely in the demographic that is most likely to be “a bit too taken” with their favourite and inject them everywhere.

It’s a similar phenomenon to what attracted a lot of the baddies to MLP: Friendship is Magic, 6 clear and very different archetypal female personalities (especially when competently written) means they’re sure to fall in love with one. The difference is how creepy they make their “love” for a character.

It’s late, I hope this makes sense.

I don’t understand what their problem is with Canada/Trudeau, even when accounting for shitlord logic. Trudeau is a rich white guy who has a conventionally attractive wife and the prime minister of a large country – shouldn’t they be in awe of his alphaness, not depicting his decapitation?

Especially since he took on a much brawnier opponent in a charity boxing match, and won:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuSpZ3_5pTc

But no. These guys are actually jealous of that. They’d rather vote for a Schlump who is only a billionaire on paper.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GSJRo-wUdPU/VgGbc_jMq2I/AAAAAAAANBI/zU-LNvfNNRk/s1600/obama-trump-chapter-11.jpg

Did anybody else hear that Jughead from the Archie comics has come out as being canonically ace?

I heard about that back in December, actually. The writer and artist were both at the Beguiling/Dinosaur Comics Christmas party, and the writer mentioned that he’d given the people at Archie Comics the script for that, and was glad (and pleasantly surprised) to have got absolutely no pushback on it.

Although now that I think about it, he might literally be the first–wait, no, there’s that one guy in Sex Criminals.

Sex Criminals and Jughead were both written by Chip Zdarsky.

Which explains part of why Zdarsky, having been better known for Sex Criminals, has been regularly surprised by the amount of free rein Archie Comics has been giving him.

Hold the fuck up.

“We’re having such a good time, we’re having a ball”.

Did a fascist, presumably neo-nazi Trump supporter and obvious gas-chamber enthuiast just paraphrase the lyrics to “Don’t stop me now”, as sung by Freddie Mercury?

How does he not implode into the vacuum where his self-awareness should be?

Note that the PUA and red piller and 4channer tend to shy away from actual good animes, and go take their avatar from softcore porn, designed specially to appeal to them.

That’s a refreshing from when they took interesting characters and reinterpreted them as the perfect, obedient woman. Each time I see Shimakaze in their meme or as avatar, I am grateful that they took a bait made specifically for guys like them, and not an interesting and deep character.

Bane?

Trump’s daughter married a Jewish guy and converted to Judaism. I bring this up to point out that actual facts, substance, and even their own ideology will not get in the way of alt-right fuck heads’ burning desire to lick the jackboots of a strongman.

Jonathan Haidt really was right that you liberals don’t get it.

The Alt-Right is a mix of preexisting Right Wing movements, one of which is “neoreaction”. Neoreaction was founded by a JEW.

Since I’m going to have to spell this out anyway: What this means is that not all Alt-Righters are antisemitic.