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Donald Trump continues to kill it in the Anime/Nazi fanboy demographic

Not Pictured: Hitler
Not Pictured: Hitler

So at this point, we all know that a non-negligible portion of Donald Trump supporters are also fans of anime. And Hitler. Right?

Indeed, when Republican consultant Rick Wilson shocked his fellow guests on Chris Hayes’ MSNBC show by declaring flatly that a good portion of Trump’s followers are “childless single men who masturbate to anime” and have “a lot of Hitler iconography in their Twitter icons,” the real shock was that it took the mainstream media so long to notice this.

For the benefit of future historians, here’s my half-assed attempt to document the Trump/Anime/Hitler fan nexus, as it has manifested  itself on Twitter in recent days

In some cases, the Tweeters in question managed to convey their love of Trump, anime and Nazis all in the same tweet. In others, it took a couple of Tweets. See if you can determine the level of irony in each Tweet. I can’t.

Enjoy! If that is the right word for it. I have omitted some of the more overtly racist memes I ran across, as well as a few tweets that contained disturbing photos of concentration camps. I also censored one image that was mildly NSFW.

To see more of the, er, artistry of Trump’s terrible fans, see this post of mine documenting how they celebrated his New Hampshire primary victory with racist cartoons, anime memes, and Pepe the frog. 

Onward:

A trifecta! Trump, anime, and Nazis. all in the same Tweet!

https://twitter.com/TotalWar45/status/690321682964197376

All that and a rape joke:

https://twitter.com/TotalWar45/status/690328123565408256

Anime Trump, slightly censored:

dindutrump

Trump and Hitler!

https://twitter.com/DinduNuffink/status/697289173175308288

Anime Trump:

Guess who!

Anime Trump:

https://twitter.com/blamenipples/status/693875139503624192

Hitler and Daddy, in Viva Pinata I believe?

https://twitter.com/blamenipples/status/697619571877011461

Simultanious Trump, anime and Hitler.

https://twitter.com/LoweeCPU/status/688111395112529920

https://twitter.com/LoweeCPU/status/683407344609431553

https://twitter.com/LoweeCPU/status/691531170123751424

BONUS: This guy also hates Anita Sarkeestian. (And is an amazing artist.)

https://twitter.com/LoweeCPU/status/553716651523203072

Another trifecta! Trump plus anime, responding to a Tweeter calling themselves Hitler:

https://twitter.com/drrtytenyearhat/status/698613938091470848

Bonus scary right-wing stuff:

https://twitter.com/drrtytenyearhat/status/698339616210833408

https://twitter.com/drrtytenyearhat/status/698190453926047744

Trump and anime:

Uses #altright hashtag

Trump and anime:

https://twitter.com/genbarrison/status/697235750945955840

Anime, Trump and guns:

https://twitter.com/genbarrison/status/697239948378951680

Anime and Hitler:

https://twitter.com/genbarrison/status/689632465871310848

Bonus anti-Semitism:

https://twitter.com/genbarrison/status/691654090179362816

And this:

https://twitter.com/genbarrison/status/689692764011913216

What’s next for Trump’s most energetic meme-posters? Trump Valentine’s Day cards.

https://twitter.com/FashyNeko/status/697064972711391232

You have been warned.

 

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Epsilon
Epsilon
8 years ago

@ A. Noyd

Little do they realize, racism is an all-or-none viewpoint. That’s what it is, inherently: arbitrary, vague value X is better than arbitrary, vague value Y.

Hu's On First
Hu's On First
8 years ago

One of those Fashy Neko tweets is actually of a catgirl. The word neko, in fact, means catgirl, so “Fashy Neko” = fascist catgirl.

So there you have it. Trump-supporting neo-Nazi anime catgirls. Now all that’s left is to incorporate My Little Pony in some way, too.

Professor Snugglesworth
Professor Snugglesworth
8 years ago

I don’t really see how it matters. What they use to “rile people up” says a lot about them, as do the targets they choose. They can say or even believe they don’t “believe” in it truly, but again, why was this their choice?

I always go back to my favorite Vonnegut quote. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” This applies equally well to the politicians they support.

Mortarius
Mortarius
8 years ago

Make Anime Real is one of those things that has a few layers to it, probably more layers than I even know but here goes:

On 4chan way back when the joke among the anime fans was self-deprecating assertions that they were all sad, lonely, pathetic etc for watching anime. So there was lots of ironic humour about leaving this world to join the anime world (funnier when non-specific otherwise you start a fight about which anime), having an anime “waifu” and pretending they were real (as a replacement for the GF you’d never have) and so on.

Recent technological advancements have also pushed the joke of “make anime real” further by creating some elements in reality. Hatsune Miku appearing live on Letterman was probably the high water mark for “ANIME IS REAL” jokes, but other stuff like virtual reality, Alternate Reality Games, Holograms etc pushes this joke.
This is a favourite of mine:
https://vine.co/v/ih60gt5AEBx

At this point “making anime real” is the anime nerd equivalent of the generic wish, like when little girls in fiction always wish for “a pony”.

So “Make Anime Real” as a joke applies to both Bernie and Trump in the sense that they are the candidates seen to be promising ice cream and ponies for all.

As for these Trump supporters in particular, they are harassers, trolls and general purpose trash and in Trump they see the personification of themselves as a candidate. They see Trump as the huge jerk and bully they want in a politician, who brushes his opponents aside with the rhetorical equivalent of “you mad?” and “You’re nothing compared to me”.

kupo
kupo
8 years ago

One of those twits has the name, “Donald Trump kawaii desu.” That roughly translates to Donald Trump is cute (but with poor grammar — I’m not great at Japanese but I think it may be a little closer to [I am] cute Donald Trump because it’s missing a particle and subjects are often implied). And wtf is up with those creepy af anime eyes on Trump?

Also,

Trump-senpai

I think my brain just quit.

Rabid Rabbit
Rabid Rabbit
8 years ago

You know, he may have been history’s greatest monster and all, but I don’t remember it ever being reported that Hitler was a child molester.

Congratulations, TotalWar45. You’re such a horrible person, you’re actually capable of defaming Hitler.

abars01
abars01
8 years ago

No matter how many times you think the Trump presidential campaign and the advocates thereof can’t become even more of a brain-stabbing circus than they already are, you’re wrong.

JoeB
JoeB
8 years ago

I’m sort of hoping that most of them are just trolling humanity or just supporting him “Ironically” and have no intention of actually voting for him and hope that he loses so they can rant about how a Jewish /feminist/SJW conspiracy stole the election from him.

I hate to invoke them when an obvious troll cited them just this week, but I do love Ken White of Popehat’s quote that “if you’re fucking goats ironically, you’re still a goatfucker.

EJ (The Other One)
8 years ago

Thanks, Mortarius. I learned something.

@Rabid Rabbit: One of Hitler’s few genuinely good features was that he was always extremely kind to children and animals, and loved being photographed with them.

(It didn’t stop him from, you know, giving orders which would have huge numbers of them killed; but then that’s statesmen in a nutshell.)

JoeB
JoeB
8 years ago

@Professor Snugglesworth Would’ve used that one again if you hadn’t.

and I still really really need to re-read Mother Night.

Fabe
Fabe
8 years ago

I hate to invoke them when an obvious troll cited them just this week, but I do love Ken White of Popehat’s quote that “if you’re fucking goats ironically, you’re still a goatfucker.

Yeah I guess you have a point there JoeB

Bina
Bina
8 years ago

People actually fap to this?

Never underestimate the irrationality of broken cuckoo clocks in Hell…

One of those twits has the name, “Donald Trump kawaii desu.” That roughly translates to Donald Trump is cute

I don’t think even his own wife would say that. That is creeeeeepy.

(Also, it reeks of mothballs, since I doubt very much that the twit in question is female.)

hugseverycat
hugseverycat
8 years ago

A whole bunch of these have got to be making fun of Trump supporters, right?

EJ (The Other One)
8 years ago

@hugseverycat:
Like Die Antwoord fans, it’s no longer possible to tell whether they’re being ironic or not, and to an extent it doesn’t matter.

Paradoxical Intention
8 years ago

@EJ: So what you’re saying is: They’re either Poes, and something something goatfuckers.

EJ (The Other One)
8 years ago

@Paradoxy:
If those were not my precise words, then they should have been.

katz
8 years ago

The Auschwitz one says “(((white)))’s go to a special place”…is he saying white people should be put in concentration camps?

TheLurker
TheLurker
8 years ago

@David, that made me think someone could lure Trump fans away from the election with some fictional white supremacy convention out in the wilderness

Jake Hamby
Jake Hamby
8 years ago

One of those twits has the name, “Donald Trump kawaii desu.” That roughly translates to Donald Trump is cute (but with poor grammar — I’m not great at Japanese but I think it may be a little closer to [I am] cute Donald Trump because it’s missing a particle and subjects are often implied).

Yeah, it should be “Donald Trump-wa kawaii desu.” Or you could use -ga, but in this case, Trump is obviously the topic of conversation, not just the subject of that sentence.

Jake Hamby
Jake Hamby
8 years ago

Excuse me, I forgot the honorific. Shitsurei shimashita. It should be Trump-san-wa kawaii desu, or the ever-popular Trump-senpai-wa kawaii desu.

Kat
Kat
8 years ago

Was Hitler kind to young people? Not so much to his half niece, Geli, who he said was the only woman he ever loved. She was in close contact with Hitler, who was 19 years her senior, from the time until she was 17 until she committed suicide at age 31. At the very least, he was domineering and possessive. There were rumors of a sexual relationship, physical abuse, and possibly her murder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geli_Raubal

And then there was Eva Braun, whom he met when she was 17 and he was 40.

Here’s a quote from the article below:

“There is surely nothing finer than to educate a young thing for oneself,” he opined. “A lass of 18 or 20 years old is as pliable as wax.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11165627/Adolf-Hitler-sex-life-Eva-Braun.html

rugbyyogi
rugbyyogi
8 years ago

Some of these are so weird, I can’t tell what the creators’ feelings are about Trump at all.

Kylo Ronin
Kylo Ronin
8 years ago

STAHP. STAHP PUTTING YOUR GREASY MITTS ALL OVER MY ANIME. Sorry for the capslocks, guys. Decided to step out from lurking for the first time due to the ongoing fuckery that is the memes. Have a pleasant day!

Zentrails
8 years ago

To be… fair? Ish?

Some of the Trump Valentine’s Day cards may be for the Jacksfilms recent YIAY episode of Valentine’s Day cards… There were a few Trump joke cards on there.

*resumeghosting*

Skiriki
Skiriki
8 years ago

I have to say that the pic with anime eyes and mouth photoshopped on Trump has to be the most disturbing thing I’ve seen for a while.