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

@ Kat

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.

Oh my God. I never thought I’d actually expect better from Hitler. Even his own family wasn’t safe from his desire to dominate others.

@EJ

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.)

I am reminded of a bit from Illuminatus! in which the leaders of the US., US & PRC all, in the space of a few pages, are described with the same paragraph, which ended “…and genuinely loved children and puppies, unless they were somewhere that had to be bombed in the National Interest.”

@Kat:
What Chaltab said. Ugh. That’s sickening.

@Dalillama:
Heee! I love that book.

Also, off-topic, Chapter 01 awaits your orders for destination.

@Leda:
I spent about an hour trawling through white-supremacist websites to see if (((white))) meant anything in particular, to no avail. Annoyingly, did you know that the Googles can’t tell the difference between “(((white)))” and “white”? It made it much harder.

Maybe those /pol/ers were right: humans really can’t understand them.

I never thought I’d actually expect better from Hitler.

Possible the best thing I’ve heard all year.

David
February 13, 2016 at 9:41 pm

I wonder which way round the cause and effect is – do anime fans like Hitler? I’m not sure why that would be the case. But I can’t think why nazis would enjoy anime, either.

There’s a lot of Nazi imagery in anime going back decades, and WWII-era weapons and equipment are very popular for model kits, cosplay and other related hobbies. However, this all seems to be related to the asthethic – Nazi uniforms are well designed (and were designed to specifically look good, as we all know), and their mlitary hardware was the best in terms of technology and performance, subjects which are frequently obsesed over by anime fans/nerds in general.

However, this doesn’t seem to translate over to Nazi idology. There’s an infamous moment in the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime, for example where one character – a high ranking leader in a faction which has a lots of Nazi imagery in their uniforms and weapons – is directly compared to Hitler, it’s meant as an insult (and he takes it as a compliment because he’s that evil)

The witch, ahem, justice, is dead !

A friend just posted this on Facebook:

Antonin Scalia requested cremation in his will, but millions of women will meet tomorrow to discuss if that’s really best for his body.

The anime eyes on Trump are truly disturbing, but I’m not sure whether more or less disturbing than his own real eyes.

And… the Hitler thing. Oh dear lordy.

Let’s leave aside, for half a nano-second, the hideous crimes against humanity and all of that stuff, not because it doesn’t matter, but because it’s pretty obvious that some of these meme makers think they were simply brilliant ideas that Trump would do well to emulate.

But have they not noticed that he failed horribly, disastrously, and brought his entire country to an appalling ruin?

As AJP Taylor says, Hitler “…promised a Reich that would last a thousand years. It barely lasted twelve.”

You would have thought these super-mensch-worshippers would have noticed that.

After all, part of Trump’s selling point is his “success” (much exaggerated, apparently – if he’d just kept his money in the bank he’d be much richer than he is after all his wonderful deals).

bluecat:

But have they not noticed that he failed horribly, disastrously, and brought his entire country to an appalling ruin?

Well, that was just because the SJWs held him back, of course. When you see brutality as the answer, failure must be because you weren’t brutal enough. How often have you heard right-wingers say that America’s wars would be less clusterfucked if they just nuked a few cities, openly tortured more civilians, and generally courted a reputation as history’s greatest butchers? Oderint dum metuant, and all that.

@ Moggie

When you see brutality as the answer, failure must be because you weren’t brutal enough.

I think you are right.

I wonder if it doesn’t even go further than that and shade into brutality for its own sake, whether it leads to success or disaster. Like brutality is the point after all.

I’ve had arguments with people about torturing prisoners, or capital punishment and such, and sometimes, after all the pragmatic arguments against have been aired, the argument seems to reduce to “But anyway they deserve it and I’d really like to think about doing it.”

I think of the last days of Hitler, when he evidently ordered actions which would further destroy what was left of Germany and which would cause greater hardship to the surviving Germans, because they didn’t deserve to survive. They’d let him down by following his policies to disaster, or some excuse of that kind. (Some of the generals, I believe, subverted some those orders when they thought they could get away with it).

Oderint dum odissent in fact.

IIRC, Hitler asked for Paris to be destroyed, but the order wasn’t carried out. Or something to that extent.

Ian Kershaw, I think, says that in the last days Hitler constantly demanded that the army take positions that could not be defended – basically suicide missions – and that nobody was to discuss surrender or even negotiate the evacuation of children and non-combatants from Berlin, preferring to have them and it destroyed with him as his funeral pyre. I believe he also gave orders for medical and food supplies to be destroyed as well. He is said to have ranted that the German people deserved to be wiped out.

When he found out someone (I think it might have been Heydrich) had actually been discussing surrender he was distraught. Admittedly, he was on a heavy dose of methamphetamines, but the being in love with death for its own sake seems a bit of a theme.

All of which is just a complicated rationale for posting this again…

I wounder how many of trumps supporters will fail to actually vote for him because they’re too busy posting neo-nazi memes to the internet?

And how many can’t vote for him because they’re not legally old enough?

@Hitler (probably) being an incestuous paedophile

I wonder why this isn’t mentioned in history books the way everything else about Hitler is. General fear of sex (inasmuch as child rape can be considered sex)? Or something more sinister?

StarStorm:

How the hell do you do it? Is there a booze and/or drugs fund I can donate to?

No, but I think his kitties keep him safe. You should totes donate for the kitties! 😀