So the alt-right now has a semi-official logo, introduced to the world by Richard Spencer, the guy who came up with the term in the first place, at a weird press-conference/debutante ball for the Nazi-based movement in Washington DC on Friday.
Here it is:
Spencer, who designed the logo himself, “said it had a young, futuristic look, in contrast to the flags and eagles that adorn the logos of the past,” according to Mother Jones.
But one aspect of the logo unintentionally recalls a rather memorable bit of white supremacist branding from years past — the infamous KKK hood. So I’ve taken the liberty of photoshopping-up what I think is a far more honest logo, which you can see at the top of the post.
It’s hard to overstate just how weird the press conference seems to have been. Its location was secret, so reporters had to go to another location first to learn where it really was — a technique popularized by raves in the late 80s and 90s.
“Reporters covering the event were instructed to go to the entrance of the Old Ebbitt Grill, near the White House,” Mother Jones notes.
There, they would encounter a man in a charcoal suit and brown tie who would reveal the new location of the conference.
During the press conference itself, Spencer proudly declared that the alt-right was free of “cucks,” and waxed poetic about what the world might be like if people like him ran it.
“If the alt-right were in power, we would all have arrived here via magnetic levitation trains,” he told the crowd, according to Mother Jones.
We would have passed by great forests and beautiful images of blond women in a wheat field with their hands, running them through the wheat.
Keep dreaming, dude.
But feel free to use my improved logo!
I couldn’t invent something like this if I tried. Reality really is more fucked up than fiction.
It makes me think of some sort of bad origami creation.
That’s a webpage background .gif from the early ’90s, iirc.
“If the alt-right were in power, we would all have arrived here via magnetic levitation trains,” he told the crowd, according to Mother Jones.
I thought these guys were against high-speed rail, and public transportation in general.
The silver lining of Trump’s candidacy is that it has flushed these nazi cockroaches out of the woodwork and into the light of day. I would much rather have them where I can see them and make note of them for future reference.
I still don’t understand how so many people can take the alt right seriously.
As opposed to blonde women without their hands?
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/bsi.gif
What, are we going to go back to a system where wheat thieves have their hands cut off?
It’s getting interesting though. They’re creating an official structure with which to support Trump. Eventually he’ll have to acknowledge them, and either accept them or reject them. Gonna be difficult to tip-toe down that line.
@David Futrelle
Yeah, your fix makes the message a lot clearer.
In other news, the second paragraph should begin “Here it is.”
Confirmed: Spencer is the Origami Killer.
Holy shit, what a god-awful logo. Credit where credit’s due though, the solid white blocks do appropriately reflect the all-white bloc that is the alt-right.
And all the beautiful women of other colorings? Well, they’d have gassed them, so no more redheads or brunettes. And so much for their white-wing “diversity”.
(Also, gotta love that it’s only “images”, not actual women. Seems to be their vision of life in general: Pictures, not people!)
Ah, awesome. I love it when they put up their flags and banners. Makes identifying the assholes way easier. I wonder if they’re gonna all wear brown shirts at their rallies?
As for the hover-trains and wheat-maidens; ain’t it telling that in their fantasy, women are pretty scenery to look at while the men are rushing off to do Important Things? “Just stand out in that field, honey, the train’s coming in a few minutes. No, it doesn’t make any sense, but the boys like it, so be a dear, would you? You know how they get when they don’t see you when they come by on the 3:15 Express, and no one wants that.”
How does that graphic communicate “alt right” in any way whatsoever?
Also, it seems as though these guys aren’t familiar with the pink triangle that Nazi Germany forced gay men to wear.
Inspired by David Futrelle, I fixed the wording of a couple of quotes from Richard Spencer, a rising young fuehrer/debutante:
These guys are sooo in love with their own thoughts, not to mention themselves!
To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, the affair between Richard Spencer and Richard Spencer will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all fascism.
You underestimate Trump’s ability to create his own reality. Any other candidate would eventually have to reckon with this branch of support, but Trump can just keep issuing dog-whistles and human-whistles and act like he’s the injured party when HRC calls that out. He has no shame and no cognitive dissonance.
This reminds me of the 1960s Looney Tunes logo:
Not their best work. Warner Brothers, that is.
I’m so glad the blondes are allowed to keep their hands. Of course, Spencer’s construction here doesn’t tell us whether or not the women’s hands are still attached to their arms.
They’re there in a wheat field with their hands, though. That much is certain.
Right? It’s like they fixated on a Massengill douche ad from the 1970s, and that’s what their whole vision of what “feminine beauty” translates to.
(Douche just so figures, too.)
@Policy of Madness
You make a good point. But I don’t know if he can fool everyone a thousand times more though. At any rate, the alt-right is putting itself in deep shit already. See this :
In related news, I took my canoe and went to the swamps for a bit.
The fault lines are already appearing, folks. Actually, nothing new. It’s a pattern of the far-right, to be honest : they always, always, always end up eating each other in petty power struggles. But this current incarnation ? HOLY SHIT. They’re going faster than anything I’ve ever seen.
Anglin described himself as “the academic authority” on the alt-right, on the grounds that his site is the most visited. Thing is, he’s also one of the most unforgiving among them. He keeps alienating his own allies, and it seems he’s going turbo right now.
He calls the conference and logo brilliant. Next day, same tabloid wanksite, another author calls it low-energy. They’ve got their own “Jewish problem” – that is, they can’t agree on what to do about Jewish people. They all project their own views on Trump, and since he’s basically stopped being a human being to become a mirror for the shittiest people in the world, it’s working great so far. It’s not gonna work so well when he loses.
There’s really no future for Spencer’s alt-right and that logo. No matter how tightly you pack up that ball of sand, it’s still gonna scatter all around again when you throw it against the wall. After the election, it’s gonna be back to business as usual, just a bunch of idiots wandering around 4chan posting dumb memes.
The obsession with blond girls and wheat seems to be kind of a thing with them.
My grandfather was eight years old when the Nazis invaded Greece. They killed two of his brothers and broke his arms when he was nine. He has a very good idea of what it looks like when the alt-right takes control of everything.
In the end, alt-right sympathizers in Greece were shot along with looters and rapists.
A charcoal suit and brown tie?
Well, they obviously won’t be a threat to fashion.
Arriving via monorail, he says? Everyone knows that only the most trustworthy people try to sell those.
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I found a picture of the residents of the perfect alt right village that all the levitating Galt trains will pass through.
And ask the man in the charcoal suit and brown tie where the pet shop is, right?
So, I’m a little confused about how the second part fits in. Is that supposed to be what you’d see from the magnetic levitation trains? Because I understood that you wouldn’t be able to see anything at all from them: they’d have no windows. (Something I found rather disappointing about them: what I like about trains is being able to take in the view!)
(Edit: wait, no, I’m thinking of something else: those Tesla trains in a tube. My bad!
Actually, I’m not sure, maybe that is the same thing? I’m confused now.)
Or are these tasteful prints lining the entry path/corridor to the venue? In which case, ok, but I don’t see why you need to be in power to have those at your conference; or indeed why other not-Alt-Right groups can’t similarly put up their own idea of nice pictures on the way into their conferences (hopefully ones that don’t sound just a bit racist).