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!
Re: Mussolini and trains, here’s some real history:
Also, does this passage remind anyone of anyone? Like, say, the “alt”-right’s Great White Macho-Male Hope?
Things that make one go hmmmmm…eh?
(12 + 144 + 20 + 3 * root 4)/7 + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0
here comes twelve, it’s two-two-three,
and twice again for all to see,
and twenty next ( being five and four,
or five – two – two to factor more )
and then the product of a three
by root of four ( too real for me
let’s call it two, keep it discrete,
to keep our numbers nice and neat)
collect those numbers in a bin
then from that bag we’ll set them in-
-to groups of seven, nice and neat,
to make the reservoir deplete.
Then count the sets till we arrive
at ending; then add fifty-five
(or five elevens, eleven fives)
the answer thus we now derive
for nine times nine is what we get
(but don’t forget the empty set)
@Em
I have reddish brown hair and gray eyes, so no wheat field for me either.
Which is fine-I’d rather have my own library anyway. Care to join me?
@ scildfreja
You’ve finally achieved the impossible; you’ve left me speechless!!!!
That’s amazing! 🙂
Math and poetry work very well together, as it turns out! Even though the words often don’t rhyme well, the flow of a mathematical operation and the flow of a poem’s cadence are very similar. It’s something I really wish that schools taught; that poems and formulas tickle the same part of the brain.
I shared it with the people who sent me the original and the consensus is you’re a bona fide genius. Of course, we knew that already.
Someone beat me to the weird Fountainhead reference in this guy’s speech.
That’s Mussolini though, not Hitler. Also, I’ve heard an apocrphyal story that Mussolini only made the trains run on time for VIPs, high-level government members and the executives of the various corporations funding the Fascist Party, and did so by increasing delays on trains for regular schmucks.
@Alan
Yay free cigar!
@Scildfreja
Hats off to you for not only for keeping a steady cadence but also managing to keep a rhyme scheme in order of the number operations rather than rearranging the order of operations for coherence’s sake.
@banned
As far as I know Mussolini did what all fascists do, steal and claim credit for what they want. The rail systems improved long before his rule and according to snopes there are italian citizen testimonies that say the punctual nature of fascist trains is very, very exaggerated.
Oh, is Marky gone? I had a little ditty for him:
Demonize!
Let your enemies look good in no one else’s eyes
Don’t compromise
But demonize, demonize, demonize!
But always remember to be calling it, please
…talking points.
I lifted that from someone else and it was originally a song about a mathematician! Coincidence? Mwa ha ha!
Thus Spake ZaraDavid Futrelle:
Unintentionally?
Given one of the explicit aims of the alt-right is to return explicit racism to the window of discourse, and white supremacist groups are among their biggest supporters, I’m not sure the resemblance is unintentional at all. Hell, I’m just surprised they didn’t find a way to work a swastika into the logo.
It’s not too hard to make a rhyme
for words are sets and sets are fine
for measuring and spacing thought
and when i think I think a lot
so brackets here and brackets there
are cadences and metrics fair
to measure out the pace of rhyme
that way its trains will run on time.
Pchhh, genius. You guys are too nice.
(Don’t be scared by the scary math words there, it’s funny, honest 😮 )
@pocketnerd
Let’s the following they’d have to jam in there for alt right, a red pill for the manipulative sexists and racists, swastika for the nationalistic fascists, alpha sign cause muh wolfu terminology and what else?
Honestly the most accurate logo would be a cheap photoshop with all those symbols on top of each other vying for more visual space. I feel that represents them more than any flag similar to a country’s symbol could.
Thus Spake ZaraOoglyBoggles:
Or maybe just an angry creep parked in front of a computer, wearing nothing but filthy underpants and a scowl, watching hentai on one screen while browsing racist and misogynist subreddits on the other.
(If I had any artistic talent, I might use something like that as a basis for a World War II-style recruiting poster. “Angry, privilege-distressed, socially inadequate men! Uncle Pepe Wants YOU!“)
@David: Not sure why, but there is an Ad choices ad at the bottom of my screen that is comprised of two buttons. One says ‘Donald Trump logo’ and the other one says ‘Politics Right Wing’. They go somewhere, but I’m not about to click ’em.
In fact, here you go:
http://i.imgur.com/OFHCVH0.png
That’s what it looks like.
@Rhuu
Yeah, that’s weird. It’s usually 3. I guess the algorithms couldn’t come up with a 3rd suggestion? In its defense, it’s a pretty short article…
That failed logic fart always interests me.
If women hate men, that must mean they hate their own sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, uncles and grandfathers along with all male neighbours, co-workers, students, business clients, friends and lovers. Farty Fartface and his ilk _might_ allow that individual women could obviously not hate anyone we were related to or happened, by some mysterious mischance, to like or to love.
So at our monthly who-do-we-hate meetings, Katie would be presiding over long queues of women trying to get their likable/lovable male relatives and friends recorded on the exception list.
Beyond daft, even if it was your own idea.
@mildlymagnificent
You just reminded me that I can’t afford this month’s Male-Fee to stay on the exemption list. I got all my approval papers in order as always, but I just can’t get the 666USD quick enough. Do I have any recourse via the Feminist High Council or do I have to go in hiding now ?
@Nikki the Bluth Wannabe
When I was little my dad called me wheathead because my hair was the same color as winter wheat. It’s long since been brown though, and blue is only one of the colors in my eyes so I guess I can’t stand in wheat fields. (Actually, no one could stand in wheat fields around here right now as harvest was over about 3 weeks ago and there’s nothing but stubble now.) I am very interested in having my own library though.
Scildfreja, your poem is brilliant – it’s elegant and lovely. YYUR, YYUB – ICURYY4me, as we kids used to say.
Re: math/ poetry, I have always loved this song by the Lovecraft tribute band Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. The song is written down as an equation and “solve for y” in the lyrics booklet, and the answer is written in the comments. That answer will make you smack your head and (spoiler) possibly complicate your universe.
Creepily, our local wheat fields have blonds with hands they INSIST are theirs, they have papers and everything. This is not a maglev I recommend riding.
http://pre07.deviantart.net/be0f/th/pre/f/2014/069/4/c/blushing_fluttershy_by_arti22-d78vahs.png
@Rhuu
I once had one that said ” baby mammoth”.
aaaaaaaaaaa
y, y = (x/5)^ξ
ξ, ξ = √3
x, x tan(n-π/10) = -9
n, n = (v cos 3)^3 + 44
v, v = 1^(101+83/5)
This is not right, but I can’t tell from the lyrics. Where are the brackets! Does he mean v=1^(101+83/5) or v=Σ(1..101) + 83/5 ? is it x tan(n-π/10) = -9, or is it x tan(n)-π/10 = -9 ?
http://img03.deviantart.net/f8b9/i/2013/240/a/8/fluttershy___smile_hd___no_blood_by_flutteralex-d6k1h4a.jpg