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The Alt-Right has a new plan to take over the culture … by appropriating the “corporate symbols of the left” and — get this! — subverting them. And then, like, pasting them on buildings and stuff. Because no one has ever thought of THAT before!
In a recent blog post, the pickup-artist-turned-white-supremacist-Trump-superfan “Heartiste” proudly posts a photo of one such subversion: street posters that have transformed the Apple logo, “an iconic image of globohomo shitlibbery,” into “a pro-Trumpening war banner” by turning the standard bite from the apple into a Trump silhouette.
Aw, it’s cute — they think they’re Banksy!
Heartiste then posts his own contribution to the “existential war for the soul of Western Man.”
If you’ve ever wondered if it was possible to screw up in Photoshop if all you’re doing is posting words onto a plain white background, it turns out the answer is “yes.”
Here’s a slightly more clever use of the Adidas brand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNua1lFDuDI
This is a level of sophisticated wit that has not been seen since Wacky Packs.
http://www.wackypackages2007.com/images/7139_1.jpg
I’ll be disappointed if Heartiste doesn’t attempt a Cucka Cola logo.
This has nothing to do with anything, but I feel compelled to post this video here.
Please, forgive me.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vx3_2ks5qQ&w=560&h=315%5D
numerobis says:
But wouldn’t it undermine the message to have the letters, y’know, sharing space?
These idiots are further behind the times than my grandfather. He’s only stuck in the 1970s, they’re stuck in the 1870s.
And bootlegging soulless corporate art is the height of creativity these jackasses can come up with?
The Adidas one reminded me of the old XKCD cartoon about kerning
https://xkcd.com/1015/
re: racist sexist assholery correlating with shitty art/humor/design skills and poor ability to appreciate them too
Being so clueless about the subtler aspects of being human kinda somehow makes these guys’ evil a little bit easier to accept. I mean, not really, but if I imagine someone with a solid grasp of emotions and reading and producing subtext who still shares their beliefs, that’s just too scary to contemplate. At least things aren’t quite that bad.
It also gives me a little hope, that if this humanness stuff could be properly explained and taught to them, that would fix their evil too. That it’s all just a big misunderstanding. That’s probably not true, and they’d just learn more refined and effective ways of being evil. But I still feel a bit better for having thought about it.
Edit: “corporate symbols of the left” – I haven’t laughed this hard all week.
Cucka Cola is FAR too clever for these idiots.
For a split second, I thought Heartiste’s Adidas parody portrayed a marijuana leaf…
@JoeB
Hah! I hadn’t thought of that song in years, but this blog post triggered my memory. I was gonna post it in the comments, but you got there first.
Ezra Pound wasn’t badly treated by the US justice system, he was very lucky not to be executed for treason, which he certainly would have been had he been say British. As it was he got off very lightly. (I oppose the death penalty, but those were the standards of the time.)
maybe someone should appropriate Donald Trump to make the alt-right look bad.
Wait…
Trumps already doing that by himself.
Confession: even years after leaving graf behind, I still find Bill Stickers/Bill Posters jokes hilarious.
Oddly enough I still read “heartiste” as “heartsite”.
I think that he would be so much happier and so much less fascist if he just found a decent girlfriend. Poor dude…
Lots of racists and misogynists have wives or girlfriends though. Plus, statements like that kind of imply that it’s the responsibility of women to love and/or fuck asshole men so that they don’t hurt people.
@ Judas Peckerwood
I mean… sort of. I wish this were more true, but the rich tradition of misogyny and racism in the arts makes me think otherwise. Ezra Pound keeps coming up, but we also have Bukowski and Ginsberg, Jerry Seinfeld and Woody Allen, HP Lovecraft, Jim Goad.
Pol: No. *thwaps with newspaper*
Humans aren’t currency. You cannot buy, sell, or award them to others and if you do so it’s called human trafficking. Humans are not bribes, rewards or sops. You do not ‘get’ them for being good, nor will acquiring one magically ‘cure’ anyone of their own shitty behaviour, a thing they are solely responsible for.
Also, why would you throw a ‘decent’ human being, girl or otherwise, under the bus like that by awarding them to someone so repugnant?
Lastly: No. *thwaps*
(beaten to the punch by WWTH, far more succinctly)
@Playonwords
Read my mind.
@Pol
….I think we’ve been over this several times. Well, not specifically involving me, but I’ve seen the topic covered in the comments over and over again.
re: the article
This doesn’t even deserve a “you tried” sticker.
Oh geez. I really gotta change my name from Pol to something else. Almost anything else actually. Otherwise people will jump to conclusions and judge me for my good looks…
I mean, how did my comment draw this response from you guys? I thought that I was being truthful. And to be honest, nice.
It’d be a problematic statement coming from anyone and would’ve got the same reaction.
I’m not saying you had ill intent, but maybe instead of getting defensive or changing your name, you should look at the reasons people were uncomfortable with your post and reflect on it.
@myself
Correction too late: it’s what the article showcases that doesn’t deserve the sticker. The article itself is fine.
@Pol
It’s not that this brand of people “need a girlfriend.” They need to learn to think and act like a reasonable human, instead of thinking that they are entitled to a woman, and that having a woman on their arm/in their bed is some sort of status symbol, and a notch on their belt. You’re perpetuating their own excuse that if only a woman were to actually stay with them, they’d be a decent person; when in reality, their lack of being a decent person is driving people of all genders away.
It’s silly. It’s childish. And it’s certainly not helping anything worth helping.
It was a tounge in cheek comment from me. Mostly.
Although maybe if heartiste actually had a true loving partner he wouldn’t be like he is.
If indeed he is a “he”…
@Pol
Sure. Keep digging.
@Pol
>>>claims “Just Joking” Justification
>>>repeats same sentiment in slightly different wording
Yeah, you’re really proving that you’re posting in good faith here.
And whether Heartiste is male, female, non-binary, agender, or identifying anywhere else on the spectra of gender, using alleged “strategies” that amount to date rape still makes him a bad person. Gender doesn’t matter.
Build That Wall-Mart
General Mot-Whores
Nah. This is difficult. :/
Heartiste can’t have a true, loving partner precisely because he is the way he is.