Richard Spencer came up with the term “alt-right” some years ago in an attempt to provide a cool-sounding euphemism to describe a bunch of people who might otherwise have been labeled “f*cking Nazis.”
This past weekend, Spencer and roughly 200 other “alt-rightists” put on suits to attend the annual conference organized by Spencer’s innocuous-sounding National Policy Institute and held in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. And Spencer apparently forgot the number one rule of alt-right club, which is: Don’t talk about Adolf Hitler, at least not anywhere where non-alt-rightists can hear you.
Spencer didn’t literally bring up Hitler by name, but his evocation of the old man was not what you’d call subtle. After most journalists had left the premises, Spencer gave a speech the Atlantic describes as “dripping with anti-Semitism” and blatant racism, declaring the United States a “a white country” that rightfully “belongs to us.”
“Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory,” Spencer called out, raising his right arm in what looked more than a little bit like a Nazi salute. Many in the audience responded with Nazi salutes of their own, no ambiguity about them.
Here’s video of the whole embarrassing spectacle, courtesy of The Atlantic.
http://i.imgur.com/4xW9Z3R.jpg
Hey, time to bring out one of my favorite gif…again.
I love this gif.
It’d sure be nice if the media did their god damn job and plastered this on every newspaper and TV screen in the world.
My uncle is a Trump supporter and will be present at Thanksgiving. If he tries to deny that Trumpism = Nazism, it’ll be nice to have this little video handy.
I wish WordPress had a “like” button, because these cartoons are just so…LIKABLE.
BTW, the neo-Nazis held their little shindig in a federal building with Ronald Reagan’s name on it. Just, you know, so you know how VERY close they are to the corridors of power in DC.
The Guardian has quite a good report on it, here.
The reporter describes, inter alia, how he commented to a panel that there were very few women at the gathering:
Need gif/jif (haha) of someone looking deeply nauseous, stat.
I’m getting myself this for Xmas:
http://forward.com/news/national/355033/new-internet-plug-in-turns-phrase-alt-right-into-white-supremacy/
Whereas Donald Trump has proposed several policies and positions that closely parallel those proposed by Adolf Hitler;
Whereas the circumstances surrounding the said Trump’s rise to power closely parallel those surrounding Hitler’s;
Whereas Donald Trump is recognized as Nazi-like not only by his detractors, but also by his supporters; and
Whereas it has hitherto been popular to silence comparisons to the Nazis with the citation of Godwin’s Law;
I, the Laugher at Bigots, in my capacity as the self-appointed Keeper of Internet Laws and Fallacies, do hereby urge the immediate and complete cessation of the practice of silencing comparisons between Donald Trump and the Nazis by citing Godwin’s law, which cessation shall end at Donald Trump’s removal from office or his complete reversal and abjuration of his stated positions and censure of everyone that holds them, whichever occurs first.
Done this day, the twenty-first day of November, in the year of the Christians’ God the two thousand and sixteenth, and in the year of the independence of the United States the two hundred and forty-first, and in the year of the Worldwide Web the twenty-sixth.
[Signed] Laugher at Bigots, Mincing Betaboy
Do they…do they not understand the concept of escapism and fantasy?
Eta Candy got our back:
Will that do? Too cheery? Hang on, here’s another:
And another, just for good measure:
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/hurl_cam.gif
Also,
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Meanwhile, how many women are going around in public with men who look like Fabio, or any other illustration from the cover of a trashy novel?
I mean, if you dudes are seriously trying to analyze What Women Want In A Man™, shouldn’t you be looking at actual women’s relationships, and not their one-handed reading habits?
@Mish
Yes, they do. They just aren’t labeled ‘romance novels’. Guys will only read em if they’re called ‘thrillers’ instead
@Scildfreja
The media isn’t allowed to do their jobs anymore*. Did you hear about the media summit?
*Not actually true, as president-elect Fuckface McGee has neither taken office nor elaborated on how he actually plans on undermining the first amendment.
… omg I died
No one show them AO3, I don’t think they could take it.
Right? I seem to recall a certain trilogy by Stieg Larsson doing just that. And it’s popular with readers of all genders. Even years after his death, it’s still flying off the shelves.
Only — twist! — the computer hacker is a tiny woman named Lisbeth, and she doesn’t spend much time in cubicles. Too busy kicking the asses of nazified villains and other assorted disgustipating perverts IRL. And sometimes having quite unsentimental (but consensual) sex with anyone she likes.
Granted, it’s not a one-handed read, but DAMN, is it satisfying.
@Laugher at Bigots, Mincing Betaboy – Seconded!
Practically every comedy I’ve ever seen that’s marketed towards men has a romance central to the plot. Yet, they’re never called rom-coms. Examples I can think of off the top my head are Happy Gilmore, 40 Year Old Virgin and Office Space. It is funny how that works.
Anyway, there are a lot of romance novels in the supernatural subgenre. Maybe neo-Nazis should try and get themselves turned into vampires or werewolves.
You know what the chicks dig?
Aliens.
Maybe they can go off in a spaceship and find a planet to be aliens on?
@Jack
Sending our trash to another planet is not a responsible way to deal with it.
… where can I donate, to build the ship ?
The thing I love about that Rick/Summer Nazi beating is it came right after they beat up the LITERAL Devil, and was still more satisfying because those people are real.
@Sinkable John
Here’s some starts.
@calmdown
Ain’t it, though?
*starts humming X Gonna Give It To Ya*
Convince them that it will do the “Aryan race” a great honour to have their finest representatives (I say, cringing hard within) to be the first people to colonize other planets.
You know, I have never, ever read, seen, or heard of a single romance novel where the love interest is a Nazi. There is just something about bigotry that does not make the ladies hearts warm, in my experience.