PR can be a touchy issue for the alt-right. Some who’ve joined up with (or at least glommed onto) the euphemistically named movement have cried foul at the Nazi salutes at the recent National Policy Institute conference — on the grounds that they might cause some outsiders to think that their obsessively anti-Semitic, white supremacist movement had something to do with the Nazis.
Similarly, some worry that the alt-right’s embrace of the German term “lügenpresse” (lying press) might also draw Nazi comparisons, just because the term was really, really, really popular with, you know, the Literal Nazis.
As one self-described shitlord asked plaintively on Twitter yesterday:
https://twitter.com/Limsky420/status/803258552332611584
After several minutes of exhaustive research on the subject, which consisted of looking through a couple hundred of the most recent Tweets using the word, I have concluded that the sort of people who like to use the word “lugenpresse,” well, let’s just say that it wouldn’t be too hard to detect a certain Nazi-ness about them, even if they never ever uttered this particular word in public.
I mean, seriously:
https://twitter.com/tdltdltdltdltdl/status/803397446134923264
https://twitter.com/SwampDrainr/status/803378565312114688
https://twitter.com/sir_croak/status/803281958587482112
https://twitter.com/AltReich1488/status/803047442841096192
https://twitter.com/GreatArtiste45/status/802919793116352512
https://twitter.com/bat_shitlord/status/802828261206163456
https://twitter.com/MengerianKnight/status/802739175174737920
https://twitter.com/WallWatcher1983/status/802237437946855424
https://twitter.com/ShadowWar_1/status/802193707781025793
they're cucks You're a cuck We need to shift the Overton window. We won't by disavowing when the lugenpresse calls us nazis.
— Groping Groyper 🌲 (@HwyteMale) November 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/Mundilfury/status/801801289831223298
https://twitter.com/whiteamerican11/status/801524521358544896
https://twitter.com/attentionmustbe/status/801605161374203904
https://twitter.com/WallWatcher1983/status/801230704218664961
lugënpresse will always try to shekelate the narrative. Never surrender the narrative.
— Mitchell (@brabakr) November 25, 2016
Oh wait, I’m being told that “lügenpresse” has nothing whatsoever to do with the Nazis.
https://twitter.com/ChristiEquites/status/802459233589424128
Oops! My bad.
James Dean
and
Marlon Brando
both shown in a “Moment of (riding a) Triumph”
Hey, alt-right, your Weltanschauung is showing.
Ah! So, it was Brando. Midcentury Leading Men ain’t my best category. Still have a hard time believing Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper, and Robert Mitchum aren’t all the same guy 😀
@Brian and Troubelle
Re : “black pill”
From what I could gather, the alt-right and assorted assholes have like four kinds of pills now. Blue and Red ain’t just about feminism anymore either : now they apply to pretty much any subject that one could be “enlightened” about (read : it’s probably The Jews).
“To black pill” someone apparently means to demoralize them, make them think their fight is lost. So, yeah, lotsa talk from these morons about how we got black pilled when Trump was elected, for example.
I don’t remember what color the fourth pill is or what it does, but you get the general idea.
@Sinkable John
I do believe the fourth pill is white and gives you superhuman abilities for an hour. Also, Leukemia.
They’re not actual Nazis!…Just neo-fascist, sexist, white supremacists who use a lot of Hitlerian imagery in an semi-ironic sort of way…
What’s the matter, can’t you take a joke?
How do we get through to people that things aren’t bad because they were done by the Nazis, the Nazis were bad because they did bad things?
ok, that makes sense.
Someday there will be as many colours of pills as there are Greek letter categories of men.
@Weird Eddie
Your links are both the same.
What are you trying to say here? Because he appointed an Asian woman he’s no longer a bigot? Oh, and she failed to do anything about wage theft and is responsible for multiple coal miner deaths. She’s hardly some great person just because she’s a woman of color. Am I missing something?
@Viscaria
And then maybe they’ll get bored and start making actual points. Or maybe they’ll switch to, I dunno, maybe MLP ? Hey at least it would be more fun.
At any rate, it’s not like they’re ever gonna stop cramming everyone and everything into arbitrary cases.
(Admittedly my only contact with MLP is through gifs on here, so I don’t really have any suggestions about how to decide who is which pony.)
@ Dalillama…
yeah, I noticed that after I posted it, then my internet went *poof*… the goddess is telling me my joke wasn’t funny, I guess…. 🙂 🙁
Here’s the Brando pic
@kupo
I think Weird Eddie’s point was merely that white supremacists aren’t gonna be happy because POC, and that they’re gonna start feeling like Trump’s “betrayed” them. That doesn’t make him any less of an asshole, but it does make him look worse in the eyes of those people.
To be fair I completely agree with that : I’ve seen it a bunch of times when Trump says something the Nazis don’t like, and they threaten to disavow him. And then Anglin (it’s usually him) goes into full apologetic mode and says Trump did whatever it is he did “to fool the Jews”. You know there’s trouble brewing in the alt-right when fucking Anglin has to go and say that someone is really their ally but is just trying to keep up appearances.
@ Kupo
Not saying he’s anything BUT a bigot, nor saying Chao gets a pass on any past acts. Just remarking that some of The Cheeto’s actions won’t set well with the “Daily Stormer” bunch. This doesn’t mean he’s any less repugnant than he has always been, nor does it mean that the right in general is likely to be disappointed with him. Sincere apologies for any misunderstanding.
As someone who is of German descendancy, the idea that these very-likely-not-German shitlords are abusing my mother’s language to get alt-right brownie points fucking disgusts me.
@Weird Eddie
Thanks for the clarification. It looked like you were commenting on Trump himself rather than on their perception of him.
Wasn’t there an MGTOW blog called Black Pill? I forgot what it means but I remember there was someone using it.
Ok. I found it. Black pill is an MRM subset that finds “mainstream” MRAs like AVFM and also PUA insufficiently misogynistic.
https://omegavirginrevolt.wordpress.com/why-the-black-pill/
Yikes.
“https://www.mgtow.com/forums/topic/the-black-pill/”
(I don’t want to link to it but if you’re up for it…)
Google blurb sez ““The “black pill” represents the main focus of this blog that provides a true anti-feminist option beyond the mainstream and non-mainstream …”
So, “beyond mainstream AND non-mainstream??” Is that, like, UP A CREEK????
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
ETA: hmmm… a topic, not a stand-alone blog….
From WWTH’s link:
That’s right. Women are a systemic problem. How do you solve the systemic problem that is women.
@Viscaria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYvyh3IIdDk
Sorry, couldn’t resist…
@Sinkable John:
I’ve got some bad news for you.
http://orig01.deviantart.net/6dd0/f/2013/335/b/3/fluttershy_s_about_to_cry__animated__by_masemj-d6wdg5s.gif
Kind of OT, but I don’t know where else to go for this
Have the hate crimes committed by Trump supporters stopped after he told them to? I’m hoping yes but I won’t hope too much.
ETA: Nationalist MLP fans. I’m done. Brain is just going “Nope. Nope. Not dealing with this shit right now. NOPE.”
Seriously, how the fuck?!