Two videos have been making the rounds lately that I think capture the surreality that is live in Trumpmerica, and can’t help make you wonder (as many of us have been wondering since November 8) if perhaps we’ve slipped into the wrong timeline.
Let’s start with the Milk Nazis.
Milk Nazis, you ask? I’ll let Mic explain, because I’m lazy:
At the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City on a Friday night, neo-Nazis and other trolls danced shirtless in front of a camera. The livestream setup had originally been established by actor Shia LaBeouf as an anti-Trump art installation. But the project has since become a broadcast outlet for white nationalism.
Amid all the tattoos of Third Reich iconography bouncing around, one thing stood out: The neo-Nazis were all drinking milk. They spat it out as they danced, letting it dribble down their chins.
Milk, the longtime staple for growing children, is now the new, creamy symbol of white racial purity in President Donald Trump‘s America.
See, the idea is that pure-blooded white people have the lactase enzyme that allows them to drink milk without having to run the bathroom afterwards. Or at least are more likely to be lactose-tolerant than most people of color. Or something. In any case, internet Nazis on sites like 4chan and the Daily Stormer have decided, with varying degrees of seriousness, that milk does a Nazi good.
Hmm. I could tolerate lactose (and drink milk) all I wanted as a kid. Now I can’t. So I guess I’ve gotten less Aryan with age?
Anyway, here’s the video. It’s 12 minutes long, though you don’t have to watch the whole thing to get the basic idea. I watched the whole thing because what in holy hell is going on in this word? Also I kind of liked that one of the Milk Nazis looked like he had been teleported to NYC straight from a Skinny Puppy concert in 1989.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTy6f_HyuQU
Milk Nazis, I hate these guys! (And also can’t drink them.)
The other video in question is a much more low key affair, and everyone in it keeps their shirt on.
It’s a Breitbart interview with White House Spokesman Sean Spicer, and for once Spicer is not the embarrassing one here. Let’s just say that the video has the production values of a high school video class project, and that the Breitbart interviewer has all the smooth professionalism of that “boom goes the dynamite” guy.
Wow. I mean, I was in fact involved in a high school public access “news” show (I think maybe it was part of a class?) and for all of our incompetence (which was massive) I think we did better than this. My most vivid memory of the experience was watching the technician for the public access channels putting his hand down the back of his pants to scratch his butt.
I can only hope that is not something that any of the Breitbarters involved in this production does, as it is kind of grody.
PS: Note to Beryl, if you’re reading this: Your now-husband was in the video class with me. After witnessing the butt-scratching incident, he quipped to me that he wasn’t going to be shaking that guy’s hand any time soon.
All milk and no play make Jack a dull nazi.
I’m going to eat some macaroni and cheese for dinner and revel in how that does not make me a Nazi and how I still have those inferior non Aryan brown eyes.
The milk-spewing Nazis’ theme song:
Since milk is basically baby food, lactase persistence is, if you want to get metaphorical*, an extension of a feature of childhood. These guys are asserting their immaturity. Like Victorious Parasol says
But maybe not puerile enough, you know? I mean, the milk thing has to actually be explained to us non-Nazis and probably even some Nazis. I’m thinking if they wore just diapers, but stayed shirtless and kept spitting up milk, it would get the point across better.
*On the whole, I think getting metaphorical about food is pretty silly, but they started it.
Full disclosure: I am lactose intolerant.
Also: you call that dancing?
Hmm, I thought that adult males were supposed to stay away from drinking milk because the hormones in milk cause gynecomastia. A slender trans friend of mine who can’t afford sex realignment surgery specifically drinks milk daily in order to help boost some budding B-cups.
Ugh, anyway… as vile as these dipshitted Nazis are, at least they are preening around like lower primates who just discovered a mirror rather than issuing death threats to decent people online.
Huh. Oddly enough, I was just thinking about the entire lactase persistence thing earlier today, in the context of “dude, you can drink milk without getting sick and it’s kind of a trend for people who are Caucasian. That’s not much to brag about, and definitely not proof of any kind of inherent superiority.”
And now look. Jesus.
@YV it’s not just a white thing, but it is an unusual thing across world populations and certainly #notallwhites. Yes, there are small groups in Africa, also camel herders in Arabia and yes, some Asian populations, too. My understanding, but I’m not a geneticist, is that some of these result from slightly different mutations that give the same result.
Another thing to bear in mind, is that it isn’t necessarily about dairy products, but about raw milk. Many cheeses have lactose broken down, butter and yoghurt still contain some lactose, but less than milk. They’re also better ways of preserving milk than raw milk and so a lot of populations that aren’t very lactose tolerant can include preserved milk in their diets.
Having slightly different characteristics dominant in some population groups, especially those that result in visible characteristics are what give us the idea of ‘race’. And it’s fine to observe these things – but what’s not ok is to make value judgments about it.
I like milk. I’m glad I can drink it as an adult, but it doesn’t make me a better person or a worse one. This thread made me thirsty for milk, I just drank some 😉
OT, but something Dave may want to watch the usual MRA sites for a reaction to:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/health/obituary-charping-texas-man-trnd/index.html
CA: Mentions of domestic violence. It’s the scathing obit that’s gone viral in the last few days.
ETA: A link to a report about the Library of Congress having to remove the official Trump pic for having a rather…revealing typo in it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-typo-marred-official-inauguration-poster-just-great-060258023.html
From the original page: ccording to the original page, “the print captures the essence of Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency.”
Yeah. XD
I’m lactose intolerant. Thank goodness. Now maybe the Nazis will stop trying to coopt me into their fucking Master Race.
So, they’re showing off their magical ability to drink milk by spitting it all out? Isn’t that the opposite of drinking it?
Oh, for fuck’s sake. This is just the old game of “find something that is more common in my group and then claim it’s a sign of superiority”. Never been other than ridiculous.
I may be in a bit of a mood today. Have now been bleeding (I refuse to dignify this by calling it a “period”. It’s more the whole sentence by now, anyway) for over a month. Wondering exactly when one should see the doctor about such things, if one is a perimenopausal person who would much prefer to get rid of the whole uterus rather than fiddle around with lesser remedies. Not really looking forward to the diagnostics, but also not happy about the current situation, especially after finding myself today in a bathroom that had no toilet paper (I apologize to whoever had to empty the trash with the bloody paper towels in it, but believe me when I say it was the best of several bad options).
Also, it is my opinion that the feeling of sizeable clots slithering their way out is right up there as far as not actually painful, but disgusting, sensations go.
One of Trump’s staffers just went on TV wearing a Hungarian medal from the Nazi-collaborator era.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sebastian-gorka-inauguration-medal-order-vitez-horthy
Why are conservatives so obsessed with Europe all of a sudden? I actually miss the days when they believed in American exceptionalism. They wouldn’t have been caught dead giving support to European political parties like Vlaams Belang, because politics stopped at the water’s edge. Now a lot of them seem to have one foot in America, one foot in Europe and their wiener in the ocean.
I am lactose tolerant but I hate the taste of dairy on it’s own. I usually begin every day with hot chocolate (since caffeine does nothing to me). Glad to see I’m being a ‘race-traitor’ in my daily life!
Step 1. Have Shia LaBeouf set up an anti-Trump art installation
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Nazis drinking milk!
I’m even more confused after reading the explanation.
Yuck. I’ve had that through the nasal passages; I can imagine it would be worse coming out between the legs.
And people in the comments on Youtube keep saying they’re not nazis. It’s really astounding. I don’t know if they’re lying to us or to themselves. Based on what i’ve seen i’m far less inclined to believe they’re really that clueless. Most are just okay with lying.
@Ledasmom: Watch out you don’t get anemic!
Re: lactase persistence
Apparently domestic dogs developed an analogous mutation thousands of years ago, giving them greatly increased ability to digest plant matter. This turned them into onnivores, which made them ideally suited for scavenging after the similarly-omnivorous early humans. Wolves by comparison, don’t digest plant foods nearly as well.
I’m lactose intolerant! Deport those Lactoses back to Lactosia where they came from!
@Ledasmom
oof. haven’t had that myself. I did bleed for a month at one point, but it was panty-liner level stuff. The worst part for me is the disabling foot pain I get when I’ve gone 5-6 weeks without a period. It feels like I’m walking on broken glass even when I’m putting no weight on my feet and it goes away once the rather seriously impressive gushing starts and that has been as long as 3 months out.
Someone once told me that people who had bad cramps have easy menopause. That person, whoever they were, did not know what they were talking about.
Michael Flynn stepped down tonight.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/politics/michael-flynn-white-house-national-security-adviser/index.html
Yes!!!!!
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/flynn-resigns
May he be the first of many!
(ETA: ninjia’d by tim gueguen) 🙂
Flynn’s resignation letter states he gave “incomplete information” to the administration about his conversations with the Russian ambassador. Is this the new “alternate facts?”
Wow, try as I might I don’t think I’ll be able to understand the milk thing, either. All fail to the lords of lactose, I guess? Assholes.
So glad Flynn is out, but I worry who might replace him. Seems to be no shortage of swamp creatures. Still, a victory, though.
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2529342/nelson-laughing-o.gif
Regarding the traitor Flynn:
What I hope this leads to:
http://31.media.tumblr.com/60500a30a8f54b4ba8eeb26e602d1842/tumblr_mpl7n6QUxi1qjjfboo1_400.gif
What I’m feeling right now: