#1001
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#1002
you see that pretty often with the iq fetishists who reduce all of history to a single dimension. as asians have on average a slightly higher iq, the future necessarily belongs to them.
#1003
western civilization should be inherited by a trash can, probably
#1004

kinch posted:

i'm willing to let that one slide as irony. reading the article, bannon and the mercers came across as seriously scary people, but i'd be surprised if milo really believes in anything other than success. if his career falters i can even see him switching sides.


very cool jokes to be making when consorting with literal nazis.

of course he's primarily an opportunist but that doesn't make him less of a problem. the road to fascism is paved with opportunists

#1005

kinch posted:

i'm willing to let that one slide as irony.



one doesn't follow from the other

#1006
pretty sure saying "nah m8 its just banter" doesnt really hold up when you're talkin to niggerstomper88
#1007
it's funny how all these fascists who are still a bit squeamish about calling for all Jews to the gas chambers (in public, anyways) inevitably latch onto Evola.

"i dont know about this Marx character, that's a little too far. better stick with Saint-Simon, he's more my speed."
#1008
evola was so bad, a half-literate asia-phile nerd who ran from place to place after WWI never committing himself to anything and getting nearly everything wrong when he tried
#1009
when i was a kid like most kids in the early days of the WWW i went to nazi dot org to see what was there and it was a Web site for a group called Libertarian National Socialist Green Party that didn't exist except for that Web site and was as stupid as it sounds. that is what Julius Evola was for real life fascism, the early 20th century equivalent of a lucky domain name squatter
#1010
all the sycophant failson nazis like Evola who sucked up to fascist states, only to be sideeyed as weirdos by the nazis who actually did things, are very funny.
#1011
first as tragedy then as farce gets a whole different meaning if you realize the equivalent for evola in 2017 is kekistan
#1012
as far as i can tell the contemporary fascination with Evola among slimy U.S. nerds comes in large part from the work of A. James Gregor, a UC Berkeley professor, '50s eugenicist and "national security" idiot who spent much of his career trying to convince people that the Vietnamese were the new Nazis and that Nazism was a "variant" of Marxism, and also that Evola was not a Nazi, that calling far-right extremist groups Nazis and fascists is leftist political bias and also Gregor wanted to suck Evola's dick until the come came out of the dick. He never achieved anything of note but got tenure, Mysteriously.

for this Gregor is toasted as a deeply patriotic champion of democracy in the United States and his work is one of the big links between the greasy, photophobic far right and the mainstream, military-threaded one. he's also good evidence how Berkeley is a town run by a bunch of rich hippies in a local government that holds meaningless votes against U.S. invasions and is ultimately funded by U.S. military contracts flowing to beigists of middling intelligence

I also recommend Martin A. Lee's The Beast Reawakens a good book on the topic of that link in Europe.
#1013

belgend posted:

first as tragedy then as farce gets a whole different meaning if you realize the equivalent for evola in 2017 is kekistan



they wish

#1014

belgend posted:

first as tragedy then as farce



http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/06/gop-primaries-chaos-democrats-243487

With Republican Senate primaries from West Virginia to Montana promising to pit Trump-inspired insurgents against more mainstream candidates, Democrats are considering ways to step in and wreak some havoc. The idea: Elevate the GOP’s most extreme option in each race, easing Democrats’ path to victory in a range of states tilted against them.

#1015

blinkandwheeze posted:

all the sycophant failson nazis like Evola who sucked up to fascist states, only to be sideeyed as weirdos by the nazis who actually did things, are very funny.



i'm not super up to date on what Stormfront/4chan is currently pushing, but i'm surprised there isn't a more dedicated following for Strasser. he seems perfect for the current zeitgeist: strong welfare white ethnostate, plus you can latch onto all the "what-if" narratives that Trotskyists do for the USSR to make it look like you're distancing yourself from Hitler ("if only he had headed Germany and not the Hitlerists, we'd have TRUE national socialism")

#1016
TRNN made a documentary on the Mercers a few months ago:
#1017

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

belgend posted:

first as tragedy then as farce

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/06/gop-primaries-chaos-democrats-243487

With Republican Senate primaries from West Virginia to Montana promising to pit Trump-inspired insurgents against more mainstream candidates, Democrats are considering ways to step in and wreak some havoc. The idea: Elevate the GOP’s most extreme option in each race, easing Democrats’ path to victory in a range of states tilted against them.


Realpolitik ftw. What could go wrong?

#1018

shapes posted:

i'm not super up to date on what Stormfront/4chan is currently pushing, but i'm surprised there isn't a more dedicated following for Strasser. he seems perfect for the current zeitgeist: strong welfare white ethnostate, plus you can latch onto all the "what-if" narratives that Trotskyists do for the USSR to make it look like you're distancing yourself from Hitler ("if only he had headed Germany and not the Hitlerists, we'd have TRUE national socialism")



there is something of one, it was bigger earlier and out of fashion now, but Strasser has two big problems in that role, 1) he briefly held a tiny amount of real-world power and 2) he was owned to death. the usual fantasy on the far-right is an individual one of their movement failing in a spectacular way but also that the person doing the fantasizing will be protected by Irony, and survive to die later as a lonely, senile geriatric. this is why Evola is perfect for them, he sustained a comfortably inconsequential war wound to give him a veneer of legitimacy and then spent the rest of his life as a useless slug too unimportant to execute as an example

if there's one big difference between the interwar German far right and the current U.S. far right it's that, with a few notable exceptions, the latter is ruled by an extreme fear of death or even mild discomfort, let alone death over ideological disputes at the hands of the precious few muscly mascot-exploiters of their lonely dude folk therapy group

#1019
i think a big reason the pepe frog contingent is drawn to esoterics like Evola is simply that they're directionless basement dwellers primed for any form of new age self-help nonsense that can be smuggled in a nerd friendly veneer. these are people who want to learn about how Not jacking off will amplify their innate masculine essence, not the practical squabblings of third positionism
#1020

Petrol posted:

of course he's primarily an opportunist but that doesn't make him less of a problem. the road to fascism is paved with opportunists



there were ads for his book put up all over the transit system here, and every one of them i saw was torn or otherwise vandalized. i'm half convinced that they were installed that way.

blinkandwheeze posted:

i think a big reason the pepe frog contingent is drawn to esoterics like Evola is simply that they're directionless basement dwellers primed for any form of new age self-help nonsense that can be smuggled in a nerd friendly veneer. these are people who want to learn about how Not jacking off will amplify their innate masculine essence, not the practical squabblings of third positionism



this is especially clear with people like jordan peterson, who is basically a father figure to all of his fans.

#1021

blinkandwheeze posted:

directionless basement dwellers primed for any form of new age self-help nonsense that can be smuggled in a nerd friendly veneer. these are people who want to learn about how Not jacking off will amplify their innate masculine essence



wow, I'm right here

#1022
don't tell me the literal admin of this site is an onanist. don't
#1023

blinkandwheeze posted:

all the sycophant failson nazis like Evola who sucked up to fascist states, only to be sideeyed as weirdos by the nazis who actually did things, are very funny.


theres a funny story about chilean nazi ufo theorist miguel serrano meeting evola when he was really old and being like, hey wasn't fascism cool, and evola said actually im a conservative traditionalist in the tradition of metternich or something

cars posted:

as far as i can tell the contemporary fascination with Evola among slimy U.S. nerds comes in large part from the work of A. James Gregor, a UC Berkeley professor, '50s eugenicist and "national security" idiot who spent much of his career trying to convince people that the Vietnamese were the new Nazis and that Nazism was a "variant" of Marxism, and also that Evola was not a Nazi, that calling far-right extremist groups Nazis and fascists is leftist political bias and also Gregor wanted to suck Evola's dick until the come came out of the dick. He never achieved anything of note but got tenure, Mysteriously.

for this Gregor is toasted as a deeply patriotic champion of democracy in the United States and his work is one of the big links between the greasy, photophobic far right and the mainstream, military-threaded one. he's also good evidence how Berkeley is a town run by a bunch of rich hippies in a local government that holds meaningless votes against U.S. invasions and is ultimately funded by U.S. military contracts flowing to beigists of middling intelligence

I also recommend Martin A. Lee's The Beast Reawakens a good book on the topic of that link in Europe.


a lot of fascist black metal and neofolk type guys were/are big into evola and iirc some of the british national front people from the 80s liked him, although i don't know if theres much of a direct connection between those scenes and the 4chan failsons of today.

#1024
Dave Emory says evola was important, but then he seems to say that about much of them.

Apparently the SS gave him a job as an occult researcher during the war, then after he helped them write some manuals?
#1025

lo posted:

a lot of fascist black metal and neofolk type guys were/are big into evola and iirc some of the british national front people from the 80s liked him, although i don't know if theres much of a direct connection between those scenes and the 4chan failsons of today.


iirc the national front enthusiasm for evola was in their brief Strasserite period where they were also praising Qaddafi, black nationalism & radical islam. the esoteric interest was a part of efforts to develop a spiritual army modelled after the iranian revolutionary guard. Non-central branches refused to publish their stuff about how racialism is good but racism is uh bad and eventually pushed them out i think.

there was a national front associated esoteric current really into evola, serrano & savitri devi here in Wellington actually. however i don't know what real world presence they actually had beyond Kerry Bolton photocopying zines, idk if you know anything about that.

#1026
theres an obscure wellington based death industrial project that was related to that i believe, the guy behind it is also involved with a few people in the metal scene here and overseas. someone from the university of waikato wrote a thesis on bolton and nazi satanist stuff (http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/2446_), but like you said its hard to tell whether any of these guys do much in the real world.
#1027
late capitalism has created a generation of men who are completely alienated, emiserated, nihilistic and hopeless. the idea that these guys developed as a reaction to "SJWs" is mostly false. we all remember the internet 10 years ago, the "alt-right" isn't new, there were always shithead racists everywhere. the one glimmer of truth that the theory has is that the other release valve that arose on the internet to deal with alienation from society, so-called "identity politics"," had nothing to offer these white heterosexual males, who at best could hope to rise to the level of pathetic pissboy in their hierarchy. it offered them no sense of belonging and lashed out and expelled them when they talk the way dumb teen boys from the midwest talk. reaction played on these instilled but not immutable homophobic/racist biases, building on their bitterness towards women, and all the while flattering their egos about how Smart they are like the most vulgar carnival huckster reading acutely that their sense of being smarter than those around them is the sole thing they have to take pride in. these are men without hope of ever finding success or happiness, latching on to the first place they ever felt accepted, that tells them that by their whiteness they are the heir to a grand tradition of sculptors and inventors and composers and philosophers, and (correctly) that their white skin is the most socially valuable thing about them. watch a twitch stream and you will see guys saying that the community of watching a guy play videogames is all that is keeping them from killing themselves, that youtubers are the closest simulation they have to friends. why would some of them not strap on a suicide vest

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#1028

lo posted:

someone from the university of waikato wrote a thesis on bolton and nazi satanist stuff (http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/2446_), but like you said its hard to tell whether any of these guys do much in the real world.


oh yeah i think bolton threw a tantrum about that thesis and tried to get it pulled from public access. also he wrote a book about how white nationalists should celebrate Stalin for his anti-zionism which sounds pretty funny.

#1029

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

late capitalism has created a generation of men who are completely alienated, emiserated, nihilistic and hopeless. the idea that these guys developed as a reaction to "SJWs" is mostly false. we all remember the internet 10 years ago, the "alt-right" isn't new, there were always shithead racists everywhere. the one glimmer of truth that the theory has is that the other release valve that arose on the internet to deal with alienation from society, so-called "identity politics"," had nothing to offer these white heterosexual males, who at best could hope to rise to the level of pathetic pissboy in their hierarchy. it offered them no sense of belonging and lashed out and expelled them when they talk the way dumb teen boys from the midwest talk. reaction played on these instilled but not immutable homophobic/racist biases, building on their bitterness towards women, and all the while flattering their egos about how Smart they are like the most vulgar carnival huckster reading acutely that their sense of being smarter than those around them is the sole thing they have to take pride in. these are men without hope of ever finding success or happiness, latching on to the first place they ever felt accepted, that tells them that they are the heir to a grand tradition of sculptors and inventors and composers and philosophers, and (correctly) that their white skin is the most socially valuable thing about them. watch a twitch stream and you will see guys saying that the community of watching a guy play videogames is all that is keeping them from killing themselves, that youtubes are the closest simulation they have to friends. why would some of them not strap on a suicide vest


i think maybe the argument isn't that those guys were created by 'sjws' but more that their ideology developed in the particular white nationalist direction it has as a reaction to them. like 10 years ago the same people existed but there were more likely to be ron paul libertarians or whatever rather than outright nazis. so its not really that different from what you're getting at. i don't really know if i agree with the argument myself.

#1030

blinkandwheeze posted:

lo posted:


someone from the university of waikato wrote a thesis on bolton and nazi satanist stuff (http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/2446_), but like you said its hard to tell whether any of these guys do much in the real world.


oh yeah i think bolton threw a tantrum about that thesis and tried to get it pulled from public access. also he wrote a book about how white nationalists should celebrate Stalin for his anti-zionism which sounds pretty funny.


when i googled it ages ago there were all these blogs calling the author a plagiarist or something that had clearly been set up as a deliberate smear attempt, i guess it made him pretty mad.

#1031
lo let's start a death industrial / power electronics group which replaces all the fascist references with celebrations of anti-revisionist marxism-leninism
#1032

lo posted:

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

late capitalism has created a generation of men who are completely alienated, emiserated, nihilistic and hopeless. the idea that these guys developed as a reaction to "SJWs" is mostly false. we all remember the internet 10 years ago, the "alt-right" isn't new, there were always shithead racists everywhere. the one glimmer of truth that the theory has is that the other release valve that arose on the internet to deal with alienation from society, so-called "identity politics"," had nothing to offer these white heterosexual males, who at best could hope to rise to the level of pathetic pissboy in their hierarchy. it offered them no sense of belonging and lashed out and expelled them when they talk the way dumb teen boys from the midwest talk. reaction played on these instilled but not immutable homophobic/racist biases, building on their bitterness towards women, and all the while flattering their egos about how Smart they are like the most vulgar carnival huckster reading acutely that their sense of being smarter than those around them is the sole thing they have to take pride in. these are men without hope of ever finding success or happiness, latching on to the first place they ever felt accepted, that tells them that they are the heir to a grand tradition of sculptors and inventors and composers and philosophers, and (correctly) that their white skin is the most socially valuable thing about them. watch a twitch stream and you will see guys saying that the community of watching a guy play videogames is all that is keeping them from killing themselves, that youtubes are the closest simulation they have to friends. why would some of them not strap on a suicide vest

i think maybe the argument isn't that those guys were created by 'sjws' but more that their ideology developed in the particular white nationalist direction it has as a reaction to them. like 10 years ago the same people existed but there were more likely to be ron paul libertarians or whatever rather than outright nazis. so its not really that different from what you're getting at. i don't really know if i agree with the argument myself.


i think it's more that nazis saw potential in impotent white male nerd rage and used 'gamergate' as the perfect opportunity for metastasis into what we're seeing now. sure, SJWs are their avowed enemy, but in practice that just means anytime a woman/POC has a public voice and/or position of authority in an industry they care about

#1033
one of the things that makes nerds such useful idiots for nazis is they honestly believe they're too smart to be taken advantage of by anyone. like, they hear bell curve type race stuff and think it's just evidence for a common sense conclusion they already came to because they're misunderstood geniuses, not that they're just simple western racists getting a pseudointellectual rub-n-tug
#1034

blinkandwheeze posted:

lo let's start a death industrial / power electronics group which replaces all the fascist references with celebrations of anti-revisionist marxism-leninism


yeah doggy

#1035
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#1036
Movies like "Prometheus" and 'Ancient Alien' theory don't really help either. There's so much racism in western mythology alone, and when you add in hypertext (changing tabs) and inoculate kids with mash-ups of text/image... I mean, you have stoner media telling people with no critical thinking skills that white aliens came down to earth and are the benevolent farce force... Then people wander into Nordic myths and start watching Varg's youtube thinking that is where they came from... Of course his anti-christian stance might cause some cognitive dissonance, but, race based fear and anger and some mythic sense of purpose will just about trump any of that... Where is like the "alt-right" *seeming* Carl Sagan that makes a cool youtube series and feeds off this and gets them so steaming in their own shit ideas and just pulls some slick wizard bait and switch to the point where they can't leave the house for days because they feel for the pale blue dot... amiright? Sweep this to DYTD...
#1037

le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

late capitalism has created a generation of men who are completely alienated, emiserated, nihilistic and hopeless. the idea that these guys developed as a reaction to "SJWs" is mostly false. we all remember the internet 10 years ago, the "alt-right" isn't new, there were always shithead racists everywhere. the one glimmer of truth that the theory has is that the other release valve that arose on the internet to deal with alienation from society, so-called "identity politics"," had nothing to offer these white heterosexual males, who at best could hope to rise to the level of pathetic pissboy in their hierarchy. it offered them no sense of belonging and lashed out and expelled them when they talk the way dumb teen boys from the midwest talk. reaction played on these instilled but not immutable homophobic/racist biases, building on their bitterness towards women, and all the while flattering their egos about how Smart they are like the most vulgar carnival huckster reading acutely that their sense of being smarter than those around them is the sole thing they have to take pride in. these are men without hope of ever finding success or happiness, latching on to the first place they ever felt accepted, that tells them that by their whiteness they are the heir to a grand tradition of sculptors and inventors and composers and philosophers, and (correctly) that their white skin is the most socially valuable thing about them. watch a twitch stream and you will see guys saying that the community of watching a guy play videogames is all that is keeping them from killing themselves, that youtubers are the closest simulation they have to friends. why would some of them not strap on a suicide vest

reminder that you could see the extremely clear antecedents of alt-right posting in SA offsites like SASS in 2008 before tumblr even existed before anyone was on twitter before wokeness when the height of SJW puritism was Ozma probating you for dropping the n-word in the wrong forum

it was really just the black president

#1038
well that and giving nerds a place at the head of the labor aristocracy table
#1039
in, you know, an industry where all the capital and branding stays on one side of an ocean and all the profit is generated by working chinese peasants to suicide on the other side of the ocean
#1040
I'm sure some of you are similar, but sometimes I think to myself "how the fuck am i so lucky I didn't become a nerd". I mean my early life development was pretty conducive for developing the same sorts of people who you've seen on the internet these past 10 years, indeed I know some people like that. I think I pretty much threaded the needle lol.