Merican Nazi: An Origin story

[JohnDonne]

Not sure if someone posted this article, but it's a pretty fascinating read, pretty epic too.

Also the first time I've read someone explicitly advocate the use of post-irony humor and signalling to widen the Overton window.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... zi/544119/

When Anglin entered the Linworth Alternative Program, Columbus’s “hippie” high school, as a freshman in 1999, other students found him a quiet, insecure kid who craved attention and wanted to fit in. A declared atheist, he styled his reddish hair in dreadlocks and favored jeans with 50-inch leg openings. He often wore a hoodie with a large fuck racism patch on the back.

[Smitty-48]

That entirely fits the pattern, Mussolini was a disgruntled socialist, Hitler was a Bohemian street artist, National Socialism is simply hippie dippie enviro-socialism which migrates into an armed and aggressive conspiracy theory in the face of rapid social displacement, generally in the wake of military defeat and economic unhinging, Iraq War + Great Recession = Jewish Bolshevik Conspiracy Lite.

If you had a catastrophic military defeat and total economic collapse, Weimar America would go to Hitlerville practically overnight.

[JohnDonne]

I certainly see a continuum of the mind-sets of antifa and the alt-right. Cut from the same cloth. That's the duality of malcontent idealist types. A cynic is merely a frustrated romantic, a fascist is merely a frustrated socialist.

And what the hell is with ethno-nationalists being vegans? Israel is one of the most vegan countries. Tara Mccarthy is a vegan, this guy started as one, it's interesting but I'm not seeing the connection.

[Smitty-48]

The (urban) Blue State Bolsheviks v. The (rural) Red State National Socialists, Millennial LARPing version of, if you had a catastrophic military defeat and total economic collapse, it would migrate to the bourgeoisie writ large and become the real deal.

[Smitty-48]

And what the hell is with ethno-nationalists being vegans? Israel is one of the most vegan countries. Tara Mccarthy is a vegan, this guy started as one, it's interesting but I'm not seeing the connection.

Adolf Hitler was a teetoalling anti-smoking environmentalist vegetarian Bohemian hippie street artist, who knew?

[JohnDonne]

What you say about the blue bolshies verse the red national socialists, very true.

Veganism and ethno-state are both visions of purer utopias...Mmm, still racking my brain on that one.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

I certainly see a continuum of the mind-sets of antifa and the alt-right. Cut from the same cloth. That's the duality of malcontent idealist types. A cynic is merely a frustrated romantic, a fascist is merely a frustrated socialist.

And what the hell is with ethno-nationalists being vegans? Israel is one of the most vegan countries. Tara Mccarthy is a vegan, this guy started as one, it's interesting but I'm not seeing the connection.

Inflexible ideology maybe?

[Smitty-48]

One of the central tenets of National Socialism is that the Volk have to escape the unhealthy cities and get back to the purity of living in the country and being environmentalist health nutz.

Hence the Autobahns to the Post Scarcity Utopia in the woods. The NSDAP was in fact the Original Green Party, the armed revolutionary wing of environmentalism.

[JohnDonne]

I certainly see a continuum of the mind-sets of antifa and the alt-right. Cut from the same cloth. That's the duality of malcontent idealist types. A cynic is merely a frustrated romantic, a fascist is merely a frustrated socialist.

And what the hell is with ethno-nationalists being vegans? Israel is one of the most vegan countries. Tara Mccarthy is a vegan, this guy started as one, it's interesting but I'm not seeing the connection.

Inflexible ideology maybe?

Inflexibility? I'm not sure that's the commonality. The classical liberals were no less rigid and fanatical.

"Give me liberty or give me death."

Purity is the word that keeps coming to my mind.

[Okeefenokee]

I certainly see a continuum of the mind-sets of antifa and the alt-right. Cut from the same cloth. That's the duality of malcontent idealist types. A cynic is merely a frustrated romantic, a fascist is merely a frustrated socialist.

And what the hell is with ethno-nationalists being vegans? Israel is one of the most vegan countries. Tara Mccarthy is a vegan, this guy started as one, it's interesting but I'm not seeing the connection.

Inflexible ideology maybe?

Inflexibility? I'm not sure that's the commonality. The classical liberals were no less rigid and fanatical.

"Give me liberty or give me death."

Purity is the word that keeps coming to my mind.

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