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Post by vincent on Mar 14, 2024 2:23:53 GMT 10
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Post by dennisw on Mar 14, 2024 15:29:59 GMT 10
The popularity of this lunacy has increased in the west with the influx of Muslim "refugees". Nobody is prepared to speak against it. .
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Post by Ian Thomas on Mar 16, 2024 6:21:10 GMT 10
Not sure Hitler ever fell out of favour. I suppose he did among Germans, taking one consideration with another. If you're going to start a war on your own doorstep, be 100% sure to win it!  Take Putin's cautious, step-by-measured-step approach in Ukraine. Our "news" media are unanimous in telling us Russia is about to lose the war "any day now". Yeah. Right.  But I digress. Getting back on topic .. The Anglosphere has been raised and nurtured on the Hollywood version of WW2 and the Nazis these, what, 79 years past. So it's no wonder you see naive comments like the above on Twatter/X. The real Hitler was not the preposterous cartoon-cutout figure that Hollywood presents. The man was a real person with depth: for example, he was plagued by pain-in-the-**** relatives looking to cash in on his name, he had health problems, he had girlfriend problems. He was just a man. But he was very, very persuasive on the podium. Why? Because he spoke to real anger. As he said of himself, "I am only a drummer." That's what little I know, having read a few books. Gen-Zers who typically read no books have no idea about momentous events of the recent past. 🙄 Naziism took a wallop in Germany but elsewhere, maybe not so much. Fascism lived on in southern Europe and Latin America. It's only the decades-long prosperity most of the world enjoyed since 1950 that pushed the populist neo-Right off to the sidelines. That globalist prosperity was thanks to the 'American Compact'. But now all that's going away.
You have to admit, Fascism/Naziism can offer stirring stuff to the disaffected. That's its enduring power: it offers inclusion and simple remedies. As well as enemies to be done away with. 🗡️ Think of White folks' rage, who are facing coloured invasion and displacement in their own lands. Here's the powerful Cara al Sol from the 1930s. Consider what's unfolding before our eyes, "out there". Then picture what a real orator could do with 1930s-style militancy in today's multimedia world.
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Post by dennisw on Mar 16, 2024 13:27:50 GMT 10
I read Schwarzenegger's autobiography, (Total Recall) and he mentions that many of his relatives (Father, Uncles, etc) were extremely disillusioned because they were promised a 1,000 year Reich and wound up defeated and accused. I can see those people being anti-Nazism but others who were unaffected still see possibilities, especially if they don't like Jews for some reason.
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Post by Ian Thomas on Mar 17, 2024 20:46:03 GMT 10
.... others who were unaffected still see possibilities, especially if they don't like Jews for some reason. What really left me gob-smacked about the Gaza operation was the amount virulent anti-semitism we saw - still see!- on Aussie streets. And it's all from the Left. The Greens in particular and the Socialist Left of the ALP. Never seen anything like it. Okay, we've foolishly, disastrously alowed hordes of cut-throat Mozlems into our nation and we all know what they would do to Jews if they got half a chance. It's the White Australians marching up and down with Hamas banners & Islamic paraphenalia that astonished me. Especially queers and women. Err ... they must(??) know what happens to queers and young "infidel" women back in Muzzieland, right?  |
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Post by johannes on Apr 16, 2024 3:30:25 GMT 10
Given the very open hatred between traditionalist Catholics and the Peronist pope - or antipope - Francis I guess that the relationship between the traditionalist and the Franco/Peron wing of political Catholicism isn't that harmonious in the moment...
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Post by johannes on Apr 18, 2024 20:37:12 GMT 10
Postmodernism is also to blame for the increasing popularity of Hitler. What passes as "thought" in postmodern academia is mainly based on Derrida's or Judith Butler's interpretation of Heidegger and Carl Schmitt. Both men were Nazis, and I don't mean Nazi as a generic metaphor for reactionary or evil, but as in actual card carrying members of the NSDAP (so Godwins law doesn't apply here).
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Post by Ian Thomas on Apr 27, 2024 6:58:26 GMT 10
... as in actual card carrying members of the NSDAP Back in the day when sis was at uni, one of the dudes in her class was of German ancestry. His grandad had a trunk full of photos, medals, memorabilia from WW2. Some photos featured grandad in a uniform that consisted of a brown shirt and swastika armband. Which called to mind Landser's song about a discovery along exactly those lines - Opa war ein Sturmführer. * I'm thinking that particular song best be left un-played for, uh, reasons politik. 
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