Today we enter “The Twelve Days of Hitler,” the period between the anniversary of the birth of the Adolf Hitler (20th April) and the anniversary of the announcement of his death (1st May). It’s a bit like Black History Month for 1488ers, but many other people also take an interest.
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1488 IS THE GATEWAY DRUG TO THE ALT-RIGHT, NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND
The Alt-Right is both a medium and a message. This is confusing for a lot of people. Don’t blame them. It’s tricky.
As a medium, the Alt-Right is an aspect of the internet and social media that makes use of a number of simple psychological tricks and which exploits a number of factors, including youth, anonymity, boredom, egoism, and shock value. This translates essentially into memes, trolling, shitposting, Tweeting, and various forms of LARPing and (usually anonymous) signalling. Its operatives are typically anonymous individuals, except in cases where they have been too stupid to ensure this.
WHEN YOU'RE COVERED IN SHIT...
Every year Counter-Currents, which is regarded as an important Alt-Right site, used to put up a little "virtual shrine" to Hitler on his birthday, at least until this article appeared. This was a great chance for Greg Johnson, to make a little money selling books to Nazi LARPers (real Nazis no longer exist). This was just one of many ways that the Alt-Right allowed itself to be conflated with Naziism. In April 2013, I saw this shit yet again and wrote the following article at AlternativeRight.com to make the point that this was not the way for the Alt-Right to go. Three and a half years later, Richard Spencer was heiling Trump.
When you’re covered in shit – whether your own or something you just trod in – what do you do? There are a number of strategies. I don’t want to leave any of them out so here is a list:
- Head straight for the nearest tap or bathroom to wash the shit off.
- Ignore your own shit and instead divert the "shit narrative" to other people’s shit.
- Pretend that the shit isn’t shit (and even wallow in it).
- A combination of any 2 or 3 of the above.
There, I think that about covers it.
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