#Nazi mention //

[just-antithings]

The weirdest aspect of antis that I noticed is that a concering amount of them identify as leftists. Cause they constantly use conservative (and sometimes plain alt-right) talking points, and get REALLY aggressive when you point it out. Like they share a dictionary with christian nationalist, conservatives, and sometimes nazis but get mad when you point the fact out. Like they think the points are fine but don't wanna be associated with the main group that uses those points.

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[prokopetz]

I'd love to know what it is about the Power Rangers franchise that nobody involved ever has normal scandals. I just looked up the guy who played the Red Ranger in 1993 to see what he's been up to lately, and apparently the answer to that is "pleading guilty to masterminding a conspiracy to help small businesses commit paycheque assistance fraud and trying to sell t-shirts with Adolf Hitler quotes on them" – and that's just in the last eight months.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Again, I strongly encourage people to do research on how the Nazi party explicitly attacked modern art as being pointless and a threat to "Western civilization" as a way to discredit Jewish artists and any artist who spoke against the regime and to push them out of society. Modern artists lost their jobs, were ostracized by the art community, and the few pieces that were kept on display in museums were often targeted in fascist and antisemitic attacks.

This isn't a conspuracy theory, it's a very well recorded fact and it had a huge influence on the development of modern art and society's view of it. You can't separate the current hatred of modern art from its origins in fascism and trying to just inevitably means that you're going to end up falling into that mindset.

[vague-humanoid]

[incognitopolls]

For instance, you've met someone a few times before and you're going to their house for the first time. They haven't expressed anything radical to you before, and their behavior hasn't indicated anything out of the ordinary. When you arrive at their house, you see very obvious historical nazi-related objects. Is this weird?

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[professorcalculusstanaccount]

tintin is incredible at timing

(possibly) the final snippet I'll post from my story The Gypsum Maw, the previous part which follows directly before is here - I've been seeing comments asking about where to read the full thing, I'm afraid what I post is basically it - I have more pages in my sketchbook but I suspect they are only legible to me!

this post is already long so more notes and credits under the cut!

I asked for some help for coming up with friends for Chang! The gentle giant Masek was created by InkyTrink on Twitter and the super excitable Libby was created by dreamyopal, a discord mutual:

They came up with some great character notes and were super helpful providing feedback on my designs!

Writing this felt pretty odd in ways. I graduated in 2020 during the Plague Year so my class didnt get a public art showcase. I attended one last year and it was a bittersweet experience.

Reunions feel a bit like time travel, you see people after a few years and things change quite a lot. I wanted to explore this in my post canon series, Chang has grown up, found himself and has been able to live a fairly normal life with family and friends. Tintin in a way reflects that young adult insecurity about being stagnant, like you haven't been able to fully reach adulthood properly. His fame and status as a Young Boy Reporter is holding him captive, he longs for connection but is held back by expectations from both himself and the outside world.

I've also been inspired by the concept of 'queer time,' the concept that the lives of queer people progress differently to the lives of non queer people. It takes time to come to terms with yourself and to come out. Queer people are often excluded from milestones like marriage or having children. Tintin being confronted with his peers at a university highlights his insecurity about being left behind, but he's slowly making the journey to self acceptance by talking to others, and recognising common ground he has with others.

Chang's university isn't a one to one reference to a specific institution but in Belgium there was a secular movement in reaction to the dominance of the Catholic church, in which universities played a key role. There's references to art movements that were deemed "degenerate" by the Nazis here, such as Fauvism and Surrealism.

[sayruq]

[blackfilmmakers]

"Would you forgive someone that had a nazi phase as an adult?"

Bitch the 15 yr old nazis are out here killing people-

[gay-jewish-bucky]

During Hanukkah 1932, just one month before Hitler came to power, Rachel Posner, wife of Rabbi Dr. Akiva Posner, took this photo of the family Hanukkah menorah from the window ledge of the family home in Kiel, Germany. The photo looks out on to the town hall building across the road, upon which hangs Nazi flags.

On the back of the photograph, Rachel Posner wrote in German (translated here):

Chanukah 5692 (1932) "Death to Judah" So the flag says "Judah will live forever" So the light answers

Hanukkah Sameach

[marzipanandminutiae]

yeah I got kicked out of the department store just like yesterday. yeah, I was asking where to find the "Nazi Athleisure Bitch Who Didn't Invent Jack Shit No. 5" again

yeah I'm going to do it again tomorrow

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

I think it’s accurate to describe Freddy as the Roomba Billy taped a knife to and sent out to cut Nazi ankles

[prokopetz]

I totally agree that the ubiquity of centralised competitive matchmaking has done terrible things to online shooters as a culture of play, but I feel like in pushing back against it we're often falling prey to idealising a golden age of online play that never actually existed.

Like, I've been gaming long enough to have played Doom when it was new, and to the best of my recollection, the era when player-operated servers were king wasn't a good scene, either. The casual servers were overrun with griefers, the competitive servers were toxic as hell (and often full of Nazis to boot), the homophobia was regarded as extreme even by the standards of the time – and let me tell you, being so homophobic that early 2000s forum culture looks welcoming by comparison takes some doing! – and if you were unwise enough to let on that you were a girl, even the "good" players would say shit to you that would qualify as a felony if they'd said it to your face.

About the only reliable exceptions were if your server was a. private and invite-only, or b. sufficiently obscure as to pass beneath notice, and even that wasn't a guarantee.

I'll freely grant that player-operated servers are, on the whole, a lot better these days, but I have a strong suspicion that a big part of that is because the competitive matchmaking ecosystem is soaking up most of the toxicity. If you uncritically project that backwards in time you're going to end up with a very peculiar notion of what player-operated servers looked like when they were the only game in town.

[mixterglacia]

I am pleased to report that G.I. Robot is helping modern day Nazi's accidentally out themselves on Twitter. As in "it's so sad he killed his new best fwend so twagic."

To which everyone is responding, trying to get through to this guy. Every time he tries to say "oh I'm not a Nazi, but- (the most obvious fascist rhetoric you've ever seen)"

Which is retorted to with:

Moral of the story, if you can't understand that being a Nazi in this day and age is a deeply shameful thing that could and should get your shit rocked, then maybe you are a Nazi. Anyone who would show up to a meeting to try re-start their political beliefs final solution deserves what they get.

[creature-wizard]

"Respect all paths please-" How about I teach you the Parable of the Nazi Bar.

[vague-humanoid]

For a brief look into what prompted this respone

[incognitopolls]

This is not about Nazi propaganda or pro-Nazi content. This is about making fun of Nazis in comedic media. e.g. a dumb Nazi villain in a musical like in Spies Are Forever, a one-off surprise Nazi character like in Community, a skit in a comedy show like in That Mitchell & Webb Look (“Hans, are we the baddies?”), etc.

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