Grand Prize Winner posted:

I wonder if anyone's gone after Bethesda for that. They literally give different stats based on whether you're Italian, British, Scandinavian, or a Black Dude.

Jeb! Repetition posted:

Well yeah, I'm always the first to say fantasy is fascist, I was just pointing out that in modern editions of D&D the genders are mechanically equal.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

How? The rebels are literally Nord supremacists who want to kick out all the other races from Skyrim, and they're treated like a legitimate choice.

Fallout: New Vegas is way more relevant.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

They're legitimate because siding with the rebels and overthrowing the Empire has no appreciable consequence on the world, and the Thalmor are ultimately irrelevant to the course of the game's events. By the time the next Elder Scrolls comes out, the Thalmor probably won't exist.

Even taking the two geopolitical sides at face value, the Aldmeri Dominion and Empire merely represent two aristocracies rooted in different forms of supremacism. The former being an empire ruled by elves, and the latter being an empire ruled by men. Whoever wins the geopolitical struggle for Tamriel ultimately doesn't matter, unless you really care about the race of the ruling class.

Jeb! Repetition posted:

Killing the emperor doesn't have any tangible effect either

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

But they don't? All I remember from the main quest of the game was that the Thalmor were trying to weaken the Empire by surreptitiously supporting the stormcloaks. The main quest even confirms the fact that the Thalmor have nothing to do with Alduin coming back to devour the world. I skimmed the Elder Scrolls wiki entry on the Thalmor, and there's no hint of any kind of genocidal agenda.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Identity politics reached its apotheosis within the last year through the Clinton campaign, and now the premature push to make Kamala Harris the 2020 nominee. It's a fundamentally liberal political formulation that is ironically shaped as a reaction to white supremacy and heteronormativity, that subsumes the individual within a group identity that confers a social privilege within its own in-group politics. It claims to value diversity, but flattens it within the narrow confines of pre-defined stereotypes. Which in the end, causes the symbolic to overtake the real.

The most important thing about Hillary Clinton was that she was a woman, and all of the symbolic values that carried. All misgivings about her past record of stated policies and ideology were dismissed as mere misogynies.

And Kamala Harris is all of those contradictory and self-defeating tendencies carried out to its logical conclusion. Supposedly Harris carries "progressive" bonafides just in the fact that she's a female poc, even though in reality she's a member of the professional bourgeois that directly profited from the carceral state which disproportionately persecutes minorities. As California AG she did more to persecute black and Hispanic people than any individual Republican voter could ever hope to do in an entire lifetime, and this is apparently supposed to be the progressive champion of Democratic politics. It's a transparent sham that absolves white liberals of the guilt of their privilege by performing the proper sacraments, and rewards middle class & bourgeois minorities for perpetuating the exploitative system.

Yet white, male, or hetero privilege is never even meaningfully challenged, because there is still a massive reactionary political formulation outside of the confines of identity politics which conveniently makes it impossible to challenge any of those oppressive cycles. Idpol folks are so obsessed with policing language and performing the correct deference, because their own internal politics are more important than reality. Democrats don't really care if they actually win, or are a party of power, because it's more important that they perform the role of a principled opposition. In reality, being able to overcome the opposition means having a willingness to engage in a discoursive dialectical process, that can realize an ideological synthesis which creates a greater liberationist politics. Otherwise you have to overthrow the system by force and make the opposition bend to the will of your agenda. Yet liberals reject the use of force out of hand, and they don't want to be discoursive because they know their ideology doesn't hold up under scrutiny. In any real sense they're politically impotent, but the result of that impotence is that white liberals get to have their cake and eat it too. They can keep benefiting from all of their race, sex, and class privileges while having the added benefit of being praised for claiming to oppose them.

Normal people can spot these contradictions, even if they lack the ability to articulate them. They can feel it. It's a political dead end.

Qu Appelle posted:

Are you a budding Neo-Nazi, just itching to go to your first rally? You have a fresh Kek flag, and a proudly handpainted Pepe sign, with only the dankest meme on it?

Better follow the dress code!

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/599zmx/neo-nazi-to-troll-army-we-have-to-be-sexy-at-the-big-alt-right-rally


Here's the actual article on TDS: https://www.dailystormer.com/psa-when-the-internet-becomes-real-life-and-the-alt-right-hits-the-street-you-wanna-be-ready/

smug n stuff posted:

Hi alt-right thread, I have a question: starting in the past 6 months or so, I keep seeing alt-right nazi idiots using the word "postmodernist" as some kind of insult, like, as a substitute word for "SJW" to make them look smarter. Does anyone know where this trend came from? Do these people have any idea what "postmodernism" means?

Darkman Fanpage posted:

its where all the sjws are made

Montasque posted:

Youtube has been taken over by reactionaries.

The Kids are Alt-Right.

pillsburysoldier posted:

Why do alt right people think jewish people control black people?

Al! posted:

the thing is, the aclu already had plenty of non-white supremacist test cases lined up for this particular battle, they didn't have to elevate and empower milo.

babypolis posted:

yeah its become harder and harder to swallow the neoliberal tenet that taking principled actions is more important than getting actually positive results

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

in which "neoliberal" becomes a meaningless snarl word of the sort beloved by alt-right types, only for the left

nopantsjack posted:

Actually last time the Nazis were defeated by communist bullets and bombs not love

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/plyywood/status/896484174709870595

This kid is in for one hell of a ride.

Peel posted:

I agree, nazi street movements are a jewish plot and good nazis should not go outside.

cargo cult posted:

the thing i dont get i guess is if the economy goes off a cliff are these nazi assholes gonna be empowered by that? like if the economy tanked soon after this but with hilldawg in charge i think we'd go 0 to full fascism like instantly, but with trump at 35% i really dont get it but w/e

Montasque posted:

When the Nazi's mom finds out her son is a murder Nazi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP8t_MoiDRc

Well this is awkward...

Gravy Jones posted:

To be fair the media has never paid any attention to the fact that I'm not a nazi either. What's up with that?

Montasque posted:

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The Alt-Right: kek has blessed his people. the god emperor protects

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The Imperial cultists don't know that.

sneakyfrog posted:

goddamn this is a bit of an awkward thread to have a 40k derail in.

sneakyfrog posted:

its ok brah they cant have my frog either. I had it first.


yeah but then i have a feeling we would like be the tau or something and gently caress that anime poo poo.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

Don't Give GW Money

Relevant Tangent posted:

For a lot of these dudes this is the first time they have done anything of consequence. The consequence being an immediate cobbing. I think that there needs to be a way out offered to them at some point, but I freely admit I don't know what that looks like.

Bear Retrieval Unit posted:

Slambo is cool, but I'm more into Mighty Zog.

Calibanibal posted:

if a confederate gravesite was built on indian burial grounds, and you bulldoze the gravesite and build a starbucks on top, what kind of ghosts do you get

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Despite all the oorah about how great they are, the Nazis know they need a rebranding and one idea being floated is a more "American" look. Red white and blue, etc. Kinda hard to do when your leaders have been permanently branded and good luck convincing Heimbach and et. al.

They've got image problems.

Race Realists posted:

they dont like being thought of as nazis

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

wasnt mt rushmore literally chiseled into a sacred mountain to dunk it in the face of some native americans