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War Boys at play |
Mod: Tony returns with a tour of the Alt-Right underworld. A Breitbart fueled orb of self-aggrandizing stars and race hustlers, all seeking a truer media glory in the era of Trump.
War Boys
My favorite insane adventure/ dystopian/ action movie is
Mad Max Fury Road. I really love it and saw it like a billion times. That is the truth, and there is nothing alternative about it. More than the other films in the franchise,
Fury Road had a focus on the
War Boys, an army of sacrificial bald guys in white face and quasi spooky make-up. They drive fast and blow stuff up. Muy mas macho. In fanboy land you can get your groove on (
click here) and get lost in it all.
Go ahead, spray some chrome paint in your mouth.
War Boys are hand picked at a young age .... and are indoctrinated as zealots in the cult of V8 with Immortan Joe as their immortal leader. They were based on the Japanese Kamikaze pilots of World War II. They are completely loyal, blindly following their leader, never questioning the morality of his actions. They view death in service ..... as an honor.
The
War Boy comes across - to me at least - as more like
Hitler Youth than the
Kamikaze they are supposedly based on.
Is it Performance Art?
Two of the three most famous names in the
Alt-Right movement have caught my interest. Mostly because I think they are funny. They are so over the top and out of line that I can't take their rhetoric very seriously.
While
Steve Bannon has made his move - and it was a bold one - both
Gavin McGinnis and
Milo Yiannopoulos have come across as clowns trying to squeeze into a
Jetta. Both of these guys have found love in the
Neo-Conservative online magazine
Takimag. That is where you can find some of the .... uh .... talent that they have to expend.
Based on the fact that
Jim Goad and
Joe Bob Briggs are contributors to
Takimag as well - not only opens up the very strong possibility that this is a put on at the expense of the gullible at the very least - or a biting satire at its absolute finest.
Devil's advocate
I know it is hard to see this as performance art, but it is. Let us define performance art, shall we? Performance art (
click here) is a:
... performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or via media; the performer can be present or absent. It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer and audience. Performance art can happen anywhere, in any type of venue or setting and for any length of time. The actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work.
I have seen some of the most insane performance art up close, and I hate to say it, this is performance art. Maybe I am naive, but I think
Gavin McGinnis and
Milo Yiannopoulos are putting us on. I really do.
No leader can be that misguided. Oh. Wait.
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McGinnis |
Gavin McGinnis
A quick neutral bio should kick this off. So. Here is about as mellow and milquetoasty as I can find (
click here).
He was born in England, raised in Canada, and now resides in New York City. He married publicist and consultant Emily Jendrisak in 2005. They have three children. In 2013 he said that having children convinced him that he should be pro-life and that he went from being a lifelong atheist to a born-again Roman Catholic.
Roman Catholic? The religion born out of the
Middle Eastern black prophet,
Jesus, and the
Southern European Vatican?
Gavin McGinnis is a comedian. That means he performs
ART for a living. He may not be funny, but satire often isn't.
Don't get the impression that I am excusing anything. I am not. What I am saying is it is very possible that this movement is based on trademarks, copyrights and infamy, i.e. fame at whatever the cost.
No really. He is a comedian (
click here), a writer, and a founder of
Vice mag. He was bought out, probably for acting a fool. According to one of my frequent reads,
Brooklyn Vegan (
click here)
Gavin McInnes was somebody who fit right in on a bill with future
Run the Jewels collaborator
Despot, comedians
David Cross & Eugene Mirman, and
Marnie Stern.
FYI, I
hear those are funny people.
Plenty of comedians went the talk show route. Politics pays big money. In the era of
Trump, what we are being shown by your president is to lie, cheat, and steal. Not too different from past presidents.
Except for the white power/orange man part. That isn't so funny.
McGinnis is among the funniest guys I have seen on
Faux News. I can't help it. He cracks me up. He is funnier than
Baskets (
click here). Clearly the guy is under
Pee-Wee's Bigtop, in the center arena, juggling
Trump's balls. The ones
Melania keeps on the mantle back at
Trump Tower.
McGinnis can best be defined in his own words, which are often an atrocity, but his jewel in the crown for the time being is a little fraternity called
Proud Boys. That doesn't come across as loopy as the rest of his art damaged spiel or rhetoric. It certainly doesn't imply that it is totally farcical, even if its members are so clueless that they are being laughed at. It also doesn't imply that this fails as performance art.
Or maybe. Maybe. Maybe I am the comedian, and
McGinnis is simply a troglodyte.
Me, the cultured one. That is pretty damn funny.
Proud Boys Uno
The
Proud Boys movement was started by
Gavin McGinnis. They are pub crawlers with a mission from their pasty white god. It sounds vaguely familiar. From the same mold that brought all those other good ol' boy clubs like the
Bohemian Club (
click here) and its ilk. Not unlike the
KKK, except these white power guys have the moxy to use their own names.
Probably a bad idea for the followers, no doubt. They will be seen as racist, while the jokers who set this in motion will eventually be seen as artists. The artist gain infamy, the followers forced into a lifetime of quasi regret.
There are differences in the exclusivity of membership for this club. Everyone can join, if you are white or can fool the panel that you are. And as long as you aren't a chick. If you are, you get a high ranking subservient role, you princess, you. You don't have to be rich to join the club. You just need to be either in on the joke (leadership) - or gullible to a fault (the rest of the dudes buying in).
Once this performance art falls into the hands of followers it loses all credibility as an art and becomes something far more ominous. It becomes just another stupid movement born out of a warped sense of humor, and planting evil as its byproduct.
Performance art, or not,
McGinnis is a gang leader. He lets others hit, and take the beatings - while he gets to hang out and cash the checks.
At some point in time he's gotta give up the game and let us know he means it for reals ... or that he is just screwing with us very gullible
Americans.
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Yiannopoulos |
Penis de Milo
Milo Yiannopoulos is an alt-right performance artist. A journalist/ speaker/ senior editor at
Breitbart mag. He also writes for
Takimag, a neo-conservative online rag funded by some
Greek millionaire dude. There is lots of money in free (hate) speech.
Milo's big thing is speaking at universities, outing immigrants who are in
America bettering their lives, and outing gay and trans people.
Milo is a real work of art (
click here).
The 31-year-old, boastfully gay Breitbart writer—or “dangerous faggot”—has quickly become a hero to young conservatives and libertarians for smacking down the ridiculous out-of-control “social justice warriors” who troll college campuses. If Donald Trump defies political correctness, Yiannopoulos—an avid Trump supporter prone to calling The Donald “daddy”—obliterates it.
Milo also a Brit. And
Greek. Why he wants to make
America great again baffles me, mostly because he doesn't know what a great
America is, was, or will be. In fact, I have as much right telling
British students how to think, as he has telling my college-age kids the same.
I love that we quibble over the free speech rights of a guest in our country. Here is how the
Daily Beast further describes him (
link):
Online, he flirted with neo-Nazism, going by the handle “Milo Andreas Wagner,” donning a Nazi iron cross necklace and posing with Hitler tomes, before making a name for himself as a contrarian voice in the #Gamergate controversy and popular voice of the “alt-right”—the trendy moniker for white nationalism. Yiannapoulos is also a wealth of contradictions. He is openly gay, yet appears to despise gay people; tan and camp, yet just a few years ago was unkempt and far less theatrical. In opposition of gay marriage, he once wrote, “[Gay people] see themselves as faulty, so they exaggerate their imperfections in the company of others they see as similarly defective. Ironically, it’s precisely that profound feeling of being somehow broken that means a gay man’s sexuality often comes to be the defining characteristic of his personality. Who wouldn’t want to protect a child from a path that leads to such destructive self-loathing?”
Yiannapoulos is also transphobic, singling out and harassing individual trans students during his controversial college speaking gigs; helped launch a racist online harassment campaign against Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones that got him booted from Twitter; and is an avowed misogynist, penning piece after trolltastic piece for Breitbart—a website which former exec (now Trump advisor) Steve Bannon characterized as “a platform for the alt-right”—mocking feminism, including the piece: ‘Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy.’ His campus speaking gigs have provoked protests, most recently by an outside anarchist group at UC Berkeley that turned violent.
His right to speak out against anyone he wishes to - in my country? OK. But I have the right to shout his loudmouth down. He can play whatever card he wants.
This movement is young, they do defy taboos and unfortunately, the alt-right has become impossible to ignore. Because it’s racist. I don’t mean “racist” like the left does, where merely being white and male is a sin. I mean rationalizing that you’re intellectually or culturally superior because you’re white. I mean believing that black and brown people are less valuable to society and should be viewed with contempt.
Does that sound ok to you?
Where do the nationalism and isolationist viewpoints stand now,
Moderate Whitey to the
Righty? Where is the indignation? Why are the anarchists the only
Americans telling
Milo to stfu?
The same
Trump rules on imports should be applied to
Milo as to every other foreign product. Hold him in secondary detention at the airport, check his butthole for explosives or whatever, and make him scale the same wall everyone else now has to jump over in both directions.
Milo is, simply, an outsider. He is an import. We need to tax his ass, check that visa - it is a work visa - and show him the same disrespect he shows
Americans.
Just like those other imports with incendiary rules and mores that seem to piss everyone off when it comes from brown people.
Never mind that
Milo is
Greek and bleaches his coif.
Is he
Rand Paul, or is he
Ru Paul?
Is it to enhance his whiteness? Is it to poke fun at whitey? Is it simply performance? Is this just to play the game as an outsider? To prove to the northern
European descendants in
America that they are stupid, racist, heterosexual hypocrites? Is this simply a game?
Is this just the rantings of a flamboyantly gay performance artist?
The Complications of Race
Did I mention that
Gavin McGinnis is another
Brit with dual citizenship? Yep,
Brit-Canadian.
Married an
American woman with an eastern
European surname. Sounds like
Czech or
Slovakian to me (
click here).
She is part
Native American. Like many of us, she is as
American as
Apple Piroshki. She is, like me,
Heinz 57.
McGinnis has three kids with his wife. Sounds like they are
Heinz 58.
Hitler considered the eastern
Europeans to be mongrels, which leads me to the next question. Does that sound like a card carrying member of
Stormwatch?
Are you catching my drift? Maybe he is just messing with us.
Proud Boys Dos
Why are the alt right
Brit imports so interested in
America? I mean outside of making lots of money off the gullible minions? Not sure, but the journalism is probably secondary to the speaking engagements and tv gigs.
But the
Proud Boys are nothing to laugh about. They use clever trigger free words, sometimes, and actively promote "white pride" and male chauvinism (
click here).
There were about fifty men at this gathering and no women because women are not allowed. The basic tenet of the group is that they are “Western chauvinists who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.” Like Archie Bunker, they long for the days when “girls were girls and men were men.” This wasn’t controversial even twenty years ago, but being proud of Western culture today is like being a crippled, black, lesbian communist in 1953.
They would like you to believe they are not alt-right, not racist, and terribly misunderstood by outsiders.
Like Milo Yiannopoulos, the Proud Boys confuse the media because the group is anti-SJW without being alt-right. “Western chauvinist” includes all races, religions, and sexual preferences.
Like most manifesto styled bowel movements, the
Proud Boys have basic tenets. They are laid out by
McGinnis as degrees. There are three of them.
First Degree
You publicly declare you are a Proud Boy. This means you make your Western chauvinism public and you don’t care who knows it. If you support Trump (how can you not if you’re a Proud Boy?) and it comes up in the cafeteria, you proudly state your stance ... Our forefathers died in battle to protect our freedoms. The least we can do is be inconvenienced. There is no anonymity in pride.
Interesting. A
Canadian telling
Americans about our forefathers. Last I checked, the
United States and
Canada have different forefathers. He also lets his followers know up front that they need to discard any anonymity they wish to have. In other words, suckers, paint a target on your back.
Second Degree
You must get the crap beaten out of you by at least five guys until you can name five breakfast cereals ... The rationale here is we all need better “adrenaline control.” Both physical fighting and arguing require you to maintain your composure and not get petty with ad hominem attacks or “I just … can’t” forfeitures. Defending the West against the people who want to shut it down is like remembering cereals as you’re being bombarded with ten fists. The bonding and camaraderie this violence produces is inspiring.
In other words, you are jumped in. I'm surprised they aren't calling their chicks mamas, and flying the stars and bars.
The other half of the second degree is #NoWanks as espoused by the “prophet” Dante (his name is often followed by “peace be upon him”). This program allows porn only once every 30 days and insists a man can only ejaculate if he is within one yard of a woman with her consent ... It gets young men off the couch and talking to women and it gets married men away from their computers and back into bed with their significant other. (Gay Proud Boys are exempt from #NoWanks because they are doing just fine for intercourse.)
If this sounds to you like a bunch of jocks getting psyched for the big game, I have to say, 'Yes, it does.' Don't you love the perks for gay men? That is how you cross over. Tweak the rules at the last sentence whenever a new issue arises.
Proud (Gay) Boys rejoice. You can jerk off to other
Proud Boys as long as you have their permission.
This degree sounds like quite a sticky proposition.
Third Degree
While retaining the principles of the first and second degrees, the third degree involves getting a tattoo that says “Proud Boy.”
Because what is a tough guy gang without a mandatory tattoo?
Antifa
Frequently painted as the new bad guys by the people who brought you by your wanna be fascist government,
Antifa are probably the single, semi-organized street team who actively stand up to people like
McGinnis and the thugs that have collectively embraced him.
Yeah, I know. They are anarchist and they get blamed for vandalism.
BFD. I hate the banks too.
It doesn't make it true, it just means people blame it on them. Take my advice people of the left. Ridicule your opposition. You won't lose your mind that way, and it pisses them off way more.
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