These people are crazy. They're not thinking comrades they're thinking for themselves. My sisters were actually interviewed on the news about why they are in a militia and see America as the enemy. My moms both cried when they saw this coverage. Anyway this far right thinking will lead to the republican parties demise. If they don't stop acting like idiots and start to clean up their act then their will be loads of problems for the whole party including the Democratic party...

Eh... I wouldn't vote Republican even if you held a gun to my head, and this is a case of "You made your bed, now lie in it."If the Grand Ol' Patriarchy goes the way of the Whigs because they broke bread with fascists, not one tear will I shed.

Yeah that part is not a good look at all... But I'm voting blue no matter what. 😺😺😺

As am I. And hey, those famous words were right on the money- "When fascism comes to America, it will come holding a Bible and wrapped in the American flag."

Also, dying animals aren't dangerous if you take the right precautions. "A Reich That Will Last A Thousand Years" ran out of gas after a decade and change, when Hitler decided to start a land-war in Asia he couldn't win and then said "Better To Die Than Be Killed" after hearing about Mussolini's sticky end at the business-end of a Partisan firing-squad.

Also being hung up by their feet for all to see mussolini and his mistress. What a site 💀💀💀

Yep... strung up outside a gas-station, like so much hanging meat. Hitler thought the Allies had a similar fate in store for him, so he had his mistress and her kids and their aides pop cyanide while he ate a gun-barrel in his Berlin bunker.

Yeah that man was a coward to kill himself😡😡😡

We ARE, of course, talking about a sniveling man-child who got millions of people killed over a fairy-tale about Viking Super Saiyans.

😕🙁😑😶🤔oh that? 😁😁🤔😑😑😑😑hmmm?

Yeah, where the rubber meets the road, the OG Nazis were a bunch of gigantic DORKS for the most part.

In fact, the best illustration of this (aside from "The Producers" and "Jojo Rabbit") is a 1972 alt-historical novel called "The Iron Dream," a "Book Within A Book" literary art-piece that imagines a world where Hitler became a crappy sci-fi author instead of a dictator and treats us to his magnum opus "Lord Of The Swastika..." a "Noble Hero Of The Savage Future" tale indistinguishable from any of a number of sci-fi/fantasy potboilers where the good guys are pure and beautiful and the bad guys are subhuman creeps clogging the bookstore-shelves at any given moment.

Now, I know what you're thinking... "If Hitler Wrote A Dumb Sci-Fi Novel About Winning A Racial-Purity Future War Instead Of Starting A Real One, The Book Would Be Laughably Bad Because Hitler Was A Madman With Shitty, Juvenile Taste In Literature" seems like a minor punchline to write a whole "Stylistic Suck" bad novel around and then give away said gag at the foreward... but Mr. Spinrad's REAL stinger turns out to be the ending coda, where an imaginary literary-critic pens an essay about the resurgent popularity of "Lord Of The Swastika" (for context, the book was "written" in this alt-history's 1954) with then-present-day genre-afficcionados... who can often be seen at sci-fi conventions in sharp black uniforms reminiscent of the book's hero, Feric Jagger, and his Knights Of The Swastika. Holding late-night bonfire-rallies and preaching the fascist philosophy that never took root in the 1930's like it did in OUR reality, but sounds awfully familiar to the reader... who should be all too familiar with the evils of Nazism.

Steven Spielberg once said of the Nazis, especially in their use as stock-heavies in pulp-adventure stories: "If they had never existed, someone would have had to make them up." And nowhere is that more evident than in the pages of "The Iron Dream."

Shades of The Turner Chronicles and a few more recent books.

"The Iron Dream" was a warning. "The Turner Diaries" was an instruction-manual... as we learned the hard way in 1998, when some twerp named Timothy McVeigh blew a federal building in Oklahoma City to smithereens.

Yup. It's a bible for a lot of these militia types as well.

Yeah... the man-babies who think they're all Duke from "GI Joe," and anyone they don't like is Cobra Commander.

Luckily for the rest of us, all of these people get along like cats in a sinking sack. Every day is The Night Of The Long Knives, and I for one have no interest in yanking THAT Orobouros out of his own mouth.

Letting Fashy dipshits swallow each other is yet ANOTHER reason "A Reich That Will Last A Thousand Years" ran out of gas after a decade and change... even Norman Spinrad knew that, since the "Lord Of The Swastika" portion of "The Iron Dream" has an ending that would horrify the average reader.

The Reps are going further around the bend by the day.

I've been saying for years that they're a dying dinosaur, but a dying animal is dangerous because they can lash out desperately.

Yes my Grampa said that too and I think you both are right. We need to stand back and stand by 😛😁😁 while it dies.😑😑😑

I don't plan on being quite that inactive.

giggles😋 I know I was just being silly😁😁😁

I figured.

😺😺😺

I've been reading "Bronze Age Mindset," the 2018 blockbuster of one of those far-right dipshits... a Romanian-American "My Parents Spent WAY Too Much On My Education" nudist, bodybuilder and "anti-xenoestrogen activist" named Costin Vlad Alamariu, who posts to social media (and wrote this trash) under the name "Bronze Age Pervert."

It's like if a copy of "Might Is Right" by Ragnar Redbeard knocked up a copy of "Ride The Tiger" by Julius Evola, and then whatever they gave birth to knocked up the movie "300." This thing is floor-to-ceiling racism, misogyny, antisemitism and pseudo-historical NONSENSE, all selling the idea that "True Masculinity" involves limiting all extrovert engagement to the preparation of warfighting and being worshipped as a god... all while railing against modernity and anyone who doesn't look like Gerard Butler in Leather Battle Panties, calling the bulk of humanity "Bugmen..." the implication, of course, that anyone not working out, tanning their balls and gleefully murdering their "lessers" is little more than a cockroach stumbling around in ill-fitting human skin. "Civilization," according to this idiot, is an unevolved and barely-conscious pond-scum that worships at the altar of weakness, ugliness and mediocrity... all for the benefit of "merchants, nerds and bean-counters" ruling the worthless rabble from the shadows.

Oh my GOD, is there not a one of these morons who isn't hopped up on some comic-book vision of "The Glorious Past" that never really existed? This guy thinks literature peaked with "The Iliad," and that all Asia ever wrote were accounting-ledgers. HE CLAIMS THAT MEXICAN MOLES AND THAI CURRIES ARE BASICALLY THE SAME, AND THAT CORTES WAS WELL WITHIN HIS RIGHTS TO DESTROY AZTEC SOCIETY AS HEIR TO THE LIKES OF PERIANDER OF CORINTH AND LYSANDER OF SPARTA. Oh, and that the Periander who built a mass-transit system for ships trading in the Corinthian port/is regarded as one of the "Seven Sages Of Greek Antiquity" and the Periander who banged his own mom and pushed his pregnant wife down the stairs (according to Herodotus, who was known to embellish his historical accounts) were the same guy.

On the surface, the "Bronze Age Mindset" this book is pushing is the worldview of a madman... a psychotic brute who slaughters all he considers beneath him, yet women and like-minded warriors will flock to his banner as if by magic. But it's really just like every OTHER empty screed of every OTHER insecure nebbish who thinks "Real Men" take what they want and never apologize for destroying that which benefits the many, it's all easily-refuted bullshit from a guy with no background in history, anthropology, biology or even politics- the dude apparently has a PhD from Harvard in political-science, but one can see that it's money not well spent.

Costin Alamariu is a 43-year-old dumbass who thinks eating soybeans shattered forever the house of Atreus and the legendary lines of the Spartan generals... when in reality Human Biochemistry Doesn't Work That Way, And Sparta Was The North Korea Of Hellenic Greece, Not A Polis Of Superhuman Badasses.

Sounds like a real peach. Never heard of him, and I can see why.

Pretty much sounds like your typical Randian libertarian though, if even a little more around the bend than most of those.

There are people living in such truth-free realities these days that it's stunning. A person here recently recommended a video by Steven Crowder to me as an argument against the history of slave patrols as a basis for the original militias when we were arguing about the history of slavery here. Crowder's video was actually arguing that they weren't a basis for policing, which is also wrong. I responded that there were a large number of actual scholars who would disagree with the esteemed historian Steven Crowder.

Of course that person blocked me.

Steven Crowder also kissed his mainstream career goodbye when footage of him committing domestic violence surfaced... of course, I doubt we'll have heard the last of him, because "Wingnut Welfare" exists and keeps these evolutionary throwbacks off of government assistance.

But yeah, Bronze Age Pervert is getting REALLY popular with the right-wing nutjobs... hell, in 2021 a man in Denver, CO shot and killed five people, and guess what he posted a photo of in his Twitter-feed? That's right... his personal copy of "Bronze Age Mindset," the way the shooter in Gilroy, CA cited "Might Is Right" by Ragnar Redbeard as a reading recommendation.

Yeah, "Civilization sucks, whatever happened to the days when men drank from the skulls of their enemies?" tracts are nothing new... "Might Is Right" was published in 1896, and there's some dispute as to who was behind the pseudonym "Ragnar Redbeard." I personally subscribe to the hypothesis that it was Jack London firing it off as a goof... mainly because I didn't make it thirty pages into that book before I had to put it down because of how ANGRY it was making me. And yet, "Might Is Right" is where the father of modern Satanism, Anton LaVey, cribbed his famous line about "taking a broad-ax and splitting [God's] worm-eaten skull."

Luckily, we know who wrote "Bronze Age Mindset," and his writing-style... good lord, he writes in this "You No Take Candle" style of prose that sounds like if you put a 4chan shitposter's brain in the body of a cartoon caveman and gave him a Slavic accent so thick, you could cut it with a knife. Which makes sense... Costin Alamariu was born in Romania in 1980, and moved with the fam to Newton, MA when he was ten. His pop worked as an engineer for MIT, which is where he got his bachelor's degree... in maths. He then got a graduate's degree in philosophy from Columbia, and then his political-science PhD from Yale... sorry, YALE, not Harvard. My whoops.

Still, my point stands... the book is complete nonsense from start-to-finish, written by someone without the slightest bit of understanding of what the hell he's talking about, under the delusion that he's this misunderstood genius blessed by the kiss of the Muses. It's also peppered with the kind of praise for Nietzsche commonly associated with angry 14-year-old boys (which makes sense- he wrote his Yale dissertation under the title "The Problem of Tyranny and Philosophy in the Political Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche") and the kind of racism and misogyny one would think was dredged up from the bottom of a sewage-treatment plant... he refers to all non-white, non-Western nations as "Turd World" and thinks women are stupid animals fit only for making more Bronze Age Heroes and not much else... "feminism," in his atrophied mind, benefits only (((The Secret Masters And Bean-Counter Nerds Who Benefit From The World Being Populated By Insects In Human Flesh.)))

Yeah... dude is a RAGING anti-Semite, despite coming from a Jewish family. And BEING the very "nerd" he rails against in his book. I've seen the pictures... he looks less like Leonidas Of Sparta as imagined by Frank Miller, and more like a Mirror Universe "Long Live The Empire" version of Screech Powers from "Saved By The Bell."

Oh, Crowder has his fans, no doubt, as do so many of these web famous yahoos. I get people reffing even worse people to me, such as Matt Walsh, The Lotus Eaters, or Libs of Tik Tok. People actually take this shit seriously. Critical media literacy is meaningless to some folks. They couldn't tell a fact from the social media rage bait of the week to save their lives.

And yeah I looked up the Wiki on Alamariu. He's a ball of contradictions and cliched right wing garbage. Along with the Randian strains of his rhetoric, Nietsche was an obvious influence, and of course that was there in abundance. His whole obsession with idealized male bodies, even imagining himself an example of that, smacks of homoeroticism, yet he hates gays... Talk about sublimation and self hate...

There's also the double-edged sword of so many people taking him seriously to give his crap the oxygen of reviews and critique, yet on the other hand, of course people like this are ignored at our peril as well. He's basically a juvenile troll, but he's clearly influencing people. This is the insanity of our age, and exactly what Naomi Klein is talking about.

Oh, and Anton LaVey was a classic local shit disturber here, in a long history of shit disturbers. Wouldn't surprise me if Jack London participated in that legacy. LaVey was a troll before it was cool. His daughter Karla is carrying on his legacy. He also played a mean Organ.

LaVey was a carnival-barker with a dark-and-spooky gimmick. BAP is a 43-year-old manchild who thinks "300" was a documentary... and yeah, he's a classic "Armored Closet" case. There's a passage in "Bronze Age Mindset" that mentions Achilles avenging the death of Patroclus, but BAP insists that any suggestion that they were lovers is "an invention of modern homofaggotry" and that friends were willing to fight and die for one another in those far-flung ancient days when the sons of Sparta, Thebes, Corinth and Athens were all these superhuman badasses... no, really, he thinks a bunch of rich dilletantes who had a slave-class to do all their work for them while they faffed off to play soldier were the Spartans from "Halo."

But then again, he also thinks that a Thai curry and a Mexican mole are basically the same dish, so I'm pretty sure that all his "Adventures In The Dark Underbelly" stories are pure bullshit and he's hardly ever left his adopted hometown of Newton, MA... despite insisting that an ideal future-world involves what's basically The Acropolis in Haiti, but with a Death Star Superlaser.

The only thing in common between curries and moles would be their complexity, but that sort of nuance would seem to be lost on this moron, as exhibited by his takes on history, etc.

Yeah, his take on pre-Christian Germanic society is even worse. According to this polished turd, Europe was gripped by the tyranny of a form of "proto-socialism" and "proto-feminism," with men jammed like sardines into communal longhouses overseen by overweight old women representing "The Earth Mother," which he likens to a barely-sentient yeast-colony.

MEANWHILE, IN BRONZE-AGE GREECE... beautiful young men, unmoored from petty concerns like "morals" and "ethics" that would keep them caged like tigers in a zoo, created beautiful works and cleansed the earth of cockroaches with their beautiful warfighting! These were not simpering lap-dogs beholden to the weak and stupid feminine, oh no... these were PIRATES! Warrior-explorers driven to breath free and crush the unworthy beneath sandal'd feet!

Ya ever hear that phrase "Strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times, hard times create strong men?" Yeah, that was coined by a man who was a fantasy-author, not a historian or an anthropologist. And yet angry little boys still believe that only "The Proud Warrior Race" knows what's best in life. Especially Alamariu, who believes that modern feminism- a movement naturally co-opted by "The Leviathan"/"The Secret Masters"/"The Lords Of Lies"- only came about because women are simple, irrational creatures that want a warrior-hero's boot on their throat, not to be subjugated by bean-counters and pencil-pushers who couldn't LIFT a sword, let alone WIELD one.

Interesting podcasts... thanks for the links!

Most welcome. Both of those shows frequently have interesting content.

Honestly, I think that few people end up really reading or listening to the things I ref in my posts.