Jayme Liardi.
In spite of Trump’s latest effort to “reach out” to people of colour, his association with white nationalism, aka white supremacy, continues. Now there’s Trump Youth. Gosh, that doesn’t have a familiar ring at all. At this point, I wish Trump would expend more energy on his fake health letter, really make that work, and bail out. There is enough ugly in the world already without this sort of idiocy.
A website for the group encourages young voters to “[e]mbrace your destiny and become a part of the greatest battle the world has ever seen.”
“We Millennials are destined for greatness; no longer will we sit idle and watch everything our forefathers built be turned to dust,” the website says. “Our world is hurting, and it is up to us, the Youth, to become the Hero Generation and to save the world.”
In a video promotion for the Trump Youth group, Liardi asserts that “nations have been commandeered by an international criminal cartel, and this parasite is feeding on our energy.”
“It’s in Japan, it’s in China, it’s in Germany, it’s in America,” he warns. “If we don’t throw this parasite off our backs, the world will fall into chaos. These parasites want war, want destruction, they want slavery — and they’re getting them.”
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Writing on his personal website earlier this year, Liardi said that he did not understand the “truth” about Adolf Hitler until he read Mein Kampf.
“I began to seek out the history without the propaganda– I wanted to understand the mind of the supposed most evil man in history,” he wrote. “So I studied the events leading up to the war, the german Weimar Republic, WWI and the climate of Europe in the early 20th century. And yes, I read Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’.”
“I quickly realized that I was not being given all of the facts–that what passes for history is merely rehashed propaganda from the war,” Liardi opined. “So [I] began to follow the trail of other patriots and freedom fighters before me, on a quest for truth, justice and an end to exploitation and enslavement.”
“WWII was a turning point in human history. A battle of opposite ideologies. Nationalism vs Globalism, International Communism vs ‘Nazism’,” he said. “We too are at a [turning] point in human history; it is five minutes to midnight and we are quickly running out of time. Will it be Globalism or will it be Nationalism.”
https://youtu.be/m9H1-FOC2nY
Via Raw Story.
This is really fucked up. Combined with the news from recent months about high school kids chanting racist slogans along with “Trump!” it’s seriously depressing.
Well, it does make it difficult to decided which blog to comment on.
wait
I know what to do
More seriously
this is seriously fucked up
Chigau:
I commented at Shiv’s first. We posted at the same time.
Kengi:
Yeah, it is. I was part of the counterculture when I was young, and fuck me, it’s really rotten to see young people doing this marching in step shit.
The following excerpt is from a fake news site, National Report, which may also be a scam (hence I won’t link to it), but even with those caveats, it is none-the-less amusing, for certain values of “amusing”:
Caine:
The weird thing is they seem to think they are the ones being counterculture. They talk about not sitting idle and not watching “everything our forefathers built be turned to dust” and claim they are the ones rebelling because they are against “political correctness”. And yet it’s all an argument for maintaining a privileged status quo, led by the people with the most power. Yes, they are marching in lock step, yet have been fooled into believing they are the down-trodden rebels.
I would be interested in the demographics of the Orange One Youth. I would bet that the makeup is very similar to the Hitler Youth. IOW, minorities need not apply.
He is talking about the republicans, right?
Johnson catman @ 8:
Mmmmph. Laughing with a mouthful of French toast is a good way to choke.
Please, Hitler was not a nationalist. He was a racist. He gained power from inside Germany but viewed his constituency as, ironically given the historical definition of the term, “Aryan”. Hitler didn’t consider nationality as meaningful or significant. For him nations were artificial constructs that obscured the racial identities of the people and the natural and ordinate struggle between the races. Hitler placed great stock in the idea that people of a similar race but different nations would join German troops and save the day. He spent a lot of resources to establish divisions made up of foreign nationals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Foreign_volunteer_units_of_Nazi_Germany
At the very end Hitler called for the destruction of German infrastructure, treasures, and cultural sites. He considered Germany to be unworthy of his efforts to fight for the Aryan race and the clash of races.
“I began to seek out the history without the propaganda” … is another way of saying he found a version of history that he found both flattering and to his liking. No surprise there. In this version he is cast as the racial superior and noble fighter for the good of mankind against sub-human parasites and corruption. Having developed a taste for self-righteous flattery and racism he then rooted around to find more of it. The other racist, I’m sure, were glad to have him as long as none of them ever points out the obvious fact that none of them are any more special than the people they condemn, or that their version of propaganda-free is just another version of propaganda. The difference is that it is spiced to their taste in self-flattery.
Yes, it does seem very familiar, and not in a good way:
https://i.imgur.com/nY24ZIx.jpg
I read Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’.”
So did I. It was a bit more interesting than watching paint dry. Somewhere on the spectrum of “less interesting than Robert Heinlein’s ‘5th column'” and “preferable to smoking and eating my own tongue.”
“One of Austria’s great accomplishments was convincing the world that Hitler was German and that Beethoven was Viennese” -- Christopher Hitchens
Marcus:
Pretty much sums up my feelings about it. For someone to close that, um, collection of paper, and come away feeling all enlightened baffles me. I have no idea what they were reading.
Okay, y’all are making me hungry.
As my former colleague said: History is a wonderful teacher. Too bad she doesn’t have any students.
I tried to read Mein Kampf as a teenager. Never finished it, maybe because nothing really resonated with me in it except for the paragraph or two about political demagoguery. Trump seems to go by the spirit of Hitler’s rules (no more than four simple talking points and hammer them relentlessly), maybe by instinct.