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“Why stop there? The youth should embrace even bolder protest tactics. Enlist in the IDF. Be the change you want to see in the imperial Zionist war machine.”
A short thread since I have read a lot about Germans in Latin America (will post a few reading recs at the bottom):
Part of the reason the “Nazis in Argentina” trope has so firmly embedded itself in numbskull normie US culture is that fears (largely exaggerated) of German
A lot of Americans don’t know this, but many Europeans have weird superstitions about…air. Moving air, to be precise. They are terrified of drafts, insist they make you sick, so they never drive with the windows down. They might fear AC on similar terms. It’s very interesting.
@FischerKing64
Admiral Chester Nimitz, leader of the US Pacific Fleet during WWII, was even more German than Eisenhower. Both Nimitz’ parents were immigrants, and he grew up speaking German in an immigrant community in the Texas Hill Country. “Nimitz” even means “German” in Slavic langs.
Because it’s some of the most beautiful nature in the entire United States; a biome that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world; home to several critically endangered species; and also where we grow a lot of the produce you worthless bugfolk eat.
You are vermin. Fuck you.
I set a simple goal for my year: radicalize American elites in tech, finance, and media, then rally them to the fight. Hoping this conversation will accelerate the process. Rogan episode incoming.
Granddad got scarlet fever as a kid, caused him to go deaf. He’s smart though, probably >130 IQ. Became engineer for utility company. But deafness isolated him, made him schizo. Has done “research” into esoteric energy sources for decades, which colleagues dismiss as quackery.
Imagine it is 1984. You are young man making ok living as mechanic in Florida. You go steady with nice gril who is cosmetologist. You drive her in convertible Pontiac to ice cream stand on beach for date one evening. Billy Idol on radio. You've never heard of Hegel. Life is good.
By 1900, Germany was among the greatest commercial powers in Latin America, in some cases beating the US and Britain. German firms were fiercely competitive in industries like mining, coffee, and engineering. This was encouraged by Berlin but happened largely organically.
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One of the big cultural differences btw. US and Germany that first stood out to me when I was there. Seems to me like there are many more bookstores to be found in German towns and cities, and they’re much more pleasant establishments.
Boomer guy I know is 76 years old and still works as a trucker. Got fired a few weeks back, then wife said she’s divorcing him, kicked him out, had locks changed, emptied his bank accounts. Now he’s dead broke, no car, living in a trailer in the woods behind his buddy’s house.
This superstition I’m speaking to is remarkably common in Germany, and you encounter it even in highly educated, cosmopolitan people. I have it on good authority that Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians share this aversion to drafts. Which suggests it’s widespread on the Continent.
Unnerved, US commercial barons exploited burgeoning imperialist sentiment in US to generate support for intervention against German interests in Latin America all through the early 20th c. Sensationalist press depicted German activity there as subversive, a threat to US security.
Consider Guatemala. German families controlled >2/3 of their coffee industry prior to WWII, when, largely due to pressure from the US gov’t., many said families had their property confiscated by the Guatemalan state and were deported to and interned in the US. This played out
@vodk_anon
There was a clip of Russian paratroopers landing right in front of a CNN reporter outside Hostomel airport, cars driving by as if it were a normal day. Utterly surreal.
I have lived in the South almost my whole life. I know many "hicklibs." Consistent theme in their biographies is a youth spent under the thumb of idiot pastors or with parents or community who punished or ostracized them for intellectual inclinations. They turn to modern
These efforts triggered a panic among both the US public and gov't officials that German immigrants in Latin America were plotting to form a breakaway state or otherwise to help the Reich in dethroning the US in the region. Commercial interests dovetailed with imperial anxieties.
I’ve been thinking about this lately: it’s not self-evident to me that life for the average person in 1960s–1980s East Germany, Czechoslovakia, or Hungary was more spiritually oppressive than life for the modern American. (I won’t make the same argument for the USSR.) Seems it
@dr__submarine
I live in rural South, one of the reddest / “tradest” states in the Union, and there’s still a significant percentage of people here going trans. Also a few kids still wearing masks—almost four years on. Still overwhelmingly white, but recently more illegals have shown up here.
Though I'd attribute the trope's survival mainly to America's morbid fascination with Nazism, I'm sure these older anxieties gave it oxygen in the 1950s and '60s, and it explains why Germans in Lat. Am. are still ipso facto "suspect" in US eyes: it's a holdover from older psy-op.
Reading recs:
On tensions btw. US and Imperial Germany prior to WWI: "The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America," by Nancy Mitchell
On deportation of Lat. Am. Germans to US during WWII: "Nazis and Good Neighbors," by Max Paul Friedman.
Other recs
Thus, when news broke in the late 1940s that Nazis had resettled in South America--at most a few thousand, compared to 100,000s of Germans already living there--it fit into broader theme of anxiety over German influence in the area that'd plagued the US psyche for over 50 years.
This culminated in a US scheme, hatched during World War II, to coerce Latin American gov'ts into seizing commercial assets from German firms and businesses and deporting prominent German merchant families to the United States.
Beyond that, across Latin America, but especially in Brazil, home to the largest German community in the region, German immigrants were stripped of their rights and subjected to both popular violence and state-sanctioned assimilation campaigns, effectively reducing them to
@LMFHistorian
You also see a lot more hit-and-runs in areas with a high illegal population. They get into an accident and scram for fear of legal trouble, deportation. Which means more dead motorists, pedestrians, cyclists.
Hate to sound like a broken record, but it really is alarming, how un-German western Germany feels. On previous trips I was in rural Bavaria, Austria, Berlin. Latter felt cosmopolitan, sure, but—not just “dark.” It’s global, “hip.” Bavaria and Austria were German to the core,
German enthusiasm for Native American culture has its roots in 19th c. nat'l revival, which coincided w/ climax of US-Indian wars. Germans were reading Tacitus and identified with Indians, saw latter's struggle as similar to theirs in both Roman era and age of industrialization.
seeing germans try to defend dressing up as native americans, as an american living in germany, is absolutely wild. what are you guys doing? i saw this at a parade yesterday in freiburg and my eyes popped out of my head like a fucking cartoon character.
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It’s funny because Germans will complain bitterly about how “filthy” cities like Frankfurt and Berlin are, but coming from America, these places are orders of magnitude cleaner than any of our big cities. And the S-tier German cities like Munich—they might as well be Hyperborea.
He’s dead on. Most of the dating and relationships discourse I see on here misses the forest for the trees. That is, the accelerating trend towards “singlehood” among young people in the West lies downstream of social atomization more broadly. Western Zoomers are the most lonely
I love how the Dutch went supernova in the 17th century—became world’s dominant maritime power; acquired colonies in both Americas, Africa, Asia; produced arguably the greatest cohort of painters the world’s ever seen—and then stepped back into relative obscurity forever.
Though this stemmed largely from long-simmering social and political tensions at the local level, the US tacitly encouraged such measures inasmuch as they reduced the perceived security risk of the German “5th column” in the region and eliminated competition with foreign powers.
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South Georgia is a weird place. Outside of Savannah and Valdosta, it feels like a very remote region of the country that modernity hasn’t penetrated yet. Wild dog attacks are among the region’s greatest public health issues, for instance. And yes, inland it’s miserable hot.
Re: the “aristocrat” LARP on RW Twitter: There used to be this cool third thing, neither prole nor aristocrat—a group of people who engaged with high culture to an extent, but were grounded, didn’t pretend to greatness. They were called the bourgeoisie, and you could play the
@dr__submarine
The scarier thing imo is when you come from working class milieu and assume people above you know what they’re doing. “They’re smarter than us hicks.” But then you move up and find that their competence was mostly an illusion.
Everyone on here talks about having an “aristocratic spirit.” I don’t have that. I have the spirit of a Central European Kleinbürger. I’m meant to be running a newsstand in fin de siècle Vienna. I’ll sell you illegal pornographic pamphlets if you know the code word. My wife, the
@FischerKing64
All anecdotal of course, but I know a fair number of people in their mid-late twenties who were on board with the Dems through ‘20 but have since defected to Trump camp. More common though are erstwhile libs who’ve lost confidence in the Dems over Gaza and won’t vote this year.
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To prepare for archival research, I took a class some years ago to learn Old German cursive—known as Kurrent or Sütterlin. This is how all Germans wrote until 1930s or so. Completely indecipherable to the uninitiated; most Germans today can’t read their grandparents letters.
There are a few autist energy enthusiast guys around the world he writes to, but he never shares much for fear they’ll steal his ideas. Also suspects “they” (?) monitor emails, so he communicates strictly through postal mail. It’s too bad, really—he’d make an excellent poaster.
I gaze upon the mighty Danube, the river that nourished my ancestors. They left this place because they had no freedom and no money. 100 years later, I have a bit of both. Life has improved, they say. But I have no village, no clan—perhaps not even a country.
Was it worth it?
"USA – Donald Trump's victory would change the world like no other election since World War II. The Ex-President and his loyalists have a detailed plan. They have turned against democracy and want to smash the Western system of alliances to bits.
THE DESTROYER."
Girl I went to school with was beautiful. Had a great laugh and smile, striking green eyes. We flirted as kids but were just friends by 12th grade. Which was okay. She was fun to be around, a very gifted flautist, and highly intelligent—one of very few people from our small
I used to be a much funnier person than I am now. A lot of people would’ve said I was the funniest person they knew. It was my biggest social asset. But it slipped away from me over the years. I rarely make others laugh now. I rarely laugh myself. I don’t know what happened.
@goinggodward
This sort of thing used to be more common, when people had more kids and started at a younger age. I have aunts and uncles that are only 6–10 years older than me, are even closer to my older siblings. Was pretty cool because we got their toys when they got too old for them!
@FischerKing64
Get to talking to members of the Russian diaspora in South Florida, and you’ll find most of them were pretty “connected” back in the USSR. Which makes sense. How else could they have moved there in the ‘90s and bought million-dollar homes when all their compatriots were starving?
Europe’s population—its native population—appears to be collapsing faster than America’s. That’s what the data indicate. But my sense has always been that the place is much more family- and youth-friendly, and so far this trip has reaffirmed that. Kids and young people are more
Men, your dream girl isn’t on dating apps or at a nightclub, she’s:
~ At a dead-end job at a Budapest tobacco store
~ Addicted to East Euro energy drinks
~ Wearing long nails that clatter on her phone
~ Cultivated a cold exterior to protect her heart from the evils of the world
Men, your dream girl isn't on dating apps or at a nightclub, she's:
~ At church
~ At the farmer's market
~ In the library
~ In a bookstore
~ Sipping a whole milk latte in a cute cafe
~ Baking sweet treats for loved ones
~ Spending time in nature
Homeless guy living inside the metro station near me has been reading a large biography of Matthias Corvinus over the last two weeks. His progress has been slow considering he’s unemployed, but judging from his bookmark, it looks like he’s nearing the end. I’m proud of him.
Checked Facebook after years of inactivity, discovered more old classmates have trooned out since then. Don’t like saying it, but on some level I consider them dead, gone. Not a conscious choice on my part. But memories of them from before seem similar to memories of the dead.
Have to admit I’m pretty disillusioned with a lot of the “women and relationships” discourse in our sphere. Most of it doesn’t seem productive, serves mainly to deepen resentment of women. What esp. irritates me—older guys passing their bitterness on to impressionable young guys.
Native White Floridians are one of the most blackpilled populations in the United States. The world my parents and ancestors grew up in, of orange groves, cattle ranches, sprawling pine and cypress forests, quaint fishing towns—it’s all totally gone, crushed by developers and the
@FischerKing64
I try not to think about Tate, but to the extent that I do, I want to know the same thing. I also want to see him pressed more on the Romania question. Did he really think he could badmouth this country & perpetuate its image as a corrupt dump and get away with it indefinitely?
Making plans to visit my ancestors’ village in Transylvania. No one’s been back for 100 years. It seems to have changed a lot: almost all the Greek Catholics (what my family was) are gone, as are most of the Hungarians. (More Romanian now.) But the journey still feels important.
Interesting thread on German financial and colonial presence in Latin America and measures USA took against unfairly. I’d also add that the Argentine German community that had been there since 19th C opposed Hitl0r and was anti Nazi before WW2
This novel made strong impression on me years ago. Protagonist Pechorin reminds of modern sensitive young man in many respects, a hopeless romantic and raging cynic, frustrated with a life that provides few outlets for his passions.
Also—wonderful descriptions of the Caucasus.
@FischerKing64
Eisenhower’s example is more striking in that respect, certainly. One other example: the last US soldier to die in WWI, Henry Gunther, grew up in Baltimore’s large German community. All his grandparents had immigrated from there.
Lockdowns destroyed everything for tens of millions of young people in America. This is the main reason I started gravitating towards “le radicalism.” This was systemic failure—not sth. we can blame solely on federal, state, or local gov’t. Large swaths of society implicated.
Bóhunk’s guide to beating inflation:
- Eggs
- Move to the middle of nowhere. Rent a gray 1 BR apartment for $700/mo. (You’ll experience intense social isolation if your IQ is >105. This will cause long-term psychic damage.)
- Peanuts
Follow for more tips on wasting your 20s.
As part of move to Evropa I am ditching phone number I’ve had since 12. Might deactivate all facefagg’d social media and (re)Magyarize name to reinvent myself and erase all traces of previous life.
@FischerKing64
I ran a project for a few years where, every time I was at a bookstore, I’d tally up all the Nazi and non-Nazi German history books. The former invariably accounted for 75-90% of total. But interestingly, this wasn’t so at used bookstores. Actual readers have broader interests.
Listening to Hannity in the car.
“You know who’s been hit hardest by inflation? Black and Hispanic families… The Democratic Party isn’t the party of working people anymore… It’s the party of radical coastal elites…”
Crazy how BoomerCon media hasn’t moved an inch since 2014.
RW Twitter is a big tent, but broadly speaking, I’d say there are three types on here: 1. otherwise normal people who realize our current problems require more “radical” solutions; 2. intellectuals; 3. wretched people who’d be miserable in any era.
Group 3 I don’t much care for.
Here’s the story behind the shooter: He was a fucked up kid who lived a pitiful life. He had no friends. He fell between the cracks of our disintegrating society. In desperation, he latched on to a radical ideology—he probably tried out several—that gave him a sense of purpose in
Young guy who follows the tradposters’ advice and wakes up 20 yrs. later a meat manager at a Piggly Wiggly in Claxton, Georgia, living in a 3 Be 1 Ba dump of a house with his 93-IQ 240 lb. beast of a wife, his eldest son working at local prison bc he only scored a 19 on the ACT.
Taking class to get a TESL (Teaching English as Second Language) certificate so I can go chill in Eastern Europe for a while. There are 7 other people in the class, and 5 of them seem to be employed with some charity / NGO assisting illegals.
I'm in the belly of the beast, guys.
Entering into high-level diplomatic discussions (iMessage conversations) with major financial powers (Grandma) to negotiate better trade deals (cutting me directly into the will) that will ensure the long-term prosperity of the nation (getting me a $300k farm in Hungary).
German politician Sahra Wagenknecht—anti-establishment populist left-winger, rubs shoulders with a lot of heterodox thinkers—wrote a book a few years ago called "The Self-Righteous," an attack on the "woke" bourgeois German left. It sold very well, generated a lot of discussion.