LOOK at the illo the CEO of Gab chose to illustrate what they're "fighting for"

[highplainsdem]

https://news.gab.com/2020/12/07/what-are-populists-fighting-for/




Apparently the alt-right ideal nukular Murican family.


Ran across a tweet linking to that tonight after seeing so many tweets from the Gab.com account, while I searched for tweets about Parler, that I decided to look at the latest tweets from that account.

This was tweeted just an hour or two ago, though the article it links to was published last month:

Link to tweet

[Dream Girl]

1. Aryan nation!

[yardwork]

2. The older boy is wearing lederhosen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lederhosen

[SCantiGOP]

3. Is that Little Donnie Trump

in the red coveralls?

[lapfog_1]

4. Goebbels make that advertisment?

It certainly stinks of 1930s Germany

[brewens]

5. I bet you can find an almost exact match Nazi propaganda photo or poster from WWII. n/t

[highplainsdem]

9. Wouldnt be surprised. It definitely has a Nazi-propaganda-meets-misogynistic-1950s-advertising

feel, with a bit of '50s Western frontiersman fantasies, And given the way the cake is meant to look "magical," maybe even "Bewitched."

And the 3rd rate artwork gives it a Stepford Wives meets Children of the Corn feel, along with any number of horror films about homicidal rednecks.

So that's the Gab American Dream...or what their CEO imagines it is.

[Croney]

6. Why does it say "checking your browser before connecting to Gab"

when I clicked on the picture? Who's checking my browser?

[highplainsdem]

16. They're using Cloudflare for security, and checking browsers is part of preventing denial-of-service

attacks. I sent you an email about this a few minutes ago.

They're getting a lot of traffic the last couple of days, especially with Parler about to disappear.

[DBoon]

7. No, I will NEVER click on a link from Gab

[JDC]

8. Pure Nazi Aryan propaganda right there

[LeftInTX]

10. The heads are all badly photoshopped. I wonder if there are copyright issues?

[musette_sf]

11. Isn't Cabaret on TCM tonight?

[Iterate]

12. It is German - ripped from a cover article about the AfD

Sorry it's so big, but I don't want to fuck with it. I think it was from about three years ago.

[highplainsdem]

13. Date for that is April 2016. Alternative fur Deutschland. Basically neo-Nazi, or very close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany

[Iterate]

15. lol, I guess I could have looked

The black/red/yellow-gold gave it away as much as the motif.

That was just prior to the federal elections when people were wondering "What does the AfD want?" and were afraid of the answer they would get. For what it's worth, their popularity is about half of what it was at the peak ~9%.

[highplainsdem]

14. Thank you for posting that!

[highplainsdem]

19. LOL! Just occurred to me Gab's CEO probably never saw the source of that illo and probably has

no idea it's meant to be a parody mocking what a neo-Nazi party would want. He think it's really seriously meant as an ideal.

[Iterate]

20. You're right, and taking a closer look...

but first a caution, as I don't pretend to know every detail of German costume and culture, but I do have some background to go on. Originally I didn't even want to look at the pic; now I see the genius.

The woman is not in a German style, but very US 1950's Betty Crocker or a GE home of the future ad. That wasn't a German hair style or dress of the period, if ever. Even the cake is wrong. For the man, short sleeve shirts are rare-ish and I've never seen an image of man hold a shotgun that way or ever posed holding a gun with a family(helped clean out several friend's family estates, plenty of old gun and hunting mags). That's an American thing. Guns are for gun clubs and hunting, and are stored at the club or in a safe.

Lederhosen haven't been worn much by kids since the 30s-40s, and it's Bavarian. The coveralls are mostly from the industrial northern cities, I don't recall seeing many kids wear them -it's work clothing. And the girl...somethings off, but I don't know what. Luftballons.

In other words, the mythical family is a mish-mash of things that never were, or that don't belong together. Pure mockery. I'll bet the article itself is a hoot.

[highplainsdem]

21. Great analysis! My reply 9 above lists what I thought were various elements of the illo. Here's what

I posted there:

It definitely has a Nazi-propaganda-meets-misogynistic-1950s-advertising feel, with a bit of '50s Western frontiersman fantasies, And given the way the cake is meant to look "magical," maybe even "Bewitched."

And the 3rd rate artwork gives it a Stepford Wives meets Children of the Corn feel, along with any number of horror films about homicidal rednecks.

So that's the Gab American Dream...or what their CEO imagines it is.

[Iterate]

23. Even the sharply parted hair is a tell,

because for the past 50 years, at least, parted hair has been considered unhealthy for the scalp. It's trained slightly to the side sometimes(as Merkel does), but not parted. In other words, the family is unhealthy.

And the cake -it's been said by many bakers that the "German chocolate cake" isn't German and is barely chocolate. In this context though it means more, because having cake and coffee on a Sunday at 4pm-ish is an old ritual - Sunday afternoons are reserved for visiting friends and family, and the cake with coffee is a central part of it. Even highway truck traffic is shut down on Sundays. The cakes are elaborate, many layered, and often beautiful, with fruit and flavored creams. So it's not in the scene by accident.

Whoever put this image together deserves a prize. And I should always read upthread. I wonder what else I've missed.

I can't stop until this thing is mined out, but you mentioned "the 50's Western frontiersman" and that triggered some memories. It was a real thing in Germany, post-war especially, to the point where western dime-novels sold by the cargo ship load. It was a mark of distinction to have the entire collection of an author's output.

Probably the worst paid meal I've ever had was at a local place called "The Ranch", tucked away down a dirt road, down from a scrapyard and next to an abandoned apple orchard, a dozen "old west" buildings (imagine Knott's Berry farm built by an Alabama scrap dealer). It was locally popular, with an indoor bar and outdoor wonky picnic tables.

The owner had gone to the US west in '48 and bought up every piece of rusty dusty cowboy junk he could find to decorate it, then put it on a container ship, bound for the shelves above the bar. Add some tough, grass-fed Argentine beef, grill it forever outdoors, then grill it again for good measure. Serve with beans that can't be that bad by accident. Only the German beer survived that kitchen.

So yea, that's the fantasy part of the western frontier. Our new favorite German graphic artist said all of that with a few deft strokes.

[canetoad]

17. Free peroxide for everyone?

No matter what your hair type?

[A_Woman_from_MI]

18. I read as much as I could

But got a little discouraged at "Fuck grandpa!"

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. Why is that little girl dressed as a loaf of Wonder Bread?