Ben Garrison doing the funny pages of Der Sturmer and fucking Ron Paul RTing with glee
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ron is getting social media damage control advice from some PR galaxy brain who survived the Führerbunkerpic.twitter.com/eYw7oGrvCa
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update: not actually a Ben Garrison cartoon (http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1006927-ben-garrison …) tho striking he has such, uh, admirers. and, uh, even weirder that Paul's media people, just sort of, have this as an image that they'd choose to upload to their FB.
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(FTR: I'm muting this thread, because it's breaking my Twitter and every single associated app).
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hey look its the young Ron Paul staffer everyone's talking aboutpic.twitter.com/xwD643JFKZ
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OMG IT'S A BEN GARRISON CARTOON TOO. I missed that.
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his style is moving from homage to mid-19th C, broadsheet political cartoons, w/ their incredibly crowded single panels and dozens of complicated labels and speech bubbles, to the gonzo minimalism of [checks notes] Nazi Young Reader editions of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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if you look at old Der Sturmer cartoons it's pretty clear where Garrison got his obsession with labelling things
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I think the characters may have been traced from Der Stürmer's back issues. The resemblance is too close.
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The faces are from the work of the white supremacist cartoonist known by the pseudonym "A. Wyatt Mann"
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"A Wyatt Mann" was a pseudonym for Nick Bougas, a filmmaker who had connections to the
@ChurchofSatan. Good old article about this:https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit?utm_term=.fl0a1EJVK#.snoxbDnVj …
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Wow, this is Golden Age of Comics, slap-a-Jap-level racism. I honestly thought everyone who knew how to draw this shit was long-dead.
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I think this may be what some people mean when they talk about "rediscovering the western canon"
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These guys are like, "Not only do we choose to live in the past, we will choose objectively the WORST parts of the past."
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This is the Ron Paul who was sending out racist newsletters two decades ago, yes? Why are we supposed to be shocked again?
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