my fave thing about the alt-right is how they think they're the first ppl to come up with "fascism is transgressive counterculture oooo~"
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you never see The Night Porter or The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie or fucking Cabaret? You ever look at italo futurist art?
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you ever watch a goddamn Kenneth Anger movie or read even a summary of Mishima? the "fascism is edgy" thing goes back aways, you nerds
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fascists have always wanted to co-opt transgression & youth energy because guess what? it's an irrational ideology based on reckless emotion
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the "fascism is orderly" thing is only true insofar as it's used to put a positive spin on systematic murder. otherwise it's just brutality
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& for the most part, it's fucking boring. the most interesting art about fascism is almost always making fun of how empty & braindead it is
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when fascist art is good, it's almost always because the artist ended up revealing something that they probably didn't intend to
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so this whole "alt-right is edgy & punk" think comes from a long history of fascists trying to make being a vapid, obedient reactionary hip
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Mishima's works are good because they contain and end with extreme self owns
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yeah the main thing with mishima is he's an incredibly sad incel. like a hot gay ignatius j. reily
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Yeah even sun and steel came from him being shot down while trying to hit on his lover for the first time
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