#sincerely adolf

[ambitious-az-a-outlaw]

#westside gunn #music #hip hop #rap #HITLER WEARS HERMES 8: SINCERELY ADOLF - SIDE B #RIP MF DOOM

[originalleftist]

The US is Israel's greatest ally. It contains about a third of the Jewish people in the world, a close second to Israel itself.

In that country, in 2023, an ally and dinner guest of a former President/major Presidential candidate*, by some polls the front-runner, can openly call for the extermination of Jews, amid a spree of attacks and threats against Jews that reportedly included some 200 swattings and bomb threats to Jewish buildings in ONE DAY, and its barely a blip in the news cycle.

This is happening at the same time that the owner of X (formerly Twitter), one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, has just declared that Jews are spreading "hatred against whites" and flooding Western countries with non-white immigrants- the same "Replacement Theory" that has been cited in the manifestos of multiple mass shooters. And it is happening less than a century after two thirds of Europes' Jews were exterminated in countries they once called home- an atrocity that many still deny or downplay.

Does anyone, ANYONE still question why many Jews might feel that they require their own homeland in order to be safe? Or that defending that homeland at all costs is a matter of survival for them as a people?

None of this justifies the atrocities in Gaza, or the criminality of the Netanyahu regime (something which many Jews both inside and outside of Israel also oppose).

But when seeing the power disparity between Israel and Palestinians, and its horrific effects on Palestinian civilians, it is often forgotten (or deliberately ignored) that in the larger, worldwide picture, Jews are still a small, marginalized, and vulnerable group- perhaps more so now than at any time since the Holocaust (and to state what should be obvious, the existence of some individual wealthy and powerful Jews does not negate this either, any more than Obama's election as president ended anti-Black racism).

So fuck ANYONE who tries, even a little, to downplay or justify antiSemitism, for ANY reason. Or who simply labels Israelis as colonial oppressors while ignoring the long and ongoing history of genocidal persecution against the Jewish people in pretty much every other place that they have tried to call home. And especially fuck those who try to present antiSemitism, and agreeing with Adolf fucking Hitler, as the anti-colonialist, anti-racist position.

*If anyone is questioning Trump's or Republicans' antiSemitism because of their closeness to certain Right-wing Jewish figures or stated support for Israel, it must be understood that the American Right accepting Jews of European ancestry as white is a pretty recent development, and one that, like most of their supposed principles, they have adopted only when it is convenient to them. The Klan is an anti-Jewish (and anti-Catholic) organization as well as an anti-Black one, and the support from evangelical Christians for Israel is founded in a combination of hatred for Arabs/Palestinians/Muslims, geopolitical strategic maneuvering, and a belief that Israel needs to exist to fulfill their apocalypse prophecies so that Jesus can send all the Jews to Hell. It is not based in any sincere sympathy for Jewish people, nor a desire for anything for them but eternal damnation in Hellfire, preceded by slaughter here on Earth.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Nick Fuentes #Donald Trump #Elon Musk #AntiSemitism #Never Again

[theamericanpin-up]

Alberto Vargas - "Miss America" - September 1942 Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Gatefold Illustration – Gatefold # 22 of 63 – Verse by Phil Stack - This lovely creation has earned a vacation For she is a symbol, today, Of all the career girls, those deadly sincere girls Who fought for the old U.S.A.; She’s taken dictation with speed and elation From men who are running the show, And gotten out orders that stream from the borders To cover poor Adolf with woe; She’s not out romancing or dining or dancing … Her heart has already been won, And her recreation throughout the duration Is writing a lad-with-a-gun; So join the cheer for a hard-working dear As she turns from her toil and relaxes, She’s shown we’re a nation that will take dictation - But not if it comes from the Axis!

#alberto vargas #september #1942 #esquire magazine #varga girl #gatefold #illustration #pin up #american pin up

[ridiasfangirlings]

munashiro post-rok, Imagine the big, bright smile on Adolf's face when Reisi finally says ‘I love you’ for the first time to him.

This is another one that’s interesting to think about in the context of Shiro having been flying around in a blimp for decades and not really having these kinds of interactions before. He’s never really dated, even when he was a young man in Germany Shiro was always more interested in his experiments than really getting to know anyone. He was aware that Kokujouji had feelings for his sister and always thought it was interesting in a clinical sort of way, looking at the two of them as if this was some new fun experiment. Klaudia was also aware of how Kokujouji looked at her and used to laugh, telling her brother he’ll understand when he’s older. But now he is older, much much older in years but still very young when it comes to experiences and feelings and mental maturity, and he’s only just started to think about romance. So when Munakata says it, easily and sincerely, those are words Shiro hasn’t thought about in a long long time and suddenly he’s smiling so wide he can’t stop, and he thinks ah, sister, I get it now.

#Munashiro #Talking K #aw this one is kinda sweet #this is the most interesting aspect of any Shiro ship I think #like his time was stopped for so long he hasn't had such things happen before

[elavaleva]

Anne Marie Zilberman - Freya's tears

One of the most reproduced Klimt's unintended fakes demonstrates one time more, as Klimt Adolf Loos said, that "All art is erotic".

(Me for Murder with grace Magazine, 2023)

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V.: well, it was embarassing. I mean writing "never said or wrote" is so an absolute... but you can tell us a different story right? About that day of 1903, in Ravenna, when Klimt became wet in front of you.

Me: I was wearing Theodora that day. Burning like sun while the city around was covered of shit and rain. You know? He was never sure, for all his life, to be able to paint. So I gave him the gold of the easterns and the tesserae of the romans. He put the lust.

V.: mmm... an Adolf Loos could retort this trivial popularization of art was a degeneration or a crime. And let be honest, Me, even you have told more times the form should really follow the function.

Me: I even said that, cancelling the form, you will discover that the space is the locus of the form. And this empty space doesn't stay always the same. Cause the form will shape the emptyness even when the form will be no more and so.. giving enough time, no void in this universe can be similar to another.

V.: what... what are you trying to say, Me?

Me: that you can put a graffiti over a graffiti, over a graffiti, over a graffiti over a billion of graffiti and make an ornament like a flower, wide as a galaxy, where any form strictly follows a function. Like a flower. We name this function "communicate" but it's the empty space shaped by this function, our most pure and sincere act of love.

(Me. Never said or wrote. 2023)

#painting #anne marie zilberman #freya's tears #gustav klimt #klimt #me #art #Adolf Loos #architecture #personal essay

[alpaca-clouds]

We need to talk about the baby Hitler meme

Okay, folks. Somehow this got pushed into my timeline on twitter a lot again recently, so please... Let me talk about the "baby Hitler meme". For those who somehow lived under a rock for the last like 30 years, it goes something like that: "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler when he was still a baby, would you do it?"

There is also an alternate version going around on TikTok with people begging that art academy in Vienna to admit Hitler, so that he wouldn't go into politics.

And... I hate it. Because it is stupid. It is Great Man theory and nothing else. It proposes that if Hitler had not been around that the Nazi party had never risen to power and no holocaust or anything of the like would have happened. And that just... ignores the fault of everyone else.

I am not gonna lie, yeah, sure, there is some evidence that the industrialized killing thing sprang from the mind of Hitler. But folks forget: Hitler got into power by winning an election (after which he then made sure he could not get out of power again). And he won that election because his ideas of demonizing Jewish people, Sinti, Roma, disabled people, queer folks, and Socialists were popular at the time.

There were many reasons for it. Fallout from the first world war, but also stuff connected to the great depression. Folks were struggling and like always when people struggle they look for a scapegoat. And that scapegoat at the time were Jews and socialists. Jews because within most of Europe (and a good chunk of the Arabian world) Jews have been the favorite scapegoats for millennia. And socialists, because... well, global politics at the time.

The holocaust didn't happen because of just Adolf Hitler, but because of a lot of people who were totally into the idea of killing everyone who was different. And because the normal folks in Germany just happily marched along at the time.

As much as Germans today tend to deny it (I am from Germany, I know) most of our ancestors didn't do shit about it. People KNEW what was happening. But 99% of all Germans cheered it on or at least stood idly by watching it happen.

I hate the "baby Hitler" meme, because it acts as if those 99% are innocent and basically goot brain washed by Hitler, who bears sole responsibility. And that is bullshit. Everyone was guilty. Something, something, all that needs to happen for evil to persist is for the good people to stand by and do nothing.

People voted for the Nazi party. People voted for Hitler. People wanted those marginalized folks to die.

Would the Holocaust as this big industrial killing thing would have happened without Hitler? Nobody knows. Because we cannot travel in time.

But the meme sucks, because it acts as if everyone else was not an accomplice in it.

Sincerely,

A German whose grandparents were all Nazi folks, who hopefully are in hell right now

#rant #history #germany #from germany #ww2 #antisemitism #shoah #hate crime #historical revisionism

[animehouse-moe]

The Ancient Magus' Bride S2 Episode 1: Live and Let Live

A bit of a background for those that don't know. Studio Kafka is the team behind MahoYome S2, they handled one of the OVAs before tackling this full season, and they are an offshoot of WIT. This is their first full on production, and a sequel to a series that many have a strong affinity towards. Does this first episode live up to the expectations that WIT put in place, and does the new staff heading it up manage to keep things in check while providing their own style?

In short, I would say, "Very nearly so". I wouldn't say that they immediately manage to deliver on what fans are hoping for from them, but I also wouldn't say it's a let down in any sense of the word. It inhabits a state of limbo, as viewers wait with bated breath for a definitive slip up or success, neither of which is immediately apparent in this first episode.

So, allow me to address the elephant in the room: CGI. Yeah, that's about the extent of the challenges in this first episode (aside from some sound mixing issues that appear in one or two scenes). Surprisingly, it's not really anything like direction or design or art or anything like that, as the people in roles like character or color designer have carried over from WIT's tenure with the series. Anyways, The CGI doesn't blend all that well, the compositing is far from atrocious, but the moment it appears you immediately think, "ah yeah, that's CGI" in a sort of resigned fashion.

But I think that's all that needs to be said about that. There's struggles, certainly, but Kafka is making the best use of what they have on hand. Their CGI expertise might not be absolutely incredible, but I think it's palatable enough for them to use it wherever so that they can put more effort into the other, more important pieces of the episode.

So let me move onto direction then. It's a new director, you can't really avoid challenges in the gear change from something so massive. It's not MahoYome S1, for sure, but with what we've seen I'm quite liking Kazuki's approach.

Though it's at risk of not being incredibly unique, I think it meshes very well with the overall tone and sentiment of MahoYome. From this first episode we can see what amounts to creative aggression. Intense camera angles, plenty of closeups, and lots of slow yet wide motions.

We're largely focused on eyes and feet in this episode, as they convey the emotions and thoughts of the characters more than their facial expressions manage. We're shown the backs of characters as they converse, their feet or shadows as they walk and talk. Much of the content is expressed through these close up moments, peeling back the superficial layer that decorates the story and characters to provide a more sincere look. Now, this has almost nothing to do with what I said, but take the following scene as an example.

The overall layout is quite solid, showing that the conversation is predominantly involving Adolf and Chise, while Elias is left as a bystander to the whole affair. Going even further than that is how Adolf is "above" Chise in the scene, asserting the authority and relationship between the pair rather naturally. It's a really natural showing of the understanding and underlying expression that the characters have throughout the episode, but maybe I should show examples of what I did say earlier.

Aside from being Sakuga of course, this little scene is a really nice way to show how the nurse (Alexandra Heath) is treating Chise. She comes off very personable and responsive, but at the end of the day she is an employee of the college and will act as one. It works even better considering the fact that Alexandra doesn't have regular human eyes, so the emotion ends up conveyed through scenes like this one.

Then there's stuff like this scene with Elias, putting his hand to his chest where we can't see his face. Elias is another prime candidate for Kazuki's direction since he doesn't have any facial expressions. Regardless, this simple action allows the episode to express the feeling of unease Elias has, and how scared he is despite not being able to really express it in words.

And there's even scenes that speak to the obvious, like this one. Starting on Chise's left eye, it draws the viewer towards the talking point that Elizabeth makes.

Okay okay, one last example because I love it. This one is really incredible because, it's both a literal and figurative reflection of Chisa. She's getting cold feet meeting her roommate, of all things. Why would that be? Well, the episode answers in kind, explaining that Chise's had a very hard time with friends and school. So, the reflection of herself that is starting back at her is the materialization of those glares and stares she got when she was a child, the very thing she fears in meeting her roommate.

I think that about explains Kazuki's choice in direction, and I'd say it's one I'm already very comfortable with. The expression of emotions, and the challenge of doing so (particularly with Chise and Elias) is exactly the crux and driving force of MahoYome. Latching onto it and making the most of it is certainly something I'm happy to see, as it shows just how well the source material is understood.

Now, this might come as a surprise, but I've only read up until the end of the first season in the manga, so season 2 is all new material to me. Because of that, there's so much I'm learning and picking up about it already.

Firstly, I'm really loving the sort of reset button we've got going on with Chise. It's hard to continually amp a story up and up, so opting to circle back to what is usually seen as a beginning is really nice, especially given Chise's mental and emotional state now. She wants more, she wants to make friends and be happy, she wants to become more selfish.

This first episode really sells that sentiment quite well, as she's able to do things like talk with Alexandra about some of the side effects and issues she faces with being a Sleigh Beggy, and cursed by two different entities.

Both Chise and Elias have come a far way from where they stood in season 1, and the story does a great job of expressing that. Rather than jealousy that someone else is spending time with Chise, or taking her away from him, Elias is scared of losing Chise. It's a small difference going from jealousy to fear, but it speaks to the great bounds of emotional development that Elias has gone through to arrive here. I certainly wouldn't call it more complex, but I would say that it's a far more mature response on his part, serving as a great opposition to Chise's more childlike nature appearing.

It's interesting, Elias is progressing with their emotional state, while Chise is attempting to regress somewhat, though building from nothing is easier than rebuilding from something. The two stories together create a really great dichotomy though, so I'm looking forward to seeing how things go as Chise begins to associate and relate to more people around her age.

And I think the last little thing I'll settle on is the world. I love the world of MahoYome, it's incredibly rich with magic, but has more than its share of dangers. It's both wide and deep, so you never know when you might fall off an edge and be reminded of the nature of magic in this series. Even take something as simple as the dorm matrons (who are cats). Whimsical and cute for sure, but they provide moments and dialogue that speak against that superficial nature (much like other magical entities have before). It really adds a unique air to the appeal of the world.

So that's the first episode of MahoYome, not quite the first season, but far from a fall from grace. There's still lots of undecided aspects and pieces to the series, but this first episode does well to strike at the heart of MahoYome while providing a different approach to it.

#ancient magus bride #mahoyome #mahoutsukai no yome #chise hatori #elias ainsworth #studio kafka #wit studio #anime recommendation #anime review #anime and manga #anime

[nekropsii]

same anon, tried to dig elsewhere after realizing the document shared with me was gone (either doc itself was deleted or their account was deleted), it's possible it was a type of social media QnA type thing, but I distinctly remember finding that line from having more of a fixation on the dancestors however, I found more evidence of Hussie making light of/parodying the Holocaust in Homestuck through the files found in the "Skaianet Systems Incorporated" website he made, where he made it canon in Homestuck that Grandpa Harley increased powers in Germany because Adolf "wouldn't get off his back" when HIC was gone and let the Holocaust happen might be more-common info throughout the fandom (enough to be on the fandom wiki), but I just now found this out I'll still try to find what I originally messaged about though

Damn, it being gone really complicates things for the both of us, huh? Fuck. I really hate how temporary these kinds of things are. Seriously, the Internet is forever right until you actually need it to be... I think we can still do this though, if your memory is serving correctly.

Okay, so, from my basic searches of what was archived in the Unofficial Homestuck Collection, I couldn’t find it… So that crosses out Formspring, Blogspot, and Tumblr- unless I missed something, which is entirely plausible. If it was a social media QnA, maybe it was on Twitter? This might be a time to bust out the Wayback Machine.

Also, yeah. There’s two main reasons why Skaianet Systems Incorporated isn’t spoken of much at all… One: it’s a relatively obscure chapter in Homestuck’s story, and two: it fucking sucks so bad, dog. Without trying to sound assumptive, it felt almost like a regression..? There seemed to be some tangible difference between 2000’s Hussie and 2019 Hussie, but Skaianet Systems Incorporated really proved otherwise. The whole thing feels very 2000’s in the worst way possible. It’s really disgusting, and I’m glad it’s documented. No one even has the excuse of time period due to it being put up in fucking 2019. Yes, it’s unacceptable regardless of the year, but at the very least that train of “humor” was…. Pretty normalized back in 2000-2012. As unfortunately as that may be.

Side note, regarding Skaianet: Hussie’s persona is so sturdily built in irony that you genuinely can’t tell if they’re improving or not. You can’t really tell anything about this guy- I’ve never seen someone so seemingly allergic to sincerity. It’d be genuinely impressive how difficult they’ve made themself to read if it weren’t for the fact that it was also just so fucking aggravating. You can genuinely start thinking to yourself that Hussie has changed, but the moment that you do that, you activate him and he immediately starts pulling the worst shit you’ve ever seen.

That said, I believe in you, Anon. I’ll run through what’s saved on the Unofficial Homestuck Collection to see if I can find anything even just remotely related or worthwhile. Godspeed.

#homestuck #homestuck meta #homestuck analysis #skaianet systems incorporated #andrew hussie #cw racism #cw antisemitism #nekro.pdf #nekro.sms

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

what godforsaken corner of twitter did the comparisons between napoleon and adolf fucking hitler, ye’s new boyfriend, come from? because iirc, one of them spread those good vibes 👌🏼👌🏼 towards jews, and the other gassed millions of them and worked millions more to death ???? like what???

uggh gross.

So, I haven't seen what's on twitter lately, mostly because I've really taken a step back from the platform over the last year or so. It's a cesspit and I hate everyone on it (barring my friends who I love).

However, the comparing Napoleon to Hitler is an old nonsense that's been going on for years and it's a real fucking piss off. It absolutely comes from the fact that Napoleon represents strong, centralized state power and is, obviously, associated with years of war in Europe (who started what, where, and when is a discussion for elsewhere). The supposed analogy to Hitler is drawn by those who literally know only the previous two points about Napoleon.

Aside from, like, Napoleon's reputation (dude's fine), the bigger issue, the more important issue, is how it trivializes what Hitler did and all he represents. It's harmful and hurtful to survivors and their decendents, and all Jews everywhere, and it's an absolute fucking pissoff.

The holocaust and Hitler are not things to throw around as edgy internet points - whether in an attempt to slag off Napoleon (please people, the man has enough shit in his legacy, you don't need to bring Hitler into it), or in an attempt to idk, grant Hitler some edge of "legitimacy" or "he's just like others" or something.

I hate this garbage. Fuck all that noise.

gross gross gross

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Some stuff on Napoleon and Jews

[Disclaimer: I'm not Jewish, nor is this area of Napoleon's reign a speciality of mine, so I may get things wrong, or not-quite-right. Sincere apologies in advance. Please feel free to add on or correct me if I put my foot in it.]

Napoleon's relationship with the Jewish community in France was complicated, as these things usually are in the late 18th and early 19th century Europe. Especially when undertaken by a child of Revolution and Enlightenment who was still cultrually Catholic (though, his faith and associated beliefs were complex and changed over the course of his life) and grew up within all the anti-semetic baggage that was part and parcel of European life at that time (and still is, in many respects, today).

Note: Historians are all over the place on Napoleon’s views, whether he hated the Jews or not, whether he was purely out for his own gain or not, whether there was any altruism present or not. People are very, very, very heated about the subject - which makes sense. Just like, as a general flag. 

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Some of the first laws in France that emancipate the Jews came into effect during the French Revolution - so they pre-date Napoleon's assencion to power by a good few years. E.g., the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789, granted freedom of religion and worship, provided that it did not contradict public order.

Napoleon himself kept these laws, building some aspects of them into the Code. In countries he conquered, he emancipated the local Jewish population - all as part of his effort to further spread the French Revolutionary ideals then, later, the French Imperial ideals.

The big thing Napoleon's famous for is revoking the laws that required Jews to reside within ghettos thus enabling them to rent or own property with greater liberty than previously experienced. In 1807, Napoleon passed a law designating Judaism one of the official religions in France alongside Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinist Protestants (i.e., Hugenots). He also opened up previously restricted occupations and broadened the economic opportunities of the Jewish community.

Napoleon had the national Israelite Consistory established which served as a centralized authority for Jewish religious, economic, and community life within France (Napoleon loved centralized authorities). There were regional Consistories as well that answered to the national one. The Consistories were all run by a board composed entirely of Jews, appointed by the local prefect (who would not have been Jewish). So it was a blend of Jewish autonomy and independence yet structured within Napoleon's top-down approach to government (as the prefect would have been one of Napoleon's appointments/his hiring would have been informed by Napoleon's preferences).

An unintended benefit of Napoleon mucking around in Europe was that he broke up many of the existing caste systems simply by steam rolling in and saying "alright, have the Code Napoleon." Through the dissolution of these systems, and the political values/regulations imposed via Napoleon's takeovers, life, broadly speaking, improved for Jews - especially in the Rhineland and other areas of the Germanies and states subsumed into France. As always, though, YMMV and this is brush strokes. 

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However. It's always more complicated than just "only good(ish) things." 

As noted, Napoleon was a Christian-acculturated man born in 1769 and this reflects in his approach towards Jews and his policies and the motiviations behind said policies. 

Napoleon was keen on creating an integrated, somewhat unified French society and identity, with French language and cultural norms being the dominate traits that people should embody. The concept of national identity was still, broadly, in its infancy in 1800 but he was certainly a proponent of it.** So, while Jews were liberated from the ghettos, Napoleon expected them to assimilate into French society - which he thought meant giving up some of their religious and cultural traditions. 

In addition, Napoleon still restricted where Jews could migrate within the French Empire, which was done in tandem with his attempt to end, or at least greatly restrict, Jewish money lending. Again, all tied to attempts to support assimilation. 

Money lending had, historically, been one of the few trades open to Jews in Europe (e.g., Venice limited Jews to money lending and selling of second hand items. They could practice as doctors only with a special papal dispensation which required sponsorship from a respected patron - usually bishop or cardinal, sometimes a nobleman or patrician) and Napoleon was concerned, in typical anti-semetic style, that Jews were taking advantage of their customers. 

Napoleon was also seeking to try and push Jews into new professions - primarily the trades and agriculture - so there was a focus in his regulations to encourage Jews to pursue farming or artisinal trades, among other things. Again, again, assimilation - but it’s also informed by the fact that France’s economy by 1806/08 was showing signs of slowing down and Napoleon was attempting to stall this. His restrictions on migration, I believe, were revoked in 1811 and the remainder of the restrictions ended when the Infamous Decree of 1808 was not renewed (during the Bourbon restoration). 

Another negative impact was the loss of Jewish naming traditions. In his effort to make the world’s largest bureaucracy, Napoleon began requiring people to have surnames. Not necessarily a common thing at the time, and he had certain rules about the names people could choose. For Jews, they couldn’t pick anything from the Torah, nor could they use town names, and these restirctions - along with the entire requirement itself - led to a loss of Jewish naming practices in these regions, at least outwardly. How communities worked to maintain these traditions within themselves is another story. 

In addition, while the Jews had far greater freedom to worship than previously experienced, some of the aspects of their relgious life remained regulated - though it was via the Consistory system previously mentioned. The actual day-to-day impact of this on religious and cultural life for France’s Jews, I don’t know. I’m sure someone’s done a study on it though. 

(**Napoleon was generally pro-immigration and believed it didn't matter "what side of the Rhine" a person was born on, if they wanted to be French they were French. However, they were expected to assimilate into to French society, to super over simplify his stance. I've a post somewhere in my backlog about Napoleon's immigration stuff. [Insert obligatory disclaimer about applying broad statements and how it's always way more complex and nuanced etc. etc.])

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On a personal level, who knows what Napoleon actually thought about Jews and what he was hoping to attain as a final outocme of his various legislations. Some of his quotes say he was aiming for full integration to the point where Jews are no longer visibly distinct (clothing, culture, language, food etc.). Some was just more general “I just want everyone to be French(tm) but otherwise, so long as you pay taxes, I don’t care”. 

I suspect it was a mix since, in terms of extant quotes, he swings in his motivations, his views, his expectations. There are quotes where he's quite anti-semetic (see some of his comments in 1806) and ones where he's not as bad.

I don’t think he’s every wholly not anti-semetic - even his better statements are still tinged with it. Which, unfortunately, was par for the course of most people at that time. He wasn’t virulent or violent, the way some were (and are), but the broad anti-semetism of the time was certainly in him.  

That said, Napoleon valued his appearance of being a liberator and understood the importance of having people On Side, which impacted his regulatory and legislative decisions. I also think he did believe in some of the old values of the Revolution. There was an idealist streak in him that came out from time to time and was, to my reading, truly earnest.

It's also important, for the sake of context, to note that in passing a lot of his more liberatory laws, he pissed off powerful groups. As emperor, he was always balancing different political interests of many parties - both internal and external to France - and this does need to be taken into account. Many of his actions, as they pertain to the Jews, would have been seen by much of Europe at the time as quite revolutionary (even if today we look at it and go "some of this was good, some of this was not good"). So there was some sticking-his-neck-out-a-bit. 

Some of the powers-that-be, such as Austria, Russia, England, were opposed to Napoleon's approach to his Jewish subjects, not to mention internal-to-France powers and pressures. It's all a balancing act in a situation that could be a powder-keg.

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In exile, Napoleon's doctor Barry O'Maera asked about his reasons for "encouraging the Jew so much" (to use O'Maera's words) and Napoleons' response really was a balance of different motives - some good, some YIKES, some anti-semetic, some pragamtic, some a clear carry over of revolutionary ideals etc.:

I wanted to make them leave off usury, and become like other men. There were a great many Jews in the countries I reigned over ; by removing their disabilities [i.e., their legal restrictions], and by putting them upon an equality with Catholics, Protestants, and others, I hoped to make them become good citizens, and conduct themselves like others of the community. I believe I should have succeeded in the end. My reasoning with them was, that, as their rabbis explained to them, that they ought not to practise usury to their own tribes, but were allowed to do so with Christians and others, that, therefore, as I had restored them to all their privileges, and made them equal to my other subjects, they must consider me the head of their nation, like Solomon or Herod, and my subjects as brethren of a tribe similar to theirs. That, consequently, they were not permitted to practise usury with me or them, but to treat us as if we were of the tribe of Judah. By this, I gained many soldiers. Besides, I should have drawn great wealth to France as the Jews are very numerous, and would have flocked to a country where they enjoyed such superior privities. Moreover, I wanted to establish an universal liberty of conscience. My system was to have no predominent religion, but to allow perfect liberty of conscious and of thought. To make all men equal, whether Protestant, Catholics, Mahometans [Muslims], Deists, or others ... [Napoelon then goes on to talk about making government independent of religion and the strong importance of separation of church and state. Napoleon was particularly keen on ridding the Catholic Church of their power within state/civic happenings.] - A Voice from St. Helena, Barry O'Meara, p. 183

[I broke out the paragraphs for easier reading. It's one block in the original.]

As always, with exile memoirs, Napoleon is structuring his legacy and trying to create a specific image of himself. That said, I think this is one of the times where I believe what he said does reflect, more or less, his motives and his thinking back during the height of Empire.

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Anyway - I hope this helps add some nuance to the Napoleon & Jews thing - though written by a non-expert. And yeah, comparing Napoleon to Hitler is bunk history and people should know that by now.

But I will end by again emphasizing that it is disgusting and disrespectiful, if not outright harmful, to throw Hitler and the Holocaust around as edge internet points. That is the real issue here, not Napoleon's reputation.

The real issue is, always is, the anti-semetism.

#can of worms! can of worms! #anti-semetism #Napoleon bonaparte #ask #reply #anon #history #napoleonic #jewish history #19th century #holocaust mention #shoah mention

[fovarosiblog]

Desewffy u. 6., Budapest

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Image: Oswald Mosley and his wife, Diana Mitford, marches with his Black Shirts to the East End of London (1936).

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Bertrand Russell's dignified and forceful refusal to debate a British fascist — a return letter to Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, written after a series of provoking correspondences from Mosley for the 89 year old Russell to engage in public "talks" in which Oswald thought he could persuade the moral philosopher of the merits of fascism. "I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us." Bertrand Russell (1962) [ FULL CITATION ] Dear Sir Oswald, Thank you for your letters and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism. I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us. I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement. Yours sincerely, Bertrand Russell 

Mosely rose to fame in the 1920s as a Member of Parliament. In the 1930s he became leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF). The BUF was protectionist, anti-communist, anti-semitic, anti-zionist and nationalistic political party to the point of advocating an authoritarian racist police state, characteristics that closely mirrored Adolf Hitler's National Socialism. The party's embrace of Nazi-style anti-semitism in 1935-36 led to increasingly violent anti-fascist confrontations, notably the 1936 Battle of Cable Street in London's East End. Soon after Mosley went on a "study tour" of Mussolini and other fascists, and returned convinced that "... fascism was the only road forward for Britain". Mosely and Mitford were married in secret in Nazi Germany on 6 October 1936 at the Berlin home of Germany's Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. Adolf Hitler was their guest of honour. Immediately before the Battle of Britain (May 1940), Mosley was imprisoned and the BUF outlawed. He was released in 1943, and, politically and publicly disgraced by his close association with fascism, moved abroad in 1951, spending most of the remainder of his life in Paris, France. Mosley was a key pioneer in the emergence of Holocaust denial. While not outrightly denying the existence of Nazi concentration camps, he claimed that they were a necessity to hold "a considerable disaffected population" where problems were caused by lack of supplies due to "incessant and criminal bombings" by the Allies, with bodies burned due to typhus outbreaks. He also confusingly claimed while the Holocaust did not occur as understood, the deaths were to be blamed on the Jews, and even more in historical error, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was innocent of moral responsibility since "he knew nothing about it". He criticised the Nuremberg trials as "a zoo and a sex peep show". Mosely stood for Parliament twice in the postwar era, achieving very little support. In 2006, BBC History Magazine selected Mosley as the worst and most hated Briton in 1000 years

#history #fascist #Bertrand Russell #holocaust denial #Mosley

[ambitious-az-a-outlaw]

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[siflshonen]

manga recommendations. What are your favorite mangas?

Naoki Urasawa’s Monster and Pluto (no, you don’t need to read Astro Boy first but it’s fun if you have)

Mob Psycho 100

March Comes In Like a Lion/Sangetsu no Lion

Rurouni Kenshin (death of the author. And many of the iconic parts were his wife’s idea anyway. This one gets a little tired as all shonen do near the end but I do sincerely love it.)

Astro Boy and Message to Adolf (but damn is it a hard read sometimes)

There’s more but that’s what’s coming to me right now in this moment.

#all my work models Urasawa’s in terms of pacing and whole-hog embrace meant of melodrama #I’m nowhere near as good #I know it and I don’t care #dragon ball I experienced as an anime #there’s a few other titles in that category too #ask

[hiswordsarekisses]

It is written in our Scriptures: “The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek; God is not in any of his thoughts” (Psalm 10:4). Indeed the willful denial of reality is an affront to heaven, contempt shown for the gift of life, and sacrilege of all that is worthy (Psalm 14). It is sheer folly to regard life apart from the fear of the LORD, for that is reishit chokhmah (רֵאשִׁית חָכְמָה) - the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10). The existence of God as the Almighty Creator and Moral Lawgiver is therefore First Principle of all sound reasoning regarding reality. The so-called “postmodern world” is notorious for failing to explain anything of substantive meaning. Everything is left unexplained; no “metanarrative” (i.e., “worldview” or “totalizing” philosophy) is permitted; no logical connections to a “real world” are sound; there is no grand “story” to our lives, and therefore postmodernism entirely misses the essential point of everything.

King David asked, “Who shall abide before the Presence of the LORD?” and the Spirit replied: “the one who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart” (Psalm 15:2). It is the one who is honest – “the one who speaks truth within his heart” (דבֵר אֱמֶת בִּלְבָבוֹ) that dwells in the “tent of the LORD,” for God is called the God of Truth (אֵל אֱמֶת), and the Faithful God (אֵל אֱמוּנָה). In heaven there is only the language of truth, and truth is the language of heaven. The “pure in heart” – that is, those who accept the truth of their inner condition, who acknowledge their lost condition, mourning over their lives, and who humbly find themselves starving for God’s deliverance – these are the ones who shall behold God (Matt. 5:2-6). In this connection Blaise Pascal wrote: "I can feel nothing but compassion for those who sincerely lament their doubt, who regard it as the ultimate misfortune, and who, sparing no effort to escape from it, make their search their principal and most serious business. But as for those who spend their lives without a thought for this final end, I view differently. This negligence in the matter where they themselves, their eternity, their all are at stake, fills me more with irritation than pity: yea, it astounds and appalls me” (Pensees).

Postmodern Christianity is a phenomena of despair. By "despair," however, I do not mean "gloom" or "dejection," but rather an absurdist anti-intellectualism that derived from the loss of hope regarding obtaining real knowledge about the world. In popular culture, we see that this despair arose just after WWI (in the USA, some time earlier in Europe), though its roots trace back to the epistemological skepticism of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1784-1804), who posited "limits" to the mind's ability to know reality by defining a chasm between apparent reality (phenomena) and hidden reality (noumena). The realm of phenomena was open to inspection using the methods of reason, science, etc., whereas the realm of the “numinous” was only "managed" by positing transcendental "categories" to help lend order to the unknown. Kant's doctrine opened the door to various forms of irrationalism, since all the meaningful aspects of life (love, meaning, hope in afterlife, freedom, the existence of God, etc.) were relegated to the murky world of the unknown, leaving us with only a world of "managed appearances" to traffic in as human beings in the world.

GW Hegel (1770-1831) took the next step and speculated wildly above Kant's uncrossable line. The phenomenal world (Zeitgeist) was "really" a manifestation of Absolute Spirit working its way out through "dialectic" in the space-time world. Later Karl Marx (1818-1883) rejected the idea of Spirit and substituted material forces (i.e., economics) as the engine that drove historical processes. Nietzsche and his intellectual heir Adolf Hitler soon became "true believers" of such irrationalism... Derrida, Foucault and other “postmodernists”celebrated the loss of intelligibility as a political opportunity to ”reconstruct” reality as subjective preference.

The division of rational and irrational modes of encountering reality opened the door for absurdist encounters with the spirit realm. Hence we see the rise of neo-paganism, witchcraft, various forms of the occult (including pop-Kabbalah), new-age thinking, and also in extreme forms of “charismatic” Christianity and the ongoing apostasy of American “Evangelicalism.” Since God cannot be understood using reason, He is known only through the experience of mystery. Faith is therefore expressed by rejecting rationality and embracing the ludicrous, and appeals to logic and clear thinking are rejected. Epistemological nihilism is symptomatic of the despair of the "postmodern" age. [Hebrew for Christians]

[ridiasfangirlings]

Munashiro, Adolf always wanted to go on late night walks but was too nervous to do so alone, Reisi then decides to make a date out of it and they go on a midnight walk holding hands.

Okay but it’s not like he’s gonna be mugged or anything XD Maybe going out for late night walks reminds Shiro just a little too much of when he was still hiding in the blimp, looking out over the city at night and only stopping when he saw that small glowing ‘candle’ in the dark. Going out for a walk late at night makes him think about that time too much, but at the same time he also always feels kinda relaxed just looking at the night sky. One day there’s a late meeting and Munakata spots Shiro staring out the window. Munakata thinks Shiro’s expression is unexpectedly lonely and Shiro laughs sheepishly, waving a hand. Shiro says he’s just waiting on a taxi, that it would be a bit silly to walk alone at night like this when he could just get a ride home. 

Munakata reaches over to take his hand and suggests they walk together then. It’s late and he doesn’t wish to bother anyone by calling a car so he intended to walk home anyway, and isn’t a late night walk more enjoyable when done together. Shiro says Munakata doesn’t have to do that and Munakata says he wants to, asking again if Shiro will accompany him. Shiro figures he can’t turn down such a polite request and agrees. As soon as they’re outside he takes a deep breath, just taking in the night air, and Munakata squeezes his hand lightly. Shiro looks over at him and Munakata is smiling back, calmly and sincerely, and now suddenly that late night walk feels just as comfortable and warm as Shiro had hoped it would.

#Munashiro #Talking K #I mean if anyone's gonna be safe walking at night #imagine them enjoying the night air together and Shiro looks up #the night sky looks better when someone is next to you

[cyarskaren52]

Really in all sincerity, fuckk Joy Reid. She can get all the smoke. https

This show be like (recently): “Next week an exclusive interview with adolf Hitler ghost on the current state of Germany years after his death “

just don’t watch her show anymore okay thanks

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