300: Hamilton of the Alt-Right

>The Persian side, on the other hand, looks like a lot more fun; the orgy pit, which we’re apparently supposed to see as some sort of appalling gender-fluid hell, looks like a more pleasant place than anywhere in Sparta. We see the emperor Xerxes as a 9-foot dandy with a seductive foghorn for a voice and a face full of jangling piercings

>But 300 is also an influential movie in another, more insidious way. There’s a great recent episode of the Chapo Trap House podcast in which the hosts discuss 300 as “the ur-text of the alt-right,” as “Hamilton for neo-fascists.” It’s a compelling argument. This is a movie that makes a grand, mythic spectacle out of the whole defending-the-white-homeland trope, and if you look at the YouTube comments on any of the scenes above, you will witness some serious human ugliness. It would be a pretty big stretch to blame 300 for Donald Trump or whatever, but the movie really did lionize the heroic white warriors fighting to repel the endless dark-skinned hordes—to, in the gravelly narrator’s words, “rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny.” (Oh no! Mysticism!) This sort of bullshit did help establish a world where Donald Trump could be elected president, and it deserves to be remembered for that. It’s an influential movie in all the wrong possible ways. It’s our Birth Of A Nation.

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>i/pol/ thread
even this shithole of a board has higher standards than that, which is really saying something

>chapo trap house

If you have friends or family who listen to this, never speak to them again

Hi Tom

>Chapo Trap House

the fac of a man who wants orgies with 9 foot tall dark skinned men

Le Sup Forums boogeyman threads are getting out of hand

The irony is this could be real

>This sort of bullshit did help establish a world where Donald Trump could be elected president,

These fucktards are so far up their own ass

Why can't you just accept that we've won the culture wars? Even your far-right president is a staunch ally of our tribe. We've marked your genitals, and we've marked your mind. You are ours. You are mine.

Zach must be held accountable for this Shoah

Fellow tribesman here, ready to stand against the “Persians”
Hope Trump keeps shitting on Iran. Win-win

Yeah no fucking shit right-wingers idolize Leonidas.

youtube.com/watch?v=q7vbi6c6ePQ

This isn't exactly new.

>Chapo Trap House

Reminder that McCarthy unironically did nothing wrong

A year ago I wouldn’t have agreed with you
Then I listened to Chapo once

>Chapo Trap House
I expected nothing and yet am still disappointed. What's their average t-level, like 5?

>and if you look at the YouTube comments
their entire thesis rests upon youtube comments made by 14 year old boys.

>trump won because racism
>trump won because sexism
>because misogyny
>because rape culture
>because islamophobia
>because gamergate
>because fragile white males
>because neo-nazis
>because cletus
>because the DNC betrayed hillary
>beacause the media favored trump
>300 is why trump won

It's like they never want another democrat president ever again. What's next, rubik's cube is why Trump won? Because you solve a rubik's cube by separating the colors from each other and it uses math, which is misogynist

14 year old boys on youtube is like 50 percent of the alt right

their soycast is perfect bc it hilariously illustrates how fake and awkward it is when progressives try to be edgy

See THIS SHIT? This is why Snyder can't get good reviews. Now of course INB4 someone says the movies are shit but I am telling you, SJW critics have always had it out for Snyder and are rooting for him to fail.

>The Persian side, on the other hand, looks like a lot more fun; the orgy pit, which we’re apparently supposed to see as some sort of appalling gender-fluid hell, looks like a more pleasant place than anywhere in Sparta

>Chapo Trap House

Leftists trying to understand how conservatives think is hilarious.

Alt-Right = Buzzword

>Chapo Trap House
pic related is their official pic. That's how they present themselves to the world.

Underrated post

>these are the people whinging about neckbeards on the internet
Holy lack of fucking self awareness Batman

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I expected absolutely nothing less.

But a podcast with three white males? How problematic is that? They couldn't find one WOC? Are they aware of what year it is?

>Chapo Trap House

it's 100% projection, all the numales who ranted against muhsoginy who turn out to be rapists

They keep bitching about racism then call non leftist coloureds "uncle toms", literally call them uncle toms in public

that guy looks just like those freaks on Sup Forums though

sort of unrelated, but heres a cspan thing about how the hollywood ten and trumbo deserved what they got

youtube.com/watch?v=D8-yGo4z7pU

>anonymous board
>everyone there look like freaks!

>completely ignoring the scenes showing Xerxes genociding a whole city and pinning every corpse to a large tree in favor of spewing an irrelevant agenda
What is this vile garbage?

>alt right

>tfw i get called an uncle tom for being an ex-muslim
>by a socialist
I'm not exaggerating that

the cumboys should be getting chapo's money instead

have you seen those meet-up pics lol? they're all the same. pasty faces, balding, shitty beards.

the funniest thing is that they all complain about "cuck glasses", but they're just as common on those pics. they have 0 self awareness.

But the movie was based on a comic, which was in turn based on the stories of Herodotus.
Herodotus is famous for exaggerating history for dramatic effect and playing to his audience: Greeks.
Of course the Greeks are going to be portrayed as unambiguous heroes, valiantly defending their homeland. And of course Persians are portrayed as this weird, alien, perverse, dirty horde with no freedom and only a parody of civilization.

Maybe they don't care that much about looks.

Generation Zyklon?

What's ironic is that Spartans practiced cuckoldry. They were literally Cucks.

what meet up pics you retard

one single NYC meetup with 10 of HWNDUs attention whores?

Gen Z is generally quite right wing

Yet they constantly try to denigrate their """enemies""" based off looks. While comically looking the exact same as the people they're insulting.

They also liked to buttfuck each other. They were a pretty degenerate lot

you need to realize that leftist now arent a political group, they are a religious group

SJW and alt right are the exact same types of people, they have all the same knowledge and concern for bullshit issues, the same lack of career and life and derive the same malicious joy from fucking over the people on the opposite team.

>Chapo Trap House

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They also liked to butt fuck young boys.
And they were an authoritarian monarchy that gave no shits about freedom or democracy.

wtf? I love communism and hate white people now!

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I remember when 300 originally came out, Sup Forums condemned it as zionist propaganda and claimed muh iran is being demonized

“numale” “genderlord” “soyboy” left to right

Sup Forums didn't exist in 2004 you retard

Snyder is Jewish and a big Israel supporter (why do you think he insisted on Gal Gadot?)

300 came at a time when Israel was pushing for a confrontation with Iran. It's no coincidence Snyder made the movie at that time.

The left actually holds Israel accountable these days, unlike the right.

Sure, it's just that the left doesn't hold Islam accountable.

Sure, but generally wealthy and successful thought leaders look better than the unwashed masses who follow them
Look at Milo or Lauren Southern or even Taylor or Spencer and then look at the Chapo boys, Vox staff, or Michael Moore

You’re kidding yourself if you don’t realize the difference

In reality a Persian invasion into Greece would have advanced European civilization and would likely have resulted in better propagation of Greek philosophy and created institutions to develop and support it and do translations.

Good thing 300 didn't come out in 2004 then

OP here. I’m Jewish, goy. Why the sweet fuck would any conservative take issue with shitting on Iran?

Alexander taking over their empire did the same thing but better and without Xerxes' boot on their throat.

>Snyder is Jewish

Snyder is not jewish, and he is also a devout christian

When has he ever insisted on Gal Gadot ?

Doesnt Chapo Trap house regularly get called out by their fans for being "problematic" while also trying to act as authorities on comedy?

>Why the sweet fuck would any conservative take issue with shitting on Iran?

Because even the conservatives are getting tired of their sons dying overseas in wars that only exist to benefit Israel and the weapons industry.

Snyder is Jewish on his moms side, and was raised Christian

Karl Marx was also only half Jewish but raised Christian and he's always called a Jew

Of course. Trying to make an "edgy" leftist podcast in the current year is a fool's errand. There's so many Trump and wypeepo jokes you can make.

Yeah. They claim to be the "dirtbag left", but you can't really have any grit when your audience is made up of pussies who get triggered when they hear the word "tard".

>Christman
>looks like Amazing Atheist sans banana
hmm

Is there anyway I can listen to their podcast without paying $5 to their patreon?

Nonsense, Alexander destroyed institutions and did not build shit during his whole rule. He destroyed libraries and educational institutions and did not rebuild or build a single one. All he cared about was war. He did a way worse job of actually governing compared to Xerxes.

I want his input about whether or not going to the Oracle was advantageous to Leonidas

Alexander destroyed Greek institutions and introduced total authoritarian monarchy to Europe.

yeah, their whole shtick doesnt make sense. Its almost like they are trying to be the left wing MDE or something, and I've noticed in general that really left wing people are trying to play catch up with the right wing in terms of having an online cool and fun subculture, but their puritanical ID politics make it impossible and they always end up being nothing more than christian rock tier if that makes sense.

Wtf I love 300 now

>chap trap house

Anyway.

He's right.

>This sort of bullshit did help establish a world where Donald Trump could be elected president

The Greek states bravely defending Europe from an Oriental Onslaught is why we have western civilization and democracy today.

>and it deserves to be remembered for that.

Definitely.

It shouldn't be surprising that ugly fucks, who have gotten the short end of the stick their whole lives, hate the society they live in and thus critique it endlessly.

But for some reason this is a point most people like to ignore

>Snyder is Jewish on his moms side, and was raised Christian

Bullshit, his mother Marsha Reeves has no jewish ethnicity, and neither does his dad. Why are you making shit up ?

Yeah i get what you're talking about. You just can't be counter-culture when you have to think about "who am i going to offend with this" with every fucking word that you're saying.

>destroyed libraries
>Alexandria

Snyder is the most Jewish American name there is

Well, you left out the part where the Arabs kept classical Greek teachings alive while Europe was going through several centuries of warlords and monarchy.

He did not build it and it's only the city that was named after him. The library had nothing to do with him.

The obese one on the right shitposts on Sup Forums. The Jew on the left of the couch thinks he's edgy by insulting soldiers, even though no one cares about welfare queens anymore. The one in the middle is unable to keep up his detatched, unoffended "dirtbag left" persona for more than 5 minutes without breaking and whining about SJW shit and MUH NAZIS.

There's a gook chick too. She's really dumb. But I'd fuck her. Her roommate posts on here too.

Friendly reminder they are """"socialists"""" who make a small fortune from wealthy private donors.

>he fell for the "Dark Ages" meme
Most copies of ancient Greek philosophy came from Christian monks.

>Snyder is the most Jewish American name there is

Hardly, try anything with 'gold' or 'stein'.

And no, Zach Snyder has no jewish ethnicity either on the side of his mother (english) or father (german).

How do you know they shitpost on Sup Forums?

Guy on the left is like the mutant twin of Richard Spencer.

Well there were actually several cities named after him, but only after he conquored them and renamed them after himself.
And one after his horse. He really liked his horse.
After his empire collapsed all those cities went back to their original names.

He looks like the bastard child of Spencer and Peter Dinklage

Which they mostly got their hands on through trade with the Ottomans.

Sup Forums didn't exist when 300 first came out.

Interesting perspective.

>white people aren't suppose to defend themselves from foreign invaders

Really joggins the ol' noggin

Sup Forums existed in 2007 you dummy. It was created in April 2006.

No? The Ottomans didn't came around until 800 years later you mong. The Vatican openly endorsed Aristotle, Plato, Cicero etc. shortly after its conception.

Dark ages were real:
slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/15/were-there-dark-ages/

(lead being an important economic indicator because it was a byproduct of silver mining)

None of your fucking business.

Why would I include that, since it has no relevance? Arabs were also going through several centuries of warlords and monarchy (and still are). The Arabs were handy in that they allowed access to the knowledge, while the Church hoarded it. Although they had their reasons too.

It still has nothing to do with the Persian Empire's slothful expansion Westward and the defense of what would later become the world's greatest civilization by a bunch of over testosteroned wogs.