The Turner Diaries and Accelerationism

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Keep your jobs moving faster and on budget at Lowe's valid through seven eight while all supplies last, seelection varies by location ' the richest man on the planet is out of his fucking mind You already knew that We're taking a little side quest this week. I was sitting at my desk on Monday, trying valiantly to finish my script for the week And I got distracted That's probably no surprise to you either But I kept seeing increasingly bizarre posts My weird little guy alarms were going off so loud, I couldn't concentrate I didn't have a choice Really I have To watch what turned out to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. And this Th weir'd the little guys I really shouldn't even let myself peek at social media when I'm supposed to be writing This whole thing could have been avoided and I'd be telling you about the next chapter in the life of Byron Da Beckwith right now We'll pick that buck up again next week, I promise. I won't forget. But I was letting myself look at a few posts, just as a treat When I saw it, On Blue Sky, someone had posted a screenshot of a tweet. It's posts all the way down In the screenshot There was an image A man in a black turtleneck is holding a gun and the text on the image reads First the traitors. Th than the invaders Above the image, the post's author wrote No point in bailing the boat while traiters are still busy chopping holes in the bottom The guy who posted this, his name was vaguely familiar Bracken I remember him as a frequent guest on Alex Jones's InfoWars when there was in Alex Jones's Info Wars He's an Islamophobic racist conspiracy theory guy. It's not important. He doesn't matter The screenshot I saw included a reply Elon Musk wrote one word Yes Yuess to what First the traitors, then the invaders I recognize that rhetoric. And it's deeply troubling But what am I looking at here The man in the picture looks Kind of familiar And the man in the picture is not bracket. It was some kind of meme image and the man looked familiar, but I couldn't place him So at this point I'm stuck in the position of needing to find out why Elon Musk is engaging with what is Clearly some kind of neo Nazi propaganda So toigure out where the picture came from It turns out it's from a movie. That's why the blonde man in the turtleneck look so familiar. It's Army Hammer Its been a while since I've seen him in anything He didn't really act much after the cannibalism allegations Okay, to be fair No one actually accused him of literally actually engaging in cannibalism But one of the many women who came forward with allegations that he'd physically, emotionally and sexually abused them did have a lot to say about his very Graphic cannibalism focused sexual fantasies The cannibalism thing ended up in all of the headlines for obvious reasons, but The real story is A lot of women say that he hurt them One ex girlfriend said he branded her. and another accused him of rape And there were a number of women with stories of extreme physical violence For what it's worth, the L.A. County district atttorney declined to indict him, so was never charged with a crime Take that as you will the scandal tanked his career. And last I'd heard about him, he was selling timeim shares in the Cayman Islands He was as the right wing likes to say canceled that was Five six years ago, maybe what's he doing in a movie now Why is Elon Musk posting about it Maybe everybody else already knew this. I spent all weekend gardening and reading old FBI files about a segregationist group from the fifties I mean, maybe you guys were all talking about this online while I was at tractor supply, having a great conversation with an old man about the pros and cons of the different bird feeders they have for sale I don't know I had no idea people were talking about an insanely racist movie that was somehow Streaming on X Quite frankly, I still don't understand what it means for a movie to be available to stream onwitter. com. You can watch movies there now I don't know But let's get to this move It's called citizen Vigilante And I do not recommend it Sometimes on this show, I'll describe something awful to you likeike some pornography that a Nazi made that I found and watched or a suicide note left by a teenage mass shooter And I'll tell you Hey. I don't recommend that you seek this out I don't think that you should find and consume this primary source. I can't stop you, I'm not your mom, I'm not your boss. I'm not telling you what to do. I'm just telling you that in my professional opinion, you are unlikely to gain anything from it And it will probably be an overall negative experience You will encounter something harmful, you will have a bad time, and you will hurt yourself for no reason. So I don't recommend it. This is not like that at all. This time I am genuinely telling you, do not pay money to watch this movie Not because I think it will harm you, it just sucks and you won't like it. You'll be mad at me if you spend money on this I don't wantna contribute to it making any money or getting any downloads You will get nothing from it. I promise. It's just not worth watching. Don't spend money on this. It'll hurt my feelings If you feel like you need to see it? Well, I don't think I'm allowed to recommend crime I know Robert does, but there's some kind of double standard at work here, so I am not advising you to steal But don't pay for it Citizen Vigilante. is a bad movie. Like regardless of what you think I mean by that, yes The acting is bad, The script is bad, the message is bad, the politics are bad, the special effects are bad. The cinematography is straight up bananas. The director is a lunatic, the star is a very bad person, and with a rntime clocking in at about eighty five minutes before the credits roll I swear to God, you could cut together a full fifteen minutes of footage that's just wide shots of the protagonist walking silently across the screen This movie was a sort of attempted comeback for both the star and the director It was Amy Hammers returned to the screen after five years in exile And, according to an interview with a director, gave on a Nazi podcast That's kind of why he was cast Cceled talent comes cheap. Ami Hemmer, I contacted via Instagram because he had no representation And then he didn't answer. and then I stayed on it and said, no, I'm real, lookook me up, blah, blah, blah And then we had a zoom Um We talked about the script He was canceled. So for me, it was also not like You know, I couldn't offer millions of dollars, so I felt, okay, look, if you do it, perfect That's the film's director, Uuve Bol admittedly I didn't know a ton about Bll I'm not a film guy So if you do know anything about Uve Bo You're already rolling I had a vague notion that he'd made some pretty bad movies And that turns out to have been a real understatement. He's one of the worst directors in modern film. A lot of these movies are low budget film adaptations of video games. And he's made a lot of movies Although his pace does seem to slow down a little bit after the point at which The German government closed the tax loophole he'd been exploiting to finance his movies One of those movies, his two thousand five film Alone in the Dark is ranked as one of the worst movies ever made by a variety of film review sites like Rotten, Tomatoes, Metacritics, Cinema Sore, and the Movie Review quuery Engine Back in two thousand five, he responded to this criticism of his body of work in the most normal way anyone has ever conceived of I said, Look, if you want to do it and come up to Vancouver, I fly you up actually. But it will be a real boxing fight because I hate you. He challenged film critics who'd written negatively about his movies comeome physically fight him And he actually did it. Five critics took him up on the offer And I think most of them thought it was just some kind of publicity stunt, right? Like they'd both get a little attention, they'd get people talking, and they'd all just be goofing around having a laugh But Uve Bl wasn't kidding And he beat them bloody Starting with Richard Kankca the somethingomething awful Founder better known as Low tax And again, maybe you guys all already knew this But I'm just finding this out for the first time. This is my first time finding out that Ouve Bol punched low tax in the face Boxing match in Vancouver in two thousand six. I mean, what a world. It's so fun we can still find out new things that surprise us. In twenty fifteen, frustrated by his inability to crowdfund his latest movie project on Kickstarter So it is overball and that is the last update. We have only four days to do with the rampage campaign and that was my third campaign now after post two failed after indndigo goo for Rampage three failed and now Kickstarter failed to And basically my message is yourself He did end up releasing that film, but He said he was done with Hollywood And he was for a minute He turned to his other. main passion in life. According to one of his weird YouTube channels He's kind of a foodie. He loves going to fancy restaurants and posting little review videos. It's something he was doing for years before influencers popularized that kind of content on Instagram and TikTok. So he hired a Michelin star chef And he opened Bauhus a German restaurant in Vancouver was apparently Really good It won a bunch of awards and was generally positively reviewed The Bauhouse closed abruptly in March of twenty twenty. And most sources, including Bol himself, put the blame on COVID Pfect sense, March of twenty twenty A lot of restaurants went under in twenty twenty closed temporarily and just never came back But several sites that cover the restaurant scene in Vancouver alluded to a long standing dispute with a landlord. And the globe in Mail came right out and said The lease was terminated by the landlord as a result of a years long legal feud COVID was almost certainly a factor It would have been very difficult for him to start a new restaurant in early twenty twenty, but This was because he was having beef with his landlord But either way He moved back to Germany and Return to filmmaking Bull's first attempt at getting back into the business was a German language thriller about the Hanao shootings A twenty twenty attack by a far right extremist who targeted immigrants in the German city of Hanau The shooter fatally wounded ten people before going home and killing his mother and himself I didn't have a chance to watch this movie and there's very little written about it in English But one English language article quotes relatives of several of the victims Chaitin Gulteken, brother of Gurkan Gulteken, who was killed in the attack, told a reporter in my eyes, He kills my brother a second time with this slur Armin Hamzak Kurovk, whose son Hamzak Kurovk was killed said I will do everything to prevent Bull's fantasy about right wing perpetrators from being burned into the minds of German viewers as the true fate of my son The mayor of Hanau condemned the movie, saying No one In Hano wants this unspeakable film Like I said I didn't watch it But it's a thriller made by a guy who makes schlocky horror movies. and he started writing it Less than a year after a mass shooting that killed ten people The synopsis in English that appears for the listing on Apple TV says in part In words taken from the killer's manifesto, it becomes clear how he was a victim of fake news and suffered from serious psychological problems That doesn't excuse the cruel murders But it explains how things got out of control He wrote and directed a movie about a mass shooting and released it almost exactly two years after the attack. And the movie is from the perspective of the shooter. and it is based largely on the text of his manifesto And it was made without the cooperation of any survivors or family members of victims It seems like it was in pretty poor taste This brings us to Citizen Vigilante His film about the Hanu shootings was based on a very real Mass murder immigrants and People the shooter perceived to be immigrants because they were not white. Bull claims he wasn't glorifying it, he was just exploring it. That's what film does, It probes the depths of the human psyche, whatever Citizen Vigilante is a work of fiction Absolutely. glorifies that same violence. The citizen vigilante is fighting back against Immigration The film takes place in an unnamed European city. I guess so you could imagine that it's any European city, right? The racist audience is free to imagine it's whatever city full of brown skinned immigrants they have nightmares about The film opens on an aerial shot of the city And the word Europe H' over it on screen This is just It's any city in Europe. Except it's so leep And very specifically, I mean, every time we are outside it is so specifically Zakrab There's no effort made to hide that J a joke about how you can really tell which movies that are supposed to be set in Southern California are obbviously filmed in Vancouver I ever can. Because at least those movies try to hide things like Big road signs that say Vancouver But in this movie In the opening shot It's the one meant to introduce us to this unnamed every city. It shows us a huge office building with a red and white checked sign on it reminded me at first glance of the of Croatia. But if you look carefully You can read the sign It's the headquarters of the Croatian National lottery in Zagra And during a dramatic scene where the police are on their way to raid the protagonist's house They keep passing signs for tram stops. for the city tram that runs through Zagreb And there's an uncomfortably long scene where we're just Wing Army hammmer sit on a bus. And the sticker on the bus window that explains how to open it in case of an emergency is very visible, very large and very Croatian I mean, the movie is just so clearly and so specifically S in Sagreb feels like 's intentional or part of the message or that Zagreb is a character in the film and it's definitely not. this is all entirely unintentional and the fact that you can see any of these things is evidence of an extreme lack of attention to detail I know that Aa is not overrun by Muslims, but I see this city as this kind of It doesn't matter that it's agrab. It's of course for Europe. you know compe you compete forance. B's Bowl, explaining to a far right podcaster that it was just cheap to film inZagreb Fair enough And he brings the same level of attention to detail to things like Protagonists tattoos And like I said, I barely recognized Army Hammer because he hasn't acted in years. So I had no existing knowledge of what this man looks like with his shirt off and usually in a movie, When the camera lingers on a character's visible tattoos because they mean something. commommunicating something about the character that the movie needs you to know paused this movie every time I saw a visible tattoo Every time there is a visible tattoo on this man's body, I'm pausing, I'm zooming in, I'm studying them closely There's some lettering on his wrist, a scorpion and the Hebrew letter Elef on his torso, a triangle on his sternum? What do he mean They don't mean anything They don't mean anything. I mean, maybe they do to Army hammer. They don't mean anything for the film I wasted Probably fifteen minutes trying to find a plot relevant word in the Croatian language. that included the letters A MM E. I couldnt make out the first or the last letters on this wrist tattoo, but They kind of zoomed in on it at a very important moment. so it must mean something, right Do you know what it says It says hammer Because those are Army Hammer's real tattoos that he just always has on his body and one of the tattoos that Army Hammer has on his body is his own Last name And that's just in the movie for reasons that don't make sense. Army Hammer's character is Michael Sanders, a former United States Army officer whose estranged father has died leaving him a portfolio of holding companies that own three thousand five hundred units of rental property in unnamed European city His name is almost never used in the movie because when's ever speaking to him, there's surprisingly little dialogue. And we only know he had a dad or was in the US. Army. because around them t point of the movie he has a tense meeting with his business manager And he walks over to a bookshelfull of knick knnacks and starts Pking things up and inspecting things that his dead father kept in this office including a picture of the aforementioned dead father And his own framed college diploma that says United States Military Academy, United States Army I don't know why you would give your estranged father of your college diplom It doesn't matter The timeline is very unclear doesn't seem to be in the army anymore, but he says he was active duty military when he found out his father died That's when he came to unnamed European city to manage his father's assets. So the army? I don't think you can quit the arrmy We don't know how long he's been here. In the moment, it felt like it was going on forever. I didn't think I was going to live I was Terrified There was no Anything inside those eyes Turn black It scared the hell out of me That was your first murder case. Yes, It's fair say this was the biggest case of your career? Yes, sir. Rape but murder of a young twelve year old child. The batt as again gets. I would think so. Eeil wake up. I'm the one that saw the murder take place by Creet and D Pippo. Anthony DPippo showed no signs of remorse, appearing unphazed after being sentenced to the maximum. I said I'm not guilty. 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Explore what's next at post. edu The film puts us right into the middle of an ongoing situation here in unnamed European city A blonde woman has just been brutally murdered She was stabbed in broad daylight by an undocumented African immigrant I'm not sure how we know that because we don't really see the man and he doesn't seem to have been caught But that's what the plot exposition blonde woman tells us The movie is held together by frequent cuts to a TV news desk where this other blonde woman explains what we're supposed to understand about what we're seeing So we watch this first blonde woman bleed to death And then the newscaster, blonde womoman, explains that Imigrants are murdering white people And white people are very scared they all love this mysterious vigilante citizen who is, quote delivering a brand of justice that some believe the authorities have failed to provide targeting both criminals and those in power accused of allowing crime to flourish unchecked. How long has he been doing that? We don't know How many people has he killed They don't say But he's obviously been at it a while because He has a fan base It's sort of a Batman situation. and I'm not just saying that because he's a rich guy who wears black and is meeting out vigilante justice. Uve Bal tried to call the film the Dark Knight. but he got a cease and desist from Warner Brosers because Obviously, they have a movie called The Dark Knight So right after we meet the blonde exposition device at the news desk, we're introduced to another recurring element of the film. An Instagram style interface appears on the screen. And we see a series of social media posts from people who love the vigilante The first time we see our vigilante hero, It's in an aggressively spliced together series of w second clips. He's doing a sit up, he's loading a gun, he's doing a biciceup curl. He's chambering around. He's doing a landmine press. He's looking at all of his guns It just cuts back and forth between him working out and him fondling his guns. I think we're meant to understand that His body is a weapon. Also, doesn't he have a lot of cool weapons? He's strong and tough and cool and handsome and mysterious, and then suddenly he's shooting three guys who seem like probably about to do some kind of crime really lighting them up. We don't know these men, but he's shooting them and the scene is Dark Like I don't mean that it's shot in a way that makes the setting look dark. I don't mean they turned off all the lights in the room I mean the screen is black There is a surprising amount of this film that takes place while the screen is completely black. There are seenam cuts Where the screen is black, I used a stopwatch For up to nine seconds But in this scene, with each burst of muzzle fire, you can see for a split second. these's dual wielding guns. there's blood spraying everywhere, and you're meant to understand that this looks very cool At the end, he calmly steps over their corpses and walks away And then we're watching more Instagram posts from his fans and we cut back to the TV news studio. and all of this is interspersed with these little snippets of the vigilante recording a video manifesto The film isn't in chronological order sccenes from different points in the narrative are just sort of together at random and there are long stretches of the movie where Nothing is happening We're just watching someone walk a significant distance across the screen or sit quietly on a bus and notot in a way that builds tension It really feels like they shot a bunch of B roll in case they needed a few seconds of filler here or there and They wanted to get it from a bunch of different angles so they could decide which one looked best, but They just ended up using all of it in the movie There's a full minute of the movie that's just Army hammer sitting quietly on a city bus in that minute The camera changes angles. nine times. and there is a visible hard black cut Every time they switch cameras, like why are we in his lap? Now we're behind him. Now we're under his chin. Now we're a few rows in front of him looking back What does that tell us? Like what is What are we doing The camera is never still It's kind of Nauseating Apparently Uve Bol is known to shoot handheld, so I guess some of this is just his style, but I don't want it I found it to be Watchable In the film, Our Ho is being pursued by an interpol officer named Henry we know how Interpol Officer Henry came to suspect the killer, but We just sort of jp into the middle of the story and he's already being pursued by this cop People love the Citizen vigilante Interpol Regional Chief Henry. Well, he believes that he has a duty to uphold the law. We start seeing the snippets of the police headed to the protagonist's house around the ten minute mark Keep seeing. Random snippets of two police vehicles driving through Zagreb fully half an hour before they actually arrived And during that thirty minutes, a little clips of them driving, you better believe we see those armored tactical vehicles from every angle There are long silent stretches of B roll of vehicles driving. We see them from the sky. We get point of view shots from the guy in the back seat. We're looking out the window at the scenery We get a few seconds of what looks like is footage shot from a GoPro shoved into the waistband of one of the guysy's pants And sort of like POV, you are his penis looking up at him. I don't know We get an upward angle from sort of under the steering wheel. We get close ups of the tres. You really spend some time rotating around the vehicle, and there's no dialogue Last Forever When the police finally arrive at the protagonist's house, we see them walking toward the door. for nearly four minutes I'm not kidding. There is Four minutes of them approaching the door. Three and a half minutes of it is them walking up an exterior staircase. It takes the movie longer to show us this walk up the stairs than it would take to walk up and down those stairs half a dozen times We see it from every angle, drone shots from the sky, from across the street, from inside the line of cops like we're walking with them sort of video game style from behind the rifle. Low angle like the cameraman is lying on the ground, from ahead from behind. We see Army Hammer watching them on security camera footage on his phone. We watch him watch it on his phone and then cut back to the drone footage so we can see what that looks like from outside. While this is happening, My husband got up to get a snack. I shouted to him in the kitchen. They're still walking up the stairs ree times Well, he got cookies and put the kettle on. I mean, I think the movie would have been about forty minutes long justust ut out all the unnecessary parts where someone's walking around Aside from the walking around The central tension of the film is the Vigilantes' revenge on behalf of two rape victims? He visits a woman named Elsa in the hospital They were clearly not allowed to film in an actual hospital becausecause we get a single shot of Army Hammer approaching the exterior door of a real hospital in Zagreb But then it hard cuts to a very tight shot of him approaching a door. that has just been labeled room two. The sign is in Croatian and it's on a piece of plain printer paper that has been laminated and taped to the door You know How they always do in hospitals Elsa has been beaten and raped by a gang of migrants. This is the film's central anxiety that white women are being raped. non white immigrant men Apparently the beating left her in a coma for three weeks and she's only just woken up So I'm not sure why she's still actively bleeding from a cut on her mouth and I as though the bleedating has just wrapped up, but doesn't m The Vigilantie doesn't identify himself But he says he's there to help He asks her what she wants to happen to her attackers And she says she hopes they go to jail And he's so condescending Right? He tells her, ye, that could happen, but It'll take years There will be a trial. you'll have to testify, peopleople will call you a liar. It'll be horrible for you, and they might not even get convicted and they'll probably do it again. Wh wouldn't that be onond your conscience He only ever speaks in a very cold monotone I guess that's a character choice or maybe Army Hammer can't remember how to act, but In this scene, it feels so aggressive. He's really digging into her. coercing her into giving him her blessing for this unspoken promise of violence So after he's sort of broken her down and berated her, he asks her Do you want justice? And she says, yes As he leaves, he's watching more Instagram videos on his phone of people saying they love him Now this is a bit nit picky, but these screen life elements in the film have a mistake in them. So if you look at Instagram poster, the person who made the post, their profile picture appears in the little circle at the top next to their name But your profile picture, you the viewer, you the person logged into your account, your profile picture is in the circle in the bottom right corner But in every instance of this Instagram interface used in the movie The same picture appears in both spots as though we are always logged in as the person who posted it It's so small, but it's again Just this total lack of attention to detail. It's so careless. Please, Mr. Uve Bo, do not come to my home and challenge me to a boxing match. This shit sucks The film's other rape victim is a fourteen year old girl Again, considering this is what you might call the actual plot of the movie. Like if you ask me to very briefly say what is the plot of the movie, I would say kills the men who raped this girl This doesn't start being part of the movie until it is almost over. We don't meet this girl until fifty five minutes into the eighty five minute movie The vigilante goes to her house to ask her and her father's blessing And the father says, no girl wants the Vigilantes brand of justice She says, yes he ultimately murders all of the teenagage boys who assaulted the girrel as well as the entire family of one of those boys It's a bizarre orgy of violence that is just before the movie ends In between his two meetings with these Tearful white women whose honor must be avenged The vigilante visits a brothel As he enters this rented room with a sex worker he's chosen, there's real moment of tension kindind of fascistnessy Be we know that this man is a fascist, this is a fascist film We know that at this point, but Does he despise sex work? Does he think this is Disgusting? doeses he hate this woman Is he going to hurt her Or does he want to save her from this indignity T turns out Neither. Just fucks her. He seems like he's about to finish when Suddenly he notices some water damage on the wall near the ceiling So he shoves the naked woman off of him and he gets up to inspect her It's moould He grills the woman. You know, when you let John's shower after sex, do you open the window to let the steam out? She says she doesn't and she asks him why he cares. Apparently owns the building Right? He's not these women's pimp. he's the pimp's landlord. which is just so many layers aking a curse on society So he owns three thousand five hundred apartments and this brothel. And then he throws her back onto the bed and finishes fucking her, but he's staring at the mold the entire time I watched two interviews that Director Uuve Bol did with right wing podcasters I'm sure he did other press for the movie's release, but the ones I found and watched were both with white supremacist content creators One American and one English He spent an hour chatting with British No Nazi Mark Colltte And the sex scene was a real problem for Mark and his co hosts and the listeners of Mark's show put it in there at all. Some of the people in the live chat for Mar Colette's podcast disgusted by this. They felt it made the protagonist immoral don't have a problem with the extrajudicial violence. this extramarital sex, this paying for sex That is what makes this man disgusting to them And Bull's answer was kind of incoherent. He said he needed the sex scene so you could see him Stop having sex to look at the mold. And he doesn't flesh that out at all. I'm not sure What? is underneath that statement. but When I saw it before I watched him explain it The sex scene was actually the only part of the movie that had any development. This is the only thing we see from Armie Hammer's character that tells me anything about him He's fine using women. He doesn't actually care about protecting women, right? The citizen vigilante is avenging these white women's rapes, but he does not care about that He owns a brothel And this isn't the kind of place where the women are safe and in control of their working conditions. This isn't a sex positive feminist worker run collective of women who are doing this by choice. These are naked women who are scared of their pimps. does not care about women being safe But he also is not going out of his way to hurt these women. He's participating in this process but he's not going out of his way to hurt the sex workers, right? He fucks this woman But he's a gentleman about it and he leaves her a tip and he doesn't knock her around He's handsome and competent and rich, but he's still paying for sex at a seedy brothel He did' not have to come here and fuck this woman to inspect his property. He could have set up a property inspection. He could have sent a property manager But he likes the sex He doesn't have any weird kinks. He's not hurting her or abusing her, but He's also very distracted Even as he's about to finish, she's more focused on the property than anything else. I don't know, maybe this is going a little too far, but Maybe on some level, his anger and anxiety about the mold maps onto the feelings that he has about immigrants You know, when we see the mold, it's this dark, insidious thing infiltrating the plaster and making the paint peel off. it's spreading. Turning the white wall and ruining it It's hard to say if Uuve Bol meant to communicate any of that, but you could read it that way In the moment, it felt like it was going on forever. I didn't think I was going to live I was Terrified There was no thing inside those eyes, they turned black It scared the hell out of me That was your first murder case. Yes, sir. It's Fair to say this was the biggest case of your career? Yes, sir. Rape but murder and chung twelve year old child. bad as he gets. I would think so Eil wake up. I'm the one that saw the murder take place by Cet and de Pippo. Anthony DPippo showed no signs of remorse, appearing unphazed after being sentenced to the maximum. I said I'm not guilty. 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Listen to First America on the IiHart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts Women don't really speak in the movies The two rape victims respond tearfully to the vigilante's questions sex worker is doing her job There's a bartender who says a few words to him while serving him a drink. We have the blonde newewscaster who reads off a teleprompter But at one point, she turns to a man in the room asks if she's supposed to read the text on the screen All of these women exist to fulfill part of the fantasy The raped women are fragile white womanhood justification for violence. They are not people They are a motivation The sex worker and the bartender exist to serve and pleasure him, and the newscaster reads off racist propaganda about crime while reminding the viewer of the blonde white womanhood Crime threatens The whole movie feels like they shot several versions of every scene and then cut the entire film into fifteen second chunks reassembled them in a random order There are a few times throughout the film where I swear I'm seeing the exact same scene I saw before for no particular reason And in one scene The protagonist s the exact same line of dialogue Tice in a row, seconds apart different camera angle and with a slightly different inflection I think they shot two takes and forgot to pick one pieces don't fit. There are plot holes you could drive a car through. Even the Nazi podcastters who praised the film during their interview with Bl had to admit to each other afterfter Bull signed off the call that there was room for improvement They wanted to like it. They kept trying to convince each other that they did like it. but and they took turns suggesting ways the movie could have been better Like if it had established any kind of coherent motivation for the main character's actions or if it Clear plot I agree with the Nazi podcasters on both of those counts, but I can't sign off on their third recommendation, which was that there should have been more violence Position TV newewscaster gets an assist from a secondary framing device. Throughout the film, we keep cutting to these straight to camera interviews with the protagonist as I'm watching it, I'm assuming that this is going to turn out to be a police interrogation, never resolved, we don't see him apprehended. There's a scene he's lecturing three teens on a bus about how Riding the bus without paying the dollar fifty bus fare is stealing and stealing is destroying society. pulls a gun on one of the children and no one reacts Based on the emphasis on knife crime, this seems to be one of those European countries where people don't really have guns. so you'd think having a gun pulled on would be kind of a big deal. teens keep mocking and taunting him and being surly nasty little teens even after he shows them his gun And later in the movie, he encounters the same group of teens bullying another kid in the park pazes two of the boys and breaks their hands. baffling. It doesn't Makes sense. I think they should have cut the whole subplot with the three teens. I don't know why that was in there Toward the end of the movie, we meet the judge who freed the assailants who raped the fourteen year old girl The Vigilanti murders him, staging the scene to look like a suicide. Through the TV news voiceover, we learn that this is the fourth suspicious suicide of a judge The movie ends with the vigilante calling the interterpol detective They have a conversation on speaker phone So the climax of this movie is Army Hammer saying to the detective You have to get my message to the And that message? society is being taken over by quote Islamist extremists and the blindsided woke left And people aren't gonna take it anymore. And that's the first time those phrases are used in the film. I that's the implication all along But it feels shoehorned in at the end. to just get the buzzwords in to make sure you know this is about the woke left And the detective says Well, I can't get the message to the government. Vigilante gently insists and the detective agrees like it's Weird dialogue And so the detective asks another nearby policeman to get the Prime mininister on the phone And that's it Right? We've been watching these men play cat and mouse for an hour. There's all these scenes where the detective is You know, watching Army Hammer from afar, stalking him because he knows he's the killer Hat and mouse game resolves in a telephone call on speaker phone And the cop just agrees he's going to let the government know about the phone call they had, we have the internet We spent the whole movie cutting back to clips of Army Hammer making a video manifesto. He doesn't need Innerpol to have a meeting with the Prime Mister about his message, she could have just uploaded it to the internet. Like I said, the plot holes are enormous. The movie just Does' it make sense Like the movie is racist and the movie is viol and the movie is evil, but like Fundamentally, it does not make sense. the plot is incoherent The movie sir Watch it It's not worth it. You arere not gonna to like it. For the reason I watched it. Remember, is because I saw some weird posts I saw Elon Musk agrereeing with a post that said First the traitors then the invaders There were some people who wanted to love this movie who were confused only actually killed a couple of immigrants In the final minutes of the movie He kills an entire Muslim family, but For most of the movie He's killing white people Why would he do that He kills a ton of cops, he kills some white judges Those two teen boys you beat up, one is white and the other is black, but They don't seem to be immigrants here in unnamed European city So what's the point of this movie about how it's good to kill immigrants barely kills any immigrants So Elon Musk is retweeting and replying to posts from people who are trying to explain that They're trying to explain to those poor unsophisticated violence enthusiasts What's actually going on here This is intentional The vigilante didn't make a mistake. He had a plan and he executed it A few days after the film was released, Musk retweeted a post that said People who are complaining that he spends the first half of the movie murdering white people, not migrants, Fail to understand that it's hammering home an important premise. Always hang a traitor. before you shoot Enemy A few days later, Musk posted under that post with an image from the movie and the text. First the traiters than the invaders And not long after that, replying to a post about how immigrants threatened to drive white Germans to extinction, Musk typed it out himself posting. deal with traitors first. Then invaders. What does that mean You don't need me to tell you that it's racist and xenophobic. You can tell, you know that But there's actually a really particular context here Hang the traitors First. The invaders in this context are Imigrants. Right? That's the hateful word being used as shorthand here for non white immigrants specifically, doesn't Me immigrants, it means non white immigrants and the traitors in this context are White people who are contributing to the presence of those immigrants, right? White people who are in favor of immigration, white people who advocate for liberal policies, white people who are doing things Pollute the pure white society pure white je pool He's using this phrase first in the context of the movie, talking about how Army Hammer's character killed a white judge before he killed a Muslim rapist Then he turns around and he uses the exact same phrase. A few hours later reply to a post about something in the real. world post about the decline in white German fertility He's connecting the phrase to this anxiety about the purity of the white Rrace Invaders are non white immigrants Traders people who are endangering the future of the white. race and traitors need to be dealt with The end goal is to be rid of the invaders to have a society free of immigrants But you can't do that until you've dealt with the traitors. That's what they're saying This isn't a policy position. This isn't an opinion on immigration law. This is a strategy for winning a race war. And it comes directly from the pages of the Turner diaries It's a foundational text for white supremacist terrorists the world over and it has been for fifty years It served as the blueprint for the crimes of the Order, the Nazi terror cell that robbed armored cars and murdered Jewish talk radio host Alan Berg in the early nineteen eighties. It directly inspired the Oklahoma City bombing in nineteen ninety five the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in American history And it was required reading for members of the German terrorist group, the National Socialist Underground body count We covered the novel in an episode earlier this year. If if you don't remember in the Churner Diaries. There comes a day called the Day of the Rpe the white supremacists in the novel, who are engaged in a race war for control of the country when until they've killed all the race traiters Race triters Hang first First the traitors, then the invaders, do you hear it The end goal is the expulsion or elimination of Jews and the complete subjugation or extermination of all other non white people The goal is to create a white ethno state through violence But you can't win a war If you have traitors at home to hang the race traiters first, the white people who aren't on board with the cause I want to be so clear I'm not saying Liberal whites arere the real victims of racism? That's Not what I'm saying here, that would be the insane thing to say The internal logic of Nazi propaganda does not map neatly onto how structural racism exists in the real world. These two things are largely separate R But a lot of this Nazi propaganda logic comes back to the idea that Non white people are not intellectual equals of white people. They are not worthy adversaries of the white supremacists And in the absence of race traitors, these white people who disagree with them in the absence of those people, riing up the minorities, so to speak that we just wouldn't have these same problems