Fascism makes for powerful videos.
Crazy Horse 18.
That's the chop crew designation. American Exceptionalism recast to this video game stormtrooper mentality.
Top recent documentary war video:
Alejandro.
A new "Triumph of the Will." Gestapo/SS leathers, super-goosestep marching, domination. Top propaganda video ever:
Then this, an example of human anti-fascism. Comes across for me like a Bach Toccata. The C Major.
Tank Man.
Which video is most effective ? Which moves the Overton Window ?
Got other videos to throw into the mix ??? Go BTF :::
Wikileaks decrypted the Crazy Horse 18 video. Changed the whole world's view of the American military. Even the military changed its view of itself, implementing management changes that had not made it to the field even after Abu Ghraib photos came out.
The "Alejandro" video features the world's # 1 top pop star for 2010 letting herself be used to glorify fascist-garbed militarism/domination. The music for this video is first-rate updated disco, not at all political or connected to fascism. Setting the piece with echos to pre-WW II German pop and then using Nazi era costumes is purely a matter of choice.
such a choice comes off far worse than the Nazi obsession that took hold of David Bowie some years back. Similar presentations with Nazi poses and costume brought the press down heavy on Bowie and such as Jesse James, the motorcyle guy.
Germanotta does this again, expect much more to come of it. There are plenty of us around who know which family members were murdered by those bastards. Meanwhile this video is a staple for Eurotrash skinheads and America's right wingers and particularly for gay right wingers.
Male costumes in the vid combine sexual ambiguity with overt details from Schutzstaffel ("SS") and Gestapo of the WW II era. No swatikas. One can guess, charitably, that the opening sequences were added separately by the producers.
In any case, this singer provides public support for a range of gay rights issues, which appears to buy off the Left. Stefani Germanotta has gotten off with a free pass for this propaganda piece. No one important calls her to account. As noted, that could change in a heart beat.
Tank Man video requires no comment.
BTW: totals for YouTube hits might surprise you.
110,000,000 for disco-fascism. 20,000,000 for the chopper murders. Roughly 5,000,000 for the various versions of the Tank Man vid.