the alt-right

pretty sad when anthony cumia is smarter than everyone on the entire left

Pay what? I offered 000 to the first person who tweets me evidence of Trump having committed treason against the US.
Still stands. https://t.co/AdbpxbNXrY

— Anthony Cumia (@AnthonyCumia) May 13, 2017

I am assuming that dylannn is not being serious when he links a YouTube where someone stands in front of a whiteboard with the main headings "Trump's Trip" / "Seth Rich" / "Alien Space Threat" and captions it "really breaks it down" - but I might be too generous.

anything that pisses off Globalists and Dimms is legal under the stigginit clause of the Constitution

I saw 'social justice warrior' translated to Danish for the first time today. They translated it wrongly, though, as if it's about warriors for justice, who are actually quite social.

lol

gregarious equality mercenaries

Review of Angela Nagle's relevant new book:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/kill-all-normies-the-alt-right-s-new-turn-1.3104338

arch-catholic koch/mercatus functionary writes up the LD50 right-wing internet art show, in some new reactionary journal

http://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/26/life-and-death-on-the-content-farm/

Unfazed, LD50 Gallery re-opened on May Day with a new participatory show, CORPOREALITY, put together by several of the subjects of the first controversial exhibit. Twitter users @Kantbot10K and @Logo_Daedalus—both of “Donald Trump will Complete the System of German Idealism” (Google it) fame—pitched in, along with satirist @Menaquinone4 and YouTube surrealist TV KWA.

CORPOREALITY casts the viewer as the latest hire of an “exciting new business venture” known as KWALY. This revolutionary new social media start-up promises to professionalize (and monetize) the nasty business of sanitizing synthetic spaces by ceding control of ideas to “a morally superior enclave of progressive thought leaders.”

fyi "kwa" is short for "amerikwa" which comes from a white nationalist/antisemitic essay about atlantic city from 15 years ago.

Still really confused about what LD50's "thing" is. Feels like blatant publicity stunts to prepare for an actual product that never comes?

idk seems like the gallery management really like fashy stuff

this essay, by (some kind of) leftist poli sci prof, was making the rounds a while back

http://jmrphy.net/blog/2017/03/27/is-it-dangerous-to-engage-seriously-with-radical-right-wing-thinkers/

seems both credulous and self-regarding if u ask me

I should like to become a worthy opponent of the smart wings of the new reaction, rather than merely pretend they are stupid

ok buddy! i bet he goes full right within 12mo

just fyi in case anyone was wondering what LD50 means

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose

ah

just cracked nagle's book and obama's first name is spelled 'barak' in the opening sentence of the introduction, good work everyone

i promise i'm not gonna liveblog my pedantry but 25 pages or so in and there's been a bunch of really obvious typos that make me wonder if anyone proofread this thing at all

I noticed that too. Shoddy work considering the years of horseshit AN had to wade through to write it!

This is worth preserving here, for a quick 'n' easy laugh:

🚨 Breaking: Leaked email: Milo Yiannopoulos begging liberal Samantha Bee to interview him. pic.twitter.com/scfma3J8Z0

— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) June 16, 2017

hahaha oh that is perfect

lol what a loser

Loving the ppl in the replies going "that's not begging". People unable to look past this kind of PR twaddle falling for Milo makes sense.

A spelling mistake in the first sentence of the book? Angela nagl imo

this is one of the funniest things i've seen in awhile

BREAKING: Julius Ceasar Gets SHUTDOWN pic.twitter.com/ITgfMR0tHE

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 17, 2017

lol what a loser

you are all gerbles

did someone say gerbils?

https://media.giphy.com/media/2HAbDP9Lc4TDO/giphy.gif

Knew ud post a pic of ur man dick

luv2dick

been under twitter assault by wave after wave of pepe chodes this afternoon after engaging on this topic this afternoon. They are so BAD at it. One of em accused me of "hiding behind a fake profile pic" because my profile pic is of Norm Peterson covered in kittens. Then another googled and found a v flattering pic of me DJing 10 years ago and he and all these other reddit troll-lets started harping on about how skinny I was. Honey, I *wish I was still that skinny. They reminded me of the dudes in that Kids In The Hall sketch about the guys with the shortest tubes in North York.

Like, them and that Nazi who got punch and this Goebbels-screaming motherfucker, they're so sad and pathetic and inept. They are full sideshow.

yep- crucially, they're not funny in the slightest and that's how you know they're wrong

(well, intentionally funny)

One day this new forum member joins and says absolutely everything is worthless, pointless and meaningless, then next day he cites a heap of far right philosophers who talk about the importance and purpose of strict social divisions.

Then he asked me "what's wrong with racism?"

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/06/21/competing-alt-right-free-speech-rallies-reveal-infighting-over-white-nationalism

Gawd

http://www.newsweek.com/protests-over-celebrity-jokes-about-trump-assassination-draws-just-100-people-628893

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/06/27/2190408/a-weekend-in-texas-with-zerohedge-readers-part-1/

can u c&p?

You know what it's not even a very good article.

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/07/angela-nagles-kill-all-normies-the-alt-right-and-4chan.html

Nagle, of course, is herself on the political left, and Kill All Normies reflects her frustrations with intra-left political disputes of the last five years, which have tended to pit identitarians against a more explicitly socialist left. At one level, Nagle suggests that there was a symbiosis between the social-justice left and the alt-right: The left’s tendency to focus on racial and sexual identity while explicitly demonizing privileged groups — notably straight white men — may have pushed members of these groups into the arms of the alt-right, while the stronger the alt-right became, the more it confirmed the social-justice left in the belief that its critics, even those on the left, were either Nazis or Nazis’ useful idiots. But aside from such direct symbiosis, Nagle suspects — rightly in my view — that the real damage of the “Tumblrization of left-politics” may have been to spur a “brain drain from the left,” as people fled from a political brand increasingly associated with hysteria, witch-hunting, and intolerance of dissent. She writes in her conclusion that the left’s “embarrassing and toxic online politics” have made it “a laughing stock for a whole new generation” — a dynamic typified by the recent student protests at Evergreen State, which, to outsiders at least, look totally insane.

this quote is actually more interesting

Building on Joy Press and Simon Reynolds’s work in The Sex Revolts, Nagle traces this sensibility from its roots in the Marquis de Sade and Nietzsche to its explosion in the youth movements of the 1960s, noting how the basic form of revolt — transgression against the dominant morality for its own sake — stays the same even as the nominally “left” or “right” political content changes depending on the morality it rebels against. When the dominant morality was that of the white Christian America of the 1950s or even the moral majority of the 1970s, transgression assumed a progressive air. Yet in the last two decades or so, the moral code preached by the commanding heights of American culture has been a sort of neutered Baby Boomer liberalism, one that champions multicultural tolerance, a soft, health-conscious hedonism, and the entrepreneurial spirit — a marriage between ‘60s social progressivism and the conservative economic turn of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Many of the values of the alt-right, including its ethno-nationalism, slacker shitposting ethic, and antipathy to the sexual revolution are best understood as negations of this progressive status quo.

may have been to spur a “brain drain from the left,” as people fled from a political brand increasingly associated with hysteria, witch-hunting, and intolerance of dissent.

So is the argument that today's brainboxes are apolitical? 'Cause they sure aren't on the alt-right.

She writes in her conclusion that the left’s “embarrassing and toxic online politics” have made it “a laughing stock for a whole new generation”

Nothing of the left can be as laughable as this conclusion.

embarrassing and toxic hyperbole

i do support her "kill all normies" stance tho

Never thought of either the reactionary right or the left as a natural home for the especially thoughtful or intelligent

If the guy in the Che shirt with the fucking acoustic guitar at the march didn't cause some brain drain I don't know what would

i do support her "kill all normies" stance tho

if normies has become an alt-right thing that's sadder than Pepe :(

I'm not sure Nagle's book can be quite as bad as all the glowing reviews make it sound but will defer to someone who had read it.

so: would ignatius j. reilly qualify as "alt-right"?

i was just on Facebook and was wondering what happened to this guy i knew from college who moved to L.A. a bit after i did and tried to make it as a musician. anyway, he flamed out and once he started blaming L.A. for his problems and lack of success (rather than the fact that he was trying to peddle an image of either a Marlon Brandon-type biker or a vampire who i think was supposed to be eerie but came off like Count Chocula), I blocked him and hadn't followed him since. i checked in on him and he's turned into a complete infowars/milo minion and his bitterness about his failures is transparently driving him. lots of "liberal tears" type cackling. i wonder how many alt-right types are exactly like this. anyway, kind of depressing to see.