these guys are basically edgy racist republicans, and not really a proto-fascist menace threatening to overturn politics as we know it. the american left, bumbling as it is, has more dynamic ideas than the young right does. they also have the disadvantage of their politics being based around excluding anyone who isnt white (or at a stretch, asian) while the left wants to win over as many ppl as possible
I think this is mostly true so far — these are not people with actionable ideas — but i will say that i think there is a serious danger in the way they have polluted the discourse. In mainstream spaces online now (reddit, twitter), you can find people calling for things like a “white ethnostate” or, on the gender side, propagating extremist views that already seem to have contributed to two mass shootings. The normalization of these kinds of ideas as “one side of the argument” strikes me as a tragedy. Young men online becoming politically conscious for the first time are going to stumble across this stuff, which is designed to appeal to their insecurities. I’m not sure if I can really measure the potential harm this could cause but it concerns me a lot. Fascism isn’t compatible with liberal democracy the way conservativism or libertarianism are (in theory... as a ideology—i recognize the republican party has been undermining our democracy for decades)
― treeship 2, Sunday, 19 November 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
Then again, the fact that many of these people are nihilistic in outlook and seem to have picked up their racism from virtual communities might be their ultimate weakness. It’s hard to know how many of them seem committed to this cause, which is comprised of shapeless, angry people.
― treeship 2, Sunday, 19 November 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
I think you have to be way more Twitter/Tumblr-involved to get that tweet (I don't).
― louise ck (milo z), Sunday, 19 November 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
I think she's saying that socialist men will profess to believe whatever they think will get them into a pretty girl's bed, isn't that obvious?
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Sunday, 19 November 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
Thanks for pointing out Angela Nagle is a spikeder - I'd added her book to my wishlist under the impression that it was basically a timely 2017 update of The Rebel Sell, but reading her Twitter feed it's pretty much non-stop trolling challops. A shame as I do want to read the book that I imagined this would be.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 19 November 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
^ Same here, thanks ILX
― Gavin, Leeds, Sunday, 19 November 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
a spikedera what? i googled and found no satisfying answer
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
http://www.spiked-online.com/
― Number None, Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
online came a spikeder
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
Yes, but I don't know the context - like, where is this actually happening on Twitter/Tumblr. Without that it's just a "men drive like THIS" joke.
― louise ck (milo z), Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile, a new development appears
4Chan /pol/ users are eating onions in an effort to increase their testosterone, and it's not going well pic.twitter.com/jSX9MD4Oyo— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 20, 2017
(Several pics)
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Monday, 20 November 2017 05:16 (six years ago) link
Is this a global right wing nutter thing - Tony Abbot is famous for eating onions like apples.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 20 November 2017 06:00 (six years ago) link
also fred west
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1507773.stm
West, an uncouth man whose personal habits included munching raw onions as if they were apples, recounted in grim detail how he ...
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 20 November 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/cvIC2vRu42— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) November 20, 2017
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Monday, 20 November 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
Mocking the Gorka loadout special:
http://taskandpurpose.com/gorka-edc-guns-pocket-constitution-lol/
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
fuck me look at that waistcoat
http://49m47r1ce5b927clot3yajgk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/GorkaLede-840x420.jpg
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 20:25 (six years ago) link
dad jeans / skinny belt is chefkiss.jpg
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
(Via @ericswerdlin) pic.twitter.com/Osp2mPZnOh— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 25, 2017
― Moodles, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
genuine lol
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
All foreign revenue is untaxed after one year.
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 04:40 (six years ago) link
Who remembers “Liberality for All?” (Key quote: “Is that my man Hannity?”)
Milo Yiannopoulos sells an extensive line of comic book-themed T-shirts about himself pic.twitter.com/OLHgKLkzih— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 29, 2017
(There’s at least 6 here. One wonders how Steranko would react.)
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
Steranko is a MAGA chud, sadly.
― cosmic brain dildo (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
xpostSteranko is a Trump supporter fwiw
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
Ah rats, now I’m depressed
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:51 (six years ago) link
He triggered the libs...but at what cost? pic.twitter.com/drhaZSTsZe— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 29, 2017
The Gateway Pundit updates on Lucian Wintrich's arrest are incredible pic.twitter.com/6B2o6kXrb5— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 29, 2017
Other noteworthy thing about the Lucian Wintrich brawl video is that the guy in red wading in on his behalf is Sal Cipolla, a former top Proud Boy who left the group because he went to Charlottesville / was too alt right for them— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 29, 2017
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
Nevermind Steranko, can't Marvel and DC force a cease & desist? Where are giant evil corporations when you need them?
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 30 November 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
Am guessing they can't for the same reason Mad can parody things. But yes, I wish they would.
What is wrong with all these fucking choads that they see people like Milo and this Lucien shitrag and don't see horribly broken, failed human beings, but heroic figures instead?
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, 30 November 2017 11:18 (six years ago) link
Sort of answers itself
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 30 November 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
My god this story is pathetic http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-lucian-wintrich-uconn-national-reax-20171129-story.html
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 30 November 2017 12:43 (six years ago) link
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 November 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
it never occurred to me before, but Steranko looks kind of like an elderly version of Milo
https://cache.wizardworld.com/files/guests/_350x350_crop_center-center_100/Screen-Shot-2017-08-18-at-11.34.05-AM.png https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/41dc1601a35d0f5c8e892b73a2db0b722f17ca41/0_186_6016_3608/master/6016.jpg?w=300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=2fb8e255a61b03dce17b5fce0aab656c
― soref, Thursday, 30 November 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
gahhh
― hi i’m darren and i’m a bouncer from bendigo (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 November 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
Steranko looks like a character from Dan Pussey, which makes sense, because he is.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 30 November 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link
woah, if you'd asked me five minutes ago i'd have sworn jim steranko was dead.
― 'cause there's always been an it i can't truss (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 30 November 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
Making my way through the rest of this piece on the normalization of H!tler. But no, sorry, I'm told its just a meme or somesuch.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 30 November 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
tag yourself. i'm this guy pic.twitter.com/2jDykw5rLG— Stefan Heck (@boring_as_heck) November 30, 2017
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Friday, 1 December 2017 02:16 (six years ago) link
lol white ppl going to college! how fucking white can you be!
― sleepingbag, Friday, 1 December 2017 02:21 (six years ago) link
find other hobbies
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Friday, 1 December 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
Wait are ppl actually surprised re steranko cuz um
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 December 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
Sorry fi MAGA chud
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 2 December 2017 07:10 (six years ago) link
Sonned in a MAGA chud beef
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 2 December 2017 10:53 (six years ago) link
This Sam Seder shit is fucking pathetic.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 00:50 (six years ago) link
daily stormer style/content guide leaked, horrifying stuff that's not that surprising really
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/daily-stormer-nazi-style-guide_us_5a2ece19e4b0ce3b344492f2?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
also of note, Cernovich trying to frame a prominent Democratic Senator for sexual assault, which I think is kind of a big crime
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
Dude's really having a stellar week, his appearance on On The Media was hilarious.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
the one where he said "I DISAVOW YOUR INTERPRETATION" and then hung up? that was so brutal.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
ya i lost it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
Charlottesville's #1 alt-right asshole Jason Kessler has been denied a permit for a planned 2018 rally (a repeat of last summer's)
http://www.newsplex.com/content/news/Permits-for-events-in-August-2018-denied-463474093.html
the Paradox Of Intolerance in action!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link
huh yeah steranko is nothing more than yr typical egg avatar twitter dipshit you see replying to every trump tweek :/
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/11/08/jim-steranko-wants-vote-trump/
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
I saw on Twitter the Chuck Johnson, the floor-shitting ginger bear, aided and abetted Cernovich in trying to frame Schumer, is that true?
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, 14 December 2017 10:19 (six years ago) link