the alt-right

AKA alt-vancouver.

swish

Apparently the portland NPR station is having the rightwing shithead organizer on today's noontime call-in show, that's gunna go well

who is it, Joey Gibson?

Yup

dude is a publicity hound of the worst kind, they should stop encouraging him

he's like a profoundly unintelligent man that can barely make out a sentence. it's more than bizarre that he ended up being such a mouthpiece for a movement.

he's an archetypal "useful idiot" for nazis

Bannon himself is joining the alt right provocation parade at the end of the month at Berkeley with his gay son Milo

so ridiculous how they keep going back to Berkeley. if they just keep trying again and again maybe one day they will get their "race war"!

so his house will be empty?

wonder if bannon thinks hes better off personally agitating the black bloc at cal instead of working in the fucking white house

did you see his 60 Minutes interview? he keeps using the words "fight" and "agenda"

I watched half of it last night, main takeaway is his voice is hilarious & he almost has a Baltimore accent. "You know, uh duh sussessfull peopoll, uh, dare duh swamp. Dare duh swamp."

can't stop staring at his gills pulsing as he seethes while Charlie Rose tells him Trump should have denounced white supremacists

Here's the portland talk show bit with the shitlord:

http://www.opb.org/radio/programs/thinkoutloud/segment/talking-business-gang-designations-joey-gibson-patriot-prayer/

How's everyone feel about the apparent creeping of militia types from anti-government "extremists" to guys who hang out with cops at their special events and occasionally get to help out (oh boy!) with arrests?

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2017/09/15/right-wing-extremist-group-had-booth-at-urban-shield-to-explain-who-they-are

ah, my favorite song pic.twitter.com/edNOudRsKO

— CITIZEN KRANG (@KrangTNelson) September 18, 2017

The moment of truth:

thank you antifa 💪🏿 pic.twitter.com/iaEIGneOkC

— jewels ☭ (@BlackBlocBoi) September 18, 2017

thank you for sharing i literally just went around my office and showed it to everyone. nothing brings ppl together like gifs of nazis getting punched in the face.

http://www.mahonkin.com/~milktree/giffs/eating-popcorn/MIKE-TYSON-POPCORN.gif

that come at me bro / no no we're cool transition is animation-perfect

so was nazi dude just going around looking for a fight?

see, you don't have to own an iPhone X to "pay with your face"

It was a hectic day today but every time I felt overwhelmed I just watched that clip a few times and everything felt better.

this looks good https://alternativeright.hopenothate.com/my-year-inside-the-international-alt-right

can we not use a gif (ugh gifs) of a spousal abuser to celebrate the beatdown of someone who quite obviously *does* deserve to get punched? ty

yeah I did think

it's really good xxp

have seen some tweets that the principal guy has some of his own problems (transphobia first among them) :/

https://imgur.com/rt7nIZ5.jpg

Argh I think said tweets may have been referring to Jesse Singal who wrote about Hermansson in the NYT

Keeping track of who to be skeptical of is such a chore

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/opinion/alt-right-white-supremacy-undercover.html?referer=https://t.co/KJeFglUnW6?amp=1

Keeping track of who to be skeptical of is such a chore

― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 20:13 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Left world problems

Gotta love shitshows

https://www.mediaite.com/online/milos-berkeley-free-speech-week-has-completely-fallen-apart-and-he-refuses-to-admit-it/

"Wintrich told Mediaite that Yiannopoulos knew as early as last week that the event was falling apart, but misled the media, UC-Berkeley and his fans — many of whom bought flights and accommodation for the week — by claiming it was still on."

awww the poor things

if you can't trust a professional faux Nazi troll who can you trust?

A "faux Nazi" is just a Nazi

he doesn't have the conviction to be a full-on Nazi, he's an opportunist shyster. that doesn't make him better than a Nazi, but still

c'mon guys milo's house was just destroyed by a hurricane, can't we stop picking on him for *srnkkk* naw i can't keep a straight face, sorry

c'mon guys milo's house was just destroyed by a hurricane

I thought that turned out to be bullshit too.

I don't want to think about Milo enough to be disappointed about terrible things *not* happening to him.

lol clowns

http://www.npr.org/2017/09/22/552427627/why-a-potential-free-speech-week-at-berkeley-is-causing-a-stir?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170922

http://www.dailycal.org/2017/09/22/right-wing-student-groups-invite-bigoted-trolls-invade-campus-guise-free-speech/

i love that 'free speech week' was going to be four days long

stand up for the freedom to say that a week is however fucking long i say it is, motherfucker

i listened to this TAL episode on saturday and idk if it was the content or the extreme heat but i barfed shortly after i heard it
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/626/white-haze

Who could have guessed?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/business/reddit-limits-noxious-content-by-giving-trolls-fewer-places-to-gather.html

A chunk:

A new study by researchers at Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan suggests that the most effective anti-hate tactic may be what amounts to a nuclear option: identifying and shutting down the spaces where hateful speech occurs, rather than targeting bad actors individually or in groups.

The researchers analyzed 100 million posts originating on two forums on Reddit, the hugely popular online message board. The forums, r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown, were among several that Reddit administrators banned in 2015 as part of a sitewide crackdown on poisonous behavior. (In case the names weren’t a tipoff, fatpeoplehate was devoted to photos that mocked overweight people, and CoonTown was filled with racist bile.)

Researchers generated a list of hateful terms used on the two forums, and tracked the use of those terms across Reddit. They also compared the activity of users who posted hateful terms before the bans with those users’ activity after, to determine whether they had infiltrated other Reddit forums.

The goal was to figure out what happened when these toxic communities were shut down. Did the amount of hateful language on Reddit decrease? Did users of hateful forums migrate to other parts of the site? Did any of them change their behavior as a result of the bans?

The study found that, to a large extent, the bans worked. Some users who had posted offensive material on the forums that were shut down stopped using Reddit entirely. Of those who continued to use the site, many migrated to other forums, but they did not bring significant amounts of toxic speech with them, and the forums they moved to did not become more hateful as a result of their presence. Over all, the users who stayed on Reddit after the bans took effect decreased their use of hate speech by more than 80 percent.

pretty rad to see my tax money at work studying reddit bans

so you don't think that studying how to curb hate speech is useful, great thread for that opinion