the alt-right

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

AdBru seems to be having a crappy few days

it's good all the rest of your tax money is being used really well then

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

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, September 26, 2017 12:57 AM (fifteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a shitty post fyi

guys Bruneau is like Pennywise, he feeds on these criticisms

its not that bad of a post

it's part of a series nobody subscribed to but nonetheless had delivered

k i'll bite. so what's the real world implementation of this?

reddit is, like, society, man.

bans are removal from society. we already have that in place, jails.

mods enact the bans, they have the power to ban users. so in the real world they would be cops and/or judges.

control + f doesn't work in the real world but we have something called profiling. i guess the idea is to grant the police the legal right to seek out speech they deem threatening. tbf they already do this with what's in place now.

so let's look at this solution. we are going to fight hate speech by empowering an already racist and abusive justice system with the legal right to lock people away for saying things it declares hate speech.

combine this with our wonderful Patriot Act anti-terror ways and the current administration and this would be like giving a loaded gun to a toddler.

k i'll bite. so what's the real world implementation of this?

reddit is, like, society, man.

a bar. a bar is a play where people are free to gather and talk. if a group in the corner starts chanting nazi slogans, they hopefully get banned from the bar.

life is a play, too. we just haven't been told our lines yet.

*takes the deepest toke*

All the world's a stage
and all the men and women merely nazis

fuckin cropdust this thread

this is good h/t to chaki

https://youtu.be/Sx4BVGPkdzk

Yeah, Contra’s stuff is fun.

Quite a day!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.vp3pxOLLB#.dxmOZjBB6

He added that during his karaoke performance, his "severe myopia" made it impossible for him to see the Hitler salutes a few feet away.

All kinds of fun!

In addition to tech and entertainment, Yiannopoulos had hidden helpers in the liberal media against which he and Bannon fought so uncompromisingly. A long-running email group devoted to mocking stories about the social justice internet included, predictably, Yiannopoulos’s friend Ann Coulter, but also Mitchell Sunderland, a senior staff writer at Broadly, Vice’s women’s channel. According to its “About” page, Broadly “is devoted to representing the multiplicity of women's experiences. … we provide a sustained focus on the issues that matter most to women.”

“Please mock this fat feminist,” Sunderland wrote to Yiannopoulos in May 2016, along with a link to an article by the New York Times columnist Lindy West, who frequently writes about fat acceptance. And while Sunderland was Broadly’s managing editor, he sent a Broadly video about the Satanic Temple and abortion rights to Tim Gionet with instructions to “do whatever with this on Breitbart. It’s insane.” The next day, Breitbart published an article titled “‘Satanic Temple’ Joins Planned Parenthood in Pro-Abortion Crusade.”

In a statement to BuzzFeed News, a Vice spokesperson wrote, "We are shocked and disappointed by this highly inappropriate and unprofessional conduct. We just learned about this and have begun a formal review into the matter."

The previous November, Yiannopoulos emailed Bannon with a bone to pick. Breitbart London reported that a London college student behind a popular social justice hashtag had threatened the anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller.

“The story is horseshit and we should never have published it,” Yiannopoulos wrote. “Reckless and stupid. … Strongly recommend we pull. it’s insanely defamatory. I spoke to pamela geller and even she said it was rubbish. We’re outright lying about this girl and surely we’re better than that. We can and should win by telling the truth.”

Six minutes later, Bannon wrote back to his tech editor in a fury. “Your (sic) full of shit. When I need your advice on anything I will ask. ... The tech site is a total clusterfuck---meaningless stories written by juveniles. You don’t have a clue how to build a company or what real content is. And you don’t have long to figure it out or your (sic) gone. … You are magenalia (sic).”

How did buzzfeed get those docs? Like emails I get but how did they get Milo's texts to Rebekah Mercer? Milo himself?

need a shower after reading that

there's so much information in that article it's difficult to process - what could the possible repercussions be of this information leaking?