the alt-right

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?

I doubt there will be any, it's too labyrinthine, too inside baseball

one more reason to hate Vice, I suppose (not that I needed any more)

bummer :/

the outing of some of the breitbart fellow travelers is interesting and sad

are the actual emails linked anywhere?

a lot of people in my office right now confused and pissed about their journo friends being outed it seems

if these leads to fewer people working with/cooperating with Breitbart that's great

Oh joy!

Favorite detail from this incredibly comprehensive story: that Fake Steve Jobs dipshit was pen pals with Milo https://t.co/c02YGZXJp6 pic.twitter.com/Um6M9AEpmI

— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) October 5, 2017

Lyons deleted his twitter today

It's a start.

Baked Alaska Public Humiliation Fetish Compilation Volume Onehttps://t.co/yPGqyaJ6Uc #MilkLeaks pic.twitter.com/XC6DclrXon

— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) October 5, 2017

Maybe I'm being naive but those emails really don't sound like David Auerbach to me. I only follow him on Facebook but it seems so out of character for him!

you're being naïve

he's also tacitly admitted it on twitter

he's disputing it afaict

Doesn't the story say he says 'that wasn't me' after being emailed at the address in the emails?

major bummer if true

everyone is bad, you shouldn't actually like anything

wow @ moldbug watching the election at thiel's house

Not surprised but still hilarious that Bannon misuses "your" in those emails. Also lmao @ "You are magenalia."

magenalia = d&d supplement title

yeah it's a lars von trier/pta collab

The Land of Magenalia

Stealing that one, sorry Babo

No you didn't. https://t.co/xi7XYwTqMg

— 💀zombië queen💀 (@UnburntWitch) October 6, 2017

who would have thought that an industry based on building personality cults would be rife with sociopaths. i'm just glad i have a new reason to give my mom when she asks why i just don't get a job in media—"you raised me too well and i'm not a sociopath"

Huh, turns out the leftist feminists were correct all along.

Again.

Still, I'm sure lessons will be learned.

the Baked Alaska dude is a pretty amusing sidelight to this story, this "alpha male" constantly posting videos of himself getting brutally owned over and over again feels like some kind of performance art

A friend of mine knew him in high school and was not surprised at his general life arc.

was it widely known before this article that milo's stuff is often ghostwritten? don't think i'd heard that before

imagine being so dumb and/or lazy that you don't even write your own shitty copy

less than two hours. dude pioneered an entirely new non-canon way of being mad online pic.twitter.com/LuWFzt4Wdn

— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) October 6, 2017

was it widely known before this article that milo's stuff is often ghostwritten? don't think i'd heard that before

It's so awful in a boring way that anyone coudl have written it, including Milo if he wasn't a lazy coked-up monster.

xp man yall are vultures

there was a piece sometime last year about his 44 interns

halfway to 88

In an April 6 email, Allum Bokhari mentioned having had access to an account of Yiannopoulos’s with “a password that began with the word Kristall.” Kristallnacht, an infamous 1938 riot against German Jews carried out by the SA — the paramilitary organization that helped Hitler rise to power — is sometimes considered the beginning of the Holocaust. In a June 2016 email to an assistant, Yiannopoulos shared the password to his email, which began “LongKnives1290.” The Night of the Long Knives was the Nazi purge of the leadership of the SA. The purge famously included Ernst Röhm, the SA’s gay leader. 1290 is the year King Edward I expelled the Jews from England.