the alt-right

what -- why is that alt-right guy into leftist American punk

because their political ideology is little more than inchoate male rage?

just spitballing here

anyway i wasn’t really sure where to put this but

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jenna-abrams-russias-clown-troll-princess-duped-the-mainstream-media-and-the-world

anyway i wasn’t really sure where to put this but

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jenna-abrams-russias-clown-troll-princess-duped-the-mainstream-media-and-the-world🕸

need a CARCOSA wall

Good news, everyone: the Antifa menace has been successfully scared into submission!

The only way Antifa Day was ever going to end: Conservatives bragging that the fake enemy of their conspiracy theory was too afraid to show. pic.twitter.com/wi8mZdY7Fe

— Jack Smith IV (@JackSmithIV) November 5, 2017

"Can't make this up"

just checked both my closet and under the bed, and the Boogeyman was too chicken to show up in either! 😂😂😂 ROTFLOL

those are probably all russians anyway

Meanwhile these fuckheads are making shit up as usual

Antifa discuss attacking churches pic.twitter.com/qeFFCjgEwo

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 3, 2017

Mass shooting at The First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, which has a largely white denomination.

Antifa terrorist attack?

— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) November 5, 2017

The far right is determined to pin the #SutherlandSprings shooting on Antifa pic.twitter.com/KjJht32E16

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) November 6, 2017

I feel like a future mass shooter is going to come from their ranks. If you search "Sutherland Springs" on Twitter, you'll see all kinds of crazy claims. One says the government and their MKULTRA programs are behind it ; another says that the shooter brought a copy of Das Kapital to the service and declared a communist revolution. Never mind that antifa tend to be anarchists and not communists, and certainly not Soros-funded Democrats. If these people aren't trolls and bots, they're frightening.

Gary Younge schooling R1chard Sp3enc3er

On a personal journey across white America, writer Gary Younge came face to face with alt-right leader Richard Spencer @Channel4 Thurs 10pm pic.twitter.com/25f0gHWmjO

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 7, 2017

not an easy watch, but the look of incomprehension when Younge introduces himself is priceless

I needed to watch the video of him being punched straight afterwards

It's good to get him on camera being a straightforward dimbulb racist, rather than his usual slick dog whistle approach

Even the way he was holding his drink was insufferable

credit to Younge for restraining his anger while still absolutely pwning the greasy little fucker

more footage from that interview here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puJ-arJgkZU

"ancient egypt doesn't count as africa"

The "you'll never be an Englishman" line is just so shocking

it's like the daily mail comment section went to finishing school

comment section derp is the most powerful poetry of our time apparently

Spencer's transparent shock that the interviewer was a black man was pretty telling

it's true, up to that point I wasn't sure if Spencer was a Nazi or not

FAP for marching

We could start a band

Charles Pierce has the right idea regarding the Page transcript:

I found that the best way to read it was to dim all the lights and play all my Hawkwind albums really loud.

oops, wrong thread...

Texas shooter was member of violent far-right Atomwaffen(tentative) and/or lots of money changed hands among neo-nazi groups just prior to the attack -> right media claiming antifa/leftist involvement -

dark shit here, cw violent racism, homophobia etc
https://medium.com/@EugeneVDebian/sutherland-springs-shooter-member-of-far-right-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen-a358b920fc86

thx ian

obviously this is unproven at this point but the evidence as described is pretty compelling.

i cannot believe that spencer piece.

I needed to watch the video of him being punched straight afterwards

this

Also, Spencer's "You'll never be an Englishman" line... Spencer will never be a Native American!

The videos designed to terrify kids on YT thing (see excrable kids programming thread) could be linked to gamergate apparently

Translation: I think the alt-right underground involved in the worst of G*g*te is responsible for the YouTube child abuse video phenomenon.

— Corey Pein (@coreypein) November 7, 2017

I needed to watch the video of him being punched straight afterwards
this

― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, November 7, 2017 3:09 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha that is what i did

xp i cannot really understand that tweet thread. what is he talking about???

Also, Spencer's "You'll never be an Englishman" line... Spencer will never be a Native American!

And he's not English either!! Obv he still wouldn't get to tell him anything if he was, but the fact that this entitled prick thinks it's his call to make...

i cannot really understand that tweet thread. what is he talking about???

https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2

(fwiw I kinda think that might be missing the point of that article tho: the real terror is not the trolls making these videos - it doesn't take a big conspiracy, there were anti-Barney the Dinosaur sites in the late 90's - but the bots and algorithms hoovering those up and spitting them back out in 5 Hours Of Peppa The Pig videos)

The freak family stuff in that article is majorly effed. Interesting stuff but I wish manplainy guys who want to write 5000 word Medium posts could learn to, you know, edit.

that article seems to be going viral, which I think is good

xp to daniel yea i did read the medium piece yesterday but yea i agree it seems like a stretch (based on that tweet thread) that alt-right gamergate dudes are responsible for this phenomena.....

He’s writing it really poorly but I think he’s saying they’re taking advantage of/expanding on something already there, not totally responsible for it.

we need a separate thread for that Kids YouTube article. it's long because, unlike the button-pushing NYT article, he's trying to map out in detail the entire phenomenon so that it doesn't instantly snowball into hysterical descriptions like 'YouTube Child Abuse Phenomenon' but it doesn't take much for someone to already be tying it directly to gamergate

(says the fully grown adult who's just lost another 20 minutes to skimming through the highlights of 'Spiderman Frozen Elsa PREGNANT Hulk Vs Joker Venom Scream Face Killer Clown Fun SuperHeroes Prank', 2.5 million views)

it would be a good idea for a separate thread, but for now it's been discussed here:

execrable children's programming pox

the medium article is fascinating. Whether or not you think the author is hyping it all a little too much you can't say he's not thinking through how all of it works.

yes I think it needs to be that long. the NYT article is punchy, but leads to panicked conclusions about 'child abuse' when the true issue is more akin to market failure.

friend has a executive pal at Nickelodeon who is obsessing about finding out who's behind Animals For Kids, I imagine they will get a show out of this. it's definitely not appropriate for unsupervised infants or babies or children but it is admittedly some kind of brilliant. it would be nice to at least know who the hell they are and what they're thinking. countless millions of combined views.

way off the alt-right topic now but just to show how all these issues overlap, here are my two favorite pulls from each of the articles, look how easily they also apply to alt-right quandaries

NYT: Google has largely defended its errors by pointing to the enormous amount of content it hosts, including more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube every minute.

Bridle: I have no idea how they can respond without shutting down the service itself, and most systems which resemble it. We have built a world which operates at scale, where human oversight is simply impossible, and no manner of inhuman oversight will counter most of the examples I’ve used in this essay.

I reckon it is rare to find someone as well read as Richard Spencer and with his high level of education bringing in all sorts of ideas. He spoke no lies in that video. But there is no doubt in my mind it was done to spread more left wing lies. There ain't no arguments in that video. No siree Bob. Just running their yappers. It is a real shame he is driven by hate though.

lol, oh you

No sireeee Bob!

xpost to myself, it is definitely the case that Bridle did not link to the worst stuff. The worst stuff is easily found and is utterly, utterly nightmarish. I didn't even post this to the People-Making thread because I respect wanting to keep it positive there; the Animals For Kids stuff is demented / goony & still has a discernable moral center -- the second you go to something like 'Mickey Mouse Peeking Girlfriends Bathing Full Episodes! Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck New Cartoon', your youtube auto-cue will become a living nightmare and you don't want to do that on a shared family computer

the h3h3 channel (not a fan) exposed SOME of the "toy" channels being created by the dudes that were doing the viral "it's just a prank bro" videos and then stopped making money on the monetization so they jumped over to where the $$$ is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBWf6Zvn0jQ