the alt-right

I don’t understand that tweet. What do I win

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)

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.

I think you have to be way more Twitter/Tumblr-involved to get that tweet (I don't).

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?

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.

^ Same here, thanks ILX

a spikeder
a what? i googled and found no satisfying answer

http://www.spiked-online.com/

online came a spikeder

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?

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.

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)

Is this a global right wing nutter thing - Tony Abbot is famous for eating onions like apples.

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 ...

pic.twitter.com/cvIC2vRu42

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) November 20, 2017

Mocking the Gorka loadout special:

http://taskandpurpose.com/gorka-edc-guns-pocket-constitution-lol/

fuck me look at that waistcoat

http://49m47r1ce5b927clot3yajgk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/GorkaLede-840x420.jpg

dad jeans / skinny belt is chefkiss.jpg

(Via @ericswerdlin) pic.twitter.com/Osp2mPZnOh

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 25, 2017

genuine lol

All foreign revenue is untaxed after one year.

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.)

Steranko is a MAGA chud, sadly.

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Steranko is a Trump supporter fwiw

Ah rats, now I’m depressed

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

Nevermind Steranko, can't Marvel and DC force a cease & desist? Where are giant evil corporations when you need them?

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?

Sort of answers itself

My god this story is pathetic

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-lucian-wintrich-uconn-national-reax-20171129-story.html

Steranko is a MAGA chud, sadly.

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

gahhh

Steranko looks like a character from Dan Pussey, which makes sense, because he is.

woah, if you'd asked me five minutes ago i'd have sworn jim steranko was dead.

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.

tag yourself. i'm this guy pic.twitter.com/2jDykw5rLG

— Stefan Heck (@boring_as_heck) November 30, 2017

lol white ppl going to college! how fucking white can you be!

find other hobbies

Wait are ppl actually surprised re steranko cuz um

Sorry fi MAGA chud

Sonned in a MAGA chud beef

This Sam Seder shit is fucking pathetic.

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

also of note, Cernovich trying to frame a prominent Democratic Senator for sexual assault, which I think is kind of a big crime

Dude's really having a stellar week, his appearance on On The Media was hilarious.

the one where he said "I DISAVOW YOUR INTERPRETATION" and then hung up? that was so brutal.

ya i lost it

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!

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/