the alt-right

That was in response to a fox news story claiming this was an incident of “antifa” violence

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45851665

gavin m makes me wish that fentanyl cut heroin was more of a thing in the 90s and 00s

(i was on a panel with him once and all he talked about was his smack shooting past. how glamorous. he’s a fucking idiot.)

Vice Magazine was the trojan horse for so much of this back in the day, it's pretty disgusting to go back and think about early issues which were scattered for free strategically around hipster hoods in L.A. (and i'm sure even moreso in NYC and the like.)

oh yeah they were all over new york

the only "antifa violence" I can seem to find anything about in the incident is someone pulling a MAGA hat off a guy's head.

Proud Boys seems like a vehicle for basement-dwelling softies to run with a few actual skinhead gang members and feel tough as they get their one kick in on a defenseless guy getting jumped by 20 people.

I used to work for a publisher that put out two issues of the Vice "Dos and Don'ts" photos, which often amounted to photographic sexual assault of unconsenting young women in various compromising positions. So I'm glad Vice "grew up" or whatever but spare me.

everyone i ever met that regularly read Vice was either an idiot or an asshole. and yes those early issues were all over Manhattan in the early 00s.

I definitely know a few former "Vice hipster" types who have gone alt right.

A strange memory that just came back to me: in the late 90s when I became acquainted with that crew of people in college and didn't really know anything whatsoever about that scene/milieux, I remember observing that there was this set of them who were huge record nerds but listened to almost no black music whatsoever, as far as I could tell, and I just found that really odd, like how could you be a music nerd and have so little interest in black music. At the time I just kind of dismissed the thought, but now it makes sense to me.

Cernovich is going back to jail lol

9 members to be charged (it seems)

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/411508-nypd-pursuing-charges-against-9-more-individuals-in-right-wing-proud

lol, what a turd

Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes goes on Newsmax TV to distance himself from members of his group who attacked protestors Saturday night in NYC. He says he doesn't "control these guys," and "I'm the founder, not the leader." https://t.co/8PWoRqwUfA

— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) October 15, 2018

god what an utter piece of shit he is, was, and forever will be

Cernovich is going back to jail lol

Wait is this real, I hope?

this falling down look is obv intentional right

https://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_1200,h_630,c_fill,f_auto,q_auto:eco,g_face/l_i-red-square_chw4fj,w_100,h_100,g_south_east/https://inews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Falling-Down-3.jpg

Please share this video. People need to understand how dangerous Gavin McInnes and his gang the Proud Boys are.

Notify his employers @CRTV and @FoxNews. Maybe we can prevent him from getting someone else killed. pic.twitter.com/zp0VBrmciR

— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) October 17, 2018

connecting some important dots IMO

https://medium.com/s/story/why-are-the-proud-boys-so-obsessed-with-masturbation-c9932364ebe2

In the same way that Jews are bonded by a shared rejection of shellfish and pork

stopped reading here

that’s an uh interesting perspective on judaism alright

comparing Jews to a white supremacist organization, what could go wrong

also implying that kashrut is a method of social control rather than a survival mechanism for avoiding trichinosis in a tribal desert environment is just stupid

thank you, missed that :(

tbf I had no idea about this #nowanks thing so I guess I learned something else I didn't know about these hateful idiots at least

This essay is not so bad.

I agree with her overall analysis. And prohibitions definitely seeve a group bonding function for all sorts of groups—it’s not necessarily a bad thing.

def makes me think if Wilhelm Reich's theories/writing, suppression of sexuality in the service of fascism

if of

iirc the writer is jewish

still stupid

well there's as much proof for it as the trichinosis thing i.e. none

idk it makes more sense than Jews being a bunch of people who just happened to not like pork and shellfish

you're being facetious

Do we know why those laws came into practice? No. Do they as function as a set of behaviours that sets Jews apart as a distinct group? Absolutely

Not sure she claimed that. Seemed more like dietary restrictions were one kind of social practice that helped bind the Jewish community through the years. Not the only one.

Xp

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/23/white-supremacist-richard-spencer-physical-abuse-divorce-filings

FBI bagged another one
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/FBI-Arrests-White-Nationalist-Who-Fled-the-Country-13332908.php

A worthwhile Twitter thread from David Neiwert.

1) For some reason, folks on the right have extremely short memories when it comes to acts of right-wing political violence. This is especially the case when they are in the middle of a propaganda campaign to make "the left" look violent. A long thread with lots of pix follows. pic.twitter.com/D6MtFP4k65

— David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert) October 15, 2018

xp great, he'll go back to prison and grow his personal brand

An embarrassing day for those on the right claiming the Left is violent.

if they were capable of admitting to embarrassment, sure

billionaire financial speculators, former US presidents, and cable news organizations - all of whom are complicit in if not directly responsible for multiple imperial genocides - are now "figures on the left" pic.twitter.com/7ViigkygJp

— BrundlePsyPal (@YouSeemFine) October 24, 2018

woah was convinced that tweet was gonna be shared by Simon H or Morbs

this is good: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/25/tommy-robinson-and-the-far-rights-new-playbook

https://communemag.com/alt-right-new-york/

During my three months inside New York’s alt-right, The Daily Stormer Book Club never got around to reading any books. Instead, they plotted their move off the internet and onto the streets, drank beer, and shot the shit. Through the Book Club I entered a network of far-right activists integrating the old guard of white nationalism with millennial internet trolls while drawing new recruits from the websites and podcasts of online youth culture. Much of their shadowy organizing happens openly in New York City bars, sometimes within earshot of the normies.

When "the Left" comes to mean "anybody who isn't a violent sociopathic bigot" this shit is easy and negligible

aw, poor babies

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/27/18032930/paypal-banned-gab-following-pittsburgh-shooting

stevie, restrain your fingerwagging bullshit

physician heal thyself

The Portland paper controlled by Orange County conservative types ran this lovely op-ed today by a Scaife/Devos-funded rightwing thinktank alum:

We will be announcing actions and responses to the recent decisions by @Oregonian shortly. Freedom of the press is something we should all cherish but that does not mean their speech should be free of criticism. Stay tuned. pic.twitter.com/eGqbseWVEe

— PDX Resistance ✊ (@Pdx_resistance) October 29, 2018