the alt-right

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

am interested in hearing what their actions and responses might entail - there's a lot of knee-jerk "but freedom of the press" response to any criticism of anything that passes (as the oregonian unfortunately does) for "mainstream media".

shouting 'not fascist' in a crowded fascism

Oregonian Editorial page Editor Laura Gunderson admitted fault today in choosing the headline to Sunday's column—and also over its timing. (It was printed the morning after an anti-Semitic gunman killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue.)

"It would have benefited, in hindsight, with more context from Gibson's Portland protests," she wrote in a statement to local media. "We wrote the headline, not Hovde, and it missed the mark. We also regret the timing of the column, which was edited on the Friday before the shootings in Pittsburgh."

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2018/10/29/portland-activists-call-for-a-boycott-of-the-oregonians-local-advertisers-after-opinion-column-hails-joey-gibson/

lol what the hell

today I learned that alt-right pizzagater Jack Posobiec wrote Game of Thrones fan fiction about Donald Trump and a teen aged Sansa Stark falling in love pic.twitter.com/PqtD8977BV

— Brandt (@UrbanAchievr) November 15, 2018

god they’re all such fucking gross dorks

haha otm

there's this dichotomy of them believing they are the last stand of normal regular americans and also being insane weirdos

No talk of Deeyah Khan's White Right: Meeting The Enemy? I saw it a few months ago and it's good. If I recall correctly it's 6 Nazis and 2 former Nazis interviewed. A lot of them look visibly uncomfortable and a couple definitely soften (but they're still extremists for sure) but Richard Spencer acts like a cartoon villain throughout (but he was never interviewed alone, always with his guys).

It's on Netflix along with her earlier film, Jihad.

I think their desire to identify as protectors of normal America very much flows from their insecurities and weirdnesses.

philly fash gathering tomorrow

gritty is going to dine on flesh tomorrow

I hope the city pelted Santa with batteries has a commensurate response in store for fucking nazis

very little about today's world gives me more pleasure than gritty instantly becoming the face of the left

my pal who spends his time keeping up with the right says we shouldn't expect much showing tomorrow, another UTR 2-style wild outnumbering

https://www.facebook.com/radixmedia/photos/a.950183278327026/2572683009410370/?type=3&theater

the cherry on top of this excellent news day:
https://splinternews.com/proud-boys-failed-to-redact-their-new-dumb-bylaws-and-a-1830700905

"Heath Hair"??