the alt-right

https://www.gofundme.com/help-me-divorce-quotalt-right-leaderquot-richard-spencer

These guys's ability to monetize douchery may be their most significant achievement

described himself as a Libertarian, and had even previously dated an operative in the Ron Paul movement. [...] His name was Richard Spencer. To assume that this man would become politically radicalized in the public eye just a few years down the road was beyond my wildest imagination.

Not much of an imagination, then.

who could've predicted someone who admired ron paul would turn out to be a white supremacist

These guys's ability to monetize douchery may be their most significant achievement

Yiannopolous is broke/heavily in debt iirc

Yeah but what a run that was.

ehh in 2007/2008 Ron Paul wasn't really that fringe iirc

https://www.gofundme.com/help-me-divorce-quotalt-right-leaderquot-richard-spencer

― sleeve, Tuesday, January 15, 2019 12:59 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hadn't followed the previous Spencer abuse stuff. It really shouldn't be surprising at all, yet there is still something sort of striking about how he really is exactly what you'd expect him to be.

ehh in 2007/2008 Ron Paul wasn't really that fringe iirc

There's a direct pipeline between Paul stans and open white nationalism.

Which isn't too shocking, given https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/the-story-behind-ron-pauls-racist-newsletters/250338/

I know that now, but over a decade ago it wasn't what he was widely known for (at least among the libertarian set - one friend - at my high school). but obviously if you're someone like RS the pipeline was there. I think for most people he was the legalize it dude, plus anti-war & taxation. I do remember getting into an argument with this friend about RP being pro-life, though.

the sentence being mocked was written in the present though

sorry my reading comprehension is severely compromised today i have like 3 colds and my hands are covered in gauze

do tell

the buried lede is that Spencer's wife was more knowledgeable on historical stuff and had the horrible views before meeting him, and likely did ghostwriting for him

my knuckles are all fucked up and cracked and dry and bleeding and i have no idea why. i also had food poisoning this weekend. ama

sick sh*t

https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-loomer-tricks-undocumented-men-for-her-latest-stunt

there just isn't an end to her 15 minutes ignominious enough

pretty cool that she can hop a wall into nancy pelosi's property and try opening her front door and not get shot to death right there on the lawn

also good:

Last week, prosecutors in Corvallis, OR decided they would not pursue charges against four activists who were protesting the presence of Oregon neo-Nazi Jimmy Marr and his associates in Corvallis. In December of last year, Marr parked his swastika-emblazoned truck in downtown Corvallis. Shortly after arriving near the truck, the activists were brutally attacked by neo-Nazis. The Nazis fled, while the activists who were subject to the beating were arrested for Disorderly Conduct II. The arrests, quite literally, added insult to injury. CLDC attorneys Lauren Regan and Cooper Brinson, along with National Lawyer's Guild Vice President, Cameron Green (Green Law LLC) represented the protestors.

here's a podcast by a guy who listens to all the alt right podcasts. the first two cover richard spencer and david duke.
http://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com

welp found out how i end up in prison

This MAGA loser gleefully bothering a Native American protestor at the Indigenous Peoples March. pic.twitter.com/jIb5K68vIs

— Talia (@2020fight) January 19, 2019

"Write the principal, Robert Brown, of Covington Catholic High in Kentucky and tell them what you think of this display of "Catholic graces". Phone system is full, fb page down. Email still works! Browe AT covcath DOT org"

David Klion
‏@DavidKlion

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One of these kids is gonna be confirmed to the Supreme Court some day

Pretty depressing

can't wait for the school's official response. i'm expecting not too much different from Baraboo and their clutch of budding nazis

Yeah, I thought of the Baraboo photo as well. But am I wrong in getting the impression that this is getting more attention than that?

There's also a particular identifiable victim in this case, the man being harassed. I don't know if that could make a difference.

There seems to be absolute outrage left right and centre about this all over my socials, by comparison i don't remember much about the chucklehounds doing the nazi salutes. There's something especially eerie about being stared at silently while you try and go about your business. Anyone who's done long periods of performing in public places or whatever knows exactly the feeling. It speaks of a very specifically disturbed kind of mind to do that type of shit. What a toerag. He's probably just ruined his whole life.

nah i suspect he'll be just fine.

the only suitable remedy i can see is to take his family's home and make them walk to Oklahoma.

Prez will still manage to "both-sides" this somehow

I can't get over that there was minimum one adult around who was watching this and not removing psychochild from the premises

They were there for an anti-abortion rally.

I refuse to follow politics anymore this shit is too exhausting see y'all in 2020

otm

man what are you supposed to do when it's kids who are chuds

have some fuckin self-respect, kids

All teenagers are chuds.

maybe, but it takes a certain kind of chud to behave like that.

may have been said elsewhere, but this generation of young conservatives is smaller than previous eras, but its preoccupations are almost entirely white/male ID politics

nice to see pretty much everyone on the internet is having the same reaction to that kid as I am

He's now facing expulsion from his Catholic high school so there's that, at least.

All teenagers are chuds.

i don't think this is even remotely true?

He's now facing expulsion from his Catholic high school

for getting caught

I thought that, on average, US Catholics were less racist than members of other denominations.

All teenagers are chuds.

i don't think this is even remotely true?

― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Sunday, January 20, 2019 2:35 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah c.f. parkland kids

unless unperson is 12 years old in which case fair dos

All teenagers are chuds.

If this was meant affectionately then aye, I agree. If not, well.

I thought that, on average, US Catholics were less racist than members of other denominations.

― pomenitul

i believe us catholicism is going through a significant amount of, uh, demographic change.

I feel like there are definitely some vaguely liberal dioceses in the (urban) US but you’re talking about religious white ppl in Kentucky. it’s essentially a white ID movement at this point whether you’re taking about evangelicals or conservative Catholics.

A few people posting that kids and parents at this school would be better Trump-voter profile subjects than the usual diner denizens, seeing as they are well-off and educated yet, hmm, still resentful, vindictive, entitled ignorant racist assholes.

There’s educated and ‘educated’ though: the college-educated Trump voter probably didn’t leave their home state for tertiary education and could best be described as petit bourgeois.