the alt-right

there are a lot of pickled-brain posh fuckwits who are into Q bollocks, but this guy is the most prominent.

FP'd you for racism

Rapper Kanye West announced that he and his Sunday Service choir will take part in Awaken 2020, a prayer rally featuring dominionists Lou Engle, Ché Ahn, Cindy Jacobs and other evangelists that will be held Saturday, Jan. 18 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. According to one report, West’s announcement sparked such a flood of people registering for free tickets that the event website crashed.

Engle teaches that “the church’s vocation is to rule history with God.” He has used his prayer events to call for an end to abortion in America, to mobilize resistance to LGBTQ equality, and to ask God to “remove” pro-choice Supreme Court justices so that President Donald Trump can replace them with justices who will eliminate a right to abortion.

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kanye-west-joins-dominionist-pro-trump-prophets-for-stadium-prayer-rally/

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/01/14/27811330/proud-boy-tiny-toese-pleads-guilty-to-2018-assault

An interesting Twitter thread (could also be filed in the Screaming Into the Void thread, but whatever).

Tips for journalists:

1) Don't simply quote what an extremist tells you. Find an expert or second source to provide a counter view. Otherwise, you're spreading extremist propaganda. An expert can help you identify code words and undercurrents that might not be obvious.

— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) December 13, 2019

Experts are anti-democratic and anti-First Amendment tho.

Nazis organizing in Richmond VA today? Lee Carter in some kind of safe house after threats to his life. Can't tell size of it, are we looking at Charlottesville II?

Pretty lively over here. Extraodrinary that this stuff isn't even in a private group

https://www.facebook.com/Constitutionlaststand/

It is 7 AM in the city of Richmond, Virginia on the day of what I will be calling the Big Gun Clusterfuck.

Initially a rally by self-admitted 2nd Amendment extremist group VCDL, it has become a lightning rod for militias across the country. pic.twitter.com/olFhpHsEQU

— Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) (@IwriteOK) January 20, 2020

Robert Evans will be updating from the ground throughout the day.

Somehow that doesn't link to his entire twitter thread, so just go check out his timeline.

Anyone calling themself a "militia" should really be in jail without any guns, but guess because of a dumb sentence in yr constitution this is considered acceptable.

Anyone calling themself a "militia" should really be in jail without any guns, but guess because of a dumb sentence in yr constitution this is considered acceptable.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

it's less about what the constitution says and more about what the country is and always has been in practice

A large gun-rights rally in Virginia's state capital unfolded peacefully Monday despite earlier fears of the kind of violence that took place in nearby Charlottesville three years ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/politics/virginia-gun-rights-rally-richmond/index.html

That is really, really good news.

Otm

see, guns are good!

They're not, but fuck it, this could have been really horrible and it wasn't (or at least was much less horrible than it well could have been) and I'm just glad about that in an uncomplicated way.

Elsewhere in the crowd, Justin Burns, 19, and his friend Spencer George, 30, flaunted their own arsenals: Both had strapped assault-style rifles across their chests, with bullets visible in the clips. Spanning the men’s bulletproof vests were more ammo clips.

The duo, both welders, had driven 10 hours to attend the rally. They brought the rifles, Burns said, in case anything goes wrong.

“All it takes is one person to make a bad decision and fire off a round for things to go sideways,” Burns said.

Clutching his AR-15-style rifle, George said it felt “awesome” to see so many gun-toting gun rights activists gathered in one place. The sea of weaponry, he said, made him feel less alone.

I'm always a bit amazed even now by Americans, used to the relatively very high levels of security and stability American citizens enjoy compared with e.g. Syrians, who like to play 'militia' with real military surplus equipment.

the only reason it was nonviolent is because the city went out of their way to make sure these assholes weren't given a target

I'm relieved these assholes didn't murder or hurt anyone, but Lithwick has it right here, calling this march of heavily armed protestors intimidating the majority political position they oppose "peaceful" is deranged: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/richmond-to-impeachment-senate-minority-rule-rules.html

Elections only have consequences when Republicans win; when progressives win and try to do policy they will be met with violence.

i'm just glad my friends in Richmond are ok. i give the armed protesters zero credit for the lack of violent attacks.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EP3lGgTWkAEqWGz.jpg

Pobrecito

Pull the trigger dude

drake no meme: daily stormer using watermarked stock photos to save money
drake yes meme: andrew anglin taking a selfie of himself holding a gun directly to his head to save money

The guy sounds kinda triggered.

The trigger was pulled by the invisible hand

that's clickhole, come on

Story here of alt-right guy being charged with swatting a US govt official, ProPublica, and various others, and maximum charges are 5 years. If this dude were muslim, he'd be facing seriously more time.

Michelle Malkin claims “questioning the numbers of the Holocaust” isn’t antisemitic and neither is questioning the ״dual loyalties״ of “foreign agents”🧐

You read that right...pic.twitter.com/kHmIMQsZ0T

— Adam Milstein (@AdamMilstein) March 2, 2020

Bush era cons either have to go full Nazi or join the #resistance

h

to the gallows for her. no penance

In further hurting the delicate feelings of fascist snowflakes news

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/02/liberal-senator-tells-asio-chief-his-use-of-term-rightwing-can-offend-conservatives

On the memeified aesthetics of contemporary fascism https://t.co/EW9PSv5pBq

— Duncan Bell (@DrDuncanBell) May 28, 2020

an educational (well for me it was!) contemporary US fascism thread featuring breakdance 2, 4chan and Hawaiian shirts

can't believe they've even ruined electric boogaloo jokes now.

seriously? they're taking hawaiian shirts too? a few years ago it was new balance sneakers

ok, just read the thread. lol

they have a habit of never letting memes die

i have some short sleeve shirts with subtle floral patterns, not quite "aloha" shirts. will still be wearing them.

There’s a lot more about the boogaloo phenomenon at Bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/

they have a habit of never letting memes die

new balance did themselves no favors when they basically came out in favor of Trump’s trade talk during 2016

(tbc people who were aghast at Trump’s ostensible trade stances are scarcely better in the Big Scheme, but maybe don’t say positive things about the guy running a presidential campaign on explicit racism)

my takeaway is that now is the perfect time to resurrect Sid and Marty Kroft's show The Bugaloos with a new theme song adapted from "Bugaboo" by Destiny's Child

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXg1AxBXN5g

Nice!

Also,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4hjyjdOHj0

i have a friend in NY who plays boogaloo music (as in, latin dance music) and he was furious when he found out about this.

here's a medium article he wrote about it

https://medium.com/@jonnysemicolon/the-far-right-cannot-erase-the-legacy-of-boogaloo-955d624524f3

Carrying over from recent discussion in the brain worms thread:

https://newsone.com/3848636/candace-owens-receipts-con-artist/

they have a habit of never letting memes die