the alt-right

otm

so the only way to depopularise jordy p is to...

― imago

convince the world that he was the guy who did "dur dur d'etre bebe"

News nobody everybody saw coming: Milo dropping lawsuit against former publisher

aww but he was doing such a good job of defending himself

lol I didn't even know his garbage book came out

And all it cost him was $$$s and the chance for us all to learn that even the clueless editors at S&S who commissioned the book thought he was a risible, terrible, moronic writer.

man, FUCK norm macdonald

milol

Milo is selling supplements on Infowars. This is not a drill. pic.twitter.com/zieQXOqtRi

— Ross McCafferty (@RossMcCaff) February 21, 2018

Milo's entire purpose to the right wing condensed into a 16 sec clip pic.twitter.com/qWvvdpxgbm

— PeterNorway (@classiclib3ral) February 22, 2018

talking about this today in my new job which i started last week

MIlo worked here for a couple of months (2013ish need to check). CEO went on holiday with him in Nassau

NOBODY is talking about how the online depression community has been infiltrated by alt-right recruiters deliberately preying on the vulnerable.

There NEED to be public warnings about this. 'Online pals' have attempted to groom me multiple times when at my absolute lowest.

— Mister Happy Die Happy (@MrHappyDieHappy) February 23, 2018

long thread in there

Is there a way to try to get this young man help? At the end of the thread he keeps saying he is going to kill himself.

at least arm him and get him to take out a few alt right recruiters before he goes

not funny imo

I’m guessing the popularity of the thread will lead ppl to reach out to him. still, it’s jarring in our online age to have ppl make red flag statements like that and the vast majority of the responses breeze past them

twitter is blocked on my computer - what's the nature of this infiltration? message boards? i know alt right people have infiltrated all sorts of communities, typically older communities with lax moderation - i think they've completely taken over, for instance, gamefaqs. i don't know what the online depression community is like, because i've never wanted to actively seek the company of other depressed people (it just works out like that in practice)

2018 is crazy

a couple commenters mention that it's similar to scientology; another parallel that's not mentioned is the general disdain for therapists and psychologists among this crowd, to the point of discouraging people from seeing them ("go see a therapist" may be a cliche in certain communities and advice sites, but it's way better a cliche than the opposite)

might align with masculine attitudes toward talk therapy, that it's a waste of time & money, something that only women do, being unable to open up to someone.

that's definitely a big part of it - "you're not the problem, snowflake society is the problem, so you don't need to be cured you need to get angry"

it's pretty obvious why a politics based on bigotry and blame wouldn't be too interested in self-analysis

this bullshit bias against talk therapy extends outside rightwing worlds, it's really depressing. only logical argument against it is prohibitive cost for some

oh sure they're not the only naysayers and there's all kinds of nuanced arguments to be had about the value of therapy and its structure as in industry but it's clear why the redpill crowd are agin it

yeah there's sometimes a kernel of that (a lot of people in these communities self identify as "NEETs") but it isn't the entire story or even the biggest factor

true

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chuck-johnson-survivor-audition-tape_us_5a952956e4b02cb368c568be

The clash of titans. The great debate of our age.
Who is the real enemy - postmodern neo-marxists, or neo-marxist postmodernists? pic.twitter.com/OTo6SoKIRx

— Rocko's Modern Basilisk 🏴 (@InnerPartisan) February 26, 2018

gotcha! the real enemy is white men

Oh my god. The Orpheum?

"philosophy", I may never stop vomiting

barf

re: "postmodern neo-marxists", I consider this the final word on that

hi i'm a postmodern marxist. that means i believe in the deconstruction of the master narrative and the proliferation of perspectives, but also, somehow, simultaneously, believe only in marxism.

— your friend john (@johnsemley3000) January 25, 2018

Your friend John is otm. And anyone who has a problem with that position should read Sloterdijks Critique of Cynical Reason.

whinging about postmodernism is like whinging about oxygen tbh

Again, otm. Fuck the metamodernists, though...

cute story from the Bay Area

Ten times in the last six month, Revolution Books, the far left bookstore in the Telegraph Channing Mall, has found itself under attack from far-right activists.

The latest skirmish was Sat. March 4, the one-year anniversary of the pro-Trump rally in Martin Luther King Jr. Park that saw people on the right and Antifa and BAMN activists duking it out for control. A group of people who called themselves “Berkeley Warriors” on a live Facebook feed came from Sacramento and stormed the store.

“Fucking Commie scum,” one demonstrator, Rob Cantrall, said on a video taken by bookstore staff while Reiko Redmonde, a volunteer manager at the store, tried to prevent him and others from entering. “You are commie scum. We are going to burn down your bookstore. You know that, right?”

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/03/07/right-wing-activists-target-berkeleys-revolution-books

This headline from the LA Review of Books is so great I'm almost afraid to read the piece for fear of almost certainly being let down.

A Messiah-cum-Surrogate-Dad for Gormless Dimwits: On Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life”

Real life feels like The Screwfly Solution. Mass delusion and violent hysteria

“The intellectual heirs to the obnoxious right-wing shock-jocks of yesteryear” is a good line from that LARB piece

How are teenage boys even hearing about Jordan Peterson in the first place? Does he show up as a suggestion in a youtube Overwatch playlist or something? Twitch advertising? It's terrifying that young men are apparently such fertile ground for that kind of shit right now.

It has to be mostly Youtube. All kinds of stuff on Youtube leads towards Jordan Peterson. Pew Die Pie was holding up a copy of his book last month.

At least in Canada, he has been getting a ridiculous amount of mainstream media coverage for years at this point. The National Post opinion pages were practically functioning as his cheerleading squad for a while. P sure it would be easier than it was for teenage boys to hear about Chomsky in the 90s. xp

last night I was in a coffee shop and the girl next to me was watching many Jordan Peterson videos. I was confused

Adverts for his book are all over the fucking London Underground

last night I was in a coffee shop and the girl next to me was watching many Jordan Peterson videos. I was confused

Prepping for a blind date?

The apparently authentic enthusiasm for JP among young people--as well as its magnitude and reach--might be the most distressing thing for me since Trump was elected. If the kids aren't alright, I'm running out of things to feel optimistic about

My preferred response when encountering such: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ab9df7b8-db3b-4772-982f-bdf8e9e5c90e

gonna hope coffee shop girl was watching jp vids as part of a 'know your enemy' manouevre

quick survey of the youth in my experience is that v v few are paying attention to JP but every one of them will start a band