https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/12/us/unite-the-right-charlottesville-anniversary/index.html
apparently the white supremacists only had around two dozen people show up on their side today
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 13 August 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
kind of freaked out that I'm apparently a 45 minute drive from the neo-nazi stronghold
― mh, Monday, 13 August 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
think of it as on opportunity. how long do you think it will take you to paint their building pink over night?
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 13 August 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
lol sorry that was a joke referencing m bison's mispost
there is no stronghold at "Map Ref. 42°N 94°W"
― mh, Monday, 13 August 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
well, we gotta do something with all this pink paint...
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 13 August 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/12/us/unite-the-right-charlottesville-anniversary/index.htmlapparently the white supremacists only had around two dozen people show up on their side today― Trϵϵship, Monday, August 13, 2018 3:15 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Trϵϵship, Monday, August 13, 2018 3:15 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Was nice of DC Metro to give two dozen assholes their private subway ride to the protest
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 13 August 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
maybe next time they could just seal the subway car doors and drop it off on a side track that's no longer in use
― mh, Monday, 13 August 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
There's extensive video of them being put on a separate train car.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, August 12, 2018 9:36 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ATU friend tells me they were loaded en masse to their own car w/their metro pd escort, but that the car hadn't been cleared of all others -- so basically they got a "shared" car that they shared with their police escort and whichever unlucky tourists were boarding at Vienna that morning
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
new Contrapoints, on the language and outlook of incels, is awesome and disturbing. She goes to some truly insightful places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD2briZ6fB0
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
halfway through. this is pretty informative
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 18 August 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
She’s a genius.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
wow yeah, that ends up ending up really interesting and powerful in drawing connections to a specific experience to reach out in a way that's empathetic. "the solution to that has to be therapeutic, not logical."
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 18 August 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
She balances empathy and scorn so wonderfully.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 18 August 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
i think she does a good job analyzing what is happening with the people who visit these forums--looking for confirmations of their hopelessness/basically engaging in "digital self harm"--and she is totally right that this is a "death cult."
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 18 August 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
the creepy thing to me about these people is that it's like a closed worldview with its own vocabulary that makes no sense to outsiders. we are all familiar with what sexism looks like, but these people are way more extreme--they have a completely brutal and unrelenting theory of human behavior/hierarchy
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 18 August 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
one of the problems is ascribing humanity to non-humans
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 18 August 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
i think they're humans. many of them probably don't *fully* believe in this stuff but are participating in order to vent or explore some unsavory parts of their own character and psychology. (not an excuse -- by posting this stuff, they're spreading evil in the world).
but you're right, there is certainly an element here that is truly antisocial and dangerous and it's hard to know what to do about it. more stigma isn't gonna work bc these people aren't looking to be accepted by the normies.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 18 August 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
i support unplugging the internet for a period of five years in which the whole of humanity explores their consciousness in silent meditation
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 18 August 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
yes that. of course i don't believe that you "win an argument" by adopting the rhetoric of your enemy. i'm certain that fascism is a refusal to recognize humanism and that using the latter to contest the former is silly. this is not about logic and conviction.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 18 August 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
and you know damn well Treesh that the internet isn't getting unplugged so as a proposal...come on.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 18 August 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
Really liked her coinage of "dogmatic hopelessness," which better gets at what I've tried to write about these guys here (on another thread maybe): that it's linked to psychological theories of "embeddedness"-- a fear of and resistence to change, growing up, etc (perhaps also linked to being left behind by your peer group and a larger social disinclination to socialize young men). It's an ideological deliberately designed to forestall taking any form of action other than resentment and self-criticism. Plus, it's clear their feelings of rejection are largely fantasized projections. As anyone who's been rejected repeatedly can tell you: it's not that bad.
― ryan, Saturday, 18 August 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link
bingo
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 18 August 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
They can’t react normally to anything. Even, like, deciding to take a break from the dating game—which i feel like most people do from time to time—becomes an ideological thinv rooted in resentment of women they call “mgtow”
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 18 August 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
So you’re right—they’re reaching for a dogma that will justify their comfortable misery
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 18 August 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
I just don't see why these guys don't get into Cioran and Schopenhauer like I did at 20. At least I learned some stuff!
It is interesting to see many people (men, usually) make fun of their own teenage fascination with Nietzsche or whatever...they forget I think the intense terror and vulnerability you can feel when leaving one secure part of life for another, less certain one. That kind of thinking provides a sort of encouragement for living a life of risk, not fearful of pain, that we forget we need as we become comfortable adults again. These kids needs a Zarathustra, is what I'm saying.
― ryan, Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
First sentence - because they're not bright enough
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
I looked at the /r/Braincels forum, and the general reaction to Contrapoints's video seems to be "stop posting that video." :/ Hopefully it helps one person.
― jmm, Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
There's a longer answer that I'm too lazy to make on a Saturday night but this is the bottom line - fascism isn't an ideology for kids that are looking for answers, it's an ideology for kids that know everything
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
otm
― No organ. (crüt), Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
overshadowed by other news today, but more charges were handed down related to the August 2017 Charlottesville rally:
http://www.nbc29.com/story/38931219/richard-wilson-preston-court-08-21-2018
my takeaway from this is that prosecutors couldn't prove intent, so they used the "within 1000 feet of a school" law instead. I'm fine w/that, bye asshole.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
whatever happened to that guy who was on that Vice documentary with all the guns on his bed who ended up filming youtube vids where he was sibbing about the feds coming to kill him?
if i need to be more specific about which alt_right chud I'm referencing I'm afraid I can't
― Bog Dole (stevie), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 08:21 (five years ago) link
Chris Cantwell, the Crying Nazi?
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 12:49 (five years ago) link
i think there was something on twitter about moving back in with his parents
― devvvine, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link
must have imagined that
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wjk7bn/a-year-after-charlottesville-the-alt-right-is-in-shambles?utm_medium=vicenewstwitter
― devvvine, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
kinda wish this thread title was just "Crying Nazis"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
Today, Cantwell lives alone, in an apartment with very dark curtains. His shelves are filled with protein powder and nutritional supplements, he has a room full of exercise equipment, and he’s taped up signs reminding him to “STOP SAYING FUCK” on the fridge and in the bathroom. His sole source of income is his racist content business, including a podcast he says has an audience of 10,000.
What a pathetic pud.
― Bog Dole (stevie), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
James Alex Fields, Jr. allegedly drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer.
I'm seeing this wording a lot and it is very confusing to me. what exactly is "alleged" at this point? Heather Heyer is, in fact, dead; there is a video of a car being driven into a crowd of counter-protesters. what the fuck is the other option here? surprise, the car was actually elon musk's self-driving car he never told anybody about?
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
he hasn't been convicted in court
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
article written by legal requirement stickler. don't sweat it
― imago, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
I’m not sure but I think it’s just a standard when reporting on people who haven’t yet been convicted/pled not guilty - maybe a way to avoid the possibility of lawsuits just in case.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
lol xp sorry to join the crowd. Anyway the most recent alt-right thing in Seattle on Sunday was uneventful, kinda wish they’d have had to deal with the extremely unhealthy smoke that rolled in later.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
Yeah that’s standard practice (at least here in the uk), to say “allegedly” or “accused of” even when it’s recorded fact they did it As many ppl have pointed out tho a lot of places seem to be going further than this practice demands & obfuscating the nature of the crime completely with passive-voice phrases like “was killed by a car”
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
I know "alleged" is a standard when reporting, but this wording (and it's in almost everything I read about Charlottesville) seems odd to me because it's not "alleged manslaughter" or "alleged murder," i.e. verdicts, or even "allegedly purposefully drove his car into a crowd," i.e. malice; it is "alleged fact that demonstrably happened." put another way, if the allegations were false, then how exactly did a car get driven through a crowd and kill heather heyer?
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
That's to be established in court.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
Better to say "Fields is accused by police of driving his car into" etc. etc. and avoid the mealy-mouthedness of "allegedly."
― Eliza D., Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
even that is silly -- he was driving the car, correct? and that car was driven into the crowd, correct? so either someone jumped into his car, removed him from the wheel and did it, one of the protesters turned into the Incredible Hulk and shoved the car into the protesters at driving speed, the car glitched out in a manner that someone probably would have mentioned by now, or he drove the damn car
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
he was driving the car, correct? and that car was driven into the crowd, correct?
we know these things to be true but have they yet been proven in court?
― Bog Dole (stevie), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
think there was something on twitter about moving back in with his parents― devvvine, Wednesday, August 22, 2018 9:11 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― devvvine, Wednesday, August 22, 2018 9:11 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
There was definitely something about an alt-right youtuber moving back in with his parents in the past few weeks.
― incarcerated moonfaces (how's life), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
and it is lawyer-ordered mealy-mouthedness, yes, out of a fear of being sued
― Bog Dole (stevie), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
I am not gonna get upset that someone - even someone who is manifestly, obviously guilty - is being technically given the deference (in the press, as well as the courtroom) of being "innocent until proven guilty", which is a bedrock assumption of the rule of law.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link