the alt-right

I read a thing that posited that those who don't get their accounts shut down will incur scrutiny and criticism from the farther-right over being "acceptable" or otherwise somehow compromised by the mainstream.

I can see it, I guess, but fuck them forever anyway.

I think it was linked in that Sommer thread, actually.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-conservative-nonprofit-that-seeks-to-transform-college-campuses-faces-allegations-of-racial-bias-and-illegal-campaign-activity/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Screenshots provided to me by a source show that Crystal Clanton, who served until last summer as the group’s national field director, sent a text message to another Turning Point employee saying, “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.”

this looks like a hoot

Imagine paying 500 bucks to see Weird Mike, Milk N Cooks and millennial comedian Dan Nainan. 🤣👌 pic.twitter.com/ZKm64I9una

— Victor Bergermeister Meisterberger IV (@VicBergerIV) December 22, 2017

god how much I wanna watch a bunch of alt-right shitheads suffer through an hourlong performance by Dan Nainan

wow Reddit is incredibly good sometimes

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7liww8/im_mike_cernovich_journalist_author_and_filmmaker/

Has anyone here actually been to /r/politics? There's absolutely nothing surprising about this.

Scum:

this is the worst, most heart-rending thing i've ever seen on social media. heather heyer's mom ain't just aware of the bullshit lies spread about her daughter, she's read them herself. https://t.co/LFKlZTZNqx

— Asinus Pervicax (@Cato_of_Utica) December 22, 2017

tbh her mom seems like a very centered and focused human, also badass.

True.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRrKYlGV4AAugSa.jpg:small

[–]PeteIRL 693 points 3 hours ago
Hey Mike. You named your book and lifestyle Gorilla Mindset. Why did you choose the only great ape that can't recognise its reflection as itself? And as such, do you attack the man staring back at you when you look in the mirror?

this AMA is so great

man this is the most i've laughed in days. thank u.

lmaoooo

KonySandusky 605 points 2 hours ago
Hi Mike,

I first wanted to thank you for your book Gorilla Mindset. It really helped me be a better man and take control of my life in a way that I badly needed. I also wanted to thank you for leading by example regarding how to fight back against people who are trying to put you down.

I was wondering if I could ask you a personal question regarding some issues in my life to get some advice from someone who has helped me so much already:

I currently am married with a baby and am living in my wife's parents' basement. Our marriage has at times been tense because I tend to be too much of an alpha for her. I feel like there's a chance she's going to leave me in the next year or so, and though I luckily have some alimony money from a previous divorce, I'm afraid that a lot of the unhinged things I've written on the internet will make it difficult to get custody of our baby. Any advice? And if you were me, how would you change my living situation, which is admittedly a bit emasculating?

Thanks again for everything!

gorillamindset -287 points 2 hours ago
Live a good life, starting TODAY. In America, a Christian nation, people will forgive and forget if you give them good reason to. Make a commitment to change the perception people have of you by spreading love and living the Gorilla Mindset way.

BackOff_ImAScientist 193 points 2 hours ago
Man, you are too dumb to even recognize when someone is obviously making fun of your corny ass and your ridiculous monkey book.

KonySandusky

don't think she's as evil as everyone says she is but she can be a bit needlessly cruel.

― oiocha, Monday, December 18, 2017 2:02 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know we’re having fun making fun of this gorilla man right now but i need to come back to this. Who has been saying angela nagle is “evil” or “ needlessly cruel”?

That book had all kinds of limitations but it’s still the most serious account yet written of the rise of the alt right. I think it’s a serious topic too given that these people are recruiting a new generation of bigots to scorn the basic precepts of democratic society.

that cernovich ama is the best xmas gift ever

That was seriously fantastic.

i don’t think i can embed the video here but this clip of cernovich insisting he didn’t get owned on reddit before refusing to cry over spilled milk is fucking hilarious

THREAD: Inside the fascinating world of the Far-Right dorks who call themselves “Groypers.” pic.twitter.com/sqOLvdkKfi

— Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) December 27, 2017

Editor's comments on Milo's book

I went to the New York county clerk’s website and found this filing. It includes the entire manuscript with allllllll the editor’s comments as exhibit B. https://t.co/fb9yptldbO

— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) December 28, 2017

I still think I want to fall on the 'not reading it' side, even if I miss out on milo getting humiliated.

those comments are great but also apply to everything he's ever said or done so the shame is still on them for ever even preparing to give him a book deal, imo

that Groypers thread

Exactly. Shame on S&S for commissioning it in the first place.

Feel like this frog stuff could get pretty recursive, with an even fatter frog cartoon coming along in a few months for the even more insanely racist shut-in fringe of this groper lot, and so on ad infinitumy

Yummy yummy yummy
I got love in my infinitumy

i hate that these people like vaporwave

Exactly. Shame on S&S for commissioning it in the first place.

― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Thursday, December 28, 2017 3:30 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's my take away.. 'let us help you cloak your vile racist bullshit so we can sell some books'

^though at the same time kinda clueless about its appeal? Like no Milo fan wants him to dial back the insults and egomania.

Might be time for milo to launder his img by doing a few avuncular documentaries about classic railway journeys for bbc4

(lolbritain deep cut)

stephen fry: the o.g. milo

Really smart thread on the Milo manuscript shows how mainstream gatekeepers are laundering fascist and white supremacist ideas to the masses. Also, Jonathan Chait got two positive shout-outs in Milo's book! Congrats Jon! https://t.co/UJGY0uZDwW

— sean. 🎅🏽 (@SeanMcElwee) December 28, 2017

He has just been invited as a keynote speaker to the next Visegrad Group conference on the “future of Europe “ fwiw, so there is still someone willing to pay for his insight.

http://europajovojev4.eu/en/#koszonto

the thread linked in caek's link is a very effective expose imho

lmao

Hell, it turns out I even have my own groyper follower, with the totally not-creepy name of “SleepParalysis Groyper”… pic.twitter.com/lMD9CIcUrT

— Respectable Lawyer (@RespectableLaw) December 28, 2017

https://i.imgur.com/yeWakc0.jpg

oh my god, i forgot about those kids. jfc

The only thing I see in this photo is how terribly the hem on the big kid's jacket was sewn up. His mom must have really been in a rush!

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Maryland-Catholic-Girls-High-School-Fires-Alt-Right-Teacher-468152783.html

https://twitter.com/Real_Greg_Conte

he looks like a douche

these people are so sad

^^^This is what I feel most of the time. Like, these guys are such sad sack losers, but then I am pretty much fueling why they are so angry. Still, fuck them.

This clown's going to be forced into Hannibal Lecter-style restraints before the end of the first day

UPDATE: A representative for Milo Yiannopoulos confirms that he will now be representing himself in his lawsuit against Simon & Schuster pic.twitter.com/APGJ8opQMy

— Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) January 8, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egz-qV17gtc

lol, that is spot on

this fuckin guy

Controversial far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has used a spoof story published by a satirical website to slam feminism and the NHS on his YouTube channel.

The former Simon Langton Grammar pupil laughed as he read verbatim the story which jokingly describes a man suing the NHS for not being offered a smear test on grounds of discrimination.

He told his followers, who hail mainly from America, "I am going to read a news story – I have checked this out, I promise this is real, I have not just made this up.”

The story features the entirely fictional character Nathan Grange-Vulva - a fairtrade coffee shop owner and men’s rights activist from Leigh-On-Sea who was awarded £150,000 in compensation and legal costs after being denied the routine exam.

Yiannopoulos, 33, ranted: “It makes me feel furious as a British taxpayer.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/19/channel-4-calls-in-security-experts-after-cathy-newman-suffers-online-abuse

Cathy Newman of Channel 4 is apparently being targeted by a bunch of alt-right dorks after her 30-minute interview with Jordan Peterson.

De Pear said on Twitter on Friday: “Our Channel 4 News on-screen journalists expect to be held to account for their journalism but the level of vicious misogynistic abuse, nastiness, and threat to Cathy Newman is an unacceptable response to a robust and engaging debate with Jordan Peterson.

“Such is the scale of threat, we are having to get security specialists in to carry out an analysis. I will not hesitate to get the police involved if necessary. What a terrible indictment of the times we live in.”

All of which begs the question as to why they’re giving Peterson such a huge platform in the first place. There is next to no chance that anyone aligned with his views is going to watch a robust interview and change their mind (the article references James Delingpole and Douglas Murray crowing about how he ran rings around her) and has just ended up ostensibly endangering the journalist. It seems massively irresponsible either way to continue to give them the oxygen of publicity.

Peterson is showing himself to be an opportunist with no principles willing to cater to whatever crowd or denominator will pledge money to his Patreon. He's not an ideologue, but when your audience is sending death threats to your 'enemies' and you turn your head, what's the difference? I think maybe a year ago, the average Peterson follower had a much more open mind. Now it's just a joke.

It's a small world after all.

By far the most surprising guest here at the @Cernovich event: Chelsea Manning!

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) January 21, 2018