the alt-right

xxp update:

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/02/portland-police-lieutenant-removed-from-rapid-response-team-as-bureau-investigates-his-texts-with-patriot-prayers-joey-gibson.html

today in self-ownage

Terrible. Heart-breaking. And truly a sign of Trump’s America.
I’m with you. https://t.co/fJFtge8S8f

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) February 18, 2019

Lmao @JacobAWohl pic.twitter.com/yFgIAC164I

— Otto von Shidposd (@ottovonshitpost) February 17, 2019

I can't follow wtf is happening there but I'm going to assume that these people are all ghoulish morons.

the second one is Jacob Wohl posting 'anonymously' to 4Chan to ask why people are criticizing Jacob Wohl

i'm forever amazed at the capacity of such people's own self regard

Jacob Wohl makes a good case for an updated version of eugenics.

His ability to double down after savage public humiliation is truly astounding.

there's clearly something... missing there. it's actually cruel of his parents to let him flail around in public like that, but i guess we live in a brave new world where even the mentally challenged get to be political pundits.

or president, for that matter.

yea even given the nonstop stupidity and constant grifting that follows every aspect of the right these days, Wohl stands out as something....special. it's like bizarre performance art at this point.

Jacob Wohl makes a good case for an updated version of eugenics.

― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Monday, February 18, 2019 1:08 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Very cool thing to joke about

sorry, am i "cancelled"?

... or just returned due to insufficient postage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rrOdcnFbAY

Exactly 80 years ago today, almost 20,000 people attended a Nazi rally at New York City’s old Madison Square Garden. “A Night at the Garden,” the @fieldofvision documentary about the gathering, is a film of “true horror,” writes @schwarz. https://t.co/OsSDFUnHjw pic.twitter.com/ETi2LqVtbM

— The Intercept (@theintercept) February 20, 2019

Er.

A @gwupoe scoop: A LT in the US Coast Guard was arrested this week for drug and gun charges. It looked like a run of the mill case until the detention memo filed yesterday. He had a hit list, contacts with white supremacists, guns, and, again, was an Coastie assigned to HQ.

— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) February 20, 2019

There's a lot more in this thread.

Joe Scarborough made the list? Who gives a shit about Joe Scarborough? I mean, I can think of one guy....

There has to be room for this type of lolz it

I altered this image to make Shapiro look shorter. The tell is in the top two buttons in Peterson's shirt: I extended his torso using content aware scale and added a button but the spacing isn't right. Shapiros ghastly website used it by accident (?) 😂 pic.twitter.com/PloZ8zwc3T

— Alex Jay Brady (@AlexJayBrady) February 20, 2019

*itt

Shit going down tonight at a Portland police listening session that local Proud Boys assholes showed up to. Thread here:

im here at the church for the Portland Police’s listening session. so is Steve, whose last name i dont know. took me about five minutes to realise that he was the guy in that video who grabbed and held a person while Joey Gibson grabbed that person’s mask. pic.twitter.com/YSFFaeKvKK

— Mike Bivins (@itsmikebivins) February 22, 2019

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0B2th1WoAEgw8N.jpg:small

Not horizontal lines!

Is that guy supposed to be "the left" or a guy who is mad about the left?

that guy is definitely supposed to be the left

and/or a concentration camp prisoner

‘runined’?

• SPELLINGING ✓

Turnining Point USA

snake eating its own tail usa

Started reading Alt America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. Starts off with a harrowing account of Dylann Roof; didn't realize he'd spent an hour talking religion with the people he was about to kill. ("Roof later told the police that he nearly called off his plan because everyone 'was so nice to him.'")

Very circumspect when reading this in public because of the cover.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51h2SaX%2BJWL.jpg

wasn't sure where to post this, but this is a (by internet standards) deep-ish dive into a particular manifestation of the horseshoe theory that i thought was interesting

https://hummusforthought.com/2018/03/16/the-multipolar-spin-how-fascists-operationalize-left-wing-resentment/

"The Multipolar Spin: How Fascists Operationalize Left-wing Resentment"

Rogan giving Alex Jones air time again today.

The "I Don't Speak German" podcast is still going strong. I highly recommend the Cantwell and Southern Nationalist episodes.

http://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/website

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/03/owner-of-maga-friendly-yelp-knockoff-threatens-to-call-fbi-after-researcher-exposes-security-holes/

A friend of mine who teaches English informs me that one of his colleagues systematically assigns 12 Rules for Life. Are any of its pieces of advice even remotely useful aside perhaps from 'clean your room' (and even that one is debatable)?

no

Not even 'Do not bother children when they are skateboarding'?

I think the rules themselves are unobjectionable self-help stuff - maybe too vague to carry any meaning.

It's everything around them that's toxic and terrible.

though tbf not every cat you meet on the street is pettable and you might very well be in for a well deserved scratching injury if you ignore that

I was just about to say. But yeah, the 12 rules themselves come off as fairly innocuous. I have no interest in finding out about their supposed corollaries, though.

what kind of english class is this?
12 rules is not well-written nor is it remotely engaging but yeah i assume people can read it and not come away with the impression that jp is a stalking horse for fascism. i thought it was like bart simpson's guide to life, compiled by a hired writing staff, a crass tie-in for completist fans / given as a gift to adolescent sons by distant fathers, .

rule #69: don't have a cow man!!!!!
rule #70: eat nothing but cows
rule #71: you should be able to marry that cow even if she hasnt reached age of majority

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohl-faked-death-threats-against-himself

would be cool to see this get 0.001% of the attention that Jussie Smollett got

"clean your room" is code for "don't complain about how the world works unless your track record is spiffy clean" and is used to justify ad hominem attacks on the left

Turns out the exact rule is 'Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world' (I assume the 'clean your room' line is featured in this most august of sections). Anyway, that's obviously quite rich coming from him.

Your house isn't in perfect order until you've stuffed your fridge to the brim with ribs and sirloins.

xp
i think it's more about... personal responsibility? how can you complain about the prevailing social order that has you working a zero hour contract job and struggling to pay the minimum on your student loan when you haven't even wrung the best possible performance out of yourself, when you haven't done jack shit except complain. use your time ironing your shirts and putting your magic the gathering cards in a binder and brushing up your resume to apply for a retail management trainee job instead of trying to change a system that you have no hope of changing.

Must the two be mutually exclusive? (They are for him, I know.) Leaving personality responsibility to the right has always seemed a losing move to me.

*personal responsibility, although we're also responsible for our personalities.

sure. i rarely see "personal responsibility" used to mean anything but self-reliance and stop whining.
let's take back personal responsibility and cleaning our rooms in 2019.