"<raises hand>
Er, fuck, I mean, not like *that*
― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 19 August 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
xp yes to the first, not sure about the second, I think it has to do more with Portland's "radical hotbed" reputation that makes it an inviting target. but the demographics definitely play a role. I mean, they once wanted to kick all the Catholics out of Oregon (along with every other non-WASP group of course).
― sleeve, Monday, 19 August 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
"they" being Oregon legislature, a long time ago
it's kinda funny one of my best friends moved up to portland a couple of years ago and we were exchanging texts saturday night about how these dorks would never try something on this scale in nyc or philly or chicago etc
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 19 August 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
this is from the Intercept, so grain of salt, but it makes the case that yes, Portland's demographics appeal to white supremacist orgs for recruiting purposes: https://theintercept.com/2019/08/16/portland-far-right-rally/
― rob, Monday, 19 August 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link
I would assume the point of going to Portland is that they want the story to be "leftist terrorists punched us" so they have to go where there's a large population of single young men with left politics and hope somebody takes the bait.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 August 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
these dorks would never try something on this scale in nyc or philly or chicago etc
They did it in DC a month ago! I think they'll go wherever they think they can gin up a fight and get on Fox News and thence to Trump's twitter feed. That's the goal.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 August 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
ah that's right! was it this big a deal though? i was thinking it was kind of poorly attended but might be misremembering.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 19 August 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
they want the story to be "leftist terrorists punched us"
they'll go wherever they think they can gin up a fight and get on Fox News and thence to Trump's twitter feed
both otm
― sleeve, Monday, 19 August 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
the straight pride parade in boston is coming up :/
― maura, Monday, 19 August 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
do these people know about Gay Shame parades? There should def be a Straight Shame parade...
― Οὖτις, Monday, 19 August 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
pride was here a couple weeks ago and i had just stopped drinking for a bit and wasn't quite ready to go out and be around other people partying, so i didn't go to a thing my gf and her friends were going to and stayed home and vaped weed and watched tarantino films. when i saw a couple of my buddies the next day and told them what i was doing the night before they said that was my "straight pride" night
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 19 August 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
relevant podcast episode
http://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/episode-27-a-history-of-white-nationalism-in-the-pacific-northwest
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 06:57 (four years ago) link
enjoy living in prison w yr aryan brotherhood buddies:https://www.yahoo.com/news/neo-nazi-james-fields-life-181119153.html
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
victim impact statements are probably bad not good but I'm also glad someone got to call him scum from the stand
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
dude probably wishes he were a cop when he ran those people over right now tho
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
why do you think victim impact statements are bad?
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/the-rise-of-the-victims-rights-movement
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
The Bryan Stevenson book 'Just Mercy' has a section on victims' rights. They've led to a disparity of sentencing between races and classes. I haven't read the NYer article yet but it seems to go into that.
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
see also: mandatory minimum sentencing, largely pushed by these groups iirc
― sleeve, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
Kind of related - mistrial was declared last week in the case of the alt-right shitheads who shot a protester outside a Milo appearance in Seattle, apparently a minority on the jury were of similar mind to the defendants. However a big factor was that the victim refused to testify due to not believing in a punitive justice system, afaik he just wanted to meet with the defendants but I don’t think they agreed.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
I bought a copy of Hasbro's mean-spirited and woefully ill-informed "MONOPOLY: SOCIALISM" board game so you don't have to - a thread 1/ pic.twitter.com/YhZWDjkAnj— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) August 21, 2019
― gyac, Thursday, 22 August 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/08/26/27039560/undercover-in-patriot-prayer-insights-from-a-vancouver-democrat-whos-been-working-against-the-far-right-group-from-the-inside
This is great. If you haven't watched the video it's fucking surreal.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Monday, 26 August 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
that Monopoly thing is even more ironic considering the game was originally designed to satirize landlords & capitalism, then was stolen by someone else and turned into a highly profitable board game, none of which made its way to the original creator. capitalism at its finest.
― frogbs, Monday, 26 August 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
That Portland Mercury article is actually getting results: Andy Ngo has apparently been disowned by phrenologist site Quillette, where he was on the masthead until a couple of hours ago.
Andy Ngo just removed Quillette from his bio...... the same day it was revealed that Ngo and the violent far-right group Patriot Prayer had an "understanding" that he would protect them and they'd protect him.(h/t @Avi_Bueno) pic.twitter.com/WDJRST8EYJ— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) August 27, 2019
All traces of far-right provoceateur Andy Ngo have been wiped from the far-right phrenology website, Quillette. He doesn’t even have Quillette in his bio anymore. Rumor has it that Andy was fired for paling around with the white nationalist group Patriot Prayer. pic.twitter.com/lo1yC34WfA— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) August 27, 2019
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 01:57 (four years ago) link
Glorious
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
Monopoly is also much like capitalism in that it sucks
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link
great news
― sleeve, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 03:49 (four years ago) link
Do the phrenologists think patriot prayer are too extreme or not extreme enough? Not enough head bearings or head beating getting the lumps to appear in the wrong places?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 07:53 (four years ago) link
Quillette's editor is claiming that he actually dropped out of service because of his oh-so-traumatic brain injury, but she would.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 August 2019 08:04 (four years ago) link
she was the one that published the fake DSA takedown piece a couple of weeks ago right?
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
he only did about 15 live interviews after that brain injury, let the man rest
― frogbs, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
Re: that Ijeoma Oluo about her house getting swatted she wrote something on it, link below. (she wrote one of my favorite pieces from 2018)
https://medium.com/@IjeomaOluo/the-thing-about-safety-a3e4cac767c2
― Yerac, Friday, 30 August 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
argh that Ijeoma Oluo tweet from above about her house getting swatted... that should've said.
There's saying the quiet part out loud, and then there's this fucknut (Modesto, CA):
white supremacist tryna form a straight pride parade accidentally lets truth slip at city council meeting pic.twitter.com/c8fWtOwORT— bhad phag (@hebaddie) September 1, 2019
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 2 September 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
old video, but still refreshingly honest.
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 2 September 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
Milo reveals just how much the far right are struggling after being deplatformed from the main social media sites. pic.twitter.com/oB3T94J89B— Roanna 🧙♀️ (@witchofpeace) September 9, 2019
― gyac, Monday, 9 September 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
looooooooool
pic.twitter.com/7CGV3qxfMH— Fintan Hennessy (@FintanHennessy) September 9, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 September 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
rip big man, heaven needed another small businessman crushed by the free market
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 9 September 2019 13:48 (four years ago) link
looool
honestly i don't get their beef w Gab. too many "teen racists", you say? yeah no shit homeboy. it's operating exactly as an online FREEEZZE PEACH zone should be expected to.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 9 September 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
Similar thing with Rave Dubin, going to The Blaze(?) whatever that is, so he can have free speech and also remove the trolls and their right to free speech
― anvil, Monday, 9 September 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
going to brag a little here and divulge that I Was Banned from Gab last year for (probably) relentlessly trolling Torba, his mother, and Ben Garrison. so much for the tolerant 'free speech warrior' right i guess.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 9 September 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
thank u for yr service
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 9 September 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
it was my honor to serve. telling Andrew Torba I was going to call the cops if he didn't wash his dick was my viet nam.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 9 September 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
A really good article on Andy Ngo.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
Have you been waiting for a 1500 word treatise from the Claremont Institute making the intellectual case for calling David French a cuck? pic.twitter.com/tqM9HuJNkm— Adrenochrome Harvester (@ClenchedFisk) September 13, 2019
― j., Saturday, 14 September 2019 04:37 (four years ago) link
Downtown Portland in the rain, some fun is happening against the Patriot Prayer types. Thread here:
A satanic ritual (?!) is happening in the square now. I think this is a strategy to distract from Patriot Prayer’s march, in which case: mission accomplished. pic.twitter.com/OIsVxmdDxG— Blair Stenvick (@BlairStenvick) September 15, 2019
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 16 September 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
Milo in a crowd of fully disguised and anonymous people sounds like a bad combo.
Milo Yiannopoulos is a disgraced right wing troll who thrives on attention. This warning will be the only mention of him here. Do not allow him into MFF. Do not give him attention. Do not talk about him. Do not spread anything he says. He turns kids into Nazis. Stay away. pic.twitter.com/F87DU3YLls— Furry Takes (@SpicyFurryTakes) September 15, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 16 September 2019 03:05 (four years ago) link
Aaaand he’s out
I just want everyone to understand that the furry community kicked Milo Yiannopoulos to the curb a million times faster that the mainstream GOP pundit class ever dreamed of doinghttps://t.co/cX4BAggul7— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) September 16, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 16 September 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
The FBI has arrested a member of U.S. Army who allegedly discussed plans to bomb a major U.S. news network, discussed traveling to Ukraine to fight with violent far-right group, and allegedly distributed info online on how to build bombs. He also allegedly mentioned @BetoORourke.— Mike Levine (@MLevineReports) September 23, 2019
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Monday, 23 September 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link