the alt-right

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.

see also: mandatory minimum sentencing, largely pushed by these groups iirc

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Glorious

Monopoly is also much like capitalism in that it sucks

great news

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?

Quillette's editor is claiming that he actually dropped out of service because of his oh-so-traumatic brain injury, but she would.

she was the one that published the fake DSA takedown piece a couple of weeks ago right?

he only did about 15 live interviews after that brain injury, let the man rest

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

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

old video, but still refreshingly honest.

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

looooooooool

pic.twitter.com/7CGV3qxfMH

— Fintan Hennessy (@FintanHennessy) September 9, 2019

rip big man, heaven needed another small businessman crushed by the free market

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.

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

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.

thank u for yr service

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 really good article on Andy Ngo.

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

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

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

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

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

A new career highlight for both of them

"What the fuck is Milo doing here, cornboy?" someone yelled.

Milo took the podium and said he's "fallen so hard and so far I've now been reduced to my previous career before I was a journalist and I am Mr. Wohl's personal stylist."

He then plugged some new show and went inside. pic.twitter.com/g5dyGsqs4R

— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) October 21, 2019

https://www.yahoo.com/news/proud-boys-sentenced-new-york.html

glad to see them described as an "extremist street gang" in a mainstream pub tbh

oh that's syndicated from HuffPost lol whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

yeah i was like - this is surprisingly antifascist for yahoo.com

there are some things in here I'm not sure I'd agree with (primarily involving who is classified as what), but the overarching hypothesis seems reasonable

https://www.wired.com/story/not-youtubes-algorithm-radicalizes-people/

The thing is, we had a sort of rebranded nazi party which became so big on YouTube that they could run for parliament, and after they were at long last banned from the algorithm for racism, the viewership of their videos fell 87%.

Interesting one for me listed there is Red Ice TV, I'm familiar with them from around 2007 when they were a conspiracy theory interview podcast called Red Ice Creations with my flatmate used to listen to all the time. The host was a very softly spoken Swedish guy, the show was interesting to listen to as I got the impression that he shared my opinion that the interviewees were people with fascinating delusions who he respected for their power to create and live in alternative realities. But looks like I may have been wrong about this.

full paper, by the way, is here https://osf.io/73jys/

again, there are some things I'm not sure about, for instance this: It can take days or weeks to produce one hour's worth of text content on Facebook or Twitter, but in some cases, creating one hour's worth of video content takes exactly one hour.

I mean... sure? if you're already someone established enough to livestream, live, with zero production values whatsoever, and have people care. but if you're not, this is not really going to get you any traction (as anyone who's stumbled upon, like, low-production-value let's plays with 40 views knows). the stuff that goes viral is either by a person who is known, or at least known in fringe circles (or tenacious/gonzo enough at self promoting that they can become so), and/or has surprisingly high production values

(which seems like a nitpick, but half the framework of the study is that there is a greater supply of videos largely for this reason)

i haven't read the whole paper but i don't really like what i'm getting from the wired story, it's got this "well, ACTUALLY..." vibe to it, the idea that people are fundamentally "moderates" who are "radicalized" is certainly a questionable assumption but a lot of it comes across like an apologia for youtube, which i don't think is necessary?

My main takeaway was that the audience already existed, it was just underserved. That certainly feels correct to me.

I also didn’t understand the way they compared viewership numbers between cable and youtube? It seemed like they just made up an arbitrary ratio to represent “globalness” and assumed a can opener

to be fair "making up an arbitrary ______" describes more viewership numbers than you'd think

as far as the "well actually," that's kind of to be expected when presenting any sort of counter-argument; it did not come off as an apologia for youtube so much as "it's not as simple as unplugging the third reich feeding tube"

as far as the "well actually," that's kind of to be expected when presenting any sort of counter-argument; it did not come off as an apologia for youtube so much as "it's not as simple as unplugging the third reich feeding tube"

― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine)

but is anybody arguing that it _is_ as simple as unplugging the third reich feeding tube, or are people just arguing that, you know, unplugging the third reich feeding tube might be a good thing, all things considered? the whole "counter-argument" aspect of it just strikes me as questionable framing

Not sure what the full story is here, but looks like popcorn time to me

Milo just uploaded leaked audio of Richard Spencer reacting to the death of Heather Heyer and the negative press it did to his movement.

Just in case there was any question of the so-called "dapper white nationalist" being a raged fuelled hateful monster.

Explicit warning. pic.twitter.com/KpVk2fLYSu

— BAILEY, THE LIBTARDTARIAN 🃏 (@atheist_cvnt) November 4, 2019

What a sad pathetic human

remember when people wrung their hands bc he got punched? remember that? you remember when people said that it was bad? people said that.