the alt-right

The office of UF student president has been shockingly compromised! I say, forget impeachment, but make the fucker pay it all back.

making a mockery of the dignity of office the student body presidency

Imagine helping Don Jr make a buck.

Here is Charlie Kirk getting chased off scene by Trump supporters after trying to convince his audience that neo-Nazi Nicholas Fuentes is a bad guy pic.twitter.com/FDlClt9iSJ

— Wild Geerters (@classiclib3ral) November 15, 2019

Charlie Kirk and TPUSA running into more trouble over this Fuentes thing

Cool, raging hordes of nazis

i don't understand, who is the bad guy, is it all of them?

its all of them

corporatist/grifter right being attacked from the right. turns out not so keen on free speech after all

America farts!

re Charlie Kirk, he described this particular fissure best himself

"People who openly identify as white supremacists came to my event tonight

They have no place in the conservative movement"

Trying to walk that tightrope with the "Openly Identify",

https://i.ibb.co/Zz4G5L2/3gx23z.jpg

https://medium.com/@mrdancohen/an-alt-right-racist-is-in-the-houston-city-council-runoff-the-media-is-ignoring-it-e296c7199cc9

Don't know exactly where this person stands politically, but this is some amount of hate.
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur110312399/?ref_=_usr

exceptional long form article/interviews

https://www.limestonepostmagazine.com/bloomington-2019-year-of-farmers-market-controversy

http://idavox.com/index.php/2020/01/01/next-on-the-white-power-chopping-block-augustus-invictus/

Augustus Invictus on kidnapping charges

Apologies for the a****** f****** tag in this tweet, content otherwise a joy all round

Help these guys find members @theneedledrop pic.twitter.com/D1IcmaTS9W

— Cody (@CodyB978) January 3, 2020

lol reno

We're gonna build a wall again
Paid for by the people of the sun

They rally round the family
With controlling stock in Shell

The work forces / burn crosses lyric stays but with an upbeat inflection

Fuck you, you will do what we tell you!

Who got 'em? Yo, smell the air
All you libtards know the trial was fair
An army of SJWs triggered by my style
Off 'em all out that box, I got spreadsheets to compile!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/11/trum-and-farage-supporter-flies-flag-for-qanon-rar-right-conspiracy

The Rar Right?

Better switch to zip files.

xp ugh, there are a lot of pickled-brain posh fuckwits who are into Q bollocks, but this guy is the most prominent.

interesting post about the bloomington farmers' market. i do have a general thesis, which the recent takeover (attempted or completed) of a portland area american legion post which briefly gained notoriety for espousing "progressive" values by a well-known alt-right chucklehead who in his day job tries very hard to get fired from the local parks and rec department tracks fairly well with. (ok, diagram that monstrosity of a sentence.)

overall the institutions that stand to suffer most from the recent administration are liberal institutions, which are fundamentally ill-equipped to handle the ideology being openly practiced by those in power. the next few years will see the death of a lot of liberal institutions, i think, and what seems to be replacing them are radical institutions.

there are a lot of pickled-brain posh fuckwits who are into Q bollocks, but this guy is the most prominent.

FP'd you for racism

Rapper Kanye West announced that he and his Sunday Service choir will take part in Awaken 2020, a prayer rally featuring dominionists Lou Engle, Ché Ahn, Cindy Jacobs and other evangelists that will be held Saturday, Jan. 18 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. According to one report, West’s announcement sparked such a flood of people registering for free tickets that the event website crashed.

Engle teaches that “the church’s vocation is to rule history with God.” He has used his prayer events to call for an end to abortion in America, to mobilize resistance to LGBTQ equality, and to ask God to “remove” pro-choice Supreme Court justices so that President Donald Trump can replace them with justices who will eliminate a right to abortion.

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kanye-west-joins-dominionist-pro-trump-prophets-for-stadium-prayer-rally/

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/01/14/27811330/proud-boy-tiny-toese-pleads-guilty-to-2018-assault

An interesting Twitter thread (could also be filed in the Screaming Into the Void thread, but whatever).

Tips for journalists:

1) Don't simply quote what an extremist tells you. Find an expert or second source to provide a counter view. Otherwise, you're spreading extremist propaganda. An expert can help you identify code words and undercurrents that might not be obvious.

— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) December 13, 2019

Experts are anti-democratic and anti-First Amendment tho.

Nazis organizing in Richmond VA today? Lee Carter in some kind of safe house after threats to his life. Can't tell size of it, are we looking at Charlottesville II?

Pretty lively over here. Extraodrinary that this stuff isn't even in a private group

https://www.facebook.com/Constitutionlaststand/

It is 7 AM in the city of Richmond, Virginia on the day of what I will be calling the Big Gun Clusterfuck.

Initially a rally by self-admitted 2nd Amendment extremist group VCDL, it has become a lightning rod for militias across the country. pic.twitter.com/olFhpHsEQU

— Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) (@IwriteOK) January 20, 2020

Robert Evans will be updating from the ground throughout the day.

Somehow that doesn't link to his entire twitter thread, so just go check out his timeline.

Anyone calling themself a "militia" should really be in jail without any guns, but guess because of a dumb sentence in yr constitution this is considered acceptable.

Anyone calling themself a "militia" should really be in jail without any guns, but guess because of a dumb sentence in yr constitution this is considered acceptable.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

it's less about what the constitution says and more about what the country is and always has been in practice

A large gun-rights rally in Virginia's state capital unfolded peacefully Monday despite earlier fears of the kind of violence that took place in nearby Charlottesville three years ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/politics/virginia-gun-rights-rally-richmond/index.html

That is really, really good news.

Otm

see, guns are good!

They're not, but fuck it, this could have been really horrible and it wasn't (or at least was much less horrible than it well could have been) and I'm just glad about that in an uncomplicated way.

Elsewhere in the crowd, Justin Burns, 19, and his friend Spencer George, 30, flaunted their own arsenals: Both had strapped assault-style rifles across their chests, with bullets visible in the clips. Spanning the men’s bulletproof vests were more ammo clips.

The duo, both welders, had driven 10 hours to attend the rally. They brought the rifles, Burns said, in case anything goes wrong.

“All it takes is one person to make a bad decision and fire off a round for things to go sideways,” Burns said.

Clutching his AR-15-style rifle, George said it felt “awesome” to see so many gun-toting gun rights activists gathered in one place. The sea of weaponry, he said, made him feel less alone.

I'm always a bit amazed even now by Americans, used to the relatively very high levels of security and stability American citizens enjoy compared with e.g. Syrians, who like to play 'militia' with real military surplus equipment.

the only reason it was nonviolent is because the city went out of their way to make sure these assholes weren't given a target

I'm relieved these assholes didn't murder or hurt anyone, but Lithwick has it right here, calling this march of heavily armed protestors intimidating the majority political position they oppose "peaceful" is deranged: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/richmond-to-impeachment-senate-minority-rule-rules.html

Elections only have consequences when Republicans win; when progressives win and try to do policy they will be met with violence.

i'm just glad my friends in Richmond are ok. i give the armed protesters zero credit for the lack of violent attacks.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EP3lGgTWkAEqWGz.jpg