the alt-right

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

Pobrecito

Pull the trigger dude

drake no meme: daily stormer using watermarked stock photos to save money
drake yes meme: andrew anglin taking a selfie of himself holding a gun directly to his head to save money

The guy sounds kinda triggered.

The trigger was pulled by the invisible hand

that's clickhole, come on

Story here of alt-right guy being charged with swatting a US govt official, ProPublica, and various others, and maximum charges are 5 years. If this dude were muslim, he'd be facing seriously more time.

Michelle Malkin claims “questioning the numbers of the Holocaust” isn’t antisemitic and neither is questioning the ״dual loyalties״ of “foreign agents”🧐

You read that right...pic.twitter.com/kHmIMQsZ0T

— Adam Milstein (@AdamMilstein) March 2, 2020

Bush era cons either have to go full Nazi or join the #resistance

h

to the gallows for her. no penance

In further hurting the delicate feelings of fascist snowflakes news

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/02/liberal-senator-tells-asio-chief-his-use-of-term-rightwing-can-offend-conservatives

On the memeified aesthetics of contemporary fascism https://t.co/EW9PSv5pBq

— Duncan Bell (@DrDuncanBell) May 28, 2020

an educational (well for me it was!) contemporary US fascism thread featuring breakdance 2, 4chan and Hawaiian shirts

can't believe they've even ruined electric boogaloo jokes now.

seriously? they're taking hawaiian shirts too? a few years ago it was new balance sneakers

ok, just read the thread. lol

they have a habit of never letting memes die

i have some short sleeve shirts with subtle floral patterns, not quite "aloha" shirts. will still be wearing them.

There’s a lot more about the boogaloo phenomenon at Bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/

they have a habit of never letting memes die

new balance did themselves no favors when they basically came out in favor of Trump’s trade talk during 2016

(tbc people who were aghast at Trump’s ostensible trade stances are scarcely better in the Big Scheme, but maybe don’t say positive things about the guy running a presidential campaign on explicit racism)

my takeaway is that now is the perfect time to resurrect Sid and Marty Kroft's show The Bugaloos with a new theme song adapted from "Bugaboo" by Destiny's Child

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXg1AxBXN5g

Nice!

Also,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4hjyjdOHj0

i have a friend in NY who plays boogaloo music (as in, latin dance music) and he was furious when he found out about this.

here's a medium article he wrote about it

https://medium.com/@jonnysemicolon/the-far-right-cannot-erase-the-legacy-of-boogaloo-955d624524f3

Carrying over from recent discussion in the brain worms thread:

https://newsone.com/3848636/candace-owens-receipts-con-artist/

they have a habit of never letting memes die

'independent journalist' Pim Tool has been playing the "Im actually on the left but the left have gone insane" game for years now, cosplaying this weird space. His response to recent events has been to say he's buying a gun and considering voting for Trump. He didn't look happy about it, its a risky move - if he drops the "im on the left actually" schtick he takes the risk of his value declining.

"the left have gone so insane they've even lost Tim Pool" loses its value if he drops that pretence. Owens retains hers, but if he comes just another conservative there are ones better at it, unless his role is to make ones leaning that way feel better about themselves

This leaves a space for professional contrarian Michael Tracey. He just likes riling people up but hasn't managed to structure it into a more streamlined grift yet. He seems a little low energy so he might not have it in him

There are people who don't think Tool is a grifter?

Lil' Dickie Spencer is going broke

https://boingboing.net/2020/06/15/noted-white-nationalist-and-gu.html

Wearing a barrel round your waist - C/D/but most of all - why?

I don't know if he could find a barrel racist enough to meet his standards.

Tim Pool seems to be doing really good numbers and spews out crap all day long, he has to be the worst one!

but Tim Pool isn't alt-right, he was actually a leftist who was shocked to find how extreme the left became...

hate it when that happens

This raised a smile

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/qj4egp/far-right-hearts-of-oak-protest-london

Hearts of Oak, Brains of Shit

They've not won the Ghanian premier league since 2009 but I hadn't realized they had fallen on quite such hard times