A Handed Missus posted:

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Nazis need to be able to speak freely, so every time they do a "lone wolf" terrorist attack, they can say it was just a communist false flag.

Nonsense posted:

so he's getting off? serious question. i figure he can't be tried if he can't be represented?

Agean90 posted:

Legal precidence defines this country, it sure is good thing a fascist isnt in position to appoint judges who would be willing to ignore that!

FCKGW posted:

thats not how the courts work lol

Nonsense posted:

the cops are protecting them fam

Nonsense posted:

so he's getting off? serious question. i figure he can't be tried if he can't be represented?

SKULL.GIF posted:

found the article

https://jacobitemag.com/2017/08/12/how-message-board-culture-remade-the-left/

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One scene that has been markedly successful in capturing the attention of the journalistic world is the one that developed from the pay-to-post forum Something Awful. Originally a humor site, it became one of the most influential sites on the internet — you probably know that 4chan was created by a Something Awful regular, and that its initial userbase drew heavily from SA. Its influence on politics, however, extends far beyond 4chan. Buckle up, folks: you’re in for a long, confusing, and terrible ride.

In the essay “Exiting the Vampire Castle,” Mark Fisher, who was roundly condemned for writing it and killed himself three years later, attacked not only the identitarianism that has metastasized in academia since the ’60s, an identitarianism in which “the sheer mention of class is now automatically treated as if that means one is trying to downgrade the importance of race and gender,” but also the “paralysing feeling of guilt and suspicion which hangs over left-wing twitter like an acrid, stifling fog” and the “kangaroo courts and character assassinations” that are, as anyone who has observed the state of the left today, overwhelmingly common. This guilt and suspicion, these kangaroo courts and character assassinations, need not have anything to do with politics; in one memorable instance, a once-popular Tumblr communist blogger with the sadly real URL of “fuckyeahmarxismleninism” was dogpiled and laughed into irrelevance for admitting to watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic with his daughters. This was seen as a far worse faux pas than even his support of North Korea. I am, unfortunately, not making this up; I saw it all happen firsthand.

These aren’t the kangaroo courts of Stalin. What they are is the schoolyard courts of Helldump, a Something Awful subforum created for the strange purpose of being a schoolyard court. The Something Awful wiki speaks for itself here: “The official birth of Helldump 2000 spawned a new creative outlet for pedophiles, racists, bigots, Ron Paul supporters, gun zealots, defenders of anime and otherwise crap posters to be outed in a thorough, convincing manner by an astute civilian task force. Essentially, it checks and balances the stupidity that seeps its way into the forums as a whole, although (unfortunately) it does not function as a preventive treatment (poo poo posters still propagate at an alarming rate). Rather, the modus operandi of Helldump is to profile and insult the (assumed) poor goon for his questionable views, and in turn function as a virtual tourniquet in an attempt to stop the bleeding, as well as force said poo poo poster into online anonymity and/or reclusiveness.” In practice, most of what Helldump did was dogpile furries.

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Providing a precise accounting of the impact of Something Awful on the Anglosphere left is difficult, as it would be with any subculture. The history is oral, largely lost, deliberately obfuscated, and shrouded in irony. It is likely that nothing will come of it, and that, in the end, it will be the farce mirroring the tragedy of neoconservatism: an insane political movement that developed out of a bizarre and insular clique in a world where having the right connections matters above all else, writing things that very few people care about but doing a great deal of damage along the way. It seems that the norms of Helldump have become callout culture, SA users’ trolling of the libertarians corralled in LF have become the dirtbag left, and some of those responsible have written for not only Gawker and Buzzfeed, but also The New York Times.

At the very least, the overlap in population is clear and suggestive. Someone can go from being repeatedly banned from a pay-to-post forum for something involving the word “friend of the family” to writing for the Guardian, the Atlantic and the New York Times, largely on the dubious strength of his Twitter account and forum fame. There are few lessons that can be drawn from this; the obvious one is that perhaps the media rewards expertise less than connectedness.

Shageletic posted:

Tell that to the girl who died. Its gonna happen again, prob in Sept, with them killing somebody else. Why facilitate that? It's an obsession with abstraction trumping real people's lives.

Lastgirl posted:

https://twitter.com/laurenevemay/status/896834209217740802

brugroffil posted:

yeah the ACLU hot takes yesterday were pretty awful in this thread

docbeard posted:

Anyway, tell me of times where the ACLU couldn't be bothered to defend the first amendment rights of leftists. Like, actual events where that happened.

This is a serious request, not me trying to prove some kind of point.

Donkwich posted:

he didnt wish to create joinder and now hes free

very sad imo