Lamebot posted:

Europe sent all their failsons to die in a little thing called World War I & II, just a thought.

Crowsbeak posted:

Generally a good rule of thumb, beyond the obvious poo poo like anything suggesting special forces is the more medals, the more likely you got a fake.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

afaik those are service badges and not medals, so they could mean anything

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

In 2018 most people who do trade games a lot are white dudes in their 20s-30s with spare cash

You know who likes to tell you about their stupid ideas like why that dude who did coordinated harassment to the point that a very visible member of the MtG Community quit the game over it shouldn't be banned from playing

Those guys

Nebakenezzer posted:

Yes, WW2, an inconsequential war good for liquidating garbage people

Nebakenezzer posted:

Yes, WW2, an inconsequential war good for liquidating garbage people

Gringostar posted:

there's actually some truth to that

the vietnam war caused a hell of a lot of poor/minority deaths amongst the boomer generation which (along with other factors such as lead gasoline and other mass used chemicals) is one of the many reasons they're so much more conservative than every other generation before and since

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Bullfrog posted:

Boston was way more significant than people thought. It should be viewed as a companion to Cville in its significance. Imagine if 50 antifascists faced down 15,000 fash. Yikes. Just yikes.

It would register as a sea-change and call for a complete refocusing of tactics. It would have been demoralizing and terrifying. It certainly wouldn't have been "fun". However, I doubt that most of even the casual antifascists would stop participating in the movement. Why? Because the politics of anti-fascism is based on actual struggle. The pepe kids simply went out with the giddy sense that they would have a good time with their bros while humiliating their enemy.

Think back to what is arguably the first incident of proto-alt right rally fuckery: Lawrence Scarsella and his friend gleefully flashing their gun and referencing 4chan memes in the car on their way to "troll" (and eventually open fire upon) a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis. It was all a joke, until it suddenly revealed itself not to be on the pull of a trigger. Perhaps he opened fire after feeling that it wasn't fun anymore, that their fantasy world had been intruded upon by real-world resistance. If they hadn't opened fire, they'd be wearing helicopter ride shirts a year and a half later, holsters chaffing under their khakis.

Fun is the main motivator for the stickboy-orbiter wannabes. Fun goes well with brotherhood. The Proud Boys enjoyed success because they provided both, with their frat-like setup. Going out for drinks and going to punch SJWs on the streets were both basically equivalent to them psychologically. The streets had the added bonus that you got to feel like a manly soldier humiliating your enemy, an enemy that wanted to take away your fun. It's no coincidence that many edgelord dudes became radicalized by gamergate and the anita poo poo. They felt like someone had come to take their videogames, and ruin their fun.

It's fking obvious to anyone that the real threat that leftists and feminists pose to these chuds is not to their "fun", but their power. White dudes have too much power compared to other groups in society. However, to the all too typical breed of dude who wraps himself up in a kek flag, the distinction between "power" and "fun" is pretty drat blurry. Trolling is an expression of power meant to entertain you. Videogames are often power fantasies. Treating women like poo poo is about power too. I'm sure it's a form of disgusting entertainment for the perpetrators too.

So then you get something like Boston, where you are utterly and humiliatingly outnumbered. Thousands of voices thunder over yours. You can barely hear yourself speak. You're sweating under your helmet, feeling pretty cringey now because you're all dressed up for combat and looking ridiculous. Nobody can see your lovely placard, covered in memes, because the police have a 200 yard barrier. All the other fash are standing around on their phones. You can smell pizza wafting over from the antifascist side, and you kick yourself for only bringing a single funsize bag of doritos.

You're weak. This ain't fun.



You don't come back out next time.

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

edgelords become nazis to freak out the normies

antisocial basement dwellers become nazis because they feel weak and powerless and want to feel strong for once in their lives

cville scared off the first group and Boston the second, so what’s left are the true believers and the terminally irony poisoned

and that’s not really a lot of people

Darkman Fanpage posted:

BillDenmark

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

Wasn't the rally crew at boston just a bunch of randos and one insane guy running for senator? The main alt-right orgs checked out at Cville terrified of cops and antifas while somehow murdering a white woman at the same time, I think they knocked the gas out of themselves and Boston just set an example of what to expect.

I still think Jason Kessler getting run out of town by an angry mob is the funniest, coolest, best thing to come around in America for a while.

Zeroisanumber posted:

If we had 50 Antifa vs. 15,000 Nazis we'd have ended up with 50 dead Antifa. All of us would be keeping an extremely low profile and swapping tips on how to properly claim refugee status in Canada.

osirisisdead posted:

What's really ironic is that the core idea of fascism is that people are stronger when working together in larger groups with a common cause.

business hammocks posted:

It was about 20 high-school kids, a crazy man who thinks he invented email, some white chicks who made up a non-rasta religion about weed, Kyle Chapman, and an Alex Jones correspondent.

The next rally had three high-school kids and about 50 militia crazies and burly skinheads, plus Kyle Chapman.

Pope Guilty posted:

That's not really accurate- fascism's core idea is really that nature is built on hierarchies- predators over prey, male over female, masters over slaves, stronger races over the weak. Yes, there's strength in numbers, but it's less about "let's work together and be strong" and more "if everybody knows their place and doesn't defy the natural order, we can assert our proper place as a nation and a people above everybody else".

cumshitter posted:

lol wait that shiva ayyadurai guy was at the rally?

i dont know anythinga bout him except that he sucks because one of the biggest alt-right morons i know used his picture as an av for a while

osirisisdead posted:

That might be a part of the strategy of fascism, that social darwinism biotruths stuff, but also, fascism's symbol is a bundle of sticks (fasces) tied around an axe... which always makes me wonder about the etymology behind why people also use that for a slur for homosexual men.

osirisisdead posted:

which always makes me wonder about the etymology behind why people also use that for a slur for homosexual men.

osirisisdead posted:

That might be a part of the strategy of fascism, that social darwinism biotruths stuff, but also, fascism's symbol is a bundle of sticks (fasces) tied around an axe... which always makes me wonder about the etymology behind why people also use that for a slur for homosexual men.

Pope Guilty posted:

That's not really accurate- fascism's core idea is really that nature is built on hierarchies- predators over prey, male over female, masters over slaves, stronger races over the weak. Yes, there's strength in numbers, but it's less about "let's work together and be strong" and more "if everybody knows their place and doesn't defy the natural order, we can assert our proper place as a nation and a people above everybody else".

Dmitri-9 posted:

The United States motto is "E pluribus unum" the idea predates fascism.

Shalebridge Cradle posted:

There is no one answer but the best theory I heard was British private schools. The youngest kids had to gather firewood. I don't really want to spell out the rest, but now those British pedophile scandals make a lot more sense.

business hammocks posted:

He's all-in with them. He had some of them as campaign volunteers setting up a table downtown last month. At the nazi rally he had "black lives do matter" campaign signs, apparently in some kind of attempt to make it appear that BLM had endorsed him.

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In June 2005, Ayyadurai was charged with assault & battery after his girlfriend called police to report he had pushed and shoved her during an argument. According to a police report detailing the incident, Ayyadurai allegedly resisted arrest and attempted to stab the arresting officer with a pen. After he was taken into custody, an emergency 209A restraining order was issued against Ayyadurai banning him from having contact with her.[65] In July 2017 this was revealed on The Howie Carr Show.[66][67]

Beginning in 2014, Ayyadurai was romantically connected with the actress Fran Drescher. On September 7, 2014, Ayyadurai and Drescher participated in a ceremony at Drescher's beach house. Both tweeted that they had gotten married,[68][69] and the event was widely reported as such.[70][71][72] Ayyadurai later said it was not "a formal wedding or marriage", but a celebration of their "friendship in a spiritual ceremony with close friends and her family".[73][74] The couple split up in September 2016.[75]

Dmitri-9 posted:

The United States motto is "E pluribus unum" the idea predates fascism.

osirisisdead posted:

The Eugenics Movement started in California. Nazi Germany got a lot of their ideas from people in the US and there were also people who were calling to join the Axis during the war... and a lot of the anti-war folks were openly antisemitic...

Pope Guilty posted:

That's not really accurate- fascism's core idea is really that nature is built on hierarchies- predators over prey, male over female, masters over slaves, stronger races over the weak. Yes, there's strength in numbers, but it's less about "let's work together and be strong" and more "if everybody knows their place and doesn't defy the natural order, we can assert our proper place as a nation and a people above everybody else".

osirisisdead posted:

which always makes me wonder about the etymology behind why people also use that for a slur for homosexual men.

Bullfrog posted:

You don't come back out next time.

Zeroisanumber posted:

Because you gather tied bundles of wood to burn them to death with.

Dmitri-9 posted:

The United States motto is "E pluribus unum" the idea predates fascism.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

afaik those are service badges and not medals, so they could mean anything