StashAugustine posted:

is such a good smiley for this thread

StashAugustine posted:

is such a good smiley for this thread

pookel posted:

It drives me nuts because I always want to read the entire text and it gets too small at the end.

Yes, I'm autistic, why do you ask?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/nayanikaaa/stat...r%3D247%23pti18

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I used to think that people talking up fat-shaming were exaggerating when they talked about the obese saying they were 'fine', 'healthy' even. No way could someone get away with advocating that obese people were healthy. I used to think that.

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But DRUUMPFFF needs to lose 10-15 lbs and takes a multi-vitamin. Unfit!!! IN PEACH!!!

Dapper_Swindler posted:

My brain has always come up with the question, if Jews control everything, doesn’t that make them the super duper race.

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

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 are 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 they got to feel like a manly soldier humiliating their enemy, an enemy that wanted to take away their 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 as well.

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.

Pope Guilty posted:

There's a bunch of weird shared imagery between the US and Nazi Germany because both stole heavily from imperial Rome. The fasces is in a bunch of places, for example.

Feldegast42 posted:

Look closely at Abe Lincoln's chair in his memorial for instance. The fasces is an old symbol of government that the Italian Fascists stole, similar to how the Nazis stole the swastika.

Edit: gently caress, I should actually read the thread first before posting something that other people already covered

InequalityGodzilla posted:

It means they’re going to be exterminated. That’s always been the problem with Spencer’s poo poo. he tries to couch it in more pleasant language like “No, no, we’re not going to exterminate anybody, we just want them to leave.” And in basically every interview no one ever asks “Well, what if they refuse? What happens when they say ‘We’ve lived in this country for 6 generations now, we aren’t leaving.’”

The tacit implication is that’ when the camps start.


Edit: Holy poo poo his pinned tweet is the NPI’s actual address. brb, mailing them some of my dog’s poo poo.

Shalebridge Cradle posted:

Also expulsion was to original Nazi plan. They were planning to move a million Jewish people a year to Madagascar. Turns out that's super hard to actually do so they came up with the final solution.

Feldegast42 posted:

Look closely at Abe Lincoln's chair in his memorial for instance. The fasces is an old symbol of government that the Italian Fascists stole, similar to how the Nazis stole the swastika.

Edit: gently caress, I should actually read the thread first before posting something that other people already covered

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Nazi intent with regards to expulsion vs. extermination is very much a debatable topic in Holocaust studies, and the Madagascar Plan was very much an extemporization suggested on the fly by Franz Rademacher.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Nazi intent with regards to expulsion vs. extermination is very much a debatable topic in Holocaust studies, and the Madagascar Plan was very much an extemporization suggested on the fly by Franz Rademacher.

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

Ruzihm posted:

good post ty

Casimir Radon posted:

There was at one point a plan to use them as slave labor on lands that they planned to seize from the Soviets. Don't remember the particulars though.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

This seems like it didn't break out of the Southern California news bubble, but a 19-year-old gay pre-med student named Blaze Bernstein was found stabbed to death in an Orange County park. The search for the killer turned into something of a social media phenomenon with Kobe Bryant putting out calls to find the guy.

Police arrested and charged a former classmate with the murder, a 20-year-old Samuel Woodward.

Then you look at a pic of Woodward doing the perp walk...



https://twitter.com/ChicanosUEdCtte/status/952284073719771136

Dapper_Swindler posted:

that guy is 20? he looks 30 at least.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Nazi intent with regards to expulsion vs. extermination is very much a debatable topic in Holocaust studies, and the Madagascar Plan was very much an extemporization suggested on the fly by Franz Rademacher.

large adult son posted:

dear lord, I just started reading that thread and his answer to rifkind's question does he have no moral objection to the expulsion of his (rifkind's) family from the UK, where they have been since 1895, is galaxy mind-tier: "There's certainly a potentially tragic element to it, but tragedy is inherent to reality."

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

This seems like it didn't break out of the Southern California news bubble, but a 19-year-old gay pre-med student named Blaze Bernstein was found stabbed to death in an Orange County park. The search for the killer turned into something of a social media phenomenon with Kobe Bryant putting out calls to find the guy.

Police arrested and charged a former classmate with the murder, a 20-year-old Samuel Woodward.

Then you look at a pic of Woodward doing the perp walk...



https://twitter.com/ChicanosUEdCtte/status/952284073719771136

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

There's some pretty glorious infighting on Gab between Hunter Wallace of the League of the South, and Andrew Anglin & Weev.

This has been a long time coming since Wallace and the LotS have always tried to go for a somewhat respectable normie route. Well, their membership roll was stolen and handed over to anti-fascists so Anglin criticized them for that breach in opsec. Meanwhile Wallace is going after Weev for being Jewish.

What really seemed to set this whole thing off is the recent Wired article about the researcher who has a database of Nazis which the SPLC has access to.

Zeroisanumber posted:

Yeah, that dude's fash and it's going to come out that he killed him for being Jewish.

Zeroisanumber posted:

Yeah, that dude's fash and it's going to come out that he killed him for being Jewish.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

apparently he killed him for coming onto him.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

apparently he killed him for coming onto him.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

looking forward to the gay panic defense working in 2018

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

This seems like it didn't break out of the Southern California news bubble, but a 19-year-old gay pre-med student named Blaze Bernstein was found stabbed to death in an Orange County park. The search for the killer turned into something of a social media phenomenon with Kobe Bryant putting out calls to find the guy.

Police arrested and charged a former classmate with the murder, a 20-year-old Samuel Woodward.

Then you look at a pic of Woodward doing the perp walk...



https://twitter.com/ChicanosUEdCtte/status/952284073719771136

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The head of the State Committee for State TV and Radio Broadcasting's licensing and distribution-control department, Serhiy Oliyinyk, told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service that "several paragraphs did not allow us to give permission for [the import of] this book" and accused Beevor of falling for a "provocation" that was never confirmed by war crimes prosecutors after the conflict.

He cited a passage that purportedly said "Ukrainian nationalists were tasked with shooting the children" in order to "spare the feelings of SS Sonderkommando," a reference to forced work units made up of death-camp prisoners.

"We are not aware of such facts being revised at the Nuremberg tribunal. It's a provocation," Oliyinyk said. "When we checked the sources he used, we found out he used reports of The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs. It was enough to discuss the issue at expert council and we are happy they supported us."

In an e-mail to RFE/RL, Beevor said that Oliyinyk’s statement is untrue and that the source for the report was a highly respected anti-Nazi officer, Colonel Helmuth Groscurth, who was a witness to the atrocity and who reported it to another German officer. He said those details were recounted in a book written by Groscurth and published in 1970.

"He wrote to his wife at the time, so shocked was he by what he had witnessed, ‘We cannot and should not be allowed to win this war'," Beevor said in his e-mail. "I expect an immediate apology from Oliyinyk and a reversal of the decision by the ‘expert council.'"