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Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

extremely online guy tried to do the new zealand thing where he livestreamed it and posted to 8chan but hosed it up. got taken down by a 75-year-old man.

https://twitter.com/jason_a_w/status/1160279930870984704

no deaths and only one injury so i feel morally justified in wishing he had managed to livestream himself being taken down by grampy gramp

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Gaukler
Oct 9, 2012


Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

no deaths and only one injury so i feel morally justified in wishing he had managed to livestream himself being taken down by grampy gramp

There is a related death, a young woman was found dead in a home at/near the attackers residence that the police are treating as related: (warning: Norwegian) https://direkte.vg.no/nyhetsdognet/news/5d4f3154c25d830013b1d764

EDIT: TV2 is reporting the young woman is related to the attacker: https://twitter.com/tv2nyhetene/status/1160297535799361536

Dagbladet also has stuff up about the guy praising the New Zealand shooter and others: https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/skal-ha-hyllet-massemordere-for-moskangrepet/71478775

Which includes this bit from Irfan Mushtaq, a community leader at the mosque (translated by google translate and a bit by me):

quote:

Mushtaq says that after the New Zealand episode, they installed access barriers in the mosque.

"If we had not done this he could have come right through the main entrance and got a free pass. But now he stood outside screaming and had to shoot through the glass panes to get in."

After the Breivik attacks, Norway changed their laws around terrorism and charging it so police are actually hesitant to call something terrorism until they're sure they have a decent case for that charge, as calling it "terror" and then walking it back can have adverse affects when trying to prosecute. This seems a bit like bullshit and the papers/TV2 are basically doing the passive-aggressive Norwegian thing of saying "The police chief says they can't confirm its a terror attack at this time but hey here's a bunch of things tying this guy to very terrorism-looking things".

This is my analysis as an American living here and talking to Norwegians about it, so weigh that appropriately.

Gaukler has issued a correction as of 22:26 on Aug 10, 2019

don longjohns
Mar 2, 2012


"Has pled guilty" WaPo. It's present perfect tense.

Slugnoid
Jun 23, 2006

Nap Ghost

Gaukler posted:

There is a related death, a young woman was found dead in a home at/near the attackers residence that the police are treating as related: (warning: Norwegian) https://direkte.vg.no/nyhetsdognet/news/5d4f3154c25d830013b1d764

EDIT: TV2 is reporting the young woman is related to the attacker: https://twitter.com/tv2nyhetene/status/1160297535799361536

Dagbladet also has stuff up about the guy praising the New Zealand shooter and others: https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/skal-ha-hyllet-massemordere-for-moskangrepet/71478775

Which includes this bit from Irfan Mushtaq, a community leader at the mosque (translated by google translate and a bit by me):


After the Breivik attacks, Norway changed their laws around terrorism and charging it so police are actually hesitant to call something terrorism until they're sure they have a decent case for that charge, as calling it "terror" and then walking it back can have adverse affects when trying to prosecute. This seems a bit like bullshit and the papers/TV2 are basically doing the passive-aggressive Norwegian thing of saying "The police chief says they can't confirm its a terror attack at this time but hey here's a bunch of things tying this guy to very terrorism-looking things".

This is my analysis as an American living here and talking to Norwegians about it, so weigh that appropriately.



all these shooters calling each other lads and cobbers and poo poo is getting annoying.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

failing forward posted:

"Has pled guilty" WaPo. It's present perfect tense.
they're using AP style. this is one of those WW1 style trench battles except over language

https://twitter.com/apstylebook/status/1032266682566418434

Slugnoid
Jun 23, 2006

Nap Ghost

Slugnoid posted:



all these shooters calling each other lads and cobbers and poo poo is getting annoying.

take that with a grain of salt btw, its what i scratched up when i went wading through the poop on 4chan

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 29 days!)

I like to think the saints are electing mass shooters who are complete fuckups that manage to kill nobody and only embarrass themselves.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
a lot of popcorn in the microwave lately

https://twitter.com/mattlupoli/status/1160227059777593344
https://twitter.com/HazenWESH/status/1160292071737085952

don longjohns
Mar 2, 2012

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

they're using AP style. this is one of those WW1 style trench battles except over language

https://twitter.com/apstylebook/status/1032266682566418434

Okay now I am curious: why didn't they write "Has plead guilty" then instead of "Has pleaded"? This is new to me!

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

failing forward posted:

Okay now I am curious: why didn't they write "Has plead guilty" then instead of "Has pleaded"? This is new to me!
forget it, bub! it's the AP stylebook!

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

BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 23:12 on Aug 10, 2019

Siljmonster
Dec 16, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

lmao of course the white terrorist is once again "middle class" jobless, living at home with his parents

don longjohns
Mar 2, 2012


Omfg my poor English language students 😭

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Siljmonster posted:

lmao of course the white terrorist is once again "middle class" jobless, living at home with his parents
same with the el paso shooter. so many are petit-bourgeois failsons who can't handle getting a job with the rest of the proles

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

Siljmonster posted:

lmao of course the white terrorist is once again "middle class" jobless, living at home with his parents

I hesitate to even say middle class going by that gate.

Siljmonster
Dec 16, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Grape posted:

I hesitate to even say middle class going by that gate.

sorry if you got a portcullis going up to your medieval moat filled with crocodiles youre not poor

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

Siljmonster posted:

sorry if you got a portcullis going up to your medieval moat filled with crocodiles youre not poor

Hmm yes, pointing out a fancy gate buttressed by hedges is to suggest a downgrade from middle class.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
witnessed something last night actually. was drinking at the bar out on the patio when i heard someone shout "heil hitler!" well that got my attention. popped up and walked over to the patio entrance (fairly big place) and saw two young white guys walking away, with the combatively drunk hitler guy turning around and doing lewd gestures to the woman at the door. they were probably about 50 feet away. i asked her what was up and she said they were being assholes to staff and got kicked out.

leaving a little awhile later, i'm going home and i come by another bar and see the same guys getting told to gently caress off by a group of people in front of the place including bar staff while they were trying to tip over a garbage bin in front of it. same guy walks away at about the same distance turns around and starts shouting about "antifaggots." well there you go. so i walk up and ask if this guy has a problem and stand with them for a minute while we watch them disappear. same story. he's drunk and combative and his friend isn't in control of him, etc. this place also kinda functions as a queer hangout too and some people out front looked concerned.

one thing to consider is the first bar had probably 100 people in there and it's not the kind of crowd to tolerate that foolishness. the people who go there are young and it's racially diverse and integrated.

don't really know the moral of the story. i'm not a tough guy but my guess is that if you see stuff like that, stand up and just put yourself between people like that and the people they're harassing. also carry pepper spray in case they go aggro. but in this case the guy would only say aggro stuff from a good, safe distance after being told to gently caress off.

Tollymain
Jul 9, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
i dont even see the land half of their combination rv/yacht, theyre practically under the poverty line

Siljmonster
Dec 16, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Grape posted:

Hmm yes, pointing out a fancy gate buttressed by hedges is to suggest a downgrade from middle class.

get off your loving tower!

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
so this guy was playing footsie with atomwaffen, NSM and TWP:

https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1160231504716410882

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hmm

https://twitter.com/blkmsk/status/1160300076377530376

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

Slugnoid posted:

all these shooters calling each other lads and cobbers and poo poo is getting annoying.

wtf is a cobber, some sort of ironic appropriation of corn-cobbing?


Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Has Climo made an appearance in the thread before? I vaguely remember the name.

Dante80
Mar 23, 2015

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

witnessed something last night actually. was drinking at the bar out on the patio when i heard someone shout "heil hitler!" well that got my attention. popped up and walked over to the patio entrance (fairly big place) and saw two young white guys walking away, with the combatively drunk hitler guy turning around and doing lewd gestures to the woman at the door. they were probably about 50 feet away. i asked her what was up and she said they were being assholes to staff and got kicked out.

leaving a little awhile later, i'm going home and i come by another bar and see the same guys getting told to gently caress off by a group of people in front of the place including bar staff while they were trying to tip over a garbage bin in front of it. same guy walks away at about the same distance turns around and starts shouting about "antifaggots." well there you go. so i walk up and ask if this guy has a problem and stand with them for a minute while we watch them disappear. same story. he's drunk and combative and his friend isn't in control of him, etc. this place also kinda functions as a queer hangout too and some people out front looked concerned.

one thing to consider is the first bar had probably 100 people in there and it's not the kind of crowd to tolerate that foolishness. the people who go there are young and it's racially diverse and integrated.

don't really know the moral of the story. i'm not a tough guy but my guess is that if you see stuff like that, stand up and just put yourself between people like that and the people they're harassing. also carry pepper spray in case they go aggro. but in this case the guy would only say aggro stuff from a good, safe distance after being told to gently caress off.

It is vitally important to keep up the good fight. Here in Greece we have been trying to bash these fuckers for more than a decade, with mixed results. I know that the whole gun culture in the US is making said task a lot more dangerous or/and difficult. You simply cannot give in to apathy though. Your head is in the right place.

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

Dante80 posted:

It is vitally important to keep up the good fight. Here in Greece we have been trying to bash these fuckers for more than a decade, with mixed results. I know that the whole gun culture in the US is making said task a lot more dangerous or/and difficult. You simply cannot give in to apathy though. Your head is in the right place.

The fact that in spite of far more severe problems than most EU countries, that Golden Dawn remains weaker than their equivalents in most of those same better off countries? Is well worth some sort of pat on the back.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Dante80 posted:

It is vitally important to keep up the good fight. Here in Greece we have been trying to bash these fuckers for more than a decade, with mixed results. I know that the whole gun culture in the US is making said task a lot more dangerous or/and difficult. You simply cannot give in to apathy though. Your head is in the right place.
my takeaway is that fascist terror is designed to attack interpersonal trust and cohesion, and if people don't trust each other enough to back each other up, then that makes the fascist minority (and they are a minority in society) more able to exert power. so being willing to take some personal risks to put yourself on the line and back people up when faced with the threat is a start.

cargo cult
Aug 28, 2008

by Reene
what a loving idiot

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

Zeroisanumber posted:

Has Climo made an appearance in the thread before? I vaguely remember the name.

cargo cult
Aug 28, 2008

by Reene

Dante80 posted:

It is vitally important to keep up the good fight. Here in Greece we have been trying to bash these fuckers for more than a decade, with mixed results. I know that the whole gun culture in the US is making said task a lot more dangerous or/and difficult. You simply cannot give in to apathy though. Your head is in the right place.

i thought greek antifascist organizing was considered successful

Slugnoid
Jun 23, 2006

Nap Ghost

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

wtf is a cobber, some sort of ironic appropriation of corn-cobbing?




old, old australian slang. it's basically the same as "mate" but it fell out of fashion like 60 years ago

after tarrant everyone on 4chan's now a pretend aussie i suppose

Dante80
Mar 23, 2015

cargo cult posted:

i thought greek antifascist organizing was considered successful

We are, to a point. And lives were lost for it to happen.

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

my takeaway is that fascist terror is designed to attack interpersonal trust and cohesion, and if people don't trust each other enough to back each other up, then that makes the fascist minority (and they are a minority in society) more able to exert power. so being willing to take some personal risks to put yourself on the line and back people up when faced with the threat is a start.

The "bad people thrive when good people do nothing" quote has been banging around my head constantly since 2016.

Tollymain
Jul 9, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
far better imo to be killed fighting fascism than to be killed by fascism w/o a fight

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
british prisoners fighting the good fight:

https://twitter.com/uncoolfellazone/status/1160135031689568257

okay its not real but it made me laugh

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Pornographic Memory posted:

british prisoners fighting the good fight:

https://twitter.com/uncoolfellazone/status/1160135031689568257

okay its not real but it made me laugh

I get the sense that Tommy's not the smartest guy.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:

building the wall to own the libs

Did Isaybuildthe wall. Or critique the idea of complete open borders. US has a responsibility for everyone coming in due to its empire. Same for the EU and its members actions in Libya and Syria.

Also non coastal wash pd are definitely compromised.

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Dante80
Mar 23, 2015

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

my takeaway is that fascist terror is designed to attack interpersonal trust and cohesion, and if people don't trust each other enough to back each other up, then that makes the fascist minority (and they are a minority in society) more able to exert power. so being willing to take some personal risks to put yourself on the line and back people up when faced with the threat is a start.

Greece is a weird country, in that we have always (well since the Junta ended at least) had a pretty notable leftist/revolutionary/anarchist movement here. I've been involved in a part of it for my whole life (starting in the mid 90's when I was a student), and it has stayed both strong and relevant. Forces like those of Golden Dawn were extremely small and lacking any kind of popular support. This makes a lot of sense, since Greece had suffered a whole drat lot from the Germans in WWII and even the idea of Neo Nazism here was considered ludicrous.

What we saw here is that the economic crisis combined with the migrant crisis (Syria) ballooned support for the extreme right. While ordinary people from all walks of life were out in the streets since 2009, protesting and striking, the fascists were feeding on the dissolution of economic and social structures and redirecting via propaganda - and in some cases state support - the desperation and pain in a part of the populace towards recruitment and radicalization.

Sure, we were running anti-fascist patrols here in Athens since the 90's (still remember fondly some of them in Grava - where Golden Dawn was roaming back then to get recruits from students), and there were a lot of incidents and clashes with them. There was a notable change though with the economic crisis. After being on the streets for years, desperation started grasping people. This turned to apathy. Nothing worked, there was nothing you could do anymore. You might as well stay home and die. To really understand the levels of nihilism we reached as a populace (something profoundly weird for our culture), the discontent was enough to thoroughly destroy our two party political system (which had been close to yours in dynamics for decades), and we managed to even elect to power a leftist-progressive government. Which proceeded to thoroughly betray us and continue the cycle of decay (but that is another story).

Then, the migrant crisis boomed. Inside the space of one year, literally MILLIONS of people passed through our country to get to other places in Europe, seeking a better life and a way to flee war and death. The Greek populace embraced them fully, opening their homes to house them, their pantries to feed them and their closets to dress them. Everything - and I mean everything - strained to a breaking point though. The masses of people were endless, the resources scarce, the state almost hiding and the populace already exhausted from the economic crisis (to give you some perspective, the official unemployment rate at that point in time was 27% (and 50% for the young), while we had already lost around 45% or everything we earned and had). We were overrun.

And then the EU decided to close the borders. Trapping thousands upon thousands of refugees and immigrants here, with no place to go and no supporting mechanism to sustain them. Guess who came out feeding on this desperation and promising a better future without the illegal aliens invading the fatherland and being parasites drinking from our teets.

Fascism and neo-nazism was soaring in the meantime. They were out in the streets of Athens en-force, patrolling the neighbourhoods to keep criminality down and giving out food and clothes to destitute and homeless Greeks (while using said activities as propaganda material). Their party was already a legitimate part of our parliament and were using it as a hate soapbox.

To cut the long story short, Shehzad Luqman and Paul Fyssas had to die for the populace to finally turn against them. The Greek state had opened a sham investigation against Golden Dawn, but finally started to take it seriously after the death of Fyssas. The antifa movement (always active here) soared again. We were in every loving march and parade they did, shouting our lungs out and punching them to get back tear gas and baton marks from the police that was always protecting them. We burned all their offices down - in an almost monthly basis, hunted every cell in every city, patrolled the streets and hit them when we found them. Here in Athens where I live, I was active in a group at Petralona, where they had an office (this is where Luqman died).

Yes, in the end we were successfull. And things are somewhat better now (Golden Dawn didn't even enter the parliament at the last elections, although another nationalist party managed to unfortunately). The cost was great though, and the future is still uncertain. The takeaway here for me is that you cannot let apathy or nihilism stop you from doing what you think is right. Yes, in the grand scheme of things nothing matters. But the way forward is stupidly simple on the matter we are discussing.

You see the fash, you bash it. Sorry for my bad English.

Dante80 has issued a correction as of 01:29 on Aug 11, 2019

Tollymain
Jul 9, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
good post

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

https://twitter.com/SangreDulce1/status/1159999110092611586

what the gently caress

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Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

he looks like a lovely drawing of a chad that incels wish they were

drat poo poo really is bad for the white man :ohdear:

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