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@SpinelessL

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Researcher. co-creator. Words @antihateca , @gnet_research , @vice , , & more. Affiliate @cifrsorg . Tweets about the Horrors. H/h.

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Dan Collen
15 days
Who Will Win the Infowars Bid? (No Wrong Answers/Only Wrong Answers) Comment suggestions and I'll add them. First four:
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Alex Jones in a disguise
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Dan Collen
9 months
Whether or not the TMZs of the world know it, Kanye wearing Nazi merch is a pretty clear signal that the apologies are fake. He still believes the same stuff about Hitler. He's just learning how to say it without losing brand deals.
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NFR Podcast
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KANYE WEST LINKED UP WITH JPEGMAFIA 🔥🔥
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Computer, enhance!
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10 months
This is who @Revolvermag just put on their cover, via a soft-focus “profile” of this fascist chud.
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Dan Collen
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Called it
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Dan Collen
1 year
We could be mere days away from Elon misquoting Voltaire or promising to secure his children's Future(tm)
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Dan Collen
3 years
Unpopular opinion apparently, but if you describe any of the convoys that you know are mostly represented by non-truckers as "Canadian trucker protests" or "Canadian trucker convoys", you are knowingly misrepresenting both convoy members and Canadian truckers.
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Dan Collen
2 years
This obviously seems very silly but you guys gotta know, Raw Egg Nationalist is literally a Nazi. Tucker isn't just platforming a weird guy. He promotes Evola and he prints his book with an openly National Socialist book publisher. He is a Nazi.
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"raw egg nationalist" slonks raw eggs daily
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Dan Collen
1 year
Not a single time in this article does @MarekCTV mention that Bubba Pollock, the guy quoted and initially defended in this piece, is a well-known neo-Nazi who even rallies unmasked with the WP group White Lives Matter. What's the explanation for this @ctvlondon ?
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Dan Collen
2 years
@broderick @Mezentine That's a great one but the season 3 Daredevil long-shot prison escape scene is the best daredevil fight scene and blows it out of the water imo. Also the Punisher prison fight scene in season 2 was incredible.
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Dan Collen
3 years
Ah, shit. The esoteric/spiritual/soft fascist mysticism site got a real celebrity ambassador. Gaia isn't just a conspiracy site, it platforms and pairs with Protocols enthusiast David Icke and caters to more than one classic Nazi occult myth.
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roslyn 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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PARDON?
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Dan Collen
3 months
A quick glance of Olympic shooter Enkhtaivany Davaakhüü shows he is a big fan of swastikas. In addition to an apparent chest tattoo, he has at least two Swastika necklaces, one of which has the slanted Swastika design used by Nazis.
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Dan Collen
9 months
1/3 Doxxing people who are filmed having a bad time while they are on private property is reckless at best and despicable at worst. This guy might have to move now because of the National Post. And yes, this would still apply if he was filmed saying nice things to anti-vaxxers.
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Dan Collen
2 years
Commissioner Gordon on Henry Kissinger, to Batgirl and Two Face: "That monster isn't dead yet? G-d really doesn't exist." From HBO's Harley Quinn
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Dan Collen
10 months
@Revolvermag @STPmetal @TheTerribleAlex @SumerianRecords Hey @Revolvermag quick question: what does this elbow tattoo that is visible on the cover of your Winter 2023 issue mean?
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Dan Collen
1 year
The hardest part about talking about online hate is not conveying how these pipelines work. It is convincing people that yes, people get millions of streams and tiktok replays for exactly this content and yes, that means they are not "fringe" but in fact part of popular culture.
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IDK if anyone spends much time with teenagers but this stuff is *huge* right now and it's gonna be a massive issue going forward in ways that are gonna be hard to fathom if, like me, you grew up somewhere that youth culture/counterculture was always dominated by the left.
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Dan Collen
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Live-ammo counter-demos against unnamed Pride attendees is not just an intimidation technique. It also 1. Tests out controlling minority groups w/ violence. 2. Potentially triggers will-be mass shooters. 3. Shows recruits how how hard/easy soft target shooting sprees can be.
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Ford Fischer
1 year
Myself and 2 other press @ScooterCasterNY and @KristanTHarris followed the Neo-Nazi Blood Tribe group as they marched to their exit point somewhere else in Watertown. "You better go away, I'm telling you man," one said. 1:27 into this video, he chambered a round in his AK.
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Dan Collen
2 years
Last week Toronto Sun ran a poll in a story about complaining Oakville Trafalgar High School. It asked "Do you think woke culture is destroying Canadian society?" The results are 95% yes. Since last week the school has received multiple bomb threats. The poll is still up.
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Dan Collen
3 years
I spent today in and around #ParliamentHill . While there's not much to say about the #FluTrucksKlan on parliament that hasn't already been said about the most filmable members of the convoy, I'd like to make a few observations about the crowds in Ottawa today:
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Dan Collen
4 years
If you guys are upset about Randy Hillier saying something racist that downplays Covid-19 you are going to be so upset when you see pretty much every other thing that he said over the last year.
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Dan Collen
1 year
🧵 Because Save Canada spokesperson Chris Dacey flew Diagolon's Ol' Slashy at Parliament yesterday, here are 9 things Diagolon leader Jeremy Mackenzie has publicly promoted or posted in just the last month that could reasonably be considered the actions of a white power activist:
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Dan Collen
1 year
Wrapping up, this Josh Alexander interview wasn't unique in any way. I'm only mentioning it because needs to be said that SC hasn't actually distanced from the networks of its Diagolon-friendly founders since handing the brand over to Alexander. This is who they are courting.
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Dan Collen
2 years
@jordanbpeterson @atRachelGilmore @CPOntario Do you think I should report this one to the CPO or nah?
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Dr Jordan B Peterson
9 years
@GreggHurwitz it's good that you consumed the liquor this time instead of letting some Indian steal it.....
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Dan Collen
2 years
People tend to think of Holocaust revisionism as something reserved for hatemongers on the fringes of society. But this a self-described centrist with over 10 thousand followers pushing a narrative that willfully omits Jews as the biggest target and it has very little pushback.
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Scribulatora
2 years
Never occurred to them that an “elite” was generally someone who had risen, by way of education, talent or hard work (or all three) from the “common people” ranks. You know, what we all used to wish for for our children. He made an “other” and created a burning hatred for them.
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Dan Collen
8 months
"Anyone who pushes Nazism is not welcome" So tbc @mschlapp , are you saying the man at CPAC with a "Bryan Betancur" name tag is not the same Bryan Betancur who the DOJ calls "a self-professed white supremacist" who "voiced homicidal ideations"?
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Matt Schlapp
8 months
I love the Jewish people and Israel will exist until the end of time w my full support. The Bible reigns above and fascism should dissolve in the bosom of hell. Anyone who pushes Nazism is not welcome @CPAC Now stop parading this false story and go away.
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Dan Collen
9 months
If you also think this is bad, positive reminder that it is always good to make people in Burzum gear feel unwelcomed. Always, always, always.
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Dan Collen
6 months
Ezra Levant and Gavin McInnes together at Columbia because nothing ever changes unless it's getting worse
@ScooterCasterNY
Oliya Scootercaster 🛴
6 months
SPOTTED: Gavin McInnes, the found of the 'Proud Boys' and co-founder of VICE, spotted at the Columbia University Encampment Protest. Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 Desk @freedomnews .tv to license
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Dan Collen
2 years
As someone who analyzed over 1000 pieces of far-right propaganda in the last two years for work: An infamous neo-Nazi wielding a sign with a Celtic Cross calling for a destruction of pedophiles outside of a Drag Story Time is kind of connected to the Drag Story Time, yeah.
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Dan Collen
8 months
FYI the reason NBC's extremism beat journalist is ranting this is that he got called out for being unethical *towards other journalists* in the field (by @noturtlesoup17 ), and now he is trying to discredit them for having done undercover journalism to expose neo-Nazis.
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Dan Collen
1 year
🧵I am not a Nazi historian and contemporary movements are more my beat. But here's a few prominent allies to National Socialism off the top of my head who are are either POC or Hispanic (Spain has white people, yes) to emphasize how out-of-touch this line of thought is.
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Dan Collen
1 year
Subscribers to @jacobin should take a hard look at what they're paying for. Because right now, they're paying to platform an objectively Right Wing brand (no pun intended) that spreads deadly anti-vaccine disinformation, praises Alex Jones, and spreads 9/11 conspiracy theories.
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In Licha-Cuti We Trust
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Jacobin’s timing, always exquisite
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Dan Collen
3 years
1: A lot of children are here. A lot. And I saw more than a few made to carry two handed signs. There's a lot of cold and bored kids spending the day holding signs their parents made. Restaurants in Ottawa are closed for indoor dining, so some families had to eat lunch outside.
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Dan Collen
9 months
2/3 Minimal effort could have been made to make this story happen without naming this man and just identify him as a Liberal staffer. Instead the National Post identified a private citizen for a conspiracy movement to personally make a target.
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Dan Collen
2 years
@markusoff @ABDanielleSmith Wow. The naturopath in that clip, Christine Perkins, sure has helped some very famous clients. This one, "Tim", is all over the internet! It's almost like she made up her own reviews and used stock photo images for fake patients!
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Dan Collen
3 years
And 4. Small businesses were swarmed and floor workers were put in bad places today. Most businesses tried operating as usual (not downtown Starbucks, it seems). Some gave and closed early. People I spoke with didn't even know Ottawa was closed for indoor dining before coming.
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Dan Collen
3 years
Every antifascists I know has been screaming about it for at least 2 years. When all is said and done, remember who kept the receipts of Canada's far-right for years leading up to this. We owe them for providing the resources to fill in a full picture.
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Dan Collen
9 months
3/3 It would be another thing and much less of an issue if this was on the streets. But this was someone's home and it was shared without any effort to hide his face or location, and without explicit consent. It's disgusting. It's not normal and it shouldn't be treated otherwise.
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Dan Collen
9 months
One small silver lining in this is that it may be uh, a little bit entertaining in a messed up way to see Varg wrestle with the fact his most famous fan is a Person of Colour.
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Dan Collen
4 months
Truly weird to me that a reporter with an organization closely connected to a major tech company and the Conservative Party of Canada is allowed to meet with *literal* Nazis and occasionally defend them, in this case this guy here for plainly committing a hate crime
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Luke LeBrun
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Shopify COO Kaz Nejatian runs this guy’s company:
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Dan Collen
2 years
James Blackwood, the retired mountie whose interviews were the basis of the design for an official Canadian coin comemorating a UFO sighting and is best known for feeding raccoons on Youtube as the Raccoon Whisperer, has announced his engagement!
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jamie loftus 🌭
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thrilled to announce the old guy who feeds a bucket full of hot dogs to a pack of gigantic raccoons on a livestream every night has found love
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@EladNehorai Oopsies he forgot to edit out the part where he said "their" instead of "our"
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Dan Collen
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Either a major update on Canada Unity, the founders and organizers of the #ConvoyForFreedom2022 , or a moderate shift in technique. Today convoy founder James Bauder and his wife have formally withdrawn from Canada Unity's "MOU" - a centrepiece of Bauder's original strategy.
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Dan Collen
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3. The honking isn't just annoying, it's a soundscape. It's nonstop all afternoon. Some of them are from loud semi's parked on streets with sidewalks and people walking by are pretty startled when they're honked at. It hurt even my ears, and some convoygoers brought dogs.
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Dan Collen
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I wish everyone who supports the occupation a very HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Dan Collen
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@MarcPatrone Marc, I've inquired about the X-Rays in your doctor's office to confirm the existence of your spine. They responded: "Good morning Dan. I can't confirm nor deny a patient's medical records for strangers who email about them without Marc's permission. That would be ridiculous."
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Dan Collen
3 months
That being said the apparent chest tattoo placement and design is really common among neo-Nazis, he's a public figure, and it's the Olympics. So, I feel like public interest is warranted. Good find @AutieAnarchy
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Dan Collen
3 years
2. The convoy is closer to zero than 50,000 pickup trucks, sure, but of the likely over 100 trucks a lot are in downtown gridlock away from parliament. This means A. Some people are being dicks and leaving their cars on streets that are not passable from behind to join the fray,
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Dan Collen
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BREAKING: 1. I can confirm that Chris Saccoccia is being charged with knowingly uttering a threat to cause death to Roberto Carbone on May 12, 2021. Carbone was speculated to have been the member of the public mentioned in the press release for Saccoccia's arrest.
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Dan Collen
8 months
Happy to report that the Comedy Cave in Calgary has cancelled a Danger Cats show. The comedy trio garnered controversy for an offensive t-shirt referencing women killed by William Pickton. Unfortunately, there's a lot more hateful content behind them. New from me for @antihateca :
@antihateca
Canadian Anti-Hate Network
8 months
NEW: Comedy group "Danger Cats" made headlines recently for a racist t-shirt. Off-stage, the Alberta-based comedy trio collaborates with white nationalists and posts explicitly racist messages. Read more:
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Dan Collen
9 months
This is obviously not a bandaid to the fact that many young Kanye fans who are open to neo-Nazism are learning how to wear white power merch without getting kicked out of places.
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Dan Collen
4 months
In addition to constantly admitting to being openly racist towards Muslims in his lectures, Gad Saad also consistently shares anecdotes from his classes with far-right and conspiratorial podcasts & talk shows. It is simply a sound safety measure for students to avoid his classes.
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Gad Saad
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I was teaching an MSc/PhD course two years ago that had a large number of enrolled students. As soon as the semester started, all but one of the students dropped out and I had yet to teach a single lecture that semester. Hence, it is rather suspicious that all students would
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In the years to come major news media is going to have a not-significant-enough-reckoning that they missed 101 obvious ways the alt-right/dissident right are successfully taking over conservative media in a deliberate effort to turn conservative boomers into explicit fascists.
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Dan Collen
2 years
(1/20) If you don't have to read the Buffalo shooter's manifesto, don't. Give yourself a break. If you do have to read it, I wrote about 5 things to be aware of as they are made - either by the shooter or meme creators - to trick people. Here's a thread.
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Dan Collen
3 years
If you watched this and thought any of it was so totally weird and silly, congratulations! It means your brain is officially not ruined by memetic Nazi prop! Because this is Nazi stuff. This script and this onscreen text are references to different Nazi memes. It's not quiet!
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Dan Collen
1 year
Josh Alexander is went on Patriot Propaganda yesterday. Several Holocaust deniers and white nationalist have been on the show for friendly interviews with host Alex Cabana (who Save Canada has marched with before). They're also big on using super racist dogwhistles. 🧵
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Dan Collen
7 months
MintPress News appears to be getting less subtle about platforming far-right extremists. In one recent article they embedded white nationalist group America First as a primary source on a claim and referred to RAM's Vince James (a proud Nazi) as a "conservative commentator."
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Dan Collen
2 years
A man who called a neo-Nazi "my friend" on air, blogged Holocaust denial excuses, had Mark Slapinski write for him, and oversees a website that publishes anti-feminism think pieces written by an anti-vaxxer is not "the left".
@a_picazo
Alheli Picazo
2 years
Oh good, now I'm being threatened from the left for tweeting. Maybe join forces with Ezra Levant.
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Dan Collen
1 year
Hey @sasktoday , since you make the argument that Mackenzie's brand is intended as humour, can you explain the punchline to the time he shared the home address of a Jewish journalist and asked "what wine pairs best with doxxed k*ke?" I'm serious. Tell me the punchline.
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sasktoday.ca
1 year
Did feds rely on poorly sourced info to invoke Emergencies Act?
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Dan Collen
2 years
@della_morte_ Huh wonder why there's a sink outside of the bedr WHAT IN THE NAME OF
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Dan Collen
6 months
So, a CBC outlet interviewed a guy wearing a white nationalist movement's logo on his hat, which is a pretty big blunder. But then six months later another CBC outlet interviewed the same man... with the same hat? Probably a good case for hate symbol literacy
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Sisu van Hellberta
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It's not the first time, either. Ever considered doing a quick check of people's social media, if you're not noticing or flagging that interview subjects are wearing the Diagolon slash?
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1 year
Anyone using the "it's just a joke" defence for white nationalist internet content in 2023 is speaking from a place that has been massively debunked in every meaningful way.
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1 year
On @CTVNews yesterday, an anti-trans voice repeated claims that schools facilitated "pornographic" books and that he had delegated this to his school board. He did not mention that his delegation was refuted by the school board.
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The radio metal community is not ready for what the next All That Remains album could be. We're gonna get like 6 heavy metal songs lusting for a fact checker and 3 that Tim Pool co-wrote about sitting with 9 of your best friends. It will make no sense outside of the culture wars.
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Kat Abu
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tfw you’ve been catfished and are totally not obsessed with a woman less than half your age
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Dan Collen
3 years
And B. The vehicles, be they trucks or passenger cars, that are in gridlock farther away from the action are full of incredibly bored drivers. Like, just texting or having their head on the steering wheel, waiting for people to pass to honk at bored. For hours.
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Dan Collen
8 months
Not to pick on this particular editor, but you don't need to link directly to a sales page for the Turner Diaries sold through a neo-Nazi publisher in the story. You can just write that. We don't need to lead people directly to extremist group's financing opportunities.
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Dan Collen
9 months
"(debanking) came to a swift end when enough Canadians withdrew their money to threaten a bank run." If any American journalists are wondering why they haven't heard of this, it's because it didn't happen. This is made-up. Unclear by whom. New York Post doesn't attempt a source.
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Tom Quiggin
9 months
Canada's elite colluded against the Freedom Convoy truckers — just as America's elite have colluded against us via @nypost
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Dan Collen
2 years
If you are seriously considering the possibility that the Azov Battalion invented or popularized the most recognized symbol of esoteric Nazism and neo-Nazism from the 90s until today, I would strongly advise that you listen, rather than talk, when it comes Nazi symbol discourse.
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Dan Collen
1 year
We could be mere days away from Elon misquoting Voltaire or promising to secure his children's Future(tm)
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Dan Collen
3 months
Without knowing more about Davaakhüü, I would be very cautious to say whether this indicates he might be part of Mongolia's massive neo-Nazi movement or he is using the symbol for other purposes (Swastikas were common in Mongolia pre-20th century).
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Dan Collen
3 years
To the journalists who are not used to covering the far-right, but have to when the #TruckersForFreedom convoy passes: 1. Listen to what different people say they're there for, not what organizers have on-script. 2. Know that if you do a great job, you will face some harassment.
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Dan Collen
3 years
Hello I am exhausted from complaining about media outlets not mentioning racist activism when reporting on intersecting activism from racist activists. A thread pertaining to news about Chris Sky et al v. Chinatown community:
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Dan Collen
9 months
New article! I wrote a financial profile on the Canadian white supremacist network Diagolon for Insight Monitor. Diagolon operates as a white power movement and as a fanbase. Read about its finances, including ways that it raises and spends funds, and who it organizes with here.
@JessMarinDavis
JMDavis
9 months
🚨🗞Today's Insight Monitor is out, and it's a look at the Diagolon network and how they finance & sustain their activities. They are known for promoting extreme hate speech, Holocaust denial, white nationalism, accelerationism, and neo-Nazism.
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(1/2) If someone repeatedly implied you're secretly a nazi, hung with people who harassed you, and had a staff member mock you for the death of a loved one, you too would be agited if you saw them in person and prone to saying worse things than "leave me the fuck alone".
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Dan Collen
3 years
Sorry to harsh the celebratory mood, but Garrison is right. Precedants set during this conflict will inevitably be used for vastly different protests supporting vastly different causes in the future.
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gare
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The government shutting down a fundraiser for a political protest is bad actually.
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My worst example of this is one scoop pertaining to extremism and music I pitched to 10-15 outlets - some actively requesting pitches on the topics - got 0 replies, & ended up with 20k reads on my personal blog (<100 subs). The 'public interest to media interest' ratio is steeeep
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Rachel Gilmore
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I had to fight tooth and nail to get my pitches on political extremism accepted when I worked for a national news outlet. It never made sense to me. Not only were they solid stories, but they also got clicks. The stories you folks actually saw often took SO MUCH convincing.
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Dan Collen
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Weaponized Laughter details research into thousands of Canadian internet memes demonstrating hate speech, each of which we described and reviewed in detail. It is the largest project ever taken of its kind in more ways than one. It's here. It's free. We hope you read it. #canada
@quintal_etienne
Étienne Quintal - Tweet Archive
2 years
I’m incredibly proud to share that #OHREP ’s final report, ‘Weaponized Laughter: Memes and Hate in the Canadian Digital Landscape’ is OUT and available our our website, . You can find it here:
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@noturtlesoup17 @TariqAli_News The smartest mind in western civilization
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Dan Collen
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Another ex- @TPUSA spokesperson came out as a Holocaust denier yesterday
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@jaredlholt
Jared Holt
9 months
I mean at what point do we just have to infer that this is what TPUSA's donors want? It's not like the org is any good at winning elections! At a certain point, a person becomes complicit.
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Dan Collen
3 years
No one thinks Nazis exist only in Ukraine. But NPR hasn't been platforming Nazis elsewhere. Getty and NATO haven't been positively describing Nazis elsewhere. Canada's armed forces haven't trained strictly-Nazi regiments who are currently fighting elsewhere. Concern is warranted.
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Dan Collen
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Criticism of Jon Stewart for being naive or having poor judgment is fine. But, if you're just going to share out-of-context bits of him and J*ck P*sobiec for clout, you're probably doing what P*sobiec wants and it takes a 5 sec peak at how he's treating the situation to see that.
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Dan Collen
2 years
Yesterday, Adam Zivo retweeted a self-described brother in arms of an exclusively neo-Nazi group. Today, 'Adam Zivo: No, Ukraine does not have a neo-Nazi problem' was published in the National Post. I'm not joking.
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Christy Somos
2 years
Feel free to read my articles on the subject - one of which was published this week…but DMs like this are weirdo behaviour.
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Dan Collen
2 years
@broderick @Mezentine S02 of Daredevil, not Punisher tbc
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Dan Collen
2 years
In order to fight the woke mob that #CANCELLED Pink Floyd, I have created an improved, #wokefree version of the Dark Side of the Moon cover with absolutely ZERO #WOKE rainbows. The prism now turns into thin blue line stripes on an American flag and it has a sick ass wolf on it.
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Dan Collen
1 year
Postmedia News is inches away from looking like they're coming to Georgia Meloni's defence in this Trudeau hit piece, in which they mock him for criticizing Italy's move to stop recognizing families with same-sex parents.
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Dan Collen
3 years
They say they want to hang journalists and politicians. Then they complain that they're being misrepresented, so more platforms emerge. Then they use those platforms to say they want to hang journalists and politicians. We've been here before. #TruckersConvoy2022
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Dan Collen
9 months
Fellas is it gay to date *checks notes* women like *checks notes again* Taylor Swift
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hannah gais
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whoa whoa whoa hold up 34 is not middle aged
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Dan Collen
3 years
The TLDR of this is that the witchcraft take you're Tweeting is probably not from a witch and is instead probably from a Nazi.
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Dan Collen
3 years
Witches on Social Media Joined Forces to Hex The Taliban. They Got Trolled. A community dedicated to “the use of magick for the betterment of Afghanistan” hosted a clash between modern witches and far-right Taliban enthusiasts. My latest blog:
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Dan Collen
3 years
So as someone who looks at Canadian hate speech all day - I don't often see racially motivated extremists who are NOT white supremacists obsessed with narratives about "making white babies". I do often see white supremacists obsessed with narratives about "making white babies".
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Calgary Police
3 years
We are investigating racially motivated graffiti located at 1179 17 Avenue S.W., and are asking for the public's help to identify who may be involved, and when this incident occurred.
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Dan Collen
1 year
@sasktoday Since you make the argument that Mackenzie's brand is intended as humour, can you explain the punchline to the time he shared the home address of a Jewish journalist and asked "what wine pairs best with doxxed k*ke?"
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Dan Collen
3 years
"...began as a protest against the mandatory vaccination of truck drivers crossing the U.S.-Canada border. They have morphed into a battle cry against pandemic restrictions as a whole, and the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau." Entirely wrong.
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Dan Collen
1 year
Viva Frei on @wyattsharpe8 : He is "an insincere liar", "a partisan hack liar", who "can’t really be thus stupid" Viva Frei on @wyattsharpe8 hours later: "I had no idea that you (Sharpe) were a 14-year old (the first three words in his bio)"
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Dan Collen
8 months
@noturtlesoup17 It's doubtful I would matter here b/c I'm not even in the US but eventually this man is going to run out of antifascist journalist's Twitter feeds to pull stories from
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Dan Collen
2 years
Hello. My name is Cisstraight Whiteguy, and I'm hear to tell you my lessons from my experience in covering extremism, which are universal and will apply to you no matter your demographic. First off, remember to treat everyone who wants to invalidate your rights with kindness and
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Dan Collen
3 years
A few days after Ottawa Police Chief said that there was not a policing solution to the occupation, @ottawacity put up an electric sign to help direct convoy newcomers. It reads "CANADA UNITY TURN RIGHT". #OccupationOttawa
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Dan Collen
3 years
Witches on Social Media Joined Forces to Hex The Taliban. They Got Trolled. A community dedicated to “the use of magick for the betterment of Afghanistan” hosted a clash between modern witches and far-right Taliban enthusiasts. My latest blog:
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Dan Collen
6 months
This US article on the Diagolon movement and what it means to US readers is probably more informative than the vast majority of major Canadian news network's coverage of the movement imo. Great read.
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Talking Points Memo
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The far right group “Diagolon,” which has American allies and the attention of authorities on both sides of the border, is at the center of a fiery political debate.
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Dan Collen
1 year
“Incelcore” Artists Whose Music Celebrates Mass Shootings On Canadian Tour Two shows - Montreal's Brasserie Beaubien on Nov. 11, and Lee's Palace on Nov. 16 - feature a popular incelcore musician known for the song "Christ Church Bible Study Club." New from me & @antihateca :
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Canadian Anti-Hate Network
1 year
While one artist has direct connections to white nationalism, others' songs make light of the 2019 Christchurch Mosque attack and other mass murders by right-wing extremists.
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Dan Collen
2 years
I truly think some of the post-alt-right gen z watched debate streams so much that they forgot seasoned politicians aren't Influencers and don't care what the Twitch chat thinks. Rarely do we see them face to face with one to find this out.
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Dan Collen
3 years
I spoke again with @IwriteOK and @hungrybowtie about the ongoing convoy occupation of downtown #Ottawa for @HappenHerePod . Check it out for an update on the situation (and maybe some talk about Rideau St. Macdonald's and #RamRanchResistance )!
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coolzonemedia
3 years
New @HappenHerePod 🚛🇨🇦🚚 Dan Collen ( @SpinelessL ) joins us once again to give an update on the Truck Convoy at Ottawa, Canada’s capital city. @IwriteOK @hungrybowtie
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Dan Collen
2 years
@reportrix @JeremyAppel1025 "The first rule of health for any biological population is their ability to reproduce and pass along their way of life into the future. Women are not exactly equal to men. This biological reality is also under attack by present-day delusion." Oh so it's a manifesto.
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Dan Collen
1 year
It shouldn't be that easy to half-guess one of the most influential men in America's radicalization path based on seeing a fraction of media and narratives they promote, but here we are. He follows some pretty typical stepping stones.
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