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Teaching @GeogPDX | EC @FRANetwork | fellow @ncri_io | New book Latest: "Geopolitics and Far-Right Ideology"
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Happy to announce my latest work: a chapter in the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics titled, "Geopolitics and Far-Right Ideology." Deepest thanks to our indefatigable editor Zak Cope and the good people at Springer.
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National Geographic videographer, Trip Jennings, was shot in the face by an impact munition in Portland. The round went through the eye of his gas mask, causing eye lacerations, and he was pepper sprayed so bad that the doctor had to wear a respirator. His account posted on FB:
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There’s a line of women linking arms and protecting the protestors outside the Justice Center. Chants of, “Feds stay clear, moms are here!” and “Moms not Feds,” to resounding applause.
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I was put on an Atomwaffen kill list of journalists taken straight from an article published at Quillette where he's an editor. Last year, I was punched in the face by a Proud Boy on film while reporting, but Andy was too busy playing victim to mind. His "work" supports violence.
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Now that Andy Ngo has admitted—in court—that he targets left-wing activists for abuse (in the same way he perceives himself targeted), I think it's important to note that many mainstream platforms have given him time to do what is explicitly intensification of political conflict.
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Last night the Proud Boys descended on Downtown Portland with the intention of terrorizing a vigil for a black man killed by police. And then physically assaulted people who showed up to defend the community. Calling these outrages a "both sides" thing is simplistic and wrong.
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I keep wanting to say this and it keeps getting stuck in my throat, but here it goes. The GOP has effectively built a combat party. It's not a political party that you see in a system in which communicating ideas matters. It's a mass party with a paramilitary function.
Man in “a red hat” firebombs a Tulsa Oklahoma donut shop after it hosts a drag queen event.
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I suggest reading this tweet to yourself at least three times to try to let it sink in. We're not in 2011 anymore. These are armed, far-right militias trying to force everybody into the teeth of a pandemic.
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Quick thread highlighting several reports from yesterday about violent, armed vigilantes roaming around or taking to rooftops... stuff from Philly, Portland, Chicago, Fargo, Boisie, Lubbock, Bentonville, and Upland, California ...
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Nobody called Black Lives Matter protestors "antifa" in 2014, because nobody even knew that it was a thing. Now that ppl know it's a thing, they're using it to describe all big civil unrest, because that's easier than understanding complex social movements.
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Here's an interactive webmap I made of vigilantism incidents I've been tracking over the last several days. They range from smallish to 100+ participants, and from staging to harassment, chucking objects, and shootings... will continue to update.
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I've known
@TripJennings
pretty much as long as I've been in Portland... probably around 8 years or so. He's a solid guy and I'm incredibly sad not just for him but for our city. He's the fifth person, and second friend, that I know of who's been shot in the face by the feds.
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I saw this earlier this week while monitoring fascist websites. Cruz got it from Seleh, who appears to have gotten it from a Dutch far right, pro-Assad account. The day before they posted, I saw it on Telegram from this channel that shares NazBol stuff. Weird pipeline.
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Republicans inviting Gavin McInnes to give a speech celebrating the assassination of a leftist, after which he incites his followers to engage in mob violence against three outnumbered victims, is one of the clearest examples of fascism creeping into the mainstream I have seen...
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A lady who drove her car through a group of anti-BLM counter protesters is being charged w attempted murder. Fine, yes, well, I have a database of 50 or so unprosecuted incidents of similar attacks on leftists, and I believe that’s a conservative number. How about some parity?
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YES I REALIZE that Russia is destroying entire cities in Ukraine, deporting its children, and destroying its culture 🙄but as a Socialist, I reely feel strongly that if I don't speak up for the aging rock star who wants to disarm them, then no-one will!
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So yeah, this was obviously deliberate. This place isn't an alley, it's an area for foot traffic, not cars. I just want to draw attention to Tom Cotton's recent, demonizing "little Gazas" statement, which lines up with his call for RWers to "take matters into their own hands."
As I was walking up to PSU in Portland, Oregon, a car turned down an alley in front of me where the crowd of protestors were standing. On the dash was a can of bear mace and the license plate holder read "we the people". This wasn't an accident.
The driver accelerated towards
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I see that the "Dugin isn't a fascist" discourse is back, so here's a thread on Dugin's fascism, which is typically masked in a truly strange form of Traditionalist geopolitical "populism," but tends to break above the surface from time to time. /1
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Looks like police in Graham, NC, pepper sprayed a permitted March to the Polls, driving voters away from the ballot box.
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FYI, it looks like /pol/ is trying to pull off a counter-intelligence op in social media to accelerate racial resentment. They're promoting the hashtag @/awar and spreading propaganda effectively calling all white ppl fascists in the name of BLM.
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A neighbor of mine told me they were trying to get to the PSU farmers market and ran across the far-right protest. She and her black child were petrified until a group of antifascists swooped in, formed a protective barrier, and helped them get away. It’s not “two-sided violence”
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I don't think you can really overstate how big of a deal it is that someone is saying, they were already racist, but the white house guy opened a whole new world to them
Katie McHugh admits she was already a racist when she went to work for Breitbart. But she says now-White House adviser Stephen Miller helped her fall to new depths of hate.
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I'm not even close to finishing the article, and ...
Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates including a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.
From
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using frat boys as an auxiliary police adds a new, highly gendered dimension to the problem of campus repression. this is type of thing that worsens the social complex of humiliation, resentment, and conflict.
Happening now.
@ASU
and the police are using frat boys to destroy the camp at Old Main. This is insane.
#Occupy4Gaza
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I'm not sure this is getting enough attention. In Bethel, OH, an estimated 800 violent, armed counter-demonstrators organized through social media and descended upon a peaceful protest of 50 peaceful protestors, assaulting and harassing them.
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My theory about the lady who nearly killed her dog while calling the cops on a reasonable birder in the park is that racists may hate black civility more than anything else. Being spoken to under the premise of equality outrages them, especially when it means a shared rule system
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This moment is perfect and I never wanted it to end
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I read through the New Zealand shooter's alleged manifesto so you don't have to. A lot of his positions line up with Duginism. He's an "ethno-nationalist" who claims to be an anti-imperialist eco-fascist, joining left and right in a populist "movement." /1
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In the aftermath of Dugin's daughter's assassination—which was plausibly meant also for him—a lot of scholars and experts are downplaying his influence. It's good to note he isn't the Rasputin that some take him for, yet he is quite well connected. A thread. /1
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the irony of the big anti-surveillance state names of the Occupy era (Greenwald, Wikileaks, Snowden) coming down in favor of authoritarian conservative regimes can't really be spotlighted enough...
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Pretty amazed at how many "decline of Portland" stories just totally fail to mention the explicit strategy of right-wing groups to place the city in a chokehold through constant and traumatic violence with the full support of the state's GOP and encouragement of then-President.
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This same night, Portland Police broke a dear friend of mine's arms by repeatedly pushing him to the ground. I went to school with him, he helped troubleshoot some issues with my dissertation. The brutality is coming from both federal and local sources.
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What we need to do is stop the spiral of insanity that these far-right raids on Portland's population manifest. There is no reason for all these people to be coming to our town to start violence. Jake Tapper has no idea about the queer bashings, etc, so they add fuel to the fire.
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So, if I'm reading this right, the sheriff said he wants to "warehouse" people he finds immoral, let them die, and manufacture products with their corpses.
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this is not even the first time the "RWDS"/Pinochet meme has appeared in a mass shooter's repertoire. It was never funny, and it was never actually intended to be. just pure terrorism.
Mauricio Garcia, who killed 8 people outside of Allen Premium Outlets, was reportedly wearing a "Right Wing Death Squad" patch. The phrase is popular among neo-Nazis and other extremist groups.
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This is a completely devastating report showing a very high level of hierarchical organization and coordination, including strategy, tactics, gear, and intent to assault. There's just a ton of stuff here, all of it damning for the right and police.
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the protesters in Xinjiang and Zhengzhou are some of the bravest people in the world, and they deserve the support of a truly internationalist left
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My thoughts on being attacked while reporting on a Proud Boy right-wing riot
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Bernie yesterday: we need an international, democratic movement to confront right-wing oligarchy
Bernie today: we need to close our borders to shelter ourselves from the poors of the world
Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigns in Oskaloosa, IA: "If you open the borders, there's a lot of poverty in this world, and you're going to have people from all over the world. And I don't think that's something that we can do at this point. Can't do it."
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Whoa, these are the guys who tried to bust up my book talk in DC. There was a Daily Caller journo waiting in a cab outside livestreaming in case something went down. Instead, dozens of antifascists came and ensured the security of the space. Fash couldn't even catch a ride home.
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Assistant Chief Dustin Carr is under investigation for domestic assault, so protesters came to the police station, where armed counter-protesters confronted them
millersville, tn
blm protestor: "what do you need a gun for?"
trump supporter with a large rifle: "to pop assholes like you"
what side are you on?
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This is obviously torture.
An absolutely horrifying moment last night in Portland.
During an arrest last night, the feds hold the arrestee down *in the gas* unchecked, for a totally unnecessary period of time.
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So Manafort's buddy, "Russian intelligence officer" Konstantin Kilimnik, tweets under the pseudonym @/PBaranenko ... interesting, interesting, let's see who/what he's tweeting... ah, hmm, surprising.
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So many people, especially in RW media, looked at Portland and guffawed, blaming the intensity of far-right onslaught on us for the cardinal sin of protesting it. Meanwhile they platformed someone who was, now-admittedly, using social media to target activists with abuse.
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Basically the "America First" movement has closed the gap between fascists and populist radical right in the US...
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As someone who has been writing about what Glen Greenwald recently identified as a "left/right coalition" for a while now, I've been delighted to see so many of y'all opposing it! I thought I'd contribute a little background on this stuff in case folks are interested. 🙃 /THREAD
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apparent right winger tries to assassinate far-right candidate, leading to increasing calls for violence against the left... do I have that right?
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI says violent political rhetoric is 'ticking up' after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
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And on being the subject of far-right death threats more recently...
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Russian TV in the last few days has
- said they need to support Trump
- need more bot farms to spread disinfo
- need more censorship
- claims their propaganda reaches Western audiences through unknown proxies
all this has been happening since ~2013, but it's admitted openly now
Meanwhile on Russian state TV: lively discussions about info-wars against Ukraine and the West. Pundit argues that Russia needs a more coordinated, centralized approach, including "bot factories working with enemy audiences."
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What happened in DC is being used as a fascist rallying point with the ultimate goal of lynching and massacring the Proud Boys' enemies. Yes, the pendulum is going the other way, but not in the direction they hope for. People learn.
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The GOP had the McCloskeys deliver a speech to the convention. That they're being charged with these crimes now just further exposes Republicans' endorsement of the use of criminal methods to engage in vigilante incidents against anti-racists.
BREAKING: A grand jury just indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey on charges of exhibiting guns at protesters in a June incident in their neighborhood. Additionally, the grand jury added a charge of tampering with evidence for both members of the couple.
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Today in Fort Lauderdale, a Trump supporter threatened to shoot a woman at a polling place. In NJ/NY they seized and blockaded critical infrastructure. In Richmond, they fired a gun at protesters. Trump is leading this, egging it on, pushing violent extremists into action.
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Easy enough to find what appears to be the Twitter account of the lady who carried out an antisemitic attack on a synagogue near Detroit, intending to blame Azov... The follows are a predictable group who tend to join left and right in pro-Kremlin positions.
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Sort of crazy that Trump wanted to do a Bloody Sunday in Portland last summer.
'"Just shoot them," Trump said on multiple occasions inside the Oval Office, according to the excerpts.'
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Today's violence in Portland is the clear result of police inaction pursuant to a fascist throwing explosives at protesters. Make no mistake: by not apprehending the suspect, police sent a clear message: "Open season on left-wing activists in Portland. Shooting, explosives, wtv."
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I wrote a whole book on fascism's historical tendency to co-opt and crib from the left, including anarchism, ama
Laura Ingraham says militia that planned to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer look “like they're anarchists and not right-wingers”
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new piece from me. i wanted the headline, "cultural marklism and the conspiracy to seize the crown jewels," but my editors didn't think it was relevant for some reason.
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In case you think that the Breivik-style thwarted mass killing in Sweden is an isolated thing in a remote part of Scandinavia with no bearing on the rest of the world, wait 'til you hear about the transnational networks of the guy's political org, Nordic Resistance Movement. /1
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And yes, we know from Stewart Rhodes that the Oath Keepers sought to create violent incidents in Portland, partly to point out escalatory or retaliatory violence from the left. But they needed a partner in doing this—a willing set of mostly right-wing media eager to amplify.
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oh here's something... the Nazi SEAL who apparently threw IEDs at police & protesters in Portland was published at Veterans Today, which supports Assad and the regime in Iran and has members involved in Holocaust denial and the National Socialist Movement.
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"Carlson is playing into a coordinated campaign by Russian and Syrian actors to cast doubt on the rigorous work of watchdog groups and aid workers and to absolve Assad of responsibility as evidence of war crimes and the threat of prosecution mounts..."
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This is from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It offers compelling scientific evidence that many Republicans actually reject the rule of law in favor of "ethnic antagonism." To wit, the "law and order" claims are often window dressing on racist power politics.
substantial numbers of Republicans endorse violations of key democratic norms, including respect for the law, for outcomes of elections, & for eschewing the use of force in pursuit of political ends, associated with ethnic antagonism
#polisciresearch
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it's become clear to me that multipolarism is interimperialism, not internationalism.
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This guy dedicated a whole podcast episode to Pinochet's coup, repeatedly asking his audience leading hypotheticals like, "would you be prepared to do this?"
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i recently rejected an RT offer to go on one of their broadcasts and talk about Christchurch, because their French network promotes Renaud Camus, whose "great replacement" theory inspired the shooter. you don't have to take a far-right platform just bc u aren't invited elsewhere.
I'll be on Fox both tonight & tomorrow night talking about the fraud that was finally exposed by the Mueller Report -->
* But why would you go on Fox to talk about it?
* Because MSNBC, to protect its profitable scam, purposely banned & still bans all dissenters from its airwaves
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even if Steyer didn't win the debate, he won our hearts. and that's something, friends. that's really something.
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If u have a friend who is taking part in Uyghur genocide denial, it's not too late to intervene. Be empathetic, take a long walk with them and then shove them in the lake.
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gettin ready for my left-wing rall...what the hell!?
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I was originally confused by this story. The rabbi was beaten by settlers, not by Palestinians, which goes a long way in showing who this wave of state-supported belligerence has empowered.
Rights activist rabbi beaten in settler attack near illegal West Bank outpost via
@timesofisrael
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Anyway,
@IwriteOK
got his hand broken by a fascist at a protest, and he wasn't paraded around the major networks; CNN didn't publish three stories about why it mattered. Countless journalists were attacked in Portland by both police and the far right, and it just didn't matter.
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so is the crazy anti-woke guy who decapitated his dad the same Justin Mohn from Pennsylvania who was suing the US government because affirmative action made him overeducated?
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Out here with the moms and dads if Portland manifesting dissent against racistpolice and federal boots on our streets.
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Platformer says he's wrong, but it's important to note that Mr. Free Speech Guy's immediate response to a whistleblower article about how he artificially weights his tweets to get more attention is prosecution and suppression.
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In political terms, I think this is called "provocation." I mean, I study it re: the Years of Lead in Italy. The very fact that left-wing political violence has dwindled to negligible numbers in the absence of RW provocation shows (1) its effectiveness and (2) the problem's root.
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"The run began on Thursday, when a powerful Silicon Valley VC—Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund—began advising its portfolio companies to withdraw their money from SVB"
> be libertarian
> demand deregulation
> accidentally blow up ur bank
> beg for bailout
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After expanding his company into Xinjiang, Musk boasts, "They won’t just be burning the midnight oil. They will be burning the 3 a.m. oil. They won’t even leave the factory type of thing, whereas in America people are trying to avoid going to work at all"
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Roger Waters calling the Ukrainian flag a Nazi flag reminds me of people in 2003 saying that Iraq was run by Al Qaeda or—more to the point—that the Syrian rebels were/are all Islamist fundamentalists. It's just so clearly a misdirection intended to excuse all manner of cruelties
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Solid piece leading the National section in the Sunday Times on the feds in Portland by
@ByMikeBaker
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@thomasfullerNYT
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@MrOlmos
It's good to see the Times including a local journalist in their rundown. Sergio's been doing excellent work.
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The same tactics used against Sandy Hook families were also used against Syrians and the White Helmets, calling them "crisis actors," denying the crimes done against them, and concocting horrible narratives to defame them as terrorists while they faced mass murder.
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Today the Supreme Court showed us that the Twitter standard of "making up a guy to be mad at" is actually the status quo of the modern US judiciary.
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I know I’m a bit late on this, but what’s really interesting regarding Milo’s sad FB statement isn’t just “antifa works,” it’s that he’s spent millions promoting himself. This isn’t a marketplace of ideas where free speech is threatened, it’s part of confronting wealth and power.
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How do people expect anybody to believe them about literally anything when they lie in the most unadulterated and reprehensible manner?
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I think, maybe, the victim narrative that he milked for years has substantially less weight in retrospect, given his admitted targeting of what must have been more than a hundred protesters via mugshots, etc, for violence. So why'd groups like CNN run 3 stories on it in a day?
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But that's a broader issue, too. When LW professors are forced out of their jobs by lynching threats, they're not given premium billing on the outrage circuit. There is no outrage circuit for the left, bc the left doesn't have the same entitlement in the US. I'm just rambling now
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So, a man apparently of South Asian descent with a Nazi flag emblazoned with a swastika rammed a UHaul into the White House gates. Once again the far right is running with the "psychop" claim. I'd like to dig into that a bit. /1
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Here's KATU News with a very strange writeup about a left-wing youth summer camp, closing with a specious quotation from Andy Ngo, cited as a banal "local Portland reporter."
The worst mass shooting on record happened at a left-wing youth summer camp. What is KATU trying to do?
Parents in Portland, Oregon can now send their kids to a free social justice summer camp founded by anarchists.
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Here's to the antifas who knew Milo was a fascist and took heat for protesting him from ppl who couldn't see past their careers. Vindicated.
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Here's a piece that I've been meaning to write, but haven't had the guts, for nigh on 10 years now... It starts with my experiences with fascist violence in Moscow in the spring of 2005, when I first started learning about Nazbols and Strasserists. /1
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@CalebJHull
I'm actually from Texas. I don't know if I have had culture but I spent a year in NYC and couldn't afford food. 🙃👍
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Wheeler should resign. You had far-right militants shooting paintballs at people just yesterday, and as known vigilantes came into town with weapons today, you didn't prepare for, I don't know, a far-right riot? It's beyond negligence, and it's something Portlanders don't deserve
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Btwn Greenwald supporting Fuentes, Rogan telling ppl not to take the COVID vaccine, and Medhurst hosting Almassian, I'm almost starting to feel like today's "populism" just amounts to belief in conspiracy theories and joining with the far right in opposition to liberalism.
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blue checks insisting that Latinos who wear "Right Wing Death Squad" patches and celebrate Pinochet can't have neo-Nazi ideas should try to learn more about ... right-wing death squads and Pinochet.
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Tulsi Gabbard once again hopping on a far-right feeding frenzy, this time to normalize paranoia around "anti-white racism."
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Of all the reporters to assault on a sunny day in Portland, you fascists chose Bellingcat.
My colleagues at Bellingcat have identified the man who broke my hand yesterday.
Gonna be a fun week.
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A Nazi CIA special ops and Navy SEAL trainer wearing night vision apparently chucked no-frag pipe bombs at police and protesters. So I went down a bit of a rabbit hole. There's a big ecosystem of these types of folks. A THREAD on relevant developments in the militia movement. /1
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