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April 26, 2022

Nazis always claim it's for the lulz when caught. They never, ever argue in good faith.

I think this was best stated by Sartre.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play.

They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.


A discussion of this topic can be found here: https://newrepublic.com/article/139004/ironic-nazis-still-nazis
April 26, 2022

It always goes in that direction eventually. Literally every topic I've ever seen. Maybe...

....there are one or two exceptions, but that's it.

There was a group called "Frenworld" that became one of the most toxic subs ever. It was nothing but Nazi Pepe memes. The sub got banned after a story about Frenworld's constant Holocaust denial ended up in an Israeli paper. That didn't work out too well for the mods at Reddit, and they had to do something. The problem is they didn't ban any of the members. So they started up a new sub, r/Apustaja, and most of the same members are still there. It's supposed to be apolitical, but get this: the group members are such basement-dwelling incel losers that they will literally sit around for years waiting to sneak a covert Nazi reference into a Pepe cartoon. The sub is watched by antifascist subs like r/AgainstHateSubreddits who have shown in detail what losers these guys (and they are almost exclusively men) really are.

The only thing that seems to get Reddit to moderate itself is negative press coverage.

April 25, 2022

That may be true, but I only hear it from radtrad radio...

....and that was the first place I heard it, and continue to hear it, enthusiastically and unapologetically. It definitely started out as an attack on public schools in order to further the cause of school vouchers. Hence the use of the meme "government schools" by "think" tanks like EPPC and networks like EWTN.

April 25, 2022

This is the old "government schools" meme...

...that's probably 20 years old at least. Kennedy, an aging GenXer, is really dating herself with this kind of talk. I remember first hearing it on Catholic radtrad stations who probably invented it, or should I say their "think" tanks like EPPC (an Opus Dei front) did. "Government schools" was a meme really popular with an ill-fated network funded mostly by Tom Monaghan (Domino's Pizza founder) called "CatholicFamilyRadio" (yes, all one word). This was in the late '90s. They blew through something like $150M in a year and a half. Nothing like that sweet sugar daddy billionaire money.

The meme kept going with other sugar daddy funded experiments like Ave Maria Radio (Catholic Rush Limbaugh clone Al Kresta loved saying it) and (Ir)-Relevant Radio, which continues with radtrad radio today (and is owned by EWTN).

April 25, 2022

The MAGA chuds really hate several commercials right now, especially the Vrbo one with Kermit...

...the Frog singing (from an old Muppets movie). Just read some of the YouTube comments (use the "Share" arrow button to see it at YouTube). The YouTube commentariat sound exactly like the alt-right chuds you find on Reddit/4Chan/8Chan or whatever the hell they're on these days. This Randy Bishop asshole sure sounds like he spends a lot of time on the chud websites. Any commercial with POC, gay people, etc. sets them off. "ZOMGBBQ!!1!111!!!!!11!!! IT'S WOKE!!!"

April 25, 2022

Note the not-so-covert anti-Semitism: (((globalist neocons)))...

...this is the kind of crap you would see on incel neo-Nazi Reddit/4Chan boards just a couple years ago. RooshV shit. Now it's so mainstreamed that MTG feels completely at ease using this language with a local newspaper reporter. What's next? MTG using alt-right lingo like "cuck" and "soyboy"?!

The newspaper might as well have added the triple parentheses to what she said, because it's barely concealed. For her alt-right fans, it's not a dogwhistle, it's a foghorn.

For those who haven't seen the (((triple parentheses))) before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

April 12, 2022

OANN: "Biden is the groomer-in-chief", and new SC justice Ketanji Brown Jackson...

...is "America's queen of child porn apologists".

Yes, this is the infamous Chanel Rion of ONAN...er...OANN.

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1513638389693702147

Baragona: "This is all going to end very badly". Yeah, no shit.

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