"#Russia has for years positioned itself as a bastion of "traditional" values in contrast with #Western#liberalism as its relations with the West have deteriorated over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and 2022 full-scale invasion of #Ukraine."
Founder of my local Ruby User Group is going down the alt-right pipeline. It's sad to see.
It started with him posting anti-vegan memes and escalated into general hate towards climate activists and any climate action.
Today he posted a link to a disinformation site about Greta Thunberg's "net worth", "car collection" and her "private jet" lol. The first header on the site says "The Rothschild Connection". 🙈
How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic, Or: When Did Agamben Become Alex Jones?
by Benjamin Bratton
"As of today, Agamben’s biggest online supporters are not his many long time readers but rather a squad of new fans, primarily a Based coalition of wounded contrarian man-childs."
#BREAKING#NEWS: It was just discovered that an organizer for #MomsForLiberty (the #AltRight group that “protects” children through #BookBans, by opposing #CRT, & by vilifying #drag queens as “groomers”) is a convicted #pedophile who groomed a 14 year-old. It just goes to show, peddlers of #hate are the darkest among us.
I was watching a video from More Perfect Union about how the US and Puerto Rico itself have created a wealth inequality that is as profoundly unique as it is disturbing.
In a clip from this video, I noticed something called Anarchapulco in the background. So, I paused it and looked it up.
Next up is David Weiss. He's a flat earther. And I'm not just being an asshole calling him names, he RUNS the Flat Earth Podcast. He truly believes we live on a flat earth.
Worse than even being a science-denier, this dumb motherfucker has a "Flat Earth Crash Course" whose opening YouTube video features Owen Benjamin.
For those unfamiliar with Owen Benjamin. He's a failed actor and comedian that is an Olympic-level racist and antisemite. He's recently popped back up on Alex Jones' InfoWars because he needs a new audience to grift after his last scam fell through. Who'd have guessed your neighbors wouldn't let you crowd fund a members-only, "free speech" Ruby Ridge-style compound... in Idaho.
I was going to do one last sketch on Ian Smith, but, to be honest, he's just a gymbro science-denier that sells "water treatments" and supplements. 🥱
What's the point of all this?
These grifters are insidious and the far-right is trying to appropriate leftist terminologies and twist them.
They take small grains of truth, the base rhetoric of AnComs and grow genetically modified shitmuffins from them. If you ever doubt this is happening, remember that Nazi is short for National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Watch yourselves out there, keep your heads on a swivel, and don't assume that people are who they say they are.
A curious trend I noticed on other social media hellsites:
Apparently it is now popular among the alt-right crowd to claim that if something doesn't adhere to Mussolini's original definition of #fascism, it's not real fascism.
(Which then seems to lead to claims that the Left are the real fascists somehow, because what else did I expect?)
Post-World War II, there have been several attempts on defining what fascist ideology consists of, e.g., separately by John McNeill, Robert Paxton and Jason Stanley: