I Don't Speak German: Recent Episodes
IDSG
Daniel Harper is a researcher who goes where few others can bear to go: he listens to what the reactionaries - from the IDW to the modern day Nazis - say to each other in their safe spaces! In this timely and shocking - but entertaining - anti-fascist podcast, Daniel tells his friend, online writer Jack Graham, all about it.
Daniel and Jack take a look at the scintillating film criticism of various fascists - including Jack Posobiec, the Thought Crime podcast, Jared Taylor, 'Paul Kersey', and Kevin DeAnna - in response to Uwe Boll's new piece of amateurish nazi hate propaganda Citizen Vigilante (Elon Musk's new favourite film).
CONTENT WARNINGS
Episode Notes:
Molly's Weird Little Guys ep: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-watched-uwe-bolls-far-right-power-fantasy-so-you/id1760218611?i=1000775101452
Elon Musk promotes 'anti-migrant' Armie Hammer film with free download on X | Film | The Guardian
New Racist Film "Citizen Vigilante" Sparks Online Calls for Violence Against Immigrants - Global Project Against Hate and Extremism
Uwe Boll clashes with Mehdi Hasan on stupid liar Piers Morgan's stupid show: https://youtu.be/js2k4jy6AYY?si=nQVeHuHlQ5KaziD4
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Daniel and Jack convene for a news roundup ep on the downfall of (now former) Maine Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner. We talk about how things came to this pass, and how loads of the online 'progressive left' influencers who supported Platner have utterly disgraced themselves.
We find some dark laughter around the edges of this story, but we take it very seriously. This episode goes to some perhaps surprisingly heartfelt places.
Content warnings for discussions of sexual assault.
Episode Notes:
Politico article: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/06/graham-platner-sexual-assault-allegation-00987737
Rebecca Watson: https://youtu.be/6pQxb_lAncM?is=xSZ1jjdURcmVNK0R
Kavernacle: https://youtu.be/v8BfC26dffo?si=8enILgCjkG7GG46r
Kavernacle / Samsen conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbeiOg1vvfE&pp=ygUZa2F2ZXJuYWNsZSBzYW1zZW4gcGxhdG5lcg%3D%3D
FD Signifier: https://youtu.be/hAk-HF__a0c?is=2LGAEVl9K49DKZ38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8bE13OJ_es
Marisa Kabas: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/graham-platner-rape-accusation-maine-senate
Julie DiCaro: https://losingmyperspicacity.beehiiv.com/p/we-have-an-even-bigger-problem-than-graham-platner?_bhlid=725fa1d50927278b100637f3437277b0325dbb16
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Returning guest MsEntropy joins Daniel to discuss the recent dreadful fascist gun attack on the San Diego Islamic Center.
CONTENT WARNINGS
Daniel presents Jack with a bevvy of clips of far-right figures reacting to the Trump admin's indictment of the Southern Policy Law Centre. Features Matt Walsh, Jack Posobiec, John Doyle, and James Edwards of the Political Cesspool. Lies and ironies abound.
CONTENT WARNING, ESPECIALLY FOR ABLEIST RHETORIC
Episode Notes
Associated Press, "Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants" https://apnews.com/article/southern-poverty-law- center-criminal-investigation-db7fdcf9baa0d1b24b8f1e1f2cebc0be
"The civil rights group faces charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in the case brought in the federal court in Alabama, where the organization is based. > The indictment came shortly after the SPLC revealed the existence of a criminal investigation into its disbanded informant program to gather intelligence on extremist group activities. The group said the program was used to monitor threats of violence and the information was often shared with local and federal law enforcement."
NBC News, "The Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on charges that it fraudulently paid informants in extremist groups" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice- department/southern-poverty-law-center-says-targeted-trump-administration-rcna341237
Emptywheel.net, "Kash Patel Just Invited SPLC TO Demonstrate Their Importance (and His Negligence)" https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/kash-patel-just-invited-splc-to-demonstrate-their-importance-and-his-negligence/
Emptywheel.net, "Who's Fooling Whom? How the SPLC Indictment Works" https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/23/whos-fooling-whom-how-the-splc-indictment-works/
Ken Klippenstein, "Assasin Wasn't on FBI's Radar, Sources Say" https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/assassin-wasnt-on-fbis-radar-sources
Eric Garland, "Who Trained the SPLC Spies in the KKK?" https://ericgarland.substack.com/p/who-trained-the-splc-spies-in-the
Posting Through It, "Strange People on the Hill" (Discusses Hayden's time at the SPLC in some detail) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/096-strange-people-on-the-hill- live-in-dc-4-11-26/id1348573415?i=1000761090083
Michael Edison Hayden, "I Know the SPLC's Flaws Better Than Most" https://michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/i-know-the-splcs-flaws-better-than
hbomberguy, "Woke Brands." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06yy88tLWlg
Weird Little Guys, "The Southern Poverty Law Center Did Not Plan Unite the Right" https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-weird-little-guys-201395214/episode/the-southern- poverty-law-center-did-333608009/
Weird Little Guys, "Murder on Fourth Street" (A retrospective on the car attack at Unite the Right) https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-weird-little-guys- 201395214/episode/murder-on-fourth-street-281861018/
The Intruder (1962) (Full Film, directed by Roger Corman) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDaTc3bFWIg
The Intruder (1962) "Hate Speech" scene from William Shatner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0NJxQrDYI
Jessie Gender, "The Manipulations of Matt Walsh's 'What is a Woman?'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJty8Dcmuk
Lisa Loeb, "Stay", on Pop-Up Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEc6DtAofo4
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In this long episode, we look at several interviews conducted by notorious 'skeptic' author Michael Shermer on his podcast and "shitty YouTube channel", as it was memorably described by Rebecca Watson...
After an introductory discussion of Shermer and his... ahem... chequered history (to put it legally non-actionably), we boggle at the decidedly low-energy Mr Skepticism as he interviews psychologist of abuse and gaslighting Jennifer Fraser PhD about her book about abuse and gaslighting and her own history of being abused and gaslit, all without breaking a bead of sweat. This is Michael Shermer, remember. Then we take in some lowlights of his unbelievably vapid conversation with store-brand Bari Weiss, Bari Weiss's wife, Nellie Bowles, who is just... insufferable. We conclude by voyaging fully into the sickness as we tune into a discussion Shermer had with rabidly Islamophobic Zionist neocon warmonger and racist reactionary crank Douglas Murray, all about how Islam is a 'culture of death' and maybe Israel accidentally did some bad stuff in Gaza but, y'know, that's war, or something.
Big content warnings on this one. It's what I call a 'journey episode'. Not only is it over 2hrs long (we try to keep the length down but sometimes it's not possible) but all the way through it also raises topics that are very hard to deal with, including sexual and psychological abuse, and the manifold violent crimes of the state of Israel, including the Gaza genocide. And all through it, there is the personification of self-identified rational, logical, sceptical centrism nodding along like the libertarian reactionary and alleged abuser he actually is.
I've made time stamps for this one, for ease of navigation or multi-session listening.
The Intro to Shermer section starts around 13:50
The section dealing with the Fraser interview starts around 24:11
The Nellie Bowles bit begins around 1:04:00
And the Douglas Murray section starts at around 1:31:00
NOTES:
Rebecca Watson, "So I'm in the Epstein Files" https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1p1noab/so_im_in_the_epstein_files_rebecca_watson_on/
Rebecca Watson, "Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins and Others Really Are" https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1p1noab/so_im_in_the_epstein_files_rebecca_watson_on/
PZ Myers, "What Do You Do When Someone Pulls the Pin and Hands You a Grenade?" What do you do when someone pulls the pin and hands you a grenade? https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/08/08/what-do-you-do-when-someone-pulls-the-pin-and-hands-you-a-grenade/
Mark Oppenheimer, Buzzfeed, "Will Misogyny Bring Down the Atheist Movement?" https://www.buzzfeed.com/markoppenheimer/will-misogyny-bring-down-the-atheist-movement
The Michael Shermer Show, "Douglas Murray on Hamas, Iran, and the Collapse of the Two-State Solution" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTTXoQ42wP4&pp=ygUObXVycmF5IHNoZXJtZXLSBwkJ0woBhyohjO8%3D
The Michael Shermer Show, "Shermer Says 5: What Went Wrong in Minnesota? Protests, Panic, and Personal Responsibility" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iZRwQ4ggFc
The Michael Shermer SHow, "The Psychology of Gaslighting, Bullying, Cults, and Coercion" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w37x_mIGOIA
The Michael Shermer Show, "What Happened to Journalism" https://youtu.be/uUfkVLkvPzk
PZ Myers, Michael Shermer is Scum https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/14/michael-shermer-is-scum/
PZ Myers, Shermer-Shrier Interview https://freethoughtblogs.com/reprobate/2021/08/01/the-shermer-shrier-interview/
Skepchick / Rebecca Watson, The Fascists are Lying about ICE Murdering an Innocent Woman https://skepchick.org/2026/01/the-fascists-are-lying-about-ice-murdering-an-innocent-woman/
Science-Based Medicine, Michael Shermer's Anti-Trans Obsession https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/fakeskepticshermer/
Legal Planet, False Equivalence Watch: Michael Shermer https://legal-planet.org/2013/02/10/false-equivalence-watch-michael-shermer/
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Daniel and Jack are delighted to welcome back - after far too long an absence - the brilliant MsEntropy.
We pick our guest's brains in a conversation about the complexities of the concept of terrorism, its relationship to national states, citizenship, and fascism, with special relevance to America in the grip of Trump, MAGA, and their apparatchiks. Amanda touches on recent events including the ICE / Border Patrol incursions, the under-reported Prarieland trial of protestors, and most especially the horribly topical issue of the US-Israeli military attack upon Iran.
Content Warnings, as ever.
EPISODE NOTES:
On X/Twitter : @MsEntropy
Prarieland:
https://prairielanddefendants.com/about-the-case/
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/24/new-details-july-4-ice-attack-holes-feds-case/
https://truthout.org/articles/these-dallas-residents-are-on-the-front-lines-of-trumps-war-against-antifa/
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Kick off! Daniel & Jack discuss Elijah Schaefer's recent troubles, TDS showing up in the Epstein Files, and - mainly - Megyn Kelly's appearance on Piers Morgan's show to deliver an unhinged racist rant about Bad Bunny doing the Superbowl Half-Time Show.
Sorry about the delay getting this to you - Jack has been super busy lately, and also ballsed up his first attempt at the edit.
Content Warnings.
EPISODE NOTES:
Megyn Kelly on Piers Morgan Full Episode, "I'd rather DIE than bend the knee!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mlVhRPcwL8
Bad Bunny Haltime Show, with subtitles in English and Spanish. https://www.reddit.com/r/BadBunnyPR/comments/1r41xp7/bad_bunnys_apple_music_super_bowl_halftime_show/
Bad Bunny in Spanish on SNL: https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1nz2cfo/what_bad_bunny_said_in_spanish_in_snl_monologue/
Americanos Todos poster (1943): https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc426/
Chomsky Epstein email Daily Shoah (link to my Bluesky repost of Hannah Gais, with my comments.) https://bsky.app/profile/danielharper.bsky.social/post/3mdpszz25mk2y
Will Somner on Elijah Schaeffer and Sarah Stock https://www.thebulwark.com/p/shocking-sex-scandal-rocks-trad-right-elijah-schaffer-sarah-stock
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Unlocked bonus episode, previously for Patreon members only.
Daniel and Jack talk about Nuremberg (2025) starring Russell Crowe as Hermann Goering.
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Sinister Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson gets interviewed by chunky conservative media lolcow Ross Douthat. Amazingly, the person who comes out of this horrifying development looking worst is... Sam Harris?
CONTENT WARNINGS. BECAUSE DOUG WILSON SAYING STUFF.
EPISODE NOTES:
Christian Nationalism vs Clown World | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAYWbbSeIhE
Dogma, Tribe, and Truth (Sam Harris, Making Sense Ep. 449) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmtTAlbGv_M
I Don't Speak German: 139: Bad Faith Discussion; Doug Wilson talks to Sam Harris https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/139-bad-faith-discussion-doug-wilson-talks-to-sam-harris
EXTRA NOTES re WILSON:
Sons of Patriarchy Podcast - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@SonsofPatriarchy
Inside the Church That Preaches 'Wives Need to Be Led with a Firm Hand' https://www.vice.com/en/article/inside-the-church-that-preaches-wives-need-to-be-led-with-a-firm-hand/
At Doug Wilson's DC Church Plant, 'Worship Is Warfare' - Christianity Today https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/07/christ-church-dc-doug-wilson-pete-hegseth/
Doug Wilson: The New Right's Favorite Pastor - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/23/doug-wilson-new-right-pastor-hegseth-trump-officials-00355376
Examining Doug Wilson & Moscow - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@ExaminingMoscow
Sexual Abuse is Inevitable in Christian Patriarchy; Just Take a Look at Doug Wilson's Christ Church, and its New 'Documentary' 'Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity' | Religion Dispatches https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/31/sexual-abuse-inevitable-christian-patriarchy-just-take-look-doug-wilsons-christ-church
Culture war and the evangelical church: Doug Wilson's "No Quarter November" hit the mainstream this year. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/12/evangelical-church-doug-wilson-idaho-culture-war-no-quarter-november.html
Doug Wilson Says https://dougwilsonsays.com/
5 Part interview with Doug Wilson at Darren Doane's podcast / channel https://www.youtube.com/@allmyfriendsareheretics1354/featured
Doug Wilson's Religious Empire Expanding in the Northwest https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/doug-wilsons-religious-empire-expanding-northwest/
Rachel Shubin: Analyzing Douglas Wilson's Handling of the Steven Sitler and Jamin Wight Cases https://www.moscowid.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Analyzing-DWs-Response-to-Sitler-and-Wight-Cases.pdf
Doug Wilson Archive | Champion of child rapists, Attacker of victims, Pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, Presiding Minister of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) https://dougwilsonarchive.wordpress.com/
Doug Wilson Believes - Quotes from the Moscow, Idaho Pastor https://dougwilsonbelieves.com/
Fundie Fridays: Doug Wilson, the Final Boss of Christian Nationalism https://youtu.be/6dhaNeJ9UDw?si=SbAJoNEqnhOg8ckF
Confronting Doug Wilson - by Kristin Du Mez https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/confronting-doug-wilson
In an Idaho college town, Doug Wilson envisions an American theocracy : Up First from NPR : NPR https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1224382120
Bible Experts React To Viral CNN Christian Segment | HuffPost UK Life https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/doug-wilson-pete-hegseth_l_689a2042e4b0be3f5edc4799
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Daniel and Jack pick through Sam Harris' disgracefully friendly interview with right-wing fundamentalist and Hegseth-inspirer, Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson.
Content Warnings
Episode Notes:
Harris's release of his interview with Wilson: https://youtu.be/kRQ6Tcw9maM?si=hQEOhfyk_V7jMoyS
Note: At one point in our episode, Daniel states that Wilson also posted the interview with Harris on his own channel, and this seems to be a mistake. Oops.
Harris' response to his interview with Wilson: https://youtu.be/3qjNXaKjcc8?si=D_9Gkbq7PXKO7wnQ
Wilson's response to the interview on his own channel: https://youtu.be/AWgWkZjbYRw?si=2KuiQcvoiVrSal08
Behind the Bastards episodes on the Hegseth book: https://youtu.be/FUU8NTFHCvk?si=ZCjOM6Mjtp1X9dPy & https://youtu.be/1HKE8cBYokY?si=1QrNOJZWcKvcq-mR
Fundie Fridays episode on Doug Wilson: https://youtu.be/6dhaNeJ9UDw?si=y_CcsEb2Dc0rR8QG
Texas 'sodomy' case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
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Daniel and Jack talk about Nuremberg (2025) starring Russell Crowe as Hermann Goering.
A clip. Full episode exclusive for Patreon subscribers.
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We look at Megyn Kelly's sickening and ludicrous (and instantly infamous) apologia for Jeffrey Epstein in the wake of the dump of Epstein emails, and follow the thread from her, via Richard Hanania's deranged tweets about how it's normal for adult men to fancy minors, and Alan Dershowitz's seemingly eternal dedication to having Jeffrey Epstein's back, all the way back to a 2017 meeting between Epstein and Steve Bannon (et al), as related by Michael Wolff in a book, published in 2021, that contains many things now being treated as revelations by the media...
Oh what a tangled web we weave...
Gigantic and terrible content warnings.
Episode Notes:
Rebecca Watson's video on Epstein emails and Lawrence Krauss: https://youtu.be/VNLdyWPAz18?si=TEQwu2KcUdfJl3Tf
Articles about Epstein and Bannon at Byline Times by Nafeez Ahmed:
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/steve-bannon-offered-trumps-maga-as-shield-for-jeffrey-epstein/
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/jeffrey-epstein-had-access-to-trumps-inner-circle-while-working-with-steve-bannon/
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We finally deliver on a promise going back to the start of the show, an episode on the 'nazi dads' podcast Full Haus.
Content extremely warnings. Contains extensive clips featuring racism and sexism, and slurs (bleeped by us).
Episode Notes:
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/us-state-department-official-involved-white-nationalist-movement-hatewatch-determines/
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/white-nationalist-state-department-official-surfaces-photographs/
https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2024/09/18/night-of-the-long-con-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-national-justice-party/
Oh, and Daniel's recent appearance on Half the Answer talking about the Tucker / Nick Fuentes interview: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-answer-47-the-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-interview-episode/
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We look at some recent news stories, including:
Progressive Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, his scandals, and the reactions;
Kenneth Leland Morgan walking into a pub in Athens Georgia in a full SS uniform, assaulting a woman, being arrested, and then being bailed out by Paul Miller AKA 'GypsyCrusader';
and the revelation that upcoming nazi video-maker 'Shameless Sperg' is Chris Booth, husband of Meghyn Booth, Republican treasurer of Maple Valley Township.
Episode Notes:
Platner:
Graham Platner's claims that he didn't know tattoo was Nazi-linked undercut by new evidence | CNN Politics
overview for P-Hustle
Graham Platner asked why Black people 'don't tip' in Reddit posts
Booth:
Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels | Far right (US) | The Guardian
https://rumble.com/user/ShamelessSperg/videos?e9s=src_v1_cmd
Miller and Morgan:
Kenneth Leland Morgan update: Who is Paul Miller? Man claims to help Georgia Nazi dresser get bail as new video emerges | Hindustan Times
Who is Kenneth Leland Morgan? Athens, Georgia man in Nazi uniform allegedly assaulted woman outside Cutter's Pub | Hindustan Times
Man in Nazi uniform assaulted Georgia student after he was denied entry to bar, officials say
https://x.com/jokerwaffenfren/status/1982568060692427192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1982568060692427192%7Ctwgr%5E762b5102659e01bf355e40c126de12ef094256be%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2F
Nick Fuentes goes on Tucker:
Tucker Carlson's interview with far-right antisemite Nick Fuentes divides conservatives | Tucker Carlson | The Guardian
Heritage Foundation head defends Tucker Carlson for hosting white nationalist with antisemitic views - The Washington Post
Antisemitism exposed in the ranks of the right — the GOP-Israeli honeymoon is over
Angela Collier's The Faust and the Furious https://youtu.be/CnsDc9GDn1Y?si=zPCtZ1WI6wY_x7TS
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A clip of our new bonus episode on Kurt Vonnegut's great anti-fascist absurdist tragicomic novel Mother Night and the 90s film version.
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We're back with a news roundup. One or two things have happened since we last talked.
Episode Notes:
Katie Daviscourt on Poso's podcast, playing the video she recorded alongside their dramatization of it. https://x.com/RealAmVoice/status/1973457224354898355
ICE shoots an unarmed priest: https://bsky.app/profile/johnpfaff.bsky.social/post/3m2nl24yqpc2v
Hecklers force ICE wannabees to give up. A ray of hope. https://bsky.app/profile/bluskypolitics.bsky.social/post/3m2hrcpo3qs2v
The "ten-car incident" video https://bsky.app/profile/helldude.bsky.social/post/3m2fxjonrds2w
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Daniel welcomes very special guest Molly Conger of Weird Little Guys (and much renown besides) for the mother of all Cantwell news installments.
Much Content Warning.
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Weird Little Guys: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-weird-little-guys-201395214
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What do we know about Tyler Robinson? What don't we know? What are people saying? Why are they saying what they're saying? And again, who was Charlie Kirk really?
Content Warnings
Episode Links:
https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/charlie-kirk-suspect-tyler-robinson-roommate-trans-relationship-65wvslwr8
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/charlie-kirk-bullet-casings-engravings.html
https://archive.ph/2025.09.14-154103/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/us/kirk-shooting-suspect-ideology-partner.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlie-kirk-shooting-suspect-romantically-linked-to-trans-roommate-gov/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=facebook_owned_tdb&source=TDB&via=FB_Page
https://howdypolitics.substack.com/p/you-cant-eulogize-charlie-kirk-without?r=39ezrs&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/prague-cardinal-to-hold-mass-for-slain-conservative-charlie-kirk-sparking-debate-in-czechia
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/
https://www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-kirk-was-killed-by-a-meme
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911142246/https://stonetoss.com/comic/turning-point/ (NOTE: Stone Toss comic, link to Internet Archive)
https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-was-charlie-kirk-anyway
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/who-tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk-suspect-814fd21f
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/it-was-one-of-us-utah-governor-spencer-cox-hoped-charlie-kirk-shooter-was-not-from-us-faces-backlash-online/articleshow/123858257.cms
https://boingboing.net/2025/09/12/1350-word-feature-about-the-appeal-of-charlie-kirks-beliefs-doesnt-specify-them-or-quote-him.html (NOTE: A good read)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240112121724/https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-tpusa-mlk-civil-rights-act/ (NOTE: Another good read)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/magazine/charlie-kirk-american-right.html
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/not-all-victims-should-be-martyrs/
https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/douglas-murray-and-charlie-kirk-agree-there-war-white-people
https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-and-tpusa-are-fueled-far-right-extremism
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Daniel and Jack discuss who Charlie Kirk really was, and what he really said.
Features Megyn Kelly's reaction to the breaking news, and clips from Kirk's shows, including his very last podcast.
Content Warnings
Episode Notes:
New York Times Coverage of the Death of Charlie Kirk. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah
Wall Street Journal, "Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender, Antifascist Ideology: Sources" https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charlie-kirk-shot/card/ammunition-in-kirk-shooting-engraved-with-transgender-antifascist-ideology-sources-pdymd1sXXMSlVRhpvR4b
Ezra Klein Opinion, at The New York Times, "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination-fear-politics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lE8.c8fl.bhF6iMJ6NLxJ∣=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it. Slowly, then all at once, he did. College-age voters shifted sharply right in the 2024 election.
That was not all Kirk’s doing, but he was central in laying the groundwork for it. I did not know Kirk and I am not the right person to eulogize him. But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness. In the inaugural episode of his podcast, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk, admitting that his son was a huge fan. What a testament to Kirk’s project."
Robert Draper, New York Times, How Charlie Kirk Became the Youth Whisperer of the American Right: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/magazine/charlie-kirk-american-right.html
"But perhaps most important is that Kirk’s dominant voice, via his podcast and his ubiquity on social media, has earned him credibility among conservatives as a die-hard Trump devotee. He has become a close friend of the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., with whom Kirk traveled to Greenland on Jan. 7 — wearing a “Charlie”-embroidered flight jacket for the occasion — to publicize Trump’s proclaimed intent to acquire the Arctic territory. And Kirk was an early champion of JD Vance as Trump was deciding whether the senator would be his running mate."
Megyn Kelly, YouTube, Charlie Kirk Dead at 31 -- Assassination on Utah College Campus During Turning Point Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goia3bx9aZ8
The Charlie Kirk Show, "What Does 'Phillies Karen' Say About American Men" https://thecharliekirkshow.com/podcasts/the-charlie-kirk-show/what-does-phillies-karen-say-about-american-men
Tricia McLaughlin at dhs.gov: https://www.dhs.gov/person/tricia-mclaughlin
USA Today Story on "Phillies Karen" https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/09/10/phillies-karen-outrage-explained/86070492007/
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/133-the-mamdani-reaction
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/102-rittenhouse-anarcho-tyranny-and-blood-libel
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/episode-36-the-groyper-war
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/pardoned-insurrectionists-are-using-charlie-kirks-death-to-call-for-civil-war/
https://drwilliamhorne.substack.com/p/why-we-pretend?r=1hkrua&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/sep/17/turning-point-usa-professor-watchlist
https://x.com/queenie4rmnola/status/1965960315587416268
https://www.the-end.news/after-kirk-right-wingers-double-down-on-eliminating-opponents/
https://www.404media.co/charlie-kirk-was-not-practicing-politics-the-right-way/
https://meidasnews.com/news/charlie-kirk-wants-coca-cola-sponsored-televised-executions-of-trumps-political-opponents
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Daniel and Jack continue to be haunted by the fetid shade of David Irving as they discuss the 1991 UK television mini-series Selling Hitler (starring Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, and various once-and-future Doctor Whos)... and also the 1986 non-fiction book by Robert Harris upon which it is based... and thus also the real-life 1983 Stern Magazine fake Hitler diaries scandal which both are about.
Content warning: Jack is very enthusiastic about this.
The mini-series, free on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWzIjl-RsZKuDuoLINA6pvhzmAj_v9-eQ&si=2Q30UUkBb1_R7kyx
A good article about the real event: https://www.dw.com/en/how-a-german-magazine-fell-for-fake-hitler-diaries/a-65399517
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In this episode we talk about two dramatic portrayals of a seminal 2000 libel trial, the court case brought by Holocaust denier David Irving against American scholar Deborah Lipstadt: a contemporary UK television drama-documentary 'Holocaust on Trial' and the 2016 film Denial. We then consider the legacy of Irving, his reputation today, how fascists now see him, how they see the 2016 film, the planned republication of his work by Antelope Hill books, and how he is weirdly replicated in current 'rising star' internet Holocaust denier Darryl Cooper. We then consider our own coverage of Israel's genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the question of how to talk about genocide after the Nazi Holocaust. Our discussion also touches upon another of the 'guests' brought on by Jubilee to debate Mehdi Hasan in the recent edition of 'Surrounded'.
We also briefly discuss the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad thing.
CONTENT WARNINGS
Episode Notes:
Mother Jones piece on Darryl Cooper: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/martyr-made-darryl-cooper-nazi-jews-juggernaut-nihilism-tucker-carlson-joe-rogan-substack/
Mari Cohen at the Jewish Currents, "Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza"
https://jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide-studies-survive-a-genocide-in-gaza
"Little changed even after Amnesty International published a landmark report accusing Israel of genocide in December 2024. For Nimer Sultany, a scholar of international law at SOAS University of London, this silence pointed to a glaring double standard, in which many scholars could rush to imply that the Palestinians had committed acts reminiscent of genocide, but be “unable to or unwilling to make the same charge against Israel, when Israel has committed much worse atrocities against the Palestinians since then.” “This shows that the early use of genocide was propagandistic and political in nature. It shows that they don’t care in the same way about Palestinian civilians or Palestinian victims,” he said."
Polite Conversations, with the same title: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mpxDnGm1c8isJlDGgidqc?si=igr81Hv4SvOMw_rdFA6V9Q
Doomernaut Substack: https://substack.com/@thatonewhitepopulist , "Number 1 alogger of the kosher right ""
Antelope Hill Publishing, Nuremberg, The Last Battle by David Irving https://antelopehillpublishing.com/product/nuremberg-the-last-battle-by-david-irving/
Holocaust on Trial (2000) – NOT on the pro-Irving channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCe3G9gODU4&t=1s
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It's all in the title, folks.
Extra content warnings on this one.
Episode Notes:
Rebecca Watson on Mehdi Hasan and Jubilee https://youtu.be/4px0MUlTvBk?si=ykE-CTKTDKWTUWHQ
The Bulwark interview with Medhi Hasan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhkzEgWaNSI&pp=ygUOYnVsd2FyayBtZWRoaSA%3D
Published as we were recording and saying how much we wanted to know who else was in the birthday book… https://www.wsj.com/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-birthday-album-included-letters-from-bill-clinton-leon-black-a7cd8cb1?st=pc73P3&reflink=article_copyURL_share
Jack forgot to mention this excellent article:
Who Needs the Epstein Files? Trump’s Modeling Agency Was a Documented Trafficking Operation: Court documents, victim testimony, and immigration records reveal how Trump Model Management systematically exploited teenage girls - while everyone chases phantom client lists. By RachelAndTheCity
https://rachelandthecity.substack.com/p/who-needs-the-epstein-files-trumps
Kyle Kulinski video providing a quick digest of old and new stories and allegations implicating Trump and Epstein in abuses https://youtu.be/BqER8naYogA?si=atT3BHKfTK34Tnn8
https://bsky.app/profile/realbbfan.bsky.social/post/3luc4tto4mo2e
Forbes, 2020: Trump’s Business Partners Allegedly Involved In Human Trafficking, Mafia Matters, Probable Money Laundering
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2020/08/20/trumps-business-partners-allegedly-involved-in-human-trafficking-mafia-matters-probable-money-laundering/
Daily Kos, 2016: "We All Knew About the Trafficking"-The Untold Story of Trump Model Management (Part 1) https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/6/1578544/-The-Untold-Story-of-Trump-Model-Management-A-Daily-Kos-Exclusive-Part-1
Mother Jones, 2016: Senator Calls for Homeland Security to Investigate Trump’s Model Agency - “I am extremely concerned by the claims levied against Trump Model Management.” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/trump-models-illegal-immigration-investigation-barbara-boxer-letter/
Watchdog Report, 2017: Trump Model Management Investigated For Violating Teenagers, Immigration Laws and Labor Laws https://trumpwatchdogs.com/2017/07/24/trump-model-management-investigated-for-violating-teenagers-and-immigration-laws/
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory: The connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics. By Samantha Hancox-Li at Liberal Currents https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/
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Originally published 11th April 2024.
Our series on 'movies about presidents' continues with a fun discussion of this 1997 'thriller', written by legendary Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman based on the debut novel of David Baldacci, starring/produced/directed by noted chair-interviewer Clint Eastwood, and boasting a splendid cast - including recently-deceased screen legend Gene Hackman - none of whom are given anything very interesting to do. Clint plays a suave cat burglar - with the unlikely name of Luther Whitney - who accidentally witnesses the president of the United States sexually assaulting a woman (far-fetched, right?) and getting her killed. All Hell then persistently threatens but repeatedly fails to break loose. Instead we get a slow, aimless, half-baked movie filled with good elements that don't cohere or go anywhere special. It sparked an amusing conversation though, as we hope you will agree.
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After a brief review of Grok becoming 'MechaHitler', we chat about the hysterical meltdown that ensued upon Zohran Mamdani's victory in the Democratic primaries to become candidate for Mayor of New York. Jack brings his researches into the New York Times smear story and the fascist eugenicist blogger Jordan Lasker (AKA Cremieux) who gave the Times the leaked info. Daniel brings clips of Megyn Kelly's unhinged Islamophobic response to Mamdani on her podcast, including a conversation with Charlie Kirk in which racism wars for inanity for supremacy.
Content warnings.
Episode Notes:
NBC News, Asked to condemn the phrase ‘globalize the intifada,’ Mamdani says mayors shouldn’t ‘police speech’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggV2SeiGrVw
Zohran Mamdani told director mom Mira Nair to pass on Harry Potter movie
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/zohran-mamdani-mira-nair-harry-potter-namesake-b2778144.html
"'She explained that she was just a month away from filming The Namesake when Warner Bros. reached out to her. Nair said she felt compelled to attend the meetings with the studio because her son had learned to read through J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books.
However, she didn’t want to give up on working on her own film, so she asked her then-14-year-old son what to do.
“He said to me, ‘Mamma, many good directors can make Harry Potter, but only you can make The Namesake,’” Nair recalled. “And it was such a liberating and clarifying statement, and it kind of is about how I lived my life. Like, what can I do that is so specific that you cannot do? How to make my distinctiveness my calling card.'"
The Times of India, Why MAGA Is Losing Its Mind Over Zohran Mamdami Eating Rice With His Hands
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/why-maga-is-losing-its-mind-over-zohran-mamdani-eating-rice-with-his-hand/articleshow/122209140.cms
"First, let’s get one thing straight: eating with your hands isn’t dirty, weird, or backward. It’s normal. In India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, parts of the Middle East, and even in some parts of Europe, using your hands to eat is a sign of connection—to the food, to your senses, to tradition.
But in the video of Mamdani eating with his fingers, Gill and his supporters saw something else. They didn’t see heritage. They saw a threat. Because in their worldview, anything outside the “white, Western” norm becomes fair game for mockery or suspicion.
It wasn’t about rice. It was about power."
Megyn Kelly Episode 1098: Tacky Celeb-Filled Bezos-Sanchez Wedding, and Zohran Mamdani's Fake Origin Story, with Walter Kirn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hj1yAA3Dqo&pp=ygUbbWVneW4ga2VsbHkgdGFja3kgYW5kIGdyb3Nz
Tweet from The Charilie Kirk Show on the value of eating with utensils.
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1940114312124862947
Megyn Kelly (From Episode 1095): What It Means That Radical Socialist Muslim Zohran Mamdani WINS NYC Mayoral Primary, w/ Charlie Kirk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c09GVJu_Xn0&pp=ygUbY2hhcmxpZSBraXJrIHpvaHJhbiBtYW1kYW5p
The Times of India, Why MAGA Is Losing Its Mind Over Zohran Mamdami Eating Rice With His Hands
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/why-maga-is-losing-its-mind-over-zohran-mamdani-eating-rice-with-his-hand/articleshow/122209140.cms
"First, let’s get one thing straight: eating with your hands isn’t dirty, weird, or backward. It’s normal. In India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, parts of the Middle East, and even in some parts of Europe, using your hands to eat is a sign of connection—to the food, to your senses, to tradition.
But in the video of Mamdani eating with his fingers, Gill and his supporters saw something else. They didn’t see heritage. They saw a threat. Because in their worldview, anything outside the “white, Western” norm becomes fair game for mockery or suspicion.
It wasn’t about rice. It was about power."
Mediaite, ‘Take it Down’: Fox News Host Scolds Charlie Kirk Over ‘Gross and Islamophobic’ Post
"'Tarlov shot back, “I’m not afraid to say that I don’t think Mamdani’s vision for the city is a good one and I think a lot of his policies are crazy – NYC is the home of capitalism, not socialism. I want more police funding, not to defund. BDS is repellent. We can’t freeze rent, making everything free. But none of that has to do with him being Muslim.'"
The Lauren Southern interview we reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNxG4EYF_-0
Vance follows Lasker https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/jd-vances-neofascist-reading-list
Capitolhunters thread on the Lasker academic paper scandal https://bsky.app/profile/capitolhunters.bsky.social/post/3lt4cc5tmpk2n
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/16/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-eugenics-scientific-racism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/natal-conference-austin-texas-eugenics
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/07/03/nyt-grants-anonymity-to-a-eugenicist-in-order-to-smear-mamdani/
https://countylocalnews.com/2025/07/04/ny-times-shocking-deal-with-far-right-eugenicist-exposed-new-york-times-controversy-far-right-activism-exposure-eugenics-and-identity-politics/
https://www.cjr.org/news/times-mamdani-college-application-race-article-hack.php
https://www.commondreams.org/news/zohran-mamdani-new-york-times
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/new-york-times-grants-race-science-enthusiast-anonymity-in-mamdani-hit-piece/
https://bsky.app/profile/petersterne.com/post/3ltdkev7t2s24
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kjjhbsc3pp3vkqjsivk6z2yd/post/3ltep4kvwfc2h
https://hellgatenyc.com/nyt-race-science-zohran-mamdani/
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afraid-of-zohran-mamdani
The ADL identify “every damn/single time” as antisemitic trope https://www.adl.org/resources/article/coded-hate-extremists-weaponize-seemingly-innocuous-content-promote-bigotry
https://jwmason.org/slackwire/can-zohran-do-it/
Lasker on Hanania’s podcast https://www.cspicenter.com/p/35-baby-brainwaves-and-broken-science-740
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...oh my.
Daniel and Jack talk about the latest lunacy with Musk and Grok, The Big Beautiful Bill, social murder, the expansion of ICE, recent SCOTUS rulings and the assaults on trans rights and birthright citizenship, Alligator Alcatraz, the horrifying flash floods in Texas and the cuts to the National Weather Service, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Big content warnings for this one. Lots of dead children in here. Because that's the news in July 2025.
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Kevin Kruse on third parties https://campaign-trails.ghost.io/third-party-in-the-usa/
If Books Could Kill - Supreme Court goes full TERF https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-supreme-court-goes-full-terf-teaser/id1651876897?i=1000715268706
5-4 - US vs Skrmetti https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/united-states-v-skrmetti/id1497785843?i=1000715260782
5-4 - US vs CASA https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trump-v-casa-inc/id1497785843?i=1000716294077
We're delighted to welcome back Craig Johnson - of Fifteen Minutes of Fascism - to chat about the politics and value of native English speakers learning other languages, especially Spanish.
Episode Notes:
Spanish language papers:
Pagina12: left Peronist, Argentina: www.pagina12.com.ar Proceso, Mexico: www.proceso.com.mx elDiario.es and Público, Spain: www.eldiario.es, www.publico.es
Again, not an endorsement of these as the best and most perfect news sources in the world, they have their own biases (esp regarding their own domestic left), but good for different perspectives.
Craig:
How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, book.
15 Minutes of Fascism at Soundcloud
IDSG on 15MoF
Craig's bluesky
Craig's Patreon
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A News Roundup episode, and an episode of two halves. We start with a discussion of the recent public Oval Office meeting between Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa, in which Trump harangued the South African president with accusations of 'white genocide' based on 'evidence' which tracks straight back to people in our usual wheelhouse. Then we move on to a chat about the recent decision by language learning app Duolingo to replace loads of their contributors with AI, plus some dismaying news about Babbel, leading to a discussion of the impending AI jobs crisis. Then we cap it off with an odd flex for us... a feel good story!
Episode Notes:
Trump spreads racist South African Farm Murders Memes in meeting with Ramaphosa
Trump/Ramaphosa meeting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TLkZv3gzO0
Response:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/video/trump-ramaphosa-south-africa-video-larry-madowo-vrtc
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A check of Trump's false claims about white genocide in South Africa | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-makes-false-claims-white-genocide-south-africa-during-ramaphosa-meeting-2025-05-21/
Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from DR Congo – The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/world/africa/2025/05/23/trumps-evidence-of-south-africa-white-genocide-contains-images-from-dr-congo/
Trump confronted South African president with ‘evidence’ of genocide – here’s what the video really showed | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-south-africa-genocide-video-b2755625.html
Trump ambushes South African president with video and false claims of anti-white racism | Trump administration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/trump-south-africa-president-meeting?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
What's Behind Trump’s South Africa Obsession? | Benjamin Fogel | TMR https://youtu.be/gR_gwPI5l-0?si=QfWeEuoosYeUD-JG
South Africa to offer Elon Musk Starlink deal ahead of Trump meeting | Business Insider Africa https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/south-africa-to-offer-elon-musk-starlink-deal-ahead-of-trump-meeting/v0k8bxk?op=1
White Nationalists Praise Trump’s Promotion Of White Genocide Conspiracy Theory – Angry White Men https://angrywhitemen.org/2025/05/22/white-nationalists-praise-trumps-promotion-of-white-genocide-conspiracy-theory/
Exclusive: Trump Shared Racist, Flat-Earth Facebook Account With South African President https://www.meidasplus.com/p/exclusive-trump-shared-racist-flat
Roaming Charges: White Lies About White Genocide - CounterPunch.org https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/23/white-lies-about-white-genocide/
DR Congo: Killings, Rapes by Rwanda-Backed M23 Rebels | Human Rights Watch https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/06/13/dr-congo-killings-rapes-rwanda-backed-m23-rebels
As Goma ceasefire largely holds, Congo rushes to bury bodies from rebel offensive | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/east-congo-city-goma-rushes-bury-bodies-after-rebel-offensive-2025-02-04/
A white nationalist moved to Idaho in search of an ‘ethnic enclave.’ He’s not alone. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/jul/21/a-white-nationalist-moved-to-idaho-in-search-of-an/
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Duolingo Replacing Contract Workers With AI The Verge, “Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI”
https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers
“AI isn’t just a productivity boost,” von Ahn says. “It helps us get closer to our mission. To teach well, we need to create a massive amount of content, and doing that manually doesn’t scale. One of the best decisions we made recently was replacing a slow, manual content creation process with one powered by AI. Without AI, it would take us decades to scale our content to more learners. We owe it to our learners to get them this content ASAP.”
von Ahn’s email follows a similar memo Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke sent to employees and recently shared online. In that memo, Lütke said that before teams asked for more headcount or resources, they needed to show “why they cannot get what they want done using AI.”
Fortune, “Duolingo CEO walks back AI-first comments: ‘I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do’”
“To be clear: I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do (we are in fact continuing to hire at the same speed as before),” he wrote. “I see it as a tool to accelerate what we do, at the same or better level of quality. And the sooner we learn how to use it, and use it responsibly, the better off we will be in the long run.”
Babbel quietly ending Babbel Live Babbel Support, “Discontinuation of Babbel Live”
https://support.babbel.com/hc/en-us/articles/26749152437522-Discontinuation-of-Babbel-Live
“Babbel Live was introduced in 2021. Knowing the power of human teachers, we aimed to offer our learners this experience from their homes. Over time, however, we did see a clear trend: the majority of them did not accept Babbel Live as part of their language learning path, making it impossible for us to sustain it as a business.
This change will help us achieve our goal of helping you become fluent in your new language quickly by enabling us to focus on improving our app, which most learners, especially beginners, prefer.”
Boycott Over Upcoming E-sports Event in Riyadh Makes Geoguessr Change Its Stance Geoguessr Community Protests Esports World Cup by Disabling Popular Maps.
https://www.si.com/esports/news/geoguessr-protests-esports-world-cup
Statement from Feneb, one of the World Championship players, about his decision to boycott the Riyadh event.
https://discord.com/channels/1003591679644807229/1026965093331779634/1375003211513204746
“The decision to participate in the Esports World Cup, which is directly funded by the Saudi Arabian government in an effort to distract public attention from the above human rights violations, is thus directly incompatible with any stated aims by GeoGuessr to promote an inclusive and diverse community, and extremely disappointing. I also do not want to dismiss the issue of hosting a tournament in Saudi Arabia, regardless of whether the event is directly run by the Saudi government or not. It is completely unnecessary to host a tournament in a country which some current or possible future world league players would be unable to travel to safely.”
Statement from Geoguessr regarding their decision to reverse the event in Riyadh (Reddit)
https://www.reddit.com/r/geoguessr/comments/1ksky0k/geoguessr_is_withdrawing_from_the_esports_world/
Geoguessr challenge links:
(Standard) World Map
https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/MIJFcVhIFNpVapVs https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/sedHxYRoMPdmFxdZ https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/eIRYCYBhuUUBVIT2
An Official World
https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/tK9A8O1KUXQfZgCu https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/NGYJ4uk0WhxNR5Ui https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/Yc4uD6P8lFISKIgb
A Community World
https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/B87Y20LMvmtDvUwN https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/I9ub9gc9CmoEQpjn https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/ZwKxnW3Ms9UTZZt6
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The AI jobs crisis is here, now - by Brian Merchant https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-crisis-is-here-now
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/job-market-youth/682641/
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Daniel and Jack are joined by special guest, South African anti-disinformation advocate, Bianca van Wyk, to discuss the issue of 'South African farm murders', the reality vs the right-wing narrative, some of the bad actors pushing the fake version of the story, and the links to the 'white genocide' conspiracy theory. Bianca helps us get the whole thing into proper context, especially re South Africa's history and current politics. Also discussed: the recent fast-tracking of refugee status for white South Africans by the Trump administration, the US Right's embrace of the South African far-right's propaganda, the 'Kill the Boer!' chant and what it really means, Elon Musk, and the recent reprogramming of X's AI chatbot Grok.
Content Warnings apply.
Episode Notes:
X @biancavanwyk16
TikTok @BiancaSays3
YouTube @WhiteWhineTalks
Sour Grapes — The Toxic Vintage of White Whine by Bianca https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2024-05-16-bianca-van-wyk-sour-grapes-the-toxic-vintage-of-white-whine/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/23/trump-orders-close-study-of-south-africa-farmer-killings
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/23/white-farmers-trump-south-africa-tucker-carlson-far-right-influence
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/us-grants-asylum-to-54-white-afrikaner-south-africans
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-whites-south-africa-us-fdef8e9d4d2186227f75b817d8e1d7eb
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk-grok-white-genocide
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-x-grok-white-genocide-holocaust-1235341267/
https://www.404media.co/why-did-grok-start-talking-about-white-genocide/
https://newrepublic.com/article/195383/trump-south-africans-takes-immigration
https://apnews.com/video/trump-defends-admitting-white-south-africans-as-refugees-after-halting-resettlement-for-most-others-b3e74c6b4e584a02b798f7598dfd2132
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/politics/trump-south-africa-afrikaners.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/white-south-africans-refugees.html
https://www.levernews.com/trump-taps-refugee-fund-to-welcome-white-south-africans-within-days/
https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/trumps-south-africa-tweet-tucker-carlson-has-turned-white-nationalist-narrative
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/tucker-carlson-injected-white-nationalist-propaganda-into-the-presidents-brain
https://theconversation.com/south-africas-white-right-the-alt-right-and-the-alternative-103544
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/musk-looks-to-the-motherland
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/musk-south-africa-white-far-right
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyj1198wy3o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-45336840
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wg5pg1xp5o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2q937wlqgo
https://harpers.org/archive/2019/03/the-myth-of-white-genocide-in-south-africa/?curator=alphaideas
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/dangerous-myth-white-genocide-south-africa/
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In this immediately out-of-date episode, Daniel and Jack discuss the 2024 movie Conclave in light of the (at the time of recording) underway 2025 Conclave in the Vatican to choose a new Pope. Both your hosts talk a little about their own religious backgrounds, review the film, and then get onto the politics of the Catholic Church, particularly the integration of right-wing US bishops with American reactionaries.
Episode Notes:
https://www.ncronline.org/culture/book-reviews/playing-god-traces-history-catholic-conservatism-gone-extreme
https://publicseminar.org/2024/08/the-catholic-new-right-and-project-2025/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/catholic-right-celebrity-conversion-industrial-complex?srsltid=AfmBOooTq0kt0MevV9R8VfOMTL3vn5n2JBO1URs0O1qbA9760WPUWsRa
https://www.politico.eu/article/vaticans-church-catholic-pope-francis-hard-right/
https://sojo.net/magazine/march-2019/rise-catholic-right
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/maga-catholics-vatican-pope-conclave
https://youtu.be/Mb3zYyhrUWg?si=d1UG7bpGi16WAaRo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKW-0fIDHdw&t=220s
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Trump released all the remaining secret JFK files! Except not really. And they're full of revelations! Except not really. (They're mainly full of people's social security numbers which, it transpires, is pretty much all the remaining redactions were hiding.) Anna Paulina Luna (R, FL) is leading a new congressional investigation! Er... no, she's inviting conspiracy theorists into Congress to confirm her ill-informed beliefs. The mystery is solved! Or deepens! Except nope nope and nope.
In this impromptu News Brief, Jack and Daniel jump off from a supremely stupid clip of reactionary conspiracybrained shitheads Bill Maher and Andrew Sullivan to ponder the changing political meaning of the conspiracy theories around the Kennedy assassination, why it has migrated from a left preoccupation all the way over to being an obsession of MAGA and the far-right.
Along the way we encounter the peculiar and controversial author Gerald Posner, who is able to debunk JFK conspiracy theories but apparently unable to see the problems with Israel's policies in Gaza, Elon Musk doing seig heils, or Gender Criticals who think the Trans movement is all funded by evil rich Jews (or possibly alien lizards).
Yes, this is the world we live in folks.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Posner#Controversies
https://www.justthefacts.media/
https://www.justthefacts.media/p/the-ressurection-of-oliver-stone
https://www.justthefacts.media/p/hitler-musk-and-the-art-of-the-smear
https://www.justthefacts.media/p/the-transgender-money-pipeline
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LGB_Alliance
https://web.archive.org/web/20211009112830/https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1368635513775689728
https://web.archive.org/web/20211029170407/https://twitter.com/LGBAlliance_CA/status/1368988077901905925
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2022/02/fears-of-creeping-transhumanism-give-space-for-overt-conspiracism-in-gender-critical-communities/
https://progressive.org/magazine/antisemitism-meets-transphobia-greenesmith-lorber/
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/donald-trump-bill-maher-real-time-b2732092.html
https://youtu.be/aE9mTr2uI10?si=4OaFzGM27Y1lots9
https://youtu.be/KAMC9cxEPzo?si=4SMhZoH9XKWLcaQ5
https://youtu.be/UJ28qfIR_8M?si=-rDyDFG70OvE3--x
https://youtu.be/-Lo1ButCuqE?si=tNl46hKnHyXdfvnO
Sean Munger: Oswald Acted Alone Part 1: https://youtu.be/DC8tO16xdrY?si=jhWAKR-GzJHnQacz
Part 2: https://youtu.be/Ptt1ti63IiE?si=Dkr3Nd75Jjlv6j95
Our 'movies about presidents' series continues (probably for four more years) with a much better movie this time. 1993's Wolfgang Peterson joint In the Line of Fire, featuring Clint Eastwood again (are we... doing a Clint Eastwood season now?) as jaded old Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan, veteran of a particular epic fail in Dallas 1963, up against the 90s serial killer shtick of rogue CIA super-assassin John Malkovich and, even more dauntingly, the merciless side-eye of fellow agent Rene Russo. A superior slice of 90s Hollywood nonsense with a nice line in gentle self-mockery and some adorable early digital effects.
This is a fun one, kids.
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Our series on 'movies about presidents' continues with a fun discussion of this 1997 'thriller', written by legendary Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman based on the debut novel of David Baldacci, starring/produced/directed by noted chair-interviewer Clint Eastwood, and boasting a splendid cast - including recently-deceased screen legend Gene Hackman - none of whom are given anything very interesting to do. Clint plays a suave cat burglar - with the unlikely name of Luther Whitney - who accidentally witnesses the president of the United States sexually assaulting a woman (far-fetched, right?) and getting her killed. All Hell then persistently threatens but repeatedly fails to break loose. Instead we get a slow, aimless, half-baked movie filled with good elements that don't cohere or go anywhere special. It sparked an amusing conversation though, as we hope you will agree.
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Jack and Daniel welcome to the show Craig A. Johnson - academic, researcher, antifascist, and host of the (excellent) podcast 15 Minutes of Fascism - to chat about his (excellent) new book How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, a primer on today's fascist and far-right, in all their styles and iterations, aimed at people worried that a young person in their lives (most especially a young man, obviously) is being sucked into the darkness.
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How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism, book.
15 Minutes of Fascism at Soundcloud
IDSG on 15MoF
Craig's bluesky
Craig's Patreon
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Daniel and Jack chat about the eventful millennia that have passed since they last convened...
Features Cantwell News!
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With apologies for our latest recent hiatus, here's an old bonus episode - formerly just for patrons - in which Daniel and Jack chat about 1992's A Few Good Men, a military courtroom drama written by Aaron 'West Wing' / 'Social Network' Sorkin, and starring Kevin Pollack and some other people probably.
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Jack is joined by friend (and friend-of-the-show), the writer George Daniel Lea, to talk about the online phenomenon known as 'Estranged Parents' or the 'Estranged Parents Movement'. George did a deep dive and is here to tell us about what he found. It turns out to be a lot more relevant to IDSG than it might seem at first glance!
George's site http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/
George on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:luidqaapyfdytwkv6eivrfid
George on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@ExaggeratedElegy
In researching this episode, and compiling a suite of clips of the infamous Estranged Parent content creator Diane, Jack made extensive use of the work of Maximmino on YouTube, who has covered this subject at length. https://www.youtube.com/@Maximmmino
Here is Maximmino's video on Diane's infamous deleted video, from which Jack harvested several clips. https://youtu.be/SpSRkNYUiAw?si=Af4kRPvMg2PQJ57i
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We begin our seventh year (!) with a conversation with special guest Teddy Wilson, the journalist behind Radical Reports, on the state of the January 6th convictions, prosecutions, and investigations in the looming shadow of a second Trump presidency.
Episode Notes:
https://bsky.app/profile/reportbywilson.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/radicalreports.bsky.social
https://www.radicalreports.org/
Teddy's previous IDSG appearances:
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/123-moms-for-liberty-with-teddy-wilson
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/bonus-hanging-out-with-eiynah
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In a companion piece to the last public bonus, Daniel and Jack discuss Adam McKay's Vice from 2018, a dense metafictional dramedy biopic of Dick Cheney, unofficial president during the George W. Bush years and architect of the 'War on Terror'. An interesting movie, possibly as flawed as it is brilliant.
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Another in our series of election year chats about movies about presidents. Originally published 18th October, exclusive for Patreon subscribers of Daniel or Jack, now released for all.
By patron request, we watched and discussed 1999's delightful neo-screwball teensploitation 70s-nostalgiafest Dick, in which two teenage girls - Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams - accidentally find themselves befriending Richard Nixon (Dan Hedaya) and becoming entangled in Watergate. It's terribly fun.
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Normal service to be resumed soon. In the meantime, Daniel and Jack continue their series on movies about the presidency by considering Oliver Stone's baffling 2008 movie W., an aggressively irrelevant and annoyingly whimsical dramady biopic of blood-soaked war criminal George W. Bush. The movie stars Josh Brolin as the charming mass murderer, and a host of respected American actors doing impressions of neocon profiteer warmongers in what looks weirdly like a bloated SNL sketch. Both your hosts find their dusty old rage about the 'War on Terror' (and the myriad other vicious and authoritarian horrors of the Bush administration) suddenly reawakened.
Links to clips included:
Naomi Klein on the Iraq invasion as an orgy of privatisation: Naomi Klein on C-Span: Triple Privatization in the Iraq War
Greg Palast on the Republican conspiracy to rig the 2000 for Bush in Florida: The 2000 Election
Vice on corporate profits from the Iraq invasion: Was the War in Iraq All About Profit? | WHILE THE REST OF US DIE
Brown University report on the death toll of the Bush wars: Costs of War: the Human Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars
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Daniel and Jack sit down across from each other in brown leather armchairs and ruthlessly interrogate each other about their many crimes. We also continue our election year series on movies about (or at least mentioning) US Presidents by talking over the deeply mid 2008 Ron Howard movie Frost/Nixon, an almost entirely fictional account of some TV interviews in which a chat show host helped a mass murdering crook present himself to the world as a thoughtful and moral person, to enormous acclaim. Thankfully the media learned their lesson and don't launder horrific people anymore just because they're powerful.
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Results. Reasons. Prospects. The future of the show.
Please do not expect any sugar on the pill.
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As the election looms, we take a look at Hillbilly Elegy (shitty book and shitty movie), the 'memoir' of America's fuhrer-in-waiting, weirdo venture capitalist, plutocrat fascist misogynist, Trump's pet and Thiel's puppet, J.D. Vance, in which he slathers on the hillbillyface in a grotesque and offensive performance of working class minstrelsy to the rapturous applause of centrist liberals... at least until he decided that principles were bad for his career ambitions and suddenly realised that Trump wasn't the American Hitler after all. (He is.)
Breaking News Re-Release: "Hil - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
JD Vance Is Actually Much Worse Than You Realize | Sarah Jones | TMR
JD Vance's Weird Nazi Lie About Haitian Migrants - SOME MORE NEWS
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Originally available to Patreon patrons 6th July.
We recorded an episode about the 1996's biggest movie, Independence Day. For election year, we're looking at movies 'about' the American presidency, and how better to do that than to embrace the cheesy American exceptionalist pornography of this alien-invasion effects-spectacular? It's a sprawling SF comedy about incalculable mass murder and the genocide of humanity. Bill Pullman looks decent, Will Smith quips, Jeff Goldblum recycles, Randy Quaid gets an anal probe, billions die, and a good time is had by all.
Don't worry, the dog survives...
For now.
Spoiler alert: this is deeply stupid, but we both kinda like it anyway.
Features UK election chat, and US SCOTUS / Presidential debate banter.
Links:
Five-Four Pod on Trump vs the United States: https://shows.acast.com/fivefourpod/episodes/trump-v-united-states
Jon Bois video "That's Not Entirely Accurate." Requires a subscription to the Secret Base Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/pretty-good-15-107056427
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We continue our election year series on movies about the US President, with a chat about Ivan Reitman's Capraesque 1993 political-romantic-comedy-drama-satire(???) Dave, starring Kevin Kline as a lovable goofball Presidential lookalike who ends up actually pretending to be the President, kindasorta accidentally pulling off a (well-meaning) one-man coup d'état, enmeshed in the plots of the evil White House Chief of Staff (Frank Langella), and falling in love with the First Lady (Sigourney Weaver).
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Back in the mists of yore, when America's eternal 2024 presidential election began, we started a series of bonus episodes on movies about the US President (with the word 'about' being employed very loosely).
In this first episode of that series, we look at 1997's Air Force One, in which President Harrison Ford wages a one-man, definitely not Die Hard-esque in any way campaign of extreme non-negotiation with terrorists (who seem to somehow be both Russian ultra-nationalists and Kazakh communists simultaneously) who have hijacked the presidential plane in order to oh god just shoot me already.
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Another in our series of election year chats about movies about presidents. By patron request, Daniel and Jack watch and discuss 1999's neo-screwball teensploitation 70s-nostalgiafest Dick, in which two teenage girls - Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams - accidentally find themselves befriending Richard Nixon (Dan Hedaya) and becoming entangled in Watergate. It's terribly fun.
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Daniel and Jack sit down across from each other in brown leather armchairs and ruthlessly interrogate each other about their many crimes.
We also continue our election year series on movies about (or at least mentioning) US Presidents by talking over the deeply mid 2008 Ron Howard movie Frost/Nixon, an almost entirely fictional account of some TV interviews in which a chat show host helped a mass murdering crook present himself to the world as a thoughtful and moral person, to enormous acclaim.
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We talk about the second apparent attempt on trump's life, and why the Right's discourse about it is hypocritical bullshit. Then our main topic: the racist pogroms incited in Springfield, OH, by Trump and Vance's racist blood libels (via Blood Tribe and Chris Rufo), featuring the KKK and the Proud Boys. Features a surprise clip from Mike Enoch over at TDS.
Then a couple of other stories. Rich Lowry, editor in chief of National Review, accidentally forgets to not say the hard-R on Megyn Kelly's show; Bret Weinstein clever theory about Kamala's earrings and what They want him to think about them, Tim Pool and Ukraine (again).
IDSGs on the NJP, Mike Enoch, etc: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=NJP
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/news-brief-blood-tribe-march-in-nashville
https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich/archive/anatomy-of-a-pogrom/
https://newrepublic.com/article/185909/trump-hatred-history-haitian-americans
https://dayton247now.com/news/local/kkk-flyers-distributed-in-springfield-ohio-police-and-naacp-working-on-path-forward-clark-county-racism-hate-group?
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/16/springfield-bomb-threats-ohio-republican.html?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/17/political-violence-trump-assassination-attempt?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/opinion/trump-vance-springfield-charlottesville-haitians.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Lk4.D1wu.auHbudDO7wLi∣=url-share
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/trumps-campaign-immigrants-springfield-ohio-haiti/679913/
https://www.forever-wars.com/the-dogs-of-the-oligarchs-snarl-at-springfields-haitians/
https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/blood-tribe
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Daniel and Jack chat about Tenet Media, Lauren Chen, Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern, the Russians, and that whole hilarious schemozzle.
Also discussed:
Tucker Carlson interviews Daryl Cooper; Daniel has read the diary of the so-called 'Trans Shooter' from the 2023 Nashville school shooting.
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Jack and Daniel catch up with J.D. Vance's recent press, featuring guest appearances from a host of old IDSG characters, including Eric Weinstein, Jack Murphy, and Nick Fuentes.
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It's Joever! But there's no way to pun 'Kamala Harris' with 'beginning'. There just isn't. So we're probably fucked, as usual.
In another News Brief episode, hot on the heels of the last one for some unfathomable reason, Daniel and Jack - both mired in mixed feelings - chat about Biden quitting the 2024 Presidential race, Joe 'cheese pizza' Biden himself, the immediate 'annointing' of Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement on the Dem ticket, the Dems being effective (if cynical) for once, Trump (again), the assassination attempt (again), J.D. "couch and/or dolphin fucker" Vance (again), Project 2025, some of the Right's first attempts to find a line of attack on Harris...
All that junk.
P.S. Jack only just realised he unwittingly plagiarised the term 'News Brief' from the Citations Needed podcast. Please don't sue. And if you do, sue Daniel.
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Daniel and Jack chat about recent events...
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We recorded an episode about the 1996 film Independence Day, because we're looking at movies about the American presidency, and how better to do that than to embrace the cheesy human genocide/American exceptionalist pornography than this entry into the Devlin/Emmerich oeuvre?
Spoiler alert: this is deeply stupid, but we both kinda like it anyway.
Links:
Five-Four Pod on Trump vs the United States: https://shows.acast.com/fivefourpod/episodes/trump-v-united-states
Jon Bois video "That's Not Entirely Accurate." Requires a subscription to the Secret Base Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/posts/pretty-good-15-107056427
We will be recording the next full episode in the next few days, and then Daniel will plan the next Patreon live chat. Life has been hectic lately, and we thank you all for your continued support.
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We continue our election year series on movies about the US President, with a chat about Ivan Reitman's Capraesque 1993 political-romantic-comedy-drama-satire(???) Dave, starring Kevin Kline as a lovable goofball Presidential lookalike who ends up actually pretending to be the President, kindasorta accidentally pulling off a (well-meaning) one-man coup d'état, enmeshed in the plots of the evil White House Chief of Staff (Frank Langella), and falling in love with the First Lady (Sigourney Weaver).
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We begin our celebration of America's months-long presidential election with the first in a projected bonus series on movies about the US President.
In this edition, we look at 1997's Air Force One.
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An entire episode of Cantwell news. And it ain't nice.
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Previous episodes about (or heavily featuring) Cantwell:
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-5-christopher-cantwell-part-1
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-6-christopher-cantwell-part-2
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/episode-33-nazi-infighting-news-roundup
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/episode-43-cantwell-news-special-with-emily-gorecenski
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/68-the-trial-of-christopher-cantwell-with-hilary-sargent
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/96-catching-up-with-cantwell-and-the-failures-of-the-prison-industrial-complex
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/99-sines-vs-kessler-verdict
Images from new episode:
Daniel is joined by friend-of-the-pod and regular guest/collaborator Eiynah Mohammed-Smith (Polite Conversations, Woking Up, @nicemangos (2) Eiynah (@nicemangos.bsky.social) — Bluesky ) to talk about Israel's genocide in Gaza, and in particular about some questions that have come up around IDSG's public response to it. Jack was sadly unable to attend the recording but was fully there in spirit.
Our X Space on IDF / Israeli 'dystopian propaganda' with Eiynah: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/hangin-out-with-eiynah-6-dystopian-propaganda
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Another free public bonus in which Jack steps sideways a little from the usual IDSG focus.
In this episode, Jack hosts a conversation with comrades Twilight O'Hara & Rowan Fortune of Anti-capitalist Resistance about their blistering and important essay A Trans Guide to Cis Solidarity: Beyond Oppression.*
This conversation was recorded in January before the show's return from hiatus.
https://anticapitalistresistance.org/a-trans-guide-to-cis-solidarity-beyond-oppression/
Rowan on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rowantree.bsky.social
Twilight on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:az4mtz2vt545x2mlifptup2r
Rowan on Mastodon https://mstdn.social/@rowanfortune
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Daniel and Jack discuss Christopher Nolan's 2023 film Oppenheimer. Exclusive for Patreon subscribers.
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Nazis are mingling at CPAC, networking and sharing ideas. We delve into a couple of them for you.
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Episode Notes:
I Was Banned From CPAC, but the Extremists Weren’t | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cpac-far-right-nazis/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335
https://www.wired.com/story/day-one-take-our-border-back-convoy-texas/
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/truck-convoy-2656787935
Sanchez on OAN with hopeless Alison Steinberg Nov 7 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z88g0GFyjI
( She’s the one who got hysterical about seeing a pride flag at huntingdon beach https://therecenttimes.com/news/oan-contributor-alison-steinberg-was-attacked-for-her-homophobic-rant-on-the-internet-who-is-she
Homophobia, harassment, and anti-mask tantrums: Meet OAN’s latest personality https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/homophobia-harassment-and-anti-mask-tantrums-meet-oans-latest-personality )
https://heavy.com/news/christian-secor/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/19/christian-secor-ucla-jan6-sentence/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220524141531/https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/2021/01/heres-the-nazis-who-toppled-that-monolith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccW17T2LNgI&t=393s The national divorce with david zsutty homeland institute
https://homelandinstitute.org/about/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/several-well-known-hate-groups-identified-at-capitol-riot/
https://www.propublica.org/article/white-hate-group-campaign-of-menace-rise-above-movement
https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/rise-above-movement
https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/rise-above-movement
https://www.rawstory.com/rise-above-movement/
Splinter How Did a White Supremacist Get a Job as an Equal Employment Officer? 2017 https://splinternews.com/how-did-a-white-supremacist-get-a-job-as-an-equal-emplo-1821061611
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/students-horrified-about-coach-with-white-nationalist-ties-school-says/2018/01/10/81617f88-f5a4-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html
https://occidentaldissent.com/2023/02/18/tales-from-the-movement-njp-drama/
https://www.youtube.com/@NationalistNetwork/videos
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/06/republican-photo-neo-nazis-congressman-matt-rosendale
https://odysee.com/@gregoryconte:2/Prussian-Socialism-35-The-Hitlerputsch-100-Years:6
Our latest X Space with our friend Eiynah Muhammed Smith. (@nicemangos (2) Eiynah (@nicemangos.bsky.social) — Bluesky )
Discussing the dystopian propaganda around Israel's ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza, from racist Twitter 'hasbara' to IDF TikTok / Insta, to Israeli influencers' skits about Palestinians faking their suffering.
Also featuring Dr Caitlin Greene the linguist and tracker of Steven Pinker, etc.
Links:
Israeli military’s TikTok attempt to make propaganda cool | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera
The Israeli army is on TikTok. It's as bad as you'd expect (newarab.com)
Israeli Defense Forces Soldiers Embrace Thirst Traps on TikTok (rollingstone.com)
Natalia Fadeev: Israeli Influencer's Gaza Instagram Draws Outrage (dailydot.com)
Israeli Influencers Are Mocking Palestinians Suffering in Gaza (newsweek.com)
Propaganda images/memes we discussed in the beginning https://x.com/nicemangos/status/1760143208766456133?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw
T-Rex Costume, bombs and techno, dancing on a tank https://x.com/rachael_swindon/status/1748398198358507960?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw
Bill Maher’s poorly aged Burqa bit https://x.com/billmaher/status/1740866573655810131?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw
Contrasts: Fine dining scene vs. Starving population https://x.com/brandyljensen/status/1754145731466723520?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw
Lifestyle piece on IDF soldiers cooking in the kitchens of Gazans https://x.com/gawanmac/status/1757500107912556767?s=61&t=w7q_ejvwZ_gCFj9WV50Lqw
IDF using Human Shields: https://www.btselem.org/human_shields
A trial balloon for a new format. Relatively brief, topical, news update episodes. We might do more of this going forward.
This one is a response to the recent march of masked neo-nazis waving swastika flags through Nashville, Tennessee. We talk about the group involved, Blood Tribe, and their leader, attitudes, and associates.
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Episode Notes:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazis-march-through-downtown-nashville-in-the-middle-of-black-history-month
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-town-drives-out-blood-tribe-nazi-encampment
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-wants-blood-tribe-neo-nazi-squatters-gone
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a34db/upcoming-neo-nazi-rally-shows-how-disparate-extreme-right-groups-work-together
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VN8Q3U1GYmo
https://twitter.com/brotherjones_/status/1758936273153085941?t=Xl940T4MymEJFNwbv8-xtw&s=19
https://twitter.com/aimeeterese/status/1759162412044005506?t=RPJIC-pesOCNm1TyQd1wJw&s=19
https://twitter.com/NuanceBro/status/1758974163987943656?t=3GCLkboEX44mQWlsVKC2Kg&s=19
https://www.splcenter.org/states/tennessee
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2023/04/17/tennessee-three-attempt-silence-lawmakers-strikes-heart-democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moxzSxwwmio
We're back. It's cool. What isn't cool is the National Justice Party. Because it doesn't exist any more. And it wasn't cool when it did. It was shit. And that's why... well, listen to the episode.
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Links to previous episodes on the NJP:
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/70-national-justice-party
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/73-the-njp-program-part-1
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/74-national-justice-party-program-part-2-ecofascism
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/117-terror-in-waukesha-and-the-njp
Part 2 of our epic Dark Knight chat. Since we spent the entirety of the last one moaning about the technical shortcomings of Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman vs the Joker movie, this time we - being who we are - felt the need to spend this episode moaning about the themes and politics and ideology. And so we did.
Originally published for patrons only Oct 26th, 2021
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We return! Backer-only episode in which we chat about our recent lengthy hiatus, our lengthy journey to IDSG, the lengthy rise of fascism, our favourite lengthy YouTube videos, and, by way of contrast, Chris Cantwell's penis.
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To whet your appetite for our intended imminent return, here's an old bonus episode - the first part of a long conversation Daniel and Jack had back in October 2021 about Christopher Nolan's bloated, pretentious, ramshackle, reactionary Batman vs the Joker movie from 2008.
Originally available only for patrons, from October 12th 2021.
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Oooooo-wooooo! Wokeness is Scary!
In this little Halloween bonus, Jack joins friend of the pod Eiynah Mohammed-Smith, and Dr Caitilin Green, for a special spooky space over at cursed nazi chan board X. Recorded October 27th 2023. Please excuse the usual sound quality issues.
We talk about right-wing and IDW-type panics over woke Halloween costumes, concerns about cultural appropriation, etc. To quote Eiynah's write-up: "We discuss Bill Maher, Steven Crowder, Yale professors Nicholas & Erika Christakis & their calls for students to ‘look away’ from ‘offensive Halloween costumes’, U of Oregon Professor Nancy Shurtz who wore blackface at a party that students attended ….all this and more."
As always, thanks to everyone who turned up to listen and contribute.
Just Jack, talking about Elon Musk, X/Twitter, the nazis, and where we are now.
Content Warnings.
This episode is largely based on the work of Marisa Kabas at The Handbasket. Great stuff. Go, read, subscribe.
https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-an-antisemite
https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/elon-musk-crosses-the-border-to-nazi
Also based on the work of Ben Collins:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/was-elon-musks-strategy-twitter-rcna118490
Also quoted:
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/white-nationalists-adopt-clowns-as-their-next-racist-symbol-yes-seriously/
Daniel's episode about Musk with Eric from ESGHound:
I Don't Speak German: UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep22 Elon Musk and Twitter, with Eric from ESG Hound (libsyn.com)
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Another little bonus to tide you over. Jack briefly went back to eX-Twitter to hangout in a Space with best-friend-of-the-pod Eiynah and the excellent Dr Caitlin Green to talk about Russell Brand, Lauren Boebert, Danny Masterson, the hypocrisy of those who scream about groomers, patriarchy, etc. The bit where Caitlin talks about reactions to the Brand allegations among the 'Gender Criticals' is particularly interesting. Thanks to everyone who showed up to listen and/or join-in.
In our new Bonus Episode, we talked about In Cold Blood - book, film, films about the book, and the crime itself.
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In this episode, Jack is honoured to be joined by special guest Teddy Wilson of the excellent substack Radical Reports. (Links below.) Teddy has been closely studying the US far-right, including the sinister political pressure group that calls itself Moms for Liberty, one of the prime movers in the current reactionary cultural counter-revolution going on in America. Teddy tells Jack all about it, going into detail about M4L's aims, methods, and connections. He also tells Jack about the interactive visualisation tool he's created at Radical Reports for tracking M4L, their activities and interactions with other people and groups on the right. Topics covered include M4L's links to the Republican Party including DeSantis in Florida, their ideological censorship movement to expunge school libraries of anything they don't like, their links to the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, etc. Fascinating (if ominous) stuff.
Just Jack this episode, but Daniel is on his way back. Won't be too long now.
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Teddy Wilson on X/Twitter @reportbywilson
RadicalReports X/Twitter @RadicalReports
Radical Reports substack
Mapping Moms for Liberty - the interactive visualisation tracking tool
While Daniel and Jack continue working towards resumption of IDSG, Jack is once again invited by best-friend-of-the-pod Eiynah (@nicemangos of the Polite Conversations podcast) to co-host a Twitter space [obligatory Elon Musk joke here] about the new Barbie movie and the tsunami of reactionary tears it has invoked. Conversation (with contributions from various guests) ranges over the movie itself and Barbie herself, Musk and X, Dutch politics, the culture wars, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Piers Morgan, and that weird guy on YouTube who dresses like a medieval knight. Obviously, this being an X space (sigh), sound quality is variable.
Our hiatus continues, owing to some real pain-in-the-ass stuff in what is jokingly called 'real life'. Hopefully we are nearing the time when we can resume making new shows. In the meantime, here's another old bonus episode to tide you over until our triumphant return. In this one - originally recorded and released exclusively to Patreon subscribers in October 2021 - we discuss the 2008 movie Iron Man.
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We're still working on getting back up and running so in the meantime, here's an old bonus episode. This is our March 2022 discussion of Art Spiegelman's Maus, to go with our public episode from February 2022 about the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee removing the classic graphic novel about the Holocaust from the curriculum. Sadly, this is relevant again because yet another school board - this time in Nixa, Missouri - has targeted the book. It's not alone either. Nor is Maus the only classic Holocaust text being targeted. Ann Frank's diary is in the crosshairs of Mom's For Liberty.
Maus
Our episode about Maus and the McMinn County School Board
Auschwitz in Contemporary Popular Literature by Dr Wanda Witek-Malicka
Of Mice and Memory by Joshua Brown
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Links:
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/103-maus-vs-mcminn-county-school-board
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/tennessee-school-book-ban-robbing-students-history-rcna87531
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/185844
https://www.jta.org/2023/06/14/united-states/a-missouri-school-district-could-ban-maus-citing-concerns-about-whether-it-is-explicit-sexual-material
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-746349
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/14/art-spiegelman-maus-book-bans/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/27/maus-removal-old-debate/
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2023/04/07/anne-frank-book-pulled-from-florida-library/11622644002/
https://www.businessinsider.com/moms-for-liberty-get-florida-school-to-ban-anne-franks-diary-adaption-2023-4?r=US&IR=T
By way of a little compensation for you while you wait (patiently, bless you) for us to get our shit back together (which we are in the process of doing) here is a little bonus, a slightly edited recording of a Twitter space that we did with our friend Eiynah Mohammed-Smith (@NiceMangos) on 12th May last.
We chat about the coronation of Prince Charles (that's his name goddammit!), the revolting sexist discourse around E. Jean Carroll's suit against Trump, and the equally revolting discourse from deniers and obfuscators around the deadly shooting in Allen, Texas, with special reference to the bullshit about his ethnicity. Other subjects come up, naturally. Some interesting people took part and made great contributions.
Hope you enjoy it. See you soon.
Daniel and Jack reconvene for a chat about the coronation of Charles Windsor and the defenestration of Tucker Carlson. They also talk a little bit about their recent hiatus, and their imminent return to regular production of episodes.
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Okay, so.... as you'll have noticed, we haven't been that productive lately. We've both been going through some stuff. However, we are both still committed to the show. To tide you over while you wait for us to get our acts back together, here's a public release of an old Patreon-only bonus episode from August 2021.
It's a general chat in which Daniel and Jack react to some contemporary news, and Daniel tells Jack about his visit to a museum while on his holidays. More interesting than it sounds, hopefully.
Content warnings for some discussions of atrocity and war, and one satirical use of a slur (by Jack).
Also, owing to technical difficulties, this episode doesn't have the absolute greatest sound, but it's perfectly listenable.
The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History https://www.nuclearmuseum.org
Shaun, Dropping the Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRTgtpC-Go
Abigail Shrier Twitter thread about gender identity paperwork. https://twitter.com/AbigailShrier/status/1431045305592545280
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Daniel and Jack return with a bumper episode. We start with Steven Crowder's declaration of hostilities against Shapiro and his organisation The Daily Wire, and from there we move through the various reactions on the far Right, from Elijah Schaffer to John Doyle to Isabelle Riley Moody to Nick Fuentes, and more. This episode is less about the Crowder vs. Shapiro spat and more about how it opens a window into the rampant and increasingly mainstreamed antisemitism on the Right.
This episode comes with heavy content warnings. Daniel has done a ton of research and come back with a panoply of sniggering horrors. Jack has bleeped out the r-slurs and f-slurs. But still, take care.
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Sydney Watson complaint against The Blaze
Patriot J Twitter thread regarding Sydney Watson lawsuit
Killstream on Sydney Watson lawsuit
Steven Crowder, I'm Leaving the Blaze (December 15, 2022)
Steven Crowder, It's Time To Stop (January 17, 2023)
The Daily Wire Announces ‘Jeremy’s Razors’ Campaign as Part of Feud with Harry’s Razors
“ On Tuesday, March 22, Jeremy Boreing, co-founder, co-CEO and self-described “god-king” of the conservative website The Daily Wire, announced the launch of Jeremy’s Razors, part of a campaign against Harry’s razors. Harry’s is a popular men’s grooming company that pulled advertising from The Daily Wire one year ago after receiving a complaint on Twitter that some of The Daily Wire’s podcast hosts had engaged in homophobic speech.
Jeremy’s Razors is the culmination of an “I Hate Harry’s” campaign announced last week by Boreing and Ben Shapiro, a conservative media figure and editor emeritus at The Daily Wire.”
Jeremy Boering, Our Offer to Steven Crowder (January 18, 2023)
Jet Lag The Game Season Three Playlist
Slightly Offensive, CONNED?! Daily Wire RESPONDS To Crowder in BIZARRE 52 min RANT
Nicholas J. Fuentes DEATH CON 2: Crowder's MUG CLUB Declares TOTAL WAR Against Jewish Media | America First Ep. 1111
John Doyle goes off on AF and NICK FUENTES. Total War IMMINENT????? (January 9, 2022)
I'm Doing Great, Do LGBT Kids EXIST? (January 24, 2023)
Matt Bernstein tells us what his handle means
Isabella Reilly, SATANIC Feminist Says "Dead Men Can't RAPE"?? WTF
Jimmy Dore's 'Very Pro-Employer' Work Contracts (substack.com)
A bitesize bonus in which Jack chats with Amanda Moore - journalist and former undercover infiltrator of MAGA! - about the recent Rage Against the War Machine rally... actually a rally in support of Putin and Russian imperialism. Amanda attended - for research purposes obviously - and found herself amidst Jimmy Dore and Matthew Heimbach, Tulsi Gabbard and Caleb Maupin, the Larouchites, the Grayzoners, loads of nazis and a parade of Russian flags.
Content Warnings
Show Notes:
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Amanda on Twitter
Amanda's report on the rally
Amanda's Linktree
Daniel and Jack had an impromptu chat one night, accidentally recorded it, and decided that - a few edits later - it would stand up as a bonus episode. We hope you enjoy it. If you do, we might do more bonus episodes without a set topic, just us shooting the breeze.
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To tide you over while we prepare more new content for you, here's an old bonus episode. Once for backers only, now it's yours for free.
We talk about 2009's In The Loop, satire of the political machinations leading up to the invasion of Iraq, written/directed by Armando Iannucci (et al) and starring Peter Capaldi as Not Alistair Campbell.
Content Warnings, especially for embarrassing old geezer reminiscing.
Originally recorded August 2021.
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In this backer-only bonus ep, Daniel finally gets to talk about Real Genius (1985), which Jack has only just seen...
Real Genius (1985) - IMDb
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A real treat episode: Jack chats with special guest Matthew Remski of the excellent Conspirituality podcast ("dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis".)
The conversation ranges over Teal Swan and influencers like her, the Anti-Wokeness of the conspiritualist milieu, the Satantic Panic and its relationship to QAnon, the fascists and their idea of 'after the revolution', and the neoliberal roots of our current cultural predicament.
Content Warnings!
Matthew and Conspirituality
matthew remski (@matthewremski) / Twitter
Conspirituality
Conspirituality on Apple Podcasts
IDSG:
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In this free public bonus episode, stepping sideways off our usual beat, Jack plays host to extra special guest Marisa Kabas - writer, reporter, MSNBC columnist, and author of The Daily Santos at her journal The Handbasket - and chats with her about the object of their mutual obsession: one-man pile-up, dumpster-fire, and lie-factory, Rep. George Santos (NY-R) IF THAT EVEN IS HIS NAME!!!
Content Warnings
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Episode Notes:
Marisa Kabas on Twitter: Marisa Kabas (@MarisaKabas) / Twitter
Marisa's journal The Handbasket, including The Daily Santos: The Handbasket | Marisa Kabas | Substack
(Seriously good stuff: thorough and witty!)
Our quest to talk about every naff blokey movie from the 80s and 90s continues with this classic bit of homoerotic copaganda murder porn starring Danny Glover and a Nazi.
Lethal Weapon - Wikipedia
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A real treat this time, as Daniel and Jack are joined by special guest Sophie from Mars to talk about Caleb Maupin and the wider 'Conspiracy Left', i.e. those left-wingers (or pseudo left-wingers) who style themselves anti-imperialists (etc) and who embrace every bad cause from Putin/Assad-apologia to transphobia to conspiracist antisemitism.
Sophie knows and understands this subject backwards and forwards. Her YouTube documentary video Conspiracy on the Left was an instant classic when it was released earlier this year, and she has lots of other videos in which (with others) she goes over Maupin's cultic conferences, his reactionary politics, his paranoid grudges, and his weird and patronising fascist screeds disguised as despatches from the new Lenin.
A great chat about an important issue for the left to deal with. And there is also, you will be unsurprised to learn, some laughing at the cringe of it all.
Show Notes:
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Annika on Twitter: @ardenthistorian
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Episode Notes:
Sophie from Mars on YouTube Sophie from Mars - YouTube
Sophie from Mars on Twitter Sophie 💅 From 💅 Mars (@sophie_frm_mars) / Twitter
Conspiracy on the Left https://youtu.be/aZyIjBxxpTY
Reading Caleb Maupin's "Satan At The Fountainhead" with Thoughtslime, We're In Hell & That Jess - YouTube
Reading Caleb Maupin's Breadtube Serves Imperialism ft. That Jess & ThoughtSlime - YouTube
Caleb Maupin exposed for abuses and cult manipulation tactcs - YouTube
Pinko & Mildred watch Caleb Maupin addressing the allegations - YouTube
Jack welcomes special guest Annika Brockschmidt to the show. Annika specialises in covering the far-right and tells Jack all about the recent German government swoop on those in the Reichsbürger movement who were planning 'Day X', a storming of the Bundestag and a takeover of the state. We go over the context of the far-right in Germany, the composition and ideology of the Reichsbürgers, the coup plans, the structure of the conspiracy, the reaction in Germany, the connections with QAnon and the Sovereign Citizens, the context of 'Nuremberg 2.0' and the various strands of paranoid pandemic politics, etc. A really fascinating episode, thanks to Annika's deep knowledge.
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In this 'DVD extra', we are joined by our friend, super knowledgeable and insightful pop culture writer Holly B, who takes us sad old deeply-uncool men on a journey through the weird world and arcane lore of the artist formerly known as Kanye West and now known as "that guy who looooooves Hitler". I don't know that we end up wiser exactly... but we certainly end up better informed and massively entertained. Or at least we would be entertained if everything about this weren't so awful.
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My old solo show, the Shabcast, on which Holly spent five episodes explaining Final Fantasy VII to me. Pex Lives: A Doctor Who Podcast (Shabcast) (libsyn.com)
What happens when one of the most famous recording artists in the world has a full divorced-dad-crisis and plummets into the abyss he's been dangling over for ages, the abyss of far-right, antisemitic, pro-Nazi conspiracy theories? Well, now we know, because we've all been watching Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West) cart Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos around with him like his new crew of homies and hype men as he dines with Trump, does interviews with Tim Pool and Alex Jones, and chats with Gavin McInnes (founder of the Proud Boys) in what looks like a torture basement from cheap kink porn, all the while loudly declaring that Hitler did nothing wrong and the Jews are out to get him.
This episode focuses less on Ye himself and more on the Right's varied reactions to his odyssey of enthusiastic newly-converted-nazi antics. We check in with, amongst others, Nick Fuentes himself, Matt Walsh, and Elijah Schaffer.
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To tide you over until we have some new content for you, here's our most recent bonus episode, originally released 28th September for Patreon backers only.
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Eiynah's GoFundMe: Fundraiser by Eiynah Nicemangos : Donate to help Eiynah (gofundme.com)
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In an episode recorded before Daryl Brooks was convicted on all counts, Daniel tells Jack all about the disgusting ways in which the National Justice Party has exploited his crimes, and other victims of other crimes. Coming to your town if you should be unlucky enough to suffer local crime committed by someone who happens to not be white.
Content Warnings. Obviously.
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Episode Notes to follow.
In an episode recorded before Daryl Brooks was convicted on all counts, Daniel tells Jack all about the disgusting ways in which the National Justice Party has exploited his crimes, and other victims of other crimes. Coming to your town if you should be unlucky enough to suffer local crime committed by someone who happens to not be white.
Content Warnings. Obviously.
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At the start of the month, Daniel and Jack co-hosted a Twitter Space hangout with their friend, IDW-gadlfy podcaster Eiynah Mohammed-Smith (@NiceMangos). We had a fun chat about all the silliness that right-wingers had been up to (Jordan weeping over incels to Piers Morgan, Matt Walsh freaking out over crystal flutes, Graham Linehan starting to doubt vaccines and climate change, Peter Thiel's 'Right Stuff' dating app, mermaids of colour, etc) and then took some questions from listeners. Teddy Wilson (@reportbywilson), journalist and researcher and publisher of Radical Reports (@radicalreports) joined us too. Fun start, more serious back half; altogether a fun show that we decided to put up for everyone here.
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At the start of the month, Daniel and Jack co-hosted a Twitter Space hangout with their friend, IDW-gadlfy podcaster Eiynah Mohammed-Smith (@NiceMangos). We had a fun chat about all the silliness that right-wingers had been up to (Jordan weeping over incels to Piers Morgan, Matt Walsh freaking out over crystal flutes, Graham Linehan starting to doubt vaccines and climate change, Peter Thiel's 'Right Stuff' dating app, mermaids of colour, etc) and then took some questions from listeners. Teddy Wilson (@reportbywilson), journalist and researcher and publisher of Radical Reports (@radicalreports) joined us too. Fun start, more serious back half; altogether a fun show that we decided to put up for everyone here.
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Special guest Rob from The Right Podcast (@TheRightPodcast) returns to tell Jack all about Stewart Rhodes and The Oath Keepers - seen like a rash all over American fascist activity from Ferguson to January 6th - with special attention to their deep roots and influences in the Tea Party explosion of the Obama era, the John Birch Society tradition, the Ron Paul Revolution, the Bundy saga, Waco and Ruby Ridge, and the US far-right tradition generally.
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The Right Podcast on YouTube
The Right Podcast on audio
Rob's Twitter
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In case you hadn't heard, an old lady died and her unpleasant elderly son became her. Or something? Anyway, we puzzle it out in this bonus episode.
I'm still trying to figure out who destroyed a ring, personally.
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With apologies for our long absence (we've both had non-Covid health problems) and assurances of our continued commitment to the show, here is a new episode in which Daniel chats with brilliant special guest Amanda Rogers (@MsEntropy on Twitter) about terrible Tom Metzger, his importance to the far-right movement, his continued relevance, and the dangerous way his legacy is often misunderstood and underestimated.
Jack will be back soon with another chat with Rob from @TheRightPodcast about Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers.
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Amanda Rogers on Twitter: @MsEntropy
Amanda's Patreon: Ms Entropy is creating commentary and analysis on media, culture, politics and Qat | Patreon
Our previous Tom Metzger episodes:
I Don't Speak German: 75: Tom Metzger, Part 1 (libsyn.com)
I Don't Speak German: 79: Tom Metzger Part 2 & The Origins of Online Hate (libsyn.com)
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With apologies for our long absence (we've both had non-Covid health problems) and assurances of our continued commitment to the show, here is a new episode in which Daniel chats with brilliant special guest Amanda Rogers (@MsEntropy on Twitter) about terrible Tom Metzger, his importance to the far-right movement, his continued relevance, and the dangerous way his legacy is often misunderstood and underestimated.
Jack will be back soon with another chat with Rob from @TheRightPodcast about Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers.
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Amanda Rogers on Twitter: @MsEntropy
Amanda's Patreon: Ms Entropy is creating commentary and analysis on media, culture, politics and Qat | Patreon
Our previous Tom Metzger episodes:
I Don't Speak German: 75: Tom Metzger, Part 1 (libsyn.com)
I Don't Speak German: 79: Tom Metzger Part 2 & The Origins of Online Hate (libsyn.com)
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We've been away but now we have returned and your ears will be sorry... largely because we're back with a soft-reboot episode in which we go back to our roots, i.e. the proper nazis... specifically, the cesspit that is the TRS podcast.
In this show we take you behind the paywall and present a catalogue of hideousness, focusing on TRS co-host Jesse Dunstan (AKA Sven) and his various thoughts on ethic cleansing ('peaceful', of course), how to react properly to mass shootings by genocidal racists (don't deny, celebrate), the Holocaust (guess what he thinks), and why certain people should be forced to justify their right to exist.
In the process, Dunstan is discovered mirroring the recorded words of one Heinrich Himmler (several times), Daniel speaks earnestly about his recent difficulties, and Jack gets more familiar with the appearance of the n-word as a waveform than he ever wanted or expected to.
It's a long one. Bits of it are very grim. But we think it might be one you'll remember.
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Episode Notes:
"Did We Win?", an analysis of Unite the Right five years out by friend of the show Emily Gorcenski.
IDSG Episode 9, Mike Enoch and The Daily Shoah
IDSG Episode 52, Genocide and The Right Stuff
Angry White Men, "Pool Party's Closed: A Timeline of the Right Stuff's Meltdown"
Johnny Monoxide at the SPLC
Chip Rowe, The Highlands Current, "The Extremist Next Door"
Himmler Speech in Posen (Poland) in October 4, 1943.
- I am talking about the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people.
- It is one of those things that is easily said. “The Jewish people is being exterminated,” every Party member will tell you “perfectly clear, it’s part of our plans, we’re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, a small matter.” And then along they all come, all the 80 million upright Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. They say: all the others are swine, but here is a first-class Jew. And . . . none of them has seen it, has endured it. Most of you will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when 500 are there or when there are 1000. And . . . to have seen this through and—with the exception of human weakness—to have remained decent, has made us hard and is a page of glory never mentioned and never to be mentioned. Because we know how difficult things would be, if today in every city during the bomb attacks, the burdens of war and privations, we still had Jews as secret saboteurs, agitators and instigators. We would probably be at the same stage as 16/17, if the Jews still resided in the body of the German people.
End note:
- We have taken away the riches that they had, and . . . I have given strict order, which Obergruppenführer Pohl has carried out, we have delivered these riches to the Reich, to the State. We have taken nothing from them for ourselves. A few, who have offended against this, will be judged in accordance with an order, that I gave at the beginning: he who takes even one Mark of this is a dead man. A number of SS men have offended against this order. They are very few, and they will be dead men WITHOUT MERCY! We have the moral right, we had the duty to our people, to kill this people who would kill us. We however do not have the right to enrich ourselves with even one fur, with one Mark, with one cigarette, with one watch, with anything. That we do not have. Because we don’t want, at the end of all this, to get sick and die from the same bacillus that we have exterminated. I will never see it happen that even one . . . bit of putrefaction comes in contact with us, or takes root in us. On the contrary, where it might try to take root, we will burn it out together. But altogether we can say: We have carried out this most difficult task for the love of our people. And we have suffered no defect within us, in our soul, in our character.
Posen speech (with English translation) on YouTube
Holocaust Controversies, Index of Published Evidence on Mass Extermination in Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau
In this episode, Jack is joined by special guest Rob from The Right Podcast, creator of intimidatingly detailed yet somehow also accessible and enjoyable shows covering subjects from US domestic right-wing extremism to Russian right-wing extremism, Russia and Ukraine, National Bolshevism, etc.
We have a chat about the populist US 'People's Party' - presidential candidate: Jimmy Dore - and their composition, actual politics, and internal scandals, including their recent disgraceful tweet thread of rape apologia.
The conversation ranges over Dore and Caleb Maupin (and his tendency) to Putin and Russia, Greenwald, the 'alt-imperialist' left, the theories of Dugin and their influence, and misinformation, including Oliver Stone's disinfo 'documentary Ukraine on Fire.
Rob's channel and videos come highly recommended.
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The Right Podcast on YouTube
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Rob's Twitter
We here at IDSG have lots of great stuff in the pipeline... but the pipeline is taking a little longer to construct than we'd like. So here is a bonus episode - originally published in June last year and previously available only to Patreon backers - featuring us in conversation with our old friend, podcasting legend James Murphy, about Grant Naylor's novel Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, based on the TV series.
Plus access to all other bonus episodes.
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James podcast (with Kevin Burns), Pex Lives: https://pexlives.libsyn.com/webpage
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers https://www.amazon.com/Red-Dwarf-Infinity-Welcomes-Careful/dp/0451452011
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers https://ebooks.darknetproxy.com/index.php?page=13&id=49448&db=0
Red Dwarf Season One Episode One https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hjsak
Many other episodes also available.
Red Dwarf Season One https://www.amazon.com/Red-Dwarf-Season-1/dp/B00412BX5E
Red Dwarf fansite https://www.ganymede.tv/
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This time we talk about Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut's classic satire of war and American civilisation (but I repeat myself), and the disappointing movie version.
Slaughterhouse-Five - Wikipedia
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So, Daniel and Jack recorded a bonus episode on 1998's Primary Colors (the Mike Nichols movie, written by Elaine May, starring John Travolta and Emma Thompson, based on the originally Anonymous roman-à-clef about the 1992 Bill Clinton primary campaign) for their Patreon contributors... and, as the discussion ranged widely, it somehow turned into something they wanted to release on the main feed.
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This time Daniel and Jack welcome special guest José, brilliant YouTube essayist, for a chat about Elijah Schaffer and José's recent video about him and the US Christian Right. We also sorely try the good man's patience with much frivolity and digression. Things get giggly when we start talking about Glen Beck's novels. A thoroughly good time, this one... before we begin our descent back into hell next time...
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José on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoseNotAJay
José on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Jos%C3%A9Tube
José's excellent video about Elijah Schaffer etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4UkGXZyTqc
One of José's videos about Dave Rubin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwyucS8DiiQ
José's video about Glen Beck's The Overton Window: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=100XL1eON6Y
José's video about Glen Beck's Jesus / Santa crossover novel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICY3npmtQeg
José's video about Jimmy Dore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwsr1PDpb2g&t=1814s
José's video about Married with Children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4tmyGvqNJk&t=4s
There are loads more great videos from José, covering Tucker Carlson, Lauren Southern, Steven Crowder, Tim Pool, etc etc etc...
We haven't given you, our non-paying listeners, a bonus episode since Christmas, so have a summer present. It's our bonus episode - originally for Patreon backers only - on 2004's Downfall, the acclaimed German movie (good thing there are subtitles because... y'know) about the last days of Hitler and his assorted hangers-on in the bunker as the Red Army grind their way into Berlin. Spoiler: he shoots himself.
It's a complex, flawed, fascinating movie, and both of your hosts have complicated feelings about it.
Downfall (2004 film) - Wikipedia
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This time, Daniel and Jack talk about Uvalde, Buffalo, the cops, guns, and the discourse.
This episode is respectfully dedicated to the victims of these crimes and their families.
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Shannon Foley Martinez Patreon: Shannon Foley Martinez is creating a different tomorrow | Patreon
Last Week Tonight: LastWeekTonight - YouTube
Michael Hobbes on Depp vs. Heard:
Cancel Me, Daddy: Deep Depp-ception (ft. Michael Hobbes) on Apple Podcasts
The bleak spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial (readthepresentage.com)
Buffalo News, Authorities investigating if retired federal agent knew of Buffalo mass shooting plans in advance
- “These were like-minded people who used this chat group to talk about their shared interests in racial hatred, replacement theory and hatred of anyone who is Jewish, a person of color or not of European ancestry,” said one of the two law enforcement officials with close knowledge of the investigation. “What is especially upsetting is that these six people received advanced notice of the Buffalo shooting, about 30 minutes before it happened.
- “The FBI has verified that none of these people called law enforcement to warn them about the shooting. The FBI database shows no advance tips from anyone that this shooting was about to happen.”
- Agents from the FBI are in the process of tracking down and interviewing the six people, including the retired agent, and attempting to determine if any of them should be charged as accomplices, the two sources with close knowledge of the probe told The Buffalo News.
4plebs archive on Buffalo shooter and "Sandman"
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/379701704
5-4 podcast on Castle Rock v. Gonzalez.
- 01:47 Peter: Today's case is Castle Rock v. Gonzales, a case that features two of my least favorite things in the world, procedural technicalities and the brutal murder of innocent children.
- [laughter]
- 02:01 Michael: In no particular order are those two things, yeah.
- 02:06 Peter: This case is, I think maybe the most tragic and poignant in a long line of cases in the Supreme Court and in other courts that have allowed police officers and police departments to escape any legal responsibility, even in cases where their actions are grossly negligent and lead directly to the loss of human life.
- 02:25 Michael: Right.
- 02:25 Peter: The issue here, simplifying a little bit, is whether the police are liable under the 14th Amendment's, Due Process Clause, when they don't even attempt to enforce a restraining order involving a rather insane husband, shall we say?
- 02:40 Michael: Right.
- 02:42 Peter: We'll get into the semantics, but the real question is this, I think, "Do the police owe the public, anything at all?" [chuckle] And the Court thinks probably not.
Ben Collins tweet about toothaches and Peyton Gendron.
Buffalo News, Authorities investigating if retired federal agent knew of Buffalo mass shooting plans in advance
- “These were like-minded people who used this chat group to talk about their shared interests in racial hatred, replacement theory and hatred of anyone who is Jewish, a person of color or not of European ancestry,” said one of the two law enforcement officials with close knowledge of the investigation. “What is especially upsetting is that these six people received advanced notice of the Buffalo shooting, about 30 minutes before it happened.
- “The FBI has verified that none of these people called law enforcement to warn them about the shooting. The FBI database shows no advance tips from anyone that this shooting was about to happen.”
- Agents from the FBI are in the process of tracking down and interviewing the six people, including the retired agent, and attempting to determine if any of them should be charged as accomplices, the two sources with close knowledge of the probe told The Buffalo News.
4plebs archive on Buffalo shooter and "Sandman"
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/379701704
5-4 podcast on Castle Rock v. Gonzalez.
- 01:47 Peter: Today's case is Castle Rock v. Gonzales, a case that features two of my least favorite things in the world, procedural technicalities and the brutal murder of innocent children.
- [laughter]
- 02:01 Michael: In no particular order are those two things, yeah.
- 02:06 Peter: This case is, I think maybe the most tragic and poignant in a long line of cases in the Supreme Court and in other courts that have allowed police officers and police departments to escape any legal responsibility, even in cases where their actions are grossly negligent and lead directly to the loss of human life.
- 02:25 Michael: Right.
- 02:25 Peter: The issue here, simplifying a little bit, is whether the police are liable under the 14th Amendment's, Due Process Clause, when they don't even attempt to enforce a restraining order involving a rather insane husband, shall we say?
- 02:40 Michael: Right.
- 02:42 Peter: We'll get into the semantics, but the real question is this, I think, "Do the police owe the public, anything at all?" [chuckle] And the Court thinks probably not.
Ben Collins tweet about toothaches and Peyton Gendron.
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This time we talk about The Fugitive (1993).
The Fugitive (1993 film) - Wikipedia
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In a depressing but necessary News Roundup episode, we cover the recent apparent career problems of Elijah Schaffer, the weird implosion of Nick Fuentes' America First Foundation, and... and here comes the depressing part... the recent nazi massacre in Buffalo, New York.
This episode is respectfully dedicated to the victims of this crime.
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Sidney Watson tweet about leaving You Are Here
- "I left the show. There were a multitude of reasons for doing so. Ultimately, the professional situation morphed into something untenable. Twoards the end, I was extremely unhappy. Like I mentioned before, I was pouring from an empty cup and while I tried to be professional and happy for you all on air, it wasn't sustainable."
Elijah Schaffer tweet regarding being "professionally dumped."
Elijah Schaffer tweet re: Mormons going to hell.
Kino Casino with Jaden McNeil and Simon Dickerman on leaving America First
Nick Martin thread on the collapse of America First.
IREHR, 27FEB2020 "An Affinity for Bigotry: Jaden McNeil of America First Students"
The Daily Beast, Supermarket Shooting Suspect Linked to Online Hatred
Unicorn Riot article on suspect's online ties.
Buffalo shooter targeted Black neighborhood, officials say
Opening of the manifesto:
What you need to know
- If there’s one thing I want you to get from these writings, it’s that White birth rates must
change. Everyday the White population becomes fewer in number. To maintain a population the
people must achieve a birth rate that reaches replacement fertility levels, in the western world
that is about 2.06 births per woman."
Closing of the manifesto:
- As for me, my time has come. I cannot guarantee my success. All I know is the certainty
of my will and the necessity of my cause. Live or die, know I did it all for you; my friends, my
family, my people, my culture, my race. - Goodbye, God bless you all and I hope to see you in Valhalla.
From us to the shooter: Fuck you. There is no place in Valhalla for you.
Jack continues to tell an increasingly (and understandably) resentful Daniel all about insidious YouTube ‘comedian’ and political commentator Jimmy Dore, detailing his ‘leftist’ or ‘progressive’ version of reactionary politics via accounts of his slimy transphobic coverage of the Lia Thomas story (leading to a bizarre open challenge to all trans man basketball players), his frothingly misogynistic coverage of Taylor Lorenz’ interview about the harassment she faces, and his insane conversation with deeply silly and unpleasant Stalinist Caleb Maupin, in which they free associate (based on a ridiculous Grayzone article) about ‘Breadtube’ being run by the CIA. Along the way, it becomes very clear to see that their version of socialism is the national kind. Also features a discussion about Libs of Tik Tok.
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Jimmy Dore:
Jimmy Dore at RationalWiki https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dore
Jimmy Dore at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dore
The Jimmy Dore Show https://www.youtube.com/c/thejimmydoreshow
Videos:
Trans Swimmer Destroying Competition and Setting Records, May 20th 22 Trans Swimmer Destroying Competition And Setting Records - YouTube
Snowflake Journo Taylor Lorenz cries “victim” to silence critics - April 3rd Snowflake Journo Taylor Lorenz Cries “Victim” To Silence Critics - YouTube
Left-Wing YouTubers Co-opted By Security State, Mar 30 Left-Wing YouTubers Co-opted By Security State - YouTube
Rod Webber's raw footage from Jimmy Dore interview Jimmy Dore - Raw footage from interview - YouTube
On Lia Thomas:
Members of Penn swim team say Lia Thomas shouldn’t compete - Sports Illustrated
Why I'm Proud to Support Trans Athletes like Lia Thomas | Opinion (newsweek.com)
Lia Thomas interview: The story of the Penn swimmer at the heart of the transgender athlete debate - Sports Illustrated
Trans swimmer Lia Thomas bows out of college sports amid continued hate (pinknews.co.uk)
Emily Kreps at Broad & Liberty You searched for emily kreps - Broad + Liberty (broadandliberty.com)
RT article on Thomas feat. Kreps and Forstater Transgender swimmer breaks record as women ‘race for second’ — RT Sport News
Outkick.com
Outkick covers Taylor Lorenz You searched for lorenz – OutKick
Details about Outkick from Media Bias / Fact Check OutKick Bias Rating - Media Bias/Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com)
Taylor Lorenz, harassment, etc
WaPo report by Lorenz on Libs of TikTok Libs of TikTok has become central to right wing politics - The Washington Post
Lorenz at Daily Beast on Instagram influencers hiding Pamela Geller connection The Instagram Stars Hiding Their Famous, Muslim-Hating Mom, Pamela Geller (thedailybeast.com)
Rolling Stone covers Lorenz / Libs of Tik Tok / Conservative backlash Conservatives Enraged Taylor Lorenz Wrote About Libs Of TikTok - Rolling Stone
Original MSNBC report Journalists Face Online Harassment - YouTube
Grayzone / Maupin / CIA conspiracy theory
Original Grayzone article about Abigail Thorn etc Leaked files expose Syria psyops veteran astroturfing BreadTube star to counter Covid restriction critics - The Grayzone
Fred Hampton and the Young Patriots The Panthers and the Patriots (jacobinmag.com)
And finally...
Bellingcat: Pro-Assad Lobby Group Rewards Bloggers On Both The Left And The Right, Sep 19 Pro-Assad Lobby Group Rewards Bloggers On Both The Left And The Right - bellingcat
So there’s this jagoff comedian making videos in his garage… I mean, this millionaire Hollywood guy running his own media venture, employing writers and producers… who is persecuted… I mean, criticised… for bravely standing up to the establishment and the corporations and American imperialism… I mean, for being a reactionary, and platforming fascists, and doing interviews on fascist TV with America’s most prominent fascist, and spinning conspiracy theories, and engaging in stealth antivaxx during a deadly pandemic that he downplays and about which he spreads misinformation, and smearing people who point out that he’s full of shit, and making covert apologias for Trumpism, and sneakily implying that brutal, murderous, authoritarian, imperialist dictators like Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad are actually not that bad…
Content Warnings apply, not least for clips of very shit comedy.
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Jimmy Dore:
Jimmy Dore at RationalWiki https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dore
Jimmy Dore at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dore
The Jimmy Dore Show https://www.youtube.com/c/thejimmydoreshow
The Dirt: Political Commentator Jimmy Dore Buys Rambling L.A. Compound Jimmy Dore Bought a Charming Los Angeles House – DIRT
(1)Jimmy Dore on Twitter: "I interviewed a member of the Boggaloo Boys, I was completely floored when he said he is: -Pro LGBTQ -Pro Black Lives Matter -Anti Police Brutality -Anti Racism -Anti ICE -Anti War WTF?!?! Radicalized Michigan Anarchist Seeks Unity With The Left. https://t.co/nTXQ3gCEg4" / Twitter
WSWS: YouTube personality Jimmy Dore Promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy YouTube personality Jimmy Dore promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy - World Socialist Web Site (wsws.org)
(1)Matthew Dimitri 🐍🧪 on Twitter: "Jimmy Dore despairs that The Daily Beast reported on the OANN reporter who wrote the false report that caused Trump's conspiracy theory tweet is a Russian national who also writes for the Kremlin propaganda outlet, Sputnik: "I don't even know what to say. We are so fucked." https://t.co/YHx5fsxQkE" / Twitter
Re Ana Kasperian allegations (1) Matthew Dimitri 🐍🧪 on Twitter: "Jimmy Dore provides evidence that he made inappropriate, humiliating comments about Ana Kasparian at TYT. "I wrote her a card saying sorry... that was inappropriate. You don't have to worry about that happening again. I won't comment on your clothes anymore." https://t.co/rZgMl4sADl" / Twitter
Jimmy vids (or vids featuring Jimmy) we clip / talk about:
ANOTHER Bogus Fact Check of Jimmy Dore DEBUNKED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g9w7lGD31o&t=3s
Yes, Ukraine DOES Have Biolabs – Admits US Government. w/Glenn Greenwald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV8S8NN7yfU
Total Deaths From COVID MUCH LOWER Than Reported https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O7ugdwv3iY
One of Jimmy’s many cosy chats with America’s favourite fascist broadcaster Comedian tells Tucker Carlson his take on identity politics - YouTube
Videos about Jimmy:
Shaun’s video: Jimmy Dore’s Anti-Vaccine Lies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wRDLf54Scs
José: The Jimmy Dore Show, What Bad Leftwing Critique Looks Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwsr1PDpb2g&t=445s
The Majority Report on Jimmy Dore The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder - YouTube
The Serfs on Jimmy Dore The Serf Times - YouTube
Sophie From Mars: Conspiracy on the Left Conspiracy on the Left | Sophie from Mars - YouTube
(Also mentioned: LonerBox: Russell Brand’s Despicable Coverage of Ukraine Russell Brand's Despicable Coverage of Ukraine - YouTube)
Regarding Jimmy’s videos:
Politifact: No, death totals from COVID-19 in England have not been overstated PolitiFact | No, death totals from COVID-19 in England have not been overstated
Regarding Ukraine’s Biolabs:
Victoria Nuland’s Senate testimony (exchange with Marco Rubio) Ukraine Has Biological Research Facilities, Concerned Russian Forces May Seek To Gain Control: US - YouTube
Glenn Greenwald’s Substack article re Ukraine Biolabs and Fact Checkers https://greenwald.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological?s=r
QAnon Anonymous Ep183: Ukraine, Bioweapons & Adrenochrome Stream Episode 183: Ukraine, Bioweapons & Adrenochrome by QAnon Anonymous | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald biolabs questions have simple answers. (slate.com)
(1) PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 on Twitter: "#USBiolabs has been trending. The account claiming that Putin may have attacked US biolabs in Ukraine, presumably in response to covid conspiracies, is a follower of Q, has called for the execution of police, media, officials, and doctors, and has pushed past racist rhetoric. https://t.co/RbmOKA8MyP" / Twitter
PolitiFact | There are no US-run biolabs in Ukraine, contrary to social media posts
Fact check: Claim of 'US biolabs' in Ukraine is disinformation (usatoday.com)
Ukraine war: Fact-checking Russia's biological weapons claims - BBC News
Fact-checking Russian claims of US labs making lethal biological weapons in Ukraine (telegraph.co.uk)
PolitiFact | China repeats false claim that U.S has biolabs in Ukraine
Fact Check: There Are NO US-Run Bioweapons Laboratories In Ukraine | Lead Stories
Fact Check: Russia DID NOT 'Find Over 30 Biological Labs' In Ukraine 'Formed By The Pentagon' | Lead Stories
Fact Check: No, There Are No U.S.-Funded Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine (thedispatch.com)
Russian media spreading disinformation about US bioweapons as troops mass near Ukraine - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (thebulletin.org)
Ukraine, US Biolabs, and an Ongoing Russian Disinformation Campaign | Snopes.com
What are Russia’s biological weapons claims and what’s actually happening? | United Nations | The Guardian
UN says not aware of biological weapons programme in Ukraine | United Nations News | Al Jazeera
WHO says it advised Ukraine to destroy pathogens in health labs | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/03/13/tulsi-gabbard-latest-to-push-russian-backed-conspiracy-about-us-backed-biological-labs-in-ukraine/?sh=c4d1f925522d
Russia Is Lying About Evidence of Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine, Russian Biologists Say (theintercept.com)
Regarding Ukraine’s 2014 Euromaidan Revolution:
Dissent Magazine: A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-letter-to-the-western-left-from-kyiv
N+1: Ukraine, Putin, and the West https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/the-intellectual-situation/ukraine-putin-and-the-west/
CrimethInc. : War and Anarchists: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives in Ukraine
Remembering Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity | openDemocracy
Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution Was Not a ‘Coup’ (polygraph.info)
Good Socialist Takes on Russia invasion of Ukraine:
Marxist-Humanist Initiative Editorial: Ukraine Fights for National Self-Determination Against Russian Imperialism https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/mhi-radio-free-humanity
Radio Free Humanity Ep64 Ukraine Fights for National Self-Determination Against Russian Imperialism Episode 64: Ukraine Fights for National Self-Determination Against Russian Imperialism – Marxist-Humanist Initiative (marxisthumanistinitiative.org)
Radio Free Humanity Ep64 Rohini Hensman on Ukraine’s Protracted Struggle for National Liberation Episode 65: Rohini Hensman on Ukraine’s Protracted Struggle for National Liberation – Marxist-Humanist Initiative (marxisthumanistinitiative.org)
The Wire: Rohini Hensman: Ukraine’s Protracted Struggle for National Liberation (thewire.in)
Workers’ Liberty:
Unite the Left to defend Ukraine https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2022-03-08/unite-left-defend-ukraine
Stop the War? Yes, but with victory for Ukraine! https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2022-03-15/stop-war-yes-victory-ukraine
Putin is not a victim of NATO https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2022-03-15/putin-not-victim-nato
The Antifada: War is a Defeat for All of Us w/ Alex Gendler https://podbay.fm/p/the-antifada/e/1646218800
Neil Abrams tweet threads on Grayzone conspiracy theorising to excuse Russia for atrocities in Ukraine:
(1) Neil Abrams on Twitter: "OK, so @MaxBlumenthal of @TheGrayzoneNews recently published an article claiming that Russia’s bombing of a Mariupol theater was actually a false-flag operation carried out by Ukraine’s Azov Battalion. Reader, this is one dishonest article, and I’m about to show you why. Thread:" / Twitter
(1) Neil Abrams on Twitter: "Folks, @TheGrayzone’s back with another flagrantly dishonest article claiming that Russian atrocities—this time in Mariupol and Bucha—were false-flags by Ukraine. Their latest journalistic farce further exposes them as purveyors of unvarnished propaganda. Let’s dig in." / Twitter
Behind the Bastards on Paul Manafort in Ukraine:
https://podbay.fm/p/behind-the-bastards/e/1533031200
https://podbay.fm/p/behind-the-bastards/e/1533204000
Misc:
BBC accidentally forgets to help the Establishment cover-up America’s coup in Ukraine by publishing transcript of leaked Nuland/Pyatt phone call Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call - BBC News
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin/putin-repeats-long-running-claim-genocide-ukraine/
https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/mar/11/russia-china-and-tucker-carlson-lack-evidence-ukra/
Tucker Carlson’s history of pro-Kremlin, anti-Ukraine propaganda | Media Matters for America
How Russian Disinformation Goes From the Kremlin to QAnon to Fox News (thedailybeast.com)
Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson – Mother Jones
https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/news/disinformation-about-current-russia-ukraine-conflict-seven-myths-debunked-2022-01-24_en
https://theconversation.com/putins-claims-that-ukraine-is-committing-genocide-are-baseless-but-not-unprecedented-177511
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60477712
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-russia-falsely-blames-ukraine-for-starting-war/a-60999948
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/25/2076638/-Ukraine-would-not-be-on-the-brink-of-invasion-were-it-not-for-Paul-Manafort-and-Donald-Trump
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-s-got-a-real-problem-with-far-right-violence-and-no-rt-didn-t-write-this-headline/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin-ukraine-attack-antisemitism-denazify
Putin’s Assault on Ukraine and the Nonproliferation Regime | Arms Control Association
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Orwell, Notes on Nationalism: Notes on Nationalism | The Orwell Foundation
“When one sees the slavish or boastful rubbish that is written about Stalin, the Red army, etc. by fairly intelligent and sensitive people, one realizes that this is only possible because some kind of dislocation has taken place. In societies such as ours, it is unusual for anyone describable as an intellectual to feel a very deep attachment to his own country. Public opinion – that is, the section of public opinion of which he as an intellectual is aware – will not allow him to do so. Most of the people surrounding him are sceptical and disaffected, and he may adopt the same attitude from imitativeness or sheer cowardice: in that case he will have abandoned the form of nationalism that lies nearest to hand without getting any closer to a genuinely internationalist outlook. He still feels the need for a Fatherland, and it is natural to look for one somewhere abroad. Having found it, he can wallow unrestrainedly in exactly those emotions from which he believes that he has emancipated himself. God, the King, the Empire, the Union Jack – all the overthrown idols can reappear under different names, and because they are not recognized for what they are they can be worshipped with a good conscience. Transferred nationalism, like the use of scapegoats, is a way of attaining salvation without altering one’s conduct.”
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This time we talk about the Coen Bros. No Country for Old Men (2007).
No Country for Old Men
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This time we are honoured and delighted to welcome special guest Kelly Weill of The Daily Beast (etc) to talk to us about her new (and excellent) book Off The Edge, a history of Flat Earth, the current state of the Flat Earth movement, and our cultish and conspiratorial times generally. A fun and thoughtful - and sometimes melancholic - discussion.
Off The Edge links
Off the Edge - Workman Publishing
Amazon.com: Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything: 9781643750682: Weill, Kelly: Books
Kelly's Twitter @KELLYWEILL
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This time we talk about the Coen Bros. Fargo (1996).
Fargo
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In rank defiance of all the various conflicting things we've told you Episode 105 would be about, here is an episode about 2015's (and sadly also 2022's) Lauren Southern (lying, untruth-telling nazi liar-nazi) and the mainstreaming and normalising thereof.
In this episode we consider Lauren's career (in brief, owing to the fact that chronicling her trail of lies and evil acts has become something of a cottage industry for the online left), her departure from politics and regrettable return, her ostensible changed nature (lol), her pub-excluding ideological lenses, and her sitcom life which comes complete with eccentric stereotype boyfriend, slapstick boat adventures and rollerblading accidents, and snarky one-liner strewn bickering with her mismatched (or is he really so mismatched?) buddy 'Destiny'.
We take a stop-off with fan-favourites Posobiec, Elijah Shaffer, and (by mention) Rittenhouse, via Lauren's lie-filled 'documentary' Crossfire. We listen in on Lauren's conversation with Nicky-Boy Fuentes' old friend (turned undeadly enemy) James Allsup back at the time of Unite the Right. Then we also pop in on Lauren's friendly and boozy and giggly stint as a guest of our old 'person we talked about' Tim Pool. It is possible that unflattering nicknames were mentioned, and not just Tim's. We then round it off with some seriously nerdy shit. Elvish swords at the ready for the protection of pan-Western civilisation or some such stupid bollocks.
Content Warnings, of course.
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Lauren Southern YouTube
Lauren Southern Alt-Censored
Lauren Southern in Lakemba, Australia, 2018
Why the Alt-Right’s Most Famous Woman Disappeared
- We were sitting together in her living room, while she scripted a video, when her new boyfriend emerged from the bedroom. George Hutcheson, who was 30 at the time, runs a Canadian group called Students for Western Civilization, which works to “advance the interests of European peoples.” Her most recent boyfriends had also been adherents of far-right ideologies. She had nearly gotten engaged to a prominent conspiracy theorist, and had had an on-again-off-again fling with a Croatian neo-Nazi. “Maybe I’m too picky,” she’d mused before Hutcheson joined us on her IKEA couch. In appearance, Hutcheson is the caricature of the Aryan ideal. His undercut haircut, known in the alt-right as the fashy(short for fascist), and his fit, thick, soldier-like frame give him a Teutonic air. He and Southern decided to go out to dinner, and to let me film them. Hutcheson refuses to eat food originally from nonwhite countries, such as ketchup, whose origins are in China, so the two, facing limited restaurant options, chose the British-style Oxley Public House in Toronto’s Yorkville neighborhood.
Hey It's Vadim The Truth About Lauren Southern and Christchurch
Lonerbox, Lauren Southern and the Boats
Xanderhal talks to Lauren Southern
Jose, The Many Lies of Crossfire
Destiny Wanders Into Lefty Protest Wearing MAGA Hat ft. BLM Lauren Southern
Lauren Southern Nearly Dies Trying to Rollerblade
Lauren Southern Crossfire Documentary
Shaun on Lauren Southern and the Great Replacement
Shaun on Lauren Southern and 'What Every Girl Needs To Hear'
Shaun on why Stefan Molyneux is wrong about Immigration and the Fall of Rome
Shaun on why Immigration didn't case the fall of Rome
Jose on Pseudo-Journalism and Lauren Southern
Jose on The Many Lies of Borderless (Lauren's film)
This time, we look at the recent AFPAC conference, Nick Fuentes' gathering of the Groypers, i.e. the even worse version of CPAC, attended by Marjorie Taylor Greene and Joe Arpaio, among many horrible others. Controversies, squabbles, coalition-building, Christian dominionism, and very long, weird speeches. Daniel and Jack both do voices.
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This time we talk about Maus by Art Spiegelman.
Maus
Our episode about Maus and the McMinn County School Board
Auschwitz in Contemporary Popular Literature by Dr Wanda Witek-Malicka
Of Mice and Memory by Joshua Brown
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So, McMinn County School Board in Tennessee decided to remove Maus - Art Spiegelman's classic graphic novel about the Nazi Holocaust and historical memory - from their syllabus, on the grounds that some simply sketched mouse nudity and a few very mild swears would upset and corrupt their pupils, which is obviously very reasonable and evidence of extremely well balanced priorities. Actually, alongside the epidemic of attempts across the US to remove certain sorts of books from school libraries and curricula, it is evidence that an insidious reactionary agenda is gaining traction.
In this episode we talk about the decision of the school board, and look through the minutes of the meeting. Daniel even gives an impromptu dramatic reading. We talk about where the appalling decision comes from, and what it really means both for the students and in terms of the wider culture. Along the way we consider the lies of slimy propagandist Christopher Rufo and the spluttering fanaticism of the increasingly unhinged James Lindsay.
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Judd Legum tweet about the banning of Maus
MCMINN COUNTY BANS “MAUS”, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING HOLOCAUST BOOK – THE TENNESSEE HOLLER (tnholler.com)
"Continuing the recent spate of conservative book-banning initiatives, The Mcminn County School board just voted to ban the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “MAUS” by Art Spiegelman from all of its schools, citing the inclusion of words like “God Damn” and “naked pictures” (illustrations) of women."
Official Statment from the McMinn County School Board
CNN, "Maus" author reacts to his book being banned
Exposed by CMD, ALEC Inspires Lawmakers to File Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills
- The December ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) workshop was led by the Heritage Foundation’s Bridget Weisenberg and featured Heritage’s Jonathan Butcher and Angela Sailor, Discovery Institute’s Christopher Rufo, American Enterprise Institute’s Ian Rowe, and Woodson Center’s Robert Woodson. Thirty-one state legislators from 20 states attended, along with corporate representatives from Guarantee Life Insurance, EDP Renewables, and State Farm Insurance.
- In order to combat the alleged threat that critical race theory poses, speakers promoted curriculum materials from Trump’s failed 1776 project and a Goldwater Institute model bill to make curriculum materials transparent. They also discussed school privatization measures such as education savings accounts and charter schools.
- ALEC highlighted a New York Post opinion piece written by Heritage Foundation staff that argued, “The goals of the Black Lives Matter organization go far beyond what most people think. But they are hiding in plain sight, there for the world to see, if only we read beyond the slogans and the innocuous-sounding media accounts of the movement.”
- Several ALEC lawmakers in attendance got the message. GOP state Rep. Beryl Amedee of Louisiana attended the workshop and later co-authored an op-ed arguing that critical race theory:
- “is an outgrowth, and little more than a new version of, the Marxist ideology of class warfare with the end goal of societal collapse and the re-making of society. If you know history, it’s easy to both spot and identify. The problem for those confronting this potential catastrophe is how they are explaining their end goals for dealing with it.”
James Lindsay at New Discourses, Groomer Schools 2: Queer Futurity and the Sexual Abuse of Your Children
Dyer, Hannah, Queer futurity and childhood innocence: Beyond the injury of development
Abstract:
- Because it is so often said that children are the future, queer theory’s attention to (and searing debates on) queer futurity offers something new and important to studies of childhood. Drawing on and deepening recent attempts to meld the fields of childhood studies and queer theory, I dwell on the contradiction that results from the synchronous assumptions of the child’s a-sexuality and proto-heterosexuality to show how emphasizing sexuality within a discussion of children’s education is constructive. In the service of my interest in the renewal of thought concerning children’s psychosexual development, I offer a critical reading of the It Gets Better social media campaign (particularly, its consequent critiques and revisions). I begin with engagement of Eve Sedgwick’s 1991 seminal essay on queer childhood “How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay” and then, from there, trace contemporary queer theory’s use of the figure of the child and consideration of the impact of “innocence” on childhood. In an effort to consider the contemporary residues of historical violence on theories of “healthy” child development, I also consider how histories of colonialism and trans-Atlantic slavery extend into the future and leave traces on contemporary theories of child development.
McMinn TN school board minutes for January 10, 2022
The Advocate, Mississippi Mayor Withholds $110k in Library Funds Over LGBTQ+ Books
Maia Kobabe, The Washington Post, Schools are banning my book. But queer kids need queer stories.
Distribute the Wealth Worksheet
Image of the school board members who voted to ban Maus
- Mike Cochran- It doesn’t matter, it’s in the curriculum, all this stuff keeps popping up. So, I want to read it, you guys can fire me later, I guess.
- “I’m just wild about Harry, and Harry’s wild about me
The heavenly blisses of his kisses, fill me with ecstasy
He’s sweet just like chocolate candy
Just like honey from the bee
Oh I am just wild about Harry, and he’s just wild about me.” - One of the discussion questions is define what this word “ecstasy” means. My problem is, all the way through this literature we expose these kids to nakedness, we expose them to vulgarity. You go all the way back to first grade, second grade and they are reading books that have a picture of a naked man riding a bull. It’s not vulgar, it’s something you would see in an art gallery, but it’s unnecessary. So, teachers have gone back and put tape over the guys butts so the kids aren’t exposed to it. So, my
problem is, it looks like the entire curriculum is developed to normalize sexuality, normalize nudity and normalize vulgar language. If I was trying to indoctrinate somebody’s kids, this is how I would do it. You put this stuff just enough on the edges, so the parents don’t catch it but the kids, they soak it in. I think we need to relook at the entire curriculum.
Rufo's New York Post piece: https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/what-critical-race-theory-is-really-about/
Christopher Rufo and the Critical Race Theory Moral Panic (nymag.com)
How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory | The New Yorker
Rufo tweet about Maus/McMinn https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1486711700283740169
Judd Legum responds https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1486736150295420939
Tennessee pastor held a "witchcraft" book burning where followers were encouraged to bring Harry Potter and Twilight books to hurl into the flames: Right-Wing Pastor Greg Locke Holds 'Witchcraft' Book Burning (newsweek.com)
Book bans in schools are catching fire. Black authors say uproar isn’t about students. (nbcnews.com)
Book banning in Texas schools: Titles are pulled off library shelves in record numbers (nbcnews.com)
The critics were right: "Critical race theory" panic is just a cover for silencing educators | Salon.com
Calls to Ban Books by Black Authors Are Increasing Amid Critical Race Theory Debates (edweek.org)
Moms for Liberty has turned ‘parental rights’ into a rallying cry for conservative parents - The Washington Post
Unmasking Moms for Liberty | Media Matters for America
Friend of the pod Talia Lavin: Brownshirts vs. the Board of Education - by Talia Lavin (substack.com) & How To Report Subversive Books And Teachers in YOUR School (substack.com)
A. R. Moxon: Profanity and Obscenity | Revue (getrevue.co)
Southlake school leader tells teachers to balance Holocaust books with 'opposing' views (nbcnews.com)
In the second part of our Rittenhouse coverage, we start with a look at Kyle's reception as a rock star messiah at Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA and follow the thread where it leads, from more on Elijah Shaffer to Tucker Carlson and his 'Trial of Kyle' to Mike Enoch and the National Justice Party via "a twentieth century philosopher". In the process, we consider the currency of the concept of 'Anarcho-Tyranny' and how the term Blood Libel is being appropriated. Dialectical? Yeah, we're dialectical AF. And we don't apologise.
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LIVE: Kyle Rittenhouse LIVE At AmericaFest 2021
Face to Face With Kyle RIttenouse
Slightly Offensive, The Untold Story of the Most Banned Person in America
Carl Schmitt Wikipedia
- Carl Schmitt (/ʃmɪt/; 11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, and prominent member of the Nazi Party. Schmitt wrote extensively about the effective wielding of political power. A conservative4(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt#cite_note-4)[5] theorist, he is noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism,6(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt#cite_note-6) and his work has been a major influence on subsequent political theory, legal theory, continental philosophy, and political theology, but its value and significance are controversial, mainly due to his intellectual support for and active involvement with Nazism.
Something Jack wrote about Carl Schmitt and F.A. Hayek Oh Schmitt, Hayek! – Eruditorum Press
Sam Francis, Chronicles Magazine, July 1994 Anarcho-Tyranny USA
- In the United States today, the government performs many of its functions more or less effectively. The mail is delivered (sometimes); the population, or at least part of it, is counted (sort of); and taxes are collected (you bet). You can accuse the federal leviathan of many things—corruption, incompetence, waste, bureaucratic strangulation—but mere anarchy, the lack of effective government, is not one of them. Yet at the same time, the state does not perform effectively or justly its basic duty of enforcing order and punishing criminals, and in this respect its failures do bring the country, or important parts of it, close to a state of anarchy. But that semblance of anarchy is coupled with many of the characteristics of tyranny, under which innocent and law-abiding citizens are punished by the state or suffer gross violations of their rights and liberty at the hands of the state. The result is what seems to be the first society in history in which elements of both anarchy and tyranny pertain at the same time and seem to be closely connected with each other and to constitute, more or less, opposite sides of the same coin.
- This condition, which in some of my columns I have called "anarcho-tyranny," is essentially a kind of Hegelian synthesis of what appear to be dialectical opposites: the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that power to carry out basic public duties such as protection or public safety. And, it is characteristic of anarcho-tyranny that it not only fails to punish criminals and enforce legitimate order but also criminalizes the innocent. At the same time the governor of North Carolina grotesquely fails to uphold his famous oath to protect the citizens of his state by keeping convicted felons in prison, he has no problem finding the time to organize a massive waste of his time and the taxpayers' money to hound and humiliate a perfectly innocent citizen for the infraction of a trivial traffic law.
Knowledge Fight 614 The Purge of Gates
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To start 2022, we chat about Curtis Hanson's 1997 period thriller L.A. Confidential, starring Kim Basinger, James Cromwell, David Strathairn, fetus Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, pre-exposure Kevin Spacey, and Danny DeVito, and based on the James Ellroy novel of the same name.
Content warnings, spoilers for movie and Ellroy's books.
L.A. Confidential (film) - Wikipedia
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And so we kick off 2022, IDSG's fourth year, with an episode about the Denver shooter and self-published SF novelist (who put himself and his own murder plans in his own books) Lyndon McCleod, AKA Roman McClay, and his relationship to the infamous 'Manosphere', AKA a network of misogynistic and 'masculinist' fashy chudlingers like Jack Murphy, Jack Davenport, etc. We follow up a bit on our last episode (Part 1 of our post-verdict Rittenhouse coverage) and drop back in on the nauseating You Are Here podcast, and Baldy McDickface's Tim Pool's show, as we explore the recent flap around Jack Murphy's 'Cuck Letter' (don't ask... well, just listen), before delving a tad into McCleod/McClay's fiction and his worldview, including some hardcore stoopid genetic determinism. Lots going on in this one, and so we're issuing bigtime content warnings, not least for the recorded voice of a multiple murderer.
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CBS Denver, "Denver Couple Shares Moments Lyndon McLeod tried to kill them"
You Are Here, Buzzfeed Vax-Only Event Becomes "Super-Spreader"
Cuckold Rage -- Jack Murphy's Freak Out at Sydney Watson
Sydney Watson, Addressing the Incident
Timcast IRL 22DEC2021
Jack Murphy Live Liminal Order
Jack Murphy, Cultivating Erotic Energy From a Surprising Source
- Today I sent my adoring loyal hot young girlfriend of two years to have sex with a stranger from tinder. She is currently at his apartment, checked in with me via text and is presumably sucking and fucking her way to a good time.
- I’m alone writing.
- Couldn’t be happier.
- Now before you write me off as another salon.com freak who wants to be a cuckold or some kind of spineless beta under male, hear me out. This has been a long road. My manhood is intact and my dick is hard.
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- It is suspended disbelief. This disbelief allows us to create a gap to close. It creates space for desire to reach out to the other person. Role playing stranger rape puts us into different personas for the moment, creating mystery danger and desire. Ie. its fucking hot.
- Matt from Tinder helps us to introduce another element which requires suspended disbelief. Just like my girlfriend knows I could nor ever would actually rape her, I too know that my girlfriend is not going to leave me for some guy she met on tinder today to fuck.
- The entire experience is regimented according to my rules. I introduced her to the idea. I pushed it. I told her to go on Tinder and find someone. On the day in question, I tell her when and where to do it. She checks in with me via text. I know where she is and I am waiting for her. She is not alone. She is on a mission sent directly by me. And the entire point is for me to get turned on in a way that wouldn’t happen otherwise.
- The excitement, eustress, and anticipation put me in a different state. I get turned on knowing someone else wants my girl as badly as I do. Yes, I get turned on knowing she is fucking someone else.
- We’ve done it together where we picked up a guy at a bar, took him home and I watched them have sex. Or we’ve brought a guy from craig’s list over and I took pictures as he banged her.
- This time, I just sent her on her way and gave myself time to write and relax, knowing that exceptional sex awaits upon reunion. The time she spends with the other guy, isn’t really hers alone. Its ours. Its mine. Its her acting out my ideas.
- Her behavior is manifestation of my will.
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative, Queer as Volk
- It turns out that back in 2015, Murphy, who now sells himself and his masculinist advisory services as an extreme chad, wrote a piece extolling the erotic pleasure of being a beta cuck. You can find this online; I’m not going to link to it. Some Redditors got busy digging, and found that Murphy and his girlfriend had acted in a self-made porn broadcast back in 2019 (Murphy admitted this on Twitter today). In the film, there is apparently a sequence in which the super-masculine Murphy impales himself with a plastic phallus, while simultaneously pleasuring himself. This is not a rumor, alas; I stumbled across the image online, and can’t unsee it.
Denver Post, Denver gunman's novels named real-life victims, described similar attacks
- McLeod named both Alicia Cardenas and Michael Swinyard as murder victims in his novels. Cardenas, 44, and Swinyard, 67, were both killed in Monday’s shooting spree.
- Police believe McLeod killed Swinyard inside his home at One Cheesman Place, an apartment building in the 1200 block of Williams Street. A property manager for the building told residents in an email that McLeod wore tactical gear, a police logo and a badge when he entered the building.
- In McLeod’s first novel, “Lyndon MacLeod” wears police gear and kills a character named “Michael Swinyard” at his apartment on Williams Street. The character in the book also kills other people in the building and robs them. The character has a list of people he wants to kill and considers some to be more important than others.
- “The murders were like food in the belly, like wine at rest on the tongue,” the first book reads. “Killing people nourished the soul.”
Heavy, Lyndon McLeod aka Roman McClay: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Wineberserkers forum, Have you dealt with LJ McLeod
Matthew Kriner, H. E. Upchurch, and W. Aaron, Global Network on Extremism and Technology, Examining the Denver Shooter's Ideological Views
Shane Burley and Alexander Reid Ross, Bellingcat, How the Denver Shooter’s Digital Trail Exposes the Violent Fantasies of the ‘Manosphere’
Left Cost Right Watch, Nazis Made a Murder Calendar and Counterterror Analysts are Helping Spread It
Mack Lamoureux, Vice News, Tattoo Parlor Killer Named His Victims in VIolent, Misogynist Novels
Albion's Seed at Wikipedia
American Nations at Wikipedia
Jack Donovan interviews Roman McClay Jack Donovan Interviews Roman McClay (sanctionthebook.com)
On John Goldman (Jack Murphy) D.C. Charter School Board Investigating Senior Employee For Alleged Alt-Right Links – WAMU
McLeod's weird tweet about Yankee genes (5) Jack Three on Twitter: "Americans have been sold the lie that a Connecticut Yankee and a Western outlaw are the same because they're both 'white.' Nothing could be more wrong (genetically speaking). From Billy the Kid (McCarty) to The Hell's Angels, the Ulster & Highland Scots are not American https://t.co/Cbba3MNrjI" / Twitter
Jefferson Davis' speech to House Chamber, Mississippi Capitol, December 26, 1862 Jefferson Davis' Speech at Jackson, Miss. | The Papers of Jefferson Davis | Rice University
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To see off 2021, we chat about David Fincher's 1995 serial killer movie Seven, starring Brad Pitt and several cancelled people.
Content warnings, spoilers from the word go.
Seven (1995 film) - Wikipedia
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For Christmas, here's a little gift for our treasured listeners, a bonus episode - originally available only to our patrons - on Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009).
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IDSG episodes are like the proverbial bus that keeps you waiting and waiting and waiting and then turns up in multiples. And it's definitely nothing to do with Jack having irregular jags of being in the mood to edit or anything. Anyway, here's your latest.
For this, our combined hundredth / Christmas episode, Daniel has prepared a bevvy of clips of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Kenosha Killer Kid, pre and post verdict. Compare and contrast his tears on the stand to those he cried in the police interview room. Compare and contrast his claimed trauma with his concerns - as expressed to his interesting Mom - immediately post-'incident'. Compare and contrast his attitude on Tucker Carlson's and Charlie Kirk's respective shows, to his cheeky antics as a guest on another show that Daniel has discovered in the course of his listening...
This is not an episode calibrated to fill you with the Christmas spirit, to be honest. But there is a point to this. It demonstrates something, which will become evident as you listen, and be developed next episode.
Take care, everyone. We love you.
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Show Notes:
NY Times A Fatal Night in Kenosha: How the Rittenhouse Shootings Unfolded
It Could Happen Here November 10 2021 The Rittenhouse Trial and Law Stuff
LegalEagle Kyle RIttenhouse: Murder or Self-Defense?
LegalEagle What's the Deal With Rittenhouse Judge Schroeder?
Daily Wire on Facebook, Released Video Shows Police Interrogation of Kyle Rittenhouse
Chicago Tribune, Kyle Rittenhouse Police Interview Video
Kyle Rittenhouse Speaks to Tucker Carlson in First TV Interview
Rolling Stone, Rittenhouse Continues to Bash 'Fraud' Lawyer Lin Wood on Right-Wing Media Martyr Tour
- Rittenhouse said that his attorneys at the time, Wood and John Pierce — who now represents the “QAnon Shaman” — had “started raising funds without my family’s permission” after his arrest. “They went on to fight an extradition [to Wisconsin] using a novel argument, saying I was in a militia so John Pierce can get paid, Lin Wood can get paid and grow his business and profit, apparently,” Rittenhouse said. But they lost that battle, and Rittenhouse was moved from a juvenile facility in Illinois to an adult facility in Wisconsin. According to Rittenhouse, Wood and Pierce were not even aware he’d been moved. He later fired both and hired new legal representation.
Kyle Rittenhouse on Charlie Kirk's show with Jack Posobiec
Kyle Rittenhouse on Banfield for NewsNation
You Are Here, Chillin' WIth That One Kid From Kenosha
Angry White Men on the You Are Here hosts
Glenn Beck The REAL Villain of the Rittenhouse Story: Glenn and Kyle One on One
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day One
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Two
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Three
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Four
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Five
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Six
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Seven Part One
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Seven Part Two
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Eight
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Nine
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Ten
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Eleven
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Twelve
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Thirteen
Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Day Fourteen
Let all persons having any manner of business before this venerable podcast gather ye forth and giveth your attention! Closing in on the end of 2021 and their hundredth episode, Daniel and Jack talk about the Sines vs. Kessler trial (the civil trial of the Unite the Right organisers etc), the way in which the far-right (including the defendants) have conceptualised it, the long-awaited aftermath in the wake of the verdict (which dropped just before Thanksgiving), and the reactions and attitudes to the whole thing among the far-right, including lots of inexplicably buoyant Cantwell lunacy.
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Cold Open -- Lose to the Crying Nazi
Sines v. Kessler docket
Unicorn Riot, Unite The Right On Trial in Charlottesville
Former Identity Evropa Organizer Tells Secrets In Trial Deposition
Bottom of the Barrel: Charlottesville Trial Defense Attorneys Spread Antisemitism
- Joshua Smith, one of the attorneys, is representing Matthew Heimbach, Matthew Parrott, and the Traditionalist Worker Party, a neo-nazi group that helped put on Unite the Right in 2017. Calling in remotely to cross-examine a witness on November 11, Smith went on a meandering digression about so-called ‘ethnostates’. He claimed that expert witness and sociologist, Peter Simi, was ‘anti-white’ because he wouldn’t address Smith’s view that China and Singapore are ‘ethnostates’, and falsely said that white people are responsible for most advances in civilization and technology.
- When trying to confuse jurors about sociological concepts like in-groups and out-groups, Smith asked Simi if Hillary Clinton was white supremacist, and soon after he told Judge Norman Moon that cross-examinations can be “conversations” with witnesses, before sheepishly admitting his scattered tangents were “trying to keep it lively for everybody.”
- Another attorney in the Charlottesville lawsuit trial, Cincinnati-based, James E. Kolenich, is an antisemitic far-right Catholic. Kolenich told the Cincinnati Enquirer in 2018 that his motives in this case were simple: “My willingness to get involved is to oppose Jewish influence in society.” He questioned the accuracy of long-accepted scholarship about the death toll of the Holocaust: “You can’t call the Jew Holocaust into question, right? […] Christians really shouldn’t fall for that. The Holocaust is the execution, the crucifixion of Christ. The most important event in human history is His Resurrection, not, this Jewish Holocaust even if it did happen.”
- Kolenich is part of a Catholic splinter tendency that rejects 20th century reforms barring antisemitic theology, telling the Cincannati Enquirer, “The last such council [to modify the Catholic faith] was Vatican II or as we call it, Vatican Jew.” He believes all popes since Vatican II are illegitimate “anti-popes.”
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From Unicorn Riot Day 16 Rush Transcript
- Spencer: I want to refer you now to the “rant from hell”…it was characterized by Ms. Dunn as a speech… do you remember the context of that rant?… tell us a little about the context…
- Kessler: the only thing I recall before that…
- Spencer: where was it, who was there
- Kessler: Somewhere in the countryside… in an afterparty, at a house, we went in a room to discuss, people were panicking after the car attack
- Spencer: how many people were there?
- Kessler: 10 or less
- Spencer: would you characterize that as a speech…?
- Kessler: I think ‘rant’ is applicable
- Spencer: it was a private conversation is a private room… how did that outburst reach the light of day?
- Kessler: someone recorded it and released it to Milo Yiannopoulos
- Spencer: did you record it?
- Kessler: no
- Spencer: who recorded it…does Dave Reilly ring a bell?
- Kessler: yeah, thats the guy
- Spencer: is Milo…is he a fan of Richard Spencer…?
- Kessler: it was meant to embarrass you, I think…
- Spencer: when that was released… in the fall of 2019…does that sound right?
- Kessler: i don’t recall
- Spencer: in the tweet where you say “Richard Spencer is a sociopathic narcissist”… when did you determine I was a sociopathic narcissist?
- Kessler: …I remember the first time I met you, you just made my skin crawl… you were slimy, you seemed inhuman, like a robot or a serial killer…
Jonathan M. Katz, Auf weidersehen, alt-right
C-ville Writers, Payback Time
Neil Kumar at VDARE, Sines V. Kessler: The First Amendment No Longer Applies to Whites
Macy Moors CBS19. Heather Heyer's Mom Reacts to Partial Verdict
Idavox, Charlottesville After Sines v. Kessler: Victory Means KEEP THE PRESSURE ON
Molly's Trial Coverage Day One Jury Selection
Day Two Jury Selection
Day Three Jury Selection
Day Four Opening Arguments
Day Five Plaintiff's first two witnesses
Emily Gorcenski and Molly Conger. White Supremacists Have Returned to Charlottesville in Another Attempt to ‘Unite the Right’
Christopher Cantwell opening statement
Molly Day Six Trial Coverage Devin cross-examination
Molly Day Seven Trial Coverage
Molly Day Eight Trial Coverage Heimbach, Lipstadt, Kline video deposition
Molly Day Nine Trial Coverage Kline video deposition continued, Spencer testifies, cross by Cantwell.
Molly Day Ten Trial Coverage Cantwell cross of Spencer continued, Ike Baker deposition from LoS, Michael Hill of LoS, Thomas Baker (plaintiff) testimony
Molly Day Eleven Trial Coverage Dillon Hopper deposition, Michael Tubbs, Plaintiff Marissa Blair, Nazi cheering session, Cantwell cross of Blair, More Tubbs, Deposition testimony of Thomas Rousseau, deposition testimony from Vasillos Pistolis.
Molly Day Twelve Trial Coverage Plaintiff Chelsea Alvarado, Matt Parrot, Cantwell and Parrot teaching Nazi humor to the jury, Parrot rebuttal by defense attorneys.
Molly Day Thirteen Trial Coverage Plaintiff Marcus Martin, Plaintiff Seth Wispelwey, defendant Nathan Damigo, Michael Chesny deposition.
Molly Day Fourteen Trial Coverage
Molly Day Fifteen Trial Coverage
Molly Day Sixteen Trial Coverage
- Possible broken thread, coverage begins here. Schoep rebuttal continued, Kessler testimony, Spencer cross of Kessler, Cantwell cross of Kessler. Cantwell called. Spencer cross of Cantwell.
Molly Day Seventeen Trial Coverage Cantwell cross continued, Cantwell crosses himself, Daley video deposition, Brad Griffen video deposition, Cantwell Conspiracy Theories, Plaintiffs rest, Rule 50s proposed, Rule 50s denied, Spencer defense, Bloch impeachment of Spencer, Campbell for Fields rests, Kolenich on behalf of Kessler, Damigo, IE, rests, Cantwell defense, Bloch cross of Cantwell (again), flurry of pre-5pm activity.
Molly Day Eighteen Trial Coverage.
Molly Day Nineteen Trial Coverage Closing arguments
Molly Day Twenty Trial Coverage Basically nothing, jury deliberations.
Molly Day Twenty-One Trial Coverage More jury deliberations.
Molly Day Twenty-Two Trial Coverage Verdict
It's been a while since we released an episode so, to tide you over, here's a bonus show, previously for patrons only.
It's on the subject of the satirical mockumentary Bob Roberts (1992), written, directed by, and starring Tim Robbins (with Alan Rickman, Ray Wise, Giancarlo Esposito, Harry Lennix, Lynne Thigpen, Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Fred Ward, Bob Balaban, John Cusack, Gore Vidal, and Jack Black).
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This time, we chat about Rob Reiner's 1992 movie of Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men.
A Few Good Men
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This time, we have a general chat taking in the recent antics of Tim Pool, Jimmy Dore, Bret & Heather, etc, before concentrating on the Rittenhouse case, and the trial as it enters its final phase.
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So UATX happened.
Dear God I wish stuff would stop happening.
Thankfully we got Kristin Rawls and Jeff Eaton from Christian Rightcast to come back to help us talk about it.
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Pano Kanelos at Bari Weiss's Substack We Can't Wait For Universities to Fix Themselves. So We're Starting a New One
- The numbers tell the story as well as any anecdote you’ve read in the headlines or heard within your own circles. Nearly a quarter of American academics in the social sciences or humanities endorse ousting a colleague for having a wrong opinion about hot-button issues such as immigration or gender differences. Over a third of conservative academics and PhD students say they had been threatened with disciplinary action for their views. Four out of five American PhD students are willing to discriminate against right-leaning scholars, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
- The picture among undergraduates is even bleaker. In Heterodox Academy’s 2020 Campus Expression Survey, 62% of sampled college students agreed that the climate on their campus prevented students from saying things they believe. Nearly 70% of students favor reporting professors if the professor says something students find offensive, according to a Challey Institute for Global Innovation survey. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports at least 491 disinvitation campaigns since 2000. Roughly half were successful.
University of Austin Wikipedia
The University of Austin website
Under "Our principles"
- Universities devoted to the unfettered pursuit of truth are the cornerstone of a free and flourishing democratic society.
- For universities to serve their purpose, they must be fully committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse.
- In order to maintain these principles, UATX will be fiercely independent—financially, intellectually, and politically.
Under "What Makes UATX Different"
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Lonsdale tweet about Pete Buttigieg's parternity leave
- Great for fathers to spend time w their kids and support moms, but any man in an important position who takes 6 months of leave for a newborn is a loser. In the old days men had babies and worked harder to provide for their future - that’s the correct masculine response.
US tech investor Joe Lonsdale refuses to apologise for ‘loser’ paternity tweet
Why Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is leaving Silicon Valley
- Lonsdale said that 10 to 15 of his firm’s 45 employees are likely to join him in the Austin area. He’s also moving his policy organization, Cicero Institute, to the city.
- Among 8VC’s better-known investments to date are Palmer Luckey’s start-up, Anduril, which is building a virtual border wall, and Dustin Moskovitz’s software company, Asana, which went public in September. He’s also putting a lot of money in health-care companies like insurance provider Oscar Health and men’s health company Hims.
So Sam Harris went on Decoding the Gurus, and we decided we had to talk about it.
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Decoding the Gururs, Special Episode: Sam Harris and Meditation is all you need ( https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-episode-sam-harris-meditation-is-all-you-need )
Decoding the Gurus interview with Sam Harris ( https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/sam-harris )
Sam Harris in The Washington Times, December 1, 2004, Mired in a religious war ( https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/dec/1/20041201-090801-2582r/ )
"It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam. This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims, but we are absolutely at war with the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran. The only reason Muslim fundamentalism is a threat to us is because the fundamentals of Islam are a threat to us. Every American should read the Koran and discover the relentlessness with which non-Muslims are vilified in its pages. The idea that Islam is a “peaceful religion hijacked by extremists” is a dangerous fantasy — and it is now a particularly dangerous fantasy for Muslims to indulge.
"It should be of particular concern to us that the beliefs of devout Muslims pose a special problem for nuclear deterrence. There is, after all, little possibility of our having a cold war with an Islamist regime armed with long-range nuclear weapons. A cold war requires that the parties be mutually deterred by the threat of death. Notions of martyrdom and jihad run roughshod over the logic that allowed the United States and the Soviet Union to pass half a century perched, more or less stably, on the brink of Armageddon. We must come to terms with the possibility that men who are every bit as zealous to die as the September 11 hijackers may one day get their hands on long-range nuclear weaponry.
Polite Conversations 17 with Sam Harris ( https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/episode-17-sam-harris )
Sines v. Kessler is finally underway, and Christopher Cantwell is representing himself. Need we say more? Actually, yes. And hence, this episode.
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Vice News, Charlottesville Race and Terror (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIrcB1sAN8I)
Christopher Cantwell transferred to Communication Management Unit in Marion, IL. (https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1402292133483196422?s=20)
Pro Se Letter regarding change of address by Christopher Cantwell.(https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.968.0_1.pdf)
Hilary Sargent coverage of the Cantwell criminal trial at The Informant. (https://www.informant.news/people/1157338-hilary-sargent)
Cantwell Criminal Trial Testimony Day 3 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nhd.53269/gov.uscourts.nhd.53269.118.0.pdf)
Cantwell Criminal Trial Testimony Day 4 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nhd.53269/gov.uscourts.nhd.53269.119.0.pdf)
Jordan Green at Raw Story: ‘Crying Nazi’ Christoper Cantwell is getting legal assist from a white supremacist as he prepares for Charlottesville trial (https://www.rawstory.com/crying-nazi-trial/)
- While serving his sentence, Cantwell met Hale along with another man named William A. White, who has played an even more significant role in helping him prepare for his upcoming trial in Charlottesville. White, in turn, is in prison for soliciting violence against the foreman of the federal jury that convicted Hale. According to the US Justice Department, White created the now defunct Overthrow.com website in the late 2000s as a platform for the American National Socialist Workers Party. He used the website to post derogatory comments and personal information about the jury foreman, including their home address and phone numbers.
- "Anyway, so I run into these guys," Cantwell told a white supremacist podcaster during an interview last week from an Oklahoma prison where he is awaiting transfer to Charlottesville to stand trial. "And allegations against them notwithstanding, they're good to me."
Sines v. Kessler at Courtlistener (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6168921/sines-v-kessler/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=ℴ_by=desc)
Document 1108 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.1108.0.pdf)
- In addition, it has now become apparent that Cantwell, who has been proceeding pro se and has been afforded its corresponding protections and leniency, may be using another inmate, William A. White, to participate in this litigation and “ghost-write” his recent filings. See ECF 1063 at 1 (“Christopher Cantwell ... Moves this Court ... To Provide Cantwell and his Lay Counsel, William A White, Adequate Access to The Electronic Materials...”); ECF 1063-2; compare ECF 1055 (handwritten filing written largely in first person) with ECF 1063 (typewritten filing written in third person). That provides yet another basis to deny these motions. Ghost writing plainly violates legal rules and only reinforces the inappropriate and harassing nature of Cantwell’s numerous recent filings, including ECF 1062, 1063, 1064, 1065, 1066, 1077, 1078, 1084, 1085, 1086, 1087, 1088, 1089, 1090, 1096, 1097, 1098, 1099, 1102, 1103. See Wojcicki v. SCANA/SCE&G, 947 F.3d 240, 244 (4th Cir. 2020) (“Allowing individuals to represent themselves pro se reflects a respect for the choice of an individual citizen to plead his or her own cause, but so does the bar preventing individuals without legal expertise from representing others.” (quotation omitted)); Greene v. United States Dep’t of Educ., No. 4:13cv79, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 143678, at 26-27 (E.D. Va. Oct. 1, 2013) (“During the course of this appeal it came to the Court’s attention that Greene, although proceeding pro se and receiving the forbearance afforded such status, was utilizing the services of a ghost writer for many of her filings. The Court emphasizes that the practice of ghost-writing is in no way permissible in the Eastern District of Virginia, or any federal court for that matter. Even if the ghost writer is not an attorney, such practice is still considered the unauthorized practice of law. Those who proceed pro se are afforded certain amounts of leniency that are not afforded represented parties. Ghost writing inexcusably abuses this leniency.").
Document 1134 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.1134.0_1.pdf)
Document 1185 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.1185.0.pdf)
Document 1306 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.1306.0_1.pdf)
- While Plaintiffs remain adamant that any further delay would be extremely prejudicial given the fact that this case was filed four years ago, jury questionnaires have already been sent out, and many parties, counsel, and witnesses are already in or on their way to Charlottesville, see, e.g., ECF Nos. 1108, 1113, 1196, Plaintiffs are also aware that Mr. Cantwell likely will continue to assert these arguments, which could complicate the issues on appeal.
- As a result, Plaintiffs have concluded that the best way to resolve the tension between the need to proceed to trial and Mr. Cantwell’s due-process arguments would be for the Court to sever Plaintiffs’ claims against Mr. Cantwell from their claims against the other Defendants in this case for a separate trial pursuant to Rule 42 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Document 1307 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.1307.0.pdf) (Kolenich on behalf of Kessler, Damigo, and Identity Evropa)
- The Court has been aware of Mr. Cantwell’s objections since at least April 2021. The plaintiffs have been opposing Cantwell and not caring about his allegations of procedural or substative rights for at least that long. See ECF 945 filed April 26, 2021. Defendants object to the Court flip flopping on its Cantwell rulings, at the mere letter based request of the plaintiffs, less than 48 hours before trial. The defendants have invested considerable time and expense into preparing a defense strategy that assumes the presence of Mr. Cantwell as a party defendant at trial.
Document 1309 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.1309.0.pdf) (Smith on behalf of Parrot, Heimbach, and TWP)
- Plantiff's counsel want to take a “mulligan” here because, prior to Friday’s final pretrial conference, they had their army of jury consultants analyze the jury questionnaires, and concluded (rightly) that they have very little chance of winning their case in front of the eventual jury (even with adverse inferences). In order to manufacture a basis for their mulligan, they’ve been intentionally not caring about Mr. Cantwell’s situation, which they’ve known about for many months now; that way, if they drew an unfavorable jury pool, they could fake a sudden onset of empathy and concern for Mr. Cantwell’s predicament, and bait the Court into postponing the trial with their ridiculous “two Charlottesville trials” (i.e., the regular one, and then some kind of Cantwell-only “mini-trial” a couple years from now) proposal.
Document 1314 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.1314.0.pdf) (Bloch reads the amended letter.)
Document 1328 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.1328.0.pdf) Cantwell pro se defendant woes
Document 1329 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.1329.0.pdf) More Cantwell pro se defendant woes
Document 1330 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120/gov.uscourts.vawd.109120.1330.0.pdf) THIS IS NOT FAIR document
Molly Conger Twitter (https://mobile.twitter.com/socialistdogmom)
Molly Conger Patreon(https://www.patreon.com/socialistdogmom/posts)
Molly's Trial Coverage Day One (https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1452622192555053069?s=20) Jury Selection
Day Two (https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1452977775749500930?s=20) Jury Selection
Day Three (https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1453344852016607234?s=20) Jury Selection
Day Four (https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1453699603879141381?s=20) Opening Arguments
Day Five (https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1454066857418362880?s=20) Plaintiff's first two witnesses
Emily Gorcenski and Molly Conger. White Supremacists Have Returned to Charlottesville in Another Attempt to ‘Unite the Right’(https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/with-the-charlottesville-trial-white-supremacists-try-again-to-unite-the-right.html)
Christopher Cantwell opening statement (https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1453795094591639562?s=20)
(Paraphrase) "If you've ever had the intellectual curiosity to read Mein Kampf then you know this case is Mother Jones level nonsense."
Trey Garrison dox at the SPLC (https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/18/spectre-unmasked-racist-alt-right-podcaster-used-be-local-reporter)
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Since we spent the entirety of Bonus Episode 10 moaning about the technical shortcomings of The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman vs the Joker movie, this time we - being who we are - felt the need to spend this episode moaning about the themes and politics and ideology of same. And so we did.
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Yes, we're back with Jimmy Concepts, reliable source of dishonest idiocy. This time, as a kind of 'bonus feature' to our last episode, Daniel reads out a representative selection of reviewer comments on some of the fake papers submitted to academic journals by Lindsay, Pluckrose and Boghossian during the so-called 'Sokal Squared' prank. It's very revealing... albeit of something we already knew: namely that Lindsay and his cohorts are absolutely full of shit.
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Show Notes for 95:
Areo Magazine, Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship ( https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ )
Full listing of Grievance Studies Papers and Reviews ( https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tBy_fVlYIHTxxjuVMFxh4pqLHM_en18 ).
"BJ-Gay" reviewer's comment:
- This paper claims to apply a combination of psychoanalysis and feminism to examine and critique
styles of masculinity evident within grappling-based martial arts subcultures. Overall, I found the
paper very difficult to read and cannot recommend it for publication. This is due to a combination of factors, namely: - A densely theoretical, often confusing style of prose in many parts of the paper;
- An inconsistent application of theoretical concepts, most of which were not defined with any
clarity for the reader; - Overuse of certain source material, as well as a fairly consistent tendency to misuse sources in
support of claims that the papers/books in question do not actually support; - Many sweeping generalizations about (all) men involved in (all) grappling-based martial arts;
- A tokenistic inclusion of discussions of women in these spaces, which was not reconciled with the analysis in any meaningful way;
- A central thesis which is not, to my knowledge, supported by any of the empirical research in this area (despite the fact that several such studies were cited in the paper);
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Bizarre, even farcical concluding recommendations which indicate a lack of knowledge about the martial arts in question, as well as a tenuous and selective grasp of feminism as applied to sport.
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There is simply too much wrong with the paper to offer a more robust criticism as a reviewer. I recommend that the author spends far more time acquainting themselves with both the theoretical and empirical literature at the intersection of sport, martial arts and masculinity studies before attempting a re-write. The current offering sits far short of the standards of scholarship expected of academic publication, particularly in a journal such as Men and Masculinities.
https://twitter.com/deonteleologist/status/1444709707864674306
https://twitter.com/deonteleologist/status/1402338497617285120
"The Joke's On You" reviewer comment:
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Another sign of lack of integration is that there is not clear definition of the comedic. The very first paragraph offers one too narrow for the essay. Northrup Frye provides some useful definitions of irony, parody, and satire in his classic work, Anatomy of Criticism. Note, too, that Cynthia Willett, in Irony in the Age of Empire, shares a similar thesis with this essay, namely that irony works against arrogance and ignorance. That source should be acknowledged even as the author discusses her own different approach, and might help the author clarify definitions of the comedic and integrate argument.
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Yet another sign of lack of integration are the mixed references from Oliver to Dotson, Bailey, et al.-- Oliver would support a strong postmodern or poststructuralist stance that would render claims to speak "truth" to power finally ironic or that would yield to a very serious act of witnessing alterity. The latter group of epistemologists (including Dotson and Bailey) seem to affirm a pluralism but also a truth that allows for objective claims. Humor that makes use of the latter approach would typically tend toward satire, not irony. Satire and irony just do not function the same way, and the author would want to decide which direction or use of them would most assist the argument.
"Fat Body Builders" reviewer comment:
- For instance, statements like these, “In order for fat to be seen as ordinary and familiar, we need to insert ourselves in the extraordinary and unfamiliar. Competitive bodybuilding venues may be unfamiliar, even intrinsically fat-exclusionary, but this can change” and “Though it goes beyond the scope of this paper to provide more specific methods for institutionalizing fat bodybuilding” illustrate the issue with the paper. The author has highlighted the negative implication of fat stigma, but with a lack of connection to implementation, it negates the reason for why fat bodybuilding is a solution over other means or methods.
- This reader would encourage the author to improve the connection between fat bodybuilding and its role as a means of fat activism. The author certainly has a wealth of information about the field of bodybuilding and the author should use that experience to strengthen the connections mentioned previously.
"Hooters" reviewer comment:
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This then takes me to a core challenge in moving forward with your paper at Sex Roles: trustworthiness. All three reviewers share my concern about the lack of demonstrated methodological integrity in the present paper. This is where Reviewer 3 comes in. I recruited Reviewer 3 after the other reviewers, and because she is a member of our in-house staff, I shared both reviewers’ (masked) comments with her. I asked her first if she felt there was enough evidence of rigor to pursue a revision. Because we (at this point) have incomplete methodological information, I cannot commit to making a positive judgment here, but I am committing to giving it a try.
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Thus my second challenge to Reviewer 3 was to outline what next steps you will need to take (in addition to addressing the other reviewers’ comments) to fill in these methodological gaps. As you can see from Reviewer 3’s comments, this starts by laying out your procedural details and analytic strategy. My guess is that you will need to focus more specifically on theme development and justification (e.g., thematic analysis) rather than taking this aspect from grounded theory (in that your goal is not to develop theory). I have attached a recently published paper in Sex Roles by Sheryl Chatfield that lays out various approaches to qualitative methodologies and outlines our standards here at Sex Roles. My expectation is that Reviewer 3’s comments and this paper will help you address this critical point, as well as to move one from there to fully flesh out your methods, analyses, and findings.
"Dildos" reviewer comment:
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In the opening sections, the author notes that "though Allan lays out psychoanalytic theoretical considerations that are strongly suggestive of the co-constitutive relationship between masculinity, thevariables listed above, and anality, currently there is no scholarly literature that engages the topic of straight male penetrative sex toy directly and substantively" (3). The author here is referring to Allan's article, "Phallic Affect," however, Allan's book, Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus (2016) might prove to be more useful in the context of this study.
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The author writes that "there exists a far more extensive and applicable treatment in the book, The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure, but unfortunately this insightful volumes falls considerably outside of the scholarly academic canon" (3). I'm not certain that this is a problem, perhaps this is a difference of approach, but it seems to me that sex manuals are highly valuable resources in scholarly work and if there is a problem that the problem rests not with The Ultimate Guide but the Academy's inability to imagine value outside of itself. Indeed, the author might consider expanding this to include books like, The Adventurous Couple's Guide to Strap-On Sex by Violet Blue.
Sci-Hub link: https://sci-hub.se/10.1353/tech.2007.0066
'So You Wanna Be a Hooters Girl' at The Smoking Gun: https://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/so-you-wanna-be-hooters-girl
Show Notes from 94 Again:
https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/94-james-lindsay-and-the-grievance-studies-hoax
James Lindsay, New Discourses, "Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial."" https://newdiscourses.com/2021/06/why-you-can-be-transgender-but-not-transracial/
James Lindsay has a day job, apparently. "Maryville man walks path of healing and combat." https://www.thedailytimes.com/news/maryville-man-walks-path-of-healing-and-combat/article_5ea3c0ca-2e98-5283-9e59-06861b8588cb.html
Areo Magazine, Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship. https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/
Full listing of Grievance Studies Papers and Reviews. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tBy_fVlYIHTxxjuVMFxh4pqLHM_en18
'Mein Kampf' and the 'Feminazis': What Three Academics' Hitler Hoax Really Reveals About 'Wokeness'. https://web.archive.org/web/20210328112901/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-hitler-hoax-academic-wokeness-culture-war-1.9629759
"First and foremost, the source material. The chapter the hoaxers chose, not by coincidence, one of the least ideological and racist parts of Hitler's book. Chapter 12, probably written in April/May 1925, deals with how the newly refounded NSDAP should rebuild as a party and amplify its program.
"According to their own account, the writers took parts of the chapter and inserted feminist "buzzwords"; they "significantly changed" the "original wording and intent” of the text to make the paper "publishable and about feminism." An observant reader might ask: what could possibly remain of any Nazi content after that? But no one in the media, apparently, did."
New Discourses, "There Is No Good Part of Hitler's Mein Kampf" https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/there-is-no-good-part-of-hitlers-mein-kampf/
On this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay, who helped to write the paper and perpetrate the Grievance Studies Affair, talks about the project and the creation of this particular paper at unprecedented length and in unprecedented detail, revealing Nilssen not to know what he’s talking about. If you have ever wondered about what the backstory of the creation of the “Feminist Mein Kampf” paper really was, including why its authors did it, you won’t want to miss this long-form discussion and rare response to yet another underinformed critic of Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose’s work.
The Grieveance Studies Affair Revealed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk9a5Jcd1k
Reviewer 1 Comments on Dog Park Paper
"page 9 - the human subjects are afforded anonymity and not asked about income, etc for ethical reasons. yet, the author as researcher intruded into the dogs' spaces to examine and record genitalia. I realize this was necessary to the project, but could the author acknowledge/explain/justify this (arguably, anthropocentric) difference? Indicating that it was necessary to the research would suffice but at least the difference should be acknowledged."
Nestor de Buen, Anti-Science Humping in the Dog Park. https://conceptualdisinformation.substack.com/p/anti-science-humping-in-the-dog-park
"What is even more striking is that if the research had actually been conducted and the results showed what the paper says they show, there is absolutely no reason why it should not have been published. And moreover, what it proves is the opposite of what its intention is. It shows that one can make scientifically testable claims based on the conceptual framework of gender studies, and that the field has all the markings of a perfectly functional research programme."
"Yes, the dog park paper is based on false data and, like Sokal’s, contains a lot of unnecessary jargon, but it is not nonsense, and the distinction is far from trivial. Nonsense implies one cannot even obtain a truth value from a proposition. In fact, the paper being false, if anything, proves that it is not nonsense, yet the grievance hoaxers try to pass falsity as nonsense. Nonsense is something like Chomsky’s famous sentence “colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” It is nonsense because it is impossible to decide how one might evaluate whether it is true. A false sentence would be “the moon is cubical.” It has a definite meaning, it just happens not to be true.
"So, if the original Sokal Hoax is like Chomsky’s sentence, the dog park paper is much more like “the moon is cubical.” And in fact, a more accurate analogy would be “the moon is cubical and here is a picture that proves it,” and an attached doctored picture of the cubical moon."
Reviewer 2 Comments on the Dog-Park Paper
"I am a bit curious about your methodology. Can you say more? You describe your methods here (procedures for collecting data), but not really your overall approach to methodology. Did you just show up, observe, write copious notes, talk to people when necessary, and then leave? If so, it might be helpful to explicitly state this. It sounds to me like you did a kind of ethnography (methodology — maybe multispecies ethnography?) but that’s not entirely clear here. Or are you drawing on qualitative methods in social behaviorism/symbolic interactionism? In either case, the methodology chosen should be a bit more clearly articulated."
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Inside Higher Ed, "Blowback Against a Hoax." https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/08/author-recent-academic-hoax-faces-disciplinary-action-portland-state
Peter Boghossian Resignation Latter from PSU. https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/my-university-sacrificed-ideas-for
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This time, Daniel and Jack embark on a chat about Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman movie The Dark Knight. You know, it's the one with Heath Ledger as the Joker.
In a development that is depressingly less surprising than we wish it were, it turns out we have so much to say about this silly movie that this episode morphs into Part 1 of a two part discussion before our own astonished and frankly ashamed faces as we talk.
This episode focuses mainly on how the movie is a structural mess and a sometimes bafflingly incompetent bit of filmmaking. The next bit gets more into the themes and ideology.
Part 2 along soon.
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So, in rank defiance of our recent promise to 'get back to the nazis' instead we continue our James Lindsay coverage. (What... me? Irony? How dare you?) This time, Daniel patiently walks a distracted, slightly hyperactive, and increasingly incredulous Jack through the infamous 'Grievance Studies Hoax' (AKA 'Sokal Squared') in which Lindsay and colleagues Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian tried (and then claimed) to prove something or other about modern Humanities academia by submitting a load of stupid fake papers to various feminist and fat studies journals. As Daniel reveals, the episode was an orgy of dishonesty and tactical point-missing that actually proved the opposite of what the team of snickering tricksters thought they were proving. Sadly, however, because we live in Hell, the trio have only raised their profiles as a result. A particular highlight of the episode is Lindsay revealing his staggering ignorance when 'responding' to criticism.
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James Lindsay, New Discourses, "Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial."" https://newdiscourses.com/2021/06/why-you-can-be-transgender-but-not-transracial/
James Lindsay has a day job, apparently. "Maryville man walks path of healing and combat." https://www.thedailytimes.com/news/maryville-man-walks-path-of-healing-and-combat/article_5ea3c0ca-2e98-5283-9e59-06861b8588cb.html
Areo Magazine, Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship. https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/
Full listing of Grievance Studies Papers and Reviews. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19tBy_fVlYIHTxxjuVMFxh4pqLHM_en18
'Mein Kampf' and the 'Feminazis': What Three Academics' Hitler Hoax Really Reveals About 'Wokeness'. https://web.archive.org/web/20210328112901/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-hitler-hoax-academic-wokeness-culture-war-1.9629759
"First and foremost, the source material. The chapter the hoaxers chose, not by coincidence, one of the least ideological and racist parts of Hitler's book. Chapter 12, probably written in April/May 1925, deals with how the newly refounded NSDAP should rebuild as a party and amplify its program.
"According to their own account, the writers took parts of the chapter and inserted feminist "buzzwords"; they "significantly changed" the "original wording and intent” of the text to make the paper "publishable and about feminism." An observant reader might ask: what could possibly remain of any Nazi content after that? But no one in the media, apparently, did."
New Discourses, "There Is No Good Part of Hitler's Mein Kampf" https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/there-is-no-good-part-of-hitlers-mein-kampf/
On this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay, who helped to write the paper and perpetrate the Grievance Studies Affair, talks about the project and the creation of this particular paper at unprecedented length and in unprecedented detail, revealing Nilssen not to know what he’s talking about. If you have ever wondered about what the backstory of the creation of the “Feminist Mein Kampf” paper really was, including why its authors did it, you won’t want to miss this long-form discussion and rare response to yet another underinformed critic of Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose’s work.
The Grieveance Studies Affair Revealed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk9a5Jcd1k
Reviewer 1 Comments on Dog Park Paper
"page 9 - the human subjects are afforded anonymity and not asked about income, etc for ethical reasons. yet, the author as researcher intruded into the dogs' spaces to examine and record genitalia. I realize this was necessary to the project, but could the author acknowledge/explain/justify this (arguably, anthropocentric) difference? Indicating that it was necessary to the research would suffice but at least the difference should be acknowledged."
Nestor de Buen, Anti-Science Humping in the Dog Park. https://conceptualdisinformation.substack.com/p/anti-science-humping-in-the-dog-park
"What is even more striking is that if the research had actually been conducted and the results showed what the paper says they show, there is absolutely no reason why it should not have been published. And moreover, what it proves is the opposite of what its intention is. It shows that one can make scientifically testable claims based on the conceptual framework of gender studies, and that the field has all the markings of a perfectly functional research programme."
"Yes, the dog park paper is based on false data and, like Sokal’s, contains a lot of unnecessary jargon, but it is not nonsense, and the distinction is far from trivial. Nonsense implies one cannot even obtain a truth value from a proposition. In fact, the paper being false, if anything, proves that it is not nonsense, yet the grievance hoaxers try to pass falsity as nonsense. Nonsense is something like Chomsky’s famous sentence “colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” It is nonsense because it is impossible to decide how one might evaluate whether it is true. A false sentence would be “the moon is cubical.” It has a definite meaning, it just happens not to be true.
"So, if the original Sokal Hoax is like Chomsky’s sentence, the dog park paper is much more like “the moon is cubical.” And in fact, a more accurate analogy would be “the moon is cubical and here is a picture that proves it,” and an attached doctored picture of the cubical moon."
Reviewer 2 Comments on the Dog-Park Paper
"I am a bit curious about your methodology. Can you say more? You describe your methods here (procedures for collecting data), but not really your overall approach to methodology. Did you just show up, observe, write copious notes, talk to people when necessary, and then leave? If so, it might be helpful to explicitly state this. It sounds to me like you did a kind of ethnography (methodology — maybe multispecies ethnography?) but that’s not entirely clear here. Or are you drawing on qualitative methods in social behaviorism/symbolic interactionism? In either case, the methodology chosen should be a bit more clearly articulated."
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Inside Higher Ed, "Blowback Against a Hoax." https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/08/author-recent-academic-hoax-faces-disciplinary-action-portland-state
Peter Boghossian Resignation Latter from PSU. https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/my-university-sacrificed-ideas-for
We revisit the subject of our very first episode, Richard Spencer, catching up with his more recent exploits, all in an attempt to emphasize that a) he's still around, b) he's still dangerous, and c) he means what he says.
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Our previous episode on Richard Spencer, Episode 1
The New York Times, How a Small Town Silenced a Neo-Nazi Hate Campaign
Rafi Schwartz, Discourse Blog, America’s Top Nazi Is a Broke Little Booger Who Can’t Get a Table
- The punch, which prompted plenty of handwringing and pearl-clutching over whether or not it’s okay to ever punch a Nazi (it sure is!), occurred during what should have been the height of Spencer’s career as a full-time racist — the inauguration of Donald Trump. Instead, it forever branded him as “that Nazi who got his clock thoroughly cleaned” and helped define him as the ur-bigot of the Trump era. This, I think, is crucial to the arc of Spencer’s seeming cancelation by the people of Whitefish. It’s much easier to identify a Nazi — and identify what should be done to them — when that Nazi has already become an internet joke for both being a Nazi, and facing the consequences thereof. Were Spencer not memed into oblivion as “the Nazi who got smacked,” my guess is that it wouldn’t have been quite so easy to rally an entire community to oppose him. Yes, it would likely still have happened in some form, thanks to the sincerely hard work of both activists, and ordinary citizens on the ground in Whitefish and elsewhere, but I can’t help but think that the moment Spencer got blasted in the jaw, his cancelation, or silencing, or whatever doofy substitute for “getting what he deserves” became inevitable.
Tablet Mag, No, White Supremacist Richard Spencer Didn’t Seriously Endorse Joe Biden
- And yet, countless credulous accounts—many on the pro-Trump right, but also some on the anti-Biden left—uncritically shared Spencer’s posting as though it was on the level.
- That a disingenuous racist like Spencer would pretend to support Biden in order to get attention and undercut the former vice president is not surprising. What is surprising is how many people still fall for Spencer’s transparent trolling.
- In reality, Spencer and other white supremacists have a long history of purposely adopting their opponents’ causes and pretending to back them in order to undermine them. That’s exactly what Spencer did in 2018 by pretending to support “Zionism,” when he actually has a long history of hate towards both Israel and Jews, and claims that the Jewish state and its supporters control America.
Daily Progress, RIchard Spencer-led organization ordered to pay $2.4 million in Unite the RIght lawsuit
- The biggest sum was awarded last week by an Ohio judge who ordered the National Policy Institute to pay Burke $2,444,461.15 for the harm he suffered as a result of the rally. The white supremacist think tank, which is led by UTR participant and University of Virginia graduate Spencer, was found to be in default approximately a year ago.
Integrity First For America, Sines v. Kessler
Eat the Rich Episode 91 on William Regnery II
Paul Gottfried coins the term "alternative right."
Richard Spencer introduces Ron Paul at the Robert Taft Club, October 11, 2007.
Richard Spencer full NPI speech 2016, the origin of "Heilgate".
Full text of that speech
- We need to remind ourselves of these things. None of this is natural. None of this is “normal.” This is a sick, disgusting, society, run by the corrupt, defended by hysterics, drunk on self-hatred and degeneracy. We invade the world and frantically invite entire populations who despise us. We subsidize people and institutions who make our lives worse just by the sheer fact of their existence. We run up deficits and pretend the laws of history simply don’t apply to us because of “American Exceptionalism.”
- This cannot go on any longer. And it won’t.
- At some level, we demand the impossible. Even those half-joking memes about Donald Trump as God-Emperor or as the progenitor of some glorious Imperium testify to the yearning for something more. Yes, we should insist on our dreams – on the conquest of space, on the development of revolutionary technology, for a humanity that is greater than we are today, for a race that travels forever on the upward path.
- But at another level, what we want is something normal, something almost prosaic maybe even boring.
- Why is something as simple as starting a family, owning a house, and leaving a legacy to your children seen as an almost impossible dream for so many Americans? Why must there be two incomes for a family simply to break even? Why is it impossible to build a real civic society because the whim of a federal bureaucrat or a Social Justice Warrior can impose Section 8 housing, refugee resettlement, or some other population transfer scheme deliberately designed to break apart functional white communities?
Buzzfeed, Spencer's Wife Says in Divorce Filings that He Physically and Emotionally Abused Her
- The wife of Richard Spencer, the white nationalist leader, has accused him of being “physically, emotionally, verbally and financially abusive” throughout their marriage, according to divorce filings in Flathead County District Court in Montana.
- Nina Koupriianova, who married Spencer in August 2010 and has two young children with him, alleges that Spencer physically abused her, including instances where she was “being hit, being grabbed, being dragged around by her hair, being held down in a manner causing bruising, and being prevented from calling for help.”
- Koupriianova — who went by Kouprianova in some public interviews and N.K. in the documents — “has been reluctant to call police or seek an order of protection for fear of further reprisal by” Spencer, her lawyers said in court documents. “Much of the abuse has occurred in the presence of the parties’ children.”
So, we here at IDSG have lots of plans for the future. Good stuff is coming. But we need a bit longer to provide it. Just a little bit. So, to tide you over - because it's been a couple of weeks since you've heard from us - here's one of our bonus episodes, previously for Patreon backers only. (They got it months ago, along with seven other bonus episodes... consider bunging one or other of us a dollar a month for access to this exclusive bonus content.) This episode sees Daniel and myself, both Orson Welles fans, chatting about The Third Man. Enjoy, and see you soon with new material.
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Our friends Jeff Eaton and Kristin Rawls from the Christian Rightcast return to help us wrap up our Bret & Heather coverage, at least for now. Daniel takes us through the horrors of the 'Better Skeptics Project', Bret and Heather's escalating (yet crumbling) project of puffing Ivermectin as a Covid treatment, their spat with Yuri Deigin and Quillette, etc.
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Christian Rightcast https://rightcast.substack.com/
CHristian Rightcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/crightcast?lang=en
Kristin's Twitter https://twitter.com/kristinrawls
Jeff's Twitter https://twitter.com/eaton
Thread by Ben Collins on the origins of the Ivermectin craze: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1431040456364810242
Decoding the Gurus, Special Episode: Welcome to Weinstein World with special guest David Pizarro
Yuri Deigin, Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research
- Furin Cleavage Site
- Similarities to RaTG13
Dark Horse Episode 93: School of Rocks
"No such thing as a biologist" -- 40:50ish
Claire Berlinksi and Yuri Deigin, Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines
Sam Harris with Eric Topol, Making Sense Podcast #256, A Contagion of Bad Ideas
Rebel Wisdom YouTube
Rebel Wisdom, Better Skeptics for the Dark Horse
Rebel Wisdom, Ivermectin, For and Against, with Tess Lawrie, Graham Walker, and Gideo Meyerson-Katz
Rebel Wisdom, Eric Weinstein: Vaccines, Ivermectin, & Dark Horse
Rebel Wisdom, Yuri Deigin Responds to Bret Weinstein on Vaccines, Ivermectin, and Quillette
Rebel Wisdom, Vaccines and Dark Horse, an Investigation
Rebel Wisdom, Ivermectin, the Backstory of the FLCCC. Eric Osgood
David Fuller, Ivermectin -- For and Against, Briefing Document
David Fuller, On Bret Weinstein, Alternative Media, Ivermectin and Vaccine-Related Controversies
Megyn Kelly, Bret Weinstein on Tech Censorship, The Value of Conversation, and COVID Treatments
- Kirsch and Malone and the Other Side Starts around 17:20
The Better Skeptics Project
Alexandros Marinos Twitter
Alexandros Marinos [thread about Fuller and Better Skeptics]https://mobile.twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1422301544737738762?s=19
Alexandros Marinos thread about the Sam Harris/Eric Topol Making Sense
Better Skeptics, [Launching the 10K Ground Truth Challenge]https://www.betterskeptics.com/launching-the-10k-ground-truth-challenge/
- We think it is worthwhile to take full accounting of the quality of the statements uttered in these podcasts. This is almost 11 hours worth of live speech, so it would be unbelievable if the number of false statements is zero. Should some false statements be identified, it will be for the world to see how the interested parties react. We want to compose high-quality fact-checking from average-quality ingredients: normal people, with our own biases and internal contradictions.
- A detailed description of the challenge process and rules is available here. In a nutshell: Anyone who identifies what they believe is a false statement will be required to submit their claim to us via public Twitter message with a specified hashtag. Three referees will evaluate each submission across two rounds, and all submissions scoring 9 or above will be awarded the $100 prize.
Ground Truth Challenge: The Rules
We've chosen and transcribed four recent podcasts featuring Bret Weinstein which discussed COVID-19 vaccines and/or Ivermectin. These are:
- Covid, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century. June 1, 2021. Video - Transcript
- How to Save the World in Three Easy Steps. June 11, 2021. Video - Transcript
- Joe Rogan Experience #1671 - Bret Weinstein & Dr. Pierre Kory. June 22, 2021. Video - Transcript
- Bret and Heather 87th DarkHorse Podcast Livestream: We Must Drive this Virus to Extinction. July 12, 2021. Video - Transcript
Ground Truth Challenge: Results!
- So what of the outcome? In the end, only 3 challenges succeeded. Of these, two provided effective counter-arguments, not entirely refuting the target quote but providing sufficient counter-evidence to warrant narrowing or rephrasing it. The third is a straightforward factual error that was no longer true at the time of the podcast (see table below).
- The material consisted of 11 hours of live, unscripted speech put under extreme scrutiny, and with no prior warning to the speakers. We therefore feel it's remarkable that so few challenges ended up as successful - however, this was our first such challenge, so we have no point of comparison.
Natural Selections Substack, On Driving SARS-CoV-2 Extinct
- If we are interested in minimizing harm from SARS-CoV2, we need to use prophylaxis to force extinction. Prophylaxis refers to action taken before exposure to prevent an event. A condom is prophylaxis against pregnancy. Doxycycline is prophylaxis against malaria. Vaccines and repurposed drugs such as ivermectin have both been presented as prophylaxis against Covid-19. In order to clear our planet of SARS-CoV2, we need safe and effective prophylaxis distributed so widely that it drives the virus to extinction.
- How we do this is up for debate, and of course there will be disagreement along the way. Some people, including the authors of a recently published Quillette article, see one and only one way forward: vaccination of every person with access to currently authorized vaccines. Other people, including ourselves, believe that the current vaccines—which are non-sterilizing, cannot quickly reach the entire world, and provide only narrow, short-lived immunity—cannot accomplish the goal, not even in principle. Any viable strategy for extinguishing SARS-CoV-2 in the near term must therefore include effective prophylaxis beyond the current crop of authorized vaccines. For now that means drugs taken to prevent infection for those who are unvaccinated and who have not had a confirmed case of Covid (and therefore lack natural immunity). It may also require prophylactic medicine for vaccinated people as fading vaccine-induced immunity and new variants evolving in response to the vaccination campaign render the current vaccines ever less effective.
- This is a departure for us, running exactly counter to our typical expectations. Ordinarily, we are enthusiastic about vaccines and decidedly skeptical about pills. On this issue though, with these vaccines, our position has flipped. There are several reasons for this: the novel and non-sterilizing nature of the vaccines being deployed, the potential for perverse incentives involved in a vaccine only strategy, emerging concerns about vaccine safety, and the logistical reality that vaccines alone cannot, and will not, get the job done. In addition, the most promising prophylactic medicine is also extremely well known, with a four-decade long and unusually clean global safety record. This reasoning is discussed in episode #87of our podcast.
Gideon M-K thread on the Carvallo ivermectin study.
- "20/n Given that the graphical and written representations of the primary outcome of the study appear to conflict, and the results tables differ between the pre-registration and the publication, it is worth asking whether this study even took place at all"
Gideon M-K at his Medium, Ivermectin Shows No Clear Benefit in the Treatment of Covid-19
- The new study in question is called the Together Clinical Trials, and it’s a truly amazing collaboration between a number of universities and research groups to study the effects of repurposed drugs on people with Covid-19 who attend hospitals as outpatients.
- Basically, they look at people who are at moderate risk but are experiencing relatively mild disease, randomize them to either get one of several drugs or a placebo, and then see if those drugs have any benefit in treating Covid-19. The full protocol is a masterpiece of science—well worth reading if you’re interested in trial design.
- This trial has already demonstrated that hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir are unlikely to be beneficial treatments for people with Covid-19 in outpatient settings and, because of the hype around ivermectin, had included the drug in a treatment arm to see if it worked. The results from that part of the trial, including over 1,300 patients, were released in summary form late this afternoon.
- They showed no benefit for ivermectin in the treatment of Covid-19. None whatsoever.
Gideon M-K, Medium post Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research? Part 2
- Most research is OK — it has some virtues, some oversights, some charms, some flaws. Some is excellent and transformative, some is terrible and harmful. When I first became interested in ivermectin, an anti-parasitic medication being tested for Covid-19, I expected a combo plate of the above — just like everything else.
- Maybe, and this is a worst-case scenario, a few cheeky papers that had been doctored or altered noticeably, something bad enough to leave a clue.
- I did not expect what has happened, what is happening.
- I hesitate to put this into words, because it scares me, and because I know the consequences of such statements. But there is no sugar thick enough to coat this:
- Ivermectin literature contains a staggering volume of scientific fraud. Not mistakes, or oversights, or gilded lilies. Fraud.
- My sincere opinion is that at least a third of the evidence supporting the use of ivermectin as a Covid-19 therapeutic is not just ‘ based on shaky data’, but consists of studies that may never have happened at all.
Dark Horse 94, Is It Later Than We Think?
- Around 26:00, repudiating the Carvallo et al paper.
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With - once again - apologies for the gap between episodes, here is a very special edition in which Daniel plays host to Kristin Rawls and Jeff Eaton of the excellent Christian Rightcast podcast, to chat about the areas where their work - on the Christian Right, if the name of their show didn't tip you off - intersects with ours. Lots of laughs in this chat about depressingly awful people.
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Hbomberguy on Davis Aurini https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hbomberguy+davis+aurini
ADDENDUM by Kristin:
"...[S]omething I was trying to get out yesterday didn't come through about the Reconstructionists, which is that... Yes, they think of themselves as the intellectuals of the Christian Right, but we aren't really agreeing with their assessment. And it's partly that they think charismatic/pentacostalism is "fairly tale nonsense," which is a direct quote from Rushdoony. Yes, that's racialized. But it's partly also that he thought he was better and more intellectual than institutions like Liberty because, like, he actually read books and was steeped in classics (this is where the pseudo-intellectual sheen of it comes from, which is a big thing that Wilson has carried on in starting the classical Christian school movement and a Great Books college). Those colleges are of course dead white man studies and nothing more than that, but it's kind of unusual in the Christian Right to actually read books. Which is to say, if there is any way in which their self-assessment is accurate, it's because the entire Christian Right is fundamentally anti-intellectual. This makes them unique for reading Plato.
"So, it's partly that they're anti-charismatic in racialized ways (although the huge charismatic megachurches like Hillsong that get a lot of their scorn are VERY white). They also think Liberty and similar institutions are embarrassing, and they're embarrassed by "red state America" even though Wilson said "it's all we've got right now." This is about their pseudo-intellectual veneer and also has to do with classism and stereotypes about red state rednecks. It's all of a piece. They think they're better than the rest of the Christian Right and are heirs to some great Christian culture that they're going to rebuild by reconstructing all of life under "God's law." All of this is why they dovetail so easily with IDW people and racist defenders of "Western civilization.""
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Bret and Heather and Ivermectin. Oh my.
IDSG returns from it's 17 year absence with a banger of an episode in which Daniel dishes out THE FUCKING TEA on Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying (again) and their irresponsible spreading (in hushed, reasonable voices) of potentially lethal conspiracy theories and bad science re Covid, Wuhan, vaccines, and Ivermectin.
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Show Notes:
Bret Weinstein Odysee
Bret interviews Yuri Deigin.
Yuri Deigin, Lab Made? SARS-CoV-2 Geneaology Through the Lens of Gain of Function Research
Indeed, virologists, including the leader of coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Shi Zhengli, have done many similar things in the past — both replacing the RBM in one type of virus by an RBM from another, or adding a new furin site that can provide a species-specific coronavirus with an ability to start using the same receptor (e.g. ACE2) in other species. In fact, Shi Zhengli’s group was creating chimeric constructs as far back as 2007 and as recently as 2017, when they created a whole of 8 new chimeric coronaviruses with various RBMs. In 2019 such work was in full swing, as WIV was part of a $3.7 million NIH grant titled Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence. Under its auspices, Shi Zhengli co-authored a 2019 paper that called for continued research into synthetic viruses and testing them in vitro and in vivo:
Bret and Heather on Real Time with Bill Mahr on the Lab-Leak Hypothesis
CLIP (Bret and Heather on BIll Maher Lab Leak) – starts at beginning of clip.
Andersen, et al. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh coronavirus known to infect humans; SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 can cause severe disease, whereas HKU1, NL63, OC43 and 229E are associated with mild symptoms6. Here we review what can be deduced about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 from comparative analysis of genomic data. We offer a perspective on the notable features of the SARS-CoV-2 genome and discuss scenarios by which they could have arisen. Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.
Garry, Robert. [Early appearance of two distinct genomic lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in different Wuhan wildlife markets suggests SARS-CoV-2 has a natural origin](https://virological.org/t/early-appearance-of-two-distinct-genomic-lineages-of-sars-cov-2-in-different-wuhan-wildlife-markets-suggests-sars-cov-2-has-a-natural-origin/691
This Week in Virology 762: SARS-Cov-2 origins with Robert Garry
CLIP (Two Covid Lineages in Wuhan Market) – Starts about 39:00 in TWIV762
potholer54, Did SARS-Cov-2 start in a Chinese Lab?
potholer54, More “man-made” SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak malarky
Scott Gavura, Science Based Medicine, “Ivermectin is the New Hydroxychloroquine”
There has been interest in ivermectin since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, because it was observed that at high concentrations it had antiviral properties against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
However, there was an important red flag in that finding. A few weeks after the initial finding was published, a short paper appeared in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology that described the considerations for using ivermectin as an antiviral. While it acknowledged the antiviral properties of high concentrations of the drug in laboratory (in vitro) experiments, it noted that it would likely not be possible to achieve the same concentrations of the drug in the plasma of the blood, because the drug itself is tightly bound to blood proteins. Even giving 8.5 x the FDA-approved dose (1700mcg/kg) resulted in blood concentrations far below the dose identified that offered antiviral effects:
This Week in Virology 766: The Corona Project with David Fajgenbaum
CORONA project 18:58, 46:32
“How To Save the World in Three Easy Steps”
Clip “Ivermectin End the Pandemic” – starts around 3:30
Bret Weinstein, “COVID, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century - DarkHorse Podcast with Pierre Kory & Bret Weinstein”
With Dr. Robert Malone (invented mRNA vaccine technology) and Mr. Steve Kirsch.
Clip “Bret Doctors as Scientists from CotC” – Starts around 19:00
With Pierre Kory
Science Based Medicine, Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, take 2
Last week, über-quack Joe Mercola published an article entitled “COVID, Ivermectin and the Crime of the Century“, naming it after an episode of Bret Weinstein’s podcast. It features an interview with Dr. Pierre Kory, one of the most prominent proponents of ivermectin for COVID-19 by evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein, who has become prominent as a COVID-19 contrarian and spreader of disinformation, particularly about the “lab leak theory” of SARS-CoV-2 origins and now likes to Tweet about “persecution” by Twitter:
It also turns out that Dr. Pierre Kory is president of the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) and has testified before Congress. During that testimony, Dr. Kory claimed that ivermectin, used with other medicines such as vitamin C, zinc and melatonin, could “save hundreds of thousands of people,” and cited more than 20 studies.
The narrative of Mercola’s article is eerily similar to the narratives we heard about hydroxychloroquine a year ago, namely that ivermectin is a cheap, safe, and effective drug that “they” don’t want you to know about that could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives if not for doctors’ fetish for randomized clinical trials.
Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, part three
Before I move on to more of the ivermectin conspiracy theorists and potential reasons for them, I can’t help but repeat what I’ve been saying all along about ivermectin. Combining preclinical studies that show antiviral activity against SARS-C0V-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in vitro (cell culture) but only at much higher concentrations of ivermectin than can be achieved with safe doses in the bloodstream with the equivocal clinical trial results lead to a conclusion that this drug almost certainly does not work to treat COVID-19. This is particularly likely given that the highest quality existing randomized controlled clinical trials of ivermectin are all basically negative. I note that when I discussed how poor the evidence for hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 was, I routinely received criticism that I “wanted patients to die” and was “hoping” that the drug didn’t work. I’m getting some of the same nonsense now that I’ve finally been prodded to write about ivermectin. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even though, now that there are safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, the need for a cheap and effective drug that can treat COVID-19 is not as desperate as it was a year ago, it is still acute given how large swaths of the globe still do not have access to the vaccines. Moreover, now that Oxford University has added ivermectin to the protocol of its massive PRINCIPLE Trial of treatments for COVID-19, it is possible that there might turn out to be a benefit due to ivermectin in treating COVID-19, clearly just not as massive as claimed by advocates and conspiracy theorists. I’d be just fine with that, as I would have been overjoyed if hydroxychloroquine had been shown to be as effective as its advocates had claimed it was. It’s just that, right now, the evidence is trending strongly in favor of the conclusion that ivermectin, like hydroxychloroquine before it, doesn’t work against COVID-19 in humans.
Gideon M-K; Health Nerd
What this means is that, if you exclude some of the low-quality research on ivermectin, the paper goes from showing a massive benefit to no benefit at all. On top of this, there’s an interesting point — even if you don’t agree with these assessments, taking the only three studies that the authors of the meta-analysis considered to be at a “low risk of bias” (i.e. high-quality), you find that these high-quality studies have failed to find any benefit for ivermectin. In other words, while the conclusions the authors came to are very positive, the results section of the paper seems to show that the evidence for ivermectin might not be strong after all. The devil really is in the details with research like this.
Jack Lawrence aka TimPoolClips Why Was a Major Study on Ivermectin for COVID-19 Just Retracted?
Even if the paper’s authors end up providing an innocent explanation for all this it would be puzzling why it took them so long to notice their error. Whether the final story is one of purposeful fabrication or a series of escalating mistakes involving training or test datasets, this research group has still screwed up in a big way.
Although science trends towards self-correction, something is clearly broken in a system that can allow a study as full of problems as the Elgazzar paper to run unchallenged for seven months. Thousands of highly educated scientists, doctors, pharmacists, and at least four major medicines regulators missed a fraud so apparent that it might as well have come with a flashing neon sign. That this all happened amid an ongoing global health crisis of epic proportions is all the more terrifying. For those reading this article, its findings may serve as a wake-up call. For those who died after taking a medication now shown to be even more lacking in positive evidence, it’s too late. Science has corrected, but at what cost?
Ivermectin is the new hydoxychloroquine, take four
Of course, as Meyerowitz-Katz observed, just the results of the study raised a lot of red flags. Elgazzar 2020, if you take the authors at their word, enrolled over 400 people with COVID-19 and 200 close personal contacts and allocated them either to ivermectin or placebo groups, reporting that ivermectin treatment decreased mortality from COVID-19 by a whopping 90%. As Meyerowitz-Katz observed, if this were true, that would make ivermectin the “most incredibly effective treatment ever to be discovered in modern medicine.” While as a physician I might quibble about that a bit (we do have treatments that are greater than 90% effective at eliminating the diseases or conditions that they treat, especially a number of vaccines), he is correct if you restricted this to antiviral drugs. If this study’s results were accurate and generalizable, ivermectin would be the most most incredibly effective antiviral treatment ever to be discovered. That result alone should have raised a number of red flags, and it did among authors doing meta-analyses who were not ivermectin advocates from the BIRD Group or the FLCCC, which is why they excluded it from their analyses.
Meilssa Davey at The Guardian Huge sttudy supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn over ethical concerns
A medical student in London, Jack Lawrence, was among the first to identify serious concerns about the paper, leading to the retraction. He first became aware of the Elgazzar preprint when it was assigned to him by one of his lecturers for an assignment that formed part of his master’s degree. He found the introduction section of the paper appeared to have been almost entirely plagiarised.
It appeared that the authors had run entire paragraphs from press releases and websites about ivermectin and Covid-19 through a thesaurus to change key words. “Humorously, this led to them changing ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome’ to ‘extreme intense respiratory syndrome’ on one occasion,” Lawrence said.
The data also looked suspicious to Lawrence, with the raw data apparently contradicting the study protocol on several occasions.
“The authors claimed to have done the study only on 18-80 year olds, but at least three patients in the dataset were under 18,” Lawrence said.
Dark Horse 85: YouTube and The Truman Faux Medical Show
CLIP “DH85 Save Three Kill Two” – Starts Around 50:00
Dark Horse 86: They’ve Got That Covered
CLIP “DH86 Retraction” – Starts around 19:00
“Scientists quit journal board, protesting ‘grossly irresponsible’ study claiming COVID-19 vaccines kill”
Several reputed virologists and vaccinologists have resigned as editors of the journal Vaccines to protest its 24 June publication of a peer-reviewed article that misuses data to conclude that “for three deaths prevented by [COVID-19] vaccination, we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination.”
Since Friday, at least six scientists have resigned positions as associate or section editors with Vaccines, including Florian Krammer, a virologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Katie Ewer, an immunologist at the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford who was on the team that developed the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Their resignations were first reported by Retraction Watch.
“The data has been misused because it makes the (incorrect) assumption that all deaths occurring post vaccination are caused by vaccination,” Ewer wrote in an email. “[And] it is now being used by anti-vaxxers and COVID-19-deniers as evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are not safe. [This] is grossly irresponsible, particularly for a journal specialising in vaccines.”
The paper is a case of “garbage in, garbage out,” says Helen Petousis-Harris, a vaccinologist who directs the Vaccine Datalink and Research Group at the University of Auckland and who also resigned as a Vaccines editor after reading the paper. Diane Harper, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who was founding editor-in-chief of Vaccines, also resigned, as did Paul Licciardi, an immunologist at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Parkville, Australia, and Andrew Pekosz, a respiratory virologist at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Epoch Times, Dr. Bret Weinstein, “Perverse Incentives in the Vaccine Rollout and the Censhorship of Science”
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Anna Merlan at Vic; two excellent summaries:
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'Why Is the Intellectual Dark Web Suddenly Hyping an Unproven COVID Treatment?' https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5z5y/why-is-the-intellectual-dark-web-suddenly-hyping-an-unproven-covid-treatment
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'The Ivermectin Advocates' War Has Just Begun' https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d5gv/ivermectin-covid-treatment-advocates-rogan-weinstein-hecker
Jef Rouner at Houston Press on Bret https://www.houstonpress.com/news/a-possible-new-anti-vaccine-scam-is-on-the-rise-11591162
Decoding the Gurus on Bret & Heather and Ivermectin https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/brett-heather-weinstein-why-are-they-suppressing-ivermectin-the-miracle-cure
Bret platforms Geert Vanden Bossche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyAovuUxro&t=6s
Vaxopedia on Geert Vanden Bossche https://vaxopedia.org/2021/03/14/who-is-geert-vanden-bossche/?fbclid=IwAR3u1myW15pERVxvcopv5NlWBr12QakfzVMHsoHHopLuJWKSUGfockqYhBo
ZDoggMD on Geert Vanden Bossche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEyQi__zTuo
Potholer54 on Covid and vaccines etc https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL82yk73N8eoWneZjR0wiidhGkAMOeIYAS
QAnon Anonymous feat. scientist on 'Lab Leak' theory https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/unlocked-premium-episode-129-lab-leak-hypothesis-feat-dr-alex-greninger
Citations Needed Pod vaccine inequality https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=vaccine
Clip from start; Charlie Kirk cites Bret to Tucker Carlson https://twitter.com/uberfeminist/status/1418033997398020102
Eiynah's panel on 'Mergegate' (feat. D. Harper) Part 1 https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/panel-24-defending-new-atheism-maybe-just-dont-pt-1
Daniel's guest appearance on Decoding the Gurus https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-episode-interview-with-daniel-harper-on-the-far-right-idw-criticism
It's been a while since we released a new episode and, for one reason and another, it's going to be a little while before we release another (though we still hope to make our monthly quota of two new public episodes and one new backer-only bonus) so, to tide you over, and make sure you don't forget about us, here's the first of our bonus episodes - on Peter Watkins' Punishment Park (1971) - originally released exclusively for our patrons back in January. If you wish you'd been able to hear this six months ago, consider bunging us some cash.
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Content Warnings.
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For Episode 89, Jack takes a break and Daniel chats with Geraldine Moriba and Jamila Paksima of the excellent Sounds Like Hate podcast.
Content warnings, as ever.
Podcast Notes:
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Sounds Like Hate official website https://soundslikehate.org/
Geraldine Moriba [Twitter] https://twitter.com/GeraldineMoriba
Jamila Paksima [Twitter] https://twitter.com/JamilaPaksima
Justen Watkins and Alfred Gorman [arrested] https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mme4/a-leader-of-neo-nazi-terror-group-the-base-was-just-arrested-in-michigan
And so, episode 88 is finally here. And we found the best way to deal with it.
In this episode, we welcome back the brilliant Eiynah Mohammed-Smith - of the Polite Conversations podcast - to talk about the long shadow of New Atheism. In the process we also talk about some of the crop of IDW-criticism proliferating these days, and our issues with it. We also talk about other things. Rude things. Jack blushes
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Polite Conversations Soundcloud
Eiynah on Twitter
Eiynah’s Patreon
Friendly IDWsphere photo tweet
Video connected to those photos.
4chan hate campaign against kink at pride
Richard Dawkins wants to lovebomb Iran — with erotica
James Lindsay “Woke Jews” tweet
James Damore at Portland State (2/17/18)
- Event hosted by Andy Ngo, introduced by Bret Weinstein. Heather Heying, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian were the panelists. Event disrupted by protestors, which made international news.
Anti-Trans Bills and the Bigoted History of “What About The Children” - SOME MORE NEWS
Eve Fairbanks, The Reasonable Rebels
Donna Minkowitz, Why Racists (And Liberals!) Keep Writing for Quellette
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
Wikipedia, Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries
- The US incarceration rate peaked in 2008 when about 1,000 in 100,000 U.S. adults were behind bars. That’s 760 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents of all ages.[27][25] This incarceration rate was similar to the average incarceration levels in the Soviet Union during the existence of the infamous Gulag system, when the Soviet Union’s population reached 168 million, and 1.2 to 1.5 million people were in the Gulag prison camps and colonies (i.e. about 714 to 892 imprisoned per 100,000 USSR residents, according to numbers from Anne Applebaum and Steven Rosefielde).[37][38] Some of the latter Soviet Union’s yearly incarceration rates from 1934 to 1953, however, likely were the world’s historically highest for a modern age country.[39] In The New Yorker article The Caging of America (2012), Adam Gopnik writes: “Over all, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag under Stalin at its height.”[40]
Adam Gopnik, “The Caging of America”
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Downfall at Wikipedia
Traudl Junge at Wikipedia
Hitler Downfall Parody Memes
Ian Kershaw on Downfall
- Does it help us to understand Hitler any better? My own feeling is that, brilliant though the portrayal is, it does not. It is hard to see how it could - or, indeed, what great enlightenment it would bring if we did know him better (whatever that means). Would we then have a clearer grasp of his hold over the German people, or why so many intelligent individuals in positions of authority were prepared to put his wishes into practice? At any rate, no amount of intuitive acting is likely to make him any more intelligible to audiences which cannot possibly enter his warped mentality. His life has been scrutinised as scarcely no one else’s, but an inner core is still unfathomable. Hitler will always remain in some senses an enigma.
Christian Berkel at Wikipedia
- Bartender “Eric” in Inglourious Basterds, Ernst-Günther Schenck in Downfall.
Alfred Zech at Wikipedia
AP History 2019 Exam Questions
- Not even a mention of WWII.
The Massaging of History by David Cesarani and Peter Longerich https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/apr/07/germany.secondworldwar
"The film Downfall relies on memoirs written by Hitler's allies to distance themselves from Nazism"
In this bumper edition, we begin a projected trilogy of episodes on James Lindsay, Twitter's favourite anti-Critical Race Theory obsessive and bullying prick.
This time, we track the earlier part of James' career as a professional reactionary, leading up to the embarassing 'Conceptual Penis hoax' of which James still seems inexplicably proud.
Daniel demonstrates (to a Jack still groggy from all the AstraZeneca nanobots coursing through his brain) that James was pretty much always the obnoxious douchebag he is now, but simply needed to learn through experience (of being called on his bullshit) how to successfully present his obnoxious douchebaggery as a profound quest to save Western civilisation from standpoint epistemology or something.
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James Lindsay [Twitter] https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames
James Lindsay [Wikipedia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Lindsay
James Lindsay's PhD Dissertation, [Combinatorial Unification of Binomial-Like Arrays] https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/723/
Joe Rogan - Exposing Social Justice with Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlqU_JMTzd4
CPAC 2021: James Lindsay on How Critical Theories Work to 'Tear Apart' the Values of America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad5ldf8jXI8
Serious Inquiries Only (formerly Atheistically Speaking) https://seriouspod.com/
AS83, Category 5 Shitstorms, with James Lindsay http://atheisticallyspeaking.com/as83-category-5-shitstorms-james-lindsay/
AS84, James LIndsay Part Two http://atheisticallyspeaking.com/as84-james-lindsay-part-2/
Peter Boghossian "Proud of Being Gay" [Tweet] https://web.archive.org/web/20150501060350if_/https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/527862167152758784
James Lindsay, [Not Pride and Not Prejudice: Is "Pride" Right for Uses Like "Gay Pride?"] https://web.archive.org/web/20170717143654/http://goddoesnt.blogspot.com/2014/10/not-pride-and-not-prejudice-is-pride.html
"Knowing him, and having bothered to discuss it with him more thoroughly, Peter's point is that the term "pride" carries certain meanings (here: in reference to achievement, in particular) that may make it somewhat inappropriate to apply to a concept like "gay pride." As he has done in the past--controversially with groups wedded to certain other terms and ideas connected with them--he has asked for a disambiguation of the term "pride" in this context. Perhaps unsurprisingly, though for some legitimate reasons, there was a rather substantial blowback to his request to carefully consider the terminology being employed as dispassionately as possible."
Greta Christina, [Peter Boghossian, and What Gay Pride Actually Means] https://the-orbit.net/greta/2014/11/01/peter-boghossian-and-what-gay-pride-actually-means/
"Okay. Fine. As a fully licensed and registered LGBT person, I will spell out to Peter Boghossian what, exactly, “gay pride” means. (Actually, to be precise, I will point out what “LGBT pride” means.)
"LGBT pride does not mean being proud of having been born lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans.
"It means being proud of having survived.
"It means being proud of living in a homophobic, biphobic, transphobic society — a society that commonly treats us with contempt at best and violent hatred at worst — and still getting on with our lives. It means being proud of flourishing, in a society that commonly thinks we’re broken. It means being proud of being happy, in a society that commonly thinks we should be miserable. It means being proud of being good and compassionate, in a society that commonly thinks we’re wicked. It means being proud of fighting for our rights and the rights of others like us, in a society that commonly thinks we should lie down and let ourselves get walked on — or that thinks we should be grateful for crumbs and not ask for more. It means being proud of retaining our dignity, in a society that commonly treats us as laughing-stocks. It means being proud of loving our sexuality and our bodies, in a society that commonly thinks our sexuality and our bodies are disgusting. It means being proud of staying alive, in a society that commonly beats us down and wants us dead."
AS191: Everybody Is Wrong About God, with James Lindsay http://atheisticallyspeaking.com/as/
AS192: Everybody Is Wrong About God, Part 2 http://atheisticallyspeaking.com/as192-everybody-is-wrong-about-god-part-2/
David Chivers, ["Book Review: James A. Lindsay's Everybody is Wrong About God"] https://thehumanist.com/arts_entertainment/books/book-review-james-lindsays-everybody-wrong-god/
"Given that Lindsay feels most people don’t intellectually believe in God anymore, his next main inquiry is an exploration of what people do mean when they say they “believe” in God. He argues that most of these people are actually articulating a more subtle need for community, comfort, and a set of morals, which they then equate with God. God is the embodiment of their ideas on what makes a good life. But once personified, they confuse their ideas of what makes for a good life with the actual individual they have created and then stubbornly argue for the existence of the said character, i.e. “God.”
"Lindsay calls on atheists to recognize this phenomenon and change their arguments accordingly, addressing the needs that God personifies for the person rather than the actual belief in God. This is the next step of “post-theism.” Society must find ways to fulfill those needs in a secular way. Once those needs are addressed and met in those other ways, the need for “God” will quickly and naturally fall away."
AS237: James Lindsay and Eli Bosnick on Social Justice http://atheisticallyspeaking.com/as237-james-lindsay-eli-bosnick-social-justice/)
AS238: Eli and James, Part 2 http://atheisticallyspeaking.com/as238-eli-james-part-2/
AS239: Eli and James on Trigger Warnings http://atheisticallyspeaking.com/as239-eli-james-trigger-warnings/
Crisis and Trigger Warnings: Reflections on Legal Education and the Social Value of the Law https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4076&context=cklawreview
"Abstract: In the same moment that law schools are embracing neoliberal strategies in response to the economic crisis caused by declining admissions, students in the classroom have begun to agitate for advance content notices (or “trigger warnings”) to alert them to any potentially trauma-inducing course materials. For faculty who have already adopted a defensive posture in response to threats to eliminate tenure, this demand feels like an additional assault on academic freedom; one that reflects a distressing student-as-consumer mentality. From this vantage point, students are too easily cast as another group of adversaries when, in actuality, students are straw targets who have little power compared to the real threat—the unchecked corporatization of legal education. This essay attempts to redirect faculty outrage back to the proper mark by decoupling the trigger-warning movement from the broader phenomenon of the neoliberal law school. It presents an alternate reading of trigger-warning mandates: as a student critique of legal pedagogy that demands access and opportunity for all students to fully engage in classroom discussions that can be difficult and are often painful. Trigger warnings give lie to the myth that law is based on dispassionate and objective legal analysis. Seen this way, trigger warnings invite students to become partners in the production of knowledge, while allowing faculty to maintain intellectually rigorous classroom environments. Faculty cannot afford to view students as antagonists. Instead, students should be enlisted as allies in our efforts to challenge the orthodoxy of market-based solutions to the legal education crisis."
Katie J.M. Baker, "Teaching Rape Law in the Age of the Trigger Warning." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiejmbaker/teaching-rape-law-in-the-age-of-the-trigger-warning
"You're in a Harvard Law classroom, which is supposed to be this advanced, high-minded environment, and when we got to rape, the conversation totally devolved into bullshit," one Harvard Law graduate said. "I don't need to pay Harvard tuition to hear men be dumbasses."
"Criminal law is a required class, so even students who want to practice tax law or litigate intellectual property cases must participate in "rape week." It also means that professors who aren't necessarily experts in the field sometimes teach it. For many students, that's where the problems start.
"Some hate when professors insist on using the Socratic method, a common law school teaching practice in which students are cold-called and mercilessly questioned, because a rape survivor might have to argue an accused rapist's case. Others don't understand why professors engage with students who make insensitive remarks about victims such as "What if she looked older than 12?" or "Is it still rape if it wasn't consensual but he really thought it was?" instead of shutting them down. Some law students even told BuzzFeed News that they chose to skip their "rape week" classes completely rather than seethe in silence."
AS296: Life in the Light of Death, with James Lindsay http://atheisticallyspeaking.com/as296-life-light-death-james-lindsay/
SIO44: Debunking the Conceptual Penis Stunt with Eli Bosnick https://seriouspod.com/sio44-debunking-the-conceptual-penis-stunt-with-eli-bosnick/
SIO45: James Lindsay, Co-Author of the ‘Conceptual Penis’ Hoax Paper https://seriouspod.com/sio45-james-lindsay-co-author-of-the-conceptual-penis-hoax-paper/
Very Bad Wizards https://www.verybadwizards.com/
VBW Episode 116: Pain, Pleasure, and Peer-Reviewed Penises https://www.verybadwizards.com/116
VBW Episode 118: We Don't Love Them Hoax https://www.verybadwizards.com/118
The conceptual penis as a social construct https://www.skeptic.com/downloads/conceptual-penis/23311886.2017.1330439.pdf
"We conclude that penises are not best understood as the male sexual organ, or as a male reproductive organ, but instead as an enacted social construct that is both damaging and problematic for society and future generations. The conceptual penis presents significant problems for gender identity and reproductive identity within social and family dynamics, is exclusionary to disenfranchised communities based upon gender or reproductive identity, is an enduring source of abuse for women and other gender-marginalized groups and individuals, is the universal performative source of rape, and is the conceptual driver behind much of climate change.
"An explicit isomorphic relationship exists between the conceptual penis and the most problematic themes in toxic masculinity, and that relationship is mediated by the machismo braggadocio aspect of male hypermasculine thought and performance. A change in our discourses in science, technol-ogy, policy, economics, society, and various communities is needed to protect marginalized groups, promote the advancement of women, trans, and gender-queer individuals (including non-gendered and gender-skeptical people), and to remedy environmental impacts that follow from climate change driven by capitalist and neocapitalist overreliance on hypermasculine themes and exploitative utilization of fossil fuels."
Skeptic Magazine [writeup] https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/conceptual-penis-social-contruct-sokal-style-hoax-on-gender-studies/
"Assuming the pen names “Jamie Lindsay” and “Peter Boyle,” and writing for the fictitious “Southeast Independent Social Research Group,” we wrote an absurd paper loosely composed in the style of post-structuralist discursive gender theory. The paper was ridiculous by intention, essentially arguing that penises shouldn’t be thought of as male genital organs but as damaging social constructions. We made no attempt to find out what “post-structuralist discursive gender theory” actually means. We assumed that if we were merely clear in our moral implications that maleness is intrinsically bad and that the penis is somehow at the root of it, we could get the paper published in a respectable journal."
Charmaine Chua, The Slow Boat to China https://thedisorderofthings.com/2015/01/05/the-slow-boat-to-china/
"The captain tells me that the Ever Cthulhu, like all other ships, never stops for a break. It continues traversing the globe’s surface in 45-day rotations, reaching one end of its route and turning around almost immediately. Container ships are monuments that move, and 100, 000 of them ply the oceans at any given moment. In 2014, the Ever Cthulhu traveled a total of 103,000 sea miles — halfway to the moon. All that distance, all that steel, all that power. Yet, even ships as large as these require very little human labor: a few seamen to navigate, engineers to monitor the ship’s internal workings, others to keep watch, clean, fit, change the oil. The Ever Cthulhu itself has a crew of 22 men – four German, one Polish, seventeen Filipino, and one passenger: myself. Across the world’s ocean, 1.5 million invisible seafarers toil on three to nine month contracts to bind the world together through trade, though they remain, for the most part, isolated in their cabins and mess rooms, retained on precarious short-term contracts, and kept away from their families – indeed, from most of the world. The third mate, a young Filipino, tells me that all his sacrifices are worth it for a salary that pays much more than he could possibly hope for on land. In some sense then, as a container of both aspiration and drudgery, one might think of the ship more as a space than an object; a floating island of both hard labor and the possibility of better futures.
"This trans-pacific passage is of particular interest to me because it is by far North America’s largest trade lane, and accounts for nearly twenty million TEUs in U.S. trade alone. This U.S.-China market is dominated by large U.S. retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, and Home Depot – companies notorious for cutting labor costs by using the enhanced mobility of labor to shift work to third parties, erecting cruel hierarchies in both their Chinese factories and U.S. stores. Transoceanic shipping is, in large part, responsible for these widening inequalities: since shipping operates beyond the territorial spaces governed by labor regulations, it allows corporations to do away with the hard-fought democratic and labor rights struggled for and earned within local labor contexts. The internationalization of the supply chain, in other words, is aided by increasing innovations in the speed and efficiency of the shipping market. As a result, circulation has been folded into the production process, becoming a field of experimentation for value-generation in its own right. Of course, there are highly uneven aspects to this story of logistics. Even as members of the International Longshore and Workers Union negotiate their contract under embattled circumstances on the west coast of North America, indentured truck drivers struggle against overwhelming legal barriers to unionization in Oakland and LA, port workers in mushrooming Chinese ports can scarcely dream of ILWU wages or safeguards, and factory workers around the world toil under the poverty line. The world of logistics looks very different indeed from the perspective of Taiwan, California, or the Ocean."
You're Wrong About podcast on Political Correctness: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/8355175-political-correctness
Samuel Hoadley-Brill on James Lindsay and CRT: https://conceptualdisinformation.substack.com/p/james-lindsay-v-critical-race-theory?r=7v05d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy
In this News Roundup episode, we take a look at the 'debate' between Professor Richard Wolff (public face of Marxism these days, sadly) and 'Destiny' (AKA Steven Bonnell II), a liberal YouTube livestreamer, and Bonnell's total lack of real and honest curiosity about socialism. We then take a look at Nick Fuentes' extremely not mad reaction to YouTuber Thought Slime's video about him, and discover various things about Nick, including why he doesn't believe in dinosaurs. Or, y'know, the Holocaust. We also check in on Bret (Weinstein) and Heather (Heying) (of the Dark Horse podcast) to correct some of their pernicious bullshit and see what they think the cops should be allowed to do to protestors who are DESTROYING CIVILISATION. Daniel draws the various threads together and, in a stunning third act twist, reveals what all these things have in common.
Content Warnings Apply.
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Destiny, "You Are Just WRONG! -- Richard Wolff Debate Gets Heated" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcA5szcnESY
Matthew Gault, "Twitch Streamer Destiny and an Economist Debate Capitalism, Achieve Nothing." https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8x77/twitch-streamer-destiny-and-an-economist-debate-capitalism-achieve-nothing
"Twitch streamer and philosophical gadfly Steven “Destiny” Bonnell II spent 90 minutes of his day on Wednesday debating the merits of capitalism and socialism with noted economist Richard Wolff. Thirty-five minutes into the “debate” and the pair were arguing over the basic definitions of capitalism and socialism—economic systems whose relative merits and performance they were supposed to compare. It was not how either party had said they wanted the conversation to go.
It was also a clear picture of the state of online-led political conversation—one side stalls the conversation to demand strict definitions and gaming personalities soak up too much time and attention.
[...]
"The pair went back and forth, both often heated. Wolff is old school and a college professor. His style was collegiate, sometimes condescending, and often sounded like a lecture. Destiny is used to debating on the internet where talking fast and fussing about specifics throws off an opponent. It was a weird pairing."
Rad Shiba's video on Richard Wollf, 'A Wolff in Marxist Clothing' https://youtu.be/JG7FhC2LeGE
ThoughtSlime, "Nick Fuentes is the hate nerd" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eRoYhTQDuo
Nick Fuentes response on AF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngzBo3NcurE
Nicholas J. Fuentes | Responding to Thught Slme's Hitpiece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX4QO8nPKFQ
Avi vs Nick Fuentes On the Holocaust and Trans Issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qlCoYLfSc
Dark Horse Podcast Q&A 76th DarkHorse Podcast Livestream,
"Should Police Be Allowed to Kill Rioters" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7wWmzmBw6I&t=3414s Starts at 56:54
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This episode sees the return of popular guest David Gerard - reluctant expert on crypto currency and author of Attack of the 50ft Blockchain and Libra Shrugged - to tell us about Bitcoin and the Nazis.
Content Warnings, as ever, but an especial TW this time for discussion of a suicide.
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David's...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidgerard
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The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism by David Golumbia (https://twitter.com/dgolumbia): https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-politics-of-bitcoin
Brenna Smith at Bellingcat on the 'Bitcoin Fairy': https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/02/03/why-500k-donation-to-right-wing-causes-does-not-signify-return-of-bitcoin-fairy/ Craig Wright copyright claims, Grayscale, Mt. Gox, Reddit on Ethereum, the French Bitcoin neo-Nazi: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/01/27/news-craig-wright-copyright-claims-grayscale-mt-gox-reddit-on-ethereum-the-french-bitcoin-neo-nazi/ Thread: https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1350174661590577155 Neo-Nazi BTC Tracker: https://twitter.com/NeonaziWallets
In Part 2 of our investigation of Heather Heying's (of the extended IDW, and the Dark Horse Podcast with husband Bret Weinstein) descent from sociobiology into outright TERFery, we get to the really nasty shit.
Content Warnings for venomous, hardcore transphobia, albeit couched in an ostensibly reasonable tone.
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Previous eps on the Weinsteins and Heying: 60, 61, and 62
Dark Horse Podcast https://youtube.com/c/BretWeinsteinDarkHorse
Dark Horse Clips https://youtube.com/channel/UCAWCKUrmvK5F_ynBY_CMlIA
Cass Eris on Irreversible Damage, Part One https://youtu.be/2OLNEiECN24
Ty Turner, trans man named as terrible influencer in Irreversible Damage, talks about the book. https://youtu.be/B5kkg90rL1M
The Torment and Tragedy of Teenage Girls (letterwiki between Heying and Shrier) https://letter.wiki/conversation/893#letter_2855
Lisa Littman paper on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330
ROGD paper criticism https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-1453-2
The news report Bret & Heather read from https://www.kiro7.com/news/transgender-woman-told-leave-womens-locker-room/246633184/
In the first part of a two-part episode, we continue to chart the increasingly malignant influence of the IDW and satellites, examining the journey of Heather Heying (of the Dark Horse Podcast which she co-presents with her husband Bret Weinstein) from scientific reductionism all the way to (as she herself puts it) "full TERF".
Content Warnings for Transphobia, Ableism, anti-Sex Worker stuff, etc.
Part 2 up very soon.
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Previous eps on the Weinsteins and Heying: 60, 61, and 62
Ligand Bonds in Inorganic Chemistry: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Inorganic_Chemistry/Modules_and_Websites_(Inorganic_Chemistry)/Coordination_Chemistry/Structure_and_Nomenclature_of_Coordination_Compounds/Ligands
Ligand Bonds in Molecular Biology: https://biologydictionary.net/ligand/
Full notes under Part 2
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Another special episode this time, as we welcome to the show David Gerard, author of acclaimed takedown of cryptocurrency Attack of the 50ft Blockchain, and Elizabeth Sandifer, author of acclaimed takedown of neo-reaction Neoreaction a Basilisk, to discuss Scott Alexander (or is it Siskind?) and his blog Slate Star Codex, with digressions into Less Wrong, 'rationalism', and why David is responsible for Grimes hooking up with Elon Musk.
Content Warnings apply, as ever.
Also, we once again we have audio that doesn't quite meet our recent standards, though its perfectly listenable.
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Elizabeth's...
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Elizabeth's recent article on Scott Alexander/Siskind: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill-people-with-bad-writing-the-scott-alexander-method/
RationalWiki on Scott Alexander: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Alexander
This week, special guest Goad Gatsby joins us from the streets of Twitter (you'll get it later) to tell us all about Virginia's biggest growing threat, so-called "Trump in heels", coup-supporting, GOP-suing, fash-associated, plexiglass-encased firebrand, State Senator (and gubernatorial hopeful) Amanda Chase, and her epic struggles against the tyrannical forces of Antifa, the Deep State, RINOs, Covid masks, reality, anyone who criticises her, and - most poignantly - car park cops. Don't you know who she is???
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A special episode in which Daniel and Jack are joined by guest Shannon Foley Martinez. A friendly chat with an insightful, humane, moving speaker.
Owing to technical difficulties the sound quality is not quite up to our recent standard, so apologies for that. But it's quite listenable.
Content Warnings.
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This week, we finally get to the conclusion of our coverage of Tom Metzger (Part 1 here), which takes us on a journey through the early history of hate online.
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Intro links:
This Podcast Has Been Declared a Riot: https://this-podcast-has-been-declared-a-riot.simplecast.com/
Even More News, "Reddit and Robinhood for Rubes." https://evenmorenews.libsyn.com/reddit-and-robinhood-for-rubes-ep-132
Computer/Hacker History:
Livescience, "History of Computers, a Brief Timeline." https://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html
Hackers: History of the Computer Revolutin, by Steven Levy. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hackers/9781449390259/
Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, by Bruce Sterling (full text at Project Gutenberg). http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101
Main Podcast Links:
1985.Cyberhate PDF: simson.net/ref/leaderles/1985.CyberHate.pdf
Chip Berlet, "When Hate Went Online," adapted from a talk given in 2001, Revised 7/4/2008. https://www.researchforprogress.us/topic/when-hate-went-online/
"While investigating the assassination of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg by neonazi White supremacists, the FBI began to unravel hate group telecommunications by tapping the modem telephone line of Robert Miles.
[...]
"The three earliest race hate BBS systems were: Info. International Network, Aryan Liberty Net, and White Aryan Resistance (W.A.R.) Net.
[...]
"Next to come online (in late 1984 or early 1985) was the White Aryan Resistance BBS in Fallbrook, California, under the auspices of Tom Metzger. Metzger announced the “W.A.R. Computer Terminal” in War ‘85, the newspaper of his White Aryan Resistance (Metzger, 1985). It originally ran on a Commodore 64 with a 300 bps modem (Sills, 1989). Today, most modems run at 56,000 bps, but back then, 300 bps was cutting-edge technology. According to Metzger, “Already White Aryan comrades of the North have destroyed the free speech blackout to our Canadian comrades” (Metzger, 1985). One of the first messages sent out by Metzger was directed at “any Aryan patriot in America who so desires” to arrange for local cable access channel broadcast of Metzger’s new cable TV program “The World as We See It,” later renamed “Race and Reason.” During this same period, there were over one dozen call-in telephone hot lines with recorded messages containing racist and antisemitic material."
Overthrow, April/May 1985.
"One of our correspondents made an interesting discovery last month. She found the telephone number for one of the bulletin board systems operated by American Nazis. With this number she
was able to log on and get the information that the media has lately been all bugeyed about. Now we are prepared to talk intelligently on the matter.
[...]
"Our point here is simply this: you computer hackers and phone phreaks that are reading this have the ability to uncover and analyze circumstances in ways that most people can't. Some of you have the ability to recognize touch tones by ear. A few can tell where their calls are going by the sounds they hear. And still others are able to get into more than a few major systems and find the interesting stuff almost immediately. There is a very definite need in this world for such intelligence. Every authority figure in existence would like to get a piece of your abilities but very few are deserving of them. Besides, who really enjoys selling out?"
Dark Contagion: "Bigotry and Violence Online." PC Computing, December 1989.
(see PDF for text)
Modern day:
Willamette Week, "Kyle Brewster, Convicted in 1988 Killing of Mulugeta Seraw, Fought at Jan. 6 Pro-Trump Rally in Salem" https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/01/17/kyle-brewster-convicted-in-1988-killing-of-mulugeta-seraw-fought-at-jan-6-pro-trump-rally-in-salem/
"Kyle Brewster, 51, was one of three racist skinheads who attacked a group of Ethiopian immigrants in Southeast Portland on Nov. 13, 1988. While Brewster fought with a 28-year-old airport bus driver named Mulugeta Seraw, his fellow white supremacist Ken Mieske repeatedly swung a baseball bat into Seraw's skull. Mieske kept hitting Seraw while Brewster, then 19, kicked him with steel-toed boots.
Mieske was convicted of murder and Brewster was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in Seraw's death. Released from prison in 2002, Brewster went back behind bars in 2008 for violating his parole by associating with members of the white supremacist group Volksfront. While finishing his term, Brewster was convicted of assaulting a prison guard.
[...]
"A WW correspondent says he observed Brewster brawling with leftist counterprotesters in a melee on the Capitol lawn. Brewster was also photographed donning a respirator mask and carrying a can of hornet- and wasp-killing pesticide, which he sprayed at left-wingers during the clash.
Amid the fighting, Brewster and at least three other right-wing brawlers allegedly tackled a single counterprotester and briefly beat that person."
This week, it's another of our occasional News Roundup episodes. This time Jack takes the lead (and Daniel hits the whiskey) for a discussion about Jimmy Dore platforming a Boogaloo Boy. Plus a couple of other stories, the painful return of an old segment, and a very special but silent guest appearance.
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Episode Links/Notes:
Jimmy Dore video 'Populist Right & Left Joining Forces Against Establishment': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OP5OLBauCg
Jimmy Dore video 'Radicalised Michigan Anarchist Seeks Unity with the Left': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZMB9052rEs
Sam Seder response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew3ZB7d19lw
Matt Binder response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb1eRi8B3dg
Emily Gorecenski's Ricky Vaughn tweets: https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1354479956961718276
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Daniel and Jack respond to the Jan 6th 2021 attack/coup-attempt on the Capitol Building, Washington D.C.
Content Warnings.
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IDSG on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-dont-speak-german/id1449848509?ls=1
Episode Links/Notes:
Robert Evans, "How the Insurgent and MAGA Right are Being Welded Together on the Streets of Washington, DC" https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2021/01/05/how-the-insurgent-and-maga-right-are-being-welded-together-on-the-streets-of-washington-d-c/
NY Times "The Daily" Georgia Runoffs Part 2. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/podcasts/the-daily/georgia-election-purdue-loeffler.html
Nick Fuentes Stop The Steal DC Speech: https://www.bitchute.com/video/qLNtMz6yKUyO/
Full Livestream "Save America" Rally Jan 6, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht20eDYmLXU
Mother Jones,"Meet the Right-Wing Trolls Behind “Stop The Steal”" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/stop-the-steal/
Ali Alexander claims he put together the January 6 rally with three Republican Congressmen. https://twitter.com/jason_paladino/status/1347943638203068417?s=20
Ali Alexander being terrible on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Onesecondname/status/1139298351369768960?s=20
Alex Jones says he paid $500,000 for rally that led to Capitol riot: https://twitter.com/Vicky_ACAB/status/1347799969609228289?s=20
Video of police officer assault by Stop the Steal rioters. https://twitter.com/joshscampbell/status/1347749675777011714?s=20
Eric Munchel of Nashville, TN. Zip Tie Guy One: https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1347756693250330628?s=20
Larry Brock of Texas, Zip Tie Guy Two: https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1347756693250330628?s=20
Footage from inside the Capitol during the coup. https://twitter.com/insidernews/status/1347646782659031043?s=20
BakedAlaska Inside Capitol Building. https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=aRdK0_1609982302
Kim Kelly, "Is the "QAnon SHaman" From the MAGA Capitol Riot Covered in Neo-Nazi Imagery?" https://t.co/rw5LEvWWbZ?amp=1
"Given his penchant for showing up to protests shirtless, face-painted, and sporting a horned helmet like some kind of racist Party City Viking who took a wrong turn and ended up at Burning Man, Angeli’s many tattoos are often on full display, including his large trio of Odinist symbols. He has a mjolnir, or Thor’s Hammer, on his stomach, an image of Yggdrasil, or Tree of Life, etched around his nipple, and most significantly, placed right above his heart, a valknut, or “knot of the slain,” an old Norse runic symbol turned recognized hate symbol that is popular among white supremacists. In addition, the mjolnir has become a symbol of identity among self-proclaimed “heathens” (which is often code for white supremacy-aligned pagans)."
Talia Jane January 6 photodump. https://twitter.com/itsa_talia/status/1347215672133251078?s=20
"The National Justice Party Stands in Solidarity with the Uprising of January 6th." https://nationaljusticeparty.com/2021/01/07/the-njp-stands-in-solidarity-with-the-uprising-of-january-6th/
Betsy Phillips thread on January 6. "The first important thing to realize is that they won." https://twitter.com/AuntB/status/1347161090061463552?s=20
Megan Squire is quoted here about boogaloo plans to return for inauguration day https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/right-wing-extremists-vow-return-washington-joe-biden-s-inauguration-n1253546
Maggie Koerth, Authorities Tepid Response Not an Aberration https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-response-to-the-capitol-breach-wasnt-an-aberration/?ex_cid=story-twitter
Talia Lavin, this isn't 1776 all over again, it's the reaction against Reconstruction https://www.thecut.com/2021/01/this-isnt-the-revolution-they-think-it-is.html
Talia Lavin, When a Conspiracy is Deferred it Explodes https://newrepublic.com/article/160814/trump-protesters-attack-us-capital
Robert Evans, Extremists were able to lay siege to the US Capitol because America's law enforcement ignored warnings of right-wing extremism for years https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-siege-happened-because-police-ignored-right-wing-extremism-warnings-2021-1?r=US&IR=T
Mike Davis, Riot on the Hill https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/riot-on-the-hill
Melissa Gira Grant, This Isn’t an Insurrection. It’s an Alliance. https://newrepublic.com/article/160816/congress-mob-law-enforcement-alliance
Right Wing Watch, Capitol Breach Preceded by Widespread Calls for Violence on Pro-Trump Social Media https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/%e2%80%8bcapitol-breach-preceded-by-widespread-calls-for-violence-on-pro-trump-social-media/
Neil Faulkner, Fascist Riot in Washington https://www.anticapitalistresistance.org/post/the-fascist-riot-in-washington
QAnonAnonymous Podcast Episode https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-125-coup-anon-feat-elle-reeve-eleanor-janega
Citations Needed Podcast https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/us-media-incapable-of-criticizing-maga-mobs-without-evoking-racist-cliches-about-third-world
Worst Year Ever Episodes https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/first-week-of-2021-is-going-well/id1478794003?i=1000504749630
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/happy-coup-year/id1478794003?i=1000504570156
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-attack-on-dc-part-i-breaching-the-gates/id732915228?i=1000504755639
And so 2020 - notable mostly for being IDSG's second year - comes to an end. This time, in a change to the advertised program, and with apologies for our absence throughout most of this last month, we return with another of our period movie discussion episodes, this time looking at D. W. Griffith's epic, lauded, infamous, three-hour, silent-era blockbuster of hate, prejudice, and bigotry, Birth of a Nation.
Content warnings very much apply.
The promised Part 2 of our coverage of Tom Metzger should be along as the first IDSG of the new year.
Thank you all for sticking with us through thick and thin, sending us words of encouragement... and special thanks to those of you who helped us out financially. Let's hope we all have a better one in 2021. We have plans for the show in the new year, so stay tuned and stay safe.
Links/Notes:
Notes: Birth of a Nation (1915) Full Movie on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGQaAddwjxg
The Clansman (1905) Full Text: https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/dixonclan/menu.html
Birth of a Nation at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation
Dan Olson "Triumph of the Will and the Cinematic Language of Propaganda." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ1Qm1Z_D7w
DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation at Millennium Park (6/20/16): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQNp-VHAueE
Within Our Gates (1920) Library of Congress (no score): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtwrCto9az0
Within Our Gates (1920) (lower quality, but with a score): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1E0NrcnwAE
Movies Silently debunks myths about Birth of a Nation: https://moviessilently.com/2015/09/07/silent-movie-myth-the-birth-of-a-nation-was-the-first-feature-and-the-first-film-shown-at-the-white-house/
Wikipedia, Timeline of Highest-Grossing Films: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Timeline_of_highest-grossing_films
Behind the Mask of Chivalry, Nancy Maclean: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Behind_the_Mask_of_Chivalry/xOamVVhPQ6UC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mask+of+chivalry+nancy+maclean&printsec=frontcover
The first in a two part series on Tom Metzger (deceased), former Grand Dragon of the California Klan turned Neo-Nazi, pioneer of using cable-TV for propaganda and hate music to recruit young people.
Content Warnings.
This episode is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Mulugeta Seraw.
Notes/Links:
Louis Meets the Nazis (at BBC iPlayer): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02q8d5v/louis-theroux-louis-and-the-nazis
James Mason and Tom Metzger on Race and Reason: https://www.bitchute.com/video/C80lEHzlqfaB/
WAR website: https://resist.com/
SPLC on Tom Metzger: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/tom-metzger
SPLC on Mulugeta Seraw case: https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/10/25/remember-mulugeta-30-years-after-splc-lawsuit-life-and-legacy-man-killed-hate-group
IDSG Ep 2 on David Duke: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-2-david-duke
Uprising podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-uprising-a-guide-from-por-73255667/
Part 2 of our look at the National Justice Party's 25 Point Program, with special attention paid to ecofascist rhetoric.
Content Warnings.
Links / Notes:
Part 1 pf this discussion: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/73-the-njp-program-part-1
National Justice Party: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/
National Justice Party Platform: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/platform/
Mike Enoch/Peinovich "The Way Forward" Speech: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/2020/11/19/the-way-forward/
Strike and Mike Episode 137: (unavailable because it's paywall content, can't imagine why)
Bernie Sanders Rally Ann Arbor March 8, 2020. AOC arrives around 1:14:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekJo2mW_yAA
Relevant previous IDSG episodes:
9: Mike Enoch and The Daily Shoah https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-9-mike-enoch-and-the-daily-shoah
52: Genocide and The Right Stuff https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/52-genocide-and-the-right-stuff
70: The National Justice Party https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/70-national-justice-party
Jack's article about why fascism and socialism are different things, including stuff about fascists appropriating left rhetoric: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/killing-in-the-name-of/
In this episode, the first of a two-parter, Daniel tells Jack all about the new 25 Point Program of the National Justice Party, the latest venture from Mike Enoch and the Right Stuff rabble, and their hope of peeling away support from disaffected leftists using 'Third Position' rhetoric. Daniel starts going through the program point-by-point, analysing its hypocrisies and contradictions. The 'left' rhetoric is exposed by comparison with genuine left ideas and principles. To be continued... soon.
Content Warnings.
Links / Notes:
National Justice Party: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/
National Justice Party Platform: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/platform/
Mike Enoch/Peinovich "The Way Forward" Speech: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/2020/11/19/the-way-forward/
Strike and Mike Episode 137: (unavailable because it's paywall content, can't imagine why)
Bernie Sanders Rally Ann Arbor March 8, 2020. AOC arrives around 1:14:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekJo2mW_yAA
Relevant previous IDSG episodes:
9: Mike Enoch and The Daily Shoah https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/i-dont-speak-german-episode-9-mike-enoch-and-the-daily-shoah
52: Genocide and The Right Stuff https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/52-genocide-and-the-right-stuff
70: The National Justice Party https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/70-national-justice-party
Jack's article about why fascism and socialism are different things, including stuff about fascists appropriating left rhetoric: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/killing-in-the-name-of/
This time, after a brief obligatory discussion of current events, Daniel and Jack take one of their periodic detours into film discussion to talk about David Fincher's 2010 movie The Social Network about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, and thus of so many of our current problems (not that the film gets that).
Links/Notes:
Our old podcast about Zodiac, at Jack's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/44059681
Behind the Bastards 3-part episode on Mark Zuckerberg: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-mark-zuckerberg-the-worst-30417725/
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-mark-zuckerberg-the-worst-30423810/
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-three-mark-zuckerberg-the-worst-30429682/
Recorded 8/9 Nov 2020. What the hell do you think we're talking about?
Content Warning
North Carolina Gerrymandering article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/us/north-carolina-congressional-districts.html
IDSG makes it to the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/fbi-arrests-the-base-michigan.html
In this episode, after a little roundup of podcast recs, Daniel (finally) tells Jack all about the latest venture by Mike Enoch and the TRS: the National Justice Party. We listen in on their founding meeting in a barn and learn the other problem with the GOP according to Enoch's audience. Then we check in on Richard Spencer to see what he thinks about it all. Finally, Daniel gives Jack a short, improvised tutorial on the concept of... pardon us... 'Finkelthink', which Jack finds unwarrantedly confusing. Fun times. Election? What election would that be officer?
Content Warnings
Show Notes / Links:
Correction: In the episode, Daniel mistakenly says TRS has moved to Lancaster, PA. It's actually Greely.
Embrace The Void Podcast: https://voidpod.com/podcasts/2020/10/29/ev-164-the-far-right-wing-with-daniel-harper
Woking Up Episode 1: https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/woking-up-1
Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/
ALAB Liberate Michigan: https://www.alabseries.com/episodes/episode-17-liberate-michigan
National Justice Party Website: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/
NJP Founding Speech, August 15, 2020: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/2020/08/19/national-justice-party-founding-speech-august-15-2020/
Thread from Antifascist Alligator on the known NJP members: https://twitter.com/Antifagator/status/1296426682673434624
Howard Graves and Michael Edison Hayden, "White Nationalist Organization Forms Racist, Antisemitic Political Party" https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/08/21/white-nationalist-organization-forms-racist-antisemitic-political-party
NJP Founding Speech, August 15, 2020: https://nationaljusticeparty.com/2020/08/19/national-justice-party-founding-speech-august-15-2020/
Full Haus Episode 60: National Justice Party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7NA1sopZV0
Hunter Wallace and Richard Spencer on Third Parties: (Not available, because Spencer got all his shit deplatformed)
This episode, we are joined by special guest Talia Lavin to talk about her excellent new book Culture Warlords.
Content Warning.
Talia's Twitter: @chick_in_kiev
Culture Warlords: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/talia-lavin/culture-warlords/9780306846434/
Christopher Cantwell, the 'Crying Nazi', was recently tried and convicted in a federal court in New Hampshire. As our regular listeners will know, we've been following Cantwell's fortunes for some time. In this episode, Daniel and Jack are joined by special guest, journalist and Cantwell expert Hilary Sargent, to talk about the trial, and the long, winding, bizarre, horrifying story of how we got here.
Content warnings.
Notes / Links:
Hilary's Twitter: @lilsarg
Hilary's articles on the Cantwell trial for The Informant: https://www.informant.news/people/1157338-hilary-sargent
Don't do meth kids: www.bitchute.com/channel/sFreBwLNiMDA/
An unplanned, emergency mini-sequel to our discussion of Tim Pool just a couple of days ago. Reality, displaying its customary poor timing, waited until just after we dropped our Tim Pool episode to reveal the story of the Wolverine Watchmen, a group of militia types arrested for planning the abduction and 'trial' (i.e. murder, presumably) of Michigan Governer Gretchen Whitmer. At least one of the conspirators seems to have been part of Tim's audience; Tim has been demonizing Whitmer as a dangerous tyrant for ages; and Tim himself reacted to the story in ways that combine the hilarious, disgusting, and accidentally instructive. And so here we are.
Content Warnings. Contains Tim Pool.
Links / Notes:
Episode 67: Tim Pool https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/66-tim-pool
New York Times, "F.B.I. Says Michigan Anti-Government Group Plotted to Kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/us/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-militia.html
Continuation of Criminal Complaint regarding kidnapping plot of Gretchen Whitmer: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.99213/gov.uscourts.miwd.99213.1.1_1.pdf
Emily Lawler, MLive, "Accused Michigan terrorists found natural home among anti-Whitmer sentiment promoted by far right" https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/10/accused-michigan-terrorists-found-natural-home-among-anti-whitmer-sentiment-promoted-by-far-right.html
Samuel J. Robinson, MLive, "Man accused in Whitmer kidnapping plot defended Confederate statue at June protest" https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/10/man-accused-in-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-defended-confederate-statue-at-june-protest.html
John Agar, MLive, "Grand Rapids man, alleged leader of plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer, had to be ‘insane,’ boss says" https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/10/grand-rapids-man-alleged-leader-of-plot-to-kidnap-gov-whitmer-had-to-be-insane-boss-says.html
Chad Livengood Twitter thread showing members of assassination plot at Re-open rally in June. https://twitter.com/ChadLivengood/status/1314332374759542784
Josh Russell Twitter thread collecting social media posts from assassination plot members. https://twitter.com/josh_emerson/status/1314234661820825609
Timbahontoast Twitter thread collected very non-leftist views of assasination plot members. https://twitter.com/timbahontoast/status/1314496845717143553
David Covucci and Mikael Thalen, The Daily Dot, "Pro-Kyle Rittenhouse coronavirus denier arrested in plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer" https://www.dailydot.com/debug/brandon-caserta-facebook-michigan-governor-kidnap/
Ali Breland, Mother Jones, "Men Who Allegedly Plotted to Kidnap Michigan’s Governor Celebrated Violent Far-Right Extremism" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/men-who-allegedly-plotted-to-kidnap-michigan-governor-celebrated-violent-far-right-extremism/
The video Jack talks about: https://youtu.be/dSxyBqA8J8o
Daily Kos article on Wolverine Watchmen and Trump’s rhetoric / domestic terror policies: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/8/1984983/-Trump-s-domestic-terror-policies-rhetoric-gave-flight-to-Michigan-militiamen-s-murderous-plot
This time, Jack and Daniel delve into the cesspool that is the barking, beanie-wearing, bollocks-talker Tim Pool. Prepare for a small avalanche of weapons grade stupid from YouTube's favourite reactionary propagandist pretending to be a centrist or something.
Content Warning.
Links / Notes:
CV Vitolo “Haddad”: Another Academic Racial Fraud? https://medium.com/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57/cv-vitolo-haddad-another-academic-racial-fraud-c5c41fe32110
The CV Dossier: https://twitter.com/thecvdossier
Inside Higher Ed, "Fresno State Pulls CV Vitolo-Haddad's Job Offer." https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/09/18/fresno-state-pulls-cv-vitolo-haddads-job-offer
Timcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Timcast/videos
Timcast News YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TimcastNews/videos
Timcast IRL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TimcastIRL/videos
SCNR YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SCNRtv/videos
Tim Pool: Day at a Chicago Warehouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LgfyUeFlzw
Tim Pool calls into the Majority Report, November 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYcZodBFS8k
Christopher Robbins, Gothamist, "Is OWS Livestreamer Snitching Or Reporting?" https://gothamist.com/news/update-is-ows-livestreamer-snitching-or-reporting
"Is that his job? To hold people accountable? "Well," Pool pauses. "That's not my decision to make. That's the majority's decision. I will say that in the case of last night, I'm not advocating anyone to go after this person."
"But it does offend me when people say I'm putting them at risk. If you throw a bottle at the police, you're putting people at risk. When two innocent people who were doing nothing get arrested because you threw the bottle, that's putting people at risk. I'm going to hold those people accountable." "
Tim Pool at Vice.com: https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/tim-pool
Vic Berger thread on Tim Pool: https://threader.app/thread/1101208956230356994
James Allsup and Tim Pool, June 2017. https://archive.org/details/youtube-5_QaIhe7JxA
Thought Slime, "Hats Off to Tim Pool." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxDVhNuFAq4
Cassandra Fairbanks Telegram: https://t.me/s/CassandraFairbanks
Jose, "Diving Into the Shallow End, My Week With Tim Pool (Part 1)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Wv59W0uPo
Jose, ""Diving Into the Shallow End, My Week With Tim Pool (Part 2)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AnrGWF2ri4
Earlier Jose video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtrZQ_bu8Sc&t=402s
Tim Pool clips https://twitter.com/TimPoolClips
Matt Binder video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfoLE-eHnwM&t=1022s
Tim Pool’s Grift Exposed https://youtu.be/jpRyjI8oC_E
Inside the Mind of Tim Pool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6zbw2vWOz4&t=1531s
Antisocial Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsNKtRZEVjk&t=522s
Tim Pool, Phony Liberal by Abe Gaustad https://medium.com/@abegaustad/tim-pool-phony-liberal-67e409cd34ca
RationalWiki https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tim_Pool
This time, Daniel welcomes special guest Rebecca Lewis to the show. Rebecca is the author of the Data & Society report 'Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube' about which Eric Weinstein was such an asshole (our word, not Rebecca's).
Content Warnings as ever.
The report: https://datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence/
Rebecca's Twitter: https://twitter.com/beccalew
IDSG 62 (on Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel, etc): https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/62-eric-weinstein-part-2-cancel-culture
This week, Daniel is joined by a special guest Ed Burmila who blogs at Gin and Tacos and hosts the Mass for Shut-Ins podcast. A free-form chat about the way things are and the way they're going. Fun despite the depressing subject matter.
Content Warnings, as ever.
Ed's Twitter: @edburmila
Gin and Tacos blog: http://www.ginandtacos.com/
Mass for Shut-Ins: https://massforshutins.libsyn.com/
Another of our occasional movie episodes, this time looking at famous (and bad) 90s movie American History X starring Edward Norton as a neo-Nazi skinhead.
Content warnings apply.
Also, we introduce our new theme music, courtesy of Lune the Band.
The final (for now) part of of coverage of the IDW's Weinstein brothers. Back to Eric, with special reference to his boss Peter Thiel and the Gawker affair, Eric's response to Becca Lewis' Alternative Influence Report, and to Eric's thoughts on BLM and the current protests.
Warnings Apply.
Notes/Links:
Owen Thomas, Gawker, "Peter Thiel is Totally Gay, People." https://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, "The Most Expensive Comment in Internet History?" https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/hogan-thiel-gawker-trial/554132/
Steven W. Thrasher, "Peter Thiel's Gawker War Not His First Brush With a High-Priced Vendetta." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/05/peter-thiel-gawker-lawsuits-james-okeefe-acorn
Maureen O'Connor, Gawker. "Christina Hendricks Says THese Giant Naked Boobs Aren't Hers, But Everything Else Is." https://gawker.com/5890527/christina-hendricks-says-these-giant-naked-boobs-arent-hers-but-everything-else-is
Maureen O'Connor, Gawker, "Olivia Munn's Super Dirty Alleged Naked Pics." https://gawker.com/5890506/olivia-munns-super-dirty-alleged-naked-pics-lick-my-tight-asshole-and-choke-me"
Bollea v. Gawker at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker
Rebecca Lewis, "Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube." https://datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence/
Full PDF: https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DS_Alternative_Influence.pdf
Eric Weinstein abuses Becca Lewis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=beccalew%20(from%3Aericrweinstein)&src=typed_query
Dave Rubin, "What Is the Future of the Intellectual Dark Web?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUl7-SvntQ4
Eric Weinstein, "Some Thoughts on Wokeness and Shame in light of events." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETcq7qqPhow
We return, apologetic for the delay, with the next part of our investigation into the Weinstein brothers (no, the other ones). This time, it's Eric - mathematician, hedgefund manager, cultural commentator, founder of the Intellectual Dark Web (or at least of the name), and persecuted/suppressed victim of conspiracies (to hear him tell it anyway). We don't always cover Nazis. Sometimes we have to cover people like Eric who, while not Nazis, are part of the current reactionary ecosystem. And what a part he is. More about Eric, particularly his connection to Peter Thiel, next week.
Content Warnings, as ever.
Notes/Links:
Eric Weinstein website: https://ericweinstein.org/
Eric Weinstein YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/nobani88
Eric Weinstein CV: http://www.eric-weinstein.net/CV/Eric_Weinstein_CV_July_17_2003.pdf
Eric-Weinstein.net About Page: http://www.eric-weinstein.net/about.html
"During my training in pure mathematics, I became equally interested in real world problems. While much of the challenge in research mathematics revolves around the specialized tools needed to attack narrowly defined problems, as a consultant, I sometimes find it more rewarding to find a toolkit that has already been developed elsewhere, and adapt those tools to attack the problem at hand. While I am always open to the idea of using recently developed or highly advanced analytic tools, I have often found that it is often in the partner/client’s best interest to use fundamental results which, while central in another field, may be less familiar in the area at hand."
Michael Phillips, "Scholars Facing Joblessness Seek Curbs on Immigration" The Wall Street Journal September 4, 1996. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB84178634524002500
""We remain a fiercely merit-oriented, antixenophobic community, but the current situation knows no precedent," wrote Harvard-trained mathematician Eric Weinstein and 20 other scholars in a recent plea to Capitol Hill.
[...]
"The U.S. mathematicians allege that foreign scholars take many of the best research jobs, reducing salaries and forcing Americans into non-tenure-track positions or lower-quality schools. Since 1976, "universities have been using the immigration exemptions to import a labor force of foreign scientists at greatly decreased cost," wrote Mr. Weinstein, who is a non-tenure-track postdoctoral fellow at MIT." "
"Eric Weinstein's Harvard Story -- The System Breaks Down in Novel Situations." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgGZMRJ15oY
The Verdict With Ted Cruz, "A Portal into the Progressive Mind." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CCde6TAKdw
James O'Keefe on the Portal, Episode 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31CvsBlKGYg&t=4514s
Eric Weinstein, "Lynching, Police Brutality, BLM and Defunding the Police." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfAumoTIeik
Dennis Overbye, "They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street," The New York Times March 9, 2009: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/science/10quant.html
" “I regard quants to be the good guys,” said Eric R. Weinstein, a mathematical physicist who runs the Natron Group, a hedge fund in Manhattan. “We did try to warn people,” he said. “This is a crisis caused by business decisions. This isn’t the result of pointy-headed guys from fancy schools who didn’t understand volatility or correlation.” "
Bret Weinstein on The Portal, Episode 19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLb5hZLw44s
"Of Mice and Men: Unseen Dangers in Laboratory Protocols" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/of-mice-and-men-unseen-da_b_1352201
r/IntellectualDarkWeb thread on the claims in The Portal 19. https://www.reddit.com/r/IntellectualDarkWeb/comments/erochq/can_we_verify_the_claims_made_in_portal_19/
"Lab Mice Telomeres Do Not Break Them as Disease Models" https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2020/06/lab-mice-telomeres-do-not-break-them-as-disease-models.html
Uberfeminist, "Eric Weinstein is an awful person." http://uberfeminist.blogspot.com/2020/02/eric-weinstein-is-awful-person.html
Uberfeminist, "Eric Weinstein's Conspiracy Theories." http://uberfeminist.blogspot.com/2020/03/eric-weinsteins-conspiracy-theories.html
Chris Kavanagh livetweet of THe Portal 19: https://twitter.com/C_Kavanagh/status/1218579021698494464
The Vox interview which so fascinated / annoyed Jack: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/25/15998002/eric-weinstein-capitalism-socialism-revolution
Rowan Fortune's very complimentary write-up of IDSG, complete with Rowan's own insights: https://www.timetomutiny.org/post/i-don-t-speak-german-on-fascist-subcultures
This week, Daniel and Jack discuss Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, two alumni of the Intellectual Dark Web, their 'origin story' as 'public intellectuals' in the Evergreen College kerfuffle of 2017, and their current views on Black Lives Matter and Trans Rights as expressed in their Dark Horse podcast. Jack gets angry and giggly.
Next week, we will move on to Bret's brother Eric Weinstein.
Content Warning.
Bari Weiss, "Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html
Bret Weinstein homepage: https://bretweinstein.net/
Heather Heying homepage: https://heatherheying.com/
Evergreen State College at Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_State_College
Programs and Courses at Evergreen. https://www.evergreen.edu/academics/programs
Bret Weinstein Explains the Day of Absence on Joe Rogan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-st73zhZL3A
Bret Weinstein on Tucker Carlson, May 26 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j9nFced_eo
Jacqueline Littleton, "The Truth About the Evergreen Protests." https://medium.com/@princessofthefaeries666/the-truth-about-the-evergreen-protests-444c86ee6307
Noah Berlatsky, "The Real Free Speech Story at Evergreen College." https://psmag.com/education/the-real-free-speech-story-at-evergreen-college
"Another Side of the Evergreen State College Story." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/evergreen-state-college-another-side_b_598cd293e4b090964295e8fc?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEpQrgKs2MwkdM5iym8soDVnkkpQYbq3YKgw6fp62JA2xw_v_vSfS_O1EkcMNbbaM_leOCssfRJspZ8CiodkDerxlEWdw5vx3Vdmoe-2UFbmTkYSkhEMWWDMBaa_48LFSb6BMWtFz2X1xbCSS51b_fYIFe27hfLdLeFCj232fAlS
Nancy Koppelman, "Bret Weinstein's Second Act." https://medium.com/@nancykoppelman/bret-weinsteins-second-act-from-liberal-arts-professor-to-public-intellectual-88471fdb2518
"The Intellectual Dark Web Goes to Washington." https://theoutline.com/post/4717/the-intellectual-dark-web-goes-to-washington?zd=1&zi=ft4wuqma
The Dark Horse Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi5N_uAqApEUIlg32QzkPlg
"Overlooked No More: Valerie Solanas, Radical Feminist Who Shot Andy Warhol." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/valerie-solanas-overlooked.html
William Simon U'Ren Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Simon_U%27Ren
William Simon U'Ren Plaque in Oregon City: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Simon_U%27Ren
Mariame Kaba, "Yes We Mean Literally Abolish the Police." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html
For fun:
Majority Report, 19th July 2020, ‘Weinstein Bro Politely Calls Dave Rubin a Paid Shill’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4uSlbqSXVA
Potholer54, ‘Did Covid-19 Start in a Chinese Lab?’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab-r0capbzk
In this bumper episode, Daniel tells Jack all about the recent response to us by Matt Heimbach and Jesse Morton on their Walk on the Right Side podcast. Also, we do a news roundup, taking in Camilla Long, Lauren Southern, Andrew Neil, Ben Shapiro, Tim Pool and Hank Hill; Tucker Carlson and his writer Blake Neff, recently revealed as a racist forum poster; the arrest of Steven Baca; and the latest scary developments in Portland as ICE/DHS start black-bagging protestors, featuring the rise to instant fame of Tazerface. Also... the triumphant return of Cantwell News.
Content Warnings Apply.
Notes/Links:
Cantwell's additional charges. https://www.fosters.com/news/20200714/jailed-white-nationalist-from-nh-faces-more-charges
Blake Neff exposed: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html
Tazerface16 assulted. https://twitter.com/PDXzane/status/1285037835058180097?s=20
Tazerface aka "Chris David" describes the assault: https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1284999020188807168?s=20
Chad Loder thread on ABQ militia shooting: https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1272715820938850304?s=20
Steven Baca arrest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/16/albuquerque-militia-shooting-protest/
Take a Walk on the Right Side Episode 6. https://anchor.fm/take-a-walk-on-the-right-side/episodes/Episode-6-Pandemic--Protests-and-Reciprocal-Radicalization-Gone-Wild-egk0ah/a-a2m68bt
Daniel and Jack skip back a bit to re-examine the raging transphobia on display from the 'Right Stuff' crew, as evidenced with clips in IDSG 52. Also, some 'LUL News' and general 'TRS News'.
Content Warning.
Notes/Links:
IDSG Episode 52 and 53
Jack's article
Schoep's tweets:
Bowing to necessity, this week Daniel and Jack talk about the Boogaloo, the shortcomings of the current discussion around it, and the reality.
CONTENT WARNING
Notes/Links:
Bundyville Podcast https://www.opb.org/news/article/bundyville-occupation-podcast/
Robert Evans; Jason Wilson: The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/
Robert Evans guests on Qanon Anonymous, on the Boogaloo Boys https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-qanon-anonymous-30956096/episode/episode-96-the-boogaloo-boys-feat-63994902/
This week, Daniel and Jack are honoured to be joined by Prof. Megan Squire, Antifascist data-miner. Geeking-out ensues. You're gonna love it.
CONTENT WARNING
Megan's Twitter: @MeganSquire0
https://facstaff.elon.edu/msquire/
https://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/fellows/megan-squire/
https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-antifa-data-mining/
In this episode Daniel and Jack take another look at Matt Heimbach, formerly of the Traditionalist Workers Party and National Socialist Movement, and his supposed turn to anti-racism.
Content Warning
Contains Clips
Notes and Links:
Matt Heimbach SPLC. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/matthew-heimbach
SPLC article 'Two Prominent Neo-Nazis Recant, but Their Actions Sow Doubts' https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/05/14/two-prominent-neo-nazis-recant-their-actions-sow-doubts
Everything You Love Will Burn. https://www.amazon.com/Everything-You-Love-Will-Burn/dp/1568589948
Vice White Student Union documentary (from 2013). https://youtu.be/GJ_MHp8iqtQ
Matt Heimbach assaults woman at Trump rally 2016. https://youtu.be/-YeYZtXHo8E
Kelly Weill article on Night of Wrong Wives. https://www.thedailybeast.com/matthew-heimbachs-traditional-workers-party-implodes-over-love-triangle-turned-trailer-brawl
Matt Heimbach joins Light Upon Light. https://youtu.be/w4DGkvsJLP8
Light Upon Light Upon Light (independent blog critical of LuL.) https://lightuponlightuponlight.home.blog
Take A Walk On the Right Side podcast. https://anchor.fm/take-a-walk-on-the-right-side
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Relevant previous episodes:
Episode 8: The National Socialist Movement
Episode 28: The Siege Pill, Part 1
Episode 29: The Siege Pill, Part 2
Episode 3: Unite the Right, Part 1
Episode 4: Unite the Right, Part 2
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Jack's splenetic ramblings on J. K. Rowling, Part 1, Part 2, review of Fantastic Beasts 2
In this edition of IDSG, recorded less than 48 hours ago at the time of publication but already looking like an artefact of a dimly-recalled epoch, we talk about the savage 'ropeless lynching' of George Floyd by police, the subsequent explosion of protest and repression that has rocked the US, and a little bit about Trump's escalatingly bloodthirsty fascistic rantings. Daniel addresses the question of whether the violence has been stoked by fascist agents provocateurs. Basically the answer is: yes, but they're in blue.
Content warning.
Notes/Links:
'The Boogaloo Movement is Not What You Think' by Robert Evans and Jason Wilson: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/
Other links to follow.
This time, we chat about our previous episode, '52: Genocide and The Right Stuff'. Hopefully more interesting that it sounds.
Content Warning.
IDSG episodes 9, 16 and 17
Special episode this week, as Daniel explodes the bullshit of the 'Right Stuff' / 'Daily Shoah' chuds. Contains clips from Nazi podcasts.
Let us know how you like this new format.
Content Warning
Show Notes:
Brenton Lengel Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrentonLengel
Nationalism Vs Antifascism Debate: https://t.co/Bo3sZfoEKl?amp=1
Lewontin's Fallacy at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genetic_Diversity:_Lewontin%27s_Fallacy
Matthew Q. Gebert identified by the SPLC. https://www.splcenter.org/gebert
Angry White Men covers the Daily Shoah episode from which the "Unironic Exterminationism" clip comes. https://angrywhitemen.org/2017/04/01/daily-shoah-promotes-suidlanders-event-and-interviews-self-proclaimed-ex-mercenary-who-wants-to-exterminate-blacks/
Magnus Hirschfield at Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld
Timeline.com, "How the Nazis Derailed the Medical Advances Around Sexual Reassignment Surgery." (Enoch reads this text in the episode.) https://timeline.com/how-the-nazis-derailed-the-medical-advances-around-sexual-reassignment-surgery-eb8d4f21c463
TDS446: The Adolf in the Room Full Video at Bitchute https://www.bitchute.com/video/imERn7oJEKb0/
Dario Gabbai Tells His Story. https://www.neveragain.com/genocide/dario-gabbai/
Excerpts from Goebbel's diary entries, March 1942 at Nizkor: http://nizkor.com/hweb/people/g/goebbels-joseph/goebbels-1948-excerpts-02.html#1942-mar-7
Holocaust Controversies, "Goebbels on Liquidation." http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2010/04/goebbels-on-liquidation.html
Holocaust Controversies, Index of Published Evidence of Gas Chambers at Auschwitz. http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2012/10/index-of-published-evidence-on.html
IDSG episodes 9, 16 and 17
This time, Daniel and Jack consider the 2001 film Conspiracy, a dramatisation of the infamous Wannsee Conference, a wartime meeting of Third Reich officials on the subject of the 'final solution to the Jewish question'.
Content Warnings.
Notes/Links:
Wannsee Conference Wikipedia Entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference
Speaking the unspeakable: the portrayal of the Wannsee Conference in the film Conspiracy by Alex J. Kay: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17504902.2019.1637492
Die Wannseekonferenz (1984): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URSNN5mnI2g
English translation of the Protocol: http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/news/uploads/WanseeProtocols.pdf
The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting by Mark Roseman: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Villa-Lake-Meeting-Wannsee-Solution/dp/0141003952
Hitler, vol. 2: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitler-1936-1945-Nemesis-Allen-History/dp/0140272399/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1VX5FLJJ3LS7I&dchild=1&keywords=kershaw+hitler+nemesis&qid=1589291029&s=books&sprefix=kershaw+hitler+ne%2Cstripbooks%2C159&sr=1-1
Hitler's American Model by James Q. Whitman: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitlers-American-Model-United-States/dp/0691183066/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=hitler%27s+american+model&qid=1589250377&s=books&sr=1-1
Jack returns to the podcast to chat with Daniel about Michelle Malkin, reactionary star since the War on Terror era, who recently started snuggling up to Nick Fuentes and the Groypers. Plus a bit of chat about the old coronavirus and the recent protests, including the armed 'storming' of the capital statehouse in Michigan.
Content warnings, as always.
Notes/Links:
Michigan Protests, "Operation Gridlock."
MLive, "Protesters angry with Gov. Whitmer’s stay-at-home order gridlock Michigan capitol." https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/04/protesters-angry-with-gov-whitmers-stay-at-home-order-gridlock-michigan-capitol.html
"But people are still allowed to protest, and thousands took the opportunity to do so in Lansing Wednesday as part of an “Operation Gridlock" protest. Organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition and supported by the Michigan Freedom Fund and other conservative groups, the idea was to create a traffic jam in front of the Michigan Capitol to create gridlock.
“This is a statement to show people’s frustration,” said Meshawn Maddock, a member of the Michigan Conservative Coalition, ahead of the protest."
Mother Jones, "A DeVos-Linked Group Promoted the Right-Wing “Operation Gridlock” Tantrum in Michigan" https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/04/a-devos-linked-group-promoted-the-right-wing-operation-gridlock-tantrum-in-michigan/
"The whole charade was facilitated by the Michigan Conservative Coalition, a conservative political group that doubles as a front for Michigan Trump Republicans, and promoted by the Michigan Freedom Fund, a conservative group with ties to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a Michigan billionaire philanthropist power broker before she joined the Trump administration. The Detroit Free Press reported that the fund was listed as one of the protest’s hosts on Facebook. The organization also promoted the event on Facebook.
MLive, "Protesters brave the rain to send message to Michigan leaders as coronavirus state of emergency debate rages" https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/04/protesters-brave-the-rain-to-send-message-to-michigan-leaders-as-coronavirus-state-of-emergency-debate-rages.html
"Members of the Michigan Liberty Militia patrolled the grounds, armed with guns after being hired as “security detail” by the organizers. One of the members of the militia, Phil Robinson of Barry County, said the group brought nine people to serve on the detail.
“We are strictly here running security, making sure everybody has a right to peacefully assemble,” Robinson said. “That is our only mission here today we are not here as protesters or rally goers were strictly here, exercising our Second Amendment right and to make sure that everybody has a right to peacefully assemble.”"
Antifash Gordon thread on the Michigan Liberty Militia: https://twitter.com/AntiFashGordon/status/1255976396913930240?s=20sdsdfdfsdff
Michelle Malkin and "America First"
Goldsea, "Michelle Malkin: The Radical Right's Asian Pitbull." http://www.goldsea.com/Personalities/Malkin/malkin.html
Booknotes Transcript, December 8, 2002. "Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores." https://web.archive.org/web/20071013191746/http://booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1705
"MALKIN: Why did I write my book? Well, September 11 was obviously a galvanizing event for me, seeing the lapses in our immigration system that allowed the September 11 hijackers to come in, exploit our weak enforcement, work underground and live her comfortably. And that is a theme that Ive been talking a lot about over my career in journalism, for more than a decade. I started out in Los Angeles, and its hard to ignore the negative consequences of lax immigration enforcement when youre in the middle of it in Los Angeles. So over the years, you know, Ive written a number of stories about so many aspects of the immigration system from top to bottom -- the front door, the back door, the side door.
And then theres a personal aspect of it, too. I often talk about how I myself am the child of legal immigrants who came here from the Philippines. And one of the themes that Ive always talked about is something that theyve reminded me of almost every day since I was old enough to understand it, which is that entry into this country and residence in this country, and ultimately, citizenship in this country is an absolute privilege, and it ought not to be treated as some sort of natural right or entitlement. But over the years, our immigration system has -- has abandoned that principle. And thats how we find ourselves with so many problems that we`re dealing today."
Malkin's website on "In Defense of Internment."
"In Defense of Internment provides a radical departure from the predominant literature of civil liberties absolutism. It offers a defense of the most reviled wartime policies in American history: the evacuation, relocation, and internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II (three separate actions which are commonly lumped under the umbrella term “internment”). My book is also a defense of racial, ethnic, religious, and nationality profiling (widely differing measures that are commonly lumped under the umbrella term “racial profiling”) now being taken or contemplated during today’s War on Terror.
I was compelled to write this book after watching ethnic activists, historians, and politicians repeatedly play the World War II internment card after the September 11 attacks. The Bush Administration’s critics have equated every reasonable measure to interrogate, track, detain, and deport potential terrorists with the “racist” and “unjustified” World War II internment policies of President Roosevelt. To make amends for this “shameful blot” on our history, both Japanese-American and Arab/Muslim-American activists argue against any and all uses of race, ethnicity, nationality, and religion in shaping current homeland security policies. Misguided guilt about the past continues to hamper our ability to prevent future terrorist attacks."
Michelle Malkin AFPAC Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4nr02705MA
Transcript of Malkin's AFPAC Speech at VDARE: https://vdare.com/articles/michelle-malkin-at-afpac-the-charge-of-the-america-first-brigade
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls (but no e-girls—Right? Have I proved my bonafides?), I rise tonight in defiant opposition to Conservatism Inc. and in unwavering support of America First. Of course, in the interest of full disclosure and transparency, I must reveal to you that the number of donor class CEOs and philanthropists that are backing me is precisely zero. There is no Sheldon Groyperson pulling the strings. There are no Kek Brothers lurking in the background, waiting to whisk me away in a private jet. The grand total of subsidies that I have received from America First is zero dollars and zero cents. Because there is no America First Inc."
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"The numbers, the exit polls, the stubbornly unmalleable voting preferences of the majority of amnestied and naturalized citizens, plus Birthright Citizenship beneficiaries in every major ethnic block all lead to one irrefutable reality. Mass migration isn’t just turning California and Virginia and Texas blue. It’s turning all of America blue and every American should be seeing red about it. This nation under God will be majority minority by 2045. And when I launched my book tour for Open Borders Incorporated in September, the immediate response from the Soros monkeys was that I was anti-Semitic for trafficking in the Great Replacement Theory that was also believed by the Tree of Life Synagogue shooter.
Already right out of the gate, before I even knew who Nick Fuentes was, before I knew who Groypers were, I was being tarred as an anti-Semite. It’s become a useless, meaningless term and everybody knows it. And that’s why they’re so desperate to tar all of us as that.
It’s anti-Semitic to mention George Soros’s billions. It’s anti-Semitic to criticize the Anti-Defamation League. It’s anti-Semitic to question whatever the precise number is of people who perished in World War II. It is anti-Semitic for me, being married to a 100% Ashkenazi Jew, to question dual loyalties of people who are working here as agents of a foreign country.
Oh, and it is an unacceptably anti-Semitic to point out the rank hypocrisy of people who are fiercely protective of an ethno-state and an immigration enforcement system that works–who turn around and call those of us who believe, whatever our backgrounds are, who only have one homeland that they’ve ever known, to call us—what is it now?–“white majoritarianism” I believe is the term.That’s me. Thank you.
Here is what we all know, those of us who understand demographic reality. There is no turning back. We know that. 1965, the Hart-Celler Act, the Refugee Act of 1980, the 1986 Reagan Amnesty, which again is being recycled and pushed right now in the halls of Congress and the White House, the 1990 Immigration Act that’s created H-1B, and the Diversity Visa Lottery, plus more than a dozen other mini-amnesties, extensions and waivers. There is no turning back."
"In Defense of Internment provides a radical departure from the predominant literature of civil liberties absolutism. It offers a defense of the most reviled wartime policies in American history: the evacuation, relocation, and internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II (three separate actions which are commonly lumped under the umbrella term “internment”). My book is also a defense of racial, ethnic, religious, and nationality profiling (widely differing measures that are commonly lumped under the umbrella term “racial profiling”) now being taken or contemplated during today’s War on Terror.
Red Ice, Michelle Malkin, "In Defense of America's European Roots." https://redice.tv/red-ice-tv/in-defense-of-americas-european-roots
Michelle Malkin: "The Defeatocrat's Cheer." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt_YcQlYxyY
David Neiwert archive at the Daily Kos. Essential to understand recent Boogaloo boy behavior. https://m.dailykos.com/blogs/David-Neiwert
And here's the video Jack mentions in the show: Rad Shiba, Covid-19 and the Left https://youtu.be/l2Gy1lox_QM
Crash Barry returns to chat with Daniel about white nationalist pipsqueak Jason Köhne AKA No White Guilt.
Content Warnings, as ever.
Notes/Links:
Crash's Twitter: @Crash_Barry
Crash's Devils and Dirtbags podcast: https://devilsanddirtbags.podbean.com
Jason Kohne/No White Guilt archive at Angry White Men: https://angrywhitemen.org/?s=Jason+kohne
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No White Guilt: https://nowhiteguilt.org
NWG YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCkY8CvV8WQFe87CZGmvuYHA
NWG Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/zIN90ydeSNA7/
Daniel is joined by special guest Eiynah Mohammed-Smith of the Polite Conversations podcast for a fun, casual (and, of course, incredibly polite) chat about Islamophobia, Sam Harris, New Atheism, the IDW, fascism, and assorted phenomena.
Content Warning
Links / Notes:
Eiynah's Twitter: https://twitter.com/NiceMangos
Polite Conversations podcast: https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations
Polite Conversations Patreon: https://t.co/PaeNNFMEfP?amp=1
This time, Daniel is joined by special guest Corey Pein, author of Live Work Work Work Die, to talk about Silicon Valley Nazis.
Content Warning as ever.
Notes / Links:
Live Work Work Work Die at Powell's: https://www.powells.com/book/live-work-work-work-die-9781627794855
Corey Pein Twitter: https://twitter.com/coreypein
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press: https://www.netflix.com/title/80168227
News From Nowhere Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere
The Portal with James O'Keefe: https://player.fm/series/the-portal/ep-26-james-okeefe-what-is-and-isnt-journalism-in-the-21st-century
The End Newsletter: https://t.co/jHnbFuSMVs?amp=1
Neoreaction a Basilisk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neoreaction-Basilisk-Essays-Around-Alt-Right/dp/1981596518
Daniel is joined by Crash Barry, Editor-at-Large of The Mainer, to talk about Tom Kawczynski (and a little bit about Jared Howe).
Content Warnings.
Show Notes and Links to follow.
Stay safe everyone.
A lovely news-roundup episode for you, including some stuff at the end that justifies the title.
Content Warnings.
Links/Notes:
Rachel Sheffield and Robert Rector, "The War on Poverty After 50 Years." The source of Episode 44's "22 trillion dollars" claim. https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/the-war-poverty-after-50-years
Christopher Cantwell Trial Docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16743597/united-states-v-cantwell/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=ℴ_by=desc
Christopher Cantwell Order of Detention Pending Trial: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nhd.53269/gov.uscourts.nhd.53269.20.0.pdf
"In this case, the government argued that the defendant’s release posed a risk of flight and danger to the community. After weighing the evidence - taking into consideration the pretrial services report, the parties’ proffers, pleadings, and the testimony of Brett Fernald, FBI Task Force Officer - and balancing the factors laid out in 18 U.S.C. § 3142(g), the court finds that the government met its burden of proof on dangerousness, but failed to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant is a flight risk. The government established by clear and convincing evidence that there are no conditions that will reasonably assure the safety of any other person and the community. The defendant is charged with crimes that involve threats of violence. The evidence against the defendant, which includes a copy of the threatening communication and defendant’s admission that he sent the message, is strong."
Hilary Sargent Twitter: http://twitter.com/lilsarg
Hilary Sargent, "United States v. Christopher Cantwell." https://twitter.com/lilsarg/status/1231973006618046464?s=20
Nick Martin, The Informant, "The Atomwaffen Evidence." https://www.informant.news/p/the-atomwaffen-evidence
Nick Martin, The Informant, "Key Atomwaffen Member to be Sentenced." https://www.informant.news/p/key-atomwaffen-member-to-be-sentenced
Angry White Men. "Far-Right Extremists React to the Coronavirus With Conspiracies and Racist Mockery." https://angrywhitemen.org/2020/02/14/far-right-extremists-react-to-the-coronavirus-with-conspiracies-and-racist-mockery/
Angry White Men, "YouTube Finally Bans Racist Podcaster Nick Fuentes." https://angrywhitemen.org/2020/02/15/youtube-finally-bans-racist-podcaster-nick-fuentes/
AFPAC videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/Jrgnj15/videos
Twenty-seven second clip of Michelle Malkin spewing Nazi talking points at AFPC: https://twitter.com/JewishWorker/status/1234216230136971265?s=20
Wikipedia page for "In Defense of Internment," by Michelle Malkin, 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Defense_of_Internment
Michael Bloomberg on Stop-and-Frisk in 2015. https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1227236086176518144
"You are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities. Yes, that's true. Why? Because we put all the cops in the minority neighborhoods. Yes, that's true. Why do we do it? Because that's where all the crime is. And the way you get the guns out of the kids' hands is to throw them up against the walls and frisk them."
Bloomberg Press Conference 2013 declaring intention to appeal ruling that Stop and Frisk was unconstitutional in NY State. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw8BMrF7r8Y
NPI/Radix, "Based Bloomberg?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Vqams8FVI
A classic, back-to-basics, oldskool episode in which Daniel tells Jack all about a very nasty (and racist trivia-obsessed) specimen, Michael J. Thompson, who chooses to (sometimes) go by the online alias 'Paul Kersey', which is the name of Charles Bronson's character in Death Wish... y'know, the movie in which a middle-class architect becomes a serial killer, and murders loads of poor petty-criminals, and he's the hero.
Content Warnings within Content Warnings for this one.
Links/Notes:
"Hiding in Plain Sight, the White Nationalist Who Toiled Inside a Right Wing Media Powerhouse." https://angrywhitemen.org/2020/02/03/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-white-nationalist-who-toiled-inside-a-right-wing-media-powerhouse/
"Hiding in Plain Sight, the White Nationalist Who Toiled Inside a Right Wing Media Powerhouse." (Right Wing Watch) https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-white-nationalist-who-toiled-inside-a-right-wing-media-powerhouse/
Jason Wilson, The Guardian, "Paul Kersey/Michael J. Thompson White Nationalist Report." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/paul-kersey-michael-j-thompson-white-nationalist-report
"A new report has revealed that a prominent white nationalist author, activist and podcaster known as “Paul Kersey” has in fact worked for more than a decade at mainstream conservative institutions and media outlets under his real name.
According to an investigation by the not-for-profit media outlet Right Wing Watch (RWW), the man who has worked under the Kersey pseudonym is in fact Michael J Thompson.
The Guardian has uncovered additional material that supports reporting by RWW, and further indicates Thompson’s role in moulding rightwing activists from a position near the heart of America’s most influential conservative institutions.
The RWW investigation, published on Monday, reveals the work of “Paul Kersey”, whom it calls a “barely underground member of the white nationalist movement” and a fixture on the roster of racist media outlets and campaign groups.
But it also shows that Thompson worked under his own name at institutions like the Leadership Institute, its media arm Campus Reform, and WND, formerly World Net Daily, a once-popular conspiracy-minded conservative outlet, as late as November 2018.
It also shows how his WND position allowed him to move in professional circles that included white nationalists, writers from Breitbart and the Daily Caller and prominent Donald Trump supporters including Steve Bannon and Jack Posobiec."
Campus Reform Homepage: https://www.campusreform.org/
Current "Stuff Black People Don't Like" at Unz Review. https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/
Stuff Black People Don't Like, January 18, 2010 from the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20100118112313/http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/
"From a biological standpoint, Haitians who practice voodoo and the art of zombiism, have an ally in Wade Davis as he has done extensive research in Haitian voodoo and penned numerous volumes on the subject. In Passage of Darkness: the Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie and Serpent and the Rainbow, Davis discusses the uses of certain chemical compounds to create hallucinogens and neurotoxins capable of inducing the effects of death only to allow the “zombie” to awake later.
The botanical secrets and the chemical compound formulas that create zombies are known only by the Haitian Voodoo priests, but the mysterious origins behind zombies haven’t dissuaded others from inventing their own.
George Romero of “The Night of the Living Dead” fame is credited with inventing the modern-zombie in the United States, but he owes much to the 1930s film “White Zombie”, which was appropriately set in Haiti.
We have discussed the historical nature of zombies, as the idea originated in Haiti and there, witch-doctors practiced (and still do) a form of Black magic that “can” reanimate corpses.
In the United States however, zombies take on a much different connotation, for we view them as the true undead brought back to life, consuming as much live human flesh in the process, thereby spreading the zombie virus further. Zombies - in America - are a plague that must be eradicated."
Romero, who has made a fine living directing zombie films, cast a Black person as the main protagonist in his first zombie film “Night of the Living Dead” and has since positively shown Black people in that films many sequels, most notably in the late 1970s “Dawn of the Dead.”
It is obvious to all Black people, that Romero knows the true history of zombies, and thus, must do everything in his power to remove the mystical Black magic origins of voodoo/zombies from his films and showcase Black people operating in a highly functional manner.
There is an unwritten rule in Hollywood that Romero deemed necessary when discussing zombies, for no mentioning of Haiti and Black people’s predilection and fascination with the undead can occur in film or video gam"
Stuff Black People Don't Like, May 1, 2009 from the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20110628224216/http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html
#170: Losing Gold Teeth: "Black people are fascinated by gold, more so than the Spanish Conquistadors of old. Black people love gold so much, that they have it fashioned to put onto their teeth, known throughout the Black community as "grillz".
A subculture has grown around this fascinating practice and has become a lucrative business for entrepreneur's hoping to affix their wares on the Black persons bicuspids.
One practitioner of the art of "grillzing" writes,
"Gold teeth are a product that has been increasingly growing over the past eight years, especially since the attention given to them from celebrities such as Nelly and Flavor Flav. Since that time, they've taken on several different names, such as gold fronts, gold caps, gold slugs, grills and grillz."
The problem for "grillz" advocates remains maintaining the integrity of said gold piece in their mouths, while using the restroom.
Recently at a Major League Baseball (MLB) game between the Atlanta Braves and the New York Mets, a woman lost one of her "grillz" in the latrine. While relieving herself, somehow her "grillz" become dislodged and ended up resting in the bowels of the commode."
Google Search Results for "Michael Thompson" at www.campusreform.org. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.campusreform.org+michael%20thompson
Michael Thompson, "Jokes Now Considered "Bias-Motivated Incidents" at Northern Colorado" https://web.archive.org/web/20150117082235/https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=1796
"The University of Northern Colorado (UNCO) has decided it’s time to prohibit "Bias Motivated Incidents." When you hear about a “bias motivated incident,” maybe you’re thinking about a cross burning, or something of that nature. But at UNCO the “bias motivated incident” could simply be an "inappropriate joke" that is motivated by some form of bias.
The UNCO policy also says that “Any discriminatory act is a violation of the Housing & Residence Life Student Code of Conduct.” Well, what do they mean by “any discriminatory act”? According to the UNCO handbook this includes, but is not limited to, “racism, ageism, sexism, and/or homophobia.” And (get ready for this!) included in the definition is “intentionally, recklessly or negligently causing physical, emotional, or mental harm to any person."
Paul Kersey, "Nobody Kill Anybody" Fails: During First Ceasefire Weekend in 70% Black Baltimore, 15 Shot, Four Dead. https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/nobody-kill-anybody-fails-during-first-ceasefire-weekend-in-70-black-baltimore-15-shot-four-dead/
"A surplus of blackness and a paucity of whiteness. Or, more appropriately, a city dominated by the black hegemony.
Welcome to Baltimore in 2020, a 70 percent black city completely dominated by black elected/appointed officials in all aspects of the bureaucracy. Confederate memorials are all removed, streets and buildings once named in honor of dead white males have been erased, racially re-named to honor the new demographic dominating Baltimore life.
If you’ve read The City that Bleeds: Race, History, and the Death of Baltimore (and if you haven’t, get it here now!), you know the truth about Baltimore our elite have spent more than half a century trying to explain away as the fault of pernicious white people and their insidious redlining, systemic racism, and racial criminal justice system."
The Political Cesspool, "Paul Kersey, Author of "Stuff Black People Don't Like" Will Join Us Live This Satur March 5." https://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/paul-kersey-author-of-stuff-black-people-dont-like-will-join-us-live-this-saturday-march-5/
Michael Thompson Author Page at WND, https://www.wnd.com/author/mthompson/
WND Staff, "Black-on-black murders epidemic in this city" https://www.wnd.com/2013/08/milwaukees-racism-most-murders-black-on-black/
@MJTWND at the Internet Archive, July 14, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160714043056/https://twitter.com/MJTWND
Angry White Men, "Daily Shoah" Hosts: Nazi Scientists and White People Should be Recognized For Space Exploration Work. https://angrywhitemen.org/2017/02/28/daily-shoah-co-hosts-nazi-scientists-and-white-people-should-be-recognized-for-space-exploration-work/
"Hidden Figures" at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures
Eric Niiler, History.com, "Why Civil Rights Activists Protested the Moon Landing." https://www.history.com/news/apollo-11-moon-landing-launch-protests
Katherine Johnson, The Human Computer Project. https://www.thehumancomputerproject.com/women/katherine-johnson
"Along with engineer Ted Skopinski she coauthored the 1960 report Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position, the equations describing the trajectories for placing the manned Mercury capsule into low-Earth orbit and returning it safely to the planet's surface, making her the Flight Research Division's first credited female author."
Skopinski and Johnson, "Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position" https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19980227091.pdf
This week we at Chez IDSG are honoured to be joined by special guest Emily Gorcenski, who joins Daniel to talk about the one-man motherlode of nasty and stupid that is Christopher 'Crying Nazi' Cantwell. Buckle up, my darlings.
(Sorry about the late arrival of this episode, but editing it involved some special challenges. It was worth it though.)
Content Warning.
Links / Notes:
Cantwell's SPLC page. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/christopher-cantwell
Our very own double Cantwell episode, Part 1 and Part 2
Emily Gorcenski on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski
http://www.first-vigil.com/
https://howhatesleeps.com/
Local report on Cantwell's arrest. https://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/cantwell-arrested-in-keene-on-federal-charges-accused-of-threat/article_66a05e5e-8d1c-5b8d-ad21-9c4d0ec18c7b.html
Cantwell arrest indictment. https://twitter.com/SeamusHughes/status/1220354012505133058?s=20
Lieutenant of the Alt-right. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005394012/eli-mosley-alt-right.html
Cantwell's motion in Sines v Kessler. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6168921/637/sines-v-kessler/
Plaintiff's response to Cantwell's nonsense. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6168921/641/sines-v-kessler/
Daniel and Emily on Jared Holt's Sh1tpost podcast: https://shtpost.substack.com/p/the-arrest-of-chris-cantwell-12720
This episode, Daniel tells us about Austin Gillespie, AKA Augustus Sol Invictus.
Content Warnings.
Recorded on the eve of the Richmond rally, this episode sees Daniel joined once again by David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert; author of Alt America) to talk about a group currently in the news, The Base, and expand a bit on the so-called 'Boogaloo' we've talked about in previous episodes.
Content Warnings.
Notes / Links:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/19/1912573/-Beyond-Monday-s-gun-laden-march-in-Richmond-militias-plans-for-a-civil-war-look-to-go-national?_=2020-01-19T13:54:23.630-08:00
https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1218543762374348800
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mexp/neo-nazis-are-organizing-secretive-paramilitary-training-across-america
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/15/1879107/-A-Neo-Nazi-militia-training-in-the-NE-Washington-woods-fits-into-the-region-s-dark-history
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/virginia-gun-rally-explainer.html
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/28/1888326/-The-Hokoana-trial-Inside-the-Antifa-shooting-incident-the-media-don-t-want-to-talk-about
https://medium.com/@justinward/race-war-preppers-a16c4ab5e5c6
We start 2020 with what was meant to be our 2019 Christmas Special, a very roundabout chat about the disturbingly-relevant-to-today 1999 film Fight Club. Not a typical episode, if you're new around here... but we do this sort of thing from time to time.
Content Warnings.
Notes/Links:
Dan Olsen's video on Fight Club and Toxic Masculinity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td88z08a_4c
To round off our first year, Daniel is joined by special guest Jason Wilson to talk about the fascinating figure Representative Matt Shea. Hopefully this edition will please those listeners who've been asking for longer episodes!
Content Warning.
Notes and links (thanks to Jason for this compilation):
Kenneth S Stern (1997) A force upon the plain : the American militia movement and the politics of hate. https://www.worldcat.org/title/force-upon-the-plain-the-american-militia-movement-and-the-politics-of-hate/oclc/1002393469&referer=brief_results
Kathleen Belew (2019) Bring the war home the white power movement and paramilitary America https://www.worldcat.org/title/bring-the-war-home-the-white-power-movement-and-paramilitary-america/oclc/1129866369&referer=brief_results (great overview and analysis of lots of things we discussed)
Linda Gordon (2018) The second coming of the KKK : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition https://www.worldcat.org/title/second-coming-of-the-kkk-the-ku-klux-klan-of-the-1920s-and-the-american-political-tradition/oclc/1076323469&referer=brief_results (really good material on the 1920s Klan in Oregon)
Jane Kramer (2003) Lone patriot : the short career of an American militiaman. https://www.worldcat.org/title/lone-patriot-the-short-career-of-an-american-militiaman/oclc/52724431?referer=br&ht=edition
David A Neiwert (1999) In God's country : the patriot movement and the Pacific Northwest https://www.worldcat.org/title/in-gods-country-the-patriot-movement-and-the-pacific-northwest/oclc/493949695&referer=brief_results (Exhaustively detailed contemporaneous work on the militia movement in PNW)
David Neiwert (2009) The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right https://www.worldcat.org/title/the-eliminationists-how-hate-talk-radicalized-the-american-right/oclc/7390575626&referer=brief_results (This speaks to the right generally but is important for our context)
David Neiwert (2018) Alt-America : the rise of the radical right in the age of Trump https://www.worldcat.org/title/alt-america-the-rise-of-the-radical-right-in-the-age-of-trump/oclc/1017576651?referer=br&ht=edition (Best view of the current moment from long time PNW reporter)
David Helvarg (2004) The war against the greens : the "Wise-Use" movement, the New Right, and the browning of America https://www.worldcat.org/title/war-against-the-greens-the-wise-use-movement-the-new-right-and-the-browning-of-america/oclc/53993117&referer=brief_results (Specific account of the development of anti-environmental politics in the west)
Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds (2011) Drawing the global colour line : white men's countries and the international challenge of racial equality https://www.worldcat.org/title/drawing-the-global-colour-line-white-mens-countries-and-the-international-challenge-of-racial-equality/oclc/1052849084&referer=brief_results (Just brilliant in historicizing the development of white supremacy - in thought and policy - across settler colonial societies around the turn of the twentieth century. Pankaj Mishra draws on it here https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/opinion/race-politics-whiteness.html)
Chip Berlet and Matthew Lyons (2000) Right-wing populism in America : too close for comfort https://www.worldcat.org/title/right-wing-populism-in-america-too-close-for-comfort/oclc/247742295?referer=br&ht=edition (Chip and Matthew have done lots of fantastic work but this is essential)
James Corcoran (1991) Bitter harvest Gordon Kahl and the Posse Comitatus : murder in the heartland https://www.worldcat.org/title/bitter-harvest-gordon-kahl-and-the-posse-comitatus-murder-in-the-heartland/oclc/1087601191&referer=brief_results
Mark Fenster (2008) Conspiracy theories: secrecy and power in American culture. https://www.worldcat.org/title/conspiracy-theories-secrecy-and-power-in-american-culture/oclc/1087739570?referer=br&ht=edition (Chapter 2 has a good discussion of the 1995 congressional hearings on the militia movement)
James Coates (1995) Armed and dangerous : the rise of the survivalist right https://www.worldcat.org/title/conspiracy-theories-secrecy-and-power-in-american-culture/oclc/1087739570?referer=br&ht=edition (Pretty good contemporaneous account of the different strands underpinning the militia movement and the 1990s far right)
Elinor Langer (2004) A hundred little Hitlers : the death of a black man, the trial of a white racist, and the rise of the neo-Nazi movement in America https://www.worldcat.org/title/hundred-little-hitlers-the-death-of-a-black-man-the-trial-of-a-white-racist-and-the-rise-of-the-neo-nazi-movement-in-america/oclc/1037466174&referer=brief_results (Important account of white supremacist movements in PNW in 1980s and 1990s)
Leonard Zeskind (2009) Blood and politics : the history of the white nationalist movement from the margins to the mainstream https://www.worldcat.org/title/blood-and-politics-the-history-of-the-white-nationalist-movement-from-the-margins-to-the-mainstream/oclc/965823835?referer=br&ht=edition
Leah Sottile (with Ryan Haas on the podcasts) Bundyville https://longreads.com/bundyville/ (Definitive journalistic take on Matt Shea’s place in the contemporary patriot movement in PNW)
Daniel Levitas (2001) The Terrorist Next Door The Militia Movement and the Radical Right. https://www.worldcat.org/title/terrorist-next-door-the-militia-movement-and-the-radical-right/oclc/229019637?referer=br&ht=edition
James A. Aho (1995) The politics of righteousness : Idaho Christian patriotism https://www.worldcat.org/title/politics-of-righteousness-idaho-christian-patriotism/oclc/931074407?referer=br&ht=edition (Incredible, now-underread contemporaneous sociological work on the 1990s far right in Idaho, including Richard Butler/Aryan Nations)
Daniel HoSang and Joseph Lowndes (2019) Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity https://www.worldcat.org/title/producers-parasites-patriots-race-and-the-new-right-wing-politics-of-precarity/oclc/1090989510&referer=brief_results (Very good current scholarship, great analysis of patriot movement and some direct analysis of Joey Gibson/Patriot Prayer)
Michael Barkun (2004) Religion and the racist right : the origins of the Christian identity movement https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=wikipedia&q=isbn%3A080782328
Other stuff:
Me on Ruby Ridge: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/26/ruby-ridge-1992-modern-american-militia-charlottesville
Me on the local context of Malheur: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/14/oregon-militia-occupation-revolt-motivation-politics-public-land-ranching-environment
And here is the link to an upload of John Trochmann’s Blue Book https://docdro.id/BZnxAiI
Merry Christmas! This Christmas Day, Daniel and Jack chat about Charles Murray, co-author of the infamous pseudo-scientific racist hoax The Bell Curve.
Content Warning.
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/38
Full Transript List: https://idtg.net/
Notes/Links:
Shaun, "The Bell Curve." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo
ForeverJameses, "Reading the Right - Volume One: The Bell Curve": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZFGgJlAsk
The Bell Curve PDF: https://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/the-bell-curve.pdf
P 37-38 "The Creation of a Cognitive Elite Within The College System."
John Ogbu p. 307
Ogbu and Simons, "Voluntary and Involuntary Minorities: A Cultural-Ecological Theory of School Performance With Some Implications for Eductation." https://faculty.washington.edu/rsoder/EDUC305/OgbuSimonsvoluntaryinvoluntary.pdf
"From his comparative research Ogbu has concluded that (1) no minority group does better in school because it is genetically superior than others; (2) no minority culture is better at educating its children; and (3) no minority language is better suited for learning in school (Simons et al. n.d.). He has argued that from a comparative perspective, one cannot attribute the differences in minority school performance to cultural, linguistic, or genetic differences. This is not to deny genetic differences or to deny that cultural and language differences may have an adverse or positive effect on minority school performance; but culture and language do not entirely determine the differences among minorities. Consider that some minority groups, like the Buraku outcast in Japan, do poorly in school in their country of origin but do quite well in the United States, or that Koreans do well in school in China and in the United States but do poorly in Japan. Comparative research suggests that we might discover at least a part of the explanation by closely looking at the histories and sociocultural adaptations of these minorities (Simons et al. n.d.). More specifically, to understand why minority groups differ among themselves in school performance we have to know two things: the first is their own responses to their history of incorporation into U.S. society and their subsequent treatment or mistreatment by white Americans. The second is how their responses to that history and treatment affect their perceptions of and responses to schooling."
Erik Siegel, Scientific American "The Real Problem With Charles Murray and 'The Bell Curve.' https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-real-problem-with-charles-murray-and-the-bell-curve/
"“The Bell Curve” endorses prejudice by virtue of what it does not say. Nowhere does the book address why it investigates racial differences in IQ. By never spelling out a reason for reporting on these differences in the first place, the authors transmit an unspoken yet unequivocal conclusion: Race is a helpful indicator as to whether a person is likely to hold certain capabilities. Even if we assume the presented data trends are sound, the book leaves the reader on his or her own to deduce how to best put these insights to use. The net effect is to tacitly condone the prejudgment of individuals based on race."
"Daring Research or 'Social Science Pornography'?"
""Why can a publisher sell it?" he asked in the proposal for "Losing Ground." "Because a huge number of well-meaning whites fear that they are closet racists, and this book tells them they are not. It's going to make them feel better about things they already think but do not know how to say."
Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich may have more power than Murray, and Rush Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan may have more direct influence. But no other conservative has his ability to make a radical thought seem so reasonable. Where others rant, Murray seduces with mountains of data and assurances of his own fine intentions. He will never be the country's most famous conservative, but he may well be the most dangerous."
"The White Man, Unburdened." Quinn Slobodian and Stuart Schrader. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-white-man-unburdened-slobodian-schrader
"Despite the reputation he cultivates as a teller of uncomfortable truths based on rigorous empirical social-scientific research, Murray misrepresents what the United States was trying to achieve in Thailand, and what his role there was. In Murray’s monograph, the word “insurgency” appeared twice and “war” never. He made no reference to opium, perhaps the commodity most worth fighting over in northeast Thailand. He did not mention martial law. And he certainly did not analyze how ethnic persecution shaped village life. Murray’s later writings have effaced these particulars even further.
Most important, Murray diminishes the U.S. war in Vietnam as the decisive context that shaped much of Thailand’s political and economic fortunes. The nearby American war transformed Thailand’s urban economy, while heightening worries both within the Thai regime and in the diplomatic community at large that Thailand might become another falling domino. Rural community development was designed to thwart Communist organizing and subversion. Additionally, from the 1950s through the 1970s, there were challenges to the Thai national government’s legitimacy—which meant, in turn, a protracted initiative to suppress any dissent that struck Thai leaders as carrying a remote echo of left-wing subversion. Meanwhile, a host of factions within the government were themselves skirmishing, with coups and counter-coups.
CIA involvement was one way for Washington to play favorites. Reading Murray’s Thai writings, you’d never know that his employer, AIR, was linked to security agencies or that the actual counterpart Thai development agency was a paramilitary force created by the CIA, the Border Patrol Police, which played a key role in a massacre of students and the installation of dictatorial right-wing rule in October 1976.
Obscuring this context has important consequences for Murray’s analysis of the failures of U.S. nation-building in Thailand, which would go on to serve as the conceptual seedbed for his critique of the American welfare state. The research he conducted in the late 1960s assessed villagers’ attitudes toward the government and the assistance it provided. He found that many villagers claimed to have little positive interaction, or any at all, with representatives from the national government. They preferred to deal with local officials. Local officials, Murray argued, were more sensitive to their needs than outside administrators."
Making Sense Episode 73, "Forbidden Knowledge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Rmbfi6YrE
Sam Harris/Ezra Klein debate: https://www.vox.com/2018/4/9/17210248/sam-harris-ezra-klein-charles-murray-transcript-podcast
Eric Turkheimer blog: https://www.geneticshumanagency.org/gha/category/eric-turkheimer-gloomy-prospect-blog/
Turkheimer, "The Origin of Race Differences in Intelligence is Not a Scientific Question." https://www.geneticshumanagency.org/gha/origin-of-race-differences-in-intelligence-is-not-a-scientific-question/
"I should be clear that I am not making a “both sides do it” argument. It is the hereditarians who are trying to reach a strong and potentially destructive conclusion, and the burden is absolutely on them to demonstrate that they have a well-grounded empirical and quantitative theory to work with. So, if you are out there and think that group differences t are at least partially genetic, please explain exactly what you mean, in empirical terms. Do you mean that some portion of the IQ gap will never go away, no matter what we do environmentally? Do you mean we will discover genes with hard-wired biological consequences for IQ, and their frequencies will differ across groups? Are polygenic risk scores going to do it somehow? But don’t let me mischaracterize your position: explain it yourself.
My concern is that anti-hereditarians play into race scientist’s hands when we agree to engage with them as though there existed a legitimate research paradigm proceeding toward a rational conclusion. At least in the social sciences, legitimate empirical research paradigms rarely come to all or none conclusions, so it becomes natural for people to conclude, with Murray and Harris, that the whole long argument is bound to settle eventually on the idea that group differences are a little environmental, a little genetic. But in fact, that is not where we are headed. I predict that in a relatively short period of time, contemporary race science will seem just as transparently unscientific and empirically untrue as the race science of the early 20th Century now appears from our modern perspective.
Declaring something to be a science doesn’t make it so. The hereditarians want all the good things that come from being thought of as scientists. They want academic respect, they want protection from charges of racism, they want clear separation from the very recent history of “race science” that led directly to the Holocaust and Jim Crow. They have to earn it, by doing the hard work of developing the quantitative and empirical theories that transform intuitions about stereotypes into real science."
Pioneer Fund at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Fund
Science Versus Propaganda on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC6Y2M1v03NONm9o5NhkgGA
"How Nazis Infiltrated Academia (and why they're obsessed with penis size)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hojHGXi1qew
PZ Myers "The Problems With Evolutionary Psychology." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osEiblC7Itw
"Is the Bell Curve Accurate, True, Statistically Sound, Racist? IQ & Class in America (1994)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01b7UCm1p5c
(Gould comes on at approximately 9:45)
"Curveball," The New Yorker, November 28 1994, by Stephen Jay Gould. https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/curveball.html
JFK's Very Revealing Harvard Application Essay: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/jfks-very-revealing-harvard-application-essay/281699/
"The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a "Harvard man" is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain."
Jack's response to Rothbard's ‘Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Human Nature’: http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/rothbards-conflationary-universe/
In this episode, Daniel tells Jack about a lesser known but crucial figure in the rise of the 'White Genocide' conspiracy theory on today's far-right, Robert Whitaker.
Content Warnings for episode and links below.
Robert Whitaker's Mantra: http://www.robertwwhitaker.com/mantra/
"ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY!
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white."
"Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white" on RationalWiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Anti-racist_is_a_code_word_for_anti-white
White Genocide at Rationalwiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/White_genocide
Metapedia (far-right Wikipedia) article on Bob Whitaker: https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Bob_Whitaker?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=399089c0fdf5c55502f94a7b14618f8544f283e5-1575239608-0-ASsg9jPD6QX683L5pDGMYrWmbBo63JGKjDVO7qNc8fpZDk_JxqI0zgi85ND5_gtNqFlKA0aV1kZt93fvGK0eh38oZ1tkUIhoudZyDuBAi52HO8LQX3sCim0k5Dhs9PPp1B3AlIjZT5cN1PEbJW28Exr_UUO7bPlTZDnOiQvAMKYc8Pdcsi1gyX2TDoUA9zHgtFQonJUJ_F_adpxmh5nawDzTneSVy1oaYkaSFQCuEgJ7pLpWlrq9VU_zOTeDEgnPjzkKO2w9yZh7AWa94VtK2LQa994wugvE5TPxcP81-UsF
Robert W. Whitaker at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B001KJ0KV4?_encoding=UTF8&node=618073011&offset=0&pageSize=12&searchAlias=stripbooks&sort=author-pages-popularity-rank&page=1&langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader
"Why Johnny Can't Think: America's Professor-Priesthood" (free PDF) https://id.b-ok2.org/book/2957237/010a34
""Why Johnny Can't Think" shows that leftism means, "Professors should rule the world." It demonstrates why each totally inbred generation of professors chooses a new generation of professors that is even more inbred and leftist and what actually happens when college graduates and professors actually try ruling the world through socialism, through criminal "rehabilitation," and through the New Education. Whatever they call it, socialism or environmentalism or multiculturalism, each leftist program just means that professors should rule the world. And every time they try, it is a disaster. But college graduates keep pushing new leftists policies. That what they learned in school. That's what we pay professors to teach them in school. Joe Sobran says in the foreword: "A former professor himself, Bob Whitaker believes that formal education has become dangerous, and often fatal, to common sense. This is nothing new, but Americans believe so deeply in formal education that they routinely sacrifice their children's youth to it, often paying staggering amounts of money to shield them from the real world... "...the "social" sciences are another matter. These "social" sciences are often directly contradicted by the hard sciences. They are built on ideas and theories that are not only unproven, but demonstrably and obviously false. Yet they are aggressively promoted by the academy, followed by the media and the government, and anyone who openly denies them can forget about a career in these institutions. Even real scientists are forced to bow to the idols of "social" science... "As Whitaker reminds us, formal education is far and away the biggest industry in the United States. Americans pay trillions of dollars, in both taxes and private tuition, to have their children indoctrinated in a false and destructive ideology, which serves as the basis for a series of disastrous public policies. In Whitaker's words, "Nothing liberals do ever WORKS." "
Bob Whitaker, Author of the Racist 'Mantra' on White Genocide, Has Died. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/06/07/bob-whitaker-author-racist-mantra-white-genocide-has-died
http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/2012/08/20/repeat-hatred-is-for-traitors/
"Following the White Rabbit" https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2013/following-white-rabbit
White Rabbit Radio Website: https://whiterabbitradio.net/
White Rabbit Radio on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYznmArMELRxH_36uM1lQ
White Rabbit Radio Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/ZhdTwH0ssCEa/
Johnny Monoxide at the SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/johnny-monoxide-aka-john-ramondetta
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Shaun video on The Bell Curve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo
Shaun video on Lauren Southern and 'the Great Replacement' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbxVfSqtt8
Three Arrows video on Kalergi Plan paranoia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o3pkoZyYRA
Current Affairs video on 'White Genocide' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCsljzWa7yA
Hitler and the Search for the Holy Grail (Documentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Wobk1HCf0
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Daniel's recent guest appearance on Parallax Views podcast https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/harper/
Another news roundup episode, in which Daniel tells Jack all about Nick Fuentes' 'Groyper War'. Plus we cover the recently released recording of Richard Spencer ranting that he should rule the world.
Content warning.
Links to follow.
This episode, Daniel (finally) tells Jack all about antisemitic academic Kevin Macdonald and his antisemitic book of antisemitism masquerading as science, 'The Culture of Critique', the influence of which ranges throughout today's far-right.
Content Warning.
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/35
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
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Show Notes:
(NB: Our mention of Elizabeth King's Twitter-ban is out of date. She's back, apparently. Hooray!)
Kevin Maconald at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_MacDonald_(evolutionary_psychologist)
Kevin MacDonald at the SPLC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_MacDonald_(evolutionary_psychologist)
Kevin MacDonald Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOOEdit
"The Culture of Critique" PDF at the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/CultureofC
The Occidental Observer: https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/
TOQ Live: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVL-NtVxGUTAuba3QpIqiZg
Judith Shulevitz, "Evolutionary Psychology's Anti-Semite." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2000/01/evolutionary-psychology-s-anti-semite.html
"MacDonald’s central thesis is that Judaism is best understood not as a religion but as a blueprint for an experiment in eugenics–a “group evolutionary strategy,” he calls it–designed to maximize a single trait: intelligence. For thousands of years, he says, Jews have separated themselves from their neighbors, choosing to confine themselves to a closed society with strict rules against marrying outside the group. They have lived by policies of extreme group loyalty and obedience to rabbinical authority, which served to maintain their racial purity; and they practiced low-birth-rate, high-investment parenting, which is the royal road to a high group I.Q. They conferred social status (which brings along with it the most desirable women) on men according to their brilliance–indeed, says MacDonald, study of the Talmud was nothing more than a casuistic exercise meant to weed out the dim. Eventually, their highly developed genes for mental and verbal acuity, as well as their social aggression (also carefully bred-in), gave the Jews powerful tools that enable them to dominate neighboring ethnic groups in the endless war of all against all for food and resources."
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"Are MacDonald’s peers aware of what he’s writing in the name of a field long accused of fostering–unfairly, many of them would say; by Jews, MacDonald would say–sexist and racist stereotypes? Do other evolutionary psychologists have an opinion on MacDonald? Culturebox called several well-known members of HBES, specifying in her voice messages that she was writing an article about MacDonald. Few returned her phone calls, but those who did said they’d never read his Jewish trilogy. Two leading scholars said they had read papers of his on other subjects and found them “muddled”; one academic said she had been forced to reject a paper by MacDonald on child development for an anthology she was editing. When Culturebox described the contents of MacDonald’s books to them, they expressed extreme shock and said he contradicted the basic principles of contemporary evolutionary psychology. “The notion that Jews are a genetically distinct group doesn’t make it on the basis of modern population genetics,” said John Tooby, the president of HBES and a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Also, he said, “group-selection theory”–the idea that natural selection can occur at the level of a group (such as a bunch of Jews) as opposed to individuals–was debunked in the 1960s, and though some scholars are working to bring group-selection theory back, it remains a minority view."
George Michael, "Professor Kevin MacDonald's Critique of Judaism: Legitimate Scholarship or the Intelleetualization of Anti-Semitism?"
"Kevin MacDonald was bom in 1944 and raised in a traditional
Catholic family in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Growing up, he attended
Catholic schools and obtained a BA in philosophy from the University
of Wisconsin in 1966. While in college, he became involved in the
campus anti-war movement. Interestingly, several of his roommates
were Jewish, which, as MacDonald later recounted, opened his eyes to
Jewish involvement in radical causes. One incident in particular that
left an impression on him was when Jewish student radicals recruited
him to give a speech in order to present a supposedly non-Jewish
veneer to their politics. During this phase in nis life, MacDonald
entertained dreams of becoming a jazz pianist, i Several years later,
however, he abandoned both his musical career and radical politics to
enter graduate school at the age of 30."
From the introduction to CoC:
"CofC describes how Jewish intellectuals initiated and advanced a number of important intellectual and political movements during the 20th century. I argue that these movements are attempts to alter Western societies in a manner that would neutralize or end anti-Semitism and enhance the prospects for Jewish group continuity either in an overt or in a semi-cryptic manner. Several of these
Jewish movements (e.g., the shift in immigration policy favoring non-European peoples) have attempted to weaken the power of their perceived competitors— the European peoples who early in the 20th century had assumed a dominant position not only in their traditional homelands in Europe, but also in the United States, Canada, and Australia. At a theoretical level, these movements are viewed as the outcome of conflicts of interest between Jews and non-Jews in the construction of culture and in various public policy issues. Ultimately, these movements are viewed as the expression of a group evolutionary strategy by Jews in their competition for social, political and cultural dominance with non-Jews.
"Here I attempt to answer some typical criticisms that have been leveled against CofC. (See also my website: www.csulb.edu/~kmacd). I also discuss issues raised by several books that have appeared since the publication of CofC. There have been complaints that I am viewing Judaism in a monolithic manner. This is definitely not the case."
Kevin MacDonald's statement to the court in the Irving/Lipstadt case: https://web.archive.org/web/20010415064434/http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/statement_court.htm
"The main point of my testimony is that the attacks made on David Irving by Deborah Lipstadt and Jewish organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League should be viewed in the long-term context of Jewish-gentile interactions. As indicated by the summaries of my books, my training as an evolutionist as well as the evidence compiled by historians leads me to conceptualize Judaism as self-interested groups whose interests often conflict with segments of the gentile community. Anti-Jewish attitudes and behavior have been a pervasive feature of the Jewish experience since the beginnings of the Diaspora well over 2000 years ago. While anti-Semitic attitudes and behavior have undoubtedly often been colored by myths and fantasies about Jews, there is a great deal of anti-Jewish writing that reflects the reality of between-group competition exactly as expected by an evolutionist. Particularly important have been the themes of separatism—the fact that Jewish groups have typically existed as recognizably distinct groups and have been unwilling to assimilate either culturally or via marriage to the wider society, the theme of economic, political, and cultural domination, and the theme of disloyalty."
This week, we look at a bit more Nazi infighting, and talk a little bit about some reactions we've had...
Content Warning.
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/34
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
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Show Notes:
"This Podcaster Dug Into the World of Neo-Nazis. Now They've Put a Target on His Back." https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-dont-speak-german-podcaster-daniel-herman-exposed-neo-nazis-now-he-has-a-target-on-his-back
"In early September, Harper and his co-host released a pair of episodes that focused on the adherents of an obscure neo-Nazi author named James Mason. A book Mason wrote has become a bible of sorts for terroristic neo-Nazi groups like Atomwaffen Division, and it has helped spawn a new wave of so-called accelerationists—people who believe societal collapse is the quickest way to create an all-white ethnostate.
Many of those adherents flocked to Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, in recent months after getting booted from other social media platforms. And they’ve created their own enclave there, which they refer to as “Terrorgram.”
It was there, in the Terrorgram community, that the threats against Harper took shape.
On Sept. 11, an anonymous post appeared on one of the Terrorgram channels, telling people to send Harper “fan mail” at his address in Michigan.
The following day, the same channel published a video from someone who drove by the address and filmed the house. “Howdy, antifascist activist Daniel Harper,” the text of the post read. “Nice place you've got there.”
The posts set off a wave of chatter on Telegram. In the midst of it was a user who went by the handle “Anti-Kosmik 2182,” who chimed in with his thoughts about what to do about Harper.
“Ditch the car somewhere a few blocks away, take back alleys, trails in the woods, etc., and then come up on the house wearing a mask,” he wrote. “I’m not saying do anything illegal, but I am saying it would be a real shame if all he has went up in literal flames.”
In court records, the FBI later said that “Anti-Kosmik 2182” was Smith, an infantry soldier stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. The bureau also revealed that it had an undercover agent on Telegram who was interacting with Smith around the same time."
Nick Martin Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickmartin
Spike Williams Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpikeWilliams
The McSpencer Group: "The Grift Question, LeBron and China, Democratic Debate and 'Centrism'". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu0dS15N6tg
Daniel updates Jack on the current round of infighting amongst the fascists.
Content Warning
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/33
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
Show Notes:
Southern Dingo, "I Don't Speak Bitch," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHdv8JsbhQM
ABC News: "FBI arrests Army soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb major American news network" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-arrests-army-soldier-allegedly-discussed-plans-bomb/story?id=65802902
Jarrett Smith indictment: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6431405-Jarrett-William-Smith-indictment-September-2019.html
Christopher Cantwell, "Reponse to Motion 20190925." https://christophercantwell.com/2019/09/25/response-to-motion-20190925/
"The Accelerationists believe that all is lost for White America, and that the only hope we have for salvation is to bring the existing system crashing down by helping the Democrat Party and engaging in shocking acts of terrorism and mass murder. Their thinking on this is roughly that once the system is collapsed, the citizenry will welcome the iron fisted rule of Nazis who will restore order by force.
Though they make a compelling case, I differ from their view on this. I support the President of the United States, they do not. I support the Republican Party, they do not. I want to save America from collapse, they do not. We are part of rival factions, and associating me with them is nothing short of a fraud upon this court.
We disagree so much, that this faction to which I refer has endlessly harassed me, made death threats, defaced my website, made false reports to law enforcement, and launched Distributed Denial Of Service attacks against my website and radio servers. This has gone on for almost a year, ever since the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, of which they concluded I was not nearly supportive enough. In response to the crimes they committed against me, I contacted my local police department, who suggested we involve the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and we did just that. All of this is documented in extensive discussions I have had with law enforcement about these crimes perpetrated against me by the faction Plaintiffs falsely try to associate me with."
Christopher Cantwell, "Siege Posting." https://christophercantwell.com/2019/09/27/radical-agenda-s05e073-siege-posting/
Christopher Cantwell, "Radical Agenda S05E074 -- Occidental Dissent." https://christophercantwell.com/2019/09/30/radical-agenda-s05e074-occidental-dissent/
Jim Object tag at The Daily Stormer: https://dailystormer.name/tag/jim-object/
Larry Ridgeway goes on a rant against TRS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLMCzZSilLA
(More TRS drama) The Krypto Report -- Episode 87, Jayoh in the Woodpile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J5x1GuGzPc
Daniel and Jack take a relaxing detour back into discussing pop culture and consider the Marvel movie Captain America: The First Avenger... along with the MCU more generally, the links between the Military Industrial Complex and Hollywood, how Nazis watch Marvel, the ways fascism is represented in movies, etc.
Content Warning
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/32
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
Show Notes:
Bisexual Steven Rogers
Steven Atwell: Steve Rogers Isn't Just Any Hero
Lyndsy Ellis on The Ideology of the First Order and Woke Disney
In this fascinating new episode, Daniel is joined by Betsy Phillips to talk about her forthcoming book Dynamite Nashville: The KKK, the FBI, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control, the story of three unsolved bombings in Tennessee during the late 50s and early 60s.
Content Warning
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/31
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
Show Notes:
Betsy's Twitter
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The wicked irony behind a new Cobb County home for Democrats
Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. by Stewart Wexler
Clarion Ledger: Mississippi Burning Killings: Religious Terrorism? by Stewart Wexler
House Committee on Un-American Activities Ku Klux Klan
In place of a new episode, we're celebrating reaching 30 by re-releasing a podcast we originally recorded and released back in December 2017 as part of a previous project called Wrong With Authority. In retrospect, this sounds like a pilot for what became IDSG. We hope you enjoy it.
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/30
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
More on the Siege Pill and the Siegepillers this week.
Content Warning.
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/29
Transcript of last week's episode
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
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Show Notes:
SIEGE at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/JamesMasonSIEGE3rdEdition
James Mason at the SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/james-mason
siegeculture.com at the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20180306224025/https://www.siegeculture.com/
Atomwaffen Division at the SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/atomwaffen-division
PBS and ProPublica, "Documenting Hate, New American Nazis": https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/
"Cleaning Out My Closet," Joachim Hoch (aka Seth Wallace): https://www.bitchute.com/video/HXqOZZ7kR4jQ/
Angry White Men, "Heel Turn Network Founder Seth Wallace Embraces Christchurch Shooter In Recent Livestream" https://angrywhitemen.org/2019/05/29/heel-turn-network-founder-seth-wallace-embraces-christchurch-shooter-in-recent-livestream/
Angry White Men, "White Nationalists Have Been Quietly Collecting Donations Through A Livestreaming Site." https://angrywhitemen.org/2019/02/25/white-nationalists-have-been-quietly-collecting-donations-through-a-livestreaming-site/
Chris Cantwell Bowlcast image: https://images.app.goo.gl/ws9gsiTGgCPwDdk59
Chris Cantwell, "Sorry For Spam Posts." https://christophercantwell.com/2019/02/11/sorry-for-spam-posts/
Chris Cantwell on the Killstream 20190226 (doxxes "Mosin Nagant"): https://christophercantwell.com/2019/02/27/cantwell-on-the-killstream/
Vic Mackey threatens an antifascist on the Bowlcast:
"But as I was saying normally I would advocate to the death against even touching one of those Yentas or anything like that. But I'll tell you if it's like locked in a room it's go time. I'll tell you in Roblox that would be getting the pistol whip and it would be getting the Bowl.
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"You still have to be really hard. It would be really hard not to do it though. I mean normally because they repulse me and I would never even want to copulate with one of those creatures but it would be really hard not to just seeing the fear in its eyes like a shriveled up battered Yenta just seeing like a disappearing desk wetting itself and just an abject terror."
GoyTalk.com: http://goytalk.com/
The Gas Station Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/thegasstation/?showall=1
"Sir88" aka Conor Climo messages on Unicorn Riot. https://discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/discord/user/2002
"Sir88" shares propaganda from the National Socialist Liberation Front: https://discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/discord/view/360368?q=#msg
HuffPost, "Over 40 People Have Been Arrested As Potential Mass Shooters Since El Paso." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mass-shooting-plot-arrests-el-paso_n_5d66d1eae4b063c341f9f2da
Nate Thayer on Atomwaffen: https://www.nate-thayer.com/u-s-soldiers-uncovered-in-atomwaffen-division-satanic-nazi-death-cult-terror-group/
Nate Thayer on Cody William Moreash, former leader of AWD: https://www.nate-thayer.com/u-s-soldiers-uncovered-in-atomwaffen-division-satanic-nazi-death-cult-terror-group/
Nate Thayer, "Help Me Identify Nazi White Supremacist "Vic Mackey." https://www.nate-thayer.com/help-me-identify-nazi-white-supremacist-vic-mackey-who-wants-to-murder-jews-blacks-journalists-and-rape-my-dog-and-murder-me-with-a-baseball-bat/
Angry White Men, "Patrick Little and Paul Nehlen are Feuding Over How to Start a Race War." https://angrywhitemen.org/2019/04/29/patrick-little-and-paul-nehlen-are-feuding-over-how-to-start-a-race-war/
Goy Talk Twitter: https://twitter.com/Goy_Talk_USA
"Southern Dingo" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dingvictus
This week, Daniel explains the "Siege Pill".
Content Warning
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/28
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
Links:
SIEGE at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/JamesMasonSIEGE3rdEdition
James Mason at the SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/james-mason
siegeculture.com at the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20180306224025/https://www.siegeculture.com/
Atomwaffen Division at the SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/atomwaffen-division
PBS and ProPublica, "Documenting Hate, New American Nazis": https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/
On J. F. Gariepy:
Kelly Weill, The Daily Beast: "Alt-Right YouTuber Accused of Luring Autistic Teen in Pregnancy Plot." https://www.thedailybeast.com/alt-right-youtuber-accused-of-luring-autistic-teen-in-pregnancy-plot
"The Disturbing Case of Mama JF." From The Public Space 309. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWYnKmXBUNc
This week, Daniel talks to journalists Shane Burley and Alexander Reid Ross about white nationalism in the Pacific Northwest.
Content warnings.
In the wake of recent dreadful events, Daniel decided to talk to Jack about the ideology of mass shootings, especially with reference to the 'Might is Right' tract cited by one of the killers.
Content warnings.
Show Notes:
"Might is Right" at RationalWiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Might_is_Right
"Might Is Right" full text at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cu31924029107907/page/n3
"Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting," at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy_Garlic_Festival_shooting
Santino William Legan: Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooter's Instagram Page: "https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/santino-william-legan-gilroy-shooters-instagram/"
"“Read ‘Might Is Right’ by Ragnar Redbeard,” Legan wrote. His caption further asked rhetorically, “Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats?”"
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From Might Is Right, Chapter Three:
"You have only to look at some men, to know that they belong to an inferior breed. Take the Negro for example. His narrow cranial developittent, his prognathous jaw, his projecting lips, his wide nasal aperture, his simian disposition, his want of forethought, originality, and mental capacity: are all peculiarities strictly inferior. Similar language may be applied to the Chinaman, the Coolie, the Kanaka, the Jew, and to the rotten-boned city degenerates of Anglo- Saxondom: rich and poor. Vile indeed are the inhabitants of those noxious cattle kraals: London, Liverpool, New York, Chicago, New Orleans: and yet, in those places is heaped up, the golden plunder of the world.
[...]
"No one can study the laborers on a farm, the 'hands' in a big foundry or factory, the seamen in a large seaport, the nomadic hirelings on a railroad construction gang: or the clerks and salesmen in a city warehouse, without perceiving at a glance, that the vast majority of them are extremely poor specimens of humanity.
The ideal type of manhood or womanhood, (that is to say, 'Ye Thoroughbred") is not to be found among these captive hordes — for captives they really are. Their heads are, to a large extent unsymeterical- their features distorted, ape-like, unintelligent. Their bodies are out of all proportion, dwarfed, stunted, diseased, malformed, cretinous.
Their movements are contracted, artificial, ungainly, and their minds (outside of routine) are utter vacuums."
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"What We Know About the Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Suspect." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-29/what-we-know-about-gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-suspect-santino-william-legan
"No clarity yet on motive behind Gilroy gunman's attack, investigators say," https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/30/gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-california-white-supremacy-links
"The FBI is continuing to investigate if the alleged shooter “was in line with any particular ideology”, Craig Fair, a deputy special agent in charge with the FBI in San Francisco, said on Tuesday, including by reviewing social media accounts, digital media, conducting interviews and investigating what thoughts and ideas the shooter may have shared with others. He also did not confirm whether the widely-publicized Instagram account was linked to the shooter."
"'Erroneous reporting' on Garlic Festival shooting suspect's ideology: FBI" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/erroneous-reporting-garlic-festival-shooting-suspects-ideology-fbi/story?id=64706955
""I can tell you there has been no determination on ideology. There's reports out there has been information found and books referenced on that, we are not in a position at this stage of the investigation to make a call on ideology," John Bennett told reporters on Wednesday.
"The information that's out there, it's being reported that there's white nationalism or any type of those ideologies," Special Agent John Bennett, said. "That has not been determined and I wanted to knock that down."
Bennett said that through the course of the investigation they are finding literature from "left to right" and said they can't put the suspect, 19-year-old Santio Legan, in an ideological "box."
He wouldn't characterize the literature as extreme, either."
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"Radical: The Story of Arthur Desmond" (article and podcast): https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/black-sheep/story/201859191/radical-the-story-of-arthur-desmond
"However, he alienated the settler community with his support for the former Māori guerrilla leader and founder of the Ringatu church, Te Kooti. When public meetings were held to protest a planned trip by Te Kooti to Gisborne, Desmond was the only Pākehā who raised his voice in support.
“It was a very brave thing to do,” says Mark Derby. “He was bodily thrown out of the meetings and even beaten up, but it didn’t stop him from taking this stance.”
However, Derby doesn’t think Desmond’s support for Te Kooti was rooted in heartfelt sympathy for the plight of Māori. Instead, he says it was linked to Te Kooti’s violent past as a guerrilla leader.
“He liked Te Kooti’s style. He admired the idea of a very strong and even ruthless leader who was prepared to go to any lengths, including extreme violence. [Desmond’s] whole career and all his political writings were based on an admiration and exultation of such figures.”
[...]
"On war he wrote:
“The natural world is a world of war; the natural man is a warrior; the natural law is tooth and claw. All else is error.”
On Jesus Christ:
“... the prophet of unreason — the preacher of rabble-rabies. All that is enervating and destructive of manhood, he glorifies, — all that is self-reliant and heroic, he denounces.”
On the American Declaration of Independence:
“Its ethical and most of its political conclusions are shams, deceptions, and cold-blooded dishonesties — incandescent Lies.”
On women:
“Women and children BELONG to man; who must hunt for them as well as for himself. He is their lord and master, in theory and in fact.”
On race:
“The African, Mongolian, Semite, or Negro breeds are all fundamentally different in formation, constituents, and character; from men of Aryan descent. … Some men ARE born better, born nobler, born braver than others.”"
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Robert Evans, "The EL Paso Shooting and the Gamification of Terror" https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2019/08/04/the-el-paso-shooting-and-the-gamification-of-terror/
"This poster and several others lambasted the shooter for his “shitty” and “0 effort manifesto”. There is nothing new in this killer’s ramblings. He expresses fears of the same “replacement” of white people that motivated the Christchurch shooter, and notes that he was deeply motivated by that shooter’s manifesto. In the article I wrote after the Poway Synagogue shooting I noted that 8channers had dedicated a great deal of time to spreading that manifesto, in an effort to inspire more shooters. The El Paso shooting is further proof that this strategy works.
[...]
"What we see here is evidence of the only real innovation 8chan has brought to global terrorism: the gamification of mass violence. We see this not just in the references to “high scores”, but in the very way the Christchurch shooting was carried out. Brenton Tarrant livestreamed his massacre from a helmet cam in a way that made the shooting look almost exactly like a First Person Shooter video game. This was a conscious choice, as was his decision to pick a sound-track for the spree that would entertain and inspire his viewers.
[...]
"In the wake of the Christchurch shooting I published my first Bellingcat article about 8chan. I was interviewed by numerous media agencies about the website, and I warned all of them that additional attacks would follow – every month or two – until something was done. This prediction has proven accurate. Until law enforcement, and the media, treat these shooters as part of a terrorist movement no less organized, or deadly, than ISIS or Al Qaeda, the violence will continue. There will be more killers, more gleeful celebration of body counts on 8chan, and more bloody attempts to beat the last killer’s “high score”."
ContraPoints: "Incels." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD2briZ6fB0
In a fun episode, Daniel chats with CV Vitolo-Haddad about CV's recent debate with Eric Striker.
Content warnings.
The Striker/CV debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAm3qijUWUk&t=5073s
Eric Striker dox from the SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/05/01/prolific-alt-right-propagandists-identity-confirmed
Eric Striker (@AarickStriger) complains about snitches. Which are really just people Striker is frightened of. https://twitter.com/AarickStriger/status/1153503065649176576
This week, Daniel is joined by special guest David Neiwert, author of Alt-America and The Eliminationists, to discuss conspiracy theories and online radicalisation, Andy Ngo and concrete milkshakes, and David's recent temporary Twitter suspension.
Content warnings, as always.
Alt-America
Alt-America at Amazon
David Neiwert's Orcinus blog
David Neiwert Twitter Suspension
David Neiwert discusses his Twitter suspension
Andy Ngo commits journalistic malpractice about hate crimes, a David Neiwert Twitter thread
Video of skirmish involving Andy Ngo
Vic Berger, "Andy Ngo Attacked! (In Context)"
This episode, Daniel tells Jack about Andrew Anglin and The Daily Stormer. Big content warnings for this one.
Cantwell News:
"As co-defendants fight discovery, Cantwell threatens lawyer," The Daily Progress. https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/as-co-defendants-fight-discovery-cantwell-threatens-lawyer/article_619851ce-8ad9-599b-88fa-6f289e90d400.html
"On June 18 Cantwell posted an article about Roberta Kaplan, the lead lawyer on the case, to the messaging site Telegram, which is frequented by extremists.
“After this stupid kike whore loses this fraudulent lawsuit, we’re going to have a lot of fucking fun with her,” Cantwell wrote.
The threat was mentioned during a telephonic hearing Tuesday in federal court in Charlottesville, where lawyers discussed the snail’s pace of the discovery process in the lawsuit that alleges organizers and key participants in the Aug. 12, 2017, white supremacist rally planned and promoted violence against protected groups.
Cantwell has posted derogatory statements about Kaplan before, the plaintiffs’ lawyers wrote in a motion filed Tuesday, but his recent statement is a “thinly-veiled threat” that impairs the lawyers’ ability to carry out their work.
The lawyers asked the court to enjoin Cantwell to refrain from any future threats.
Cantwell already has been found guilty of assaulting and pepper-spraying activists on Aug. 11, 2017, and of violating conditions of his bond. He remains a defendant in another civil suit filed by people injured during the Unite the Right rally.
On Tuesday afternoon, shortly after news stories about the motion were published, Cantwell posted about Kaplan again on Telegram, calling Kaplan a “lying piece of Jewish filth."
Show Notes:
The Daily Stormer: https://dailystormer.name
The Daily Stormer Style Guide: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-stormer-nazi-style-guide_n_5a2ece19e4b0ce3b344492f2
"We are writing for the common man, so the language should be very simple, using a standard
8th grade vocabulary. The use of "college words" is extremely discouraged.
The only situation in which an uncommon word should be used in when it is unavoidable,
such as when it is needed to describe something technical, or a situation or phenomenon that
is so specific that it requires a unique description."
[...]
"As a rule, every post should be filled with as much visual stimulation as possible. Pages should
look exciting and appeal to the ADHD culture. This can't really be overdone.
These include:
•Straight images (pictures of persons, places, events)
•Meme images (that you make yourself or find on other sites - fresh memes are best but
old memes are good too)
•Funny gifs
•Twitter embeds
•YouTube videos (or other video from other sites if necessary, following the above
mentioned embed protocol)."
[...]
"Profanity should be used sparingly. An overuse of profanity can come across as goofy.
"Nigger" is okay to use sometimes, but shouldn't be used constantly.
The following racial slurs are allowed and advisable:
•Negro/Negroid
•Monkey
•Ape
•Spic
•Wetback
•Beaner
•Beanperson
•Kike
•Yid
•Sheeny
•Christ-killer
•Haji
•Sandperson
•Paki (can be used for non-Pakistani Moslems, especially Arabs, because that's funny)
•Muzzie
•Chink
•Gook
•Zipperhead
And others
The following are not allowed:
•Shitskin
•Latrino
•(Any others relating to poop)
•Mud (I just don't really like this term, it seems too much like SF boomer talk)
While racial slurs are allowed/recommended, not every reference to non-white should not be
a slur and their use should be based on the tone of the article. Generally, when using racial
slurs, it should come across as half-joking - like a racist joke that everyone laughs at because
it's true. This follows the generally light tone of the site."
[...]
"Prime Directive: Always Blame the Jews for Everything
As Hitler says, people will become confused and disheartened if they feel there are multiple
enemies. As such, all enemies should be combined into one enemy, which is the Jews. This is
pretty much objectively true anyway, but we want to leave out any and all nuance.
So no blaming Enlightenment thought, pathological altruism, technology/urbanization, etc. -
just blame Jews for everything.
This basically includes blaming Jews for the behavior of other nonwhites. Of course it should
not be that they are innocent, but the message should always be that if we didn't have the
Jews, we could figure out how to deal with nonwhites very easily.
The same deal with women. Women should be attacked, but there should always be mention
that if it wasn't for the Jews, they would be acting normally.
What should be completely avoided is the sometimes mentioned idea that "even if we got rid
of the Jews we would still have all these other problems." The Jews should always be the
beginning and the end of every problem, from poverty to poor family dynamics to war to the
destruction of the rainforest."
[...]
"Violence
It's illegal to promote violence on the Internet. At the same time, it's totally important to
normalize the acceptance of violence as an eventuality/inevitability.
I'm extremely careful about never suggesting violence. I go beyond legal requirements in
America. However, whenever someone does something violent, it should be made light of,
laughed at.
For example, Anders Breivik should be forever referred to as a heroic freedom fighter. This is
great because people think you must be joking. But there is a part of their brain that doesn't
think that.
When it comes to more immediate violent trends, I'm slightly more careful. The burnings of
migrant centers is one of these things. I'm slightly hesitant to say "patriotic heroes burn
another might center," given that this could be construed as calling for more arson (whereas it
can't be construed that I'm calling for Breivik to kill more brats).
Dylann Roof I have labeled "DyRo," and though I offer explanations for what he did, I never
condemn him. I also think it is very funny to say that he was simply defending himself when
he was attacked in a church by black mamies trying to steal his iPhone. That sort of silly
humor really bites at the Jew "pure evil" narrative."
"Meet The Stormer: Here Are The People Who Keep The World’s Most Popular White Power Website Afloat" https://angrywhitemen.org/2018/08/15/meet-the-stormer-here-are-the-people-who-keep-the-worlds-most-popular-white-power-website-afloat/
Anglin at the SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/andrew-anglin
Classic Anglin:
"War Machine Did Nothing Wrong." https://dailystormer.name/war-machine-did-nothing-wrong/
"I don’t usually defend deranged brown savages. But I’m going to right now.
UFC fighter War Machine has been sentenced to life in prison for assault and battery, which is insane in itself.
This is a situation where one person beat another person’s ass. Pretty badly, okay. But that was all it was – an ass beating. There was no attempted murder. Somehow there are 29 felony convictions, and I don’t even understand what that means – this was a single incident of someone getting their ass kicked.
But on top of the nuttiness of “giving someone an ass beating” resulting in life imprisonment – the bitch deserved it, and no one anywhere can make an argument that she didn’t....
"Like, he had this meme about how anyone should be able to murder anyone at any time if they were capable of it. It was his main point. He talked about “in this day and age there is laws protecting the weak” – that is a quote. That he said a lot.
Like he wanted literal Conanism.
He took the philosophical position that anyone should be able to murder anyone at any time.
He also did things like call for the assassination of Barack Obama and said that men in modern feminist societies are treated worse than Jews during the Holocaust.
He has also said many other things that some people might consider to be awesome."
"Corrective Rape Will Save Us." https://dailystormer.name/corrective-rape-will-save-us/
"There was a time where good, average men had access to women and created their own families without having to play these games. Giving women agency as if they were something other than property was a grave mistake that needs correcting. They don’t know what’s best for them and they’re incapable of appreciating the sacrifice men make for them to be safe and comfortable.
Rape is the solution.
Think about it. This slut was surrounded by like 30 men that wanted to have sex with her. Those men were subjected to stupid hoops and games and ended up gaining nothing and wasting a lot of time. It would have been easier for them to rape her, be done with it and move on towards productive stuff."
"ISIS Claims Responsibility for Arianapocalypse As Police Searches Continue Across UK." https://dailystormer.name/isis-claims-responsibility-for-arianapocalypse-as-police-searches-continue-across-uk/
"I know it is the culture, and people just go along with the culture, but if you’re sending your 8-year-old daughter to see this:
Then you do, by divine natural law, deserve to suffer for it in the most horrible imaginable way.
I hope her parents didn’t die with her.
And I hope they are someday able to understand why they deserved this.
There are laws in the universe. And when they are transgressed, these transgressions have consequences. Sadly – and I mean that genuinely, it is sad – it doesn’t matter if you know you are breaking these laws or not.
Rules still apply."
"Andrew Anglin Exposed!"
"I started out with normal Alex Jones type conspiracy material, and then moved on to weirder conspiracy material, and then eventually decided Ted Kaczinski was right with regards to a coming apocalypse due to the rapidity of technological development, read a bunch of stuff from Jaques Ellul and Jean Baudrillard, and went to live in a jungle in Asia for a while.
To be clear, I was actually already living and working in Asia at the time, because it was just so much more sensible economically. Also, it is a lot of fun in Southeast Asia (China isn’t), and all the White people you meet are outcast sorts who you can usually connect with easily (you aren’t really spending much time with Asians). As the reader is aware, to this day I have little negative to say about Asians, save that I don’t think they should be immigrating into Western countries (in any kind of numbers) and I don’t think White people should be producing children with them. I will also say that Chinese people don’t have souls.
Having been raised mostly without exposure to non-Whites, this was when I first started thinking seriously about race as a biological concept. Eventually, I got fed up and realized that I couldn’t live in a jungle with a bunch of 80 IQ jungle people.
I had always been into 4chan, as I am at heart a troll. This is about the time /new/ was going full-Nazi, and so I got into Hitler, and realized that through this type of nationalist system, alienation could be replaced with community in a real sense, while the authoritarianism would allow for technology to develop in a direction that was beneficial rather than destructive to the people.
Then, without really any knowledge at all of the contemporary White Nationalist scene, I started Total Fascism, a blog promoting total fascism."
"The Alt-Right's Asian Fetish, Audrea Lim, The New York Times." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/alt-right-asian-fetish.html
"Andrew Anglin Does the Philippines -- Jailbait Style." https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=53b_1426403408
Columbus Alive, "White Nationalist From Worthington." https://www.columbusalive.com/entertainment/20170208/white-nationalist-from-worthington
"In 2007, two freshman-year friends had strikingly similar run-ins with Anglin. On both occasions, Anglin expressed a deep interest in conspiracy theory and, in particular, reptilian humanoids, a concept that posits global leaders either are, or are controlled by, lizard-like beings. These theories would form the backbone of Anglin’s first forays into blogging on his site Adventure Quest 2012, which launched with a post laying forth the site’s mission to mend “the wounds produced by modern society ... and [help] the reader transcend these physical bonds and reach total ascendancy.” “To mend these wounds,” Anglin wrote, “the world must learn to embrace diversity and color.”
Later posts would delve into the lives of reptilians and humanoid sharks.
[...]
"Writing on his blog True Fascism, a precursor to the Daily Stormer first launched in 2012, Anglin described an affinity for Filipinos, referring to them as “a civilized, non-aggressive and industrious people.” Over time, however, he started to believe it impossible to develop deeper, more meaningful relationships with the island dwellers, owing to what he described as “minds ... as primitive as their living.”
“While living in the jungle, I began drinking too much of a strong coconut wine brewed by the locals, began to feel deeply depressed and alone, and eventually left that life behind, forever,” he wrote. “It was only among my own kind — those of the European race — that I would ever be able to share true kinship, as it is only they who share my blood, and can understand my soul. ... By the Grace of God, I found Adolf Hitler.”
After delving deeper into the writings of Hitler and former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Anglin launched the short-lived Total Fascism, which included long-form posts about everything from Hitler’s artwork to a written desire to round up non-white immigrants and place them in concentration camps “until they can be shipped back to wherever they are from.” "
The Atlantic, Luke O'Brien, "The Making of an American Nazi." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-making-of-an-american-nazi/544119/
"Former friends recall that Anglin’s parents seemed blind to their son’s alarming behavior. And while he could be tender toward his younger siblings, Chelsey and Mitch, and loyal to his friends, he also had a sadistic side. Alison (who asked that her last name be withheld from this article) told me that during Anglin’s sophomore year, she called him, distraught: She said she’d passed out at a party and been raped by a friend’s older brother. She needed compassion and support, but Anglin just laughed and broke up with her.
“You’re a slut,” she remembers him saying.
Several girls Anglin had gotten to know at another high school began calling her house at all hours of the night, according to Alison and other sources. “You deserved it,” they’d say. “You slut.” Alison says the abuse went on for weeks, as Anglin showed friends a video he’d made of them having sex.
After the breakup, Dan Newman, another friend at the time, remembers Anglin once bashing his head into the walls of his bedroom in such a frenzy that his mother had to call the police. Several classmates told me that Anglin didn’t date again in high school and sometimes tried to kiss other boys, including one black student he especially liked. Whether this behavior was authentic experimentation or just for shock value, it’s notable in light of the extreme homophobia Anglin has since expressed on The Daily Stormer and elsewhere. He has advocated, for instance, throwing gays off buildings, isis-style."
Lawsuits
From the Atlantic piece:
"At the time, Richard Spencer and Andrew Anglin barely knew each other. Spencer, who fancies himself white nationalism’s leading intellectual, cloaks his racism in highbrow arguments. Anglin prefers the gutter, reveling in the vile language common on the worst internet message boards. But Spencer and Anglin had appeared together on a podcast the day before Sherry’s Medium post was published and expressed their mutual admiration. Anglin declared it a “historic” occasion, a step toward greater unity on the extreme right.
It was in this spirit that Anglin “doxed” Gersh and her husband, Judah, as well as other Jews in Whitefish, by publishing their contact information and other personal details on his website. He plastered their photographs with yellow stars emblazoned with jude and posted a picture of the Gershes’ 12-year-old son superimposed on the gates at Auschwitz. He commanded his readers—his “Stormer Troll Army”—to “hit ’em up.”
“All of you deserve a bullet through your skull,” one Stormer said in an email.
“Put your uppity slut wife Tanya back in her cage, you rat-faced kike,” another wrote to Judah.
“You fucking wicked kike whore,” Andrew Auernheimer, The Daily Stormer’s webmaster, said in a voicemail for Gersh. “This is Trump’s America now.”
Over the next week, the Stormers besieged Whitefish businesses, human-rights groups, city-council members—anyone potentially connected to the targets. A single harasser called Judah’s office more than 500 times in three days, according to the Whitefish police. Gersh came home one night to find her husband sitting at home in the dark, suitcases on the floor, wondering whether they should flee. “I have never been so scared in my entire life,” she later told me."
Between Two Lampshades: "Enoch, Spencer, and Anglin." https://therightstuff.biz/2016/12/14/between-two-lampshades-enoch-spencer-and-anglin/
Luke O'Brien, Huffpost, "Andrew Anglin’s Lawyer Visited The Elusive Nazi’s Hometown And Madness Ensued" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nazi-andrew-anglin-lawyer-mark-randazza_n_5a6a3622e4b0ddb658c4a36b
Missoulian, "Anglin forfeits defense in MT neo-Nazi 'troll storm' case; his attorneys withdraw" https://missoulian.com/news/local/anglin-forfeits-defense-in-mt-neo-nazi-troll-storm-case/article_ea7bc4d3-3ae9-5866-b6ce-4ef6fba9a7ce.html
"Anglin attorneys Marc Randazza and Mathew Stevenson filed a motion Tuesday to withdraw from the case. In their motion, Randazza said the attorney-client relationship "has broken down" and created an "irreconcilable conflict" for the defense.
In a phone interview with the Missoulian, Randazza said he had little interest in continuing his representation of someone unwilling to follow a federal judge's order.
"My client made the decision years ago he was going to expatriate himself and never return," Randazza said. "When a federal judge tells you to do something and you refuse, you put your lawyer in a difficult position."
Randazza's filing to withdraw as counsel indicates the motion was sent to his client at an email address as well as four different physical addresses in Ohio."
"Heather Heyer: Woman Killed in Road Rage Incident was a Fat, Childless 32-Year-Old Slut" https://dailystormer.name/heather-heyer-woman-killed-in-road-rage-incident-was-a-fat-childless-32-year-old-slut/
"Why We Terminated Daily Stormer," The Cloudflare Blog. https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
"Our terms of service reserve the right for us to terminate users of our network at our sole discretion. The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.
Our team has been thorough and have had thoughtful discussions for years about what the right policy was on censoring. Like a lot of people, we’ve felt angry at these hateful people for a long time but we have followed the law and remained content neutral as a network. We could not remain neutral after these claims of secret support by Cloudflare."
Wired, "Why Cloudflare Let and Extremist Stronghold Burn." https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-cloudflare/
From the Atlantic piece, the results of The Optics Debate:
"His panic was almost palpable as he tried to walk back the fearsome reputation he’d cultivated. “I am not actually a ‘Neo‑Nazi White Supremacist,’ nor do I know what that is,” he wrote in mid-September. He claimed that his violent rhetoric was never sincere but simply a way to mock those who slap a Nazi label on anyone who “stands up for white people’s rights” or “refuses to believe the stupid lies about Hitler” or rejects the “alleged Holocaust” narrative. Anglin now shared what he said had been his true editorial approach all along: “Ironic Nazism disguised as real Nazism disguised as ironic Nazism.”
Five days later, he posted about “the world being ruled either by reptiles from another dimension or some other type of reptilian or insectoid race of aliens.” Where the irony started and stopped was hard to know. I emailed Anglin one more time asking for an interview. He didn’t answer. The next day, he wrote a post calling for the mass execution of journalists. “I want to see pieces of journalist brains splattered across walls,” he wrote."
Another departure for the show as Daniel and Jack chat about Sam Harris, inexplicably popular professional atheist, Intellectual Dark Webber, thought-experimenter, devil's advocate, mysteriously perennial victim of malicious context-removal, and definitely not a member of the far-right.
Seriously... Sam Harris is not a nazi. The fact that we're talking about him on a podcast in which we normally talk about nazis (and fascists and white supremacists, etc) doesn't mean we're saying he is one. We're not.
Nevertheless, we think he's relevant to our discussion.
Something of a cathartic experience for both of us. We had fun.
Content warnings.
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Show Notes:
Sam Harris website: https://samharris.org/
Sam Harris podcast, "Making Sense." https://samharris.org/podcast/
SPLC: McInnes, Molyneux, and 4chan: Investigating pathways to the alt-right
"The “skeptics” movement — whose adherents claim to challenge beliefs both scientific and spiritual by questioning the evidence and reasoning that underpin them — has also helped channel people into the alt-right by way of “human biodiversity.” Sam Harris has been one of the movement’s most public faces, and four posters on the TRS thread note his influence.
"Under the guise of scientific objectivity, Harris has presented deeply flawed data to perpetuate fear of Muslims and to argue that black people are genetically inferior to whites. In a 2017 podcast, for instance, he argued that opposition to Muslim immigrants in European nations was “perfectly rational” because “you are importing, by definition, some percentage, however small, of radicalized people.” He assured viewers, “This is not an expression of xenophobia; this is the implication of statistics.” More recently, he invited Charles Murray on his podcast. Their conversation centered on an idea that lies far outside of scientific consensus: that racial differences in IQ scores are genetically based. Though mainstream behavioral scientists have demonstrated that intelligence is less significantly affected by genetics than environment (demonstrated by research that shows the IQ gap between black and white Americans is closing, and that the average American IQ has risen dramatically since the mid-twentieth century), Harris still dismissed any criticism of Murray’s work as “politically correct moral panic.”
For posters on TRS, Harris’ work blended easily into that of more overtly racist writers like Paul Kersey, whose popular blog, “Stuff Black People Don’t Like,” is reposted on American Renaissance. The site “really gets the noggin joggin and encourages you to search for answers,” one user wrote. Their “biggest stepping stone” was from Harris’ work to Kersey’s blog: “It was there I learned about race realism, IQ, genetics, bell curves, and the economic/political drivers behind the pushing of ‘diversity.’”"
Sam Harris on Recode/Decode:
HARRIS: "But it’s a larger problem that worries me that real liberals are vacating the space of rational conversation on certain topics, race and sex and gender and wealth and power and religion and immigration. Huge topics that a lot of people care about.
And into that vacuum come right-wing nut cases, opportunists and grifters and narcissists like the president of the United States, and in the extreme, actual Nazis and white supremacists and, you know, populists of that flavor, who we shouldn’t want to empower and we’re empowering them, not just in the States, but I mean it’s even worse in Europe. This is a global problem.
This is a point that David Frum has made, which I think is right, whatever you think about David’s politics. If liberals won’t defend specific ideas like secure borders, people will elect fascists to do the job. Enough people care about these things that if you’re going to call everyone a racist who’s concerned about immigration, eventually only a racist who doesn’t care about his reputation anymore will be elected to do that job."
Sam Harris "What Do Jihadis Really Want?"
Dabiq 15, referenced heavily in "What do Jihadis Really Want?"
Sam Harris: "To Profile or Not to Profile," with Bruce Schneier:
SCHNEIER: "Security is a trade-off, and requires some sort of cost-benefit analysis. What is the cost of your security system? What are the benefits? What, exactly, is your correlation? (TSA screeners can’t sort based on religion; they have to sort based on something they can detect. And since there’s no such thing as “looking Muslim”—it’s a belief system, not an ethnic group—they’re going to sort on something like “looking Arab,” whatever that ends up meaning.) Then, you’re going to have to analyze the resulting security system. How does it work, and how does it fail? What’s the false-positive and false-negative rate? (You’ll have to do some theoretical analysis, at the very least refuting current research.) Can your system be gamed? (You’ll need some experimental data with real-world TSA agents in real-world conditions. The last thing we want is a security system that can be defeated with a bottle of blonde hair dye.) You will need it to relate to other security systems. We only have a limited security budget. Is your security system better than other airport security options? How does it affect the other security systems already in place at airports? Would we be better off spending that money on some other aspect of airport security? Or something more general than airports? In my book Beyond Fear, I proposed a five-step process to think through some of these questions. There are other, more rigorous models. But security engineering requires something more than intuition."
Sam Harris "The Limits of Discourse" with Noam Chomsky
Digest of the Harris/Chomsky debate
Ezra Klein "Forbidden Knowledge," (includes links to much of the Klein/Harris material)
KLEIN: "He ultimately refused to have me on his podcast on the grounds that a conversation between the two of us would be “unproductive,” pivoting to a demand that I instead publish an op-ed supporting his views (you can read that piece here) or that he publishes all our emails to each other. [Update: Harris has now published our email exchange, and I recommend reading it. I don’t know why he thinks it helps his case, but I think it shows just how resistant to actual dialogue he is on this subject.]"
Sam Harris/Ezra Klein emails:
HARRIS: "Throughout this exchange, you’ve dodged every substantive point I’ve raised. What’s more, you continue to ignore the context in which you published that defamatory piece. Nisbett et al. say that Murray “was recently denied a platform at Middlebury College. Students shouted him down, and one of his hosts was hurt in a scuffle.” This is an obscenely euphemistic way to describe what actually happened. Hurt in a scuffle? A professor received a neck injury and a concussion. The car in which she and Murray fled was smashed with a stop sign still attached to part of the sidewalk from which it had been wrested. Murray was set upon by a mob—at Middlebury."
Addison Independent report on the (Murray / Middlebury) event:
"“The protesters then violently set upon the car, rocking it, pounding on it, jumping on and trying to prevent it from leaving campus,” he said. “At one point a large traffic sign was thrown in front of the car. Public Safety officers were able, finally, to clear the way to allow the vehicle to leave campus."
The Atlantic report on the event:
"One [antifascist] took a large traffic sign, attached to a concrete base, and placed it in front of the car to prevent it from leaving."
Middlebury professor on the incident:
"Although they made it into the car, the crowd prevented them from easily leaving, with people leaning on the hood and climbing on top. Eventually, after nearly running over a stop sign someone had displaced in front of the car, they managed to break free and head toward the campus location for dinner."
Politico, "How the Middlebury Riot Really Went Down":
"Behind the vehicle, the security guards pushed protesters aside, clearing a path for the vehicle to slowly inch backwards. The group reformed quickly, allowing the car to move only a couple of feet at a time. Every time a security guard pushed her, said one of the anti-fascists, she steadied herself, planted her feet in front of the car’s path, and waited for her turn to be pushed again. She and her comrades, as she calls them, had trained for moments like these. Their goal wasn’t violence, but the anti-fascists did want to make life hard for Murray. Almost out of the parking lot, Burger sped up to take a left turn onto the street, but he wasn’t yet completely free of the crowd."
Sam Harris/Ezra Klein debate:
HARRIS: "Let’s take this off race and IQ for a second, because this is something that would’ve been probably just as radioactive and it just happened to break the other way and nobody noticed.
I think it was three years ago, or four years ago. I think it was 2014 where there were some, there were reports about Neanderthal DNA. I think it’s David Reich whose op-ed in the New York Times kicked off our latest skirmish, I think it’s based on his work. It was found that most human beings are walking around with around 2.7 percent Neanderthal DNA. At the time, but it was found that the only people who don’t have Neanderthal DNA are black people, people who directly descend with some isolation from Africa, from the rest of the human community.
At the time I tweeted, this is now 2014, I tweeted, “Attention all racists, you are right. We are special, or whites are special. We’re part Neanderthal. Blacks are just human.” It just was a trolling of the world’s racists."
Matthew Drake, "Are Africans a Different Subspecies? | Tara McCarthy"
Superior, The Return of Race Science, by Angela Saini
'Being Mr Reasonable' - excellent, caustic overview of Harris by Nathan J. Robinson at Current Affairs
Sam's entry at RationalWiki
Mehdi Hassan's epic Twitter thread, listing "bigoted/offensive remarks... [Harris] never apologised for"
Essential piece by actual expert on Islam and the Middle East, Professor Juan Cole: 'On How Everything Sam Harris Says About Islam is Wrong', Part 1 and Part 2
Why Is Sam Harris So Bad At Talking About Islam? - article parsing what Harris said in discussion with Maajid Nawaz
Good article on Harris and 'New Atheism' by Glenn Greenwald
Majority Report and Michael Brooks Show videos about Sam Harris - lots of good stuff here.
'Sam Harris, Uncovered' - Mondoweiss article
Article about The Bell Curve, including Harris' support for the book's co-author Charles Murray
'Same Old New Atheism': On Sam Harris - Nation article
Salon: 'How "new atheism" slid into the alt-right'
Source of Karen Armstrong quote: interview about her book Fields of Blood - Well worth reading in full
Another great guest this week. Daniel is joined by CV Vitolo-Haddad to talk about sex, gender, misogyny, and transmisogyny on the far right.
(Note: This is late; sorry about that. Also, we encountered technical difficulties with this one. It's been cleaned up as much as possible and is perfectly listenable if you're prepared to briefly tolerate some occasional background noise.)
All sorts of content warnings.
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Show Notes:
CV can be found on Twitter at @notcolloquial
CV's Medium
CV's YouTube
CV Vitolo-Haddad, "The Blood of Patriots: Symbolic Violence and 'The West'"
Warski Live, "Alt-Hype vs CV- Does Race Exist?"
Halsey News: "Brian Hendrix vs. CV: Does White Privilege exist?"
Ozia Media: "Debating CV Over the Proud Boys"
Honest Red, "TBH: Low Hanging Fruit (Capitalism vs. Socialism)"
bell hooks, "The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love"
Samantha Kutner returns to talk about Gavin McInnes again, including his book and some of his influences.
Warnings apply.
NOTE 23/8/20: Since original publication this episode has been edited to remove references to an organisation with which Samantha Kutner is no longer affiliated. Links have also been removed from below.
Gavin McInnes "The Death of Cool."
Jim Goad's Group Hug
"The Surprisingly Mainstream History Of The Internet's Favorite Anti-Semitic Image"
https://twitter.com/ashkenaz89/status/1115860103788412928
Proud Boys News Sources Samantha (@ashkenaz89) has been consulted with.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/inside-miami-alt-right-and-proud-boys-chapter-10945821
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-proud-boys-became-roger-stones-personal-army-6
Incident map link.
https://twitter.com/ashkenaz89/status/1051237360338259969
Incident Map Support for Samantha
Patreon: patreon.com/ashkenaz89
Paypal: paypal.me/SKutner
Venmo: @ashkenaz89
The “misgendering” of Alex McNabb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RzRhazhV0
The Truth about Charlottesville
https://www.wired.com/story/leaked-alt-right-chat-logs-are-key-to-charlottesville-lawsuits/
https://www.bustle.com/p/leaked-unite-the-right-chats-prove-members-had-violent-intentions-for-charlottesville-79647
Edging Into Extremism
https://www.patreon.com/posts/edging-into-23433586
For Proud Boys and Others Considering Leaving
Insights from former Proud Boys
https://medium.com/@ashkenaz89/proud-of-your-boy-notes-on-leaving-94172fa2bbcf
Organizations that Can Help You Leave
https://twitter.com/ashkenaz89/status/1088954326402228224
Mental Health Resources for Men
https://mantherapy.org/
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
In this episode, Daniel tells Jack about the so-called 'godfather of the alt-right' and Richard Spencer's claimed "mentor", Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, one of the most important and idiosyncratic influences on today's resurgent US white supremacism.
Warnings apply.
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Show Notes
Episode 18 additions:
Popular Front: "The American Militia Movement"
"Standoff: Between Two Shotguns" by Ruth Graham at Slate
Knowledge Fight Podcast
Jared Taylor and American Renaissance:
Jared Taylor SPLC
Sam Dickson at Atlanta Antifascists
"The Racists on Ridgeland Way: Ground Zero for Alt-Right Organizing in Atlanta
Sam Francis at the SPLC
"While always a staunch conservative, Francis's views radicalized over time. He began describing himself as a "paleoconservative" focused heavily on racial issues and ended up writing for racist publications like the Council of Conservative Citizens' (CCC) newsletter, Citizens Informer. (The CCC, which had from the late 1980s until the late 1990s dozens of state legislators and other politicians in its ranks, is a white supremacist group that focuses on issues like support for the Confederate battle flag and opposition to non-white immigration, school busing and affirmative action. The group was built using the mailing lists of the White Citizens Councils, organizations formed to fight school desegregation in the South.)
Francis' definitive break with more mainstream conservatism came with his 1995 firing from The Washington Times. The newspaper acted after conservative author Dinesh D'Souza quoted a Francis speech to a 1994 conference put on by the white supremacist and race science journal, American Renaissance. D'Souza wrote that Francis' comments embodied the "new spirit of white bigotry." "
Sam Francis at Amren 1994
American Renaissance SPLC
American Renaissance on Youtube
American Renaissance website
American Renaissance podcast
"A schism over anti-Semitism threatens a key 'white nationalist' group. The outcome could be critical to the radical right." https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2006/schism-over-anti-semitism-divides-key-white-nationalist-group-american-renaissance
"HERNDON, Va. -- For a gathering of people devoted to denouncing the inferiority of blacks and sounding the alarm about civilization-threatening Muslims, the biannual conferences thrown by the New Century Foundation, publisher of the racist newsletter American Renaissance, are decidedly genteel affairs. Men dress in suits and ties, women in formal business attire, and there are no uniformed skinheads or Klansmen to be seen. Large plasma television screens, Starbucks coffee spreads and fancy linens adorn the hotel meeting hall. Epithets have no place here.
Or at least they didn't. At the latest edition of the conferences that began in 1994, held this February at the Hyatt Dulles hotel, a nasty spat broke out that upset the gathering's decorum -- and may even shape the future of the radical right.
It began when David Duke, the former Klan leader and author of Jewish Supremacism, strode to a microphone after French author Guillaume Faye wrapped up a talk vilifying Muslims entitled "The Threat to the West." Duke thanked Faye for remarks that "touched my genes." But then he went one further.
"There is a power in the world that dominates our media, influences our government and that has led to the internal destruction of our will and spirit," Duke said, according to an undisputed account in The Forward newspaper.
"Tell us, tell us," someone in the back yelled.
"I'm not going to say it," Duke replied. Laughter began to fill the room, until a short, angry man leaped from his seat, walked up to Duke and began to curse.
"You fucking Nazi, you've disgraced this meeting!" he said."
2000 SPLC report on the first edition of the Color of Crime
The Color of Crime, 2011 edition
The Color of Crime, 2016 edition
Jared Taylor's introduction to the first American Renaissance conference, 1994 (Actual content starts about eight minutes in)
Amren 2019 conference speakers
Jared Taylor banned from Europe until 2021
"Jared Taylor, one of the most prominent white supremacists in the U.S., claimed on his website on Friday that he’d been “banned from Europe” until 2021.
The ban came as Taylor attempted to transfer in Switzerland for a flight to Finland. According to Taylor, Swiss police informed him that Polish authorities had barred Taylor from traveling through the Schengen Zone, a 26-country area of Europe allowing visa-free travel.
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"Taylor had been planning on speaking at white supremacist conferences in Scandinavia, including one on Saturday in Stockholm that featured other well-known fascists like Mark Collett and Greg Johnson.
It’s unclear why Polish authorities issued a blanket ban against Taylor. Taylor attributed the ban to a 2018 trip to the country, where he gave multiple television interviews. During that trip, Taylor said that Polish police said he was “spreading a totalitarian ideology.” "
Jared Taylor and American Renaissance sues Twitter for banning over speech content.
American Renaissance Newsletter, November 1990
"Setting the Record Straight: Longtime Partner of Jared Taylor Addresses White Nationalist Criticism"
Paul Kersey at American Renaissance
"Stuff Black People Don't Like" January 2010 at the Internet Archive
SBPDL redirect at Unz Review
This week, Daniel tells Jack about... well, the clue's in the title.
Content Warnings apply for episode and show notes.
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Show Notes:
The Terrorist Next Door
"Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump"
Aryan Cowboys
American Experience: Oklahoma City
Bundyville, from Oregon Public Radio and Longreads, by Leah Sottile.
Bring the War Home
Blood and Politics
From John Earnest's (Poway synagogue shooters) manifesto:
"Plenty of people wrongfully identify with being Christian. Beyond the scope of time the Father and the Son made a covenant in eternity—that the Son would bring a people to Him that He may be glorified through them. I did not choose to be a Christian. The Father chose me. The Son saved me. And the Spirit keeps me. Why me? I do not know. And my answer to loving my enemies? Trust yids and their puppet braindead lemming normalfags to take one quote from the Bible and grossly twist its meaning to serve their own evil purposes—meanwhile ignoring the encompassing history and context of the entire Bible and the wisdom it takes to apply God’s law in a broken world."
Christian Identity at Wikipedia
RJ Rushdoony and Christian Reconstruction:
"McVicar notes that it’s during this time period that Rushdoony discovered the work of Cornelius Van Til, author of The New Modernism and father of a doctrine called “presuppositional apologetics.”
It isn’t necessary or even possible to delve too deeply into Van Til’s theology here, but a Cliff Notes version is helpful: Christians and nonbelievers alike comprehend the world based on certain presuppositions. Christians operate from a correct presupposition; nonbelievers do not, and ne’er the twain shall meet. According to Van Til, nonbelievers are incapable of accurately comprehending reality, and by extension, cannot develop a correct moral framework.
Van Til’s work pulled heavily from Kant, which appealed to the intellectual Rushdoony; so did his Reformed leanings, which Rushdoony shared. Van Til’s epistemology also validated the would-be philosopher’s Duck Valley observations.
But Rushdoony took Van Til’s thought a step further. If nonbelievers couldn’t be truly moral or reasonable, secular laws, based on secular reasoning, were therefore illegitimate. The answer to solving society’s problems – and to solving Duck Valley – lay in the application of biblical law."
Aryan Nations at the SPLC
"Butler openly admired Adolf Hitler and longed for a whites-only homeland in the Pacific Northwest. He retired as an aeronautical engineer at age 55 and moved to Hayden Lake, Idaho, in 1974. There, he bought an old farmhouse and formed his own "Christian Posse Comitatus" group. By 1977, Butler had decided to form the Church of Jesus Christ Christian at the farmhouse, and named its political arm Aryan Nations.
In 1980, Butler’s church was bombed, causing $80,000 in damage. Nobody was injured or arrested. Butler responded by building a two-story guard tower and posting armed guards around his 20-acre property.
In 1981, Butler hosted the first of what would be many annual Aryan World Congress gatherings on his property. It, and the confabs that would follow, attracted almost every nationally significant racist leader around. Among them: Tom Metzger, former Klansman and leader of White Aryan Resistance; Louis Beam, another onetime Klansman who promoted the concept of leaderless resistance; Don Black, the former Klansman who created Stormfront, the oldest and largest white nationalist forum on the Web; and Kirk Lyons, a lawyer who has represented several extremists and who was married on the compound by Butler."
Kirk Lyons at the SPLC
Lyons appeared on The Political Cesspool on 4/24/2019
The Butler Plan at the Northwest Front
"Harold Covington Died a Coward"
"For a time the program was co-hosted by Corinna Burt, a body builder who had a brief stint in the adult industry, under the alias “Axis Sally.” By 2013 she had left white nationalism behind, and, in an interview with the SPLC, explained that Covington’s goal was “to get a thousand alpha Aryan males to move to his neighborhood and then basically just start shooting everyone who isn’t white.”
Indeed, Burt painted a portrait of a man who was unstable and paranoid. He “called nearly everyone in the [white supremacist] movement a homosexual,” was petrified of the thought that black men wanted to rape him, and his apartment was “filthy” with “layers of grime” on the walls. In her words, Covington was “pretty much the most horrible person ever.”
His final years were spent making YouTube videos and podcasts for NF, much of which failed to gain traction even among other white nationalists. In the age of the alt-right, troll storms, racist memes, and torch marches, Harold’s influence had waned to practically nothing. When he was in the news, it was for calling Dylann Roof’s Charleston bloodbath “a preview of coming attractions” and speculating that The Right Stuff’s Mike Enoch was secretly Jewish.
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"I had only ever written about this curmudgeonly racist once, but decided that he didn’t seem important enough to merit further attention. Looking back I stand by that calculation. His brother Ben probably summed it up the best, however, stating that “the bottom line here is that my brother is a coward. He has always been a coward and he will die a coward.” On July 14, 2018, Harold Armstead Covington died a coward at the age of 64. He will not be missed."
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"The Rise of the Balk Right"
Billy Roper Youtube
Billy Roper at the SPLC
Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association
Sovereign Citizen Movement at Wikipedia
Militia Movement at Rationalwiki
Shane Bauer at Mother Jones, "I Went Undercover with a Border Militia"
Hijacking America by Susan George
Fundamentals of Extremism
In the second part of our discussion of Holocaust Denial, we take a look at the phenomenon as it exists today.
Warnings strongly apply.
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Show Notes:
Rabbi Recalls COming Face to Face with Shooter at California Synagogue
Robert Evans, "Ignore the Poway Synagogue Shooter's Manifesto: Pay Attention to 8chan's /pol/ Board"
Suspect of Possible Arson Attack at Escondido Mosque Leaves Note Referencing New Zealand Terrorist Attacks
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Holocoaster at Urban Dictionary (2009)
Holocoaster meme (text source)
Inside the Concentration Camps: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in Hitler's Death Camps (1946): "800 to 900 yards from the place where the ovens were, the prisoners were squeezed into little cars that ran on rails. In Auschwitz these cars had various dimensions and could hold up to 15 people. As soon as a car was loaded, it would be set in motion on an inclined plane that traveled at full speed down a corridor. At the end of the corridor there was a wall, and in the wall was the door to the oven. As soon as the car hit the wall, the door opened automatically, and the car would dip forward and pitch its cargo of living people into the oven. Right behind it came another car with another load, and so on."
Holocaster meme (Fun Will Set You Free)
Nick Fuentes "How to Make 6 million cookies"
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From TDS171 "The ParaStormies Present."
Enoch: Plus there's a goal here that's beyond getting fucking views and listens and shit.
Sven: Well the goal of getting using listeners is to get that to realize that bigger goal of our political aspirations.
Anglin: It's all about the numbers right now and transforming the ability of people to [gap] Certain way and normalizing shit. Yeah basically that's the entire goal is normalizing shit in people's minds. You see this stuff going on in high schools now like we have created a new youth subculture. Yes. Yes. Everything is going according to plan everything is going according to plan.
Sven: It doesn't matter who we are.
Yeah.
Enoch: But for real the the youth the under under 20 demographic is like forget about it. I was talking last night with a friend and we are talking about the Holocaust and what most of it is but how. It's hard to reach people that have had a certain level of programming.
So even even people that are like are sympathetic and right wing and like even the idea of like a white state is good. We still have this. They still get all fucked up and weird about talking about the Holocaust. But then when you talk to people that are like under 20 years old they don't give a fuck about the Holocaust. They think it's hilarious. Hitler is funny and cool and the idea of gassing Jews is like just a fucking joke. Yeah like they don't give a shit. They don't care.
Anglin: Right. You loaded a culture of complete nihilism and then somehow thought they could insulate themselves from that. Where nothing has any meaning at all. But then they're all in there like but one thing does have meaning. The Holocaust of the 6 million in the gas chambers that they get turned into lampshades. Say it doesn't work. Yeah.
Sven: And now the snake is eating its Curly Q sideburns tail.
It's funny how it's sort of like once you tell people there's nothing sacred there's nothing holy. But you know what this thing that happened to these Jews in this black and white looking shaky real camera from the 40s that nobody really knows what's going on. Like that's that's the thing. That's what you have to care about. You don't care don't care about anything else.
We care about these fucking these fucking Jews in Germany in Eastern Europe in the 40s and that's really important. What why.
Why was nothing important. Why the fuck do I give a shit about this bullshit.
"Talking To Antifa and the Left - Bronxblogger, Tim Blake, Kevin Logan and Mike Enoch" (104,556 views currently.)
"TDS245 The Racewarski Continues"
Roscoe Jones "The Hebrew Connection"
"Why are there so many movies of the Shoah?
Of the garillions that allegedly died?
The Shoah was fiction.
Lies and confusion.
The Germans had nothing to hide.
So we've been told and some choose to believe it.
I know it's lies, wait and see.
Some day we'll break it, The Hebrew Connection, the white man, my brothers and me.
Who said that every kike would be found and round up, and put on a big boxcar?
Schlomo just told us that, and we all believed it.
Now it has done so much harm.
And it's too degrading to just keep stargazing.
It's time to unplug the TV."
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Himmler Posen Speeches (October 4, 1943):
https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-human-behavior/himmler-speech-posen-1943
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posen_speeches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRO04q_lQi4
"I want to also mention a very difficult subject . . . before you, with complete candor. It should be discussed amongst us, yet nevertheless, we will never speak about it in public. Just as we did not hesitate on June 30 to carry out our duty as ordered, and stand comrades who had failed against the wall and shoot them—about which we have never spoken, and never will speak. That was, thank God, a kind of tact natural to us, a foregone conclusion of that tact, that we have never conversed about it amongst ourselves, never spoken about it, everyone . . . shuddered, and everyone was clear that the next time, he would do the same thing again, if it were commanded and necessary.
I am talking about the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people. It is one of those things that is easily said. [quickly] “The Jewish people is being exterminated,” every Party member will tell you “perfectly clear, it’s part of our plans, we’re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, a small matter.” [less quickly] And then along they all come, all the 80 million upright Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. [mockingly] They say: all the others are swine, but here is a first-class Jew. [a few people laugh] And . . . [audience cough] [carefully] . . . none of them has seen it, has endured it. Most of you will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when 500 are there or when there are 1000. And . . . to have seen this through and—with the exception of human weakness—to have remained decent, has made us hard and is a page of glory never mentioned and never to be mentioned. Because we know how difficult things would be, if today in every city during the bomb attacks, the burdens of war and privations, we still had Jews as secret saboteurs, agitators and instigators. We would probably be at the same stage as 16/17, if the Jews still resided in the body of the German people."
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Columbia Guide to the Holocaust
Something a bit different this week, as Daniel and Jack chat about Errol Morris' documentary film Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jnr, as part one of a two part discussion of Holocaust denial.
Warnings most definitely apply.
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Show Notes:
A Militia Group Detained Hundreds of Migrants At Gunpoint At The Border
United Constitutional Patriots on Facebook
https://twitter.com/LCRWnews/status/1119902405821288448
https://twitter.com/leftkist/status/1118662484640976896
"Republican discussed violent attacks and surveillance with rightwingers"
https://twitter.com/jason_a_w/status/1120451594825420801
Republican Representative Matt Shea Planned Violent Attacks On ‘Communist’ Leftists, Leaked Chat Messages Show
Matt Shea connection to Christian Identity in 2018 (Ad-heavy but with good detail)
"Biblical Basis For War"
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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr (YouTube)
Mr. Death Transcript
Analytical Chemistry segment from Mr. Death
The Nizkor Project (it's okay to click through)
66 Questions and Answers About the Holocaust
"First of all, consider the implicit conspiracy theory. Notice how the testimony of every single inmate of every Nazi camp is automatically dismissed as unconvincing. This total dismissal of inmates' testimony, along with the equally-total dismissal of the Nazis' own testimony (!), is the largest unspoken assumption of Holocaust-denial.
This assumption, which is not often spelled out, is that the attempted Jewish genocide never took place, but rather that a secret conspiracy of Jews, starting around 1941, planted and forged myriad documents to prove that it did; then, after the war, they rounded up all the camp survivors and told them what to say."
"The conspirators also supposedly managed to torture hundreds of key Nazis into confessing to crimes which they never committed, or into framing their fellow Nazis for those crimes, and to plant hundreds of documents in Nazi files which were never discovered until after the war, and only then, in many cases, by sheer luck.
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"Regarding postwar testimony from Nazis, were they all tortured into confessing to heinous crimes which they supposedly did not commit? This might be believable if only a few Nazis were captured after the war, or maybe if some had courageously stood up in court and shouted to the world about the supposed attempt to silence them. But hundreds testified regarding the Holocaust, in trials dating from late 1945 until the 1960s."
Holocaust Controversies
Holocaust Controversies "Rebutting the Twitter Denial."
Deborah Lipstadt, "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory."
Richard Evans, "Lying About Hitler."
Nizkor on The Leuchter Report
Institute for Forensic Research, Cracow, analysis of Auschwitz in 1994
Holocaust Controversies on The Leuchter Report
Leuchter Report thoroughly debunked, by a fellow Nazi no less, in 1993 (page 32 in scanned "Liberty Bell"
Fred Leuchter interview 2015, with Jim Rizoli
David Irving "The Manipulation of History"
Another Voice For Freedom with Ernst Zundel: "Left-Wing" Violence on the Streets of Canada
Ernst Zundel, "Adolf Hitler -- Artist, Architect, and Designer"
Highlights from the 9th IHR Conference (footage from this was used in Mr. Death)
Van Pelt Report from Irving trial
Richard Evans Report from Irving Trial
Holocaust on Trial (Docudrama about Irving Trial)
This week, after many requests, Daniel and Jack take a look at cult-leader, ancap, blowhard, bullshit-artist, white-nationalist, misogynist, narcissist, and phoney-philosopher Stefan Molyneux.
As always, warning apply.
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Show Notes:
Cantwell News!
Chris Cantwell takes a break
...but not for long enough
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Martin Sellner background (ironically, most of these links are in German):
https://www.kleinezeitung.at/politik/innenpolitik/5607530/Identitaere_Martin-Sellner-klebte-Hakenkreuze-auf-Synagoge_Wollte
https://kurier.at/politik/inland/identitaeren-chef-klebte-hakenkreuze-an-eine-synagoge/400457692
http://kuesselskameraden.blogsport.eu/2011/08/18/der-alpen-donau-dunstkreis/
https://www.nawartpress.com/were-not-nazis-say-austrias-sword-fighting-frat-boys-who-dream-of-a-germanic-europe/
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Stefan Molyneux, cult leader:
Guardian article on Free Domain Radio, 'deFOOing', SM as cult-leader
On SM as cult leader, FDR 'deFOOing', etc
FDR Liberated - blog and forum for people who have escaped SM's influence; collates lots of info on SM
FDR Liberated on Joe Rogan interviewing SM
Stefan's wife, therapist Christina Papadopoulos, reprimanded by Ontario College of Psychiatrists for "professional misconduct" after encouraging SM's fans to sever connections with their families (i.e. 'deFOO'). SM later lied about this to Joe Rogan.
Video from former Stefan fan detailing their disillusion
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Stefan Molyneux, racist:
The 100 Year March: A Philosopher in Poland
Why I Was Wrong About Nationalism
"An Honest Conversation About Race," with Jared Taylor
"The Truth About Slavery"
Stefan Molyneux on White Genocide in South Africa
Interview with Lauren Southern
Stefan Molyneux on Race and IQ
Eric Turkheimer episode, October 2015
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Stefan Molyneux in Australia:
"When Media Interview Goes Very Very Wrong!"
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Recent Molyneux:
SM is still giving internet therapy
SM pushing eugenics Idiocracy-style
SM is learning to play Minecraft from his daughter
SM blames female suffrage for the invasion of white countries
SM whines about antifascists opposing him
Stefan Molyneux on the Gillette ad
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Dirt and Debunks:
Devastating review of SM's The Art of the Argument. And another. And another.
Ben Burgis schools SM on what is and isn't an argument
SM as anti-psychiatry and mental illness denialist
SM at RationalWiki
SM chronicled at We Hunted the Mammoth
Descent of Manosphere on SM
Potholer54 looks at SM's conversation with climate change denier Christopher Monckton
Video documenting SM as liar and plagiarist
Video on SM and IQ racism from The Serfs
Video exposing SM as 'race realist' and white supremacist
Video by José 'How Stefan Molyneux Repackages Social Darwinism'
Sean debunks SM on Rome, the genocide of the Native Americans, and his ludicrous 'film criticism' re Star Wars and Wonder Woman and seriously just go watch every video by Sean.
SM's video 'The Truth About Karl Marx' debunked
This week, Jack returns and Daniel tells him all about the infamous Red Pill and YouTube as a pipeline into right-wing extremism. A wide-ranging chat that gets into issues like platforming, debating the right, etc.
Warnings apply, as ever.
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Show Notes:
Austrian authorities raid far-right group over alleged links to Christchurch shooter
Kushner, Inc
White Nationalists Adopt Clowns as Their Next Racist Symbol
The Matrix, Red Pill or Blue Pill
2 Dads TV: Take Back Our Future
Faraday Speaks: My Descent into the Alt-Right Pipeline
YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Rabbit Holes
Trainswreckstv debate, Destiny, Nick Fuentes, Hasanabi, Sargon of Akkad
Welcome to Youtube "Bloodsports."
Sargon of Akkad Can't Read (Sean video)
Sargon's Petition: A Measured Response (Hbomberguy video)
The Red Pill is a CULT (NonCompete video)
The Red Pill: The Strange Art of Men's Rights Activism, Part1, Part 2 (Big Joel video)
Special episode this week. Daniel has a special guest, Samantha Kutner, self-described 'Proud Boy whisperer' to talk about Gavin McInnes and the Proud Boys. (Jack gets out of the way to let the grown-ups talk.)
Warnings apply, as always.
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Show Notes:
Things Gavin McInnes has Written for Taki Mag
https://www.takimag.com/article/the_west_is_history_gavin_mcinnes/
https://www.takimag.com/article/pretending_to_care_about_nazis_gavin_mcinnes/
https://www.takimag.com/article/a_dozen_unlikely_assholes_gavin_mcinnes/
https://www.takimag.com/article/the_importance_of_hatred_gavin_mcinnes/
https://www.takimag.com/article/the_importance_of_hatred_gavin_mcinnes/2/
https://www.takimag.com/article/storm_troopers_gavin_mcinnes/
https://www.takimag.com/article/wonder_woman_makes_you_wonder_about_women_gavin_mcinnes/
Gavin McInnes citing the '14 words' (with "western" replacing "white")
Proud Boys as a Radicalization Vector (His Threats are echoed in articles below) https://officialproudboys.com/proud-boys/fighting-media-academics/
https://notvice.com/gavin-white-supremacy-article-agreement-page-160a4b5c9037
Islamberg Conspiracy Theory https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/1105884338174881792
Proud Boys Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/inside-miami-alt-right-and-proud-boys-chapter-10945821
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-proud-boys-became-roger-stones-personal-army-6
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What You Can Do
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Fash Fatigue Resources
https://medium.com/@ashkenaz89/introducing-the-fash-fatigue-chronicles-34b80c679698
Samantha Kutner Patreon SK Medium article on Roger Stone / Proud Boys
Twitter handles of people doing the work
@askenaz89
@notcolloquial
@_Shan_Martinez_
@_JesseMorton
@lighttuponlight
Slightly lighter fare this week (everything being relative) as Daniel tells Jack about how the far-right have seen Donald Trump, from the rise of the romance through to the fall, via the fluctuating feelings of the hosts of the 'Fash the Nation' podcast.
As always, warnings apply.
Us on iTunes
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Show Notes:
Cantwell banned from Gab
Fash the Nation
Fash the Nation interviews Tila Tequila
Fash the Nation David Duke
Fash the Nation Paul Nehlen
Jazzhands McFeels on the Radical Agenda in 2015
Enoch, Jazzhands, Allsup, Sven, etc 2018 Midterm coverage
Fash the Nation deletes its archives after Enoch/Dunstant doxxing
White Hot Takes "Fash the Nation" (To the tune of Human League "Fascination"
Svenpai "Right Wing Death Squads" (To the tune of Live "Lightning Crashes."
Spencer/Enoch at Syria protest
Trump's Far-Right Supporters Turn on Him Over Syria Strike
Brad Griffin talks Andrew Yang at the Political Cesspool, 3/23/19
Yang Gang Explained at Rolling Stone
In this episode we touch on the promised topic of the mainstreamers vs the vanguardists in the far-right movement, but only in the course of covering topical events. These include the firing of the 'Nazi EMT' Alex McNabb, and the recently released tapes of disgusting comments by Fox News's pet white nationalist con-man Tucker Carlson. But, most particularly, of course, we talk about the recent ghastly massacre at Christchurch, New Zealand.
Daniel provides really vital insights in this episode into the way such murderous terrorist attacks by fascists - of which the Christchurch attack is just the latest of many - stem from a conscious organisational strategy within the far right called 'leaderless resistance'. Daniel explains this and where it comes from, its meaning within the movement, etc, going into the infamous racist novel The Turner Diaries and 'The Order', and so on. He also goes into the murderer's 'manifesto', the meme-drenched nature of his chan board-based fascism, and describes the contents of his livestream broadcast. We touch on the killer's 'Balkan Nationalism' and his ostensible ecological concerns.
Needless to say, some of this is upsetting listening.
(Sorry for the delay but, to be honest, this one was a bit distressing to edit.)
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Catch us on iTunes.
We recently got mentioned in a web article by David Gerard for Foreign Policy magazine about the far-right and crypto currency, for which Daniel was interviewed. We were also recommended on the AV Club, thanks to Anthony Herrera.
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Show Notes:
Bring the War Home
Blood and Politics
McNabb fired
"In Unearthed Audio, Tucker Carlson Makes Numerous Misogynistic and Perverted Comments"
Madeline Peltz profile at Washington Post
Chip Berlet "When Hate Went Online." Documents white supremacist BBS networks in 1984 or 1985.
Louis Beam at the SPLC
Louis Beam: Leaderless Resistance. (His site.)
Robert Jay Mathews at Wikipedia
'The Order' at Wikipedia
Robert Evans at Bellingcat: "Shitposting, Inspirational Terrorism, and the Christchurch Mosque Massacre"
"In Brenton Harrison Tarrant’s Australian hometown, his relatives remember violent video games, trouble with women"
"'You Are Safe Now': Moments of Heroism in Christchurch Massacre"
"New Zealand Mosque Gunman Inspired by Balkan Nationalists."
On the Moynihan Report
Part 3 of Behind the Bastards podcast series on George Lincoln Rockwell, the father of modern American fascism, focusing on his legacy. Good stuff. Intersects with our topics this week.
Excellent new video from Some More News on Tucker Carlson, covering his recent "How is Diversity Our Strength?" rhetoric.
Sean debunks Lauren Southern and her puffing of the 'Great Replacement' racist conspiracy theory
This time, in a change to our advertised programme, we look at James Allsup and Nick Fuentes.
Warnings Apply
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/10
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
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Show Notes:
Kevin Logan's video about James Allsup
James Allsup on Youtube
Nick Fuentes on Youtube
SPLC profile James Allsup
Nationalist Review (defunct)
Nationalist Review (even more defunct)
America First Media (defunct but somehow not)
Nick Fuentes
Nick Fuentes/James Allsup split
James Allsup elected Precinct Committee Officer
James Allsup probably no longer a PCO
Nick Fuentes and James Allsup bicker on The Ralph Retort Killstream
Nick Fuentes Clips
Nick Fuentes STUFF LABCOAT IN LOCKER WITH FACTS
James Allsup speaks at Trump Rally
Nick Fuentes CPAC 2019
Nick Fuentes CPAC 2019 (outside)
Nick Fuentes AmRen 2018
Nick Fuentes Speech at Iowa State
Nick Fuentes Epic Thot Patrol
Identity Evropa Discord Leak
James Allsup: "Gender Must Be DESTROYED"
James Allsup: "I was Kicked Out of the GOP?!"
Angrywhitemen.org: "White Nationalists Have Been Quietly Collecting Donations Through a A Livestreaming Site
Metro.us: "Right-wing BU teen won't return to Boston after attending Charlottesville rally"
2019 Amren speakers lineup
This week we delve into the dark pit of deeply pathetic depravity that is Mike Enoch of The Right Stuff and his 'Daily Shoah' podcast. Big deals within the 'alt-right'.
This episode comes with strong content warnings. We relay racial slurs and "unironic exterminationism". Daniel has been less sparing than usual and Jack has decided not to bleep anything.
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/9
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
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Show Notes:
From last week - NSM taken over by James Stern
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The Right Stuff
Andrew Marantz's New Yorker profile of Enoch, Birth of a White Supremacist
Enoch and David Duke in Charlottesville Unite the Right
TRS on Youtube
Mike Enoch and Sven doxxed
The Pool Party is Closed - Timeline of Alt-Right Meltdown
Genocide: The Inescapable Conclusion
SPLC profile on Enoch
Jessie Dunstan's old band, "Mathematic the Waves"
Alex McNabb suspension
Alex McNabb cleared of charges
Audio clips for episode 9 including the extermination clip: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=13uWKSYl4D1YysQVo7s8lU6LVDosO9GXG
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Daniel's appearance on Queer Transmission livestream
In this episode, Daniel tells Jack all about the present-day American Nazis, in the forms of the Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP), the National Socialist Movement (NSM), and related people and organisations, especially the Nationalist Front. We pay special attention to the best known representative of this nauseating subculture, Matthew Heimbach, and touch on the internal debacle which became known as 'The Night of the Wrong Wives'.
Warnings apply - as always.
Reminder: we're on iTunes and YouTube
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Show Notes
Christopher Hasson - Lt. in the Coast Guard, planning fascist domestic terrorism - arrested
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Book: Everything You Love Will Burn by Vegas Tenold
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National Socialist Movement website
Black Civil Rights Advocate Takes Control of the NSM
TWP Website (Archived)
Nationalist Front
Vice Documentary "White Student Union" 2013
Matt Heimbach American Freedom Party 2013
Heimbach assaults woman at Trump Rally
The Neo-Nazi Has No Clothes
Article about Tony Hovater "A Voice of Hate in America's Heartland."
The Night of Wrong Wives
Heimbach becomes community outreach director for NSM
Heimbach removed from NSM
White Right: Meeting the Enemy (available on Netflix)
SPLC file on Matthew Heimbach
SPLC file on TWP
SPLC file on Jeff Schoep
SPLC file on NSM
League of the South secedes from the Nationalist Front
Matt Heimbach on the Radical Agenda
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Wrong With Authority episode on Mississippi Burning
This week, Daniel introduces Jack to the febrile world of the Southern Nationalists.
Warnings apply, as always
Show Notes:
New Christopher Cantwell drama:
https://christophercantwell.com/2019/02/11/sorry-for-spam-posts/
https://gab.com/Cantwell/posts/48424388
https://gab.com/Cantwell/posts/48500924
https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1096910054840823809
History resources:
Hooded Americanism
At The Hands of Persons Unknown
Blood and Politics
Western groups:
Bundyville
JJ MacNab
Mark Pitcavage
David Neiwert
Clips (Including James Edwards and Drue Lackey snippets)
Southern Nationalists:
James Edwards
The Political Cesspool
TPC on Youtube
TOQ Live
James Edwards defamation lawsuit
The League of the South
Occidental Dissent
Brad Griffin/Hunter Wallace
Hunter Wallace on "the Hard Right."
The Sons of Confederate Veterans
Council of Conservative Citizens
Sam Francis
Gordon Baum
Recent League of the South drama
Somewhat related: The American Freedom Party
Robert Evans and Behind the Bastards
The myth of the black Confederate soldier - here, here, and here
The myth of the kindly General Lee
Intro to 'The Golden One' via Kevin Logan's excellent Descent of Manosphere series
In this episode, Daniel and Jack make their first assault on the mountain of bullshit, bile, and batshittery that is Christopher 'the Crying Nazi' Cantwell.
In this episode, Daniel tells Jack about the aftermath of the disastrous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville 2017. They also get a tad more theoretical about some of the reasons for some of the behaviour of the 'alt-right', and chat about some related issues such as the recent controversy concerning the Covington MAGA kids.
In this episode, which runs a bit longer than the first two, and which goes to some very dark places, Daniel tells Jack all about the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, 2017.
The episode features discussions of violence, and we try to signpost when we're getting into the painful details. But warnings definitely apply from the start. We're discussing virulent racism and bigotry.
(Also, we're on iTunes and YouTube now.)
Of necessity, we're only glancing at this incredibly big and complex subject, so we're going to be coming back to many of the issues, organisations, and persons mentioned.
And here are some notes, sources, and references.
(Oh, P.S. Fun fact... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dropped into Hbomberguy's Donkey Kong charity Twitch stream as we recorded this.)
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NOTES
Firstly, everyone interested in this should follow and support Emily Gorcenski and Molly (Socialist Dog Mom) on Twitter.
Here's Emily's livestream of the tiki torch rally
Here's Molly's podcast The Trial of James Alex Fields
First Vigil - tracking fascist violence
Texts between Jason Kessler (UtR organiser), Richard Spencer, other UtR participants:
SPLC/Hatewatch
Document at DocumentCloud
Unite the Right poster
Enoch and The Right Stuff crew photo with Taylor Wilson and James Alex Fields (tweet from Sandi Bachom):
Jason Kessler tweets about Heather Heyer after Charlottesville
Hunter Wallace (Brad Griffin) smears Heather Heyer.
White Boner's conspiracy theory video
Alex McNabb, the 'Nazi EMT'
Daniel has curated a selection of clips relating to the subjects touched on in this episode. Beware, some of these clips feature people like Jason Kessler and Mike Enoch being vile. Here.
David Futrelle's blog We Hunted the Mammoth, is a good source for lots of information about the far-right in its many forms. The blog originally tracked the 'Manosphere' (i.e. MRAs, Incels, etc) but has increasingly tracked online hate more generally as the Manosphere joined up with and fed into the so-called 'alt-right', Trumpism, etc.
Here's his post on nazis mocking the murder of Heather Heyer in their memes...
...and here's his post on the Daily Caller's call for people to run over protestors.
And here is the video we refer to in the episode, 'Charlottesville: The True Alt-Right' by Shaun - excellent stuff.
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Timeline of Rallies 2017:
Feb. 1: Berkeley. Milo rally cancelled.
April 15: Berkeley. "Free Speech Event," Nathan Damigo punches "Moldylocks."
April 27: Berkeley. Ann Coulter speech cancelled, "Based Stickman," Lauren Southern, et al.
April 29: Pikeville, KY. TWP/NSM rally. Village Voice article.
May 13: Cville. Richard Spencer torch rally. Charlottesville 1.0.
-----June 2017---- UtR announced.
July 8. Cville. Ku Klux Klan rally.
-----July 11------ Kessler appears at town hall in Cville, publicizing UtR and distancing from Klan.
August 11. Cville. UVA torch march, "Jews Will Not Replace Us," assault on Emily Gorcenski and Kristopher Goad. Emily Livestream.
August 12. Cville. Unite the Right.
State of Emergency declared at 11:00AM. Rally planned to start at 12:00PM.
James Alex Fields Attack at 1:45PM.
Oct. 28. Shelbyville. NSM/Brad Griffin/TWP/Klan "Hard Right" Rally.
In our second episode, Daniel tells Jack all about former KKK Grand Wizard, "king of the angry Facebook grampas", and man who wrote an autobiography that it then took him 42 hours to record himself reading, 'Dr' David Duke.
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Show Notes
Richard Spencer Errata:
On Spencer's connections
On the plausible domestic assault allegations against RS
David Duke:
http://www.renseradioarchives.com/dduke/
Southern Policy Law Centre: Extremist Files entry on DD
Book: Blood and Politics
Duke on Donahue 1992
Duke leaves the Kan 1980, founds NAAWP (National Association for the Advancement of White People)
David Duke is talking over everyone
My Awakening (DD's autobiography) (PDF)
My Awakening audiobook version
Dating David Duke
David Duke wrote a sex-help book called "Finders Keepers" in 1976.
David Duke and Mike Enoch speak at Unite the Right
David Duke sentenced for tax and mail fraud, serves 15 months in 2003
Book: The Rise of David Duke
More than two years ago, concerned about the newly resurgent fascist fringe in America and elsewhere, Daniel Harper, a lefty podcaster and online writer, started investigating the so-called 'alt-right'.
He's gone where few other researchers have gone, and actually subjected himself to hours and hours of the many podcasts and Youtube shows produced by the multifarious people and groups who make up this pernicious and dangerous subculture. He's listened, at length, to what they say to each other in their own spaces. And, having done the listening so you don't have to, he's back with his reports.
This new podcast series features Daniel in conversation with his friend and fellow podcaster Jack Graham.
Here's the first episode, on perhaps the best-known representative of the 'alt-right', Richard Spencer, his career, style, and ideology. The episode also touches on the origins of the term 'alt-right', the infamous 'heilgate' occurance after Trump's election, etc.
We're discussing fascism and racism, so this podcast comes with big warnings.
(This is a re-edit and a re-up.)
The next episode will be on a more old-school fascist, David Duke, former Klan 'Grand Wizard' who spoke at Charlottesville.
Future episodes will continue to cover one 'topic' per show. We plan to keep the episodes as short as possible, and crank them out regularly.
TRANSCRIPT: https://idtg.net/1
FULL TRANSCRIPT LIST: https://idtg.net/
Links pertaining to the discussion:
Der Ewige Juden (The Eternal Jew)
The Richard Spencer Show on Heel Turn
Report on Spencer's 2010 'anti-diversity' speech to Vanderbilt students
Gottfried's 2008 article apparently coining the term 'alternative right'
Spencer taking part in the 'Ron Paul Revolution'