https://www.npr.org/2022/05/17/1099233034/the-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory-isnt-fringe-anymore-its-mainstream

Quote :

""We have literally watched as ideas that originate on white supremacist message boards, or like the dark web – the places that are very difficult to get to – move," said Greenblatt. "They literally jump to [Internet message boards like] 4chan and 8chan, which are much more accessible, [then] they jump to web sites like The Daily Caller or Breitbart, and then they jump to Tucker Carlson's talking points or Laura Ingraham's talking points, or other AM radio DJs' talking points. And then you have theoretically mainstream Republican politicians repeating some of this stuff.""

5/17/2022 11:50:45 AM

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/far-right-idaho_n_628277e2e4b0c84db7282bd6?29e

must-read piece about how the far right is taking over Idaho

5/17/2022 12:28:51 PM

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bxd5/wendy-rogers-buffalo-shooting-investigation

Quote :

"The Republican-controlled Arizona state Senate voted Monday for an ethics investigation into far-right Sen. Wendy Rogers, for her posts on Gab and Telegram strongly implying the white supremacist massacre in Buffalo was a government-coordinated false flag. Rogers was censured by the same body in March after she spoke at a white nationalist conference, called for her political enemies to be executed, and vowed to “personally destroy” fellow Republicans who turned against her. On Saturday, she posted after the murder of 10 people at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood: “Fed boy summer has started in Buffalo.” "

5/17/2022 1:13:37 PM

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/17/1099223012/how-the-replacement-theory-went-mainstream-on-the-political-right

5/17/2022 2:21:45 PM

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/21/trump-shares-cpac-hungary-platform-racist-antisemite

5/23/2022 2:32:21 PM

Seems about right.

5/23/2022 7:00:03 PM

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anti-lgbtq-threats-orchestrated-on-internet-shut-down-events-rcna33955

certainly feels like we’re on the verge of something awful

6/17/2022 2:56:28 PM

I feel like desantis is more responsible for renewing hatred of gays and trans more than trump. Democrats aren’t calling this out enough IMO. Gop is literally passing laws to inspect girls genitals and mostly ineffective comments or silence from democrats.

6/17/2022 11:55:28 PM

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a5da/patriot-front-arrests-on-fire-ministries-ties

Quote :

"Mishael and Josiah Buster, ages 22 and 24, respectively, are affiliated with On Fire Ministries, a religious nonprofit founded a year ago in Spokane, Washington, by former state Rep. Matt Shea, who’s known for his ties to extremist groups. Much of the congregation’s teachings hinge on the Bible’s Book of Revelation, whose apocalyptic visions have inspired far-right paramilitary extremists for decades. Like other Christian nationalist congregations, the church frames culture war issues, such as trans rights, immigration, vaccines or critical race theory, as primordial battles between good and evil. ......"

6/21/2022 10:59:44 AM

Those evil vaccines are at it saving lives again. This has to end!

6/21/2022 11:06:44 AM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/11/gop-political-violence-militias-jan-6-democratic-breakdown/

Quote :

"Sargent: It seems as though some GOP and right-wing politicians are hovering in a gray area. They’re endorsing violent attacks on the opposition without facing serious party discipline, fantasizing about settling political differences via paramilitary combat, vastly minimizing the Jan. 6 insurrectionist violence or erasing it with propaganda, and describing Jan. 6 rioters facing prosecution as “political prisoners.” Has this gray area been replicated by other countries that went on to spiral into worse political violence? Kleinfeld:One of the things we know about other countries that descend into greater political violence is that violence is preceded by a dehumanization phase. America is well along in that phase: things like misogyny, racial epithets, calling Democrats “groomers” and comparing them to pedophiles. The next stage is making violence against those dehumanized opponents seem more normal. You’re starting to see GOP candidates posing with rifles — everything from Rep. Thomas Massie’s family Christmas photo to Eric Greitens’s new ads about hunting RINOs. Sometimes it’s against Republicans who are not part of the antidemocratic faction. Sometimes it’s against Democrats. But either way, dehumanization normalizes the idea that harming those dehumanized opponents is legitimate. We know from other countries that have descended into really serious political violence that this is a trajectory, and we’re on it. We’re actually pretty far advanced on it."

it’s only gonna get worse

7/11/2022 1:43:33 PM

That's sobering.

7/11/2022 3:26:06 PM

just wait until they figure out how to get liberals to walk out of restaurants!

7/11/2022 3:34:37 PM

http://twitter.com/LailaLalami/status/1547612435967709184

Quote :

"A library in Iowa has closed after nearly all of its employees quit due to anti-LGBTQ harassment against-staff, complaints about LGBTQ titles, and whipped up controversies. The town now has no library. https://t.co/dk3H6WQGh5"

https://iowastartingline.com/2022/07/13/whats-happening-with-the-vinton-public-library/

7/14/2022 10:50:27 PM

https://forward.com/fast-forward/513804/judge-who-approved-trump-search-warrant-attacked-for-synagogue-involvement/

feels like we’re dangerously close to the MAGA mob assassinating federal officials

8/11/2022 5:33:53 PM

Already begun

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/11/us/cincinnati-fbi-office-armed-subject/index.html

8/11/2022 6:50:09 PM

I say you he dead.

8/11/2022 7:14:46 PM

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/conservative-activists-want-ban-400-books-library-arent-even-shelves-rcna44026

8/23/2022 1:04:20 PM

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/trump-2024-reelection-viktor-orban-hungary/671264/

Quote :

"Trump’s Second Term Would Look Like This The former president and his allies have explained their plans quite clearly."

8/30/2022 9:11:47 AM

This scenario possibly doesn't even require a second term for Donald Trump. Just insert any MAGA candidate with the will and sufficient support from the base.

8/30/2022 1:09:35 PM

Trump is done. It'll be President DeSantis.

8/31/2022 11:24:37 AM

I mean, I hope he's done, but he's Teflon Don, and objective facts don't matter to his supporters, so how is he done?

8/31/2022 11:27:45 AM

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna45620

Quote :

"Boston Children's Hospital faces bomb threat after right-wing harassment campaign"

only a matter of time until one of these isn’t a false alarm

8/31/2022 12:07:14 PM

http://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1565135476452761600

Quote :

" a day after boston childrens hospital received a bomb threat due to this conservative campaign of harassment and bigotry, fox news and tucker carlson decide its full steam ahead https://t.co/HI11ziXurF"

http://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1565136076863201280

Quote :

" At this point, they are actively trying to inspire terrorists to target children's hospitals: https://t.co/vTVGhkhsjn"

[Edited on August 31, 2022 at 8:51 PM. Reason : .]

8/31/2022 8:46:02 PM

All Tucker Carlson screen captures look the same.

8/31/2022 9:40:17 PM

Good. 14th should be used as much as possible on these fucks.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/county-commissioner-cowboys-trump-co-founder-banned-public-office-jan-rcna46465

9/6/2022 2:46:15 PM

https://apnews.com/article/oath-keepers-leaked-membership-rolls-2ca4195ed3a10e45dd189bf98f3e5a26

Quote :

"The names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that's accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to a report released Wednesday. The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism pored over more than 38,000 names on leaked Oath Keepers membership lists and identified more than 370 people it believes currently work in law enforcement agencies — including as police chiefs and sheriffs — and more than 100 people who are currently members of the military. It also identified more than 80 people who were running for or served in public office as of early August. The membership information was compiled into a database published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets. ... ... "

9/7/2022 9:53:21 AM

shocker

9/7/2022 10:52:00 AM

Today is a key anniversary in nativist jingoism that planted ideas that grew deep and strong.

Plant a demon seed, grow a flower of fire.

9/11/2022 10:39:08 AM

Remember when Jews Did 9/11?!

9/11/2022 11:44:11 AM

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/urban-myth-litter-boxes-schools-became-gop-talking-point-rcna51439

Quote :

"How an urban myth about litter boxes in schools became a GOP talking point"

10/14/2022 2:07:19 PM

Assassination attempt on speaker of the house

10/29/2022 3:12:11 PM

The ol' hammerhead attack.

I'm sure there are some very fine people on both sides of this.

10/29/2022 5:43:32 PM

Look. I think we can all agree that we need to tone down the divisive rhetoric on both sides.

10/29/2022 10:28:42 PM

^ The GOP has normalized white nationalism and fascism. It is going to be hard for them to tone that down and walk it back.

10/30/2022 5:14:05 AM

They also have shown no desire to tone anything down, walk anything back, or take responsibility for anything.

I was kidding about divisive rhetoric on both sides

10/30/2022 6:14:50 AM

Sometimes I think, let them just have their ethnostate utopia. And then you remember history and that they never stop within borders.

10/30/2022 10:03:13 AM

And where would this hypothetical ethnostate be located?

10/30/2022 11:21:37 AM

Looks like they’re starting something in Maine.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/akeyxb/maine-neo-nazi-christopher-polhaus-white-ethnostate

10/30/2022 3:14:23 PM

Ever been to Maine? Outside of the cringe "In this house, we believe propaganda and platitudes" yard signs, it pretty much looks and operates like a white ethnostate.

[Edited on October 30, 2022 at 6:29 PM. Reason : ]

10/30/2022 6:28:47 PM

No, I haven’t been there. Since you say they operate like an ethno state, are you required to get some sort of physical to verify your ethnic background before relocating there?

10/31/2022 7:58:14 AM

The Proud Boys showed up in Sanford yesterday to harass a drag brunch at a brewery. One person protesting with them had 1488 tattoo on his hand which is a classic Neo-Nazi symbol. 14 for the "14 words" which are a white supremacist mantra and 88 which is HH for "Heil Hitler". There were also two known racist neoconfederates among them.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/acrider/52467458554/in/album-72177720303309832

10/31/2022 9:20:09 AM

Quote :

"No, I haven’t been there. Since you say they operate like an ethno state, are you required to get some sort of physical to verify your ethnic background before relocating there?"

No, it's just all white people. Maine is very...English.

Most ethnostates don't work the way you're describing. Japan, Israel, perhaps even China could be considered an ethnostate. It's really any place where one of the explicit goals of the state is to preserve and protect a particular culture/ethnicity/race.

Japan allows non-Japanese people to visit and even live there under some circumstances, but a foreigner will never be Japanese.

The United States isn't and could never be an ethnostate, although it kinda was an English ethnostate until the mid to late 1800s.

10/31/2022 10:00:42 AM

I'm continually baffled (I know I shouldn't be)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bkz3/trump-jr-gop-homophobic-conspiracy-theory-pelosi-attack

10/31/2022 3:50:54 PM

I don't know why, but this Paul Pelosi gay lover theory seems more disturbing to me than a lot of other right-wing fever dreams have recently.

I'm not sure if it's the callousness of it while he's still in the ICU or if it's the widespread nature of it, but it feels ominously foreboding.

The new owner and CEO of Twitter amplifying it certainly doesn't help.

10/31/2022 3:53:09 PM

It's a rehash of the Barack and Michelle/Michael shit.

10/31/2022 7:09:08 PM

Not sure where it should go... is there a supreme court thread?

Anyway, affirmative action is toast soon.

10/31/2022 7:21:19 PM

Not sure where to put this, but this seems pretty bonkers:

https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-bill-would-require-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-to-register-with-the-state/

3/3/2023 10:18:05 AM

Why don't you put it right here a day ago?:

message_topic.aspx?topic=574051&page=130#16639609

3/3/2023 11:07:36 AM

thegoodlife3 linked --> https://iowastartingline.com/2022/07/13/whats-happening-with-the-vinton-public-library/

ah yes, the defenders of free speech.

Growing up in elementary school the public library always had so many events and my mom would always take me there. really got me into reading when I was younger. plus the exhibits and everything.

3/4/2023 12:30:20 PM