"Alt-right" Parading Ignorance, Stupidity, Malice, Etc.

[Scot Dutchy]

Social democracy has.

[Jason]

In Silicon Valley, the right sounds a surprising battle cry: Regulate tech giants

SAN FRANCISCO — A year ago, Andrew Torba would have balked at the idea of regulating the Internet. He is a conservative, and like many other technologists here, he adheres to the long-standing Silicon Valley belief in a free and open Web, unhindered by government interference.

But things changed in wake of violence in Charlottesville, when one technology company after another shut down or cut off service to right-wing accounts and sites.

Today, Torba is part of a growing chorus of right-leaning technologists and leaders who have started to sound more like liberals when they talk about Silicon Valley giants such as Google, Apple and Facebook.

Events in Charlottesville and at Google, where an employee was fired for disparaging the company’s diversity policies, have pushed them toward an unexpected battle cry: Tell the government to force powerful Internet companies to allow anyone to express themselves on their platforms.

The issue is beginning to percolate in Washington. And it is expected to take center stage this weekend when right-wing protesters are planning to descend on the liberal heart of the nation’s tech sector. The groups are holding rallies in San Francisco on Saturday and near the campus of the University of California at Berkeley on Sunday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... cfe28e6b85

[Animavore]

Tiki torches and weapons banned at this weekend's protests in Cali.

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/25/546007440 ... t=20170825

[Brian Peacock]

Poo-poo the white supremacists...

Patriot Prayer, the rightwing protest group that planned to rally in San Francisco on Saturday, has cancelled its event, citing safety concerns and a “smear campaign” by elected officials who called them “white supremacists”.

The group said it still intended to attend a rally on Sunday in nearby Berkeley, which has seen a number of violent standoffs between rightwing protesters and anti-fascist activists this year.

“We’re going to put our effort and resources into Berkeley,” Patriot Prayer organizer Joey Gibson said in a Facebook Live broadcast. “Berkeley is a better situation because we don’t feel that we’re walking into a trap.”

However, shortly after, the organizer of the Berkeley rally released a statement urging people not to come to her “No to Marxism in America” rally. Andrea Cummings said she was concerned for the safety of the people who might come to the event.

Thousands of San Franciscans were planning to mount counter-protests against the rightwing event, with residents planning to dance, march, rally, and boat in defiance of rightwing extremism. Several hundred people even announced a plan to allow their dogs to poo on the protest site in advance of the event.

The group’s intention to hold an event in the notoriously liberal San Francisco provoked considerable concern from the city’s elected officials, police, and residents, especially in the wake of the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ed-dog-poo

That's one in the eye for the Turd Reich.

[Animavore]

Poor victims.

[Tyrannical]

In Silicon Valley, the right sounds a surprising battle cry: Regulate tech giants

SAN FRANCISCO — A year ago, Andrew Torba would have balked at the idea of regulating the Internet. He is a conservative, and like many other technologists here, he adheres to the long-standing Silicon Valley belief in a free and open Web, unhindered by government interference.

But things changed in wake of violence in Charlottesville, when one technology company after another shut down or cut off service to right-wing accounts and sites.

Today, Torba is part of a growing chorus of right-leaning technologists and leaders who have started to sound more like liberals when they talk about Silicon Valley giants such as Google, Apple and Facebook.

Events in Charlottesville and at Google, where an employee was fired for disparaging the company’s diversity policies, have pushed them toward an unexpected battle cry: Tell the government to force powerful Internet companies to allow anyone to express themselves on their platforms.

The issue is beginning to percolate in Washington. And it is expected to take center stage this weekend when right-wing protesters are planning to descend on the liberal heart of the nation’s tech sector. The groups are holding rallies in San Francisco on Saturday and near the campus of the University of California at Berkeley on Sunday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... cfe28e6b85

I'll say it will be amusing as civil rights laws are reinterpreted.

We find your companies "diversity" training "emotionally discriminating" and rule in favor of these white boys, so pay up Google/Facebook/Amazon $$$$

[Animavore]

Article on why coloured, peaceful protesters often get targeted by police riot squads rather than scumbag, white supremacists.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mad ... 0374bf1b43

Hint: racism inherent in the system.

[Animavore]

Remember; unlike their supposed opposite, these people really do exist.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/2 ... l=facebook

[Animavore]

San Francisco protests against Nazi scum.

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/26/ph ... ht-events/

[Jason]

[L'Emmerdeur]

He admits he lied before, therefore nobody should believe him, right?

"Former neo-Nazi: Here's why there's no real difference between 'alt-right,' 'white nationalism,' and 'white supremacy'"

Since violence erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month at the white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally, many self-proclaimed "alt-righters" and white nationalists have argued they should not be lumped in with neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and KKK members.

...

Richard Spencer, one of the leaders of the so-called alt-right and white nationalism in the US, has denied that the movements are racist.

"Did he say 'white nationalist'?" Spencer asked reporters, after President Donald Trump denounced neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and white supremacists in his second post-Charlottesville statement. "'Racist' means an irrational hatred of people. I don't think he meant any of us."

White nationalists often seek to separate their ideology from white supremacism, arguing that the white nationalist belief that white people are deserving of an ethnostate or other special protections is not inherently racist. The alt-right is a broader coalition of such groups that further distances itself from white supremacy by omitting any reference to race from its name.

But Christian Picciolini, a former white supremacist, says observers shouldn't believe claims by Spencer or others belonging to similar movements that they aren't racist.

Speaking with Business Insider, he described the alt-right and white nationalist movements as the culmination of a 30-year effort to "massage" the white supremacist message.

[pErvinalia]

"White nationalist".. that's a new one. I can't see how that can't be racist.

[Hermit]

Credit to The Graphic Studio, 2007? Fuck off, ripoff merchant. It's a barely altered version of Charles A. Ridley's original 1942 production.

Trolling preceded internet discussion groups by decades. Story has it that Goebbles ran out of the room, yelling and swearing, when he saw this, and Ridley was added to the list of people to be eliminated after the Nazi invasion of Great Britain.

[Jason]

Yeah that copyright thing annoyed me too, but I couldn't be arsed to find another version.

[Hermit]

Yeah that copyright thing annoyed me too, but I couldn't be arsed to find another version.

I hate plagiarism. To be fair, CineGraphic acknowledged that this clip is not its own work in the comment below it, but that is not good enough. Proper acknowledgement needs to be made in the work itself.