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

[JimC]

[rainbow]

To side with the Antifa fascist communist anarchists is the height of imbecility.

Dumb fuck comments do you a disservice

[L'Emmerdeur]

"Neo-Nazi Daily Stormer loses its Russian domain, too"

When the Daily Stormer lost control of its .com domain in the face of a social media protest, the infamous hate site sought virtual refuge in Russia. For a few hours on Wednesday, the site re-appeared at the domain "dailystormer.ru" before the site lost DDoS protection from CloudFlare and disappeared from the Web once again.

Now the Russians have nixed the Daily Stormer's new online home, citing the country's laws against hate speech. According to Radio Free Europe, the Russian company responsible for registering the Daily Stormer's Russian domain received a letter from Russian authorities asking it "to look into the possibility of register suspension due to extremist content of this domain. So we decided to suspend [the] domain Dailystormer.ru."

"Russian law has established a very strict regime for combatting any kind of extremism in the Internet," said Aleksandr Zharov, head of the Roskomnadzor, the Russian government agency responsible for media and Internet regulation.

Zharov told Radio Free Europe that the Daily Stormer "propagates neo-Nazi ideology and stirs up racial, national, and other forms of social discord," in likely violation of Russian hate speech laws.

Note that in the US the site lost its place on the 'net because of the actions of private companies. The government never violated its 1st Amendment rights. On the other hand, in Russia it was through government action that 'Daily Stormer' was squelched.

[Svartalf]

Lol, Russia has laws both against promoting homosexuality and hate speech, cognitive dissonance much?

[pErvinalia]

yeah, bit of a laugh Russia banning stuff like that. Russia hosts most of the worst shit on the internet. They usually have no standards at all.

[Animavore]

[Rum]

I want to see the moderate Nazis coming out and condemning the extremist Nazis at Charlottesville. Until the moderates start distancing themselves from the extremists it's going to look like all Nazis are basically the same.

You are a typical stereotyper you are. You're all exactly the same!

[Sean Hayden]

I want to see the moderate Nazis coming out and condemning the extremist Nazis at Charlottesville. Until the moderates start distancing themselves from the extremists it's going to look like all Nazis are basically the same.

I want to see a nazi, period.

[cronus]

I'm on the side of destroying statues speaking from a nihilist perspective. Doesn't matter if its Abraham Lincoln or Robert E Lee just smash up statues. That is what they exist for.

[Jason]

I'm on the side of destroying statues speaking from a nihilist perspective. Doesn't matter if its Abraham Lincoln or Robert E Lee just smash up statues. That is what they exist for.

Iconoclast.

[Brian Peacock]

He's an iconocidal monomaniac!

[JimC]

There needs to be a statute on statues!

[L'Emmerdeur]

Where all the cool kids congregate:

'Linguistic data analysis of 3 billion Reddit comments shows the alt-right is getting stronger'

There wasn’t much in common between meme aficionados, gamers, sexists, conspiracy theorists, and racists. Because the very nature of Reddit is to subdivide and find your own specific corner of the internet, these communities didn’t tend to run into each other all that much. But that’s now changed.

Over the last year and a half, these types of trolls have formed a central identity around Trumpism and have started to coalesce. Bored teenagers and gamers are becoming indoctrinated into hard-line anti-globalism, conspiracy theories, and Islamophobia, and it’s happening right before our eyes, on a publicly accessible forum.

The_Donald [subreddit] contains all of these different groups, marked out by their overlapping community memberships and the words that they (and only they) use. They’ve created an in-group language consisting of words like “MAGA” (Make America Great Again) and “based,” a word appropriated from rap culture.

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But the keystone of this vernacular is “cuck.” A shortening of “cuckold,” an old word used to refer to men who allow their partners to sleep with other men (and often find sexual gratification in the humiliation of it), its use has become the sine qua non of alt-right group membership.

You’ll find cuck used in multiple senses. First, there’s “cuckservative,” used against conservatives who are seen as being too soft and allowing their countries (primarily European) to be “invaded” by Islam and Muslims. The racial connotations of the word were attached during a period when the word was incredibly popular in the now-banned /r/CoonTown, an explicitly racist subreddit.

Then, there’s the use of “cuck” in a more patriarchal sense. The GamerGate movement popularized the word on Reddit when they were banned from 4chan and migrated over to /r/KotakuInAction. They used it first to describe the jilted ex-boyfriend of Zoe Quinn, a games developer they ran a hate campaign against, before turning it against Christopher “moot” Poole, the administrator of 4chan, when he kicked them off his site.

Thirdly, you have what might now be the most standard usage of the word, which is to refer to those seen as liberal. You can see this in the popularization of words like “libcuck,” “cuckbook,” “starcucks,” and “cuck Schumer” in The_Donald. In the wider digital world, you might see it in below-the-line comments of articles on Facebook.

This leads us to the final type of usage, which is when anyone who isn’t the alt-right uses it to mock those who do use it, flipping its meaning entirely. As a result, it’s everywhere, and its story can tell us a lot about the different groups described above.

[Jason]

Most trolls don't actually hold the opinions they espouse. Any neophyte of the internet knows that.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Most trolls don't actually hold the opinions they espouse. Any neophyte of the internet knows that.

The one group the author mentions that entirely fits the commonly understood description 'troll' are 4chan shitposters. On the other hand it seems to me that Gamergate bros, MRA, anti-globalists, and white supremacists are generally expressing their sincere opinions.