Laura Jedeed (Misanthrophile)

Hi there, coming at you deep undercover from the Trump Caravan. Thread incoming The caravan is about to move from Oregon City up IT towards Multnomah. At an undisclosed point, law enforcement will facilitate a turnaround for those going to the All Lives Matter rally in Salem

We need to start calling them what they are: neonazi paramilitary. They are conducting a state sponsored Neonazi Paramilitary Parade. It is an act in the practice of terror and intimidation of the communities they target.

Without minimizing the extremely grave danger these chuds pose, there's a difference between these guys and neonazi paramilitary groups like Atomwaffen or The Base Less and less every day, mind you

I hear echoes of fash enabling neoliberal media in your reply. But, ok, I'll give you benefit of the doubt: What distinction do you draw between what we see in PB/ PP/ 3p/ and AW/TB?

What you hear is someone whose spent the last 2.5 years studying the different flavors of the American far right. This deserves a more extensive answer than I can type whole driving to Salem, I'll respond at length soon If it helps I think the PBs are probably the graver threat

Ok so before I launch into this: different does not mean better The big difference between say, Proud Boys and Atomwaffen, is that Atomwaffen is overtly white supremacist. No non-white people allowed. As in, expulsion (at best) of non-whites from America as explicit policy

We both know plenty of Proud Boys believe all of that shit. But they don't say it out loud. They accept non-white members. They talk about civic nationalism, not ethnonationalism These are dog whistles but the fact they use dog whistles at all is important. Plausible deniability