The Charlottesville rally used the statues as an excuse to be openly fascist. But the reality is many of the attendees gave zero fucks about the statue.
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One of their goals was to create a united far-right movement. Ultimately this failed, but to understand the landscape of this movement we have to understand those nuances and differences.
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A Nazi is a Nazi, but the divisions between groups expose weaknesses that can be used to ensure their movement doesn't grow.
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This neo-fascist/nationalist/separatist/supremacist movement is only worth fighting if it poses some future danger. And it does, which is to say that regardless of how fascist the current system is, the normalization and acceptance of these movements can make it worse.
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Yes Derek, of the two of us, I am the one living in a fantasy world. Keep believing in a grand Jewish conspiracy or whatever the fuck rube goldberg machine it is that crafts your worldview.
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This is rich coming from someone who tried to organize Woodstock For Nazis, directed at someone just minding her own fucking business in a city where she owns a home.
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Funny how quickly you distance yourself from him and that planning. Totally bolsters your argument that I'm wrong about the right failing to unite.
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Exposure in Charlottesville was key, bc it led to: other communities (e.g., Murfreesboro, Gainesville) mass mobilizing against them, plus commercial establishments (MD farm conference center that kicked Spencer out, Twitter, etc.) cutting off their access to platforms.
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Internet warriors who ventured out of their safe spaces curated by sympathetic techbros and embellished by botnets met well trained Anitfa in real life with the usual result.
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You'll be in jail soon too guy
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Good. I'm glad they're scared.
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