Or they'll feel sorry for them and bemoan the fact that the larger political alt-right didn't exist in time to take them in as brothers, yadda yadda. Here I differentiate between the more political/cultural alt-right and the broader Patriot/anti-government movement.
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Replying to @danieleharper @MichaelEHayden
The latter definitely *do* consider McVeigh et al a martyr for the cause.
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Replying to @danieleharper
I got dozens of these on Gab over the weekend when I butt into a conversation about McVeigh to remind them that he killed kids in a daycarepic.twitter.com/DvWgzy4voW
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Replying to @MichaelEHayden
About what I'd expect, given the crowd. Emphasizes to me the difference between the leaders of the movement and the people on the ground, and how each group gives the other rhetorical cover. See also James Fields and the National Vanguard.
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Replying to @danieleharper
Fields is the latest martyr-type it feels like. Which is odd to me because he's an inherently pathetic figure:http://www.newsweek.com/neo-nazi-conspiracy-alleged-charlottesville-killer-james-fields-prisoner-war-778793 …
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Replying to @MichaelEHayden
Oh, I was listening to the propaganda take shape as early as the evening of A12 into the morning of A13. Pushing this narrative of an innocent JAF attacked by violent thugs and panicking, etc. TWP and others are pushing the POW narrative hard, for Fields + other Cville jailed.
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Replying to @MichaelEHayden @danieleharper
It's despicable. Especially how much they were crowing that Friday night.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @MichaelEHayden
The number of hours I've listened to racist shitheads talk about the virtuous soldiers on the Shield Wall, or recount "yeah, that one moment where I went boo on some antifa thug and they ran away," like tiny children recounting a schoolyard fight.
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They puff themselves up and pretend to be tough for their peers, when so often they're emotional or literal children for whom the LARPing becomes far too real. I'd almost feel sorry for them. Except, you know, they're fucking Nazis.
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They're very proud about using excessive violence while outnumbering a bunch of UVa kids and my scrawny ass 10:1. I bet they celebrate beating minesweeper on easy mode.
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