Left Coast Right Watch

For this thread, I'm summarizing and analyzing the highlights. The point of this exercise is to take the temperature of the fascist movement. They are speaking candidly here. How do they see themselves and the conflict they're fighting? Where do they think it's going?

One more quick note: OP has two meanings on a lot of chan threads. It can mean "original poster" or the author of the 1st post in a thread, or "operation" as in a honeypot, usually by federal law enforcement. Context will make which is which obvious.

1. "[I]t seems that everything that we had in 2017 and prior is gone." OP laments the post-Unite the Right collapse of the alt-right, particularly fascists being censored online & moving to smaller social media platforms– "aka echo chambers where we won't be noticed by anyone."

OP thinks that 1)They used to have a mainstream movement but UtR blew it. After Unite the Right, they couldn't rally openly and publicly anymore. Some of them turned to terror networks like the Base. But they started getting arrested.

OP says the only thing that's filled the vacuum is a whittled-down version of the alt-right in Nick Fuentes' cult of personality. It's not enough for them. They're essentially asking "Where do we go from here?"

The comment about Spencer et al is important. There's always been a tension with white nationalists between those that want to infiltrate and push fascist policies from inside the U.S. government (entryists) and those that want to attack the system from the outside (vanguardists)

Fascists want to exercise violent power over others. Here's a few ways you can do that with the aegis of the state: 1) Be Steven Miller and claw your way into office & run concentration camps.

2)Be like Milo or any of a number of right wing e-celebs & choose stochastic terror–whipping up followers into a frenzy and letting them do whatever they want to their enemies.

3)Be like Joey Gibson or the Proud Boys or George Lincoln Rockwell: Show up somewhere you're not wanted to provoke people into throwing the first punch, get in a quick brawl and let the cops handle the rest.

Now, those are all ways to exercise violent power *with* state permission. If you do it without state permission, you get what most people think of as terrorism: networks of cells like the Base or Atomwaffen who plot destruction, murder and mayhem and sometimes carry it out.

The people on this 8kun thread aren't satisfied with entryism, but they see groups like the Base as a dead end with nothing but a jail cell waiting for you. This makes one of them groan that Trump made them complacent.

I'm going to skip a lot of the posts where these idiots say the alt-right was controlled opposition by the Jewish cabal or whatever. Frankly, I don't even want to give them the bullshit sleight of hand of distinguishing themselves from the alt-right. But that's another debate

I haven't personally read enough Dugin to know how accurate this is.I'll have to get back to it, but from this post and a few others, some of them are pinning their hopes on Russia destabilizing the U.S. and balkanizing it so they can carve out little ethnostates from the remains

Of course, these are fascists, so a lot of the geopolitics discourse here is about blaming the Jews. One quotes a Duginist who says "America is the problem" and replies essentially saying "No, Israel is the problem. Look at how much they're profiting off our conflicts, etc."

There's a lot more chatter about the "ZOG" or "Zionist-Occupied Government" conspiracy. I personally didn't find it that interesting or informative, but the archive link is up if you want to try to parse it. I wouldn't recommend it. It's always kind of the same bullshit

Alright, so the post I really wanted to get to advocates for using Fourth Generational Warfare strategies. Before I get into that, I need to tell you it is a weird post and there is a LOT of shit to parse in it. The whole thing is wrapped in chan irony.

The post is also a fucking rabbithole I don't know if I'll be able to fully parse. There's a link to a thread on a My Little Pony-themed 4chan clone website's /pol/ board where the OP is advocating using Pennsylvania's Department of State's complaint-filing system for harassment.

"Clearly it is time to resort to asymmetrical 4th generation warfare. We must do what we can to stem the tide of ideological subversion and deny the enemy financial resources," the 8kun post reads. Targeting businesses is a prime example of 4GW. You'll see why.

Fourth Generational Warfare, otherwise known as 4GW, is a complex conflict strategy where the lines between who is a soldier and a civilian and the lines between what is war and what is politics are blurred.