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Meanwhile, other podcast hosts make "wealthy Jewish banker" jokes identical to those that appear on Nazi channels, giving the "this kind of humor is okay" stamp of approval to the kind of antisemitic "joking" you find in Nazi chats everyday.https://twitter.com/PsychopompGecko/status/1250596675485421568 …

(And yes, I know Will is Jewish. So is Ben Shapiro. They're both complicit in pipelines to fascism, being Jewish does not give you a free pass on enabling fascists.)

All that means that when the Nazbols come for Chapo fans that have circled the drain into this pipeline, they can leap on leftist discourse and memes, inflect them with fascism, and use them to recruit. And those fans will be acculturated to accept the fascist inflection.

This isn't fantasy. This is an existing strategy. They brag about using it, and using it effectively.https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1242330021693239301 …

"Bernie's Jewish, it wouldn't work" The point isn't to *keep* those pipelined new recruits liking Bernie. It's to start out from a place of the kind of "ironic" humor about Jews that Will promotes, and work their way in.https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1242330416842850304 …

This is what the pipeline looks like. It isn't "all Chapo hosts are Nazis." It isn't "all Chapo fans become Nazis." It's, "Chapo sends its fans into communities that normalize and endorse Nazi behavior and memes, and Nazis recruit in those Chapo-populated communities."

Not all Chapo fans enter the pipeline. Not all the fans who do make it to the end. The problem is, enough do, and they swell the ranks of a fascist movement that antifascists are desperately struggling to keep somewhat contained.

Meanwhile, the folks entering the pipeline and in the middle of the pipeline are being actively acculturated to a misogynist, racist troll brigading culture and are then deployed by the hosts whenever someone points out this problem. (Source: my timeline for the past month)