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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)

And since it's intersectional feminists and liberatory movement organizers-- folks who do real, actual work on the ground, the work that drives the left forward by actually building base and power-- sounding the alarm, we're the ones getting targeted for mass harassment.

@MoustacheClubUS I can’t help but giggle out loud every time I see this phrasing now