IRL, the conservative groups who showed up for UtR last year had no idea Nazis were coming, distanced themselves as soon as that happened, & then it turned into a shitshow where somebody got killed. So none of them showed up this year. Just twenty Nazis & 1000s of Total Heroes.https://twitter.com/Alysonesque/status/1028760078021607424 …
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Replying to @robertnlee @St_Rev
Matt "Bodger Extraordinaire" Trout Retweeted ian bremmer
The Unite the Right posters I saw months before were chock full of nazi-style imagery (I think https://mobile.twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/897945580063924225?lang=en … is one of them) If someone had no idea it was going to be a shitshow after seeing one of those posters, I question their competence to lead a conservative group
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Replying to @shadowcat_mst @robertnlee
Eh, at that stage it was semi-ironic/trolling imagery, somewhat the way socialist realism and other Soviet art got deployed during the early Obama era (you can still find some at sites like Wonkette).
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At that particular historical point you had a mix of right-wing trolls and unironic garbage Nazis, and they...didn't really recognize each other as such. After that rally, things got sorted pretty fast and the ironic types gave up.
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Replying to @St_Rev @robertnlee
I ... given Richard Spencer as the top billed speaker, the citronellanacht the night before didn't surprise me at all.
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Hindsight is 20-20, man.
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