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(thread) Meet Victor Della Barba, aka Vic Della, aka the white supremacist working with the Proud Boys to hold "gridlock" ReOpen protests in Philly today. Vic's aim is to block traffic-- including ambulances-- in the hospital-dense Center City. Also? Vic is a Nazi.pic.twitter.com/Wtoebkh6Wx
1/ Before we get into Vic's sordid capital-N Nazi sympathies, let's take a minute to clear up some confusion around this rally itself. Vic and his crew swear up and down that his rally is just some wholesome little MAGA stunt, no Proud Boys involvement, nosirree. That's BS.
2/ Members of Vic's ReOpen rally have hinted that the Proud Boys are just riding their wave, jumping on their rally bandwagon. That's crock. The Proud Boys announced their ReOpen rally on Telegram on May 2nd. Vic didn't pull together his group until May 4th.pic.twitter.com/QA8AujcLcd
3/ Vic pretends there's no link between their MAGA-heavy ReOpen Philly rally and the Proud Boys' rally, but their membership tells a different story. Zach Rehl, Philly Proud Boys' founder, was an early member; Proud Boys Sonny Sullivan & Tyler Yamagutchi are also involved.pic.twitter.com/YIGL2X9rVE
4/ As a reminder: the Proud Boys aren't some cute fraternity. They're a white supremacist brownshirt gang with a documented history of violence. They violently threaten anti-racist Philly organizers; they've come to my home in the night to try and coerce me into silence.
5/ This might be one of those rare occasions when the Proud Boys' MAGA co-organizer is even more overtly white supremacist than the Proud Boys themselves. Our boy Vic? He's an out-and-out Nazi with a capital N.
6/ ReOpen Philly organizer Vic Della Barba has some real interesting YouTube subscriptions. The most.... interesting? "Black Pilled," a podcast whose very name is a South Dakota-sized red flag for anyone attuned to the language of far right extremists.pic.twitter.com/oDmW3mwU1Z
7/ The "Black Pill" started out as an incel variant of "Red Pill," or what misogynist Mens Rights Activists called getting anti-woke. Incels "black pilling" meant giving up hope completely. It quickly became associated with terroristic violence.https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1166768846792986624 …
8/ Nazi accelerationists have their own "black pill." It means conversion to a viewpoint that the world is too totally broken and too completely controlled by a secret Jewish cabal to save. Black pilled Nazis are Nazis who want to murder, terrorize, and burn it all down.pic.twitter.com/M0Qfzxsquc
9/ If you have any doubts about whether Vic Della Barba's fave channel "Black Pilled" has something to do with Nazi terror, the channel's promoted video should dispel them. It's an advertisement for the channel owner's new book, "The Day of the Rope."pic.twitter.com/37dBV47vSP
10/ "Day of the Rope" is a very popular phrase in Nazi terror communities. It's taken from the "Turner Diaries," one of their favorite books. The "Turner Diaries" protagonist is a Nazi terrorist. Spoiler: the happy ending is Nazi terrorists winning a race war.
11/ In Turner Diaries, Day of the Rope is a victorious, grisly Nazi mass lynching of white "race traitors"-- academics, journalists, women in relationships with Black men. You can read an excerpt here, but be warned: it is extremely disturbing.https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1149009656444063744 …
12/ Vic doesn't just enjoy explicitly Nazi content. He creates it, posting it from the same Twitter account he used to promote today's march.pic.twitter.com/5klBJr29ZX
13/ Usually when you're researching one of these guys to show their true colors on social media, you have to scroll a lot, waiting for the mask to slip. Vic, though? Oh boy. The Nazi stuff is EVERYWHERE.
14/ Let's start by talking about his use of (((echoes))). Echoes are a symbol Nazis invented to get around Twitter censorship while still "naming the Jew." They use them to identify and/or accuse people of being Jewish, and imply that they are part of a Jewish conspiracy.pic.twitter.com/jhUGI2s3yu
15/ Vic (((echoes))) like a goddamn canyon. Just, constantly.pic.twitter.com/55A7CzzMMO
16/ Vic is also very into the "clownworld" meme, which started as a Nazi attempt to co-opt the rainbow from lgbtq+ community. "Clownworld" refers to seeing the world as obviously manipulated by Jews; it's used to mock what they see as the absurdity of not recognizing this.pic.twitter.com/JmituipL4n
17/ The Clownworld meme has a mascot, the Honkler. The Honkler is a Pepe in a rainbow clown wig with a horn and a red nose. Vic uses the meme constantly. It's literally his Twitter banner.pic.twitter.com/RZiw0fmDvW
18/ As Vic well knows, the Honkler's catchphrase is "Honk Honk," a deliberate reference to "HH," which is itself code for "Heil Hitler."https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1149015317412241410 …
19/ Vic is a huge fan of Clownworld memes, particularly Honkler and his "Heil, Hitler"-referring "Honk Honk" catchphrase. He uses it all over the place, including in his posts about COVID-19.pic.twitter.com/XwpscClMya
20/ Vic is also a fan of the grandfather of all Nazi memetic ops, the "It's Okay To Be White" meme.https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1153742935785164800 …
21/ It's not even just that he's shared the meme a bunch. At one point he actually calls himself one of the "'it's okay to be white' folks." That's how strongly he identifies with this toxic fascist garbage.pic.twitter.com/I5HcOW0k2w
22/ This is really just a sampling of Vic Della Barba's social media cornucopia of Nazi trash content. It's all there: okay signs, "Israel is a parasite" rhetoric, antisemitism denialism, ZOG conspiracy theory. We'd be here all day if I tried to catalogue all of it for you.
23/ I do have more to say about Vic Della Barba, but I'll save it for another day's thread. What's important is this: today's Philly ReOpen rally is a collaboration between Proud Boys and Vic, an honest-to-god, capital-N Nazi.pic.twitter.com/D43GRB8pvZ
24/ The ReOpen movement is fascist, full stop. It is attracting not just racist far right militias, but out-and-out Nazis, as I and many other antifascists have already documented.https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1252359613464195079 …
25/ It's not just that Nazis are showing up to ReOpen events. As this thread shows, they are actively involved in their organization. Here in Philly today, right now, Proud Boys and an outright Nazi are hosting an event with the goal of deliberately jamming traffic.
26/ The Proud Boys and that Nazi, Vic Della Barba, are behind a Philly ReOpen march literally designed to block traffic in one of the most hospital-dense areas of the city, in the middle of a pandemic. "Gridlock" is right in their name.pic.twitter.com/aqcrr41wBU
27/ Don't think for a second these ReOpen protests don't know what a successful gridlock operation would mean for ambulances trying to rush critically ill COVID patients to emergency care. That's a feature, not a bug. They want the "weak" to die. They're cheering for it.pic.twitter.com/s2baihH5XF
28/ The ReOpen movement is attracting and is increasingly supported and organized by unrepentant Nazis. ReOpen has become more than just some MAGA astroturf. From the start, it's embraced implicit eugenics. Now, they're starting to get comfortable saying the quiet parts loud.
29/ We need to get ourselves crystal clear on the fact that the MAGA crowd is becoming more and more comfortable about publicly sharing space with obvious and visible hate groups and Nazis. We need to think about what that means for the rest of us if Trump keeps the presidency.
30/ COVID-19 is the perfect Reichstag fire, and it's not going to stop burning any time soon, especially if Trump even partially gets his way on re-opening policy. The ReOpen protests are clear evidence that his supporters will risk death to defend his lies. That's terrifying.
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