Yes, Virginia... the Alt-Right are indeed a bunch of fucktards

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  1. Nova

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    seems like basically he's found this one twitter account that supports all his arguments and is just going to roll with that. It's like citing Pat Robertson to back all your claims about Christian preachers. A lot of preachers have a lot of problems but still, that might not be a representative sample.
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    Except our president sucks up to Robertson, and Antifa......(crickets...seaguls at a beach miles away.....dry cough...).
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    On an X-Y political charty they would be negative on the Y axis (libertarian to authoritarian) and far left on the X axis. So actually it makes a lot of sense as long as you know how to read the graph.
  4. Fisherman's Worf

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    Leaked Chats Show Charlottesville Marchers Were Planning for Violence

    Well before a white nationalist “Unite the Right” demonstration turned deadly in Charlottesville this month, attendees were planning for violence, according to leaked online chats. In private chat channels, they shared advice on weaponry and tactics, including repeatedly broaching the idea of driving vehicles through opposition crowds. After the vehicular attack which killed counterprotestor Heather Heyer, users of the channel celebrated the event.
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  5. Fisherman's Worf

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    Rightforge: obviously Antifa tricked them into planning to commit violent acts
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  6. Order2Chaos

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    Not remotely enough info, and the lack of published transcript excerpt means it's probably nothing especially damning. Likely dumb memes (confirmed), dumb jokes, and serious how-to defend yourself effectively when attacked. Probably nothing worse than this board has seen. I'll acknowledge if I'm wrong about that, but absent any actual proof beyond a meme, well, I'm skeptical.
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  7. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    It is not just memes. The article links to the data dump with a 108 MB zip file, containing screenshots of text chats and recordings of audio chat. The chat hosting service, Discord, has gone so far as to disable their account based on the group using the service to plan violence.
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    Right, because no one would ever want to score easy points by banning widely-hated groups. :rolleyes:

    Reading it now.
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    Okay, so I think I'm halfway through, done with the "flags and symbols" section. It's about as I figured, except for a couple posts about repurposing flagpoles. The most serious post is the one quoted in the article, about wooden dowels not standing up to longitudinal stress, but even that is among other posts about defending against attack. Yes, there are some jokes ("can we turn the flagpoles into spears lol", "can we bring horses so we have cavalry?") but nothing else so far. Certainly no plans for any specific violence.

    Reading the next section.
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    Ok, finished it. The "gear and attire" section has quite a bit of talk about weaponry, but no discussion of using it offensively. Lots of concern they'll be attacked, a bit of concern their weapons will be deemed offensive (they decide to avoid bringing ASPs (I don't know what these are) and spring-loaded batons). Most of the jokes here revolve around ridiculous attire they could be wearing, sombrero with a swastika and the like.

    There's also a small middle section I forget the title of, where, yeah, they're laughing and joking about the woman who was killed.

    Yep, still people saying horrible things, but there's no indication they were generally planning aggressive violence. Perhaps a couple of the questions about flagpoles could be either way, but the article is overblown and thoroughly sensational.
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  11. Zombie

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    Is a brand name of expandable baton that some law enforcement carries.

    https://www.asp-usa.com/collections/products

    Instead of the regular old fashioned police baton these are hollow metal tubes that store within each other before expanding to be used.

    If it's not an ASP brand it's just called an expandable baton.



    At :37 you see him pull it out and expand it.

    It's also legal for civilians in some states. They are weapons and used incorrectly could kill.
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    You may commit suckage on my goddamn balls.
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    Didn't know he was your type.
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  14. Fisherman's Worf

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    Mother of Heather Heyer keeps daughter's grave a secret


    fuck this country :(
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    ‘Crying Nazi’ Christopher Cantwell Sentenced To 41 Months For Extortion
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    Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' trial set to begin four years after rally

    Hate on trial in Virginia, four years after deadly extremist rally

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  17. Steal Your Face

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  18. matthunter

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    Oh, look, FF's after attention again.

    Try smearing your shit on the walls next.
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  19. Steal Your Face

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  20. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    because damnit... neo nazis have a right to desecrate graves and anyone who says otherwise doesn't belong in FF's 'merka!!!
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  21. 14thDoctor

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    I hope the location of Federal Farmers grave will be public information, once he gets around to starting that promised violent revolution over Hillary's emails. :bergman:
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    One step forward, five steps back
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  23. matthunter

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    Just follow the nasal whining sound.
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  24. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Was I responding to the article, no I wasn’t and you know that. I was responding to @Fisherman's Worf ’s comment, “fuck this country.” He’s more than welcome to leave since he hates it here so much.
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  25. 14thDoctor

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    How goes the bomb making anyway? Or are you just going to bring guns and try scaling the fence like Ashlie Babbitt? :chris:
  26. Jenee

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    Fuck FF. He isn’t a true American. He’s a Nazi spy.
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  27. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    but you still stand for neo nazis having the opportunity to be desecrating graves of people they've murdered, right?

    AMERICA! LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!
  28. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    I believe the term is "useful idiot"

    although "useful" might be stretching it...
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  29. Jenee

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    No. He isn’t “useful” at all. He’s just an idiot spouting shit he heard on a podcast.
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  30. Bickendan

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    And thus you ignored key context.
    And thus you reinforce our collective opinion.
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