Spectre Unmasked: Racist 'Alt-Right' Podcaster Used To Be Local Reporter

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  1. tafkats

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    Dang ... in the process of looking up that old thread with the virginity innuendo aimed at TKO, I remembered:

    1) Just how many people threw a fit about Listkeeper changing the thread title.

    2) Just how far Volpone's "tee hee hee, I said something that sounds like a bad word" routine goes back.
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  2. tafkats

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    She was obviously complicated. I have to wonder if being a smart, capable person whose physical problems prevented her from really using her mental abilities led to a lot of frustration as well as an unhealthy fixation on the board.

    She bought pretty heavily into the "I'm a girl who's one of the guys," "harassment doesn't bother me because I'm tough," "I don't get along with most other women" archetype, all of which can roll into a hell of a toxic brew. And it's not hard to see how that internalized misogyny, combined with the personal frustrations, could lead to some shitty behavior toward others.

    But the way she would go to the mat for Nova definitely showed another side.
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  3. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    That is criminal activity that are felonies. Last I checked, being a Nazi blogger isn’t a felony as long as you don’t incite violence. There’s a difference.
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  4. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    You said nothing about criminal activity or felonies. What you said was:

    If you would support a ban in those situations then you do in fact think that it's fine to ban someone for something that has happened outside of this place.
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    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    Tamar definitely isn't unique on the whole "not like other girls" schtick. The vast majority of women I meet who lean in on that were usually weird nerd girls hurt by other girls in high school and never got over it. That, or they were millennials born after 1988 who bought into the idea that hating Disney made them #edgy or something. I know she mentioned her father openly resented having a daughter when the son before her was born with Downs and she spent her childhood trying to be a boy to please him. I'm sure that has to fuck up a child. :(
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    Link?
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  7. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    So I'm not allowed to amend my statement or do I have to stand by that for the rest of my life?
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  8. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Dig around in the hatewatch articles in the op.
    He and his buddies were cheerleaders for hate crimes after the fact.
    That certainly incites for the next asshole who does it.
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  9. tafkats

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    The thread, complete with its revised "tee hee, I almost said a bad word" title, is here:

    https://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/tko-is-a-shiftless-negger.48803/
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  10. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Oh, yeah, I fucking remember that now.
    Volpone's always been a piece of shit.
    :brood:
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  11. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    I can't seem to find the original thread, but I found the link to the HD thread dated back to June 2007.

    Holy fucking shit, this is some peak cringe from the entire board :facepalm:
    https://wordforge.net/index.php?thr...s-again-and-her-name-is-the-listkeeper.48826/

    ETA: NM someone found it
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    You could try saying you were wrong and move on. :itsokay:
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  13. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Oh, past me, you were always wonderful.
    :wub:
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    I’d just like to point out that I didn’t have any cringe worthy/creepy posts.

    :nyer:
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    Something something respect canon, something something Kurtzman :borg:
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    maybe a dual?
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    *searches thread to see if I posted in it*

    *finds one result*



    :walz:
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    You certainly are allowed to amend it, we should all be encouraged to develop and grow. So how do you want to amend it in this case?
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  19. Shirogayne

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    On a tangent, damn, that post is so old, Techman was still alive when it was started. I forgot his death was the reason discussion ended up getting tabled...at least until that CheekyMonkey shitbomb exploded a week after that, along with two or three other wanks that nearly ended the board.

    Fun fact: that shit storm is the origin of the Volpone board meme, for those who weren't around! :async:
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  21. Spaceturkey

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    heh

    https://wordforge.net/index.php?posts/1261418/


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  22. Diacanu

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    All right, here goes...

    Quoting the Cheekymonkey thing for context.

    Here's my two weird Storm PM moments...

    I can't remember WTF innocuous thing we were talking about, and he told me he loved me.

    And I said something like "okay, man", like I took it as a drunk guy going "I love you, man",

    But then he said "no, I REALLY love you", and I still shrugged it off with an "..all right then".

    It took a couple more times for him to cool off, and back down.

    I dunno if he was really gay for me, or he was messing with me to see my reaction, or what.

    Then another time, he showed me a picture of his daughter.
    Like no "look how big my daughter is getting", or nothing, just bam, pic, no comment.
    And she was all like child beauty pageant-ed up, and I think that shit is gross, and dancing the edge of pedophilic, but it's a southern thing, and he's a Texan, so, whatever.
    I shrugged that off with something like "cute kid, she's getting big", or something like that.

    And he seemed to want some other reaction, and wasn't getting it, and I...felt kinda creeped out.
    Like..did he want me to say she was hot or something?
    She was a goddamned baby.
    Y'know?
    I dunno, I was more...autism-y then, and knew less how to handle my shit, so I didn't trust my interpretations.
    But looking back...it's still weird.
    I dunno what he was fishing for there.
    I thought I gave the right answer to that.
    WTF was going on there?

    Like, I never said anything, because there's not enough evidence to hang anything on, cuz it's so vague, but both things left me with a weird feeling.

    Combined with his sexual harassment of Talkahuano, and bragging about his swinging, and making rape with chloroform jokes, it spooked me.
    Now I find out about the Cheekymonkey thing.

    Am I the only one this shit happened to?
    Was he weird with anyone else?
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    What the fuck?!?!
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  24. tafkats

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    I thought it was Ramen who had the chloroform schtick. Storm did that too?
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    Yep.
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    It would fit Ramen’s MO to glob on to something one of the Cool Kids started.
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    The more I read of this and all his enablers (along with the reminder on how gross the TKO thing was) the more I understand why radfems exist. :brood:
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    While as much fun as it might be to say that if you'd just "taken one for the team" and given storm a blowjob you could have prevented him from turning Nazi, I don't think that was the case.

    Storm was most likely beholden to the idea that all liberals are "closet homos" or "closet pedos" and was attempting to prove this by targeting you with his messages. When you didn't take the bait for the first, he went for the second.
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    So glad that this was after I'd quit as uber mod in frustration after some Tamar shit.
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    Those TKO threads were a fucking shitshow. I forgot how bad that was. Poor TKO.
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