Category: Alt-Right

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The rise of the Right-eous | The Shot

 The right’s agenda is no longer about manipulating the media, it’s about manipulating reality. And it is not a conspiracy – it is business.

It’s the business of pushing right-wing agendas, the business of creating chaos, the business of maintaining power. If progressives don’t start understanding and accepting that this is now part of how you maintain political power, if they don’t accept that this is happening, if they don’t start pushing and spinning the ball of manipulation back, they will ultimately lose.

Source: The rise of the Right-eous | The Shot

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The war in Ukraine has nothing to do with “wokeness”, you’re just a right-wing nutjob | The Shot

What’s even funnier is Andrew Bolt dreams of retiring on a barge in Amsterdam and writing a novel. Let’s never forget it’s just a dream to placate the guilt of being the most impotent of the above  Three Amigos whose only thing in common is being able to talk with their heads up their clackers.

In the Herald-Sun, Andrew Bolt managed to blame the war in Ukraine on climate activism, saying “Vladimir Putin would never have dared invade Ukraine if the green movement hadn’t first made Europe look helpless.” The only surprise was Andrew Bolt didn’t also try to blame the Ukraine war on African gangs from Melbourne’s outer suburbs.

Source: The war in Ukraine has nothing to do with “wokeness”, you’re just a right-wing nutjob | The Shot

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Will Ukraine Write the Alt-Right’s Epitaph? | The Smirking Chimp

Some of the greatest offenders—Marine Le Pen in France, Matteo Salvini in Italy, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, the UK’s Nigel Farage—have spent the last three weeks trying to reinvent themselves as staunch defenders of Ukraine. A select few have doubled down on their idiocy, chief among them Thierry Baudet in the Netherlands and Tucker Carlson from the land of Fox News. White nationalists aside, Putin’s once formidable alliance of global sympathizers has been hemorrhaging support by the day. Putin’s overreach in Ukraine may ultimately prove his political demise. But has the alt-right, in losing a massive political gamble, also earned a return ticket to the fringes from whence it came?

Source: Will Ukraine Write the Alt-Right’s Epitaph? | The Smirking Chimp

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Far-right MAGA Republicans Admire Vladimir Putin’s Propaganda Machine — and Try to Emulate It | The Smirking Chimp

when MAGA turned MARA  “Making American’s Russia’s Advocates”

list of far-right MAGA Republicans who have vigorously defended and even praised Russian President Vladimir Putin is a long one, ranging from former President Donald Trump to “War Room” host Steve Bannon, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and QAnon supporter Lauren Witzke (the Delaware Republican who ran against Sen. Chris Coons in 2020). Bannon has praised Putin for not being “woke,” and Witzke recently said, “I identify more with Putin’s Christian values than I do with Joe Biden.”

Source: Far-right MAGA Republicans Admire Vladimir Putin’s Propaganda Machine — and Try to Emulate It | The Smirking Chimp

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Portland’s Bizarre Experiment With Not Policing Proud Boys Rampage Ends in Gunfire

PORTLAND, OR - AUGUST 22: A member of the far-right group Proud Boys and a left-wing counter protester fight in a truck on August 22, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. The Proud Boys and other far-right extremists fought with anti-fascist activists in Portland on the anniversary of a similar fight in 2020. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Portland’s police force chose to stand back and stand by as Proud Boys who came to the city to fight with anti-fascists assaulted protesters and a right-wing gunman opened fire.

Source: Portland’s Bizarre Experiment With Not Policing Proud Boys Rampage Ends in Gunfire

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The alt-Right: An era of misinformation incorporated

From climate denial to COVID-19 confusion to the destruction of liberal democracy, the question has to be asked — how did we get here? Who are the key players in Australia and who are their backers?

Source: The alt-Right: An era of misinformation incorporated

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Unvaccinated Terror: Proud Boys Push the Anti-vaccination Movement into a Violent Threat | The Smirking Chimp

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The irony of all this is that the best way to make this problem go away is to do the very thing that the anti-vaxxers hate most: Impose as many vaccine mandates as possible, in every way possible.

Source: Unvaccinated Terror: Proud Boys Push the Anti-vaccination Movement into a Violent Threat | The Smirking Chimp

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CPAC’s travelling show can pack up and go home. And stay there. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Nor do we need to kid ourselves that CPAC speakers are interested in debate. All we’ve seen and heard is personal abuse and an eagerness to win converts to conspiracies.

There is a world of difference between freedom of speech and being granted a licence to spread hate-speech. And the last thing our politicians need is to court the far-right or let themselves be used to legitimise your fear-mongering and your lies.

Forget the idea of a “multi-year, forever, project”. Once is way more than enough.

via CPAC’s travelling show can pack up and go home. And stay there. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Alt-right infiltrators find soft targets in Australia’s moribund political parties | Jason Wilson | Opinion | The Guardian

A security camera is seen outside Parliament House in Canberra, Feb. 16, 2015.

We discover the normality of these racist firebrands in our media today in Australia (ODT)

One the one hand, people such as Bowers advocated for an unapologetic embrace of the black-shirt role play that unmistakably marked Charlottesville out as a neo-Nazi gathering; the extremist ideology that underpinned the movement; and also the racist violence that is the only real endpoint of fascist politics.

On the other hand, more strategic or disingenuous white nationalists were urging a path of “normie” dress, less pointed advocacy and quiet entryism into ordinary, conservative politics (their opponents like to refer to them as “optics cucks”).

Those who dismiss the small numbers on the far right rarely consider how small the membership of modern political parties tends to be

On podcasts and social media threads, white nationalists from this latter faction argued that young white nationalists should keep a low profile, stay in school and work, and carry out their political activism within established political institutions.

Alt-right infiltrators find soft targets in Australia’s moribund political parties | Jason Wilson | Opinion | The Guardian

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Deconstructed Special: Is Donald Trump Inciting Far-Right Terror in the U.S.? Audio

11 people were massacred in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, the country’s top Democrats have been targeted with pipe bombs, and two African Americans were executed in a grocery store in Kentucky. It turns out that, contrary to Donald Trump’s warnings, terrorists weren’t coming from Mexico or Syria; they were here in America, and some of them attended his rallies. Trump, of all people, shouldn’t be shocked and stunned by the rise of white nationalism and antisemitism in America: he has repeatedly retweeted white supremacist Twitter accounts, accepted campaign donations from white nationalist leaders, picked a white nationalist favorite — Steve Bannon — as his campaign chair and then White House chief strategist, and was officially endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan and was at first reluctant to disavow them. He also tried to rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focused solely on Islamist and not white nationalist extremism and praised neo Nazis in Charlottesville as “very fine people.” On this special episode of Deconstructed, Mehdi Hasan is joined by former Department of Homeland Security senior domestic terrorism analyst Daryl Johnson and Christian Picciolini, a former neo Nazi who left the movement and devoted his life to peace advocacy and deradicalization, to discuss America’s descent into far right terror.

Deconstructed Special: Is Donald Trump Inciting Far-Right Terror in the U.S.?

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“UnTrump the World”: Hundreds of Thousands March in Berlin Against the Far Right

Will we see this reported in Murdoch and Fairfax media in Australia? Do we only hear about the growth of the right wing? (ODT)

Hundreds of thousands of people marched Saturday afternoon demonstrating against racism and calling for solidarity against the rise of the far-right across Germany and Europe.

via “UnTrump the World”: Hundreds of Thousands March in Berlin Against the Far Right

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Manifesto reveals alt-right’s plans to go mainstream after ‘infiltration’ of NSW Young Nationals – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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The ABC has uncovered a covert plot by Australia’s alt-right movement to join major political parties and influence their policy agendas from within.

via Manifesto reveals alt-right’s plans to go mainstream after ‘infiltration’ of NSW Young Nationals – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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The Facts On Chemnitz And The Far-Right’s Challenge To Democracy In Germany – New Matilda

The far-right: on the rise?

There can be little doubt that in Germany, as elsewhere in Europe, far-right parties are seeing increased success. In last year’s Bundestag (parliamentary) elections, the nationalist anti-migrant party Alternative für Deutschland gathered just over 12% of the vote, making it the third largest party nationwide.

However, it is important to note the overall numbers of people registered as involved in radical right-wing organisations in Germany has fallen from over 51,000 in 1999 to around half that number today.

More than 25 years after reunification, GDP in Germany’s east remains below that of the west, unemployment rates are higher, and more easterners than westerners feel that they are struggling to get by.

As the authors of a recent study found, racist and far-right views are commonest in Germany where the numbers of migrants and refugees are smallest.

xenophobia is weaker in areas of greater diversity shows that, whatever her detractors say, Merkel’s policy of cultural openness is the right one.

Among the most astonishing scenes in Chemnitz were those of right-wing protesters in front of a monument to Karl Marx holding up banners reading ‘Foreigners Out’ in front of a relief in which the words ‘Workers of the World, Unite!’ are spelled out in German, Russian, and French.

 

via The Facts On Chemnitz And The Far-Right’s Challenge To Democracy In Germany – New Matilda

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Australia still has time to avoid the worst, says Alt-America author David Neiwert | World news | The Guardian

Still from video of Men’s Rights March in Melbourne on Saturday 25 August, 2018 published by Avi Yemini on Youtube.

In the book he describes a movement “fed by the rivulets of hate mongering and disinformation-fuelled propaganda flowing out of rightwing media for at least a decade and the hospitable dark environment provided by a virtual blackout in mainstream media concerning the growth of rightwing extremism”t

The savagery of US conservative media, he says, is one of the key differences between the United States and New Zealand.

“I don’t think we can escape the fact that in the US we have a cable TV station that at least 22 hours a day and seven days a week is devoted to coaching half of America to hate the other half,” Neiwert says. “That’s been going on for 20 years or more, and it’s had a profoundly toxic effect on our discourse, our social contract, our view of each other.

via Australia still has time to avoid the worst, says Alt-America author David Neiwert | World news | The Guardian

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Why you should take the alt-right seriously

In Australia Sky News After Dark is it’s Public Face (ODT)

The most recent subculture Neiwert examines is the alt-right, which he describes in his book as “an internet presence beset by digital trolls, unbridled conspiracism, angry-white-male-identity victimisation culture, and, ultimately, open racism, anti-Semitism, ethnic hatred, misogyny, and sexual and gender paranoia”.

Dylann Roof, who became radicalised by white supremacist websites, killed nine people at a black church in South Carolina in 2015 and it has been reported that the man who shot 58 people dead in Las Vegas last year believed in a raft of conspiracy theories.

Neiwert’s next book will be an instructional guide on how to talk friends and loved ones out of conspiratorial thinking.

“Trump could fall dead tomorrow but this will be with us for a long time,” he says.

via Why you should take the alt-right seriously