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| When "punching right" gets out of hand. |
by Trad News
You'll probably have heard some of the weird news reports about Atomwaffen, the Daily-Stormer-affiliated group.
One of their members, Devon Arthurs, murdered two other members, then surrendered to the police, giving them cause to do a full search of the residence where the murders happened, and where they lived with yet another member, Brandon Russell, who was also arrested. (Yes, it seems they all lived together, just like The Monkees or the Young Ones).
The search turned up not only bomb-making chemicals, like the highly dangerous hexamethane triperoxide diamin, but also radioactive materials, thorium and americium. These apparently belonged to Russell. Yup, a real shit show!
Whether dupes, irony-free morons, or even paid shills, it seems that these guys were into some pretty heavy terroristic shit—more "White ISIS" than "White sharia"—and just the kind of image the Establishment would love to project onto the Alt-Right, the one ideology that can seriously challenge it.
The bad news is that Atomwaffen were endorsed and promoted by the Daily Stormer, which is itself endorsed and promoted by other more established Alt-Right sites, including TRS, Counter-Currents, and even Richard Spencer's new venture AltRight.com.
Under the slogan "don't punch right" and the ill-defined notion that it's somehow all ironic and a big in-joke, all these sites have, to various degrees, shared air with the Stormer and smiled at its supposedly ironic baiting of normies with its oh-so-hilarious overuse of the K-word and the N-word and its invocation of violent revolution (RaHoWa, Day of the Rope, etc.), little realizing the damage done to sensible Alt-Right ideas by this reductio ad extremis approach.
"Chill, bro, it's just a troll..." But I guess when you start blowing away fellow Nazi shitposters because you've been sucking on the "White sharia" pill a little too hard, and then the police arrest the other guy because he's got a load of bomb-making equipment, it's probably safe to say things have gone well beyond the innocent pleasures of trolling or the childlike joys of shitposting.
Now the Stormer is directly tainted with this mess, this leak of toxic radiation from the aptly named Atomwaffen (German for Atomic weapon). And where does that leave the once hilarious TRS, which, post-doxxing, is paradoxically striving to keep its edge but also be more respectable? TRS still run Nazi memes and their podcast is still called "The Daily Shoah," even though the joke has kind of worn off there. Then there is Richard Spencer and AltRight.com, who are keen to surf that edgy Stormer/TRS energy, while trying to maintain an "ironic" distance.
Really, if one wanted to "punch right" and "counter signal," it wouldn't be too hard with all this material lying round to construct your own "conspiracy bomb," along the lines that the Atomwaffen f**k-up serves perfectly to toxify and discredit much of the Alt-Right.
Sometimes the worst kind of naivety is a smug ironic assurance of being "in on the joke." This time it seems that the joke may very well have been on the Alt-Right.
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One of their members, Devon Arthurs, murdered two other members, then surrendered to the police, giving them cause to do a full search of the residence where the murders happened, and where they lived with yet another member, Brandon Russell, who was also arrested. (Yes, it seems they all lived together, just like The Monkees or the Young Ones).
The search turned up not only bomb-making chemicals, like the highly dangerous hexamethane triperoxide diamin, but also radioactive materials, thorium and americium. These apparently belonged to Russell. Yup, a real shit show!
Whether dupes, irony-free morons, or even paid shills, it seems that these guys were into some pretty heavy terroristic shit—more "White ISIS" than "White sharia"—and just the kind of image the Establishment would love to project onto the Alt-Right, the one ideology that can seriously challenge it.
The bad news is that Atomwaffen were endorsed and promoted by the Daily Stormer, which is itself endorsed and promoted by other more established Alt-Right sites, including TRS, Counter-Currents, and even Richard Spencer's new venture AltRight.com.
Under the slogan "don't punch right" and the ill-defined notion that it's somehow all ironic and a big in-joke, all these sites have, to various degrees, shared air with the Stormer and smiled at its supposedly ironic baiting of normies with its oh-so-hilarious overuse of the K-word and the N-word and its invocation of violent revolution (RaHoWa, Day of the Rope, etc.), little realizing the damage done to sensible Alt-Right ideas by this reductio ad extremis approach.
"Chill, bro, it's just a troll..." But I guess when you start blowing away fellow Nazi shitposters because you've been sucking on the "White sharia" pill a little too hard, and then the police arrest the other guy because he's got a load of bomb-making equipment, it's probably safe to say things have gone well beyond the innocent pleasures of trolling or the childlike joys of shitposting.
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Really, if one wanted to "punch right" and "counter signal," it wouldn't be too hard with all this material lying round to construct your own "conspiracy bomb," along the lines that the Atomwaffen f**k-up serves perfectly to toxify and discredit much of the Alt-Right.
Sometimes the worst kind of naivety is a smug ironic assurance of being "in on the joke." This time it seems that the joke may very well have been on the Alt-Right.
Become a Patron!
