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The39thStep said:
Its a useless definition Danny , sounds good but as I have said before the tactical consequences of the label are never applied in practice by anti-fascists who like the label. As Steeplejack said he's just a washed up cunt.
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It’s obvious what he’s doing, though. He’s overstepped race baiting into actual racism, but look how he brings together race and class in that carefully composed tweet. He is trying to pry the racist vote away from the SNP.
 
It's quite amusing too that George, for decades the UK's biggest friend of authoritarian Middle East regimes, and sympathetic ear for Islamism, is now doing a dog whistle against someone from a Muslim background, in a pathetic attempt to add at least a dozen votes to his poll-bottoming tally.

I must admit I didn't see him stooping that low. Maybe when his tatty carpetbag is next unrolled he'll be going full No Remorse and lead a coachload of elderly ex-NF skins on a pogo /stomp as part of a new campaign to take over Chingford council.

For all the criticisms of the SNP, even as it falls apart like a badly-taxidermied cat in a hot greenhouse, Humza handled that beautifully.
 
PR1Berske said:
The Galloway journey is quite the thing. I can imagine the Netflix drama version.

"Gorgeous George"
Episode 1: "A Life Lived So Soon and Early."
Episode 2: "From Hillhead with Love."
Episode 3: "The Iraqi Matter."
Episode 4: "The Battle of Bethnal Green and Bow"
Episode 5: "I've Never Been an Oil Trader"
Episode 6: "Nationalist Express"
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You forget Episode 5.5, "I'll purr like a cat and lick your milk from your hands if only you'll put me on telly"
 
steeplejack said:
I must admit I didn't see him stooping that low. Maybe when his tatty carpetbag is next unrolled he'll be going full No Remorse and lead a coachload of elderly ex-NF skins on a pogo /stomp as part of a new campaign to take over Chingford council.
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It all sounds rather Naz Bol. A gap in the UK political market for sure. I guess.
 
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steeplejack said:
It's quite amusing too that George, for decades the UK's biggest friend of authoritarian Middle East regimes, and sympathetic ear for Islamism, is now doing a dog whistle against someone from a Muslim background, in a pathetic attempt to add at least a dozen votes to his poll-bottoming tally.
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Very reminiscent of all the people who spent the 2000s being steadfast tribunes of the oppressed or whatever who suddenly ended up sounding like Pentagon or Home Office spokespeople as soon as it was the Syrian air force carrying out surgical strikes against Islamist terrorists or the Chinese state taking necessary measures for national security in Xinjiang. I imagine Galloway probably also crosses over into that category as well.
 
ItWillNeverWork said:
I must be getting old. That's an actual thing? Holy crap.
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A long-ish article, and from 2017 so basically 5000 years old now, but this is one that always sticks in my head: Force Fed — Real Life
Until recently, I was heavily addicted to the multiplayer computer game Dota 2, a thriving e-sport with a massive community that produces an enormous amount of online content to interact with. On YouTube, there is a plethora of guides, matches, and memes, and I spent a good amount of my waking hours there. But for the past few months, along with the latest Dota memes, YouTube has been putting a variety of hyper-misogynist neo-Nazi movement content in my “recommended for you” column: Million Dollar Extreme, pickup artists’ videos, Milo Yiannopoulos, and more, despite my having only ever used YouTube for Dota videos and (nonfascist) music. A long, deep engagement with a particular branch of gaming has led YouTube to assume I’m an alt-right fuckboy, or at least might want to be.
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MadeInBedlam said:
www.leeds-live.co.uk

Leeds man behind 'hateful' home schooling group with racist songs

Patriotic Alternative claims 10,000 people are viewing it every month and says homeschooling is a “blessing for nationalists”
www.leeds-live.co.uk www.leeds-live.co.uk

www.thesun.co.uk

Inside Call of Duty games hosted by far-right group to 'recruit young people'

VIDEO games are a great way to connect with people during lockdown – and the far-right knows it. With gaming enjoying a huge boost thanks to the pandemic, prominent British neo-Nazi Mark Collett is…
www.thesun.co.uk www.thesun.co.uk
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No links to the Sun please.
 
My point anyway is about contemporary extremists who have no hope of electoral success but who are adept at recruiting (and radicalising) vulnerable and/or inadequate people. What’s the anti-fascist strategy to counter this?
 
MadeInBedlam said:
My point anyway is about contemporary extremists who have no hope of electoral success but who are adept at recruiting (and radicalising) vulnerable and/or inadequate people. What’s the anti-fascist strategy to counter this?
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To help those vulnerable people to not feel so inadequate by providing family, friends, community, purpose, dignity and self-worth.

That's more of a society-wide imperative though, rather than strictly an anti-fascist one. And it's bloody difficult to achieve in a world in which we are atomised and isolated to the extent we are.
 
The anti-imperialists target the disabled, the far right increasingly target autistic children (amongst others), Scientology et al have long targeted those with experience of the psychiatric system. None of these groups are going to get into power in the UK; the risk they pose is (I think) because of their unpopularity - providing a ‘safe space’ for oddballs (and at times traumatised people) within which the worst ideas and behaviours will go unchallenged.
 
MadeInBedlam said:
My point anyway is about contemporary extremists who have no hope of electoral success but who are adept at recruiting (and radicalising) vulnerable and/or inadequate people. What’s the anti-fascist strategy to counter this?
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Pretty sure it's defunct now, and idk how successful if it ever was, but I quite respect the Anarcho Agony Aunts project as being one attempt at that, giving lonely men an outlet that wasn't incel/PUA-related. More broadly, and this might be a bit of a cop-out in some ways but I think it's true, effective resistance has to come from within the spaces/communities that are targeted. I think the two classic historical examples have been football fans and extreme music communities (punk/hardcore/Oi! as spaces where that fight has been fought more or less successfully, black metal as a contemporary one where it's still very much a live and ongoing issue). Now things don't map neatly on to each other, what's appealing to MCFC fans isn't necessarily what'll appeal to black metal fans and what'll be appealing to CoD players will be something different again. But like in general I think it has to be the case that if a space can be used for fascist political education and recruiting, it must be possible to use that space for antifascist education and recruiting. And I admit I don't have much idea what that'd look like in the context of online gaming, but someone must be able to, some kind of FLAF or Black Flags over Brooklyn equivalent.
 
With Patrick O'Flynn's SDP, and possibly Richard Tice re-running on the I Can't Believe it's not the Brexit Party! ticket, the "family, community, nation" weirdo vote will be spoiled for choice as never before. Poor Hartlepool.

It's not so much a by-election as a low budget late night Channel 5 gameshow entitled Which Right Winger Will You Vote to Ignore You for Five Whole Years? Host : Ed Balls.
 
Some enterprising soul should get up to Hartlepool, disguise themselves as a Channel 4 tv crew and/or Rula Lenska, and then when they spot Galloway ask him to do a monkey impression. Problem solved.
 
spitfire said:
I'd be interested in the source for this as I forwarded it to my parents, who both knew Tomás very well, as I thought they'd find it amusing. My mum said he was always a real gentleman so they are surprised at the tone he takes. I said GG brings out the worst in people but I promised them I'd ask about it. :)
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It was on a tweet by Ewan Gibbs@ewangibbs I think.
 
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