The Alt-Right

[Shechemite]

He’s a PD. Everything’s great until you fuck up or get caught. Then it’s crying time.

What’s a PD?

 

[prunus]

... "The Night of the Wrong Wives" ...

Oh bravo to whoever came up with this!

 

[petee]

What’s a PD?

a personality disordered police department (member)?
(i didn't know either)

 

[hitmouse]

What’s a PD?

I think it's what you get when you make a typo while trying to abbreviate Proud Boy? Could be wrong though.

 

[Ming]

What’s a PD?

Personality disorder. There’s three main types of disorder in psychiatry. Mood, thought and personality.

 

[petee]

"Palmer said in a handwritten letter to the judge that he felt betrayed by Trump and his allies who fed them conspiracy theories."

yes, yes you were.

Toughest sentence yet for any Capitol rioter: over 5 years

A Capitol rioter who attacked police officers working to hold back the angry mob on Jan. 6 has been sentenced to more than five years behind bars, the most so far for anyone sentenced in the insurrection.

apnews.com

 

[DaveCinzano]

Toughest sentence yet for any Capitol rioter: over 5 years

A Capitol rioter who attacked police officers working to hold back the angry mob on Jan. 6 has been sentenced to more than five years behind bars, the most so far for anyone sentenced in the insurrection.

apnews.com

...Robert Palmer, 54, of Largo, Florida...

Well, I guess he was <checks notes> 'Addicted to Hate'

 

[two sheds]

Wonder how much non-far-right protestors would get for attacking police at a riot.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Wonder how much non-far-right protestors would get for attacking police at a riot.

Well, in a UK context 14 years...

Actions against the policing bill

The guy photographed holding the middle of the “kill cops” banner at the London demo is quite entertaining on Twitter.

www.urban75.net

This story is no longer available | Avon and Somerset Police

Based on updated information, we have decided to remove this news story. View more Avon and Somerset Police News.

www.avonandsomerset.police.uk

 

[two sheds]

Yes I saw that

 

[hitmouse]

Conspiracy case against San Diego antifascists sounds like it's going to be interesting:

Prosecutor’s conspiracy case against ‘antifa’ appears based on same old antisemitic Soros smear

The antisemitism that animates so much of Republican politics seems to just keep popping out unbidden, particularly the right-wing devotion to the garbage conspiracy theory blaming George Soros as the source of everything they want to demonize as an...

www.dailykos.com

Stephan, the San Diego prosecutor, offered up similar far-right propaganda as part of the 2018 election campaign in which she first won office, as Kelly Weill reports for The Daily Beast. Her campaign paid for a website attacking her Democratic opponent, Geneviéve Jones-Wright, as a pawn of Soros, who “backs anti-law enforcement candidates over experienced prosecutors, trying to tip the balance to the criminals.”

The website (since removed, but archived) was essentially a scrolling ad warning: “San Diego Public Safety Under Attack,” and then claiming: “Billionaire Social Activist George Soros has brought his war against law enforcement to San Diego and he’s spending more than $1 million to support anti-law enforcement candidate Genevieve Jones-Wright for District Attorney,” with a photo of Soros with his hands folded, superimposed over a backdrop of black-clad antifascists at a protest.


...

Stephan’s belief that nefarious forces were behind leftist protests never went away. In September 2020, the Times of San Diego reported that Stephan told a bench-bar media forum that “movements” were behind the protests that erupted throughout the summer around the nation in the wake of a Minneapolis cop’s murder of a Black man named George Floyd, which went viral after being caught on video.

“We’ve seen where there’s the peaceful protest and all of a sudden another group shows up without license plates, with generators and water, and there’s not good things that are happening,” Stephan said, adding that nefarious doings were being planned “behind the scenes.”

“Somebody talked about subverting the truthful nature of the protesters, and that is going on,” Stephan said. “There are movements that are not what you would think of.”

When the reporter tried to inquire further with her office, he was told by a spokesperson: “There’s nothing more we can share on this.”

Stephan’s case against the antifascist counterprotesters of the Jan. 9 “Patriot March” pro-Trump rally in the San Diego suburb of Pacific Beach—organized as a defiant gesture of support in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, and featuring several people who were in the crowd in Washington, D.C., three days before—raised eyebrows among legal experts when she announced it. For starters, conspiracy cases typically don’t hinge on evidence that includes ordinary speech and behavior—such as simply agreeing to show up to an event in response to a social media post—as this case does...

Stephan’s criminal conspiracy complaint lists 68 overt acts by the antifascists, including seemingly innocuous actions like dressing in black clothing. Others include violent acts like kicking victims or spraying them with mace, as well as striking people with sticks and flag poles or pushing them to the ground.

It presents no evidence that any of those actions were agreed upon beforehand by the participants, however. Rather, prosecutors allege that the agreement to commit these acts was ratified by the defendants on social media or simply through their presence at the designated time and location of the counterprotest.

The defendants allegedly “pledged their support and participation by liking and sharing” a Jan. 2 social media post that called “for ‘counterprotesting’ and direct action,” the complaint states. By liking and sharing the post, the defendants “in essence (agreed) to take part in the ‘direct action’.”

Be careful what posts you like, I guess?

 

[gentlegreen]

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[spring-peeper]

moron!!!

Steve Bannon Threatens to Take Over Entire U.S. ‘Election Apparatus’

His new goal: Hijack the election system because Trump lost in 2020.

www.thedailybeast.com

Former Trump official turned right-wing provocateur Steve Bannon took things a step further Monday morning, pledging to one day soon take over the entire “election apparatus” in the United States. “We are going to get it decertified,” Bannon said, referring to the 2020 presidential election, which the hotly contested MAGA character erroneously insists Trump won. “And hey, all they want to talk about all day long is Omicron and 6 January. And we love it,” he continued. “Cuz nobody cares. We care because we care about the legitimacy of our process. We are a constitutional republic. And guess what, we are going to take over the election apparatus.” Bannon further noted that “American citizens” will aid him in the proposed election system takeover. “I understand you don’t think that’s democracy because the globalists have done the misdirection plays and had everyone looking the other way,” he added, speaking to MSNBC producers he thinks breathlessly watch his daily War Room: Pandemic podcast.

 

[hitmouse]

Meanwhile in Arizona:

Not a lot of masks in that crowd, who would've thought it?

 

[Ax^]

did someone say he was going off to lead a normal life

 

[teqniq]

Yuck:

I SPENT A WEEKEND AT A FASCIST YOUTH CONFERENCE SO YOU WOULDN’T HAVE TO | Left Coast Right Watch

‘Twas the weekend before Christmas when Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA hosted a massive, sold-out 4-day conservative youth conference featuring 10,000 teens and young adults screaming for Dennis Prager, the Fox News lineup, January 6-plotting politicians, a dancing James O’Keefe, and former...

leftcoastrightwatch.org

 

[Nylock]

Yuck indeed. Truly vile.

 

[8ball]

Yuck:

I SPENT A WEEKEND AT A FASCIST YOUTH CONFERENCE SO YOU WOULDN’T HAVE TO | Left Coast Right Watch

‘Twas the weekend before Christmas when Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA hosted a massive, sold-out 4-day conservative youth conference featuring 10,000 teens and young adults screaming for Dennis Prager, the Fox News lineup, January 6-plotting politicians, a dancing James O’Keefe, and former...

leftcoastrightwatch.org

Not really accurate. That was a "conservative" conference.
A properly 'fascist' conference barely bears thinking about.

Though it's instructive in how scary the "conservative" world has become (article is a good read if you like horror stories).

 

[spring-peeper]

Greene wants to do possibly unconstitutional things to Calif. transplants

If you've left California for another state, Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to take away...

www.sfgate.com

If you've left California for another state anytime recently, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to take away your right to vote.

The highly controversial Republican congresswoman promoted the idea in a Wednesday tweet, writing in response to a suggestion to stop transplants from voting. Greene said, "After Democrat voters and big donors ruin a state like California, you would think it wise to stop them from doing it to another great state like Florida. Brainwashed people that move from CA and NY really need a cooling off period."

Fortunately for you, such a policy would likely be found unconstitutional, as outright removing an individual's right to vote has only been found constitutionally permissible when applied to felons. Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment only allows the right to vote in federal elections to be restricted when an individual has "participation in rebellion, or other crime." (Obviously, living in California is not exactly a "crime.")

 

[Nylock]

Greene wants to do possibly unconstitutional things to Calif. transplants

If you've left California for another state, Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to take away...

www.sfgate.com

That insufferable troglodyte and her fellow travellers probably already think that being a dem voter or coming from a 'blue' state ought to be a felony offence anyway. If they ever had their way, it probably would be as well.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Emails from Parler remain great value.

 

[spring-peeper]

I checked out the nft's and came across this article.

People are spending millions on NFTs. What? Why?

NFT WTF FAQ.

www.theverge.com

It is an interesting article, but I'm still not getting it.
But, then again, I don't really understand crypto currencies.

 

[8ball]

But, then again, I don't really understand crypto currencies.

I'm not sure you really have to. But let's open it to the floor as a little experiment.

I am not a expert in higher maths, behavioural psychology or advanced cryptography, but I am going to leave this concept here for the appraisal of the clever book-learnin' folk of urban as my model of what is happening here:

i) There is an entity whose uniqueness can be verified within a specified arena.
ii) This entity's ownership is transferrable, traceable and tradeable.
iii) The objective upper value of said entity is unknown, being a matter to be ascertained by market transactions.
iv) Therefore <takes big toke> if you can afford it, fucking buy it before someone else buys it for more.
v) Hold onto that shit until the world burns.

 

[spring-peeper]

I'm not sure you really have to. But let's open it to the floor as a little experiment.

I am not a expert in higher maths, behavioural psychology or advanced cryptography, but I am going to leave this concept here for the appraisal of the clever book-learnin' folk of urban as my model of what is happening here:

i) There is an entity whose uniqueness can be verified within a specified arena.
ii) This entity's ownership is transferrable, traceable and tradeable.
iii) The objective upper value of said entity is unknown, being a matter to be ascertained by market transactions.
iv) Therefore <takes big toke> if you can afford it, fucking buy it before someone else buys it for more.
v) Hold onto that shit until the world burns.

Thanks for trying to help me get my head around it, and you did help - a bit.

Is this the same process/concept for a physical painting or sculpture?

Why would someone want artwork that is digital?
I'd rather have a physical painting.
If I want it digital, I'll take a picture.

 

[8ball]

Thanks for trying to help me get my head around it, and you did help - a bit.

Is this the same process/concept for a physical painting or sculpture?

Why would someone want artwork that is digital?
I'd rather have a physical painting.
If I want it digital, I'll take a picture.

It's a weird one for sure. It's a little like owning the rights to a painting, but there are important differences.

It seems to me like it's mostly about creating virtual objects for playing pyramid-type games with, but I'm sure some will disagree.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

oh god. NFTs are such amazing bullshit.

cryptocurency is a system where computing code allows a system where code can track the ownership of a 'thing' a barcode if you will.


in NFTs some 'object' (unique series of 1s and 0s) can be assigned an 'owner' and when it is sold it's new 'owner' gets logged.


if anyone actually cares about the log of 'ownership' your 'ownership' of that log has value.

it's a bit like modern 'real' money but with even less backing.

 

[8ball]

it's a bit like modern 'real' money but with even less backing.

That's the whole point.

 

[teqniq]

This could legitimately go on a couple of threads here. the Mercers and other usual suspects are financing anti-lockdown protests, channeling money to far-right groups:

Capitol Indictment Reveals Radical Right Conservative Donors Simultaneously Bankrolling Extremism and Anti-Lockdown Protests

Caroline Orr reports on the evidence linking the Three Percenters militia with right-wing megadonors including the billionaire Mercer family

bylinetimes.com

 

[Dogsauce]

This could legitimately go on a couple of threads here. the Mercers and other usual suspects are financing anti-lockdown protests, channeling money to far-right groups:

Capitol Indictment Reveals Radical Right Conservative Donors Simultaneously Bankrolling Extremism and Anti-Lockdown Protests

Caroline Orr reports on the evidence linking the Three Percenters militia with right-wing megadonors including the billionaire Mercer family

bylinetimes.com

This quote summarises things quite well.

“We are witnessing a large-scale exercise in social manipulation, led by Convention of States, a Republican operation funded by the billionaire Robert Mercer, with support from the far-right groups FreedomWorks, Tea Party Patriots, and others,” saysBoston University professor Jeremy Menchik, a comparative studies scholar who researches anti-democratic movements.

Menchik says the protests don’t reflect actual grassroots opinion, but rather “manufactured outrage, ginned up by right-wing interest groups.”

“The evidence of the top-down nature of the protests is their coordination, timing, messaging, and overt links. Their group names are similar. The content is similar. Their history is similar. Their calls to action are similar,” he said. “It’s once you see the coordination at a macro level that you recognise this is not a grassroots movement. This is being orchestrated by political operatives…”

This shit is going on in Europe too, Bannon is over here frequently coordinating things between different far right and nationalist groups, stirring the pot. It’s a global war, with deep pockets.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

And the quieter, insidious side of the culture wars continues

US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools

Here's an attempt in the Oklahoma legislature. It follows the example of Texas's abortion law and allows the parents of students to protest a book. For every day the challenged book remains on the shelf, the parent can collect $10K in damages:

SB 1142 would allow parents who believed their child's school was carrying a book in violation of the law to "submit a written request to the school district superintendent or charter school administrator to remove the book."

The violating books in question would be any items relating to "the study of sex, sexual preferences, sexual activity, sexual perversion, sex-based classifications, sexual identity, or gender identity or books that are of a sexual nature," according to the bill's text.

Once the school receives the written request from a parent or guardian, the violating district would have 30 days to remove all copies of the book from circulation, according to the bill.

The bill goes on to state that the complaining parent "may seek monetary damages including a minimum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) per day the book requested for removal is not removed." Additionally, the parent may also seek compensation for attorney's fees and court costs.

MSN

www.msn.com

If this law goes through, there won't be a book left in the library.

<edited to add>
I'm a library student and all libraries already have a written procedure for challenging a book. It completely unnecessary to write something like this into law if you think a book should be removed.