Dude, who even knows.
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"Yeah honestly Richard Spencer seemed to have a sense of things but I don’t know what he even wanted to do with the Charlottesville boneheads." he's controlled op ffs
Believable, also believable that the attention and Tila Tequila and a trust funder’s cocaine hookup just went to the guy’s already inflated head, luring him into that Nazi cargo cultism that forgets the Beer Hall Putsch failed
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Nick Fuentes is just if Richard Spencer had a clue what to do after Trump got elected. Before Trump showed up the Spencer plan was open a DC policy shop to give reports your King/Gosar types could quote into the record, and in Montana focus on accepting unions as guardians of the white working man.
Then once Trump in his Mr. Magoo fashion made the turn and his immediate cause was obviated it was like Heil Trump, I know Tila Tequila, let’s unite the boneheads and Pepes to ???
Whereas “fully capture a party by exciting the young cadre and contesting establishment appeals” makes sense?
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Fired he might have been, but I’m not sure Steve Bannon’s wrong when he says he’ll be able to fight harder from the outside
He sure wasn’t controlling Trump (or Trump much of anything) in the White House, and since going in he lost his grip on the alt-right that largely went to shit. You’ll recall the original plan to draw out antifa was underwriting the delightfully playful Milo on a campus tour, while chugging milk and scampishly frustrating Shia LeBouef.
Without that direction and momentum it’s dispersing to attention whores and entryists – McInnes and his Proud Boys, Cernovich, especially Richard Spencer.
Charlottesville was a textbook entryist campaign by Spencer, who I remind you knows what he’s doing. You get some people not quite ready for the uncut stuff, you have a milder front group where they can be active in solidarity and politically educated, then you fold them into the OG group. “Unite” them, if you will. The British socialist splinters do a lot of entryism, the ANSWER antiwar marches against Dubya were a US equivalent.
My impression is Spencer succeeded in bringing the Stormers and TRS types along (they were there already) but not as much /pol/, let alone the fun-time channers and post-PUA bodybuilders, let alone the meming masses. (Only person I’ve seen noticing this is radical-of-good-faith Amber A'Lee Frost, it does weaken a good narrative)
So Bannon’s job would be to clean off the more impish side, rebrand, regroup. There is going to be right-insurgent energy on the fundamentals one way or another, and it can be better-channeled. The left unto normie left is high on its own hype, pretty far over its skis if you look at those polls, product of the (social) media bubble that’s Bannon’s foil. Could easily see him finding pressure points to turn racial iconoclasm towards a nation where whites party-vote like Dixie, aggravate the tensions in urban Dem coalitions (wokeness cant bond anarchists to landlords and employers forever, and they aren’t gonna let Deray herd them towards Cory Booker and Kamala Harris).
And he’s got the Mercers’ money so immune to pressure on advertisers, too connected to be cut off or blocked in otherwise, plus whatever insider information and access he has while it’s fresh. Don’t sleep on that boy.
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::sees puffy guy in blazer traveling the country showing up to give ethnic protests national press in return for taking 80% of it::
Wait, is Richard Spencer the white Al Sharpton?
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A few things about Richard Spencer’s successfully delivered speech at Auburn University the other night.
ONE, from what I heard firm policing pacified the assembly enough for the speech to go off same as any other campus event but only after Auburn tried to cancel citing security concerns… only to be countermanded by federal court order sought by a white supremacist lawyer. I would not, in fact, be surprised if Spencer aimed at Auburn because Sam Dickson operates out of Georgia.
(There is now a campaign by Florida man-cum-fascist lawyer Augustus Sol Invictus and alt-right folk hero Kyle “Based Stickman” Chapman to assemble a National Lawyers Guild-style network of rightist defense and civil rights lawyers. I suppose all those BIDER and AutoAdmit guys are out there somewhere. Come to think of it, I’d be a bit surprised if WeSearchr poobah/Count of Monte Christo Pax Dickinson wasn’t somewhere in the background on this.)
Richard Spencer knows what he is doing. And what did he do? Well Auburn’s claim that they couldn’t safely host him already struck a federal judge like a cover for not wanting to and the event going smoothly won’t hurt going forward - the American legal system does not weigh “structural oppression, such as public speech and the American legal system” as violence. Between that and Berkeley’s proof that the system can’t just look away and let things harmlessly burn themselves out, I think he’s probably breaking through no-platforming to the next stage.
Do wonder what becomes of those left behind tho. The new campus Burschenschaften have been one of the biggest post-election loci of alt-right energy (ok, they’re really closer to ‘70s student Italo-fash than mensur but it’s a fun word). And I catch word that college leftists are starting to hear ominous drums in the off-campus hills. People came cross-country to stand with Based Stickman at Berkeley, while Austin is already surrounded by Texas.
SO, now that he’s giving speeches what is he saying? Well the only memorable thing I hear repeated (and I’m sure this is planned - he gets interviewed so often because you’re guaranteed an interesting article with two good pullquotes and a clickable headline) is him going after college football and people being “a-hyuck, that won’t play in the South”.
Okay to repeat, Spencer knows what he’s doing. He went to Duke, he knows what college sports mean in Dixie. Here is an entire POLITICO article about Richard Spencer calculatedly invoking football to manipulate attention.
What he’s doing (as I can tell from wisely paying attention to Internet racists all these years) is using his platform to promote a line of thought developed at length by overlooked alt-right ideological entrepreneur Paul Kersey. The idea being that in adopting a win-at-all-costs, professional pipeline model of sports, colleges have abandoned the “rounded development of the natural (white) aristocracy into a class of gentlemen” role of collegiate athletics in favor of lowering standards to bring in unworthy rapist negroes as ringers for the sake of decadent spectacle. (And that this is a microcosm of American colleges and society generally).
(The title of Kersey’s site, Stuff Black People Don’t Like, shows how long he’s been beavering at this, I’m honestly surprised his “we could have gone to Mars” – basically Gil Scott-Heron’s “Whitey on the Moon” played backwards as a way to cultivate white STEMthusiast resentment of blacks and Great Society welfare programs – never caught)
So does Spencer expect a mass conversion to the Kersey line here? I doubt it, but the two of them push it, CasteFootball exists, someone could be won over. The sports leagues, NCAA included, have been bigfooting states over gender enforcement and religious liberty measures lately and the Benedict Option-type social cons have already been simmering up some resentment against them and their fan enablers.
Cross the strains and fertilize with publicity, toss in state budget issues, the adjunct and student loan crises and the inchoate sense that there’s some relationship between campus leftism and a loss of focus on academic instruction (or STEM in particular) and… I’m not sure exactly what they could do with that issue, but putting it into play might open up the option to wedge something apart, or trade for some influence on colleges down the line.
Plus, you know, there IS the campus rape angle, that’s hot these days. Spencer (and Stephen Miller) debuted off the Duke lacrosse hoax, they know the power there. Go flaunting your ideology out in public someone’s gonna scavenge it, and already the Kony-fuckers are weaving that feminist energy into their “human trafficking” reenactment of the old white slavery panics (which are where we got the Dawes Act and a bunch of that black-repressing “carceral feminism” we were being reminded to dislike circa like 2012. White women SMDH.)
Finally, one of the new, woke sports journalism’s hobby horses is college athletes as exploited professionals who should be paid (and this as a racialized issue). But “a disproportionate share of televised NCAA athletes are black commercial performers unsuited to the amateur scholar model” is the core of the Kersey line too.
And if Richard Spencer can draft off that such that the payoff of a woke journalist crusade is advancing his program, or at least occupy enough space in the discourse that no article on the subject feels complete without an aside (pull-quote?) on what Richard Spencer thinks? Gotta admit that would be a hell of a troll.
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Anonymous asked: Thoughts on Richard Spencer getting punched in the face?
I think Richard Spencer’s an ideological entrepreneur and Donald Trump stole his lunch - giving the American right a platform and pose to match the cross-class white identity that increasingly defined it but existing elites resisted.
And Trump didn’t need Richard Spencer gradually assembling an apparatus, or putting out white papers to give cover for his deportation plans, or building a bench in Montana, he just straight-up did it in his blustery Mr. Magoo style. And with Bannon in the White House and Sessions at AG and all his other men in place, no reason going forward Trump needs a guy with a freshly-furnished office and Tila Tequila in his Rolodex.
To his credit guy does understand the Beltway ecosystem, knows if he just fades into the background now his life’s work is over and purposeless, knows how to work media contacts and self-promote and pitch off a news hook, knows how to create spectacle - guy wasn’t just out for a walk thinking about Pepe when a protest broke out and someone asked for his take.
And now, look, as a result of going out and offering himself up as spectacle, Richard Spencer is now central to a hot news story that hooks into relevant questions of How We Live Now In This New Trump Era. If Richard Spencer wasn’t relevant and in the news because of this, why else would we be thinking about Richard Spencer? We wouldn’t.
But he did, so we are. The contradictions are heightened, he’s kept his name in the papers, still got a shot at the history books, if maybe as a Madalyn Murray O’Hair or Horst Wessel.
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Media: don’t normalize Trump!
Media: also were you aware of significant ideological actor Richard Spencer?