I seem to recall much the same being said about the Nazis. Just a bunch of street thugs, nothing to worry about, they couldn't possible gain a significant amount of power.
Until they did.
So you are continuing with this thing about every teenager with a Pepe t-shirt being a genocidal murderer? Sorry, I'm going to be confident that the sky is not falling. Not in that way, anyhow.
So are honest-to-goodness full-blown-neo-Nazis pretending to be poseur and insincere edgelords in order to maintain plausible deniability and create discord in their opponent's ranks.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-stormer-nazi-style-guide_n_5a2ece19e4b0ce3b344492f2
Excerpt:
Yes, you've posted that many times. Many. Times. You've probably given it more reading and publicity than anyone else. But you know that Andrew Anglin cat? He's a schmuck. A nobody giving inane writing advice to nobody. Read the articles on his website: his own submitters do not seem to have read his tripe. Basically, no one on the planet gives him any credibility at all. Except you. Swish that around a bit. To everyone else, he's a nothing, a cockroach at best. To you, he is a powerhouse leader. Why, dude?
Why???
If you're treating them as "Posers" and "insincere edgelords", then congratulations, you're playing right along and being a good little useful idiot.
You had me worried for a minute, there. I thought you were interested in honest discussion. But no, here comes the famous luchog insults, firmly closing the door on anything productive. Betcha close with something pointlessly hateful. We'll see.
Regarding your point, though: no. I don't read their tripe so I am not influenced one way or the other. I see what they do, and that suffices for me. Is the Daily Stormer taking over the mainstream media? A place in the Press Corps? Whatever Andrew Annikin was pushing, it didn't work. No one cared. Except you.
My friends and myself having been the target of verbal and physical assaults from "some impotent yepper on the streetcorner" in the past simply for being who were were and looking a certain way, I know better than to dismiss them as not a threat.
Lots to unpack here. First off, you were subject to verbal abuse for being what you are? You ain't the Lone Ranger by anyone's standards. Welcome to the ******* club.
Physical assaults for being who you are and looking a certain way? Again, why do you think you alone should be exempt from that? I've been physically assaulted by every skin color on the freaking palate for one reason or another. Being white in a black sandwich shop. Dating a black girl. Being in the wrong neighborhood. Being a metalhead in college prep classes. Being one of exactly two long haired guys in my entire freaking high school (and we didn't like each other either). Having both skinheads and preppies calling me a n-lover and getting physical over it. Cry me a river, luchog. You're not entitled to better treatment than the rest of us. Some people suck. Always have, always will. Welcome to the human condition.
eta: yes, even the streetcorner yapper can be a physical threat. There's lots of physical threats out there. If you find the keys to Shangri-La where we can all live n harmony singing kumbaya, give me a shout. till then, I'm expecting physical threats from a lot of different people.
Must be nice not to have to worry about that, bless your heart.
Ah, here it comes. Yeah, I've never had to worry about that. You know me so well, oh Wise One. And bless y'all's heart to, darlin. With a chainsaw.
But we've been through this before. Let me try yet again to throw up a Hail Mary:
Hi luchog. I'm Thermal. Hey, I see from your postings here that you have a deep resentment of violent bigots. I hear you, and hate them to the bone myself. But your approach seems to take some schmuck surf nazi and glorify his position, and actually push him away,
and further into the fold that we don't want him to embrace any further. Might it make more sense to ridicule him? Fight in the gutter if he wants to fight, but not afford him any more dignity than the gutter rat he is? Why feed into the fascist fantasy?
