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A good take from Hannah Gais on Nick Fuentes' recent appearance on Tucker Carlson's podcast, the back-and-forth about it on the right, and what it all might say about where they're collectively heading.
She writes:
There’s plenty of hypocrisy to point out here. For one, Heritage is the author of Project Esther, a guidebook for cracking down left-wing anti-Zionist student protesters on college and university campuses. One of its top priorities is to “expose the critical resources fueling antisemitism” through what it dubs the “Hamas Support Network.”
But that’s not what I want to focus on here. Instead, I want to explore the question that has been nagging me since I first learned of Fuentes’ appearance on Tucker Carlson: How did we get here? And, in the long term, what does it mean?
#NickFuentes #TuckerCarlson #AlexJones #UniteTheRight #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #LeadershipInstitute #AltRight #ProjectEsther #antisemitism
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Now that Sunday's Triumph of the Shills rally is done and the guy from The Man Show is going to be back on the air, I'd like to take this moment to single out Austin Peay State University (APSU) in Clarksville, TN, for special shaming.
APSU unceremoniously fired theater professor Darren Michael on Sept. 12, about 48 hours after Michael posted a link on Facebook to a story from Newsweek about Charlie Kirk's "it's worth some gun deaths every year" comments. Far-right senator and current gubernatorial candidate Marsha Blackburn had publicly pressured the university. (See first link below)
The thing is, last year it took APSU a week and a half of student protests and "investigation" to finally come to a mutual agreement about "parting ways" with a faculty member who had been outed as a prominent neo-nazi who had promoted and attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesvile, VA, in 2017.
They gave that dude a $56k severance package. (See second link below)
Yup, it took them ten days to come to an amicable resolution with the guy who, in his own words, posted "everything from race realism, the ['Jewish Question'], the truth about Nazis, everything" and who actively promoted what became a deadly rampage, but the dude who shared an article about what Kirk actually said was just done. (See third link below)
I'm sure more or less anyone who follows my account already knows this, but in case you need to illustrate to someone you know just how skewed the response to anything connected with "political violence" is in the US, there you have it: participate in actual racist violence, you get the kid gloves and might be asked to resign if the protests are loud enough; point out indifference to human suffering on the right, you're canned.
At any rate, yeah, this country, hoo boy...
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/sep/16/tennessee-universities-are-firing-professors-for/
https://www.apsu.edu/president/index.php
#fascism #UniteTheRight #AustinPeayStateUniversity #APSU #LoganSmith #NeoNazis #fcknzs
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A new blog post, because all the others had such great popular demand.
"Toiling In Obscurity, Part Two"
https://xefdisposable.blogspot.com/
#MAGA #Bearskin #VladimirPutin #TrumprussianRegime #FightFightGoFightWin #UniteTheRight #TorchlitBrownshirts #HomeSchooling #Eschatological #JoeWilson #YouLie
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State by State Pending and recently passed #AntiProtestLaws: #Missouri
HB 355: New penalties for protests near gas and oil #pipelines
Creates new potential penalties for protests near gas and oil pipelines and other "critical infrastructure." The law--which was substituted by a Missouri Senate committee for a House bill on sentencing guidelines--heightens the penalties for trespass occurring on critical infrastructure property. Trespass with intent "to damage, destroy, vandalize, deface, [or] tamper with" a facility or intent to "impede or inhibit the operations" of a facility is a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by one year in jail and a $2,000 fine. Protesters seeking to peacefully demonstrate against construction of a new pipeline, for instance, with the intent to disrupt that construction, could be prosecuted under the law. The law also newly criminalizes "damage" to critical infrastructure, broadly defined to include vandalism, and makes it a Class C felony, punishable by 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The law also newly and broadly defines "critical infrastructure" to include oil and gas pipelines, refineries, cell phone towers, and railroad tracks whether operational or under construction.
Full text of bill: https://house.mo.gov/Bill.aspx?bill=HB355&year=2019&code=RStatus: enacted
Introduced 18 Apr 2019; Approved by Senate as amended 17 May 2019; Approved by House 17 May 2019; Signed by Governor Parson on 11 July 2019Issue(s): Infrastructure, Trespass
HB 1413: Limiting #PublicEmployees' ability to picket
***Note: A Judge of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County found HB 1413 unconstitutional in its entirety and granted a permanent injunction against the enforcement of the law on January 27, 2020. ***
Bars certain public employees from picketing. The law requires that all labor agreements negotiated between a "public body" and a labor organization "shall expressly prohibit all strikes and picketing of any kind." The law further mandates that such agreements provide for the "immediate termination" of "any public employee who...pickets over any personnel matter." "Public body" is broadly defined in the law to include "the state of Missouri, or any officer, agency, department, bureau, division, board or commission of the state, or any other political subdivision or special district of or within the state"; accordingly, the law may apply to many labor agreements. While "picketing" is not defined under the law, Missouri Code elsewhere refers to "picketing or other organized protests" as "constitutionally protected activity," indicating that picketing as used in HB 1413 includes protests and demonstrations unrelated to labor strikes.
Full text of bill: https://house.mo.gov/bill.aspx?bill=HB1413&year=2018&code=RStatus: enacted
Introduced 3 Jan 2018; Approved by House 12 February 2018; approved by Senate 16 May 2018; Signed by Governor Greitens 1 June 2018
HB 601: Heightened penalties for #masked #protestersWould increase the penalty for any offense if committed by someone wearing a mask or other device that concealed their identity. The bill does not require that someone intended to conceal their identity in order to facilitate a crime. The bill also does not provide exemptions for masks worn for medical or any other purpose, nor does it limit the enhanced penalties to violent crimes. As such, a peaceful protester who committed a nonviolent offense while wearing a mask—whether a medical mask to avoid contagion, a mask to avoid retaliation for their political speech, or a mask worn for any other reason—could face steep penalties. For instance, peaceful demonstrators in Missouri may be charged with “disturbing the peace,” a minor misdemeanor, if they make too much noise or obstruct a sidewalk or road in the course of a protest. Under the bill, a masked protester charged with that offense could face up to one year in jail and $2,000 for the first offense and a felony penalties (up to four years in prison and $10,000) for subsequent offenses.
Full text of bill: https://house.mo.gov/Bill.aspx?bill=HB601&year=2025&code=RStatus: pending
Introduced 8 Jan 2025.
Issue(s): Face Covering#FirstAmendment #CriminalizingDissent
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #Clampdown #CriminalizingProtest
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #AntiProtestLaws #PipelineProtests #AntiMaskLaws #HeatherHeyer #UniteTheRight #DrivingDownProtestors -
State by State Pending and Recently Passed #AntiProtestLaws: #Iowa
SF 342: Heightened penalties for protesters convicted of "riot," "unlawful assembly," or blocking traffic, and immunity for #drivers who injure them
Introduces felony penalties for the offense of "riot," previously an aggravated misdemeanor, such that the offense is punishable by up to 5 years in prison and $7,500. Preexisting law defines "riot" as a group of three or more people assembled "in a violent manner," at least one of whom uses any unlawful force or violence against another person or causes property damage. The law also converts "unlawful assembly" from a simple to an aggravated misdemeanor. Preexisting law defines "unlawful assembly" as a group of three or more people, any of whom are acting "in a violent manner," and who intend that any of them will commit an offense. Under the law, it is a serious (rather than simple) misdemeanor, punishable by one year in jail and a $1,875 fine, to "obstruct" a sidewalk, street, or "other public way" with the intent to hinder its use by others. If an individual obstructs a sidewalk or street while "present during an unlawful assembly," it is an aggravated misdemeanor, punishable by 2 years in jail and a $6,250 fine. If an individual obstructs a sidewalk or street while "present during a riot," it is a Class D felony, punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a $7,500 fine. Under the law, a driver who injures someone who is participating in a "protest, demonstration, riot, or unlawful assembly," engaging in "disorderly conduct," and blocking traffic, is immune from civil liability as long as the driver was exercising "due care" and the protester did not have a permit to be in the street. The law would also allow law enforcement who experience a physical or other injury while on duty to pursue civil damages from a person, group, or organization. Finally, the law creates a new felony offense for "defacing" public property, "including a monument or statue." The offense, a Class D felony, is punishable by up to 5 years in prison, a $7,500, and mandatory restitution for any property damage. This law was introduced and passed by the Senate as SF 534, but passed by the House as an amendment to SF 342.
Full text of bill:
https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=89&ba=SF%20342Status: enacted
Introduced 1 Mar 2021; Approved by Senate 10 March 2021, Approved by House 14 April 2021, Signed by Governor 16 June 2021
Issue(s): Civil Liability, Protest Supporters or Funders, Driver Immunity, Riot, Traffic Interference
HF 952: Requiring state permission for protests in the capitol and on capitol grounds
Would require organizers to have a government sponsor in order to hold protests in or near the Iowa capitol. Under the bill, organizers cannot hold “events” in capitol buildings or on capitol grounds unless they have a “recommendation” either from a statewide elected official or by both a member of Iowa’s state senate and its house of representatives. The bill would also prohibit the same person from holding more than six “events” per year in or around the capitol. Neither the bill nor the relevant provisions of Iowa law define “events,” such that they could seemingly include public protests and demonstrations. As such, the bill would effectively give elected officials authority to allow or disallow protests near the capitol.
Full text of bill:
https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=91&ba=HF%20952
Status: pendingIntroduced 12 Mar 2025.
HF 25: Heightened penalties for #MaskedProtesters
Would increase the penalty for any offense if committed by someone wearing a mask or other device that concealed their identity for the purpose of facilitating the offense. The bill provides #exemptions for masks worn in a number of contexts, including holiday costumes, medical masks, and “#hood[s]” or other “disguise[s]” worn by members of “a society, order, or organization while engaged in any parade, ritual” or “ceremony.” As such, for instance, members of the #KluKluxKlan would seemingly be exempt from enhanced penalties for illegally blocking traffic while parading in the street wearing hoods. The bill does not exempt masks worn during public protests, nor does it limit the enhanced penalties to violent crimes. Accordingly, a peaceful protester who committed a nonviolent offense while wearing a mask could face steeper penalties. A masked demonstrator engaged in a vigil who failed to disperse after being ordered to do so by police, for instance, could face up to a year in jail, rather than 30 days.
Full text of bill:
https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=91&ba=hf25Status: pending
Introduced 14 Jan 2025.
Issue(s): #FaceCovering
#FirstAmendment #CriminalizingDissent
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #Clampdown #CriminalizingProtest
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #AntiProtestLaws #TrafficInterference #MaskBans #HoodsAreOK #HeatherHeyer #UniteTheRight #DrivingDownProtestors #LimitingProtests #RedTape -
I just finished journalist Elle Reeve's new book "Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics"
The book is a highly readable 10-year history of the alt-right by Reeve, who interviewed many key figures within the alt-right and at times was given access to their confidential communications.
#books #bookstodon #altright #4chan #8chan #unitetheright #j6
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This fashy professor and Unite the Right veteran is now unemployed.
From the article:
Days after his name was tied to white-supremacist propaganda accounts, Logan Smith has left Austin Peay State University. The exit comes after protests by students and community members in Clarksville. Smith joined APSU’s Department of Psychological Science and Counseling as an assistant professor in August.
Michael Licari, APSU's president, announced the decision in a letter on Monday.
“I am writing to inform you that on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, Austin Peay State University and Dr. Logan Smith mutually agreed to end employment, effective immediately,” writes Licari.
Smith was identified in April 2023 as the person behind multiple propaganda accounts publishing a broad range of hate speech, including praise for Adolf Hitler, attacks on minorities and support for the nuclear extermination of humanity. Sunlight Anti-Fascist Action, a self-identified “collective of anti fascist researchers,” posted extensive documentation tying Smith to these accounts, which operated under the pseudonym “Levi” Smith.
#UniteTheRight #fascism #racism #Hitler #antisemitism #LoganSmith #APSU #RacismInHigherEd #FascismInHigherEd
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From the article:
Austin Peay State University is investigating Logan Michael Smith, a recently hired assistant professor of psychology, for allegedly spreading racist, antisemitic, transphobic and xenophobic propaganda via prominent social media accounts.
Sunlight Anti-Fascist Action, a self-identified “collective of anti fascist researchers,” posted detailed documentation tying Logan Smith to far-right hate groups in April 2023. The group updated Smith’s information page on Sept. 10 to include his post at APSU. Smith joined the APSU Department of Psychological Science and Counseling after completing his Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University in 2024.
“We cannot confirm the allegations circulating online,” reads a statement from APSU posted on X on Sept. 11. “Leadership is aware of the situation and assessing validity.”
#UniteTheRight #APSU #Tennessee #fascism #WhiteSupremacy #Racism #Antisemitism #Transphobia #Xenophobia #LoganMichaelSmith #LoganSmith
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Update on Unite the Right attendee and /pol/ News Network operator Logan Michael Smith: he's been hired as a psych prof. at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.
From the article:
It has recently been brought to our attention that Logan Michael Smith, previously of Stillwater, Oklahoma, completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has been hired as an Assistant Professor at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. Out of concern over him having access to impressionable students (and possibly patients), we have updated the original post to include his current location.
Logan Smith was actively posting hateful content to his ‘PNN’ account until his identification in 2023. The original thread identifying Logan can be found on Twitter.
#UniteTheRight #Pol #Tennessee #Clarksville #APSU #LoganSmith
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The latest from the Anonymous Comrades Collective is an up close and personal look at Unite the Right torch march veterans Marjorie Jeffrey and Alex Habighorst.
Jeffrey is an academic whose CV includes stints at a variety of right-wing think tanks and media outlets, including the race science-supporting Claremont Institute, the white nationalist American Renaissance, the newly defunct VDare, and Richard Spencer's long-dead Radix journal. She published regularly on Spencer's completely dead website altright[dot]com and eventually became a major alt-right-era influencer, co-founding a Twitter networking group called @fashyfemmes for the purpose of recruiting women for their movement.
Habighorst, Jeffrey's now-husband, is a pretentious racist weenie from Carriere, MS, who is a great example of the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline: once an ardent Ron Paul supporter who moved to DC for college, he worked there with anti-ecology and anti-union "think tanks" and eventually became very close with Richard Spencer, working on some of Spencer's major projects.
This is a really well written article. Long, but worth sticking it out to the end for the section on Jeffrey's parents, who clearly molded their nazi spawn into what she is today.
#AltRight #UTR #UniteTheRight #NeoNazi #fcknzs #fascism #RichardSpencer #MarjorieJeffrey #AlexHabighorst
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The latest from the Anonymous Comrades Collective is an up close and personal look at Unite the Right torch march veterans Marjorie Jeffrey and Alex Habighorst.
Jeffrey is an academic whose CV includes stints at a variety of right-wing think tanks and media outlets, including the race science-supporting Claremont Institute, the white nationalist American Renaissance, the newly defunct VDare, and Richard Spencer's long-dead Radix journal. She published regularly on Spencer's completely dead website altright[dot]com and eventually became a major alt-right-era influencer, co-founding a Twitter networking group called @fashyfemmes for the purpose of recruiting women for their movement.
Habighorst, Jeffrey's now-husband, is a pretentious racist weenie from Carriere, MS, who is a great example of the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline: once an ardent Ron Paul supporter who moved to DC for college, he worked there with anti-ecology and anti-union "think tanks" and eventually became very close with Richard Spencer, working on some of Spencer's major projects.
This is a really well written article. Long, but worth sticking it out to the end for the section on Jeffrey's parents, who clearly molded their nazi spawn into what she is today.
#AltRight #UTR #UniteTheRight #NeoNazi #fcknzs #fascism #RichardSpencer #MarjorieJeffrey #AlexHabighorst
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The latest from the Anonymous Comrades Collective is an up close and personal look at Unite the Right torch march veterans Marjorie Jeffrey and Alex Habighorst.
Jeffrey is an academic whose CV includes stints at a variety of right-wing think tanks and media outlets, including the race science-supporting Claremont Institute, the white nationalist American Renaissance, the newly defunct VDare, and Richard Spencer's long-dead Radix journal. She published regularly on Spencer's completely dead website altright[dot]com and eventually became a major alt-right-era influencer, co-founding a Twitter networking group called @fashyfemmes for the purpose of recruiting women for their movement.
Habighorst, Jeffrey's now-husband, is a pretentious racist weenie from Carriere, MS, who is a great example of the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline: once an ardent Ron Paul supporter who moved to DC for college, he worked there with anti-ecology and anti-union "think tanks" and eventually became very close with Richard Spencer, working on some of Spencer's major projects.
This is a really well written article. Long, but worth sticking it out to the end for the section on Jeffrey's parents, who clearly molded their nazi spawn into what she is today.
#AltRight #UTR #UniteTheRight #NeoNazi #fcknzs #fascism #RichardSpencer #MarjorieJeffrey #AlexHabighorst
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The latest from the Anonymous Comrades Collective is an up close and personal look at Unite the Right torch march veterans Marjorie Jeffrey and Alex Habighorst.
Jeffrey is an academic whose CV includes stints at a variety of right-wing think tanks and media outlets, including the race science-supporting Claremont Institute, the white nationalist American Renaissance, the newly defunct VDare, and Richard Spencer's long-dead Radix journal. She published regularly on Spencer's completely dead website altright[dot]com and eventually became a major alt-right-era influencer, co-founding a Twitter networking group called @fashyfemmes for the purpose of recruiting women for their movement.
Habighorst, Jeffrey's now-husband, is a pretentious racist weenie from Carriere, MS, who is a great example of the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline: once an ardent Ron Paul supporter who moved to DC for college, he worked there with anti-ecology and anti-union "think tanks" and eventually became very close with Richard Spencer, working on some of Spencer's major projects.
This is a really well written article. Long, but worth sticking it out to the end for the section on Jeffrey's parents, who clearly molded their nazi spawn into what she is today.
#AltRight #UTR #UniteTheRight #NeoNazi #fcknzs #fascism #RichardSpencer #MarjorieJeffrey #AlexHabighorst
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The latest from the Anonymous Comrades Collective is an up close and personal look at Unite the Right torch march veterans Marjorie Jeffrey and Alex Habighorst.
Jeffrey is an academic whose CV includes stints at a variety of right-wing think tanks and media outlets, including the race science-supporting Claremont Institute, the white nationalist American Renaissance, the newly defunct VDare, and Richard Spencer's long-dead Radix journal. She published regularly on Spencer's completely dead website altright[dot]com and eventually became a major alt-right-era influencer, co-founding a Twitter networking group called @fashyfemmes for the purpose of recruiting women for their movement.
Habighorst, Jeffrey's now-husband, is a pretentious racist weenie from Carriere, MS, who is a great example of the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline: once an ardent Ron Paul supporter who moved to DC for college, he worked there with anti-ecology and anti-union "think tanks" and eventually became very close with Richard Spencer, working on some of Spencer's major projects.
This is a really well written article. Long, but worth sticking it out to the end for the section on Jeffrey's parents, who clearly molded their nazi spawn into what she is today.
#AltRight #UTR #UniteTheRight #NeoNazi #fcknzs #fascism #RichardSpencer #MarjorieJeffrey #AlexHabighorst
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The short version: this is good news, at least in theory. The plaintiffs who took the organizers of Unite the Right to court have now been awarded $350k in damages each, rather than the $43,750 a previous ruling had given them.
The Fourth District Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA, has partially reversed a previous reduction of punitive damages awarded in the Sines v. Kessler trail.
That trial, which ended in 2021, awarded the plaintiffs $24 million in damages, but a subsequent ruling noted that Virginia law caps damages at $350k. The way the court read the law, the cap applied to all of the plaintiffs collectively, so they were to divide that $350k between them.
The new 3-0 ruling by the 4th district changes that, so that the cap applies to each plaintiff individually. So they're supposed to get $350k each.
However, I tend to think the likelihood that they'll see much of that money remains low. Some of it will likely come via James Fields, the driver of the car that killed Heather Heyer and injured many others. Fields was represented at trial by a lawyer sent by his auto insurance company, because they're the ones who are mostly on the hook for this. So they'll most likely fork over at some point when it's clear they're just throwing good money after bad.
But most of the other defendants have either declared bankruptcy or made themselves extremely scarce since before the trial even started. Richard Spencer comes from a wealthy family (as though that wasn't obvious), and I wouldn't cry if their money were seized, but he seems to have divested himself fairly well, so we'll see how that plays out. I tend to believe that Matthew Heimbach and Matt Parrott don't actually have much money, because who the hell would hire them? Andrew Anglin has disappeared. Chris "the Crying Nazi" Cantwell is most likely legitimately broke due to his completely defective personality. Azzmador is alleged to have died recently after being AWOL for years. In short: probably not much of the additional $2 million they now collectively owe is likely to reach the plaintiffs.
So make of it what you will. This ruling is nice, but I suspect it's unlikely to materially change much for the plaintiffs or anyone else.
#UTR #UniteTheRight #RichardSpencer #Charlottesville #SinesVKessler #Sines #AndrewAnglin #fcknzs #NeoNazis
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The short version: this is good news, at least in theory. The plaintiffs who took the organizers of Unite the Right to court have now been awarded $350k in damages each, rather than the $43,750 a previous ruling had given them.
The Fourth District Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA, has partially reversed a previous reduction of punitive damages awarded in the Sines v. Kessler trail.
That trial, which ended in 2021, awarded the plaintiffs $24 million in damages, but a subsequent ruling noted that Virginia law caps damages at $350k. The way the court read the law, the cap applied to all of the plaintiffs collectively, so they were to divide that $350k between them.
The new 3-0 ruling by the 4th district changes that, so that the cap applies to each plaintiff individually. So they're supposed to get $350k each.
However, I tend to think the likelihood that they'll see much of that money remains low. Some of it will likely come via James Fields, the driver of the car that killed Heather Heyer and injured many others. Fields was represented at trial by a lawyer sent by his auto insurance company, because they're the ones who are mostly on the hook for this. So they'll most likely fork over at some point when it's clear they're just throwing good money after bad.
But most of the other defendants have either declared bankruptcy or made themselves extremely scarce since before the trial even started. Richard Spencer comes from a wealthy family (as though that wasn't obvious), and I wouldn't cry if their money were seized, but he seems to have divested himself fairly well, so we'll see how that plays out. I tend to believe that Matthew Heimbach and Matt Parrott don't actually have much money, because who the hell would hire them? Andrew Anglin has disappeared. Chris "the Crying Nazi" Cantwell is most likely legitimately broke due to his completely defective personality. Azzmador is alleged to have died recently after being AWOL for years. In short: probably not much of the additional $2 million they now collectively owe is likely to reach the plaintiffs.
So make of it what you will. This ruling is nice, but I suspect it's unlikely to materially change much for the plaintiffs or anyone else.
#UTR #UniteTheRight #RichardSpencer #Charlottesville #SinesVKessler #Sines #AndrewAnglin #fcknzs #NeoNazis
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The short version: this is good news, at least in theory. The plaintiffs who took the organizers of Unite the Right to court have now been awarded $350k in damages each, rather than the $43,750 a previous ruling had given them.
The Fourth District Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA, has partially reversed a previous reduction of punitive damages awarded in the Sines v. Kessler trail.
That trial, which ended in 2021, awarded the plaintiffs $24 million in damages, but a subsequent ruling noted that Virginia law caps damages at $350k. The way the court read the law, the cap applied to all of the plaintiffs collectively, so they were to divide that $350k between them.
The new 3-0 ruling by the 4th district changes that, so that the cap applies to each plaintiff individually. So they're supposed to get $350k each.
However, I tend to think the likelihood that they'll see much of that money remains low. Some of it will likely come via James Fields, the driver of the car that killed Heather Heyer and injured many others. Fields was represented at trial by a lawyer sent by his auto insurance company, because they're the ones who are mostly on the hook for this. So they'll most likely fork over at some point when it's clear they're just throwing good money after bad.
But most of the other defendants have either declared bankruptcy or made themselves extremely scarce since before the trial even started. Richard Spencer comes from a wealthy family (as though that wasn't obvious), and I wouldn't cry if their money were seized, but he seems to have divested himself fairly well, so we'll see how that plays out. I tend to believe that Matthew Heimbach and Matt Parrott don't actually have much money, because who the hell would hire them? Andrew Anglin has disappeared. Chris "the Crying Nazi" Cantwell is most likely legitimately broke due to his completely defective personality. Azzmador is alleged to have died recently after being AWOL for years. In short: probably not much of the additional $2 million they now collectively owe is likely to reach the plaintiffs.
So make of it what you will. This ruling is nice, but I suspect it's unlikely to materially change much for the plaintiffs or anyone else.
#UTR #UniteTheRight #RichardSpencer #Charlottesville #SinesVKessler #Sines #AndrewAnglin #fcknzs #NeoNazis
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The short version: this is good news, at least in theory. The plaintiffs who took the organizers of Unite the Right to court have now been awarded $350k in damages each, rather than the $43,750 a previous ruling had given them.
The Fourth District Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA, has partially reversed a previous reduction of punitive damages awarded in the Sines v. Kessler trail.
That trial, which ended in 2021, awarded the plaintiffs $24 million in damages, but a subsequent ruling noted that Virginia law caps damages at $350k. The way the court read the law, the cap applied to all of the plaintiffs collectively, so they were to divide that $350k between them.
The new 3-0 ruling by the 4th district changes that, so that the cap applies to each plaintiff individually. So they're supposed to get $350k each.
However, I tend to think the likelihood that they'll see much of that money remains low. Some of it will likely come via James Fields, the driver of the car that killed Heather Heyer and injured many others. Fields was represented at trial by a lawyer sent by his auto insurance company, because they're the ones who are mostly on the hook for this. So they'll most likely fork over at some point when it's clear they're just throwing good money after bad.
But most of the other defendants have either declared bankruptcy or made themselves extremely scarce since before the trial even started. Richard Spencer comes from a wealthy family (as though that wasn't obvious), and I wouldn't cry if their money were seized, but he seems to have divested himself fairly well, so we'll see how that plays out. I tend to believe that Matthew Heimbach and Matt Parrott don't actually have much money, because who the hell would hire them? Andrew Anglin has disappeared. Chris "the Crying Nazi" Cantwell is most likely legitimately broke due to his completely defective personality. Azzmador is alleged to have died recently after being AWOL for years. In short: probably not much of the additional $2 million they now collectively owe is likely to reach the plaintiffs.
So make of it what you will. This ruling is nice, but I suspect it's unlikely to materially change much for the plaintiffs or anyone else.
#UTR #UniteTheRight #RichardSpencer #Charlottesville #SinesVKessler #Sines #AndrewAnglin #fcknzs #NeoNazis
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The short version: this is good news, at least in theory. The plaintiffs who took the organizers of Unite the Right to court have now been awarded $350k in damages each, rather than the $43,750 a previous ruling had given them.
The Fourth District Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA, has partially reversed a previous reduction of punitive damages awarded in the Sines v. Kessler trail.
That trial, which ended in 2021, awarded the plaintiffs $24 million in damages, but a subsequent ruling noted that Virginia law caps damages at $350k. The way the court read the law, the cap applied to all of the plaintiffs collectively, so they were to divide that $350k between them.
The new 3-0 ruling by the 4th district changes that, so that the cap applies to each plaintiff individually. So they're supposed to get $350k each.
However, I tend to think the likelihood that they'll see much of that money remains low. Some of it will likely come via James Fields, the driver of the car that killed Heather Heyer and injured many others. Fields was represented at trial by a lawyer sent by his auto insurance company, because they're the ones who are mostly on the hook for this. So they'll most likely fork over at some point when it's clear they're just throwing good money after bad.
But most of the other defendants have either declared bankruptcy or made themselves extremely scarce since before the trial even started. Richard Spencer comes from a wealthy family (as though that wasn't obvious), and I wouldn't cry if their money were seized, but he seems to have divested himself fairly well, so we'll see how that plays out. I tend to believe that Matthew Heimbach and Matt Parrott don't actually have much money, because who the hell would hire them? Andrew Anglin has disappeared. Chris "the Crying Nazi" Cantwell is most likely legitimately broke due to his completely defective personality. Azzmador is alleged to have died recently after being AWOL for years. In short: probably not much of the additional $2 million they now collectively owe is likely to reach the plaintiffs.
So make of it what you will. This ruling is nice, but I suspect it's unlikely to materially change much for the plaintiffs or anyone else.
#UTR #UniteTheRight #RichardSpencer #Charlottesville #SinesVKessler #Sines #AndrewAnglin #fcknzs #NeoNazis
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CPAC attendees this year included Greg Conte and Ryan Sanchez. Who are these people? Well...
Greg Conte used to be Richard Spencer's right-hand man and, if I remember correctly, was maybe even his personal security organizer for a minute. The two had a falling out in 2018 as Spencer's arc was going into a sharp decline (something something rats something sinking ship). But Conte was very much at the heart of Spencer's circuit in 2017, when they both attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA.
Two years later, Conte became a founding member of the overtly neo-nazi "National Justice Party". Conte flamed out of that as well about a year ago, burning every bridge behind him. But not because he's turned over a new leaf. No, it was just some interpersonal and/or money drama, which is the way things go with nazis an awful lot of the time. I honestly don't even remember the specifics, just that it seemed so cookie-cutter at the time. Still, that seems to have been something of a tipping point for NJP, as they had a whole series of high-end defections over the course of last year and by now they have ceased to exist. So maybe Greggy unintentionally did something good for once in his life.
Anyways, according to the article, Conte went to a Young Republicans mixer at CPAC as part of a self-identified crew of neo-nazis who "mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA, and discussed so-called 'race science' and antisemitic conspiracy theories."
Sanchez was apparently part of his cohort. He's a former member of the Rise Above Movement (RAM), which is Rob Rundo's old crew and effectively a kind of precursor to today's Active Clubs and "white nationalism 3.0" framework. Sanchez doesn't seem to have attended United the Right with his RAM colleagues (he quit the group for unknown reasons about a month later), but he hasn't stopped being a giant shithead and has apparently been in Groyper circuits for several years.
At any rate, CPAC has been an increasingly friendly place for these kinds of people for years, but the pretense seems to have largely gone away at this point. Sanchez was a credentialed attendee (it's unclear from the article whether Conte was, though I suspect that he wasn't, as they didn't comment on it). These people are known entities, and both organizers and attendees of any conference are responsible for keeping nazis out. CPAC is well past the point where they can claim this kind of thing is just "a few bad apples". It's part of their deal, and it's been part of their deal for a while.
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It was a choice to melt down #RobertELee. But it would have been a choice to keep him intact, too.
The statue of the #Confederate general that once stood in #Charlottesville — that prompted the deadly 2017 “#UniteTheRight” rally — was cut into fragments & dropped into a furnace…
Melted down in secret, the divisive monument will be turned into a new piece of public art.
#Racism #WhiteSupremacy #NeoNazis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/civil-war-monument-melting-robert-e-lee-confederate/ -
Who could've seen that coming?
"The Guardian has identified a trainee nurse and reported US air force reservist called Bailey Ross as the proprietor of a white nationalist publisher in South Dakota.
"Ross was also a paid-up member of a white nationalist organization that marched at Charlottesville while enlisted in the United States Coast Guard."
#identityevropa #identitarian #coastguard #airforce #acab #unitetheright #whitenationalism #fascistsinthemilitary