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In recent years, adherents to the alt-right, a radically nationalist and xenophobic faction of the American right wing, have increasingly made their presenceknown, both in the digital sphere and in the streets. But while the term alt-right may evoke images of its most prominent partisans white supremacists and neo-Nazis in practice, it is a much more dangerously complex spectrum of political views.

Despite this, most discussions of online radicalization focus largely around the descent into these extremist groups, and not the subtle ways in which the echo chambers and deliberate isolation of the alt-rights indoctrination networks operate. These networks, collectively known as the alt-right pipeline, are especially dangerous to young men, but a narrow discussion of the pipelines threat means that the full scope of the issue is rarely addressed. From the violent extremes to the tamer, but much broader, wing of the alt-lite (a faction dominated by popular conservative commentators and public firebrands), the same tactics are used to exploit and radicalize the rising generation. I speak from personal experience when I say that failing to address the alt-right pipeline as a complex and multidimensional issue only serves to make it stronger.

The conventional wisdom is that the alt-right pipeline targets white men who are angry at the world, a group that originally self-identified as involuntarily celibate, birthing the abbreviation incel. These observers rightfully point out the pervasive misogyny of the alt-right, and treat it as a vehicle and prerequisite for radicalization. While this interpretation of the alt-right, one that emphasizes the pipelines exploitation of latent misogyny and sexual frustration through male bonding gone horribly awry, is accurate in many cases, it cannot be applied to every case of alt-right internet radicalization. I, for example, was only thirteen when my fall down the pipeline began. My fatal element was not male rage but self-doubt.

For most of my childhood, I was incredibly susceptible to peer pressure. I developed a personal identity, but my public identity was often whatever I thought would fit in best. The problem was only exacerbated when I hit puberty. I was an atheist when my predominantly Catholic friends were bonding over teaching religious education classes at their churches, a progressive but only beginning to understand the importance of what that meant, and starting to come to terms with what I now know to be my bisexuality. At the time, I was unsure of who I was supposed to be, or even who I was.

This was around the same time that YouTube began to play a larger role in my life, and there, I found my gateway drug to the alt-right: Dave Rubin. In Rubin, I saw a vision of myself; he was an openly gay atheist man who called himself a classical liberal. I began watching the Rubin Report on YouTube religiously, and slowly but surely bought into his message: the modern lefts obsession with identity politics went too far. The assertion was straightforward enough for me to understand, and having next to no frame of reference with which to refute it, I did the only thing I thought epistemically sound: accept it as true.

I was working my way through Rubins content when I found his multi-part interview with alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, during which Yiannopoulos half-heartedly described African-Americans as being the last oppressed group in the United States. I had no experience with the nuance of condemnable views in American politics, so even Yiannaopouloss begrudging admission of any form of systemic racism was enough to convince me that he was worth more attention than I previously thought. With Yiannopouloss points going unchallenged, I was led to believe that his rhetoric held a legitimate place in the political spectrum. Once again, with no frame of reference to do otherwise, I accepted that I must have been wrong about him, and considered myself responsible for learning more about his perspective.

I gradually cycled through the videos that my new, extremely skewed frame of reference deemed acceptable, avoiding only the most flagrant content. By then, however, YouTube had worked its magic and determined what would appeal to me most moving forward. Videos recommended through the YouTube algorithm account for 70 percent of time spent on the site. Without thinking, I let the up next timer run down, and I was directed to the next video then the next, each more aggressive than the last.

And so began a months-long tumble down the alt-right pipeline, but I was never able to acknowledge that I was trapped. I still considered myself a progressive; in my mind, I was not buying into the alt-rights rhetoric, I was learning their arguments to make my progressivism stronger. But I was more easily persuaded than I knew, and even if my intentions were sound, Ben Shapiro spoke too quickly and Steven Crowder too aggressively for me to be able to process what I was hearing beyond a superficial level. My teenage mind could not keep up, and without any conscious understanding, I was cheering along with Jordan Peterson as he destroyed feminism and as SJWs were owned with facts and logic. Before I could think through what I had watched, I was onto the next video, and my internal understanding of the world became echoes of Louder with Crowder, the Daily Wire, and PragerU.Assuming I was merely developing a more nuanced understanding of the world, the true weight of what I was watching never set in with me. I began referring to myself as a social conservative, but never publicly. I figured discussing it with my friends was a non-starter; after all, in my mind, they had fallen victim to the machinations of the radical left. I was the enlightened one.

But even as I tumbled headfirst down the alt-right pipeline, I never fell far enough to seal myself into a true echo chamber. In fact, what I broadly defined as my social conservatism rarely left YouTube. The outside world continued around me unaffected; the only impact was in how I saw it. I certainly never shared these hateful views with anyone, because on some subconscious level, I still knew that they were unacceptable for a reason.

I resigned myself to the fact that I would forever be misunderstood, because the alt-right only knows, and therefore only teaches, two emotions: anger and fear. Both of these are generalized and are used to target, broadly, the unknown; anything the alt-right does not understand, like, or benefit from, it views as inherently dangerous. In my time, the prime example of this was the concept of intersectionality. I never learned the true definition of intersectionality, that racial, ethnic, and class identities intersect with one another and should be included in progressive movements. Instead, I learned Ben Shapiros definition, that according to current leftist orthodoxy, your opinion only matters relative to your identity.

I began to see the world the way those commentators saw it. I felt threatened where there was no threat, attacked where there was no attacker, and defensive of this new identity I had been given, an identity I had never wanted to have. The world I experienced and the world I saw were fundamentally disconnected. Overwhelmed, I sank into a depression. Their anger and fear had broken me, but it had not made me angry or afraid. It had just made me sad.

In the end, that disconnect was what saved me from sinking into the fascism and white supremacy of the alt-rights public persona. Real life is not as rapid-fire or one-sided as alt-right YouTube, and when I found my peers discussing the ideas that I had been indoctrinated to believe, I realized that the people I respected had clear and concise refutations to each of those ideas. The pipeline had given me definitions of things like intersectionality, social justice, and even feminism that were dangerously inaccurate, and when I actually began challenging the views pressed upon me, they fell like dominoes.

During my time in the alt-right pipeline, I found myself echoing reactionary talking points because I had been told to see conflict where none was necessary. I was inexperienced, and that made me the alt-rights perfect target.

If we as a society are to genuinely address the root causes of the alt-right pipeline, we must come to terms with what it actually is. While it often capitalizes on the worst of human impulses, it also capitalizes on naivete and ignorant innocence, regardless of age or circumstance. It looks different for everyone, from the veteran told to fear racial replacement by Tucker Carlson to the teenager who lingered too long on a promoted Will Witt video on Facebook. For those who know no better, the alt-right is a comprehensive and comprehensible way of understanding the world.

Refutations and rebuttals of alt-right talking points must also be adapted to the digital sphere. Right-wing pundits and commentators have the most popular podcasts, Facebook pages, and YouTube channels, meaning that they are often the first thing a person genuinely looking for political discourse will find. The alt-right has already adapted to the internet and is using their head-start to indoctrinate a generation. To combat this, viable alternatives to the alt-rights demagogic rhetoric must be available to discourage people from internalizing its narrative.

Lastly, the alt-right pipeline must be addressed as a public health issue. I was never happier when I found my identity in the alt-right than I had been before or than I am now. Caught in the alt-right spiral, I told myself the world misunderstood me, when in reality, I had just cut myself off from it. My mental health only recovered when I escaped the pipeline.

Falling down the alt-right pipeline is an intensely personal process, and it must be addressed as a personal issue. But more importantly, it must be acknowledged that the alt-right pipeline doesnt lead anywhere: It just keeps descending. And while that means it will become harder and harder to address with time, it also means no one is ever too far gone.

Returning from the alt-right pipeline was without question the greatest triumph of my adolescent life. Only then was I able to fully appreciate the rich diversity of our world and understand the nuances necessary to make genuine progress. More than ever before, too, I was able to understand myself, and fully embrace who I truly was, not the person the alt-right told me I should be.

The internet is still largely in its infancy, but the alt-right and its intermediaries have already been able to establish a funnel to create new acolytes. To combat it, we must first understand it, in all of its complexity.

Image by Ales Nesetril is licensed under the Unsplash License.

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The Dangerous Subtlety of the Alt-Right Pipeline

Many artists are not completely against the technology but felt blindsided by the lack of consideration for our craft. Being able to imitate a living artist has obvious implications for our careers, and some artists are already dealing with real challenges to their livelihood. Concept artists create works for films, video games, character designs and more. Greg Rutkowski, a hugely popular concept artist, has been used in a prompt for Stable Diffusion upward of 100,000 times. Now, his name is no longer attached to just his own work, but it also summons a slew of imitations of varying quality that he hasnt approved. This could confuse clients, and it muddies the consistent and precise output he usually produces. When I saw what was happening to him, I thought of my battle with my shadow self. We were each fighting a version of ourself that looked similar but that was uncanny, twisted in a way to which we didnt consent.

It gets darker. The LAION data sets have also been found to include photos of extreme violence, medical records and nonconsensual pornography. Theres a chance that somewhere in there lurks a photo of you. There are some guardrails for the more well-known A.I. generators, such as limiting certain search terms, but that doesnt change the fact that the data set is still rife with disturbing material, and that users can find ways around the term limitations. Furthermore, because LAION is open source, people are creating new A.I. generators that dont have these same guardrails and that are often used to make pornography.

In theory, everyone is at risk for their work or image to become a vulgarity with A.I., but I suspect those who will be the most hurt are those who are already facing the consequences of improving technology, namely members of marginalized groups. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, has an entire saga of deep-fake nonconsensual pornography attached to her image. I can only imagine that some of her more malicious detractors would be more than happy to use A.I. to harass her further. In the future, with A.I. technology, many more people will have a shadow self with whom they must reckon. Once the features that we consider personal and unique our facial structure, our handwriting, the way we draw can be programmed and contorted at the click of a mouse, the possibilities for violations are endless.

Ive been playing around with several generators, and so far none have mimicked my style in a way that can directly threaten my career, a fact that will almost certainly change as A.I. continues to improve. Its undeniable; the A.I.s know me. Most have captured the outlines and signatures of my comics black hair, bangs, striped T-shirts. To others, it may look like a drawing taking shape.

I see a monster forming.

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1. RICHARD SPENCER IS AN ALT RIGHT LEADER.

Spencer has become the most recognizable public face of the alt right, a loose network of people who promote white identity and reject mainstream conservatism in favor of politics that embrace implicit or explicit racism, anti-Semitism and white supremacy. Spencer coined the term alternative right (from which alt right is derived) in 2008 in an article in Takis Magazine, a far-right publication. At the time, Spencer was using alternative right to refer to people on the right who distinguished themselves from traditional conservatives by opposing, among other things, egalitarianism, multiculturalism and open immigration. As a spokesperson for the alt right, Spencer has tried to use the media to mainstream racism and anti-Semitism.

During the 2016 presidential race, the alt right gained national media attention for two things: supporting Donald Trump and online trolling. On Election night 2016, Spencer exulted in Trumps victory. The Alt-Right has been declared the winner. The Alt-Right is more deeply connected to Trumpian populism than the conservative movement, Spencer tweeted. Were the establishment now.

Spencer was one of the promoters and scheduled speakers at the August 12, 2017 Unite the Right alt right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which was ostensibly organized to oppose the removal of Confederate monuments. The rally attracted more than 500 white supremacists and many hundreds of counter-protesters, and confrontations between the two groups sparked violent clashes. A white supremacist drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring a number of other people.

That weekend, Spencer's website announced that Unite the Right was the beginning of the white civil rights movement.

It seems that Spencer may have spoken too soon. Since that weekend in Charlottesville, dissension and infighting has overtaken the alt right movement. On one side are the American Nationalists who believe white supremacists should appeal to whites by using innocuous symbols like the American flag, and avoid openly white supremacist symbols like swastikas. On the other side are the National Socialists and other hard-right groups whose members display white supremacist symbols at rallies and dont care about optics or appealing to the white middle class. Spencer walks the line between the two groups. Although he does not wear or publicly promote any white supremacist symbols, he did align himself with the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), a neo-Nazi group. The group acted as a security force at his speeches at Auburn University in Alabama in 2017 and at Michigan State University in 2018.

Spencer appears to be testing out new ways of attracting attention. In October 2017, two months after Unite the Right, he returned to Charlottesville to lead 35-40 people in an unannounced flash mob a reprise of Augusts tiki torch march. Afterwards, Spencer called it a great success and a model for future events. This kind of small event with no advance warning hugely diminishes inherently risky interactions with law enforcement or counter-protesters. Spencer only employed the flash mob model a couple of times before turning his attention to scheduled public events like campus speeches.

Spencer wants to establish a white ethno-state in the U.S. and believes that whites should live separately from non-whites and Jews. While Spencer generally shies away from blatant displays of anti-Semitism, he began expressing anti-Semitic views more openly in 2014, when he wrote that Jews have an identity apart from Europeans. At a press conference two years later, he announced that he did not consider Jews to be European (i.e. white in alt right nomenclature).

Spencer has been influenced by a number of other white supremacists, including the late Sam Francis, Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, and retired professor Kevin MacDonald, who wrote a series of anti-Semitic books, which Spencer has promoted. Spencers white supremacist organization, the National Policy Institute (NPI), featured MacDonald as a speaker at its annual conferences in both 2015 and 2016.

At the 2016 conference, a number of people in the audience threw Nazi salutes after Spencer hailed Donald Trumps victory in the presidential election. Spencer refused to condemn the salutes.

Spencer has aligned himself with groups and individuals who openly express virulent anti-Semitism, including TWP and Patriot Front, a Texas-based alt right group. Members of both groups have attended and acted as security at his events. Spencer has also shown a willingness to work with anti-Semitic leaders such as Matthew Heimbach, the former head of TWP, and Mike Enoch Peinovich, who runs The Right Stuff website.

Spencer was an editor at Takis Magazine and worked at The American Conservative as an assistant editor. In 2010, Spencer founded online journal Alternative Right, which he used to promote white nationalism until he left in 2012.

Spencer was named president of NPI in 2011, and he also runs two associated ventures--Radix Journal, a publication featuring essays on white nationalism and other issues, and Washington Summit Publishers, which publishes the work of racists.

In January 2017, Spencer founded Altright.com, an online sounding board for the movement. The site was created with the help of Swedish white supremacists and is part of a venture called the AltRight Corporation. Spencer and his Swedish partners, Arktos Media, a far-right publishing company, and Red Ice Radio, a video and podcast platform featuring racists from around the world, want to bring the message of white nationalism to mainstream audiences.

In December 2017, Spencer announced that he had formed a new organization with other alt right leaders. In a departure from previous alt right groups, which organizers dismissed as amateurish, Operation Homeland was unveiled as a core group of alt right leaders and activists poised to lead the movement as a whole. The group held a demonstration in December 2017 in Washington, DC, to protest the acquittal of an undocumented immigrant in the 2015 murder of a young woman in San Francisco.

Spencer has embraced the young internet activists who create the racist, anti-Semitic and misogynistic memes, symbols and slogans that characterize much of the alt rights online presence.

He has focused on getting college students to attend his annual events, including the NPI conference, and hes had some success: the 2016 NPI conference was attended by 200 to 300 people, many of them young. This was a marked increase over the attendance at the previous years event, which attracted just 120 to 175 people.

(The 2017 NPI conference was turned away from its usual venue, and was held at a farm in Maryland, attracting about 100 attendees. When the owners of the farm found out about NPIs white supremacist ideology, the group was asked to leave).

In 2016, Spencer launched a college tour to bring his white nationalist message to campuses nationwide. He spoke at Texas A&M University in December 2016 and at Auburn University in April 2017.

In October 2017, he spoke to a small, mostly hostile audience at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he was accompanied by members of Patriot Front and Identity Evropa, an alt right group that has since disassociated itself from Spencer.

In March 2018, he spoke to a small group of supporters at Michigan State University, while members of TWP fought with antifa activists outside, leading to a number of arrests. After the MSU speech, Spencer decided to cancel his college tour, saying he would try to find other methods of reaching the public.

In 2014, Spencer attempted to hold the annual NPI conference, titled The Future of Europe, in Budapest, Hungary. When Hungarian authorities banned the conference, Spencer was arrested when he attempted to hold the conference anyway. Some of NPIs supporters, including Jared Taylor, managed to hold a watered-down event in Budapest without Spencer, who was then banned for three years from the visa-free Schengen area of Europe, which includes most of the European Union. In 2016, the Home Office of the British government banned Spencer from visiting Great Britain, citing his white supremacist views.

In November 2017, Polands state-run news agency PAP, citing unnamed Foreign Ministry sources, reported that Polish authorities had extended Spencers ban from the Schengen area for another five years.

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In just oneyear, the alt right has gone from relative obscurity to being one of the United States'most visible extremist movements.This stratospheric rise is due in large part to the rhetoric employed during the 2016 presidential campaign, which granted implicit approval to the once-taboo hallmarks of the far right overt racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, misogyny, and anti-Muslim bigotry.

The alt right capitalized on the moment by amplifying those messages while loudly rejecting mainstream conservatism and its followers (often referred to as cucks).

You cant discuss the alt right without mentioning the alt lite, a loosely connected movementof right-wing activists who reject the overtly white supremacist ideology of the alt right, but whose hateful impact is more significant than their lite name suggests. The alt lite embraces misogyny and xenophobia, and abhors political correctness and the left.

While the alt right has been around for years, the current iteration is still figuring out what it is and isnt. And its early days for the alt lite, which means both movements ideologies are still somewhat fluid, as are the lines that separate them. Numerous examples in our list of Whos Who demonstrate that membership in the alt lite does not preclude working with people on the alt right (and vice versa).

The alt right (short for alternative right) is a segment of the white supremacist movement consisting of a loose network of racists and anti-Semites who reject mainstream conservatism in favor of politics that embrace implicit or explicit racist, anti-Semitic and white supremacist ideology. Many seek to re-inject such bigoted ideas into the conservative movement in the United States. The alt right skews younger than other far right groups, and is very active online, using racist memes and message forums on 4chan, 8chan and certain corners of Reddit.

The term alt lite was created by the alt right to differentiate itself from right-wing activists who refused to publicly embracewhite supremacist ideology.

Today, the alt lite, sometimes referred to as the New Right, is loosely-connected movementwhose adherents generally shun white supremacist thinking, but who are in step with the alt right in their hatred of feminists and immigrants, among others. Many within the alt lite sphere are virulently anti-Muslim; the group abhors everyone on the left and traffics in conspiracy theories, including #Pizzagate, which claimed there was evidence of a child slavery ring operating inside a DC pizzeria. The series of increasingly outrageous lies led to death threats against the pizzerias owner and employees, and ultimately resulted in a gunman opening fire inside the restaurant in an attempt to save the imaginary children.

Some former alt right cheerleaders, including Mike Cernovich, migrated to the alt lite after refusing to openly espousethe alt rights explicitly white supremacistbeliefs. Like the alt right, the alt lite is largely populated by young people, and has a prolific online presence, using blogs and podcasts to broadcast dissatisfaction with the media and what they sweepingly refer to as globalization.

Alt right writer and white supremacist Greg Johnson describes the difference between alt right and alt lite this way: The alt light is defined by civic nationalism as opposed to racial nationalism, which is a defining characteristicof the alt right.

But while the alt right and alt lite are theoretically distinct and include a number of warring factions, as seen at dueling June 2017 rallies in Washington DC there is crossover between them. There are a number of people and groups who walk the line between alt right and alt lite, to the extent that its not always easy or even possible -- to tell which side theyre on. The Proud Boys, an alt lite, right-wing activist group founded by Gavin McInnes and dedicated to Reinstating a Spirit of Western chauvinism, is a good example of a group toeing that line; some of their members support alt right figures and events, while others have made a point of steering clear of anything associated with white supremacist beliefs.

Andrew Anglin runs the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. Anglin claims that his website is designed to serve as a hardcore front for the conversion of the masses into a pro-White, anti-Semitic ideology. His preferred audience is men, specifically all disenfranchised and angry White males under the age of thirty, and he has banned women from contributing content. Anglin promotes the hatred of Jews and the denigration of minorities, particularly black people, and encourages his followers to troll and harass their enemies including journalists and private citizens. Anglin is a self-identified leader of the hardcore faction of the alt right. He also wrote a piece for the The Daily Stormer titled A Normies Guide to the Alt Right, in which he explains different facets of the movement.

Andrew Auernheimeraka Weev is a white supremacist and anti-Semite, as well as a notorious American hacker and online troll. Reportedly currently living in the Ukraine, Auernheimer writes for the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, and was responsible for the anti-Semitic flier sent to thousands of networked printers at campuses across the country in 2016, which was a harbinger of the alt rights efforts to recruit at college campuses. Auernheimer frequently trolls the media, and in July 2017, attempted to insert himself into the showdown between CNN and a Reddit poster who created a video of Donald Trump body-slamming CNN in a wrestling match. He has said of the alt right:Richard Spencer operates a little bit bigger of a tent than I like, but I also feel he's acting in earnest and a decent and good dude.

Andy Nowickiaka the Nameless Oneis the assistant editor of the white supremacist Alternative Right blog, which was founded by alt right leader Richard Spencer. The Alternative Right weighs in on the alt right hot topics, from white sharia and racial disparities in IQs, to the distinctions in thought between the normie world versus the alt right. While Nowicki claims he is not a white nationalist, he shares many of those views. As an editor of Alternative Right, he gives voice to the ideology of white nationalists and figures on the alt right.

Augustus Invictus (born Austin Mitchell Gillespie) is a far-right activist, attorney, and speaker from Orlando, Florida. He is a member of the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights, the military wing of the Proud Boys. He is also the Sergeant at Arms for the Florida American Guard, a white supremacist group led by Brien James, one of the founders of the Vinlanders Social Club (VSC), a hardcore, frequently violent racist skinhead gang. At the alt rights June 25 rally in DC, Invictus claimed that while he is not part of the alt right, he stands with the alt right on the issue of free speech. Infighting on the right, he says, just takes energy away from fighting the "real enemy," which includes the federal government, the lobbyists, and people like George Soros and the Clintons.

Brad Griffinaka Hunter Wallaceis the Alabama-based white supremacist behind the Occidental Dissent blog, which celebrates Southern nationalism and the alt right. Griffin has been active in the Council of Conservative Citizens and the League of the South, both traditional white supremacist groups. He is a regular contributor to Altright.com, the online publication run by Richard Spencer and Daniel Friberg. He has also proposed creating an alt south, an alt-right version of Southern nationalism that would try to attract a broader range of people who reject mainstream conservatism and embrace some of the tactics of the alt right.

Christopher Cantwell runs Radical Agenda, a racist, pro-European, internet radio show/blog that touts its pay-to-view content as common sense extremism. Cantwell has a history of promoting anti-police and anarchist rhetoric, but has recently moved toward the extreme right, and spoke at the neo-Nazi gathering in Pikeville, Kentucky. He has interviewed and appeared alongside white supremacists Mike Enoch and Matthew Heimbach, and has written that he abandoned libertarianism for the alt right after seeing that the latter has better memes. At the June 25Free Speech Rally in DC, Cantwell urged the crowd to fight Jewish influence.

Colin Liddell is the editor-in-chief of Alternative Right, the website started by Richard Spencer in 2010. Liddell previously contributed to the white supremacist journal American Renaissance. He writes about the notion of racial equality fabricated by the liberal-leftist media and the Jewish propaganda machine. In his 2012 essay Is Black Genocide Right? he writes, Instead of asking how we can make reparations for slavery, colonialism, and apartheid or how we can equalize academic scores and incomes, we should instead be asking questions like, "Does human civilization actually need the Black race?"

Daniel Friberg is a Swedish businessman, white supremacist, and European editor, and the co-founder (with Richard Spencer) of Altright.com. He is the CEO and co-founder of Arktos Media, which features books by white nationalists, and was one of the founding members of the Motpol think tank, which organized a well-attended alt right conference in Stockholm in February 2017. In his youth, Friberg was active in the Swedish Resistance, a neo-Nazi group.

Daniel J. Kleve runs an online group called Racial Theocracy, which promotes the idea that religious fulfillment comes from the proper expression of racial, social and spiritual consequences. The group wants to spread overlooked Right Wing literature. It also promotes National Socialism as worlds only hope of a future. Kleve has set up a pool fund to help pay for travel expenses for people who wanted to attend an alt right rally.

Dillon Irizarry(aka Dillon Ulysses Hopper), a Marine Corpsveteran, has been leading the white supremacist group Vanguard America since early 2016. In a speech at the neo-Nazi gathering in Pikeville, Kentucky, a heavily-armed Irizarry claimed that Vanguard America, which is part of the umbrella Nationalist Front organization, has approximately 200 members in 20 different states. The group, which opposes multiculturalism and believes America is a nation for white people,posted white supremacist fliers at universities across the country during the 2016-17 school year. Vanguard America has participated in a number of rallies with alt right figures. In a June 2017 rally in Austin, Texas, Vanguard America appeared alongside members of The Right Stuff and The Daily Stormer.

Greg Johnson is a white supremacist and editor-in-chief of Counter-Currents Publishing and its online compendium, the North American New Right. He has also written for the Occidental Observer, an anti-Semitic online publication. Johnson calls himself a white nationalist who hopes to create racially and ethnically homogeneous homelands for whites. He holds forums in New York and in the Northwest for alt-right activists and is a leader on the alt right. He and Richard Spencer recently had a falling out over the leadership of the alt right and accusations that Johnson was trying to discredit Altright.com editor Daniel Friberg.

Jared Taylor (also known as Samuel Jared Taylor) is the founder of The New Century Foundation, a white supremacist think tank known primarily for its racist online journal, American Renaissance. The annual American Renaissance conference features extreme right speakers from the U.S. and Europe. Taylor presents himself as a "race realist" who believes that racial differences are real and that it is natural and healthy for groups to segregate along racial lines. American Renaissance generally avoids the cruderbigotry and stereotyping characteristic of many other racist publications, and Taylor himself does not appear to be anti-Semitic. Taylor is sometimes referred to as the father of the alt right due to his influence on the alt right movement. He also was one of the main speakers, with Richard Spencer, at a September 2016 news conference to"explain"the alt right movement.

Jason Kessler, of Charlottesville, Virginia, is an alt right activist and white supremacist who claims that a white genocide is underway in the United States. Kessler is the president of Unity and Security for America and is a contributor to the racist website VDare.com. He also wrote for The Daily Caller until he was revealed to be a white nationalist. At a May 2017 pro-Confederate rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Kessler reportedly praised racist groups and a Holocaust denier, and was eventually arrested for disorderly conduct. At Junes Free Speech Rally in D.C., he told the crowd that America would be better off if the South had won the Civil War, and advanced conspiracy theories about Jews controlling Hollywood and the media and promoting filthy propaganda. Kessler is one of the organizers of the August 12 Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.

Jason Reza Jorjani co-founded Altright.com with Richard Spencer, and is on the sites board of directors. A lecturer in humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, he is also the editor-in-chief of Arktos Media, known for publishing nationalist philosophers and New European materials. Jorjani calls Arktos the leading press of the alt right.

Johnny Ramondetta (aka Johnny Monoxide) is a white supremacist and anelectrician from Berkeley, California, who is responsible for the podcasts Paranormies Present and The Current Year Tonight, both of which are promoted on The Right Stuff Radio, a popular alt right site.Ramondettahas produced live-streams for a number of alt right events, including the April 2017 Battle of Berkeley.

Lana Lokteff is a white supremacist who runs internet media company Red Ice TV with her husband, Henrik Palmgren. Based in Sweden and North America, Red Ice features online TV and radio shows, including Lokteffs own Radio 3Fourteen, that celebrate European identity and culture. Lokteff has interviewed numerous white supremacists on the show. She also co-hosts Red Ice Live, and "Weekend Warrior," on Red Ice. In May 2017, Lotkeff appeared in a video segment with Jared Taylor of American Renaissance to discuss the women of the alt right.

Matt Forney,currently based in Budapest, Hungary and Lviv, Ukraine, is a white nationalist, anti-Semite, and misogynist who works for Red Ice Radio. Forney, who is active in the alt right, publishes bigoted and hateful rants against Islam, Jews, and women, often on AltRight.com. Forneys online videos include Holocaust denial tirade Eric Hunt-The Shoah: The Biggest Hoax of the 20th Century? Among his virulently misogynistic writings, How to Beat Your Girlfriend or Wife and Get Away with It, and The Myth of Female Intelligence, Forneys bigotry extends to people of color, Muslims, and interracial marriage. Blacks, Forney says, do nothing but murder cops, rob and rape people, and bring death and destruction wherever they go.

Matthew Heimbach is one of the co-founders of the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP). TWP claims to be the political arm of an earlier white supremacist endeavor, the Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN), which was created to attract young people, particularly college students, to the white supremacist movement. In 2016 and 2017, TWP has participated in white supremacist events all over the country, including the neo-Nazi rally in Pikeville, Kentucky. Heimbach is intensely anti-Semitic and a Holocaust denier. Alongside National Socialist Movement leader Jeff Schoep, Heimbach co-chairs the Nationalist Front, an umbrella organization of approximately 20 white supremacist organizations, including racist skinhead crews, Klan groups, and neo-Nazi groups. Heimbach started out promoting conservative causes in college but moved further and further to the right, eventually embracing National Socialism. He showed up at Auburn University in Alabama in April 2017 to protect Richard Spencer, who spoke there. Heimbach is scheduled to speak August 12 at thewhite supremacist United the Right event, where he'll be joined byother alt right figures.

Matthew Parrott is the co-founder, with his son-in-law, Matthew Heimbach, of the Traditionalist Worker Party, the "political arm" of theTraditionalist Youth Network.The group promotes white supremacy and a racist interpretation of Christianity, and models itself after the European Identitaire movement, which advocates preserving white European culture and identity in Western countries. Parrott, a frequent contributor to AlternativeRight.com, outlined his belief system in a 2013 essay in the white supremacist online journal Counter-Currents. Though he says that he doesnt wholeheartedly support the philosophies of Hitler, the Klan, or Southern segregation, he sees them as ideological progenitors and fallen forefathers.

Mike Peinovich(aka Mike Enoch), of New Jersey,is the founder of The Right Stuff (TRS), a racist and anti-Semitic website and well-known voice of the alt right. Peinovich, who frequently appears at events alongside Richard Spencer, hosts a TRS podcast called "The Daily Shoah which promotes anti-Semitic commentary. Peinovich spoke at the May 13 gathering in Charlottesville in defense of southern monuments, and attended the April 29 neo-Nazi rally in Pikeville, Kentucky. Peinovich blames immigration and diversity policies for the displacement and genocide of the white race. He also fixates on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the Federal Reserve, banks, media, and foreign policy. At Junes Free Speech Rally, he said, Its Jews, we know that its Jews. Why do we go to war in the Middle East against our countrys interests, against the interests of our race? Its because of Jewish control.

Nathan Damigo, an Iraq war veteran and student at California State University, Stanislaus, founded Identity Evropa in early 2016. The white supremacist student group is concerned with preserving white American culture and promoting white European identity. It is also known for distributing racist fliers at dozens of campuses across the country. At the June 25, 2017, Free Speech Rally in D.C., Damigo said that America was founded by white people for white people and was not founded to be a multiracial or multicultural society. In April, 2017, Damigo told a reporter he sees the alt right as the next natural step to take this decentralized internet-based movement into the real world. Were trying to create a fraternity and brotherhood for people who have awakened and who see the world in a different light. We want to get the normies attention.

Pax Dickinson was the Chief Technology officer for Business Insider until he was fired after posting a number of offensive tweets attacking the LGBT community, women, Jews, and African-Americans. He has since founded CounterFund, a crowd-funding platform built by and for the wider alt right counterculture. Richard Spencer is an enthusiastic supporter, and has said, the fund might become the most important counter assault against the SJW [social justice warrior] insanity of the past decade. Dickinson is listed as one of the speakers at the white supremacist Unite the Right rally scheduled for August 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Richard Spencer, of Alexandria, Virginia, is aleader of the alt right movement and a symbol for a new generation of intellectual white supremacists. Spencer, who wants to see a new right that openly embraces white racial consciousness, coined the term alternative right in an article he wrote for Takis Magazine in 2008. He uses the term to refer to people on the right of the political spectrum who distinguish themselves from traditional conservatives by opposing, among other things, egalitarianism, multiculturalism, and open immigration. In 2010, Spencer created an online publication called Alternative Right, where he explicitly promoted white supremacist philosophies. In recent years, Spencer has become more openly anti-Semitic, and now says he wants to establish a white ethno-state in the U.S., where whites can live separately from non-whites and Jews. Since 2011, Spencer has been the President of the National Policy Institute (NPI); he also runs Altright.com, a more provocative iteration of his previous online effort, Alternative Right. The new website is aimed at a younger demographic.

Tara McCarthy is a British alt right media personality who hosts the Reality Calls podcast, which boasts the tagline,Lets Make Western Civilization Great Again. The goal of the show is to help make ethno-nationalist views more socially acceptable, and to educate people on the dangers of globalism and replacement migration from the third world. She has interviewed numerous white supremacists on the show, but denies being a white supremacist herself. She also co-hosts a podcast (with Brittany Pettibone) called Virtue of the West, which features interviews with people associated with both the alt right and the alt lite. McCarthy considers herself part of the alt right.

Theodore Bealeaka Vox Dayis a champion of the alt right movement who claims to have popularized the termcuckservative. A science fiction writer, video game designer and blogger, Beale is best known in alt right circles for his online blog Vox Popoli (Voice of the People) where he posts misogynistic, white supremacist diatribes. In a blogarticleabout women and academics, he wrote, But the salient point is that the price of female involvement is reliably too high across the board. How much more destruction can Western Civilization be expected to survive before women of sense are willing to admit that the price of female participation in matters of governance is too great? In another article he wrote, The disease known as women's rights is literally killing women. He also tweeted, But if a society can't talk women into marrying, bearing, and raising children, it will have no choice but to either force them to do it or die. He has tweeted about his white nationalist beliefs, as well: I am a red nationalist although I support white nationalism too. In another tweet he referred to himself as an alt right nationalist.Beales white supremacist beliefs are on full display in one of his primary talking points: The Alt Right believes we must secure the existence of white people and a future for white children. This is an unabashed homage to the white supremacist 14 words mantra.

Tim Treadstone Gionet aka Baked Alaskaof Anchorage, Alaska, is a former BuzzFeed editor turned right-wing internet personality. Gionet managed alt lite provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos's college tour, but just before the 2016 election, made a series of anti-Semitic tweets about Jewish control of the media, which put him at odds with others in alt lite circles, and moved him into the alt right orbit. Gionet has also dabbled in white supremacist tropes, posting a restaurant receipt showing a tip for $14.88, and writing, Now that Trump won, Ive decided to start tipping my fellow humans wayyy[sic] more. At the June Free Speech Rally in D.C., Gionet asked the crowd, Everyone on the right can agree that they dont like Islam is that correct?

Brittany Pettibone writes science fiction and co-hosts the Virtue of the West podcast with Tara McCarthy. The podcast encourages listeners to reconnect with the traditional values that once made Western Civilization great, including but not limited to the glorification of the nuclear family, motherhood, masculinity, femininity, etiquette, traditional gender roles and love of ones own culture, race and country. Pettibone, unlike McCarthy, does not explicitly identify as part of the alt right, but she walks the very thin line that separates that group from the alt lite. Whatever her personal beliefs, Pettibone uses her podcast to amplify the views of the alt right by interviewing members of the movement. In July 2017, Pettibone traveled to Sicily to join Defend Europes efforts to keep NGO boats of African refugees from reaching the continent. "Defend Europe" is run by the far-right group Generation Identity, which claims to be protecting Europe against"Islamic invasion.

Colton Merwin is a 19-year-old self-identified filmmaker/photographer and activist from Baltimore, Maryland. He emerged on the alt right scene when he organized the June 25 Free Speech Rally in DC, an effort that attracted notable alt right personalities including Richard Spencer and Nathan Damigo (of Identity Evropa). Merwin is also affiliated with the Maryland Proud Boys. Despite his organizing and activism on the groups behalf, Merwin claims he is not part of the alt right.

Corey Stewart, a failed 2017 Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate, was the states Trump campaign co-chair until he was fired for attending an anti-RNC rally in October 2016. Stewart champions the preservation of Confederate monuments in the South, and has defended the heritage of the Confederate flag. He referred to his Republican primary opponent a cuckservative. Stewart was a featured speaker at the alt lite Rally Against Political Violence on June 25 in Washington, D.C.

Gavin McInnes, Proud Boys leader and Vice magazine founder, currently contributes to an online right-wing outlet Rebel Media. McInnes, who left Vice in 2008, is a co-founder of the Fraternal Order of the Alt-Knights (FOAK), the tactical defensive arm of the Proud Boys, a right-wing activist group founded by McInnes and dedicated to Reinstating a Spirit of Western chauvinism. McInnes was accused of anti-Semitism in March 2017, when he posted a video on Rebel Media called "Ten Things I Hate about Jews," which was later retitled "Ten Things I Hate About Israel." Even after this incident, McInnis has been criticized by the alt right for refusing to promote the conspiracy theory that Jews control the world. McInnis eschews the white supremacist label and describes himself as a "Western chauvinist who hails "Judeo-Christian values" as superior to all others.

Jack Posobiec, a conspiracy theorist andauthor,organized Junes Rally Against Political Violence, after learning that Richard Spencer would be speaking at the Free Speech Rally. He also helmed the DeploraBall, a 2017 inaugural event that attracted many from the alt right and alt lite spheres. He has enthusiastically promoted a range oflies, including the Pizzagate hoax, and attempted to discredit anti-Trump activists by planting an inflammatory Rape Melania sign at a protest event. He frequently tweets anti-Muslim sentiments, and has harassed former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin with anti-Muslim slurs online and in person,tweeting, I screamed Muslim Brotherhood at Huma Abedin." He also posted to Facebook:Citizen Journalist Jack Posobiec Asks Huma Abedin Is the Muslim Brotherhood Paying Your Legal Fees?Posobiec was among the protesters who stormed the stage during New York Public Theaters controversial run of Julius Caesar, shouting, You are all Goebbels! You are all Nazis like Joseph Goebbels... you are inciting terrorists," and, The blood of Steve Scalise is on your hands! Posobiec has clashed verbally with white supremacist Richard Spencer, who called Posobiecs Rally Against Political Violence pathetic.Posobiec was until recentlythe Washington correspondent for right-wing Rebel Media.

Kyle Chapman, also known as Based Stick Man or the Alt Knight, gained hero status in the world of right-wing activism when, armed with a stick and wearing a helmet, he confronted antifa demonstrators in Berkeley. He has called on members of his recently formed group, the Fraternal Order of the Alt Knights, (described as the military wing of the Proud Boys), to battle left-wing groups.

Kyle Prescott is an advocate and recruiter (mainly on social media) for the Proud Boys, a right-wing activist group founded by Gavin McInnes and dedicated to Reinstating a Spirit of Western chauvinism. The Proud Boys claim to be anti-racist, pro-First Amendment, pro-Second Amendment. They venerate the housewife and glorify the entrepreneur. Prescott believes that the left (which he describes as race-baiters and social justice warriors) is responsible for most political violence. Prescott attended Junes Rally Against Political Violence.

Lucian Wintrich is aconservative activist and White House correspondent for the The Gateway Pundit, a right-wing blog sometimes associated with the alt right, and known for promoting conspiracy theories and propaganda. During the 2016 campaign, Wintrich organized a Twinks4Trump photo series featuring provocative pictures of men wearing Make America Great Again caps. The photos were featured atthe Wake Up! LGBT party at the 2016 Republican National Convention,which Wintrich helped organize. Wintrich called the eventa huge successwith incredible speakers, includingIslamaphobes like Pamela Geller and far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who told party-goers, First, we should acknowledge that Islam is the problemif you allow Islam to be planted on your soil, don't be afraid that you will harvest sharia law, because Islam and sharia law [are] exactly the same.In the past, Wintrich identified with the alt right, but told Andrew Marantz of The New Yorker, For a while, alt-right was the perfect catchall for anti-establishment conservatism. A lot of us are still frustrated that Richard Spencer ruined the term for the rest of us."Wintrich spoke at Junes Rally Against Political Violence.

Mike Cernovich is a Southern California-based blogger, YouTube personality, author,filmmaker, conspiracy theoristand radio host who has a predominantly right-wing following on social media. He is an unapologetic misogynist, and has claimed that date rape does not exist, writing on his website, "Thinking, I might have been date raped, means you werent raped. To markInternational Women's Day, he tweeted: Teach women to stop lying about rape."Cernovich describes himself as an American nationalist, and has written, IQ tests for immigrants would solve most of our problems. If I could only do ONE act, that would be it." While heis not partof the alt right, that was notalwaysthe case, as heexplained in this tweet: I went from libertarian to alt right after realizing tolerance only went one way and diversity is a code for white genocide. More recently, he rejected the term alt right because of its associations with white supremacists. Cernovich is known for his promotion of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which propagated outrageous claims about child trafficking and culminated in Edgar Welch firing an AR-15 as he entered D.C.s Comet Ping Pong pizzeria. He has also allegedly commissioned a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon to use as part of his campaign against U.S. National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster.He is a contributor to Alex Jones Infowars.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a controversial media personality and provocateur. While he refers to himself as "the world's most fabulous supervillain, and claims to be a conservative and a fearless bulwark against the encroaching forces of political correctness, Yiannopoulos is actually an instigatorwho specializes in attacking groups he dislikes. He has launched vicious trolling attacks against women, Black Lives Matter activists, transgender people and Muslims.

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Origin of alt-rightFirst recorded in 200510; associated shortly after with Richard Spencer, U.S. white nationalist (born 1978); shortening of alt(ernative) + right (in the sense political conservatives)historical usage of alt-right

Though the term alt-right was used in certain circles as early as 20052010, it first received mainstream attention in the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. There has been so much confusion and debate around the term that many news organizations have felt compelled to explain in their official style guides how they will use or not use it. Media outlets including the Associated Press , the New York Times , the Guardian , and National Public Radio have all come to the conclusion that the term alt-right should not be used without further qualifying information, from prefacing the term with so-called to clearly stating that the alt-right is a hate group. Several of these guides suggest the use of less euphemistic, more explicit language such as white supremacist , white nationalist , or neo-Nazi in place of the term alt-right . The term alt-right has been seen as an effort to rebrand various hate groups in order to appeal to an internet-savvy generation. The first element, alt-, is a shortening of alternative . It has positive connotations for many younger people, often being paired with music genres to suggest a more hip offshoot of the original: alt-rock , alt-country , alt-folk . Critics of the term alt-right believe that it sanitizes, masks, and normalizes the true nature of the ideologies upon which this movement was formed.

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QAnon believers pointed to this moment as proof that Mr. Trump was sending coded messages about his plans to break up the global cabal.

Qs identity is still unknown, although there have been hints and speculation about it for years. Some speculate that a single internet troll has been posting as Q the entire time; others say that multiple people are involved in posting as Q, or that Qs identity has changed over time.

Making things more complicated is that Qs online home base has changed several times. Qs posts originally appeared on 4chan. Then they moved to 8chan, where they stayed until that site was taken offline last year after the El Paso mass shooting. They now live on 8kun, a site run by the former owner of 8chan. Each of these sites uses a system of identity verification known as a tripcode essentially, a username that proves that a series of anonymous posts were written by the same person or people.

Drops are what QAnon followers call Qs posts. There have been nearly 5,000 of them so far, and most take the form of a cryptic coded message.

Heres an example of a Q drop from September 2018:

PANIC IN DC

[LL] talking = TRUTH reveal TARMAC [BC]?

[LL] talking = TRUTH reveal COMEY HRC EMAIL CASE?

[LL] talking = TRUTH reveal HUSSEIN instructions re: HRC EMAIL CASE?

[LL] talking = TRUTH reveal BRENNAN NO NAME COORD TO FRAME POTUS?..FISA = START

FISA BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE.WHEN DO BIRDS SING?

Q

In this post, you can see coded references to LL (Loretta Lynch, President Obamas former attorney general), BC (Bill Clinton), HRC (Hillary Rodham Clinton), and HUSSEIN (President Obama), along with references to John Brennan, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and POTUS President Trump.

Many QAnon followers use Q Drop apps that collect all of Qs posts in one place, and alert them every time a new post arrives. (One of these apps hit the top 10 paid apps in Apples App Store before it was pulled down for violating the companys guidelines.) They then post these drops in Facebook groups, chat rooms for the Discord chat app and Twitter threads, and begin discussing and debating what it all means.

Qs account has been quiet in recent months, and has posted only a few times since Mr. Trumps election loss in November. Many QAnon believers hope that Q will return someday, although others maintain that the movement no longer needs Q as a central figure.

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Benedict XVIs Most Powerful Influence on the Catholic Church Came Before He Was Pope  The New Yorker

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Fallen billionaire and rap mogul Kanye West, also known as Ye, reportedly spewed controversial and far-right rhetoric during a 2019 interview with David Letterman that was later removed before airing on Netflix.

The interview aired in late May 2019 on the second season of Letterman's "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction," in which Ye defended Donald Trump supporters, discussed his mental health issues, and talked about his "beef" with music artist Drake.

While it was shot in January 2019 at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles, several audience members recently told TheWrapthe version of the interview that appeared on Netflix left out some key moments including Ye victim-blaming Rihanna for being a survivor of domestic violence and saying Trump supporters were treated like Nazis.

Ye also reportedly said he feared becoming "MeToo-ed" like an unidentified friend in the music industry. Noah Reich, an audience member at the taping, told TheWrap that Ye spoke about a powerful group within Hollywood that brought the #MeToo movement into being. Reich believed he was referring to Jewish people.

At certain points, Reich said he and other audience members shouted at West and questioned his remarks. When Ye claimed that Trump followers are treated like Nazis, Reich said he responded aloud with "because they are Nazis" before receiving applause.

Ye and Letterman continued the interview without acknowledging the audience's remarks, Reich said.

"It was shocking to see that Kanye West could share harmful alt-right beliefs, conspiracy theory after conspiracy, and misogynistic beliefs about women for the majority of the interview and end up with an edit that removed all those items in favor of celebrity fluff content," Reich told TheWrap.

An audience member identified as Larry F told the Wrap that he's "not sure what legalities they're dealing with" but he didn't find the Netflix episode to be "an honest assessment of what went on that night."

Worldwide Pants, Inc., Letterman's production company, told TheWrap that "the producers went to great lengths to accurately present" West's viewpoints. The production company, which partnered with another called Zero Point Zero Production Inc. to produce the show, added that "unfounded attacks on specific individuals are not included out of privacy, accuracy, and legal concerns."

Netflix, The Wrap said, argued a similar point and maintained that parts of the interview were condensed for length.

On October 28, writer and political commentator Elad Nehorai shed light on the situation in a Substack, citing an anonymous audience member. "The most harmful part of this, and this should be the focus, is that David Letterman did nothing, and that most of it didn't air," Nehorai wrote.

Within the past month, Ye has called Black Lives Matter "a scam," said in a deleted tweet that he was "going death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE," and appeared on The Brilliant Idiots podcast saying that his ex-wife Kim Kardashian "is out here fucking a white boy [Pete Davidson] with a 10-inch penis."

Insider was unable to confirm that TheWrap's sources were in the audience. Representatives for Netflix, Worldwide Pants, and Zero Point Zero Production did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. Reich was not immediately reachable for comment.

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The first reviews of the recently launched, self-branded conservative dating app, The Right Stuff are in Some common reviewer complaints include that the app is short on women and that answering a profile prompt about January 6 led to contact from law enforcement. Gizmodo, 10/5/22

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I like to think Im a pretty normal, conservative-leaning guy who believes LGBT people are possessed by Satan, all abortions should be punishable by public stoning, and vaccines were invented by Jews to make mens foreskins fall off so that all guys with penises will be circumcised and forced to convert to Judaism. You know, just center-of-the-road right-wing stuff.

But Ive always had a hard time meeting women on dating apps, maybe because liberal women have been brainwashed by Queer Eye to believe that men should be able to clear the unrealistically high bar of having the basic ability to regulate their emotions and be able to make a decent omelet.

So when I heard about a new dating app called The Right Stuff, aimed at helping conservatives meet each other (and thus out-procreate the minorities trying to replace us), you can imagine how excited I was to meet the Q to my Anon. But then I opened the app and hardly saw any women, and I couldnt help but wonder: Where are all the alt-right, anti-choice, male-subservient women on this dating app?

Look, Im not a picky guy. All Im looking for is a woman who is intelligent, funny, and attractive, who believes God created women to help men with stuff theyre naturally bad at, like empathy, and who enjoys shooting wild animals from a helicopter. So where are the millions of women I imagine fit that exact description if not on this app?

Its not like my political views are that out there. I just happen to subscribe to the traditional belief that women belong in three places: the home, the home goods section of HomeGoods, and Home Depot (but only the paint department, because the rest of the store is strictly guy territory). So its strange that every time I sign into this app, the only people I see are like-minded guys and a woman who claims to be Marjorie Taylor Greenes cute younger sister, but who Im pretty sure is a sexbot. Is it really that difficult to find a woman whose only ambitions in life are to gratify me sexually at my whim, be a vessel for my offspring, and then die? Is that so much to ask?

I want what everyone else in life wants: someone to wake up in the morning next to, someone to bathe and spoon-feed me when Im old (and also when Im young and middle-aged), and someone to hold my hand while we commit heinous acts of domestic terrorism against people whose beliefs dont align perfectly with ours. But I guess some women would rather be left alone to snuggle under a warm blanket while sipping mulled cider, watching Gilmore Girls, and petting their cat. Alas, some people just choose to act against their own best interests.

Ive always subscribed to that age-old conservative aphorism a wife is like a mother whos your same age. Someday I hope to meet a woman who wants to be my wife-mother, which I would think would be every womans dream.

In the meantime, I guess Ill go back to scrolling Tinder and Hinge, since The Right Stuff is mostly just ads for camo gaiters and dick pills. I also have to respond to the email I got from the FBI. Apparently bragging about pepper spraying women police officers on January 6 isnt the pickup line I thought it would be.

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Forbes got punked big time.

The once-conservative publication Forbes released a story yesterday on the girlfriend of FTXs former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison who was the CEO of Alameda, the investment arm of FTX.

Instapundit reports on what Forbes shared which has now been edited:

Heres the passage from the article on how Ellison is a new darling of the alt-right:

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In recent days, Ellison has faced a barrage of particularly nasty criticism from crypto boosters who blame her for overseeing the downfall of Alameda. But amid the vitriol she has found some defenders in an unlikely group of people who have celebrated the musings about race science and imperialism on a blog she allegedly wrote in college. Some of her defenders, who call her Queen Caroline, are followers ofCurtis Yarvin, a neoreactionary political theorist and far right darling. Many of the people who have flocked to Ellisons defense gather on Urbit, a peer-to-peer platform created by Yarvin, one of her online supporters toldForbes. They think Ellison was set up to be the fall person, and claim that former co-CEO Sam Trabucco, who they derisively call Sam Tabasco, is behind Alamedas implosion. Trabucco didnt respond to multiple requests for comment.

I definitely think shes innocent, one said. I think Caroline can be saved.

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Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is a math whiz who loves Harry Potter and taking big risks. She is also one of the supporting players in Sam Bankman-Frieds FTX catastrophe and a new darling of the alt-right.

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Forbes (@Forbes) November 18, 2022

The information from the tweet came from a source that was punking Forbes.

This is amazing. The source for this alt-right darling on Urbit thing was trolling them & is now tweeting about it. Were at Rahul Ligma levels journalizm here. https://t.co/N8ExI03ytU

jonstokes.(eth|com) (@jonst0kes) November 19, 2022

Forbes significantly revised its article and issued a pathetic, non-descriptive one-sentence correction at the very, very end without admitting what happened.

Forbes used to be a conservative publication but it has changed over the past few years to the point where it now focuses on stories like this one. Sad.

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