• peto (he/him)@lemm.ee
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      To some of these people the fact that they are rejected by most people just confirms how s have corrupted modern society and how awesome and special they are for being one of the chosen greats to see through it.

      They mainline confirmation bias as if it is cheap heroin. Everything reinforces their world view.

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        Nazism was the worst thing that ever happened to Germany, and these folks want it to happen here too.

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      I’ve asked my parents a number of times whether or not it ever gives them pause knowing that they vote exactly the same way as literal, flag waving nazis. They never answer. At this point, I think I’m just mistakenly ingratiating them into the false idea that nazi ideology “must not be that bad.”

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      Isn’t it funny how nothing is ever enough for these entitled Trump supporters? $107,000 a year and this shithead is still going to risk such great privilege. It’s why we should have never tolerated any of it at all.

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      “You facilitated cause and effect! How dare you? I blame youuuuu and the rest of the librulz!!”

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      To the one person who downvoted this comment (as of this comment), you’re a wretched little worm.

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    You know why they hide their faces. It’s because they would be ‘unhirable’ otherwise. So much for being a patriot when you’re a giant pussy white nationalist.

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      I agree these people are bad, but if you’re on the left at a protest, hide your face also. It’s not worth exposing your identity to potential employers or the police. Hiding your identity isn’t just a fascist thing. Everyone should be doing it.

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        I understand that there are cameras everywhere now and that some of my views could be held against me by asshole bigots, but I have nothing to hide about my brand of politics. I will state them proudly because I believe they are just.

        Now, if the argument is that fascists might dox and harass or harm me or my loved ones, then I might consider it. But I’m not influential in any movements so I don’t consider myself a target.

        ETA: Oh snap, he’s the one who leaked the 400GB torrent of internal files. I’ve had that on a permanent seed. Always lifts my spirits when I spot any activity on it. You can find the torrent with a quick search if you weren’t already aware of it. I’ve got gigabit fiber, so feel free to grab a copy and help expose these shitheads.

        ETA2: I did a quick search for a GoFundMe for this guy’s legal expenses and found none. If I start one, do folks think there will be significant interest on the Left?

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        When anarchists and tankies are dressed that way at protests, it isn’t possible to tell whose side they are on. Are they there for civil rights, or are they right wingers (or even undercover cops?)

        I also don’t buy the argument you guys make good protection at protests. Against who? The cops? Every person who goes to a civil rights protest knows the history, they know the risks, and they go anyway.

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          Anarchists and tankies should not be grouped together.

          Yes, protection from the cops, and yes everyone knows the risks. Because they know the risks, they should take precautions. They should know cops will target them, so they shouldn’t willingly give up their identity.

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            You guys are the protection from cops? Brother, they dress up like you to throw bricks through windows as excuse to go after the rest of us.

            Now you want us dress like you so that the media can then take the cops side when the fighting starts?

            You are not our protection and we are not your cover.

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              Now you want us dress like you so that the media can then take the cops side…

              When have they needed an excuse? I’m not saying everyone needs to be dressed in black block or anything, but don’t just give away anonymity for no reason. They’ll abuse your self-righteous attitude and it won’t protect you.

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                The more of us willing to drop the anonymous organizing, the safer it becomes for those of us who aren’t anonymous.

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    The lawsuit hinges on unwelcome public identification. Ironically, the parties here sue in their own names, filing in federal district court in Washington state and creating a public record of what the suit terms their “unpopular opinions.” By their own identification, they are:

    Names listed in the article

    They’re not sending their best and brightest, folks

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      I hadn’t even heard about this suit, barely knew Patriot Front existed, and didn’t have a clue about any leaks prior to reading this article, and now due to the suit I know them by name. Nice publicity stunt?

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        I knew about them, but I guess my skin color makes me sensitive to any news of the existence of groups like these.

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          My skin color qualifies me for membership and I knew who these feckless pieces of shit are. Feel free to grab the torrent at Unicorn Riot for the 400GB leak. I’ve got a permaseed running.

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    It casts him as a 3-D-printed “ghost gun” enthusiast, a practitioner of the martial art of Krav Maga, a seasoned lock picker, and perhaps even “immune” to pepper spray.

    They couldn’t make him sound cooler if they tried

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    “Yes, we believe Hitler was right and we want to exterminate every race other than us so that our white children can fulfill their white destinies… But we don’t want people to know our names. They might get mad.”

    Fuck all of these bigots.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The suit decries how the left-wing activist conned Patriot Front into thinking he was a fellow traveler, “lying about his background and values,” only to expose its members through photography, secret recordings, and a massive computer hack.

    The suit pulls back the curtain, for the first time, on how 400 gigabytes of Patriot Front data came to be exposed by the whistleblower group Denial of Distributed Secrets, in conjunction with the media collective Unicorn Riot in early 2022.

    With this alleged hack, “Capito was able to download private chats and intercept video links” later posted in a data dump by DDoSecrets, the suit contends, and publicized by Unicorn Riot.

    This leaked material showcased — among other rancid behavior — videos of Patriot Front members defacing murals that celebrate racial justice, burning LGBTQ pride flags in the woods, and thowing up Roman salutes and shouting “Sieg fucking Heil” when they thought they were off-camera.

    And the group is infamous for menacing flash-mob tactics, in which shouting members march in a uniform of khakis and blue polo shirts — obscuring their identities with white face gaiters, baseball caps and sunglasses.

    Five members of the group, including James Johnson, were recently convicted of “conspiracy to riot” at the 2022 Pride festival Coeur d’Alene, Idaho — where they were intercepted by FBI agents before they could descend on the celebrants.


    I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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      secret recordings

      If any of those were in CA, or any party being recorded was in CA at the time they’d have grounds to sue over that alone. CA is unique about recording laws in that according to CA where the recording was actually done is irrelevant, if any party is in CA, CA law applies. Not sure what recording consent laws look like elsewhere in the PNW.

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      Monkeys paw curls: Republicans are the ones who decide what a “terrorist” is (hint: it’s black people protesting)

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        That would be an obvious violation of equal protection and blatantly unconstitutional in a way that even our current SCOTUS wouldn’t support.

        Now, they could define a terrorist in a way that any group or cause who protests in which such protest involves a certain amount of property damage, violence to persons or loss of human life counts as a terrorist group and it wouldn’t be hard to fit BLM and related terrorists under that flag over the 2020 summer protests (which I find interesting because one side likes to pretend that entire cities were burned to the ground and the other likes to pretend they were entirely peaceful and neither of those is true).