yep, exactly like Katie Hopkins. then again maybe i’m just HOPING they don’t really believe the shit they say

I know, it’s pretty grim. Mostly guys I went to school with who never left my hometown. Was home last month and was shocked hearing all these people thinking Trump was hard done by, that there was a big conspiracy against him. In rural Ireland like!

Literally no idea who he is, and upon reading this thread, that would appear to be the thing that would upset him the most.

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thankfully everyone i know thinks he’s an awful cunt, but weirdly i saw lots of comments from Irish people on RTÉ News posts about the election complaining about biased coverage against him and all that. there are quite a few conspiracy theorist types in my hometown apparently which is presumably the same type of person - bored in a small rural town and getting sucked into exciting youtube videos about flat earth theory and how jet fuel can’t melt steel beams. weird place.

apparently this guy did a gig in town a while back, bit disappointed i missed it.

what an epic. it’s like the Desolation Row of the conspiracy theorist world.

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the rose of fluoride free (!!!)

loved the watermarked stock photos and unironic use of ‘wake up sheeple’. googled her and she’s a holistic “LIFE FLOW ENABLER”

Official Music Video

“shat myself on purpose, guys, joke’s on you”

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How Breitbart/Milo Yiannopoulos simultaneously wooed Neo-Nazis and mainstream journalists (including a senior male writer from Vice’s “feminist” site Broadly).

Quote from this summary article:
"The story contains a slew of salacious details — including Yiannopoulos’s penchant for anti-Semitic email passwords. But one big takeaway is that despite Breitbart’s public insistence that it is not a “hate site,” its editors and writers were well aware they were offering white nationalists and neo-Nazis a platform.

And while Breitbart is publicly viewed as on the fringe of far-right media, the BuzzFeed report shows a friendly give-and-take with reporters at other outlets, who at times fed Yiannopoulos information and ideas for hit pieces."

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Great piece. I read a tweet about it that said something along the lines of, “any book about the rise of Trump will have to begin with a chapter about GamerGate” which sounds spot on to me. I gotta give the devil his due: it’s quite clever how they recognised and harnessed this mass of rage within a community nobody took seriously and before anyone knew it used it as a beacon to summon up such a vile movement.

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Laurie Penny tweeting about this without realising she is one of the mainstream journo’s groomed by Milo is absolutely bizarre

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Milo Yianopoulous is about the same age as me and grew up not far away. Every time I see him mentioned now I think of the time he was on tv and my friend realised it was the same guy as the weirdo who screamed in her face for no real reason in a pub a few years before.

That must have been weird. I often wonder what would be left if you stripped away all his layers of irony and bullshit. “A fairly terrible human being,” is my assumption.

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The scary thing is that, as the alt-right appears to grow in popularity and influence, they appear emboldened by their message. It seems they are getting more and more strident in their views…and as a movement its now a far cry from isolated white young men raging against their perceived injustices.

He must genuinely hate himself. It’s almost like he’s trying to suck up to the school bullies to get them to not pick on him. If he wasn’t the useful idiot with media access, most of those far-right homophobic neo-nazi guys he pals around with would be happy to shoot him.

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I don’t think she was duped into anything; she knew writing about him would extend his platform but she did it anyway because it would raise her profile.

Angela Nagle has already written a book about GamerGate & the alt-right if anyone’s interested, she’s bloody great :+1:t3:

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She is just in complete denial about what she’s done then

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Yeah, that’s what I find deeply troubling. On optimistic days I think that with Milo having been fired from Breitbart and Bannon out of White House that maybe the alt-right wave has broke. But those days are few and far between. It feels like it’s only going to get bigger.