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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 1d

Completely unnecessary.

I know what Stancil meant, but I can see why some people misinterpreted him.

Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 1d

People don't consider the size a movement in sheer numbers; they think in terms of scope and impact. When the Beatles said they were bigger than Jesus they didn't mean numerically.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 4d

No. They are openly right-wing racists now.

Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 4d

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 4d

Rob Ford smoking crack while mayor of Toronto.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 7d

The American hostess club would be a tremendous source of violence, a machine for producing John Hinckley Jr's.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 8d

It's not supposed to win over the 48 year old accountants. It's meant to convince teenagers on Instagram that they should follow the funny Nazis, and it works.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 9d

Maybe the media should ask why the guy texting Richard Spencer about his favorite Neo-Nazi race war novels is being invited to white house events.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 10d

You're an idiot. Everyone provably on the payroll of some billionaire says exactly the opposite of everything Stancil believes.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 11d

I don't like the guy, I never followed him. To me the alt text reads as snarky way to describe a pic of Kirk immediately before he was shot.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 11d

That image actually is being used as a reaction meme over on twitter. It's not something he just came up with.

knowyourmeme.com/memes/charli...

Charlie Kirk Eyes Closed Before Death Reaction Image | Know Your Meme

The Charlie Kirk Eyes Closed Before Death Reaction Image refers to an image of deceased right-wing organizer Charlie Kirk moments before he was fatally sho

knowyourmeme.com

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 12d

All of this crap was made up by Nazis to own the libs.

Which should have been obvious to everyone, none of this is subtle!

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 13d

Such a funny name for the youth wing of a party founded in 2022, it's like something the Italian futurists would have called themselves in 1920.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 14d

grad student

Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 14d

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The shocking rise of one of the tech right’s favorite posters

After he leaked Zohran Mamdani’s Columbia application data to the New York Times, critics called Jordan Lasker a “eugenicist.” A Mother Jones report shows there’s much more to his backstory.

www.motherjones.com

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 15d

Whoever runs that account is deep into online nazi shit. The other day they were quoting a Sm Hyde video Fuentes was in and they did so in reply to someone who publishes pro-Franco Spanish civil war memorials.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 16d

This is probably true of all print media.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 17d

It's perfectly fine for the ADL to transform into organization that focuses solely on anti-semitism and not on general extremism but they have picked an unfortunate time to make that shift.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 17d

I think a lot of the right actually believe that ObamaCare was the official name applied to the ACA by democrats.

If you were to ask them how they justify this they would say "Obama did it first!".

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 20d

Hot Mike

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 20d

Alastair Campbell refers to it as if he thinks everyone is familiar with it.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 20d

It's a good example of how important twitter is to elite discourse that so many British writers and MPs, on the left and right, are aware of a term coined by niche far-right twitter accounts.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 20d

Mangione's politcis are not incoherent, he is easily recognized by those familiar with the rationalist and rat-adjacent subcultures. In short, he's probably right wing.

bsky.app/profile/rech...

William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · Dec 9

Luigi Mangione has INCREDIBLY STANDARD "grey tribe" politics.

Approves of meritocratic social hierarchy and technological capacity, but bemoans the erosion of tradition by feminism and atheism. Hates antifa no platforming. Flirts with anticiv thinkers. Supports nuclear power and animal liberation.

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Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 23d

For the most part the groypers didn't actually think that. You saw that one 4chan screenshot but 4chan user a groyper, you're more likely to find actual groypers on X or Telegram.

Orange🍊Jay @orangejay.bsky.social · 23d

Why are so many are so quick to dismiss the idea that someone on the left might commit violence? Everyone was sure that Robinson was groyper and they were completely wrong.

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