Thread by @hradzka

Now that I'm feeling better I'm gonna limber up the ol' writing muscles with a couple threads.

First off, on The Base: a lot of people are claiming something I'm pretty sure they're getting wrong: that the Base was stopped from committing a mass shooting at the Richmond rally.

Here's a Vox reporter saying it, linking an AP article implying it. Lots of activists are saying it. But while the Base are unquestionably dangerous extremists with a ideology centered on violence, if you read the court docs, you get something different.

https://twitter.com/cjane87/status/1220025059328385027?s=21

There are two groups of three dudes (one from Maryland, one from Georgia) and one loner arrested recently. The group of three attributed with interest in Richmond are the Maryland cell. Here, via J.J. MacNab, is the request for their detention until trial:
seditionists.com/base_detention…

Before I get into the Virginia stuff, consider the Base's mission: they want to be a serious underground insurgent army. They have a colleague, a Canadian soldier *trained in explosives,* illegally coming over the border to them. Ready?

Check this tradecraft.

yes

Yes

YES

The Base arranged and navigated to the rendezvous with a border-jumping fugitive from justice using Google Maps and their own phones

picked up up

and THEN went out and got a burner

WHITE NATIONALIST TRADECRAFT, EVERYBODY

now it turns out that there appears to be a ridiculously detailed amount of information about what the guys from the Maryland cell said about Virginia when because

a) the Base was infiltrated by journos
b) and then by undercover FBI
c) and then...

c) continued: ...THE PLACE IN DELAWARE THEY WERE STASHING THE CANADIAN FUGITIVE AND ONE OF THEIR OWN DUDES WAS WIRED FOR SOUND AND VIDEO BY THE FBI FOR THE FEDS' VERY OWN WHITE NATIONALIST SITCOM.

Here they are talking about Virginia.

Note that this does not sound very plan-y.

This sounds, in fact, a lot like conspiracy theorists listening to conspiracy theorist chatter that THIS IS A TRAP AND A SET-UP AND THINGS WILL GO BADLY.

Note that they're talking here about building from the chaos they expect at the Richmond rally -- not causing it.

More Virginia talk in these 2 excerpts, a little more planny -- but first it sounds like they're just talking about going to the rally.

Then: golly, what about throwing firecrackers into the crowd to start a panic and maybe gunfight?

This is the closest to a plan they get.

You will note what is coming off here is not so much a violent plan but a faith of violence: They are convinced the rally goers are almost as radical as they are, and just need a push... but don't know how, any more than they know how to make Hard Lefties to escalate violence.

This is the plan The Base's cell actually came up with for Richmond.

They decided not to go to the rally, but camp out, & wait for the expected civil war to start.

They weren't busted on their way to a terrorist attack.

They were busted on their way to a camping trip.

This may be the most laughable part of the surveillance reported. The Base is murder-minded and dangerous. They are also stupid and pathetic.

This is the white nationalist equivalent of a little kid playing Batman, or a high school nerd fantasizing about fucking the cheerleader.

You'll notice that's not even a part of an actionable plan. It's a fantasy where they get to murder people they hate while playing nick-of-time hero. There's no work involved. No before, no after. The moment of glory comes to them.

It's bizarrely childish.

That's the plan they were packing up to act on: go camping, wait for hostilities, hook up with other National Socialist groups (I'm not sure how they planned to do this; magic?), unleash chaos and join the civil war. For as long as it lasted.

You know. Maybe four to five months.

The dangerous underground army of the white race was fully prepared to fight a civil war for as long as *four to five months,* guys

*deep sigh*

ANYWAY

Spoiler: the Base did not get to make their camping trip, because, remember, they were an FBI reality show.

And so they were arrested, but not before adding one of the great white nationalist quotes of all time to the pantheon.

"I CANNOT TRUST YOU TO KEEP MY MURDERING SECRETS."

glad the FBI rolled up these guys, but holy shit. I was expecting the Base to be a little more srs bsns than most bloody-minded WN types, being that they had dudes with military experience, including an AWOL explosives expert.

Turns out they're just absolute fucking dumbasses.

/fin