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Gwen Snyder is uncivil Profile picture
@gwensnyderPHL
Aug 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Just a reminder:

During a May #reopen rally, a Nazi with deep connections to the Philly police dept deliberately rammed a POC counter-protester with a car and dragged his struggling body through an intersection.

It's on video.

.@PhillyMayor's police threatened the victim.
The victim has contacted the mayor, @PPDCommish, and, @DA_LarryKrasner, and Internal Affairs.

All have refused to intervene.

The Nazi behind the wheel has since been associated with multiple acts of vigilante violence against POC in South Philly.
Kenosha is not an isolated incident.

Police, law enforcement, mayors, and district attorneys refuse to take this wave of far right violence seriously.

It is only escalating.
.@DA_LarryKrasner, @PhillyMayor, and @PPDCommish need to act NOW.

That they haven't acted yet is shameful.

Why was Nazi Vic Della Barba allowed to run down a protester in broad daylight on video with impunity?

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Feb 10
Interestingly, Sontag's "Fascinating Fascism" talks about how despite Riefenstahl's attempts to distance herself from her Nazi past, her fascism still comes through in her 1970's rhapsodizing about wrestling and its significance.

And yep, Trump borrows heavily from WWE theater.
The contemporary Nazi fringe is obsessed with this stuff, too.

Terror Telegram was obsessed for a while with this guy Antiroot, who would travel around staging wrestling matches with other prominent Internet Nazis.
Those same Nazis got really into starting Active Clubs, which are basically neo-Nazi fight clubs.

Fascism is about theater and aesthetics. Nazi fascists particularly favor wrestling theater. For its pain, domination, and most of all rippling male muscles (and women's absence).
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Feb 10
"It has no commentary because it doesn't need one"

This is true about all fascist theater, including Trump rallies.

People wonder why Trump's confused speech (unlike Biden gaffes) isn't an issue for his base or the media.

It's because fascism is about aesthetics, not words.
Trump is neo-Nazi in the sense that he very much takes a page from the Hitlerian playbook, and Hitler's fascism in particular was about mass media-ready theater played in broad strokes.

It's about the camera-ready aesthetics and the simple ecstasy of visual recognition.
To the extent that words matter, it's about vibes, not content.

Speech is a background soundtrack.

He nails the brief, propagandic chorus (in 2016, "lock her up & build the wall"; now, "election theft"). The verse is filler. That's all that really matters in fascist theater.
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Oct 24, 2023
One of the very damaging consequences of antisemitic undercurrents in left organizing space: it's currently very difficult to discern who it's wise to stand with/amplify when it comes to Palestinian liberation and opposing apartheid/genocide by the state of Israel.
Hopefully it's clear from my language already, but since folks like to intentionally misread this sort of thing: when I say "antisemitism," I am not conflating that concept with anti-Zionism.

The two are not the same.
What I *am* talking about is language that conflates Jewish civilians (Israeli civilians, but also Jews in general) with the STATE of Israel and its policies.

Especially when used to justify war crimes against children or hateful behavior against Jewish community here in the US.
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Oct 11, 2023
Really trying hard to get my past 6 years of research files indexed and in order before this baby pops in January.

It's such infuriating work, though. We spent SO much time documenting how Proud Boys and Nazis were infiltrating the GOP, with insurrectionary intentions...
...and everyone called us crazy and paranoid right up until the folks we'd be warning about did exactly the thing we'd BEEN warning about.

And continue to make those in-roads, now in broad daylight.
A Nazi I watched literally exchanging bomb-making plans and rubbing shoulders with a now-convicted terrorist on Telegram is currently helping run a Nazi club that's now providing security to a GOP candidate in Tennessee with ties to (Koch-funded!) Moms for Liberty.
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Oct 5, 2023
This represents one of the most extremist developments out of the Moms for Liberty world, yet.

Tennessee Active Club isn't just any white supremacist org; it's home to Sean Kaufmann, dangerous Nazi I watched share bomb making plans online.

rightwingwatch.org/post/white-sup…
When I say Nazi, I mean Nazi. Full on.

He taught his kids to seig Heil, and shared videos of it in some of the most extreme chats on the internet.

He swapped terror tactics with convicted terrorist Jarrett William Smith in these chats.
He was one of the most prolific paticipants in Slovak's Shack, the single most explicitly violent and terroristic Nazi chats I monitored on Telegram. ("Slovak" is also now jailed on terror charges).

This is the company Moms for Liberty is keeping, now.
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Aug 8, 2023
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Even with an extremely well-funded right wing effort to push anti-queer sentiment, brownshirt fascists really kind of nothingburgered at Pride this summer despite a lot of big talk.

And I think that's a pretty good indicator of their diminished power right now.
I'm not going to talk about organizing I've been doing on this, because I don't want to tempt fascists or fate, but there were a lot of conversations here in Philly about Proud Boy threats and of course the threat of M4L when their conference was here.
None of those threats really came to fruition, though.

There have been hotspots elsewhere (notably Coeur D'Alene, NYC, and a lot of TN) where fash have showed, but it's just nowhere near what I would have anticipated given the cover the GOP, Walsh types, & M4L have provided.
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