Maybe it's time to stop calling them militia and just call them what they are: far right insurgents
"But some of them are libertarians"
Yeaaaaaaaah I feel like they're not so much anti-state as they are anti-social
Oh, 100%, that too.
The reason I went with "insurgents" is I feel like a whole bunch are active terrorists, but also a lot more are prepping for much more large scale insurgency in a way that's actually more dangerous than acts of terror in the long run.
It's that structured under-the-radar civil war prep (as opposed to plotting for tragic but very localized and sporadic acts of terror) that sends chills down my spine.
Compared to the online terror Nazis I watch, they're well-organized and just waiting for the starter pistol.
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Chapo Trap House's Matt Christman recruits fans from the alt-right by telling reactionaries they can be left while staying racist/sexist/ableist and even use explicitly pro-Hitler memes, bc only class matters.
It's dangerous af & "Nazis aren't dangerous" is his BS excuse.
Like... if people actually did the work of liberation we'd get liberated.
It's a collective project, but collective projects only take form once a critical mass of folks individually make the choice to do the work of manifesting it.
Lol, you said "liberals," not "white people."
You can't just change your argument retroactively and call my counter a strawman.
The problem in liberal spaces isn't the self-work, it's the fact that the self-work being done isn't deep or liberatory.
White people with more money encode their racism differently than white people with less money do.
Also, they're able to appear less racist because they can use their money to insulate themselves from having to see or interact with BIPOC folks, especially poor BlPOC folks.
Racism usually comes out most explicitly in encounters with the oppressed Other, and/or discussion of those encounters.
If you can minimize or eliminate those encounters, it's much easier to keep your racism in the background and unseen.
Poverty does not cause white supremacy, and it is not an excuse for white supremacy.
I'm so sick of this Jacobin class reductionist bullshit that portrays working class folks as some mass of racist dolts while letting rich people off the hook for their versions of racism.
Remember, Jacobin/Chapo/etc rode Bernie's wave and cultivated all that new clout, audience, & money flow by assuring casual middle class white dude bandwagonners that they could be socialist without having to do any work on their sexism/racism/ableism in any way, shape, or form.
They make money off assuring self-centered, financially secure white dudes that their racism and sexism and ableism makes them MORE WorkingClass™, and therefore ESPECIALLY good socialists.
They don't just condone oppressive behavior, they encode it as a status marker.
Why did no one ever tell me that Star Trek: Next Generation is so WHOLESOME
It's like Mr. Rogers for socialist grownups
I'd never watched any Star Trek before, but my husband wheedled me into it last month and now I watch it with a cup of warm milk before bed
Thr last one we watched they talked a bitter time-travelling Mark Twain into faith in humanity by EXPLAINING SPACE SOCIALISM to him
There was another one where this shy, socially awkward character we thought was gonna be an incel is fucking up and spending too much time computer simulating fantasies
And Pickard and Whoopi are like, you should make friends with him and be kind