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16 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This news makes perfect sense if you look at other reporting on ties between Russia and white supremacist groups. nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/…
For example, the leader of violent neo-Nazi group The Base, which was recorded last fall trying to recruit U.S. military and law enforcement personnel to carry out terrorist operations, is literally running the group from St. Petersburg. bbc.com/news/world-512…
I wonder if this has anything to do with the Russian Imperial Movement, a white supremacist group that was designated a Global Terrorism Threat by the USG in April 2020. It was the first white supremacist group to receive such designation. wsj.com/articles/u-s-l…
From March. nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/…

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18 Jan
Ok fellow journalists. I know some of you dislike me (I’m actually nice) but I hope you will see why this is important. A thread on what to watch for re: domestic terrorism while covering anything like 1/6. This is offered with the best of intentions, and in the public interest.
1. Please familiarize yourself with the most violent white supremacist terrorist groups and their symbols/insignia. Much imagery in the latter is not immediately recognizable as terroristic or Nazi in nature to anyone who isn’t already aware of the connection, so research now.
Here’s a @FightExtremism list of the most virulent white supremacist groups in the U.S. Pay particular attention to Atomwaffen, The Base and any affiliates. Those are the most violent groups and known to be actively recruiting military and law enforcement. counterextremism.com/press/white-su…
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17 Jan
I don't know how many of you realize this, but QAnon Shaman and his band of weirdos were 100% a distraction from the trained militia terrorists, who were not in costume. Please stop letting this furry neo-Nazi make you take what's happening less seriously. buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanu… Image
Fast forward to 20 seconds of this @NewYorker video. Check out the photographer fixating on Furry Neo-Nazi (I like this name better than QAnon Shaman), while the cosplayers yell out their strategy and take pics of documents. Very effective technique.
The real terrorists were much less visible, obviously, but still--everyone was looking at the kooks and missing the danger. Shows how these people understand and effectively manipulate the media. Please, journos, don't fall for this shit again.
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17 Jan
Anyone who feels like going down a deep, dark rabbit hole on a Saturday night, check out the Order of the Nine Angles, a neo-Nazi occult group that seems to be increasingly influential and is known for...recruiting U.S. military to carry out terrorism. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
In addition to accelerationism and encouraging military and law enforcement personnel to commit terrorism, the O9A also enthusiastically endorses ritual child sex abuse. That should interest the folks in QAnon. bbc.com/news/world-531…
This sounds like Crazyville, obviously, but the O9A is no joke. They have been behind several attempted terrorist attacks, particularly over the past two years. Some involved active U.S. military and...gulp...National Guard.
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16 Jan
Please stop saying the #Capitol attack was "loosely organized online." The mob used to disguise the core terrorists was loosely organized online. The terrorists were trained ex-military militiamen, and highly organized. They were minutes away from success. apnews.com/article/ex-mil…
This is why people who don't understand terrorism should comment on these things less. The most dangerous of these groups have been recruiting and training ex-military and law enforcement for years. They are not a bunch of yahoos. They are very dangerous.
Do you know how hard it is to storm the seat of our government, fight back the police that weren't sympathetic to them, and almost succeed in taking members of Congress hostage? That takes organization and discipline. Why would so many troops deploy against semi-organized trolls?
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13 Jan
Anyone who sincerely believes anything about this needs to have their brains checked. What are they scheming up now
I double dog dare anyone to get up in my mentions with “you call yourself a journalist” or “biased liberal hack” or whatever stupid shit you’re going to project at me. I am a journalist and a PATRIOT. I love my country. I want it to be a better place. I don’t want it to be Russia
I’m not the one advocating for the violent overthrow of the government that runs the country I supposedly love so much, in order to install the dumb American version of Putin. Don’t both-sides me. We’re way beyond that. YOU are Enemy of the People. YOU are the Fake News. Go away.
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13 Jan
A thread on why I have thought it over, and come to the opinion that rhetorical comparisons between domestic terrorist groups currently threatening our country and MENA terrorist groups are ultimately unhelpful. I have done this before, and one can analytically inform the other.
For example, it makes sense to use analysis of the ISIS recruitment and training process to understand the worst of these groups. Why? Because some white supremacist terrorists themselves are actively aware of that comparison and emulating jihadism, such as neo-Nazis the Base.
But ISIS was born in the aftermath of war and invasion. So was Hezbollah. Nazi terrorists aren't like Hezbollah. They're worse, in many ways, because they have no reason to be as they are. Hezbollah is its own kind of terrible, but it's the kind of terrible birthed by war.
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