The Republican Party has a neo-Nazi problem.

This is not slander or pejorative or innuendo; it is the plain truth of the matter, a conclusion drawn from simple observation. And the problem has been getting worse.

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    You sure they view it as a problem? Seem like the kind of folks that would find it a feature, not a bug.

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      Man, what an absolute rabbit-hole this turned out to be. This comment from a lobste.rs post seems to have a timeline of the whole ordeal. This seems to be the blog post that kicked everything off. Calling that doxxing strikes me as making a mountain out a molehill. The blog author found some names attached to domain registration (if the registering individual didn’t want those public then they should’ve enable domain privacy), inferred the archive.is site admin’s location to maybe Germany, maybe Eastern Europe, maybe Russia (based on publicly accessible forum posts), noted that it’s a one-man show that can’t possibly cover its own costs and may not exist in the future, and even offered to support the archive.is admin:

      It’s a testament to their persistence that they’re managed to keep this up for over 10 years, and I for one will be buying Denis/Masha/whoever a well deserved cup of coffee.

      And for that the archive.is admin changed their site to hijack visitors into a DDOS botnet against the blog site. That is some crazy work.

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        Archive.is came out of gamergate as a tool to enable kicking women out of video game journalism. It’s not shocking that the person who controls it behaves badly. They’re also by far and away the most reliable way to hand out a paywall bypass. Which completely stinks

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      They’re also the only ones who mean that people don’t need to register to access the NYT right now

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      There is more than one kind of evil in the world. They’ve changed which one they are

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        Lived through both facades and definitely disagree.

        It’s all the same underneath. Greed, lust and the absence of empathy.

        The seven deadly sins has always been with us.

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    I remember someone saying during his first term, “Not everyone that voted for trump is a Nazi, but every Nazi voted for trump.”

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      That was true in 2016, but not 2020 or especially 2024. In 2024, everyone knew or should’ve known what they were supporting.

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      Only difference is Turnip tripped over the curtains and now everyone can see the stage.

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    You helped create this situation NYT. I remember a NYT reporter being interviewed on a podcast. The interviewer asked if he would prefer Trump as prez or not because of the views. He responded that he preferred to have Trump. Although I know that that’s just one reporter, I know some of their journalists do good work, they still did a lot of harm to this country for money.

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      I remember them covering for GWB during the lead up to the Iraq war and covering for Reagan during Iran-Contra. They are 110% bootlicking collaborators who will always side with whoever they think is the most powerful.

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    NYT when Republicans are polling well: “Here’s our fifteenth interview with a Trump supporter and why this kind of person truly represents the heartland of Real America. Look at his beautiful family. He’s a small business owner, even! What’s not to love?”

    NTY when Republicans are polling badly: “Here’s a photo of a twink in a badly fitted suit and another guy with face tattoos smoking from a crack pipe. Can you believe how nasty these freaks are? Ew! Nobody likes them. Certainly not us.”

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    Who flies the flags?

    The Republicans make a lot of noise about being the party of Lincoln but who still flies the traitors flag?

    Before the mustache man put too fine a point on things, there was a rising American fascist party. Now hawkish Republicans are the loudest braggers about saving Europe, but who still flies the Nazi flag?

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      who still flies the traitors flag?

      Something of a historical joke that you’ll find the Stars and Bars in modern day Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania as often as Texas or South Carolina. And the folks waving it? People whose parents were voting for John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter on the eve of de-industrialization.

      There was an entire Nixon-Era Southern Strategy playing out across the Gulf Coast and the upper midwest for the last 60 years. In the modern day, the biggest indication that you’re in a Republican enclave has nothing to do with whether your ancestors owned slaves. It’s got to do with whether your paycheck hinges on the local mining, refining, and export of oil and natural gas.

      From the lobster dens of Maine to the nude beaches of Southern California, the single biggest indicator of your county’s electoral valiance is their addiction to fossil fuels.