'We are desperate for new people': inside a hate group's leaked online chats

[Jilly_in_VA]

Leaked chats of the US white supremacist group Patriot Front have revealed the day-to-day organizing of a far-right gang desperate for new members as it seeks a higher profile in the US with provocative public marches.

More than 400 gigabytes of private communications from chat logs on RocketChat, an alt-tech platform favored by far-right groups, were obtained and published by Unicorn Riot, a left-wing nonprofit media organization that reports on social movements.

The chat logs reveal a group of men struggling to expand membership and being harangued by their leadership to maintain physical fitness, show up to events and contribute financially to the cause of white supremacy – all with limited success. It also shows how the group uses social media to make itself seem larger than it is.

Chats indicate the white supremacist group has about 200 members. The messages show a coordinated effort to commit vandalism and intimidate people of color nationwide. The group requires members to deface racial justice murals and monuments to Black Lives Matter in their communities, much like a street gang that requires initiates to “tag” buildings as a form of vandalism and intimidation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/28/leaked-online-chats-white-nationalist-patriot-front

[Boomerproud]

1. No. Patriot Front , you deserve your fate.

nt

[genxlib]

2. ...being harangued by their leadership to maintain physical fitness..

I guess all of those jokes about being "Meal Team Six" are starting to make them feel self-conscious.

Just to be clear, their fitness is not what shows them to be far from the superior race.

[FSogol]

3. +1 this! n/t

[Coventina]

6. "Meal Team Six" hahahaha!

I am so stealing that!!

[Jedi Guy]

7. Another good one is the Gravy Seals. Also Delta Farce. N/T

[Coventina]

8. !

[LastDemocratInSC]

16. 82nd Chairborne

[Aristus]

14. "Dang it, Mervis!

It ain't my fault that Hot Pockets is all that Ma knows how ta cook!"

[dalton99a]

4. "It's important to be fit and healthy"

Yeah, (1) shave, (2) use deodorant, (3) lose weight, (4) get a job

[keithbvadu2]

5. Sounds like they want their own Kristallnacht.

Sounds like they want their own Kristallnacht.

[atreides1]

9. Well

They should be able to get some of the anti-choice people they marched with, to join them!

Since the anti-choice crowd has allowed them to march with them...I'm sure new friendships were made!!!

[Scrivener7]

10. Aaahhhhh!!! I love it! No one will be their friend!!!!!

[gratuitous]

12. I wonder if it has anything to do with their people getting arrested?

For several years, these domestic terrorist groups had a free run for whatever they wanted to do, sometimes aided and abetted by sympathetic if not allied law enforcement. The high point may have been their occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon. Since then, though, the ties between the terrorists and law enforcement have begun to be exposed, and instances of outright collaboration have come to light.

After the former guy's reign of error, the Biden administration has renewed the government's commitment to keep track of these terrorists, even going so far as arresting the worst actors and busting up some of their schemes. It's not quite so much fun pushing people around if you're going to pay a price for it. These guys are bullies who like to kick those they perceive to be weak, rather than insurgents trying to institute a new order. We need to keep the pressure on.

[Scrivener7]

13. Absolutely! And like all bullies, they are cowards at heart.

[crickets]

11. "and contribute financially" Money must be tight. Boo hoo.

Pony up, lads. Those khakis and LARP shields don't pay for themselves, dontchaknow. Also, Tommy Rousseau has got to make his rent.

[maxrandb]

15. I can see it now

https://m.