Trolls for Trump

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

Not sure what the "alt right" is? Neither was I until I read this:

Meet Mike Cernovich, the meme mastermind of the alt-right.
By Andrew Marantz

The afternoon before Clinton’s speech, Mike Cernovich, a thick-chested white man in his late thirties, sitting on a veranda in Southern California, opened the live-streaming app Periscope on his iPad and filmed a video called “How to fight back against Sick Hillary and the #ClintonNewsNetwork.” By “Clinton News Network,” he meant CNN and other corporate media outlets. The word “sick” described Clinton morally and physically: Cernovich was among the first to insinuate publicly that Clinton had a grave neurological condition, and that the media was covering it up. By “fight back,” he meant, basically, tweeting. Internet activism is sometimes derided as “slacktivism”—a fair characterization when an online campaign tries to, say, cure AIDS or end child labor. When the goal is to seed social media with misinformation, though, online organizing can be shockingly effective.

Cernovich sat at the kitchen table, facing a mirror, and placed his laptop next to a teapot full of flowers. (Shauna is in charge of decorating.) “Right now, a hundred and twenty-eight people are reading Danger and Play,” he said. “What’s fun is when you get a hot story and watch the number tick up into the thousands, like a video game.” Nowadays, the blog is mostly a platform for pro-Trump spin, but at first it was about how to pick up women. Its name comes from Nietzsche. (“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”) Early posts included “Misogyny Gets You Laid” and “When Should You Compliment a Woman?” (Answer: “During or after sex.”)

On his blog, Cernovich developed a theory of white-male identity politics: men were oppressed by feminism, and political correctness prevented the discussion of obvious truths, such as the criminal proclivities of certain ethnic groups. His opponents were beta males, losers, or “cucks”—alt-right slang for “cuckolds.” “To beat a person, you lower his or her social status,” he wrote on Danger and Play. “Logic is pointless.”

Although he disdained electoral politics (“No thinking man buys into this two-party political system”), he was in an ideal position to foresee Trump’s rise. In July, 2015, he tweeted, “I said if a Republican acted like me and ran for office, it’d be a movement. Donald Trump has proven me right. People are tired of pussies.” Politics is a blood sport, but, during the primaries, Jeb Bush and the rest of Trump’s “cuckservative” opponents preferred to be genteel. “What are Trump’s policies? I don’t particularly care,” Cernovich wrote on Danger and Play. And, in another post: “If Trump offends you, it’s because you live in a cucked world where no one speaks their minds.”

Read the rest, here, if you think you can stomach it. Trump may be toast as far as this election goes, but these people are still out there. And I thought Halloween was over.

[JHan]

1. People who blame the world for their pathetic problems instead of themselves...

Hope he gets help When Hillary implements her Mental Health Care Initiative..

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. Hey, he's got no problems! He's an awesome

alpha male, refusing to be oppressed by those ̶w̶o̶m̶e̶n̶ ̶o̶b̶j̶e̶c̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶e̶x̶u̶a̶l̶ ̶a̶s̶s̶a̶u̶l̶t̶ ̶ nasty feminists nor stifled by ̶b̶a̶s̶i̶c̶ ̶h̶u̶m̶a̶n̶ ̶d̶e̶c̶e̶n̶c̶y̶ political correctness.

[The Genealogist]

3. I'd think a big ol' "alpha male" would be champing at the bit to take personal responsibility

Always someone else's fault, some minority's "proclivities" getting in the way.

For the record, I am sick of the term "alpha male." Not only is it incredibly sexist, it seems always a self-assigned trait.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

4. I know. Also, his type always insist that all males agree with their

twisted ideas, but are too scared to admit it.

[The Genealogist]

6. I'm not a bit afraid to admit that mindset is a load of garbage.

Its morally and ethically bankrupt. Its what gets us into wars and dark ages. It devalues all of humankind.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

7. Exactly, yet these guys act like they're some kind of heroes

promoting this craven, discredited, ancient bullshit.

[Tom Rivers]

5. social media is very unbearable these days

in large part thanks to these pukes and trump's army of russian bots.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

8. Which is why I mostly stay away from all that.

I left facebook after too many relatives and friends of friends revealed their vile strong RW proclivities. And, I've given up reading YouTube comments thanks to the kind of people who are attracted to this alt right cretinism.