I see terrorists showed up in Springfield, Ohio, today. Fuckers.
#TheNazisAreTheEnemy
@BrianJopek Where is the governor of Ohio? Nazis are OK now?
@BrianJopek @AlgoCompSynth Governor DeWine is having to deal with the Ohio Attorney General, Dave Yost, independently **supporting** the conspiracy theorists. They’re elected independently of each other in Ohio so the Governor has fewer tools than we’d like without the AG’s support.
@smkellat @AlgoCompSynth DeWine is still, from what I saw of him in an interview clip last night, still supporting tRump
@BrianJopek @smkellat That's a shame considering how much Ohio got from Biden's economic policies.
@AlgoCompSynth @BrianJopek @smkellat I once heard a useful idiot on the internet say: ”But Proud Boys are just libertarian social policy!”
My ass, they’re populist political thug scum. Just like all populist thugs and ecstatic lynch mobs across history have been.
@gimulnautti @AlgoCompSynth @BrianJopek @smkellat Reminder to my US friends - Canada listed Proud Boys as a terrorist organization in 2021.
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scrt/cntr-trrrsm/lstd-ntts/crrnt-lstd-ntts-en.aspx#510
"The Proud Boys is a neo-fascist organization that engages in political violence"
@gimulnautti @AlgoCompSynth @BrianJopek @smkellat
That's not an entirely accurate characterization of American populism. The politics of the Far Right arent inherently populist at all. Modern faux-populists like the Proud Boys and other supremacist groups is underwritten by the forces true populists would oppose: corporations and oligarchs. Calling the PBs populist is a lot like calling socialists communists even though socialism and communism have little true overlap.