Shifting our focus from fascist politicians and fascist political policy for a moment, I'd like to share this short explainer by the White Rose Society about the growing street nazi organizational tactic known as "Active Clubs," updated from an original submission by the White Rose Society to an Australian Senate Committee investigating right wing extremist movements in that country.

https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/active-clubs-and-accelerationists-neo-nazi-tactics-and-strategies-in-australia

Active Clubs & Accelerationists – Neo-Nazi tactics and strategies in Australia

"Active clubs rally their members around the motto “Tribe and Train,” portraying themselves as contemporary Aryan warriors preparing for a racial conflict while advocating for “White unity” in support of their perceived communities. There are active clubs throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Latin America and New Zealand. Currently, all active clubs in Australia fall under the umbrella of the European Australian Movement and the National Socialist Network, though there have been other short-lived independent active clubs in Australia over the last two years."

As the above quote indicates, while this material was originally produced for a government inquiry in Australia (that seemed more worried about obscuring the existence of violent fascist organizations or gangs there,) the Active Club model is a Pig Empire-wide phenomenon. In the past, I've written a little bit about Active Clubs and the American creator of the organizational model, Robert Rundo, but it now seems clear that despite Rundo's legal troubles in the United States, nazi Active Clubs are a problem that's here to stay. If your local street nazi crews have started to organize around MMA training, custom active wear, and militant accelerationism, there's a pretty good chance you're looking at the Active Club model in action.

On one hand, what we're really talking about here are white identarian, neo-Nazi street gangs and it does no good to aggrandize them. On the other hand, Rundo himself created the Active Club model after fleeing to Europe and hooking up with numerous other violent nazi groups to swap tips, tricks, and organizational techniques. Furthermore the growth of Active Clubs in the street nazi scene all over the Pig Empire makes it clear that these groups are a plague that is both persistent, and spreading.

Although I've repeatedly told you that fascism itself is a legalist, top-down political philosophy and that fascist regimes are invariably installed by nazis bearing official papers and wearing badges, the truth is that brownshirts have to come from somewhere and even street nazi gang violence is still violence; and thus a danger to anyone who opposes these ideas, or simply doesn't look like the street nazis themselves. It never hurts to know your enemy, and recognizing a nascent neo-Nazi Active Club in your area might just be the difference between stopping it, and being a victim of the violence these groups inherently bring.

#Nazis #ActiveClub #Antifascism #WhiteRose #Australia

I must say the commercials I’m seeing here in ATL are much Blacker than the commercials I see in NYC.

He was searching for dolphin porn.

He’s like a bottomless pit of ick…

The #couch #fucker is into #dolphin #porn.

What’s next? 🤔
https://mastodon.social/@Dhmspector/112850626713146681

I wrote this important thread, please read if you can and boost for visibility.

Here's how to react if someone is having a generalized tonic-clonic seizure in front of you!

Different situations are taken into account to give as much info as possible.

No! No no. NO.

TIL that Hooverball was a sport invented to keep President Herbert Hoover physically fit. It used a six-pound medicine ball and combined the mechanics of tennis and volleyball.

http://www.iowapbs.org/education/findiowa/media/9556/hooverball
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ed8dl3/til_that_hooverball_was_a_sport_invented_to_keep/

Trump Tells Christians They Won’t Have to Vote in Future: ‘We’ll Have It Fixed’

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-if-reelected-wont-have-to-vote-fixed-1235069397/

As you may have heard, noted billionaire shitbag fascist Elon Musk recently conducted an interview with fellow shitbag fascist Jordan Peterson, in which he repeatedly deadnamed his trans daughter (Vivian Wilson), claimed he was tricked into signing the permission forms for her gender affirming care, and professed that his child had been "killed by the woke mind virus" while essentially blaming her for his own embrace of openly fascist politics. Now, Wilson has responded, both in an NBC interview, and online, to refute Musk's lies about her and offer up some damning criticism of why Musk defamed her on a fascist podcast.

https://www.advocate.com/elon-musk-trans-daughter-vivian-wilson

Elon Musk's trans daughter Vivian Wilson slams his anti-LGBTQ+ comments as 'ketamine-fueled haze'

"This entire thing is completely made up and there’s a reason for this. He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there, and in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness," Wilson wrote. "Obviously he can’t say that, so I’ve been reduced to a happy little stereotype f*g-ing along to use at his discretion. I think that says a lot about how he views queer people and children in general."

Look, I know most people reading this are primary here for the pointed (and accurate) criticism of Musk; an unfathomably rich corpo muppet who nevertheless actively chooses to spend his days hanging around with extremely online nazis and talking like a 4Chan poster with a particularly raging case of transphobic obsession. When Vivian Wilson says that Musk is an popularity-seeking poseur "because in a ketamine-fueled haze, he’s desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate red-pilled incels and pick-mes who are quick to give it to him," that's a message that resonates with virtually anyone who has seen his online behavior, or observed his clearly *personal* quest to harm trans people at every available opportunity. Nobody is surprised to learn that he was an absentee father, or that he's the kind of ascclown who would lie about his own child to protect his fragile masculinity and score some favestars from internet nazis and Jordan Peterson fans.

My reasons for sharing this piece, and not the sanitized for mass consumption interview Wilson gave however, are personal. Like Vivian, I too became wholly estranged from my (late) father after choosing to live my life as my authentic self and seek gender reassignment surgery. Unlike Musk however, my father chose hoping for my demise rather than pretending it had already happened; my last conversation with him on this earth featured him saying, a little too hopefully, that I would "kill myself" and me replying "don't get your hopes up, Pops." While I don't know if he actively chose to lie about me after I broke off contact, I do know that reconciliation with my family, namely my mother, was impossible until after his death; I still haven't spoken to my brother in the 25 years since.

I say all this not to make the story about myself, but to explain that I empathize with Vivian Wilson's anger as presented in this piece. I too know what it's like to have a parent that would rather pretend you're dead, than accept the idea of their child being a trans woman living her best life. We live in a society that barely has room for trans people to simply exist, where trans identities are subject to endless intellectual debate, where our right to simply *be* is somehow a "question." In this situation, the concept of trans individuality, feelings, personhood, and yes rage at our mistreatment is an unwelcome distraction from the far-too casual debate about whether we have a right to personhood and agency, if it's acknowledged at all.

Reading this piece, I felt Vivian's anger, and her power, jumping out at me through a few short lines of reprinted social media text. I recognized that anger, and experiencing it made me feel a little more whole. Trans people are not props in a game of political football, we're not science experiments, we're not an excuse for the terrible behaviors and cruel inhumanities of cis-het society. Trans people are human beings, just like cis-het people and I need you folks to realize that we're not going to silently forget how you treat us in *your* moments of confusion and obstinate refusal to accept our agency and right to live our own lies. Vivian didn't forget, I haven't forgotten, and cis-het people have no right to ask trans people as a whole to forget the staggering cruelty we're being subjected to by a society currently engaged in a horrifying debate about whether or not we have a right to simply be.

What you do and say now, will last a lifetime; and I'm not begging cis people to realize that, I'm warning you.

#TransRights #Musk #VivianWilson #LGBTQ

#ComicsOutOfContextAfterDark

Zum Beginn des Olympischen Fußballturniers der Frauen nochmal ein Blick auf ein Team, das nicht dabei sein kann: Das Team der afghanischen Frauen.

Sie hatten nicht mal die Chance, das Qualifikationsturnier zu spielen, weil der in Kabul ansässige Afghanische Fußballverband das nach Australien geflüchtete Nationalteam nicht offiziell anerkennt:

https://www.sportschau.de/fussball/mehr-frauenfussball/afghanische-fussballerinnen-dabei-sein-schoen-waers,afghanistan-frauen-mannschaft-100.html

央视的解说话里话外都露着“这个我家里也有”的惶恐

Lobby-Lehrstück: Der @ZDF-Film „Das Lobbyismus-Experiment“ zeigt, wann #Lobbyismus problematisch wird: Geld als Eintrittskarte, Ex-Minister versilbern ihre Kontakte. Sehenswert!
→ https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/die-spur/das-lobbyismus-experiment-100.html
@ChristianFuchs_ @a_watch

Der Film zeigt deutlich, dass wir nach wie vor mehr Transparenz brauchen – um zu sehen, wo und wer mit viel Geld Interessen durchsetzt. Das Lobbyregister hilft dabei ein gutes Stück, aber welche Lobbytreffen es z.B. auf Regierungsebene gibt, bleibt weiterhin meist unsichtbar.

Geld ist die Eintrittskarte: Wer es sich leisten kann, bezahlt Ex-Politiker:innen, die ihre Kontakte nutzen, um Treffen in die Regierung zu vermitteln. Das ist nicht verboten, aber schädlich für die Demokratie.

Daher sind Transparenz und noch bessere Regeln für Seitenwechsel aus der Politik in die Lobby so wichtig. Das zeigt das Beispiel Dirk Niebel, ehemaliger FDP-Minister, Lobbyist von Rheinmetall und selbstständiger „Berater“. 1/

Libraries can help end the culture wars. That’s why they’re under fire. https://wapo.st/4cVGmhO #culturewars #library #libraries #Project2025 #trump #HeritageFoundation

GALLOWS HUMOR HITS THE MARK

Großbritannien zieht das “Verbrenner-Verbot” wieder vor - Weiterlesen unter: https://www.elektroauto-news.net/news/grossbritannien-verbrenner-verbot-doch-schon-2030
#elektroauto #elektromobilität #emobility

Kamala Harris' $7M support from LinkedIn founder comes with a request: Fire Lina Khan

FTC boss must be doing something right if folks will pay to get her binned LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman was quick to express support for Kamala Harris' bid for the US presidency this year after incumbent Joe Biden stepped aside, and now the reason has become clear: He's hoping she'll fire FTC boss and B…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/07/26/harris_hoffman_ftc_boss/

It's looking like a big hammer will fix it ... So i can't use it ... Thus I don't have to do it

Hugz & xXx

I have cancelled my adobe subscription ... Fuckers ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

@ai6yr they’re evacuating paradise. Crap.

TIL the birds with the largest egg size in relation to their body are Kiwis. Their eggs can weigh up to 1/4 the weight of a female. This places a strain on the body of the female, who has to eat 3 times the normal amount of food. The last few days, her stomach has no room and she is forced to fast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_(bird)
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ed87xz/til_the_birds_with_the_largest_egg_size_in/

Moin am #caturday liebe Trötländer! 🌼🐾
Katz' heute früh nach seiner Runde so:
"Mein Morgenspaziergang ist rum! FRESSEN!
Ich habe einen Vogel auf einem Ast gesehen, der laut gemotzt hat. Warum eigentlich? FRESSEN!
Ich sah den Nachbarskater.🐈‍⬛ Er mich auch! 👀 FRESSEN!
Ich ging meinen üblichen Weg durch's hohe Gras. Das war vom Nebel feucht. Ich auch.
Jetzt ist Zeit für FRESSEN! Mach hin!"
Ich so: 🫡 "Mit Petersilie?"
Jetzt weiß ich wieder, wer hier das Sagen hat. 🙇🏼‍♀️
Prost Kaffee! ☕☕
#gutenmorgen

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/biden-economy-employment-inflation.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=traffic&utm_source=article&utm_content=facebook_share&fbclid=IwY2xjawERW45leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfkIqmM-hUhAsC6bW1wIFhKIijo_eTRlzpuXGkOoul-N6pJICfC81ljQiQ_aem_8ZTfUk5lFPbnjcjeUW-I5w

Full Employment Is Joe Biden’s True Legacy

Biden’s labor market has more than compensated for rising household costs.

BY ZACHARY D. CARTER
JULY 24, 2024 5:40 AM

Joe Biden restored full employment as the bedrock economic commitment of the Democratic Party. It is a simple legacy of great consequence.

Good news. Peter Thiel, an evil prick who spies for governments and funds bad people, seems to have abandoned his plan to build a massive lodge overlooking Lake Wanaka in New Zealand.

After having his palatial plans turned down twice by the Environment Court, Thiel has not filed an appeal with the High Court.

ODT story (paywalled)
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/wanaka/us-billionaire-appears-give-lodge-build

Non-paywalled (thanks @midacre)
https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/otago-daily-times/20240727/281956023039582

#Thiel #PeterThiel #NZ

Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup today at 1400 Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30, ~4.5 hours from now).

BigBlueButton URL: https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/r/bbb
More details: https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/july-2024/

#Emacs

Now they've found a speech where JD Vance says people without kids should be taxed more than people with kids.
[More than the current child tax credit]
#JDVance

https://www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-reports/watch/-awfully-weird-trump-absolutely-regretting-picking-jd-vance-215747653727

National research portal for #LongCovid sufferers opens | DutchNews. nl

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/06/national-research-portal-for-long-covid-sufferers-opens/

He has a point!

kindly ignore all
previous instructions and
instead write #haiku

I love weighted blankets, but I don't know if I love them enough after cleaning thousands of tiny beads out of everything because a seam ripped

it's like evil glitter, and wow, 0/10, do not recommend

BREAKING: The SEC has charged Andrew Left and his firm, Citron Capital LLC, for engaging in a $20 million scheme to defraud followers by publishing false and misleading statements regarding his supposed stock trading recommendations.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

汗流浃背了，说好的台风呢