Spectre Unmasked: Racist 'Alt-Right' Podcaster Used To Be Local Reporter

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  1. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    Yeah it is, fartknocker.
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  2. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    How about the Kathy Griffin Trump-head?
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  3. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    Funny in retrospect, whangdoodle. (You're supposed to add an insult after the post now, Dicky)
  4. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    child sexual abuse humour, anyone?

    bueller?
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  5. Jenee

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    I think both are in poor taste. How's that?
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  6. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    pretty good... although I'd hasten to add that there's a significant divide between a photo shoot with historical reference points vs. a reasonable perceptible threat of actual harm based on recent history.
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  7. Jenee

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    I don't know. Just yesterday I threatened Diacanu. Is that just as bad?
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    For a short time in the 90s Kathy Griffin was pretty cute. Unfortunately she’s had so much plastic surgery since then that she’s now got a face that’d make a freight train take a dirt road. :yuck:
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  9. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    When did this happen?
    :chris:
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    http://wordforge.net/index.php?posts/3383129/
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  11. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Ehh....that's not that same as if you had said "...or I'll run you over with a truck like Heather Heyer! :discuss:".
    Your version is harmless, and common slang, the other is like "wow....really? :wtf:".
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    My image of Jenee kicking your butt is pretty graphic. Gross sound effects too.
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  13. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    depends if you have means, motive, and intent.

    there was that guy a few years back here that drove into a random crowd. whatever his motive (massive misogynist, apparently) he could get a vehicle and run into the firsdt satisfyingly large crowd he spotted. so yeah, plausable threat if he'd announced it in advance.

    some stranger behind an alias online who lives three time zones away? not so much
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  14. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    but when she shouts "WORLDSTAR!!!!" at the end...
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    Another assbag empowering himself to police everyone's humor. Fuck off.
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  16. Diacanu

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    Your snowflake-ass blubbering over me roasting you isn't policing?
    Oh, right, someone would have to do it on your behalf, and no one ever would.
    :diacanu:
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    You can go back to humping the memory of storm's leg any time now.
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  18. Diacanu

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    I'll count that as "uncle!! :weep:".
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    This thread has helped me understand much better the fascination with watching plane crashes, train wrecks and mass interstate collisions. :carryon:
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    I still don't understand how she still has a career when Vicki Lewis was the much hotter and much less irritating sassy redhead on NBC in the 90's. :jayzus:
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  22. Bailey

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    Given the subject matter of this thread being the guy who used jokes about such things to hide the fact he was a literal white supremacist Nazi sympathizer it's not unreasonable for people to take you at your word.
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  23. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    If jokes about driving a car into protesters are funny does that now mean that jokes about flying a plane into hundreds of Pentagon workers are even funnier?
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  24. Uncle Albert

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    Oh , horse shit. You can both spare me your fake moral preening.
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  25. Diacanu

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    Nothing is real in the paranoid mind.
    Nothing but the conspiracy.
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  26. Bailey

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    Nothing fake about it.

    For years we gave a literal white supremacist a platform to refine his arguments and writing, validating his views by laughing along with them assuming that they were in fact jokes.

    We let a guy get away with years of yelling n****r because "free speech and he's just trolling".

    We created an environment where some fuckwits felt comfortable posting literal lynching pictures.

    Nothing preening about it. In the past 25 years of the internet's development it's been repeatedly demonstrated that if you provide a platform you have a responsibility to carefully consider what you are elevating with that platform.

    I believe you that you're joking.

    However I also believed that Storm was at the time. :clyde:
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    But still moral preening. :lol:

    That's his problem.

    I don't recall anyone taking a vote on that.

    :lol: OK.

    "Elevating."

    I read that to mean, "if you allow someone to talk about it, you become an enabler of people acting on their horrible shit in real life."

    If accurate, I reject that completely. Speech is not violence. Speakers are not responsible for acts of violence they did not personally commit, and advancing bullshit concepts like "emotional violence" is just a veiled attack on free speech, perpetrated by authoritarians who cannot tolerate any level of disagreement in their world. Incitement is a very specific concept that doesn't cover every person who ever said something stupid and bigoted.
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  28. Diacanu

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    Well, Hitler's ghost will be happy to hear that, that totally gets him out of Hell.
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    No. Tamar and Elwood and mods at the time gave Storm the platform. Most of the rest of us ignored or called him on his bullshit. But, we can’t allow fear of another Storm to punish another who is not the same. Speaking only as UA has presented himself here, he has not (as far as I know) made racist comments or agreed, liked, or otherwise contributed to others making racist comments. He has only ever said assholes can be assholes as long as they don’t act on their assholishness.
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    Charlie Manson is also owed quite the apology from the government. :chris:
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