Out here in reality land, most people don’t know that antifa is plotting an uprising and massacre this saturday.
Have you got your tactical spork cleaned and ready? Stealth sunglasses on? Grizzly-blinding Navy SEAL flashlight handy? I’ll be in my bunker.
But in alt-right land, where reality is fluid, it’s been bruited about as a possibility. I guess this means that antifa has got the brave alt-right keyboard warriors afraid of repercussions in kind to their own violent words. [guardian]
Some websites are telling their readers that antifa groups are “planning to kill every single Trump voter, Conservative and gun owner” this weekend. Hundreds of Facebook posts show how seriously consumers of such media are taking the news, and comments like “One more threat against white people and I swear to God ‘m going to take a goddamn car and run over every fucking one of them” are not unrepresentative of the response.
This is some kind of weird “I’m rubber you’re glue” argument. I guess the alt-right has realized that shouting “jews will not replace us” gets them fired from their jobs and they get replaced by … anyone who’s not a sociopathic fascist jerk.
That is the kind of nonsense they are promoting. Basically, they’re saying, antifa wants to do what they’ve said they want to do, but antifa is a big threat because antifa will do it better. Um, OK. I guess that the move they are making is to try to equate antifa with violence so they can get them tagged as “terrorists” and bring the weight of the police state down on antifa. Which is weird, because some of the alt-right are not allied with the police state (or they think they aren’t). These are the very definition of “useful idiots” except they’re not useful to anyone except: the police state.
Disinformation operations are engaged:
“There is no revolution or civil war planned for 4 November,” says Bray. “You can quote me on that.”
Bray is a historian and the author of Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook [amazon] so he’s clearly one of the inner circle of the antifascist elites. His parodic delivery hearkens to Donald Trump’s – clearly he is sending a coded message that his fingers are crossed behind his back.
As I have pointed out elsewhere [stderr] the alt-right is an “anti-“${whatever} movement: they don’t actually have a coherent agenda that can be achievable. All they can do, if they have any victories, is fall to fighting among themselves until they are finally unified by the “last thug left standing” be it Hitler, or Stalin or Cromwell.
The date is suspicious. November 4th. November 4th++ is Guy Fawkes Day. [and it’s my birthday!] which is when the big revolution started in V for Vendetta. Apparently the alt-right are mistaking that for a documentary in spite of its being set in an alternate future.
It’s a bit weird to me that the alt-right are acting terrified of something they wish they could do. If I may indulge in pop psychology vocabulary: it’s as if they’re projecting their desires onto their fears. They wish they were the irresistible mob, but they’ve been discovering that they’re not – they show up for one of their rallies and are outnumbered 4:1 by decent people who are mostly peaceful, but who aren’t going to take a beating lying down. Implicitly, they are cowering behind the cops, which is a good place for fascist bootlickers to cower, but it does nothing to further their agenda – it just strengthens the cops.
Since I have friends in low places, and access to many secrets via my contacts in the Bavarian Illuminati, I received a document drop from one of my underground contacts. [Memo to underground contacts: I was up all night digging, can you please keep this stuff closer to the surface?]
This diagram includes pictures of the “Sphinx 400” walking assault unit. As well as the underground computer room and gigantic railway dildo. Let’s hope the alt-right don’t get their hands on this material!
Dunc says
It’s called Guy Fawkes’ Night, and it’s the 5th of November.
Dunc says
Sorry, just noticed the ++…
cartomancer says
Never mind the gigantic railway dildo – they’ve finally got Project Serqet off the ground and built those giant scorpion breeding pens! And next to the concealed hangar bay too, so they can be air-dropped on key targets with a minimum of fuss.
blf says
Well, a large mysterious previously-unknown void has recently been detected in the Great Pyramid of Giza, Archaeologists discover mysterious void deep within Great Pyramid of Giza. For real, this is real science:
Lofty says
How to frighten a fascist: say “boo”.
Matthew Herron says
Were they radicalized in FEMA camps?
sonofrojblake says
V for Vendetta is set in the 1990s.
cartomancer says
sonofrobjake, #7
Yes, but it was written in the 1980s, so it was set in an alternate future.
komarov says
Good luck with your uprising. Sounds like it’s a well-planned operation that couldn’t possibly go wrong. As secret communist emperor of nine tenths of a twelvth of a ninetyseventh of Europe (the civilised part) I welcome the prospect of upheaval and renewal of the old, fossilised United States in the vain hope of getting something less garish, annoying and, most of all, trigger-happy. Not sure if mass-murder sets the right tone there, especially on the last issue, but hope to be pleasantly surprised. Just keep it local. I would hate for our future diplomatic relations to be soured prematurely by stray nukes.
Re: Pyramid
You know, that pyramid makes a lot more sense than the fairly solid brick ones stocked with some trinkets to take with you when you die. You were a pharao, for goodness sake, you’re used to be the supreme ruler. And the only way you’re going to rule the afterlife is by bringing better gear than all you predecessors. Taking a military installation in its entirety is the only sensible approach.
Okay, maybe if you really wanted to take the bottom-up approach you’d build a research pyramid instead. That way even your sucessors would have to play catch-up when they inevitably arrive in the aftelife with the latest iteration of chariot, stealth bomber or whatever. Plus, I’m sure the scientist-mummies* would appreciate the honour of accompanying you to the afterlife.
P.S.: What kind of firepower do those sphinxes have? Asking for a friend who may be supreme leader of an emerging European superpower currently biding its time in the shadows.
*Not to mention PhD-mummies, student-mummies and, most important of all, the labtech-mummies.
Andrew Dalke says
And Palmer warned us that the anarchists would attack the U.S. government on May Day 1920.
kestrel says
OK, first, DUH! The pyramids are filled with grain! Just ask Ben Carson.
Next. Not sure I’m getting this. So, people who are anti-gun, and therefore not armed, are going to break into the houses of people armed to the teeth, and “take away their guns”. How are they going to do that? Must admit I’d be fascinated to hear an explantation… Do they use the “Sphinx 400” walking assault units? ***totally puzzled***
chigau (違う) says
King Kong’s strong enemy! Bad scientist Doctor Who’s ….
secret pyramid base
Raucous Indignation says
Oh! Oh! Oh! I totally call the room on the third floor in the middle! Called it!! It’s all mine!!
chigau (違う) says
European third floor or North American third floor?
or third up from the basement?
jrkrideau says
What happened to the US Army coup scheduled for 2016 or maybe in 2015 in Texas and parts of surrounding states? Did I miss it?
I have the Antifa uprising marked on my calendar. I hope everyone has a good day and the weather is decent.
blf says
The train in that one, as I recall, ran on an elegant elevated arched bridge into a tunnel which went through — or at least appeared to go through — the pyramid.
Siobhan says
I’m worried that an armed right-winger is going to actually kill someone in this fever dream.
brucegee1962 says
Seriously, we can now use the argument that “What’s really going on is that the Russkies are trying to set blacks and whites against each other!” Since we’re dealing with people who love conspiracies, this has the twin advantages that
a) it sounds completely nutty, and
b) it may actually be true.
Marcus Ranum says
Shiv@#17:
The armed fascists already want to kill someone. Even if we bend over backwards, they will still find an excuse. You know “he looked scary” – that one has worked pretty well for pretty long.
Eric Weatherby says
Second floor, on the left . . . they appear to have a sophisticated lab for studying pole-dancing. I might like these guys.
chigau (違う) says
The pyramid has bedrooms but no toilets nor bathing facilities.
no kitchen, either
Marcus Ranum says
It is now 12:30 and I have not been beheaded yet. Musta been on the right side!
chigau (違う) says
Happy Birthday!
Marcus Ranum says
chigau@#23:
Happy Birthday!
I am going to celebrate by rewiring the forge-studio!
Nothing like playing with electricity to make your birthday memorable.
Marcus Ranum says
Eric Weatherby@#20:
Second floor, on the left . . . they appear to have a sophisticated lab for studying pole-dancing. I might like these guys.
It looks like a fireman’s pole so they can get downstairs to the operations center in a hurry (barracks upstairs)
and it can be used for pole-dancing. So multi-purpose.
Marcus Ranum says
jrkrideau@#15:
What happened to the US Army coup scheduled for 2016 or maybe in 2015 in Texas and parts of surrounding states? Did I miss it?
It didn’t happen. Apparently it was cancelled because the Mil-Sf writers who imagined the whole thing sobered up. It’s too bad – I think that Texas could use a little federally-funded regime change.
I have the Antifa uprising marked on my calendar. I hope everyone has a good day and the weather is decent.
So far I am deeply disappointed. I was thinking I’d be driving over headless bodies the whole way home but I didn’t see ANY.
Marcus Ranum says
blf@#4:
The massive cavity stretches for at least 30 metres and lies above the grand gallery, an impressive ascending corridor that connects the Queen’s chamber to the King’s in the heart of the historic monument.
Yes, scientists loyal to the regime were trying to blow the whistle on the secret fortress, but unfortunately, it turns out the uprising is cancelled.
The news about the cavity is pretty cool. Wonder what’s in there?! Maybe some ancient contractor was skimping on the rock that they bid (hey, nobody’ll ever know!)
F [i'm not here, i'm gone] says
Happy birthday! Hope the electricity played nice.
Marcus Ranum says
F [i’m not here, i’m gone]@#28:
Happy birthday! Hope the electricity played nice.
Thanks! It’s still not fully tomorrow, yet, here.
So: voltage meter at the ready, I am prepared for battle.
The old buildings have some of the weirdest wiring I’ve ever encountered. I’m not sure why they do it the way they do – normally I’d put everything to a single point, then run short runs to the switch, and then complete the circuit. They do power runs to each light and then pull an interrupting wire back to the switches. Anyhow, I’ve ripped it all out now and what I have to do is figure out where the forging press and mig welder are going to sit, then it’s a “simple” matter of pulling wire and I’ll probably just tie-wrap it right to the beams.
polishsalami says
(•_•)
SUPER
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(•_•)
SOLDIERS
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Raucous Indignation says
I was in The City this weekend. How did the genocide go?