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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sat Apr 7, 2018, 07:51 AM Apr 2018

One of the Most Infamous Fascist Trolls on the Internet Got Doxxed By One of His Own



Earlier this week, white nationalist Congressional candidate Paul Nehlen revealed Vaughn’s real name, Douglass Mackey, in retaliation for what HuffPo’s Luke O’Brien describes as a spat between two factions of the fascist right, those who want public shows of power (Nehlen) and those who want to focus on propaganda (Mackey).

Nehlen, who was banned from Twitter earlier this year, was then promptly banned from the alt-right Twitter alternative Gab for doxxing another user. People on Gab are very mad about this.

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It’s easy to dismiss Mackey—whose second Twitter account @RapinBill was suspended today, as a random Twitter troll. That would be a mistake. As O’Brien wrote:

There was no mistaking Ricky Vaughn’s influence. He had tens of thousands of followers, and his talent for blending far-right propaganda with conservative messages on Twitter made him a key disseminator of extremist views to Republican voters and a central figure in the “alt-right” white supremacist movement that attached itself to Trump’s coattails. The MIT Media Lab named him to its list of top 150 influencers on the election, based on news appearances and social media impact. He finished ahead of NBC News, Drudge Report and Stephen Colbert. Mainstream conservatives didn’t know they were retweeting an avowed racist and anti-Semite, but they liked what Ricky Vaughn had to say.


Gotta love it when nazis turn on each other.....
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One of the Most Infamous Fascist Trolls on the Internet Got Doxxed By One of His Own (Original Post) Soph0571 Apr 2018 OP
Its def a trend. Four of the prominent alt-right women dropped their YouTube accounts recently anneboleyn Apr 2018 #1
That is off MontanaMama Apr 2018 #2
Can the "Night of the Long Knives" be far away? malthaussen Apr 2018 #3
WOW.. eat each other gone. Cha Apr 2018 #4

anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
1. Its def a trend. Four of the prominent alt-right women dropped their YouTube accounts recently
Sat Apr 7, 2018, 08:50 AM
Apr 2018

Doxxing and endless harassment apparently played a major role (they were also apparently getting huge amounts of threatening tweets and nasty comments from some who didn’t consider them alt-right enough or just didn’t like women being involved period in their “movement”).

These four women, who hosted and/or discussed “alt-right” topics and were considered prominent in those circles, have stepped away (in one case the woman explained at length that she is a Christian and that Christians are now being attacked by members of the alt right who believe that alt-righters can only be atheists or neo-pagans (neo-pagans in a fascist way not in a Wiccan way).

They are definitely engaging in huge amounts of in-fighting —and they believed they were immune to such pedestrian squabbles since their movement was like “noble” or something...

malthaussen

(17,065 posts)
3. Can the "Night of the Long Knives" be far away?
Sat Apr 7, 2018, 10:24 AM
Apr 2018

Godwin alert! But hey, maybe the alt-right (soi-disant) will experience its own Operation Hummingbird. Only problem is, that might make them stronger in the end.

Radical groups do tend to fragment over tactics and "purity." It's fun to watch, right up to when they get their act together and move forward as one.

-- Mal

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