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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThat missile-strike in Syria? FAKE and GAY.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/trump-alt-right-syria-war-214998The fractured elements of what was once called the alt-right were unified once more on Thursday night in condemning Donald Trumps airstrike in Syria as a mistake. Or as Milo Yiannopoulos put it, FAKE and GAY.
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In addition to its nationalist, anti-interventionist and anti-globalist views, the alt-right and its fellow travelers have also displayed a marked affinity for Syrias ally Russia, whose government has returned the love by tweeting images of the alt-right's mascot, Pepe the Frog, from official accounts. In reacting to the airstrikes, leaders of the movement placed those ideological reflexes over their personal loyalty to Trump.
Most noteworthy were the herculean efforts of blogger Mike Cernovich, who took to the livestreaming application Periscope to rally opposition to the strike in a marathon session that went on for several hours.
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White nationalist Richard Spencer, whose embrace of hardcore racism has led Yiannopoulos and others to distance themselves from the alt-right label, displayed no such reticence, calling the strike a sad, shocking and deeply frustrating moment.
I condemn the strikes, he said. Im going to wait and see. Perhaps Trump is slapping Assad across the nose and wont go further. Perhaps Russia was informed of the attacks. Worst case scenario: Were replaying the 2000s: A conservative comes to office on a populist message and becomes a globalist and neocon shill. Again Ill wait and see but Im prepared to denounce Trump."
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Over on The_Donald subreddit, a central hangout for Trumps alt-right fans, debate raged all night. One poster attempted to douse the discontent by writing, Calm the fuck down all you concern trolls. This isnt WWW3 - its trump putting America first. We need to stop Assad from killing his people. They flee and guess where they are going? The /pol/ section of the message board site 4Chan, another hotbed of online Trump support, was similarly torn asunder by the news, with one poster writing, /pol/ hates Trump now. What happened?
JHan
(10,173 posts)metroins
(2,550 posts)What some random person says.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)metroins
(2,550 posts)The Politico "article" is just bullshit about some random guy and random people from the internet.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)But that's some seriously weird shit they've got going on.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Asshole for using "Gay" as a derogatory term, but then, Nazi fuckers never had too many brain cells to begin with.
teezy
(269 posts)He got fired from Breitbart, lost his book deal and alienated a significant chunk of his base. Even for Milo, he's not in a position to open his mouth.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)who would even listen? Maybe Trump's base, and Fox and Friends. O'Reilly, Hannity, and other idiots at Fox.
teezy
(269 posts)Evidently not, if you look at O'Reilly's ratings.
The future for women and children look awfully grim.
Wounded Bear
(58,649 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,649 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,649 posts)It was quite the thing for a while. Primarily Tea Partiers who kept saying Dubya failed because he wasn't far enough to the right.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)and then ended up doing massive nation building in Afghanistan and Iraq.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)TNLib
(1,819 posts)These people are just too bizarre.