Re: KKK

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This isn't actually by Anonymous, who are releasing a list on Guy Fawkes Day.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 11- 2-15 5:05 PM
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I could kinda see this as some sort of Man Who Was Thursday-level disinformation/wheels-within-wheels operation: Accuse a bunch of people of being Klansmen (or -women) and thus force them to repudiate the Klan, and conversely force the Klan to repudiate them. Like the underwear gnomes, I'm not super clear on what step two is supposed to be.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 11- 2-15 5:53 PM
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This seems like a preemptive attempt to discredit the Anonymous release. Put out a list with people who can prove they aren't, then when a real list comes it can be dismissed with a "oh, this nonsense again?" Cf George Bush national guard service.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 11- 2-15 6:12 PM
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I assumed that this post would be about the Guardian's article on the creepy Boy Scouts / Wicker Man / Precious Bodily Fluids youth movement: the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift


Posted by: Seeds | Link to this comment | 11- 2-15 6:34 PM
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Right now this is just a text file. Let me know when it has something in it besides "trust me, this is right".


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 11- 2-15 6:38 PM
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4: That's a lot of leg for 1929.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 2-15 6:40 PM
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Some fucking fascist Israel supporter attacked a woman who was leading a Dia de los Muertos parade/dance at the University of Minnesota on Friday. He slammed a heavy equipment cart into her, and literally beat her with an Israeli flag. She wasn't even a counter-demonstrator, and had nothing to do with his sad little masturbatory exercise in genocidal celebration.

The only thing they understand is force.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 11- 2-15 7:21 PM
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Is there a link? This story doesn't mention anything like that.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 2-15 7:28 PM
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It's from a FB post by a friend of a friend -- the woman who was assaulted. She's got a pic of a UMPD officer chatting with the guy. She's a lawyer and prominent in the local Mexican-American cultural community.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 11- 2-15 7:30 PM
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6: Maybe that's why Orwell assumed that they were sex maniacs?


Posted by: Seeds | Link to this comment | 11- 2-15 8:11 PM
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This doesn't seem at all credible to me.

Why would prominent politicians (US senators!?) take such an enormous risk? and, anyway, surely structural racism makes this sort of ideological/organizational slumming completely unnecessary?


Posted by: Just Plain Jane | Link to this comment | 11- 2-15 9:29 PM
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As earlier comments have noted, this isn't the actual release. Why Heebie has decided to aid the Klan in the manner, we can only guess.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11- 2-15 10:03 PM
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Anonymous, who are releasing a list on Guy Fawkes Day.

Sticking with the night-time rallies/burning effigies/anti-Papistry theme, I see.

I have no idea how credible the OP is or not, but: how big is the Klan these days? I thought it was kind of a remnant. Surprising that a small organisation should include so many elected officials.

anyway, surely structural racism makes this sort of ideological/organizational slumming completely unnecessary?

It didn't in the 1920s...

4: obligatory mention of Knitwear Fascism. (vide TFA, passim.)


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 2:45 AM
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12: Texas stick together. I think we can only assume that heebie works directly for Cornyn.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 4:36 AM
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OT: NMM to Ahmed Chalabi.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 5:02 AM
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16 So who was caught mid-stroke just now?

I was in grad school with his nephew. Apple. Tree.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 5:18 AM
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16 to 15 of course.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 5:26 AM
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16.1: Paul Wolfowitz?


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 5:49 AM
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He doesn't play by your rules.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 6:15 AM
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Don't sit under the apple tree,
with anyone named Chalabi.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 6:57 AM
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That anybody found this even a little credible is depressing. Have you seen the people who show up for Klan rallies these days? It's all toothless morons and cousin-fuckers, not anybody who could run a plausible statewide campaign for anything.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 7:00 AM
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I thought it was mostly journalists who show up to Klan rallies. Or maybe that's what you meant.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 7:06 AM
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Anyway, back in my great-grandparents' generation and before, it seems that most of my ancestors were technically cousin fuckers. I didn't seem to hurt my genes, unless it took out the self-awareness gene first.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 7:09 AM
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In their generation, Klan members actually did make it to the US Senate.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 7:11 AM
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That persisted into my parents' generation. Anyway, the Klan isn't their fault. They're all Catholic.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 7:12 AM
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Is the OP a joke?


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 7:14 AM
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I wonder how much of rural toothlessness is because of no dental care and how much is because of tobacco use. Or does it take both, baring bad luck.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 7:15 AM
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I used to work for this guy who had like three or four front teeth left. He had plenty of money to buy new teeth, but I guess he just did not see it as necessary. Anyway, watching somebody hold a cigarette between their gums is a bit off-putting.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 7:22 AM
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how much is because of tobacco meth use


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 7:30 AM
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It was a stereotype back when there was no meth. Only old-fashioned dextroamphetamine.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 7:36 AM
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there's a hole between daddy's teeth where all the money goes


Posted by: cleek | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 7:42 AM
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In other KKK-related news: Oklahoma Mayor: Hubby's KKK Robe & Cross Burning Just A 'Prank Gone Bad'


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 7:56 AM
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26: Sort of? I enjoy the notion that Big John Cornyn is a member of the KKK.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 8:02 AM
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That's not a very good excuse. Maybe try "They were over-enthusiastic fans of Blazing Saddles."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 8:04 AM
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33: I will admit that I enjoy watching the Herman Munster impersonator who keeps one of our senate seats warm having to actively deny that he's a Klansman because seriously: fuck that halfwit. Now, Senator Tillis, about those goat rumors...


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11- 3-15 8:19 AM
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