- “Spencer has been nothing but hostile to me since I’ve known him and he tried to his best to feed me to the media wolves,” he told his dwindling followers. “Not someone I would ever trust again.”
Still, Kessler was friendly to Spencer’s face.
“So what’s up,” Spencer texted him May 27, according to text messages Kessler surrendered in the case.
“We’re planning a rally in both Charlottesville and Washington DC for August 12,” Kessler wrote.
“Let me seriously consider this,” Spencer replied.
Kessler said told the interviewer he and Spencer haven’t spoken since. Spencer previously told Newsweek he does not plan on attending the next Unite the Right.
In a deposition in his case against Charlottesville, Kessler also described himself as being low on funds, with little income besides donations from followers and occasional articles for right-wing publications. He described writing three articles for The Daily Caller, which paid between $120 and $240, he said. One of the articles was coverage of a different Richard Spencer rally in Charlottesville, two months before Unite the Right.
Dude dude you missed the funnier one linked from that post: the nazis with shields are literally LARPers.
I read it a couple days ago but the gist of the article was arguing that LARPers are secret nazis: The Black Sun became a Nazi symbol because the Nazis took over a castle that had it in the middle of the floor. By that logic the Muppets are members of Al Qaeda.The significant overlap between Nazi fans and European history fans has led to a phenomenon medieval scholar Paul Sturtevant calls “Schrödinger’s Medievalism”: “a piece of medieval culture found in the wild that you know has been appropriated as a symbol by right-wing nationalists or racists ... You can’t tell which is it until you get more information—and sometimes doing so is impossible. So, sometimes you are left in the uncomfortable position of having to treat it as both benign and hostile at the same time.”
I get the sentiment but at the same time if there's anybody who should be able to rock Norse symbols it's the LARPers and whatever Norse symbols the Nazis haven't appropriated yet, they will. That the bulk of the article was a riff on "oh, shit, you mean I need to be offended by this symbol now?" kinda rubbed me the wrong way. The article was about "some Nazis are LARPers" but it was trying for "all LARPers are Nazis."
If it didn't work for Roseanne, then why the hell would Kessler would think it would work for him? At least try to be clever with a new excuse.
Ya know what the real sticker is here? Kessler used it last year, long before Roseanne. Roseanne, who almost exclusively follows alt-right and conspiracists on Twitter, and retweets the craziest of the crazy with abandon. So she was just adapting the Ambien defense from a fellow alt-righter who tried it before.
I’ll be honest, I did not know that. You learn something new everyday. But then again, I don’t really follow the alt-right too well and I’m not planning to. The last thing I need is to follow people who probably see me as an inferior due to being a minority.
Yea , UFO and Bigfoot conspiracies were a lot better and a lot more fun than Alex Jones’s conspiracy theories about globalists and pizzagate.