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Chuck Darwin

A since-deleted Substack post
titled “Why I Joined DOGE,”
written by engineer-bigot #Gavin #Kliger,
noted a key influence was an essay by #Ron #Unz
—an infamous figure who has written about race science;
donated money to the white nationalist website #VDare, which according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is a hate group;
and has been accused by the Anti-Defamation League of “#hardcore #antisemitism,” including Holocaust denial.
Kliger has already been in hot water. He also reportedly reposted white nationalist #Nick #Fuentes disparaging a Black child on his now-private X account

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Mother JonesDOGE worker says he was radicalized by reading writer who denied HolocaustIn a since-deleted Substack post, a member of Elon Musk's team praised an essay by Ron Unz—who has called the Holocaust potentially a "hoax" and said Trayvon Martin was "a violent young thug."
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Chuck Darwin

A prolific documentary filmmaker has a new account of the Jan. 6 insurrection
― and a stark warning about this November.

#Nick #Quested embedded
with the Proud Boys
in the run-up to Jan. 6, 2021,
and portions of what he captured on film have come out in recent years.

That includes footage of a critical meeting between members of the #Proud #Boys and the #Oath #Keepers in an underground garage just before the insurrection.

Thanks to his proximity, Quested was later called to testify before the congressional committee investigating what happened that day -- and he served as a witness in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial.

With the 2024 presidential election now less than six weeks away, Quested is concerned.

♦️“We are going to see poll watchers creating pretext and false allegations against poll workers and the vilification of officials,” he warned.

♦️“We’re going to see pressure on elected officials and armed protests outside tabulation centers in swing states.

♦️We’re going to see a flurry of lawsuits and state legislatures refusing to certify electors that should have been duly presented according to the popular vote of the state.”

“This is not going away,” he said.

🔥“This is going to happen again. It’s in action right now. You can see it. And exactly what they said they were going to do last time
— they did it.

They are telling you they are going to do 🆘and they will do it again.”

The Emmy-winning filmmaker’s efforts have now culminated in a complete #documentary about the Capitol riot coming out on Oct. 4, called
👉 “64 Days: The Road to Insurrection.” 👈

It features never-before-seen footage of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio as the insurrection attempt unfolded.

It serves as a meticulous, almost encyclopedic account of how close Donald Trump came to stealing the election.

It examines the period between November 2020 and January 2021, and incorporates various emails and records
― as well as interviews of extremists, key Trump White House figures, investigative counsel to the Jan. 6 committee, election officials, state officials and others
― to illuminate how the Trump White House,
far-right extremists
and a coterie of “Kraken” lawyers navigated the days and weeks leading to Jan. 6.

History can sometimes be a guide to the future.

Trump has already spent weeks on the campaign trail declaring he will not accept election results he deems dishonest.

He claims his opponents will “cheat like dogs,” and he frequently says that any election officials who refuse to blindly follow him are “corrupt.”

He has described convicted Jan. 6 rioters, including those who assaulted Capitol police, as “hostages” and “warriors.”

“Make no mistake,” Tarrio wrote. “We did this.”

64daysfilm.com/

64Daysfilm · 64 Days Film Coming soon 2024Crafted by the award-winning Nick Quested. 64 DAYS Film offers a never-before-seen glimpse into the 2020 presidential election to the Capitol riot.
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Anders Tapola

Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets - Different kind of blue (2024).

From Nick Lowe’s forthcoming album Indoor safari. Will be released September 13. It will be Nick Lowe’s first album in over a decade.

This is a reworked version of the song that was originally written and scratch-recorded during sessions for Lowe’s classic 2001 album The Convincer. But it was only included on an exclusive 3-inch bonus CD-EP.
#music #Nick Lowe #LosStraitjackets #nowspinning
open.spotify.com/track/0FQhqhc

SpotifyDifferent Kind of BlueSong · Nick Lowe, Los Straitjackets · 2024
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Chuck Darwin

Far-right influencers turn against Trump campaign aides and tactics -- though not at the Republican candidate himself.

Some of the internet’s most influential far-right figures are turning against Donald Trump’s campaign, threatening a ♦️#digital “#war” ♦️against the Republican candidate’s aides and allies that could complicate the party’s calls for unity in the final weeks of the presidential race.

#Nick #Fuentes, a 🌟white supremacist 🌟and podcaster who dined with Trump at his Palm Beach resort Mar-a-Lago in 2022, said on X that Trump’s campaign was “#blowing #it” by not positioning itself more to the right
and was “headed for a #catastrophic #loss,” in a post that by Wednesday had been viewed 2.6 million times.

#Laura #Loomer, a 🌟far-right activist🌟 whom Trump last year called “very special,” said his “#weak” #surrogates had unraveled his momentum and that his approach “needs to change FAST because ❗️we can’t talk about a stolen election for another 4 years❗️,” in an X post that was “liked” more than 8,000 times.

And #Candace #Owens, a 🌟far-right influencer 🌟with 5 million X followers who was photographed with Trump in March, described the conservative infighting in a podcast Tuesday as a “#MAGA #Civil #War” fueled by anger that Trump’s policies and persona had been softened to boost his mainstream appeal.

washingtonpost.com/technology/

The Washington Post · Far-right influencers turn against Trump campaignBy Drew Harwell
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Chuck Darwin

#Nick #Fuentes,
a Hitler–loving racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, homophobicChristian nationalist fascist,
has grown increasingly disenchanted with former President Donald Trump since the two dined together at Mar-a-Lago in 2022.

Fuentes was outraged by Trump’s decision to tap Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate
because Vance’s wife is Indian and Hindu,
complaining that Vance is someone who clearly “doesn’t value his racial identity”
since he was willing to marry somebody “that far outside your race who isn’t even a Christian.”

Following the completion of the Republican National Convention last month, Fuentes was fed up, declaring that he would not vote for Trump
and that “you could not bribe me to care” about the election.
But all of that changed last week, when Fuentes reversed course and decided that instead of sitting out this election, he was going to actively work to undermine the Trump campaign in retaliation for allegedly abandoning the issues that Fuentes cares about.
rightwingwatch.org/post/nick-f

Right Wing Watch · Nick Fuentes Threatens to Wage War Against the Trump CampaignWhite nationalist Nick Fuentes is threatening to wage a guerilla war against the Trump campaign in key swing states.
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Chuck Darwin

White supremacist, Hitler fan, and far-right political pundit
#Nick #Fuentes shockingly revoked his support from Donald Trump’s campaign early Friday,
announcing on social media that he and his allies believed that the presidential bid is headed for a “catastrophic loss.”

💥“Tonight I declared a new Groyper War against the Trump campaign,” 💥Fuentes wrote on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after midnight, referring to a group of far-right activists known as groypers.

Fuentes explained that he and his far-right squad of online trolls
“support Trump” but that they view his 2024 campaign as being “hijacked”
by lobbyists, consultants, and donors that had aided Trump’s 2016 Republican opponents.
All in all, Fuentes believed they were “blowing it.”
“Without serious changes we are headed for a catastrophic loss,” Fuentes wrote.

“This is NOT a purity spiral, this is about living up to the AMERICA FIRST credo put forth by Trump in 2016 which will ensure VICTORY in 2024,” Fuentes continued.
“On Monday I will present a detailed statement of the facts, a mission statement, and a plan of action on my Rumble channel. STAY TUNED.”

In another post two hours later, Fuentes shared a screenshot of trending hashtags on Truth Social, including “#GroyperWar2”, “#FireLaCivita,” and “#FireWiles,”
the latter two of which refer to senior Trump advisers Chris #LaCivita and Susie #Wiles, who helped engineer Trump’s political resurrection following his loss in 2020.

“We haven’t even started,” Fuentes captioned the screengrab.

newrepublic.com/post/184729/do

The New Republic · Trump Has Started to Piss Off White SupremacistsDonald Trump’s campaign strategy has shockingly lost support with a key part of his voter base.
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Chuck Darwin

Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic

#Nick #Bostrom has explored the possibility of engineering "radically enhanced" human beings by genetically screening embryos for "desirable" traits, destroying those that lack these traits, and then growing new embryos from stem cells.

This engineered person might be so different from us — so much more intelligent — that we would classify them as a new, superior species: a #posthuman. According to Bostrom's 2020 "Letter From Utopia," posthumanity could usher in a techno-utopian paradise marked by wonders and happiness beyond our wildest imaginations.

Referring to the amount of pleasure that could exist in utopia, the fictional posthuman writing the letter declares: "We have immense silos of it here in Utopia. It pervades all we do, everything we experience. We sprinkle it in our tea."

Central to the #longtermist #worldview is the idea of #existential #risk, introduced by Bostrom in 2002. He originally defined it as any event that would prevent us from creating a posthuman civilization, although a year later he implied that it also includes any event that would prevent us from colonizing space and simulating enormous numbers of people in giant computer simulations (this is the article that #Musk retweeted).

More recently, Bostrom redefined the term as anything that would stop humanity from attaining what he calls "#technological #maturity," or a condition in which we have fully #subjugated the #natural #world and #maximized #economic #productivity to the limit — the ultimate Baconian and capitalist fever-dreams.

salon.com/2022/08/20/understan

Salon.com · Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic - Salon.comWhatever we may "owe the future," it isn't a bizarre and dangerous ideology fueled by eugenics and capitalism
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