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Just an FYI for those in the US with insurance issues

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Some security plans for Unite The Right 2 got leaked on Twitter and too many people were mocking how terribly made this is rather than talking about the fact that fascists are actively planning and developing tactics to straight up kidnap antifascists in the street.

Going to the gym solo and showing up with a few comrades and hoping other people will be there and fascists will break and run from confrontation isn’t going to work anymore. Times are changing. If you’re serious about directly confronting fascists in the street you’re gonna need predetermined plans and strategy and yes point people. Decentralized non-hierarchical mob tactics in a chaotic street brawl against organized fascists isn’t gonna do anything but get people arrested at best and killed at worst.

This is basically existing police snatch squad tactics- the crossbow. Yes, antifascists absolutely need to study and understand mass group tactics.

So, two things. One, the American fascist movement is, as a general rule, a paper tiger which has a history of melting in the face of literally any opposition at all.  They don’t want confrontation, they don’t want a fight, they want to hurt people, without consequences or risk of repercussions.  They are the schoolyard bully that whines ‘no fair’ when their victims hit back.  In a street fight they’re more likely to run away, and come back later in small groups to harass isolated stragglers. Two, while keeping this in mind, we need to organize and plan our defense as if they are 100% willing and able to mount a serious challenge, because there are exceptions to every rule, and if we do not prepare for those exceptions there will come a time when a lot of our people get hurt or killed. Preparing for the way things usually are instead of the way things could potentially be is a recipe for failure.

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How we win the white straight male.

Often on the right, there's a feeling of paranoia from white men. They are afraid of losing relevance, of being replaced.

This feeling is crucial to fascist recruitment of white straight dudes. They leech off this feeling, and are able to swoop in an whisper sweet lies into the white man's ear. That he's secretly oppressed by a conspiracy to rid him of his power, and disconnect him from his history. If you want proof of this, look no further than the NPI'S recruitment video:

https://youtu.be/3rnRPhEwELo

In it, we see Richard Spencer reaching out to the disaffected white man. Telling him that his feeling of disconnection come from being disconnected from his heritage, his history.

We can argue against this a number of ways. Primarily, we can argue that whiteness is a modern concept, with no shared people or meaning, so Spencer here is trying to appeal to an, ironically, whitewashed version of history.

However, I would like to table that discussion for a second, and redirect the conversation toward why this is an effective recruitment video, and what we on the left can learn from it.

1) Spencer aims to give the white man he's talking to a sense of meaning through a recontextualization of his whiteness

2) Spencer aims to explain the white man's disconnection to his own life through a narrative of people trying to "steal" his history

3) Spencer aims to give the white man a role in standing up for his whiteness by supporting NPI's political agenda

Okay, so, stripping the white nationist nonsense out of this line of rhetoric, we get a rhetorical strategy that looks like this:

1) Create a sense of meaning by attaching the listener to a larger group

2) Explain the listeners disconnection to their life through this group

3) Give the listener a role in the future of this group

This is not a rhetorical strategy that is isolated to the right, and it can in fact be quite useful, provided that the framework backing it up is not a wholly conspiratorial view of the world like white nationalism is.

So, in short, I would like to propose a way for the left to reach out more effectively to white men by mirroring this rhetorical strategy, by replacing the group with a group that leftists are very good at arguing for: workers.

1) Create a sense of meaning by associating the white straight male with workers. They probably are a worker of some kind, so this is the best group to put them in with.

2) Explain their dissociation with Marxist rhetoric. They are alienated from their labor, and are forced to work for shitty wages. Thus, they are inherently dissociated from the work they do.

3) Give them a role in their own liberation. They are a worker, so they are just as fucked over under capitalism as the rest of us, so let them in on what they can do to reconcile their position.

The left has all the tools available to pull in more white straight male people, we just need to change our approach to giving them a group they can become a part of, rather than alienating them from the start. Once they are on board with worker rhetoric, it then becomes easier to get them on your side for issues of groups that they do not belong to.

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Corporate Gothic:

Human resources is split into two divisions, one that you meant on your hire date, the other stands as a warning, people who are sent there never come out. A putrid stench wafts from their offices as you pass by on your way to the kitchen.

Janet is sort of the welcome wagon around here, she greets you every day, leaning on your cubicle wall, all smiles. Every day her eyes, a different color, somedays they seem more familiar than others.

Glass walled conference rooms filled with executives. You've learned not to look in, but you still feel their gaze.

A stench from the depths of the refrigerator in the break room. No amount of cleaning seems to get rid of it. Anyone you talk with about it swiftly changes the subject.

You arrive at the yearly mandatory company volleyball game, wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Everyone else is in dark robes, softly chanting, they beckon you toward the altar.

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