#tw: fascists

[ktempestbradford]

From The Atlantic: Substack Has a Nazi Problem

[that link is to an archived version, so no paywall]

Bottom Line: the CEOs/leaders of Substack aren't just being laissez-faire about the fascists and open white supremacists on the platform, they actively boost them by having them on the company podcast, featuring them, mentioning them, and boosting them. Because the newsletters bring in LOADS of money and they love money. Even newsletters that repeatedly violate the basic, useless guidelines of Substack, they do not get punished.

This isn't a huge surprise for anyone who has been following the major issues with Substack that have come up in the past few years. There was the whole scandal where the public discovered that Substack had been paying people secretly to be on the service while advertising that anyone can make it on their own here! Plus, they were paying bigots directly to put their newsletters on the srvice.

Good breakdowns of that from Annalee Newitz and Grace Lavery.

Then there was the disasterous interview one of the CEOs (Chris Best) did with Nilay Patel of The Verge when Substack's Twitter clone launched. Nilay -- who is, if you hadn't guessed, of Indian descent -- asked him pointed questions about content moderation and... well...

[Nilay] I just want to be clear, if somebody shows up on Substack and says “all brown people are animals and they shouldn’t be allowed in America,” you’re going to censor that. That’s just flatly against your terms of service. [Best] So, we do have a terms of service that have narrowly prescribed things that are not allowed. That one I’m pretty sure is just flatly against your terms of service. You would not allow that one. That’s why I picked it. So there are extreme cases, and I’m not going to get into the– Wait. Hold on. In America in 2023, that is not so extreme, right? “We should not allow as many brown people in the country.” Not so extreme. Do you allow that on Substack? Would you allow that on Substack Notes? I think the way that we think about this is we want to put the writers and the readers in charge– No, I really want you to answer that question. Is that allowed on Substack Notes? “We should not allow brown people in the country.” I’m not going to get into gotcha content moderation. This is not a gotcha... I’m a brown person. Do you think people on Substack should say I should get kicked out of the country? I’m not going to engage in content moderation, “Would you or won’t you this or that?” That one is black and white, and I just want to be clear: I’ve talked to a lot of social network CEOs, and they would have no hesitation telling me that that was against their moderation rules. Yeah. We’re not going to get into specific “would you or won’t you” content moderation questions. Why? I don’t think it’s a useful way to talk about this stuff.

Best wasn't willing to get into these "gotchas" around their new social network, which is a pretty clear indication that they won't get into it around content moderation on the original platform. (Their statement after the fact did nothing to make things better.)

It's also really clear from the Atlantic article that the Substack CEOs/Owners are, at best, more interested in making money than in keeping white supremacists and Nazis (literal ones) off their platform. At worst, the Substack CEOs/Owners are supremacist/Nazi sympathizers. Either way:

Substack Directly Supports the Alt-Right, Nazis, and White Supremacists

Openly, brazenly, and without remorse.

[lgbtqtext]

[lady-raziel]

hilarious that with each new day that passes a new bit of dirt from JD Vance's past gets discovered and plastered over the internet...it's almost as if this is why presidential campaigns have always announced their running mates well before the convention...so that if glaring issues with a candidate came to light quickly there would be time to replace them on the ticket before they were officially locked in...it's almost as if certain things in political campaigns were done for a reason, donald...because the very same critical failures had happened before...but no i'm sure you and your guys attempt to recreate a fantasy version of history while ignoring all the reasons that history was a disaster will work this time...because you are built different and the 10000th time trying fascism will work like a charm...

[aestariiwilderness]

[arisharkboi]

The antisemitic tiktok brainrot is so real. Someone posted a pic of their dog with a kippah and the top comments were, in order, "he's got the nose for it," "You're too nice to be jewish" and "gas the dog"

I'm so fucking tired of getting reminded every day that people want me dead bc I'm Jewish and believe both Jews and Palestinians matter 😭😭

[uncanny-tranny]

At this point, talks about "mutilated bodies" tell me everything I need to know about people's politics. I truly don't believe you can combine the idea of mutilated or degenerate bodies with anything even slightly progressive in terms of autonomy. If you believe yourself to be progressive or anything left of an unapologetic fascist, you frankly cannot truly entertain the idea that some bodies and people are inherently mutilated or degenerate. It is an inherently fascist idea.

[not-communist-usa]

can we have a moment of silence for the >2000 lives we lost to suicide within the past 24 hours?

[spot-the-antisemitism]

https://www.tumblr.com/muppet-sex/758722083506241536?source=share

Calling a jewish woman criticizing a male orthodox bogdim a "zionist white woman using her tears"

OH no it's ALL the usual suspects, Ash, Muppet-Sex and comsomolka have their little circle jerk echo chamber

this is just misogyny and tokenism

this Orthodox "Jew" is a holocaust denier and part of Nehui Karta but sure suddenly Jews are good if they deny the holocaust let's ignore what Karta says about gentiles (hint: they're a rapture cult). She's likely screaming at him because he's part of a misogynistic holocaust denying rapture cult, not because he supports the hypothetical genocide of all Israelis (which he totally does btw)

Hamasniks and Karta collaborating is a real "which leopard will eat which leopard's face first?" situation

but sure tankies are anti-genocide (yet deny the holocaust and the holodomor) are for freedom (yet silence and kill their opponents like the terrorists and the dictators they bootlick) and love women (despite raping, killing and mocking those they can't tokenize)

[communistkenobi]

“detrans” people have literally nothing valuable to say about the trans experience just as people who identify as “ex-gay” have nothing valuable to say about being gay. when you people stop being mouthpieces for mainstream violent transphobic rhetoric, when you stop taking interviews and participate in documentaries whose sole purpose is to argue that trans people need to be restricted from seeking medical care and social support, when you stop framing transition as mutilation of the “natural” human body, is when you can start being treated with anything other than hostility by the trans community. but until that point do everyone a huge favour and shut your fucking mouths

[lordspectrus]

Fucking hell America, what are you doing????

[agarthanguide]

On Sunday, the 4th of October, 1936, The British Union of Fascists lead by Oswald Mosley marched through the East End of London, then the home of the large majority of London's Jewish Population. The Met Police, expecting violence, escorted the 3,000 fascists with over 6,000 policemen, many of them mounted on horseback, as well as multiple vans and a spotter plane.

The largely working class locals of the East End took issue with this, and the counter-protestors (mostly anti-fascists, socialists, communists, trade unionists, and Jews, as well as locals of all stripes) overwhelmed the fascists and policemen by 10-to-1, fielding over 100,000 people (this is a conservative number).

The fascists marched in four columns, and all of them met resistance, but the majority of the action took place on Cable Street, a narrow road that the counter-protestors barricaded at multiple points.

The resulting fray went down in history as the Battle of Cable Street, and it's been the setting of lots of great storytelling since.

Notable in most stories of the Battle of Cable Street is the use of the slogan "They Shall Not Pass," or "No Pasaran," which remain anti-fascist rallying cries to this day.

[crazycatsiren]

Do you know who might be reading your "men should be enslaved" posts? Black people who are descendants of slaves.

Do you know who might be reading your "males should be euthanized" posts? BIPOC and Jews whose families and ancestors have been through/survived genocides and ethnic cleansings.

Do you know who might be reading your "boys should be rounded up and killed" posts? Parents and families who have lost children in school shootings.

Do you know who might be reading your "male fetuses should be aborted" posts? Romani women, Jewish women, native American women, and other women of color and their mothers, grandmothers, sisters, who were put through forced abortions and sterilizations.

And you think you're being funny.

You're not a feminist.

You're a fucking terrorist.

[hindahoney]

Begging and pleading gentiles to understand you're not supporting Jews just because you advocate punching nazis

[sjbattleangel]

Li*C*nv*y is dangerous. Stay away from him.

TW: N*zism. Homophobic, ableist hate speech. Su*cide baiting. Targeted harassment amd cyberbulling.

So when I first heard about this guy, it was when he was throwing a tantrum over a certain cartoon reboot not being a "serious, chest-pumping epic". On his YouTube page, I noticed he had a link to BitChute*, a literal website dedicated to hosting white supremacist material. When confronted over this, he kept shifting the goalposts all while using thought-terminating "Eu tu" excuses.

When I wrote post on this guy a while back, someone told me that he is a user of ANOTHER hate site: KiwiF*rms. Under the name of "*ldManB**mer". For my own safety, I didn't visit the site but by searching the username and using the Internet Archive, I found these:

But most damning of all:

Yes. It is him. No matter how much he claims to care for victims of sexual abuse, no matter how nice he is to others, Li*C*nv*y is a member of white supremacist hate sites where he causally throws about homophobic, ableist slurs and baits other users into k*lling themselves. He just uses abuse victims and his own family members as shields to cover up his true nature

Please, stay away from him. Don't support him. He doesn't deserve an audience.

One of the reasons I was forced to delete my old post is because one of his lifeless simps decided to lead a hate campaign against me to unalive myself.

This is true audience he attracts: (Report and block this turd-stain)

No. The only person here who's effing pathetic is you: You simp for a sad little manbaby, so scared of the world no longer revolving around him that he joins literal hate movements to freeze his childhood in amber, police what children watch and harass women and minorities out of nerd culture. No wonder you adore him. You're perfectly alike! Keep the waterworks coming, asshole. I need them for my tea.

Mmmm! Now that's delicious tea.

*And before you come at me with your neoliberal idealism, that "having a BitChute account doesn't make you a N*zi". I'm going to stop you there because yes it freaking does.

[uncanny-tranny]

I'm actually so done with people (including "allies") using trans* men in order to attack trans* women. There is no trans liberation without all of us.

"Oh, you don't see trans men doing [x], but you see trans women doing it!" Actually, that just tells me that you intentionally leave trans* men out of this specific bias against trans people. It tells me everything about your attitude about trans* men and trans* women.

[iwillbringyouruin]

Es gab einen rechtsextremen Angriff in meiner Nähe und ohne dass jetzt weiter großartig ausführen bzw. Namen nennen zu wollen, sag ich nur, dass es sehr interessant ist, welche Parteien nicht öffentlich bei der darauf folgenden Demo gegen Nazis und Rechtsextremismus vertreten waren. Parteien, die sonst immer behaupten wollen, sie freundeten sich nicht mit Rechtsextremen an. Sehr interessant. Man würde ja denken, gerade kurz vor den Wahlen würden sie wenigstens so tun, als scherten sie sich drum.