I can't deny that I have perused stormfront, 4chan (still do), 8chan, the silk road (when it was up), and do enter the worst part of the net to see what is there.
and I kindly believe that outside influence started frothing them up and that is why we are here today. and a result of that why we have trump and Charlottesville and many other things
The swastika nazis as you call them have gotten pretty good at doing the “hide your power level” thing and fitting into the American right without being what people expect from the far right.
There’s a reason the leaked discord chats from before and after Charlottesville contain a lot of discussion about their image. They wore polos and khakis instead of creepy uniforms because everyone knows the ones in uniforms are clowns.
The klan is a big joke because it’s full of FBI and they all turn on each other, but newer generations are better at anonymity and plausible deniability
The First Amendment guarantee of speech and peaceful assembly allows people to form any ideological collective they want. Only their actions, not their ideas nor their speech, can be policed. They are even allowed to advocate overthrow of government, only prohibited from making specific plans - real actions and plans for action.
For example, in Elonis, the Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a man who posted he was going to kill him wife and the FBI agent who investigated his threats against his wife becuase they were not specific enough to show he had real intent - even though he communicated he would slit the jugular of FBI agent
that may have happened but we had a case similar to that one where a guy kept posting on FB how he was gonna kill his wife. then posted how he went and got a gun (she had a protective order on him so illegal) and bragged about how he got it. so someone approached him to be a Hitman for hire undercover and he hired him and went to jail.
Envi: in a word, hegemony. Classing things as terror is always a political move, as you no doubt know well. Thatcher used it on Irish republicans. Reagan used it to demonise and terrorise Central Americans. Bush jr used it to demonise and terrorise Muslims. Trump uses it on anyone who calls out his own bigotries. It's a label used by the powerful on others.
Your guy was convicted for the acts, though, not the posts. The posts prompted investigation - a good thing. The SC case was for the guy who posted, was convicted, and got his conviction throwin out.
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at least currentlyfor that IP address? abuse@moscow.rt.ruWhat an interesting world we live in.