Originally published at: ‘Active Clubs’ Are White Supremacy’s New, Dangerous Frontier
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Small local organizations called Active Clubs have spread widely across the U.S. and internationally, using fitness as a cover for a much more alarming mission. These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of…
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I have absolutely no fear of these people, and they know it. I never have trouble. Of course, I’m not a minority or a woman.
Good news is these people are dumb as fuck. It makes things a lot easier. At the Unite the Right rally years ago they marched through an enclosed area, surround by high buildings, carrying torches in a college town.
All anybody would need to fight them was a thin length of tubing and a dozen screw-top wine bottles. No need to go into a store. Are there many screw-top wine bottles in the trashcans of a college town? I had that idea within 30 seconds of seeing the pictures.
Something the fascists don’t realize: They lost the last time, and in the interim things have changed. Gay people are rich, women have been working out, and the Jews have the bomb.
Good luck, space monkeys.
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Jack LaLanne Was Correct!
I love watching strength building at the gym on YouTube, it has honestly become one of my favorite things. I have to keep my left side, especially my knee strong to avoid falls as I grow older.
This is my best “comeback” or “clapback” to these goons. I have embraced strength training. It is so versatile, and easy to do through out the day…
And as so happens with fascists, they want to hijack something good that has evolved over time, and subvert it. I hope the gym culture that I see on YouTube, so enlightened, can beat this back. Many hours of training and cultural realignment has happened behind those doors.
One last thing, I feel great. I thought long dog walks and 20 minutes of swimming in the summer, with an occaisional stretching routine would keep me healthy as grow old. Nope, but it feels awesome to be able to lift my rib cage up with little effort: no more bunion on my right toe, my wrist pain has left me as well, no more night sleeves, just by improving my grip. It is the little things that make all the difference!
Happy Labor Day, every body! We are stronger than they are! Be Ready!
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This is classic network structure, used successfully by everyone from Bolsheviks to Amway, from the IRA to Al-Qaeda: It’s doesn’t need much in terms of communication structure – even use of encrypted apps can be minimal – and you can’t break it by busting a few cells here and there. If discipline is good, the IQ of members doesn’t matter much either. This thing may just have to run its course, running out of social and emotional fuel as all cults ultimately do.
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FIFY: “Active Club messaging glorifies discipline, masculinity and strength – a “warrior identity” designed to attract insecure young men who have skid marks in the tighty whiteys that their moms still buy for them.”
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Full machismo. And they wonder why they can’t get dates.
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I’m not so sure this is much of a challenge for some police forces. I imagine in huge chunks of rural Jesus-loving Amerika, they are a driving force behind creation of local cells, and actively hosting events. Kind of a “take your son to the Klan” bonding experience.
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I shouldn’t be encouraging this, but a reminder,
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Sneer at this movement at your risk. Sure, it’s unlikely to become a new Trumpian Army. But … have you ever heard of “stochastic violence”?
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Akin to the pre-911 sleeper cells of jihadist aviators who infiltrated US flight training schools just to learn how to “land” the plane.
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I know more than half these hillbillies will be on our side when the Govt. really, actually, truly does turn up on their doorstep carrying more than birthday cards.
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Though I did, that was a bit of an anomaly.
I’m saying this, because Intelligence services got work, but they didn’t know how to react/rivalries.
DNI doesn’t have an excuse, especially now.