'ANTIFA SUPERSOLDIERS' ARE COMING TO KILL WHITE PEOPLE WITHIN DAYS: RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY
'ANTIFA SUPERSOLDIERS' ARE COMING TO KILL WHITE PEOPLE WITHIN DAYS: RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY
Well, it’s come to this: The far-right obsession with antifa has been overblown into a fake news story that now rivals the most over-the-top Michael Bay movie. Allow Newsweek to introduce you to the “Antifa supersoldiers” who apparently exist in the minds of some people on the far right, and who are coming to “behead all white parents” across America , if the bizarre and spiralling fake news story is to be believed.
As with the fake news story that antifa is waging civil war on America , which was started by Alex Jones at the conspiracy site InfoWars, the imaginary supersoldiers have been injected into the far-right's coverage of a series of rallies planned for Saturday to demand the removal of President Donald Trump from office. The story may sound asinine, but concerns are growing that it could lead to someone inflicting real-life violence, activists told Newsweek .
The “news” story, which has since been embraced with irony as a meme on left-leaning social media circles, spawned from a joke posted Friday on the comedic Twitter account @KrangTNelson. It said: “can’t wait for November 4 th when millions of antifa supersoldiers will behead all white parents and small business owners in the town square.” The post was meant to mock the “festering panic over an exceedingly fake Civil War plot for which thousands of FOX News grandparents may, at this very moment, be boarding up their windows in panicked preparation,” according to the anonymous person behind the Krang account, who wrote about the controversy he or she inadvertently started in a first-person story for VICE . Right-leaning accounts began to report the satirical tweet as being offensive, which led to the temporary suspension of @KrangTNelson’s account on Twitter.
Gateway Pundit, a well-trafficked right wing blog that “has 15 million visits each month,” by its own account, ran with it, reporting the joke as a straightforward news story with the headline, “ANTIFA Leader: “November 4th […] millions of antifa supersoldiers will behead all white parents. ” Bill Mitchell, a pro-Trump personality and radio host with a sizable Twitter following of close to 300,000 people, picked up the story from The Gateway Pundit, and then tweeted it out in apparent earnestness. The Gateway Pundit story, authored by Lucian Wintrich, the website’s 29-year-old D.C. bureau chief, has been shared more than 40,000 times on Facebook. The page has also been blasted with over a thousand comments, some of them from people preparing for violence against the supersoldiers (who, remember—to be as explicit as humanly possible here—are not in any way real).
“Thank you for making your terroristic threats so unmistakable,” a commenter going by the name Irredeemable OC5150 wrote under the Gateway Pundit story. “Proves a lethal response is justified,” a commenter going by the name Dorsai1 replied. “Lock and load,” a commenter named Mark said.
Members of Refuse Fascism, the nascent protest group behind Saturday’s rallies, have expressed concerns to Newsweek that the bizarre readings of the November 4 protests by those on the right could lead to real-life violence, like what transpired in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, when anti-racist activist Heather Heyer was allegedly murdered by a white supremacist. In Austin, Texas, for example, local militias have threatened to show up to combat the antifa supersoldiers they believe are coming, according to social media posts and the accounts of Texas-based activists. To reiterate what has already been reported in Newsweek : Antifa (short for “antifascist”) is more of a style of protest targeting far-right groups than an outfit with any organizational hierarchy, according to academics and activists. Not only does “antifa” lack the capability or funding to breed supersoldiers, there is no organizational structure in place to order such a thing in the first place.
http://www.newsweek.com/antifa-supersoldiers-coming-kill-white-people-right-wing-conspiracy-699037
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You me this wasn't you and she was lied to?
She obviously didn't understand. Who got free stuff?
The only thing I got from Obama was coverage I now have coverage for a pre-existing condition but the insurance certainly isn't free.
I also got a migraine from hearing the TEAbags whine about socialism, Ayn Rand and Sharia law.
I was going to do that but my free car that was promised by Obama was out of gas and I ran out of minutes on my Obamaphone and couldn't call for an Uber!
I hear that Nigerian health-care is pretty good. Not as good as Kenyan, but then Kenya didn't have the GOP opposiing everything.
Those Obamaphones! Absolute junk!
I must have received at least seven or eight through my antifa handler... and every single one of them failed! I was trying to send pseudo-racist textos... and the damned phones just refused to do it!
Ah, el Ché!!
Do you remember our summer in Havana?
So-o-o-o romantic!
when my check from George Soros and Hillary bounced
Yup, about the same time I stopped attending Obama's secret gay bathhouse meetings and Muslim rituals where he was planning on instituting Sharia law and rounding up all the white Christians, taking their guns away and sending them to FEMA camps... /s
It really does still amaze me that so many bought into that nonsense. 30% of the Republican party still believe Obama was a secret Muslim born in Kenya and radicalized in Jeremiah Wrights Christian church. Crazy doesn't even begin to describe them properly.
30% of the Republican party still believe Obama was a secret Muslim born in Kenya
When people want to believe something...
... and that's what bothers me. They want stuff that's disastrous for the country, as long as their adversaries get the blame. It reminds me of GOP leaders stating publicly that they hoped President Obama "would fail", blithely ignoring the consequences for the nation of any President's failure. .
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So the White House correspondent for Gateway Pundit, a "news" site well regarded by right wingers, took what was a joke remark on twitter and posted it on GP as straight news.
Totally par for the course. One day these clowns will get someone killed.
I don't suppose you have a link to the actual Gateway Pundit article?
Oh you mean they didnt remove it out of embarrassment?
Are you saying that Newsweek magazine is lying?
You're welcome.
So, he said it, then later claimed it was a "joke"... What I see is you posting "fake news" in an attempt for you to call an actual fact, fake news, because you are so embarrassed about the shit that your sides hero's have come out and really said, then got called out on.
No they didn't. They posted what he said. If you read more than the headline you would have caught how they commented on the hypocrisy which is prevalent in both parties.
Yes they did! This article was updated, initially they posted it as truth even trying to claim that ANTIFA actually has a leader!
Google, three minutes...
Lets see, this was all supposed to happen on November 4th. Apparently it was all about nothing. I'll venture a guess that the cowards didn't show up for their own rallies.
Conversely, it could have all been a RWNJ fever dream...
If you say so.
My sentiments exactly.
No I think the RWNJ says so!
Read the comments before the update was placed!
Beware, My Love...
Some weak minds may not recognize satire.
Oh, wait... .
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... I didn't imagine that you might... ...
I am so, so sorry...
It's amusing...
There are quite a few NT members who absolutely love to accuse antifa of all the ills of the nation...
Kinda absent here, hmmmm?
Do you have anything to say about this seed?
well lets see......how many people did ANTIFA hospitalize or kill in Charlottsville?
I retired from being an Antifa soldier when my check from George Soros and Hillary bounced.
Did you give back your Ironman body armor?
Damn! You got a check?! I'm still waiting for my free shit promised to me from 8 years ago!
Trump will make you, oops I mean him even richer.
Have you done your one-month-out-of-six training camps? They're getting pretty strict about that, nowadays.
Yeah, I went to it, they had chocolate cake with ice cream on Fridays.
Oh, well... That explains it then. You get either desert or a check. Antifa's Chief Accountant won't allow both.
It was from a Nigerian bank, so I'm not surprised that it bounced. I never got any free stuff from Obama or Bernie, even after I voted for them.
Kasich raised my property taxes.
You me this wasn't you and she was lied to?