Homecoming: White Power & the US Military w/ Molly Conger
Molly from Weird Little Guys comes on to talk about the long thread connecting Confederates, Klansmen, Veterans and armed white power groups past and present.
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Image: Louis Beam attending a Klan rally in Santa Fe, Texas, in 1981. Dressed in a Klan robe, he is using a torch to ignite a small fishing boat labelled ‘U.S.S. Viet Cong’
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THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Little Marco’s Temper Tantrum
ALSO AVAILABLE IN AUDIO
This week, we take a look at Marco Rubio’s declaration of war against the International Criminal Court in the Wall Street Journal, and interject with some running commentary to his frothing-mouthed raving to explain what might really be under his bonnet. (Featuring some commendable theatrics courtesy of Thomas O’Mahony.)
Comments (17)
At 40mins or so, when discussing white supremicists not believing black civil rights activists could be acting if not for white communist puppetmasters, it's the exact same pattern as the nazi's 'cultural bolshevism', that Slavic communists must be being puppeted by Jewish people. Or the alt right's 'cultural marxism' to describe how the progressive liberal is a puppet of Jewish communists from the frankfurt school of economics. Something about the enemy being both unfathomably powerful and yet easily crushed.
I wonder if it's more accurate to say rather than the fascists love a costume, instead the fascists love a uniform
Everyone loves a costume, and a uniform is just a costume that multiple people wear at the same time- Fascists love para/military chic and faux historical cosplay, most specifically.
Great episode. I’m hoping to write my PhD dissertation as a sequel to Belew’s book, but written through a GWOT lens.
Pete Campbell: You know what? I have good ideas. The totalising theory of anti-communism, I thought of that. Turned out it already existed, but I arrived at it independently.
I have been hoping for this collaboration since Four Fascist Concepts *gleeful flailing*
excited / braced as usual
You'll love it. Needs to be shown every Veterans Day
PLEASE acknowledge the MANY antiwar,anti-racist Vietnam veterans. https://youtu.be/UIQHZF-2osc?si=N0vUo6CoUt5NqGZG
PLEASE acknowledge the MANY antiwar,anti-racist Vietnam veterans.
can confirm--i have had the honor and privilege of knowing a handful of (~ex-)ASU members and they were not fucking around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIQHZF-2osc
great doc, highly recommended
So excited to see Molly on the show! My hometown hero
Same, its weird hearing someone Ive met in the streets in my town on here.
Yoooo Molly is the best. Dream Collab.
PLEASE acknowledge the MANY antiwar,anti-racist Vietnam veterans.