[theopjones]

I actually wonder how much of the uptick in political extremism (between the alt-right and the antifa types) is the internet tough guy ethos and troll culture leaking into the real world. 

People wanting to LARP WW2 (and the U.S civil war) to look badass, while seeming to forget the part where millions died. 

[sadoeconomist]

There’s some of that but I think it’s more about European politics leaking into the US through the Internet

Democratic socialist politics and antifa specifically is from Europe

Ethno-nationalist politics and Nazi street fighting specifically is from Europe

It’s shocking because it doesn’t belong here and it doesn’t make sense in America where there’s no chance of either movement gaining enough political traction to achieve their goals and just about everybody involved in serious street violence gets arrested and has their life ruined, or gets shot

And I’ve seen a lot of Europeans get bizarrely invested in extremely America-centric issues as well, it’s not just one-sided

[mutant-aesthetic]

It’s worth noting that Richard Spencer almost exclusively gets his ideas from European thinkers like Benoist and Dugin. He more or less shuns Moldbug, the only major contemporary American unorthodox right-wing intellectual around. So I think that theory of europeanization may hold some merit.

[mitigatedchaos]

America is under attack by Europeanized Bees.