No Hugs for Chuds, Part 2
Disinfomaniacs Podcast # 14: The Why & How to Fight the Fash during Election 2024
For the first 13 episodes of the Disinfomaniacs podcast, my buddy Andy O’Brien and I reported on the fascism (mixed with toxic masculinity) that’s prevalent among white supremacists, Christian-Nationalists, trans-phobes and other nutjobs in Maine. Using their own words (and audio), we showed, many times, how this “activated minority” are loud and obnoxious with a propensity for violence. And how these men and their ideas are a threat to democracy, especially in the upcoming 2024 elections.
However, in those 13 episodes, we rarely offered hope. Nor did we offer strategies, other than the time-honored Maine tradition of locals running bad people off the island though ostracization, banishment and cold shoulders. So Disinfomaniacs #14 (with guests Mira Ptacin, Kate Ross and Claire Goforth) suggests some ideas on how to bash the fash, including some you can do from the comfort of your home office.
A frequent complaint, btw, from chuds, the chud-adjacent and the chud-sympathetic is that OUR anti-chud attitude is bigoted and unfair. By critiquing them, and encouraging them to get the hell of out of Maine, they claim WE are the intolerant ones.
Guilty as charged. Both Andy and I are intolerant of intolerance.
Clearly this is a paradox of some sort. So much of a paradox, that it actually has a name. So the newest Disinfomaniacs begins with a brief conversation with my pal, the author Mira Ptacin, who explains the philosophical concept of “the paradox of tolerance” by Karl Popper. In short, society can’t tolerate the intolerant. Or, as I like to say, no hugs for chuds.
Then we speak to the antifascist researcher Kate Ross about her work exposing chuds, proud bois and most recently, revealing the second-in-command of the Blood Tribe, aka the Blood Duke, aka Nate Higgers as an ex-Marine from Ohio named Drake Berentz. (Plus Kate shares her thoughts on how everyone can fight the fash, especially by taking a close look at candidates running for local political office.)
Read all about the 23-year-old Hitler worshiping Odinist with Seig Heil tatted on his fingers in “No Hugs for Chuds, Part 1.
Kate and I also discuss the video of Berentz getting pummeled during a Toughman bout in West Virginia (below). CW:The Blood Tribe’s #2 surrenders a mere 47 seconds into the first round.
Then we speak to my colleague, the investigative journalist Claire Goforth about her NAZI-LAND series for The Daily Dot during which she travels to Maine, Idaho, Virginia before returning to her Jacksonville stomping grounds to report on chud efforts across the country.
Claire and I discuss the VDARE castle, the Blood Tribe’s bloody spear ritual, Idaho’s longtime chud challenges and the Goyim Defense League’s Handsome Truth getting busted for littering.
If that sentence makes sense to you, I hope you had a chance to spend a little bit of time outside today, away from the Internet. If you’re not familiar with the above-named, then it’s important to check out Claire’s series. Things are getting weird out there. I mean, chuds are buying castles. Nazis were in Maine building a tiny house compound. Extremists are influencing governmental policy. Nazi influencers are inspiring adolescents to worship at their chuddish altars.
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