I read it earlier. Maybe they found the thread was attracting too many people of the sort he said were influencing his little brother. There were some replies about that when I was reading it.
Basically his 12yo neither has soaked up all the right wing name-calling: racist slurs, calling anyone who challenges him on that an SJW snowflake resister blah blah blah.
They’re preying on a pre-teen’s need for group identity, teaching him certain stuff is “just jokes”, in-group stuff… until of course he gets older and it isn’t.
My one red flag here is that legally, in the US (where they seem to be) there is no freaking way a 12yo kid can have their own unfettered on-line presence. You have to be 13 for that. 12 is where you want your parents spying on you, at least under normal circumstances (ie: assuming your parents aren’t an issue themselves).
No way that kid should be online gaming etc without a parent reviewing what’s going on.
Legally. Such things are easily worked around, however. Or Mom and Dad aren’t paying attention because he’s not so stupid as to say things around them. Or both.
Twelve-year-old kids get up to far more than we think.
As long as the individual components are not connected, each measure is also, in and by itself, not enough to create a sense of alarm, let alone urgency, among the citizenry and internal organizations.
I wish they’d give more examples, e.g., relevant to the US.
The alt-right took these strategies straight from the neo-nazis in the 80s and 90s, who used music as a recruitment tool… It’s entirely unsurprising that this continues via online culture.
There were also concentration camps (forced work camps) along the Mississippi when the levees broke in 1927. Everyone in the camps were black. This shit is not just a couple isolated incidents in history.
Another connection made (for me, anyhow). I remember reading about Gingrich et al converting, but that they were prepped by an Opus Dei priest was something I didn’t know. That makes more sense.
Doesn’t surprise me. 1 in 3 catholic bishops worldwide are complicit in this scandal. Not sure how many priests, but I believe it’s a similar proportion who either did something or else knew something was happening and did nothing to stop it.
So… they skipped the obvious part where they obtained menus and ingredient info from prisons to verify what the interviewee said (Cornish hens? Are there even enough Cornish hens in the US to feed a notable chunk of the prison population?).
Not to mention the obvious part that the prison guards aren’t incarcerated. In theory, if not in real life, they could get other jobs.
And the “laughing at us” part: I thought that was just a regular part of prison culture anyhow.
Finally: how many of those prisoners voted for Trump? Oh right. They’re not allowed to.