He’d recently reminded readers of his newsletter that they weren’t powerless in the face of Hammer and his ilk. “We CAN fight fascists without fisticuffs or violence. Voting, and encouraging other non-chuds to vote, is an important first step,” he wrote. “So is keeping an eye on your local polling place on election day. Maybe even sticking around after the polls close to watch the vote counting—and democracy—in action. Hopefully, though, you’ll want to do more, before votes are cast, to ensure your candidates for the Legislature, school board and other municipal offices aren’t chuds, chud-adjacent or chud-sympathetic.”

This shouldn’t be construed as antifascist violence being entirely off limits. Part of this nazi’s eviction from the area involved elderly veterans literally threatening to murder him.
It’s alright (good, even!) to abhor violence, but dangerous to pretend it’s never appropriate or necessary.

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Information about Hammer made its way to Augusta, Maine’s capital, where Joe Baldacci, a state senator from Bangor, voiced his concern. “It’s time for the Governor, the Attorney General of Maine, the Penobscot County District Attorney and the U.S. Attorney [to] work on shutting these Nazis down and sending this guy back to Texas,” he posted online in early August 2023. Soon lawmakers were drafting a bill to ban paramilitary camps like the one Hammer was trying to establish, and to make it a criminal offense to offer training in firearms, explosives, or other tactics with the intent of causing a “civil disorder.”

In one fell swoop, state actors consistently manage to lend credence to fascists’ incessant bad faith talking points about “censorship”; while also introducing new, unnecessary legal tools which, given the obvious political sympathies of US law enforcement, will definitely be used to target antifascists to a much greater & more aggressive extent.

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most “wignats” are cowardly little secret nazi shitposters who think they’re funnier than they are, and who wouldn’t dare risk a fight, much less their comfy computer jobs. https://infosec.exchange/@risibledog/113407750175195693

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Hammer had written in a Telegram message, where he also referred to his site as a bootcamp. “We are working until dusk on the camp seeing exciting results as it comes together. This is where we will turn regular wignats into pure distilled Aryan violence.” (Wignats is a term for white nationalists willing to wear Nazi insignia and to commit street violence.)

that’s not really correct. “wignat” is (unfortunately) “wigger nationalist” and it was a moniker adopted by alt right internet nazis (mostly from the Daily Stormer) who didn’t concern themselves with propriety or the “optics wars”. basically a designation these losers took on so they could make naughty tasteless jokes online and criticize the alt right’s version of “respectability politics” which they felt limited their movement.

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According to Zac Chickering, some Springfield residents were more aggressively intolerant than others and went straight to the source of the problem. “We have a bunch of 80-year-old men that went up to that dickhead’s face and threatened to backhoe his body into a grave. And that’s nothin’. That’s just the flake on the potato plate,” Chickering told me. When Hammer started handing out pamphlets promoting his views, residents told him, as Chickering put it, that “nobody gives a thin shit what you think.”

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