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Luke Baumgartner
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Research fellow at GWU Program on Extremism | Specialist in far-right and military extremism | NATO Shill | U.S. Army Veteran 🇺🇸
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October 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We all know there’s going to be weird mfs on Xitter talking about how bloodthirsty the “radical left lunatics” are and ignore the hundreds of cases where one of their own is doing the same thing. Don’t fall for the rage bait.
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In almost all of the cases I see of far-right extremists making similar threats against Jews or POC, they are either taking concrete steps to carrying out an attack (like procuring weapons), already illegally possess weapons, or are participating in illegal activity.
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Agreed. It all gives the vibe of "I can't be racist/antisemitic, I have an [insert minority here] friend!"
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I wasn't trying to say that, so sorry if it got misconstrued. I largely agree with your premise. Italian fascism didn't start as explicitly antisemitic, but made that turn after enacting the race laws in 1938.
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If memory serves me correctly, there were something like 10,000 Jewish members of the Italian Fascist party at one point? While it isn't a rule, it certainly demonstrates that small-f fascism isn't necessarily antisemitic, though it's a very common feature in many other fascist movements.
October 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
OOF yes, that was me too.
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Did you also do the thing where you manually converted Unix time?
October 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I did the thing where I progressively copied and pasted all the data from a CSV into a Google sheet 😭 I’m tech illiterate when it comes to SQL, unfortunately, which has made my research infinitely harder.
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I’ve been doing the same exact thing 😂
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM