It’s All About the Base
GQ: Neo-Nazis with 1,500 Ammo Rounds Were Heading to a Pro-Gun Rally, Until the FBI Intervened. “The three men are reportedly members of the Base, an international neo-Nazi organization that, according to the Associated Press, discussed in encrypted chat rooms ‘committing acts of violence against blacks and Jews, ways to make improvised explosive devices, their military-style training camps and their desire to create a white ‘ethno-state.'” In the words of my ancestors, “May the Lord put you pathetic losers in the prison cellblock you most want to avoid.” (It was something like that, I’m translating from the Yiddish.)
+ “He sat beneath a framed picture of Bolsonaro, and orchestral strings played lightly in the background. The music is from an opera by Richard Wagner.” AP: Brazilian culture secretary Roberto Alvim was fired on Friday after using phrases similar to some used by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. (There’s still a line that leaders can’t cross. But that line is moving in the wrong direction.)