A US racist and neo-fascist hate group that has become a public fixture in recent years has descended on central Texas in a stunt it claims is part of the “disaster relief” efforts under way after the devastating flash floods hit the region last week.
Patriot Front, founded following the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where its leader, Thomas Rousseau, a Texan, was later charged for his participation, has claimed on its Telegram app channel that it has shown up in the areas near Camp Mystic, where 27 young campers lost their lives.
“Patriot Front is here in central Texas,” Rousseau declares in a video statement, amid the backdrop of what sounds like buzzing chainsaws and a flood ravaged community, “responding to the flooding, which has destroyed communities and taken the lives of scores of Americans”.
Rousseau goes on to claim that his so-called “activists” are distributing supplies to survivors, but clarifies that his group is prioritizing their “people” and “European peoples” in those operations.
that’s it though. they will take joy in “seeing” and being “in the shit”. then drop “conveniently” placed nuggets of info on how to make this never happen again but of course with nazi blood and soil rhetoric.
there are large cohorts of people, I have physically met them, who have given away their humanity to cosplay as heroes. A lot of them are cops, but that’s nothing new.
For an example of course without the outward racism, see also that kid who went home and got his guns to head back to a protest then killed some folks. I have purposefully forgotten his name. There was no need except to feel “in it.”
I mean yeah, radicalization is real, violence is real
But there’s a world of difference between violence and suffering. They’re full of hatred. They get off on the violence.
There’s not many people who can look at someone starving and feel nothing. There’s not many people who could start rescuing someone, then go “oh sorry, you’re black so I’m not going to finish digging you out”
I’m not even appealing to their better nature, I’m saying it’s genuinely traumatic. People get PTSD even from rescuing people in a flood.
I just don’t think most of these fucks have the stomach to see their ideals play out in front of them
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Oh I totally agree with that… Just that these kinds of morbid people are drawn to death already. And only a fraction of them could deal with causing the death directly, especially en masse
But they’re outliers, they don’t make up the rank and file of Nazis or ICE. There’s no amount of ideology that makes a person like this… They’re basically high functioning serial killers, people who both want to watch (or participate in) people being tortured to death, but also have the executive function to do it in quasi legal ways