The Turner Diaries: The 20th Century's Most Dangerous Book

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[@xanatax1844]

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[@stevenlercari2815]

Does it still smell like a rotting corpse?

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I think, for the sake of the subject matter covered on this channel, regardless of the metrics of what works best for them, the sponsor segments should always be at the start. The video about the genocide in Myanmar had the mid video sponsor segment and was just disorienting of a turn of subject. Especially when dealing with ongoing conflicts or historical ones needing grace and respect, the sponsor should be up front and separate from the subject matter like this video.

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[@KittyKatAspen]

@@adenkyramud5005 I think if one is to make a channel handling this subject matter, they would stand against taking sponsorship like that, or let the sponsor know of the hazards of mid roll segments. Simon hosts many channels at this point, I could possibly believe the team responsible for these channels can eat a better deal for the ability to have a more respectful ad segment.

[@van3158]

The middle ads are always so jarring. I just skip through them anyway.

[@ydid687]

As if youtubers have any humanity lol All they care about is ad revenue, they are all money minded greedy things Most if not all youtubers

[@xanatax1844]

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[@joeciok]

The look on your face when you choked out the phrase "it tastes good"😂

[@mridlon1634]

Looks like he just took a shot of straight vodka!

[@forlorndream1400]

I bought a copy of this book and now I'm watched by so many government agencies that I'm better protected than any King or president. 😊

[@donniebrasco4114]

Read 1984 next. 😂

[@Throatwobbler_Mangrove]

Imagine thinking the eyes of the government is akin to "protection" 🙄🤡

[@joannaedssay5988]

@@donniebrasco4114 Great comment, I was thinking this!

[@richardschafer7858]

​@donniebrasco4114 Followed by the Lord of the Rings. They are all indicators of White supremacy apparently. 😂

[@GrumpyGenXGramps]

Same with “The Anarchist’s Cookbook”, even tho it’s full of useless garbage! LMAO

[@nickrobinson9629]

When he said 'early 2000s' I was like 'WTF I thought this was 20th century, that's too close to today'

[@michaelross4452]

Simon cringe after taking a sip of that sewer powder is priceless

[@andrewhooper7603]

Love the audio white-out under the URL, lol.

[@ayans22]

The “yep…its good” was so forced 😂

[@oracleofdelphi4533]

I know he doesn't exactly look the type, but Simon is very anti-Nazi.

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

I have heard it said that soylent green is people...

[@oxydator]

How fitting, as the Turner Diarrhea belongs exactly in the sewers.

[@scottym6680]

Sometimes banned books are read for the morbid curiosity. I enjoy collecting them and reading them because of the fact that they are so controversial.

[@robertsansone1680]

No apologies needed. I've read Mein Kampf & Maos Little Red Book, works from Marx etc. (I don't know how. They are all damned boring) I remain to this day a lover of Democracy. I have always believed in the Chinese proverb, "In order to defeat your enemy, you must first know your enemy".

[@scottym6680]

@@robertsansone1680 I’ve wanted to read both of those but I figured they would bore the hell out of me

[@robertsansone1680]

@@scottym6680 They would. To save you the trouble, Hitler didn't like Jews & Mao didn't like Capitalism.

[@patrickmcardle4771]

True, ban something, and people want to know why.😂❤

[@robertsansone1680]

@@patrickmcardle4771 "Forbidden Fruit is sweet".

[@jengray3971]

Even Simon's superior acting skills couldn't convince me he enjoyed the green drink. He really tried, though. He did .

[@foryoureyesonly8926]

Thought the same thing, still love my boy Simon tho!

[@Rocketboy1313]

It is weird he is advertising such a product. He does not look like the sort of health influencer that sort of thing would couple well with.

[@lorenzbroll0101]

If it tastes foul then it must be good for you is the USP.

[@nobiazcustomsinc5030]

considering what AG1 pays, its not weird at all@@Rocketboy1313

[@twistedyogert]

I tried that drink once. Tasted like yard trimmings.

[@novakaizr]

"The system". "The organization". "The order". Clearly this is the peak of creativity

[@oliverseiler2871]

The Bible

[@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567]

@@oliverseiler2871That says The Bibble

[@Fractal_blip]

​@@oliverseiler2871not really a good example since bible isn't a nonspecific word here.

[@abrahamedelstein4806]

Well, it was the 1970s, let's see your literary works.

[@novakaizr]

@@abrahamedelstein4806 Of course, as we all know creativity was invented in the 1980s

[@kurtweeks6812]

I know Chaplin parodied Hitler and mocked him, but had no idea they were born the same year

[@andyhight9441]

The Great Dictator (1940), a fantastic movie. He parodied Hitler while he was still alive.

[@meaj4556]

And we still don't know who copied whose moustache!

[@nolongerblocked6210]

​@@meaj4556 I've always thought Hitler copied Chaplin's

[@meaj4556]

@nolongerblocked6210 I believe so, but it's never been proven, far as I know. We could start calling it a Chaplin-stache, if he was first?

[@maryanntoner4520]

I first learned this bit of info when Robert Downey, Jr was doing press for _Chaplin_. (Can’t believe that film was released 30+ years ago.)

[@lonewanderer3603]

Even if you wanted a copy of this novel for nothing more than the educational and historical significance (learning from history so as not to repeat it), I imagine you'd wind up on a whole host of watch lists.

[@pugachevskobra5636]

You should end up on a Watchlist. It's 2023; no one is buying that bullshit "erm umm it's for research" narrative anymore. There are tons of resources available online including the very site you're on right now if you want an in depth breakdown of the book and how shitty it is.

[@jibjones1233]

Bought it in high school from a barnes and nobel. They had to special order it so im definitely on a list somewhere. I'm just hoping me being Jewish and taking a class on the subject helped me out a bit 😂 Edit: the guy above is correct with how bad it is, such a poorly written book

[@SarafinaSummers]

😏 it’s available to the library of Congress is braille and audio reading download service in other words… It’s available to the blind. Lol!

[@mwolkove]

​@jibjones1233 you just need to submit form vet 49 aleph to the international cabal, and they can get you removed from the list. Make sure you're not using bet 49 aleph, that's the one for space laser targeting requests. You only get to make that mistake once.

[@barbaragarb9453]

I'm already on half a dozen watchlists bc of research for my writing (I have characters who literally work the JTTF, enough said) and the *only* reason I'd read is to better understand motivation behind acts of terrorist. That's it. Anything other than similar research purposes and I think that that book needs to be burned.

[@zanesweeten2523]

As someone who lives in Oklahoma City currently and visited the bombing memorial well before he moved here. I have never gone to a memorial as sobering and just oddly silent in damn near the middle of downtown, it’s like a dome is around the area, it is pen drop silent. I wasn’t alive when the bombing happened and the memorial still brought me to tears. It is a must stop to pay your respect to the innocent victims of psychopath.

[@BillBondsHasAPosse]

How about all those agents who called in sick that day! I think it was close to 1/2 the agents

[@we_wuz_wolves]

The one big takeaway I got from that book (which I read two decades ago) was that their revolution was made possible by the gov't outlawing and confiscating privately owned firearms. According to the book, the conservatives who claimed they would never give up their guns, did the opposite. They were among the first to comply. The revolutionaries kept theirs and hid them. Also, the author had a keen eye for sociopolitical trends, as the world described in that book is disturbingly similar to today's world.

[@Tuberuser187]

The world in the future of the "historian" or the world before and during the "great revolution"?

[@ElvenSupremacy]

@@Tuberuser187 Obviously, it's the world before the "great revolution". The last sentence of OP's comment makes that rather clear.

[@Tuberuser187]

@@ElvenSupremacy Not really, mentioning todays world leaves it open enough.

[@judim5379]

Yes only the so called conservatives have traded rules with the liberals and just haven’t figured it out yet!!!! 😂😂😂😂 what was the devils biggest trick again??? How did that go??? I’m a pagan so I don’t fucking know… SKALL, yah this is a shit show clown circus..

[@HenrySchecker]

How to let the world know you agree with the Turner diaries without openly saying you agree with the Turner diaries Religious gun nuttery goes hand and hand with racism, go figure

[@theunbearablejuan]

For something that was so widely regarded for white supremacists, I got curious and read some excerpts. The thing reads like an edgy 4Channer who read The Handmaid's Tale and tried to make that but racist and intentionally misogynistic.

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

It's extremely boring and badly written

[@pyromania1018]

​@@mytruecrimelibraryKind of like "Mein Kampf".

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

@@pyromania1018 yes Mein Kampf is also boring af

[@bigblob1623]

Remember it wasn't just right wingers that were inspired by this trash. The Weather Underground used it as their guide, they were super far left antisemites.

[@-imperatorinsomnia-6163]

Funnily enough, The Handmaiden's Tale is remarkably Islamophobic but written to smear a fictional version of Christianity. I'm an atheist (somewhat anti-theistic) and I find it strange how people choose to overlook that.

[@davidmassey4114]

I like how clearly disgusted he was with the AG1, it sounded like a teenager talking right after a shot of tequila or something.

[@eriknervik9003]

Another influence on the Turner Diaries you missed was Jack London’s The Iron Heel, a novel written from Londons socialist politics, it’s very similar in composition, written as letters of the protagonist found after a great socialist uprising overthrows the the US government (referred to as the Iron Heel) and the governments in Europe and Latin America which are portrayed as mere puppets of the iron heel. At the end of the book, it is reference that the protagonist was martyred and after her death, a socialist revolution had installed a new regime, called the brotherhood of Man.

[@ferulebezel]

Of course he didn't mention it. Socialism good. He didn't mention the Handmaids Tale either.

[@eriknervik9003]

@@ferulebezel The handmaids tale was not referenced by the author of TD as an inspiration nor is it of a similar literary style

[@julietfischer5056]

@@eriknervik9003- That would require a time machine, as _The Handmaid's Tale_ was written in the 1980s.

[@julietfischer5056]

@@ferulebezel- Or maybe it didn't occur to him. Why should Simon mention a book written nearly a decade after _The Turner Diaries?_

[@ferulebezel]

@@julietfischer5056 The same reason one would mention analogous books written decades before it.

[@AreJayCee]

Read this years ago. Know your enemy is the only reason I finished it.

[@HandiasTobil]

i will watch your ad reads because you put it at the beginning unlike other channels that try to fool me by putting their ads when the video is just about to get good.

[@katiesdumbvideos5418]

Do Protocols of The Elders of Zion next!

[@bloodmuffin123]

Yeah, i don't he will go there, youtube will ban his channel

[@BlueTyphoon2017]

⁠@@bloodmuffin123assuming these comments aren’t facetious from anti semitic people themselves, in all honesty that would be interesting. It’s a great forgery and fictional nonsense in of itself. However KZbin probably would ban it due to KZbin’s AI bot thinking that Simon is a neo Nazi channel, the bot not being able to tell the difference unfortunately.

[@jasoncoomer1226]

​@@bloodmuffin123No...they wont silly

[@fortunatomartino8549]

The real enemies of humanity

[@Flat_Earth_Addy]

@@bloodmuffin123lol JewTube

[@kenofken9458]

I remember back in the mid 80s a friend and I were in high school and went to a gun show one Sunday for something to do. There was a vendor selling this book and he was dressed in some sort of uniform, almost like some kind of boy scout type group. He said something like "you two look like fine young men. How would you like to step up and do something for your people"? Being pretty naive at the time, I thought that sounded patriotic and he encouraged me to read some of this book. About five minutes in I realized these dudes were straight up Nazis! I made my share of bad decisions when I was young, but I had enough sense not to get mixed up with that bunch!

[@Rampart.X]

I'm calling BS on your story.

[@kenofken9458]

I wish it were. You don't believe there were and are white supremacists groups out there? This is how they recruited pre-Internet.

[@ChaseTheHonda]

@@Rampart.XI take it you’ve never been to a gun show in states? 😂

[@Rampart.X]

@@ChaseTheHonda I know leftists like to jazz up the Nz WS narrative.

[@shawnwatson1419]

In the 80s i can totally see that. Many of these "militia" types are still ignorant to this day.

[@Waldemarvonanhalt]

It's a very short book and it's free online (at least it was when I found it years ago). You can easily read the whole thing in an hour or two. William Pierce isn't that great at story-telling and it shows in the book. It's a power fantasy story and he said as much. A more realistic scenario book written by him would be "Hunter" (If I remember the name correctly).

[@bg7893]

"free online (at least it was when I found it years ago)" Still is, even in Canada.

[@txoricin]

Thanks for the recommendation

[@BackslideDan]

I miss Murdoch Murdoch

[@AliceBowie]

I brought hearts of iron!

[@InternetVigilante]

I found a website called people only love... I wonder what they talk about on there?

[@CliffCardi]

Bring me a higher love!

[@opossumlvr1023]

Unfortunately there will not be a repeat of the Great MEME war of 2016 during the 2024 election cycle and all of the great content it generated. Walt Bismarck was also memory holed by KZbin.

[@spankyspengler5165]

They were last seen walking through Spengler's Forest.

[@OrdinaryDude]

The insidious thing about this kind of publication, is that there are plenty of non-racist things in it that appeal to a wider audience. The distrust of government, the belief in the American Second Amendment, distrust of the American Media... And so on. This can be the hook that gets people to read it.

[@thomaswillard6267]

Except the framing of all those things within the book is definitely racist. The characters in the book distrust the government because they think the state is harming white people to help immigrants. The characters are Pro-2a as a mechanism to enact violent racial policy such as the Day of the Rope. The distrust of the media is bexause they are secretly controlled by 'JeWs'. It is like someone saying 'I only read playboy for the articles' Well the articles were often also misogynistic tripe or else active mindfucking. Anyone trying to come with an excuse for having it other than 'I am reading it to understand Nazis better' is probably a Nazi themselves deepxdown.

[@badluck5647]

It is scary how many of the ideas have gone mainstream in America politics: Great Replacement Theory, Deep State Cabel changing election results, FBI agents framing white Americans, BLM out to prey on white people

[@hiddenporcupine932]

And our government and media have proved that they are not to be trusted. (Especially the guns)

[@Raycloud]

The constant attacks and denigration of White Americans and White people as a whole goes a long way to making the book not seem that crazy. I mean, our nations are being flooded with non-Whites while Progressives celebrate the fact (while also denying it). Are you even capable of speaking truth, sir?

[@xmmTokarev]

The book includes a passage that kind of confronts that same idea but from the opposite perspective. Basically, Earl has to execute a conservative member who had previously been part of his movement, but only because he was attracted to the things you just listed and was not purely dedicated to racial struggle

[@Fetchdafish]

Anyone who thinks this book is the most dangerous doesn’t remember much about the 20th century.

[@Keifsanderson]

No kidding. This guy is a clown. Mein Kamph? Mao's Little Red Book? Nevermind The Communist Manifesto itself, which while written in the 19th century resulted in the deaths of untold millions in the 20th.

[@mridlon1634]

20th Century’s most deadly books would be Hitler’s Mein Kampf or Mao Tse-Tung’s Little Red Book.

[@waynemyers2469]

Not even close, those two books are famous, sure but do they still influence behaviors or fuel movements, very little. I think Sun-Tsu, The Koran, 1984, The Satanic Verses, Beyond Freedom And Dignity, Johnny Got His Gun, War of the Flea, Industrial Society and it's Future and a half-dozen others will be the "important" and dangerous books of the near future.

[@darthphilfy]

I would have the Bible and other religious texts at the top of the list of most dangerous books.

[@matteste]

A book that makes the early and mid carreer works of good old uncle Lovecraft seem modest by comparison.

[@barbaragarb9453]

HP Lovecraft would call the Turner Diaries racist which is really saying something

[@matteste]

@@barbaragarb9453 Chances are that he would really tear it apart, especially late career Lovecraft given how his views changed later in his life. And then there is the fact that Lovecraft actually knew how to write properly.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

okay you're going too far there. loving lovecraft doesn't make you a racist. nor do I see calls for violence in the Cthulu mythos. Lovecraft was a neurotic neophobe. His racism was a product of severe clinical anxiety. If he lived today, he'd be seeing a psychiatrist and therapist and be on medication. He also married a Jew who shared his love of books, against the wishes of his family, so its clear that he cared more about books than he did about race. You notice that his protagonists aren't just white protestants, they're copies of HIM. He's the one being turned into a monster, driven insane, or killed. He's doing these things to himself in his novels. Psychologically, he did have a lot of things in common with racists. But it was more than just racism. It was the much broader neophobia, the fear of new things. Anything that was new and unfamiliar. Not just people of different races, faiths or creeds. I'm not sure if this makes sense, I'm waiting for my first cup of coffee to kick in. But to denounce him as merely a racist is to oversimplify him immensely.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

@@matteste I love lovecraft, but he can occasionally get too ornate. and occasionally he misuses a word in his quest to be obtuse. In the Cats of Ulthar for example, I don't think he knows what the word hoary means. Its an archaic word for hairy. So he's calling Africa "Dark and hairy". Like whut? That doesn't make sense. If he meant hoary as in behaving like a whore, then he seriously misused the word. How do I know what hoary means? Because I've grown horehound, a medicinal tea herb, which got its name from 'hoary" because it was fuzzy.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

@@barbaragarb9453 Lovecraft also never openly called for violence. The people most hurt in Lovecraft's writings were his protagonists, who are all copies of himself, and the occasional group of cultists who have no clue what they're actually doing. The Turner Diaries openly depict violence for political gain, plain old human on human cruelty.

[@michaelpopely4408]

I just hope the KZbin algorithm doesn’t strike this video

[@julietfischer5056]

_The Handmaid's Tale_ was written long AFTER _The Turner Diaries._

[@NickB1967]

seven years, not that long?

[@kkloikok]

Holy shit this sounds like a great idea

[@baneofbanes]

No

[@jeffreygao3956]

Oh no! The Turner Diaries deserves mockery, not fans!

[@stevebull7105]

Turner? I hardly know her!

[@Maconviking]

Despite the content we should hesitate to ban books, even radical texts. The second the government start policing who can read what we step into dangerous territory. That said this book could certainly prove malicious to select individuals.

[@badluck5647]

I imagine many of the people who want this book carried in the school library are the same people who want to ban books that have LGBTQ characters or mentions slavery in a negative light.

[@JohnGalt916]

since when? the concept of free speech absolutism is very new. we literally had a department of censorship. our forefathers had blasphemy laws.

[@RandallSlick]

Ha ha ha. Seriously? I'm writing the definitive reference book on how to turn libertarians into soap on an industrial scale. Looking forward to it not being censored or banned.

[@ArtyBayville]

@@RandallSlick No one is stopping you like the thousands of other unimpressive books which talks about extermination of people's and other ideologies, when we get to look and and shun it for what it is and laugh at it.

[@billhacks]

I agree. censorship is not good. even if it has good intentions. A good example of this is Simon and other tubers having to dance around and say things like "unalived" or "rworded". Censorship creates doublespeak and other major issues. like people afraid to speak their minds and seek professional help when needed.

[@IonOtter]

Regarding the "Anarchist Cookbook"? That tome is the greatest, most effective manual for self-removal from the gene pool currently in print. I read it, and could not stop laughing at the number of ways to reduce oneself to so much exsanguinated hamburger. So if rapid, unexpected disassembly of your bilateral symmetry is what you're looking for, then the "Anarchist Cookbook" and "Poor Man's James Bond" are your manuals of choice. Good luck, and try not to take anyone other than yourself along with you.

[@Jreb1865]

One must separate the wheat from the chaff...

[@robertbobbypelletreaujr2173]

Never buy the compromised second grab editions

[@stowejared]

Thank you for mentioning the number of people including, children murdered at the Oklahoma City bombing. I think for the sake of complete context, it's important to not gloss over the amount of life lost at Waco, 82 people including 23 children.

[@VampyreVladimira]

I'll be honest, I've heard about Waco a lot over the years (I was born in 1985), but I still don't fully understand what happened or what it was about.

[@stowejared]

@VampyreVladimira Essentially, there was a group of religious separatists that had an end of days belief. They were accused of weapons violations and sexual misconduct. The federal government went to their compound to serve a warrant on the leader. The "Davidians," as they were called, were prepared. This led to a shootout and a long, drawn-out standoff and seige. It ended in a fire and the death of almost everyone in the compound. There are several documentaries and movies about it. There is still a lot of debate about all the events that took place and who was at fault. It was a tragedy regardless of who was at fault.

[@themadpolymath3430]

​@VampyreVladimira ATF murdered women and children by burning down a compound of a cult that had "automatic weapons" that were never found. The leader of the cult was a "child lover" apparently, but the government wasn't there for that. All the video footage that showed the ATF firing first was "lost" so all we have the the ATF's word that "no they shot at us first". But they massacred those women and children and blamed it on the cult.

[@VampyreVladimira]

@@themadpolymath3430 Geezus! So basically, it would be like ATF or someone similar going to Jonestown and massacring the victims of Jim Jones' cult? Like yeah, I get it, they were a cult and had weapons (allegedly), but the people that were part of it, except the leader who created it, were victims, like? Wtf?!

[@gapshot5065]

Thanks for the video you peaked my interest where can I find it? Thanks!

[@adamredwine774]

I read this a while back and the overwhelming impression I got was that it was about the quality of writing of 50 Shades of Gray but replace the sex with racist violence.

[@xmmTokarev]

In his other novel (Hunter) Pierce did write a bunch of sex scenes between his self insert character who goes around shooting mixed race couples and his significantly younger wife lol

[@barackobama9343]

YES, in the modern world you have to READ FICTION about white folks committing horribly racist crimes ON MASS... UNLIKE BLM!!! which came with GLOBAL video evidence in 2020/21... but GOOD FOR YOU, taking a stand against the WHITE DEVIL couldn't have been easy for you in the current political climate...

[@Dunge0n]

3.5% of the population (black males aged 13 to 35). 65% of non-familial violent assaults nationwide.

[@wingerding]

Why did you even read that?

[@adamredwine774]

@@wingerding I like to be informed but mostly just curiosity.

[@laurajaneluvsbeauty9596]

Oddly apt for what we’re going through today

[@THEKOOLiDMAN]

Which is exactly why its banned

[@iniguezawsome]

​@THEKOOLiDMAN stop playing the victim. It's not even close to what's happening

[@Matt-pr7kw]

The west being invaded by undesirables that don't gel with our way of life?

[@Lunch_Meat]

​@@iniguezawsomeyeah, an insurrection over the results of a fair election in which members of several different "freedom" groups used some of the ideas laid out in this book is just a coincidence. Folks just happened to have zipties handcuffs on them for no reason when they entered the capitol building.

[@THEKOOLiDMAN]

@@iniguezawsome peak delusion. Its a forecast of what's to come. Camp of the saints got it better though.

[@54WMD]

I enjoy your presentation so much, I even listen to the commercial at the beginning!

[@wandamaddox7824]

Thanks for telling more people about this.

[@katy4714]

1:34 Content starts

[@Shadow-fp9ky]

But then we miss his sour face trying to sell this green crap when he tries drinking it.

[@Jeremy-ql1or]

0:27 Simon gags while taking a sip of the sponsored product.

[@jumboMIDGET]

That's the REAL content right there@@Jeremy-ql1or

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

uhm... you know that "mein kampf" is also a 20th century book, right? so is mao's little red book.

[@apanapandottir205]

He mentions it at the start of the video.

[@greggkimball4110]

Actually, the 20th Century's most dangerous book was "Rules for Radicals".

[@pieterveenders9793]

Nope, by far the most dangerous book of the 20th century, light years ahead of all the others, is the communist manifesto by Karl Marx. The fact that Simon named some obscure book barely anyone has ever heard of let alone read "the most dangerous book of the 20th century" just shows his raging leftist bias. Communism and socialism have killed hundreds of millions in the 20th century, and the communist manifesto was the cornerstone of it all. Meanwhile the Turner diaries was the inspiration for a couple of deaths at most.

[@BlackPill-pu4vi]

The Turner Diaries is only dangerous to the guilty. Rules for Radicals was the Bad Guys' playbook and written by a bonafide member of the Tribe.

[@kennethnielsen3864]

Thanks for sharing.

[@haha-kq6rz]

Turner Diaries reads like a National Lampoon parody stretched out to book length.

[@KyleShiflet13666]

It really does

[@haha-kq6rz]

I found it to be very entertaining bathroom reading.

[@robertsansone1680]

Very interesting. Thank You

[@davidstewart5811]

Outstanding report. You have done yourself proud.

[@goodlookingcorpse]

You made a mistake about 'Serpent's Walk'. The author of that was M.A.R. Barker, an American professor who converted to Islam and was most famous outside of his field for writing an early tabletop role-playing game, 'Empire of the Petal Throne', with a very detailed setting inspired by pre-Columbian American and south Asian civilizations. His neo-Nazism didn't become widely known until after his death.

[@ryltair]

A neo-nazi muslim dungeon master? What the hell

[@GM4ThePeople]

@@ryltair u ev'dently don' play MYFAROG

[@betweentwomillennium5057]

He made a lot of mistakes. He does not know the rest of the story.

[@Of_infinite_Faith]

​@@ryltaireverything in that phrase minus the dungeon master part is very very common.

[@olivere5497]

​@@ryltairislam/neonazis/table top gaming are all systems of antisemetism.

[@LaurentiusTriarius]

As a Canadian citizen I'm ashamed that this is banned, censorship just makes it more interesting to impressionables minds...

[@wilhelmtomas4023]

Ha ha here in the U.S.A. we are on a book-banning spree.

[@daddyfuse50]

They banned it because it's correct in its assessments. It's a direct threat to the actual powers that are eroding Western nations - international banks.

[@jeffreygao3956]

But it literally deserves to be banned!

[@drgenmo8340]

​@@jeffreygao3956That mentality doesn't stop the right wing fanaticism, it only makes it worse.

[@jeffreygao3956]

@@drgenmo8340 No, giving them a free reign is what makes it worse.

[@danabell2709]

Mao's Little Red Book was and still is far more dangerous than that book could ever be.

[@WestSideGorilla1980]

How about the green book? Lybian Dictator wrote it.

[@danabell2709]

@@WestSideGorilla1980 As bad as Gaddafi was, Mao was responsible for deaths an order of magnitude higher and his book is still read among China's leadership.

[@johntomlinson6849]

I'd nominate The Koran

[@shawnschaitel838]

@@johntomlinson6849 by that argument i nominate the bible and torah

[@ChristCenteredLivingUSA]

You tried. @@shawnschaitel838

[@ATomRileyA]

"Rules for radicals" would be a good one to cover and has inspired so much violence and hatred.

[@joejones9520]

yep...surprised you havent been deleted for telling the real truth...

[@whereswaldo5740]

And continues to wreak havoc. Mao’s Little Red Book was very popular in the sixties and seventies.

[@wlewisiii]

Only in the fantasy lives of fascists who have never actually read the book. Little children like you that is.

[@karljeffries4848]

Randolph Caverhall was the pen name of M.A.R. Barker, designer of the Empire of the Petal Throne rpg campaign setting. M.A.R. Barker wrote Serpent's Walk. This was only discovered relatively recently. Apparently Randolph Caverhall was the name of one of his ancestors.

[@oliviawolcott8351]

sad day for rpg fans.

[@antondovydaitis2261]

This is very disappointing for me personally, as Tekumel has always been fascinating to me. I always knew the caste system was evil, and of course slavery, but Medieval European Feudalism was awful as well, and Tekumel was a very distinct, non-European fantasy setting. No matter what I might think about M.A.R. Barker himself, I have spent too many decades engaging in the content to abandon all that effort because Barker was a Nazi wanker. Just as I wouldn't abandon Dungeons and Dragons or Middle Earth if I discovered something awful about their creator.

[@kuriboh635]

I just posted about this as well. It does suck. But I am surprised Simon couldn't Google it real quick, it's on Wikipedia for gods sake.

[@chainmailleguy]

Austin is not that far east. Austin is in south central Texas

[@Dunge0n]

"There is a deeply Semitic influence in the press. It is Semitic and I am sure of it." -Patton, post-WWII

[@ScoutsHonorBB]

It's okay for the Semites to brag about it, but it's not okay for us to notice it.

[@JamesiaInc]

Ooooo the scary jews are coming to getcha!​@@ScoutsHonorBB

[@JoseC888888]

This os the first time I dont skip the sponsors adds, you made it interesting. I will try it.

[@markvoelker6620]

“Rules for Radicals” by Saul Alinsky

[@tacticalmattfoley]

Yeah, that book is just as bad yet is on the coffee table of every current self-designated Marxist.

[@lloydgush]

fun thing about utopians, it's literally the 1: 2: 4: profit Meme. A bunch of people who read utopia and didn't understand it was a parody.

[@user-eg5fr3xl6m]

And as I am sure we all know, the word 'Aryan' doesn't mean what they think it means. A Parsee friend once took great pleasure in pointing out that as an Indo-Iranian, he was an Aryan, and I, being an Anglo-Saxon, was not. And then of course the term 'Anglo-Saxon' is also a load of old nonsense.

[@myriaddsystems]

Fascinating insights

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Oh this book.... As if these desirable groups won't just eat their own once everyone else is gone.

[@blenderbanana]

And before. Night of Long Knives, the Bolsheviks CHEKA, Romes Servile Wars, Fascists have to purge any domestic dissention, and liquidate(profit) from any adjacent power structures before they can turn on the world.

[@nolongerblocked6210]

They do it now!! It's just mostly hidden in their compounds & deep in the backcountry where they live. But every once in awhile someone escapes bcuz they don't like how they or their kids/family are being treated or turned into fanatics & it becomes a news story for a week or two... then everyone forgets about those a-holes again & they continue on with their idiocy in secret

[@VideoMask93]

@@nolongerblocked6210just like how the National Alliance fell apart after Pierce’s death!

[@AdamWood-dx7xm]

@@VideoMask93White supremacist organizations are always splintering and reforming. Who would have thought being racist and uneducated would make you prone to excessively small groups and an inability to compromise in a functional manner.

[@Rog5446]

Simon, it's Soylent Green, look it up.

[@jonglewongle3438]

It was this deep thinking hard case, Earl Turner, keeping an extremely detailed diary of his activities. But what got Earl Turner in the poo was that he rescued a girl from traffickers and then was told that it was traffickers working for elements in Congress. And so he blurts out, " Where can I get some dynamite ! ". And some post-adolescent dude shrugs his shoulders. It does not specifically say it. but it was this dude who dobbed Earl Turner into the authorities who then raided his safehouse. Then he is busted out of prison a year or two later by the Organisation and is given a suicide mission after doing a probationary period because he faltered in his obligations to the Organisation because of a lapse of security.

[@Brian-uy2tj]

This is disturbing. I am going to write to my congressman and watch some videos of cute dogs and cats to try and feel normal again.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Keep up the good work!

[@andycooper668]

ye that green shit took his breath away 🤣

[@nachtrevi82]

The Day of the Rope

[@stephenbauer3834]

Do one on the Talmud next....

[@user-qm2li8zx2d]

You do it.

[@ianonymous3524]

When it comes to cursed texts I find myself conflicted. I have actually read portions of these books never actually gotten through any of them. However if we don’t know how the enemies of peace think we are helpless against them. More I will say that banning them is in my opinion a mistake. When I was in high school a fellow student brought a copy of the anarchist cookbook to class, the faculties response was as one would hope. He was evaluated and it was discovered that yes he was on the short road to well doing something that would end tragically. Reading and enthusing about such literature is a clear and actionable indicator something is about to go bad. If you ban these media then you block the means by which such individuals can show there downward spiral before they commit to actually violent acts. The kid who dose his book report on the turner diaries or the anarchist cookbook gets help the one who quietly went down the rabbit hole until he shows up with a gun… that dosnt have a happy ending regardless of what happens next.

[@mikeguilmette776]

Hear hear. If hateful people aren't allowed to speak, they will still be hateful - but we won't know who they are.

[@khironkinney1667]

The old adage holds true know thy enemy. If you don't know their rhetoric, you can't counter those that are on the fringe of becoming dangerous. While it's difficult to dissuade those that have become radicalized if you can even convince one to turn away it's a win

[@barackobama9343]

My point was this book is being deemed "racist" but if you listen to the plot of the story and the actions that led to events, WE ARE LIVING THIS STORY NOW! I agree banning books of ANY nature would be damaging to an intelligent society... but, what if that was the goal? Do you REALLY believe the government wants a free thinking, intelligent population that not only will ask difficult questions but DEMAND factual answers to them? That may have been true before JFK was assassinated but not anymore...

[@TheNemocharlie]

A family friend who worked for HM Customs and Excise found his twins studying a book at school that he had been told to seize if anyone was discovered bringing it into the country....

[@ianonymous3524]

@@barackobama9343 “Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted.” Che Guevara said that, not exactly a proponent of non violence. But it holds true in most countries certainly in the USA and most of Europe the peaceful means of resolution are not exhausted thus taking up arms or saying that we live in age of tyranny and thus others should take up arms, is not ok.

[@teutonalex]

Well done. You get to stay monetized, citizen.

[@Flat_Earth_Addy]

lol true

[@WestSideGorilla1980]

Haha

[@MrBentleyblue]

Netflix is adapting this with Idris Elba as Earl Turner.

[@nunyabiz7473]

Hush! 😂😂😂

[@lindajamshidi]

I would appreciate it if you gave a talk about ' Germany must perish' written 1938 by Theodur Kaufman. Truly, a racist book if ever there was one. Its actually calling for genocide.

[@Drak976]

That was a good book though according to this guy. He'll never mention the Frankfurt school because it was good. Not bad. Only this is bad.

[@28_futaba]

​@@Drak976he never even mentioned it

[@InterplanarerPennersoeldner65]

"But-but the others are doing bad things too!" - every antisemite and racist

[@Rumpleforeskin77]

​@@Drak976What do you expect he's of the tribe

[@vulpes7079]

Whataboutism

[@Blimsky]

Chaplin being born 4 days before Adolf explains a lot, his humour is that of an older brother ripping on his slightly younger brother....

[@DaveGreeneramblingcarpenter]

AG1 always reminds me of the film, Soylent Green 🙉🙉

[@nolongerblocked6210]

Simon almost 🤢🤮 trying it

[@tomfox9083]

You didn’t sell very well 😂😂😂

[@cpt_bill366]

Thanks for sharing. I heard of this long ago, but was never curious enough to read a copy. I knew I wouldn't like it, but wondered what was so bad about it. Now I know, and I didn't have to read it.

[@PattyOflan88]

Remember that Simon is very happy to continue to push the idea to send your children off to fight in Ukraine.

[@ThePrestoPrestissimo]

Thanks for your great book reccommendation

[@theremedy4876]

Read it online. If you show that book, or said that you'd read it to a college professor. Expect a visit from the campus police to your very own house you live in. And get instantly expelled from college without much due process. America today doesn't want anymore William L. Pierces, and like minded men who think like him.

[@NSCroatia1986]

Great book

[@TiffanyRyeMarston]

I remember first hearing about this book after the Oklahoma City bombing. Timothy Mcvey pretty much used a section in the book and copied it.

[@Rampart.X]

Evidence, please.

[@TiffanyRyeMarston]

@@Rampart.X I haven’t read the book but watched a video essay where the dude goes into detail about it. he read it so we don’t have to type of thing. And it’s in there right up to using a truck as a transport. Plus it’a mentioned in most Timothy mcvey docs. It’s where he got the “inspiration” for the bombing. The boom had a huge impact on him

[@Rampart.X]

@@TiffanyRyeMarston Are you aware that, like other subjects of CIA MK Ultra program, Timothy McVey was a marine who was groomed for a false flag attack on the FBI?

[@antoneckhart4010]

​@@Rampart.Xmany said the bombing was "movie set" like.

[@joejones9520]

@@TiffanyRyeMarston if you read it youll feel silly for your comments

[@jmanj3917]

19:45 G*ddamn you, Brain Boy...lol Now I'm going to have to read this sh*t. Thanks a lot!

[@youthfulcurmudgeon3627]

And yet, most of the book is coming to pass before our very eyes.

[@jacquesstrapp3219]

Unfortunately, you're correct.

[@Rumpleforeskin77]

Whoa stop noticing buddy and it will all be ok

[@youthfulcurmudgeon3627]

@@Rumpleforeskin77 LOL Love the user name!

[@vanzc7920]

Come on Simon, Cody from Some More News chugs that entire glass. Put some effort into it.

[@nolongerblocked6210]

It's obvious Cody doesn't like it either, lol, Simon's "I'm on my 2nd glass" was obviously a lie

[@vanzc7920]

@@nolongerblocked6210 LMAO when Cody "enjoys" his drink.

[@NoahSpurrier]

Oh yeah, I remember reading this back in the 1990’s. What made it really scary is that it’s actually pretty well written and has a solid plot. But, fortunately, most sociopaths aren’t so intelligent, so the impact of this book was minimal. The Cohen Act.. jeeze… man, with a few tweaks this book could have been a satire.

[@samanthaqiu3416]

do you disagree there is currently a war in america and europe against white people in general? I find that part of the plot the most compelling, because it is very real in 2023

[@Drak976]

Right. What a ludicrous idea. Next thing the ray rays are going to say Allen Greenspan and Janet Yellen run our $ supply or something.

[@WestSideGorilla1980]

It's a John carpenter movie with right wing leaning politics lol gun control is being forced on us in Illinois....no one is complying so far.

[@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas]

Well written and solid plot. It is basic white nationalist power fantasy, that was not written that well.

[@floatingf8783]

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[@SidneyBroadshead]

18:55 _Serpent's Walk_ (1991) has recently been accredited to linguist, sociologist, writer, and game designer M.A.R. Barker. Randolph D. Calverhall is one of his _nom de plumes_ . He is best known for his roleplaying game _Empire of the Petal Throne_ , the first rpg with constructed languages and densely detailed non-European cultures. It was his authorship of _Serpent's Walk_ that has stalled recent efforts to reprint or update _EotPT_ and its online presence.

[@irishcream9004]

i need to read it

[@SidneyBroadshead]

@@irishcream9004 I don't know if _Serpent's Walk_ is any good. I also don't know if Barker totally meant what he was writing. Norman Spinrad wrote a _roman a clef_ satire of Tolkien's works called _The Iron Dream_ , a fantasy novel written by Adolf Hitler in an alternate Earth. It's like Ralph Bakshi's _Wizards_ from Ironwolf's point of view. Basically Hitler is Aragorn and Goring is King Théoden, except they ride motorcycles instead of horses.

[@sid2112]

Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker

[@SidneyBroadshead]

@sid2112 Yep. His anti-semitism was due to conservative values he adopted when he converted to Islam. He "went native" in Pakistan while studying Urdu and even married a Muslim wife. He actually initially rejected his father's Nazi ideology (at least in his younger days) and even wrote an essay decrying it. His dad was a member of the German Bund and was a fervent anti-communist and anti-semite. However, Barker later wrote articles as Calverhall for a holocaust denier periodical. Barker rejected the hedonistic and atheist Hippie culture of the late '60s and '70s and their rejection of moral values. It comes through in the excerpts I've read of _Serpent's Walk_ . It's weird that his later reactionary beliefs came from a multicultural place.

[@sid2112]

@@SidneyBroadshead Authoritarian, not conservative. There's a difference.

[@ralphox]

I wonder if this is the plot that unfolds in the film Leave the World Behind, the city of New York is nuked at the end per this book, and the story is told through the eyes of a black and a white family that is blindsided by the events... just connecting some dots like a crazy person here :)

[@julietfischer5056]

Did you see that movie? Or are you going off a synopsis? I might add that this sort of plotline is not so unusual in SF. It's usually not so blatantly racist (unless written by one of those militaristic clods who solves all problems with mass death).

[@Hsereal]

I'm actually currently reading this book, under the reasoning of "know the enemy". The biggest takeaway for me, and something I don't see discussed that much; while there _is_ a lot of anti-black and anti-Jewish hate present, there's one group that Turner (and MacDonald) clearly hates far more; white people. Most of the people the Organization [ends] are white, and nearly all the glorified violence is against white "race-traitors" or even just white people who are insufficiently racist. Compared to the hate Turner displays for those people, his hate for black people and even Jewish people seems downright muted. Example: "If the freedom of the [white] American people were the only thing at stake, the existence of the Organization would hardly be justified. Americans have lost their right to be free. Slavery is the just and proper state for a people who have grown as soft, self-indulgent, careless, credulous, and befuddled as we have." (Of course, when Turner says "American," he means "white American".) Then there's this delightful passage: "The Organization then established certain patterns in Detroit which were soon followed elsewhere. All captured White troops, as soon as they had laid down their weapons, were offered a chance to fight with the Organization against the System. Those who immediately volunteered were taken aside for preliminary screening and then sent to camps for indoctrination and special training. The others were machine-gunned on the spot, without further ado." Heck, as an antiracist white person with a major platform, Simon would actually be at the very top of the Organization's hit list -- a far higher priority than 99% of Jewish or black people. And if you want a real-world example of this, just look at McVeigh's victims; something like 80% of them were white. Those people weren't collateral damage; they were the primary targets. So yeah, white people; remember that the next time someone tries to tell you that white nationalism isn't a threat to you -- you're actually the people they'll shoot first.

[@NicheGreens]

Well yeah, that's always the playbook of extremists. We talk about Hitler's holocaust being against Jews, but the first people he killed were socialists. Same Lenin or Mao, pin the blame on a nefarious group, then point at your neighbors who didn't hate that group. It's the neighbor's fault, obviously, as the enemy is not competent enough to stop your progress.

[@TJDawgs72]

Spot on...

[@gypsydildopunks7083]

Excellent retort

[@xmmTokarev]

If you're interested, A Squire's Trial by Alexander Slavros is much more ideological and less of an action novel than TTD

[@michaelplath9618]

It should be obvious at this point but racial supremacists aren't real big on things like logic. They tend to lean fascist(exceptions of course here or there I guess) because they want to control ideas and keep their world view small. They can't have someone else's opinion possibly gain more traction. I theorize this is why "race traitors" tend to anger them so much. The idea that someone with vaguely similar genetics to them came to different conclusions is equivalent to trying to divide by zero; it breaks their brain. Their only solution to that "problem" is to eliminate it so it can stop confusing them.

[@jamesbest9038]

If Pierce were alive today he’d be running for congress and winning

[@stevencooke6451]

He'd be fighting hard to get to the right of Bobo, Missing Link Gaetz. Ugly Marjorie and others too numerous to name.

[@claudespeed277]

I'm sure he's running for hells cambinet of Devilish affairs along side Hliter and Zedong as we speak.

[@sanniepstein4835]

​@@stevencooke6451your lack of self awareness is remarkable.

[@Tha_Chancla]

What a load of shit. The book and your comment.

[@theremedy4876]

If he was, he'd be sued to oblivion. A - la Alex Jones or O.J. Simpson. And most likely put on trial for incitement of violence, and sent to Prison for the rest of his life.

[@CapnRaye]

Thank you for covering these horrors and not editing them. People need to see what this leads to.

[@gregorgerzson1767]

Also would be good covering the crimes commited by blacks. It would be a far longer video...

[@yuothineyesasian]

"Hopefully" leads to...

[@gregbors8364]

@@gregorgerzson1767Simon: “here’s a video about a bad novel written by an obvious white supremacist” You: “OK but to be fair you now need to do a video about all the crimes committed by black people throughout history” 🤦‍♂️

[@gregorgerzson1767]

@@gregbors8364 Or just the last 50 years. It would be fascinating to - after seeing that - still claims, those are the problems who wants a black free country

[@jamesbuchanan3145]

​@@yuothineyesasian Kek and based

[@jrmckim]

Though I think books like this should be burned or never written in the first place... I cant help but think about the tiktoks and other social media calling for the death of all white people without getting taken down. Even a college professor said all white people should die and kept her job. I find this extremely disturbing and dangerous. To want the death of any group of people based on something out of their control is wrong. Hating someone for the color of their skin color must get tiresome and depressing. I hope someday they find peace.

[@lazy_lefty]

I've read ted kaczynski's manifesto, and i have to admit it's actually quite an interesting read. However, I've only read excerpts from this book, and that's enough for me lol

[@josephschultz3301]

The big difference here is that Ted was a horribly damaged man that had at least some points to make. Yes, his bombing spree was awful, but it came as a result of an extremist mind that in an incredibly flawed way intended some kind of good (I'm absolutely _not_ defending his actions, by the way, only his truly deranged mindset; the guy was actually insane). Meanwhile, good ol' Pierce just wanted a world where the Nazis didn't completely fail the war like the rightful _losers_ that they really were. Evil. Fucking. _Losers._ It's not just propaganda, it's _fantasy_ propaganda, which quite amazingly comes off as both evil and fucking pathetic. Truly a trash document unworthy of anybody's time or attention.

[@yuothineyesasian]

You're right, it makes more sense than Uncle Ted's crazy ass 😂

[@gregbors8364]

@@yuothineyesasianWhy do so many white supremacists use pictures of black people as their thumbnails? 🤔

[@chrisuminski6037]

Probably because the Unabomber at least had a valid point in his manifesto

[@oliverxhmll]

well he had 167 iq and went to harvard after skipping 2 grades. ofc he could make anything sound valid

[@Fload.Ritlhe]

Soylent green in a drink.

[@rule3036]

Yeah, looked like you were really really enjoying that green stuff😂😂

[@jamesbell2902]

Back in the early/mid 90s, I had a couple cousins that could probably recite The Turner Diaries & Mein Kampf word for word if asked to. They were still in high school but were deep in the white supremacy scene. Them & their fellow ideology sharing friends set up a KKK recruiting stand at the entrance to their high school parking lot once, amongst many of their other insane antics. In 1992, someone in the permit department of the City of Denver thought granting the Klan a rally permit on state capital grounds, on the same day of the MLK parade. A parade which would march right down the street in front of the capital. The inevitable happened & the capital hill neighborhood of downtown Denver turned into a war zone. Anyway, one of my cousins best friends didn’t have a car or a ride to get to the rally, so he took a public transit bus across town while dressed in his full Klan gear, hood & all. I dunno why but that story has always stuck with me. He was probably 16, not a fear in the world & wore his hate proudly. Not a single person said a word to him which amazes me more than anything. Totally got off subject of the books but the topic reminded me of my buddy Paul’s awkward bus ride lol. The Turner Diaries was basically the Bible to my cousins at the time. Either one of them always had a copy of it as well as Mein Kampf on hand. They quoted it & preached it to anyone in ear shot. Oddly tho, as much as they’d preach their beliefs to me, they’d never allow me to join in on any of their exploits had I wanted to. They were city boys & I was their country cousin. They wanted to “educate” me, but didn’t want me involved in their actions, many of which were less than legal to say the least. I was family & hadn’t grown up in that environment so they didn’t want to be responsible for incriminating me on anything. I was young & dumb enough to buy into much of their words but wasn’t willing or wanting to engage in their after dark antics. I outgrew my little bit of belief in that nonsense pretty quick, as I’d only really seen them on holidays or large family functions. Granted I heard plenty of racial slurs in my little hick town anyway, but nothing like the hate they recited very passionately about. Surprisingly they did outgrow it too. It took a few more years than me, some jail visits, numerous public strip searches by DPDs gang task force, constant surveillance & making about every fed list existing at the time for them to do it, but they did. Because of them I saw first hand what kind of inspiration the book filled it’s fans with. Aside from the Bible, I’ve never seen a book have such an effect on a group of people. Pretty intense!

[@gizurrr964]

that's an absolutely terrifying story of your cousins. it's a wonder they haven't wound up dead in some alleyway at the hands of some other gang American History X style. i truly hope your cousins are doing their best in renouncing their past and living a righteous fulfilling life

[@jamesbell2902]

@@gizurrr964 They’re no angels by any means. Of the 3 brothers that were my cousins, the oldest has struggled the most. He’s has an alcohol problem that’s plagued him for years. Last I had heard he got a good job, settled down with a woman & she’s helping him overcome his demons. He’s a good guy & was back in bad days too. Family is his biggest love. His youthful mind being convinced that the minorities were a threat to his family is how he got started in the scene. Younger brother looked up to him so he was all in. The 3rd one was a few years behind tho. (The kid brother that annoys you more than anything type of age gap). He would proudly yell “white power” in his elementary & middle schools, cuz that’s what his cool big brothers did. The age gap between him & them, different friends & the scene becoming less organized is what saved him. I don’t think his brothers would’ve allowed it anyway until he was older. That “get to em while their young” strategy wasn’t practiced much. Anyway, the other 2 of my aforementioned cousins moved on, has family of their own & are doing very well from what I’ve heard. The non family members I knew from that era is full of the typical results of living lives like that. Many have been to prison. A few still are & likely will be for a long time. A few disappeared. Either moved on cuz they were wanted for something, moved to get away from the scene or past events caught up to them & they disappeared against their will. My cousins best friends were 2 brothers they lived near. They were so close that they just called each other ‘cuz’ or cousin. If you don’t known em you’d assume they kin. I knew them really well. Lost track of the older brother. His insane temper & occasional drug use cost him his marriage, his son, his home & an amazing job. He didn’t look like he had a mean bone in his body i& was so quiet & polite all the time. Always liked to drink more than he should but even knew when to ease up on that if he had to. Such a nice guy, but with a temper unlike anything I’ve ever seen. His younger brother, much larger & stronger than him, had gotten into an argument one night. It got broken up between all us there & the younger bro thought it was settled. Big bro mmm let it fester inside until his brother went to sleep. I heard all hell break loose in the other room so me, my cousin & another guest went to see what was wrong. The older brother waited till the younger one was asleep & began smashing him in the face with a dumbbell bar. By the time we got into the room, “little” bro was covered in blood, choking big bro against the wall with one hand & furiously beating his fist into his face with the other. I got hit trying to stop him. He thought he was being home invaded & was blinded by blood in his eyes. He didn’t even realize it was his brother who attacked him & that he was literally trying to beat to death when we stopped it. Pure insanity when those 2 brothers would have family “disagreements”.‘ I hope the older one got help with his anger issues. He had no chance with his temper unless he got help. Another good guy, but made bad choices in his youth that mixed with mental issues had a rough road ahead. His younger brother was their crews enforcer. He was a beast of a guy! Natural strength &’athletic ability. If he got into sports more than skinheads, who knows where he could’ve went. He wasn’t quick tempered like his bro, but more strategic. His brother would grab a weapon & start swing or stabbing anybody in reach if outnumbered. This guy would gladly take on a dozen guys by himself, but didn’t let blind rage or fear of death control him. Very controlled but extremely ruthless. His size made him a knockout threat to anyone & his strength meant broken or dislocated limbs were normal to take guys out of the fight. Not an ounce of remorse for anyone engaged in combat with. Again tho! Nicest guy. Big teddy bear who would give ya the shirt off his back. (Unless you weren’t white of course lol). He ended up with some drug issues for some years. Finally seemed to be doin good, being clean for nearly a year. Trying to reconnect with his 2 boys. Wasn’t feeling good one day & 2 days later was dead from sepsis. About a month before his 40th birthday too. Crazy how life works sometimes!

[@gizurrr964]

@jamesbell2902 for real :0 life does work in strange ways, but glad to know your cousins are doing decently now

[@Rampart.X]

Nice piece of fiction there.

[@SonjaHamburg]

"Mein Kampf" is so badly written. I never got why it was illegal until recently here in germany. It was only successfull because everyone here had to own it, not because it was very inspiring.

[@ydid687]

ahh a little late with your wholesome Christmas reading gift list there Simon

[@supertuscans9512]

I’d never heard of it before but I am a bit intrigued now. I’m going to read it for myself and make my own mind. It sounds like badly written sci-fi from the comments but let’s see. I read a translated copy of Mein Kampf and that was a turgid, repetitive read but significantly less so than the Koran which reads like it was written by an illiterate half-wit.

[@ArtyBayville]

@@supertuscans9512 I remember reading the Quran, even Muslims who study it have admitted how incoherent it is.

[@nssmithtx1]

I hope Simon doesn't mind, but I used a phrase from Casual Criminalist when he mentioned Rockwell's assassination around the 6:20 mark and Pierce's death around 7:48 - "Ohh nooo!"

[@Drak976]

Death is bad unless it happens to a "baddy". Very very classy youtube comments you've got there.

[@sorellasotero8047]

I read the book years ago. What I recall was that in the interest of creating a free society (for conservatives, of course) Turner responded by submitting to a council of hidden individuals who send him into increasingly challenging and eventually fatal missions.

[@brianm5637]

If a book is so dangerous that it has to be banned because it glamorizes violence, why shouldn’t the same standard be applied to gangster rap music and culture?

[@dabtican4953]

Black on black crime doesn't matter to these people, only white on black

[@user-ch8px1bi4g]

Because banning rap music would be racist 😂

[@user-pz9zl4fp7q]

that's a good point.

[@Turtlefunny]

They tired to ban Rap in the 90s

[@ckennett]

You’re comparing apples to orange genocide.

[@wes9809]

Maybe Simon can go over the book Noel Ignatiev wrote.... Looking through history, there's a lot that would explain what's going on in t he world, who promotes it, and how they get away w/ such rhetoric without mass uproar...

[@nedstarkx5637]

Noel is godamn psychotic, though thankfully even the lefty media know he's a clown

[@l.b8896]

0:33 Brother that did not look like a tasty experience 😂😂😂

[@thomfiel]

A good book about Robert Matthews' group is The Silent Brotherhood, by journalists Kelly Flynn and G. Gerhardt, published by Signet Books. Yes, they were avid readers of The Turner Diaries.

[@jscheunemann]

ATHLETIC GREENS ARE PEOPLE!

[@danm9006]

...lol.... All I could hear was Charleton Heston over emoting that line! 😂

[@Reddotzebra]

The Anarchist's cookbook is kind of silly though, even the author himself admits that he basically wrote the thing because he wanted to be an edgy teen.

[@miet5224]

Pierce’s bio sounded a lot like Sheldon (Physics, East texas and Pasadena…) until it took a hard RIGHT turn towards villan origin story there 😅

[@nickhawkes2188]

You know on the note of "what would you do if the government comes for your guns" everybody says they'd take some agents with them if it came to it but think about it if they really wanted your guns the vast majority of people that are law abiding citizens that own guns will be at work they'll just come in quietly with out warning and hit us before anybody knows what happens

[@jacquesstrapp3219]

There aren't enough agents to confiscate all the guns in one fell swoop. If they tried that, they might confiscate a few thousand guns. There are 393 million civilian owned firearms in America. Only 6.06 million are registered. There are 2500 ATF agents and 13,000 FBI agents. Do the math. It would be an absolute shit show for the feds.