The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right

An international neo-Nazi terrorist organization is boldly continuing to build in the US and planning a new paramilitary training event without fear of local authorities or the FBI, which once dismantled it in a nationwide effort.

The Base, founded in 2018 by a former Pentagon contractor living in Russia and now suspected of Kremlin-sponsored espionage, once boasted close to 50 stateside members before the bureau made more than a dozen arrests in a years-long counter-terrorism operation.

But since the presidential election campaign last year and what many then believed to be a surefire victory for Donald Trump, the Base saw an opportunity in a potential administration uninterested in policing white supremacy and went about ramping up its ranks.

  • losthalo@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    4 hours ago

    Maybe a good time for some moles to join up while they’re trying to vet a lot of new recruits…

  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    edit-2
    6 hours ago

    Reminder: killing Nazis incurs no moral debt. For some reason this isn’t true legally, but at least you won’t have to feel bad about it.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    5 hours ago

    All you lefty accelerationists who ten months ago wanted to “teach the Dems a lesson” - I expect to see you out there lighting up these chuds with weapons. You wanted this, here it is.

    Oh wait what? You have no plan, and no support? Just gonna fold under the weight of your own idiotic arrogance eh? Who could have expected that.

    And no, murdering two unarmed employees of the Israeli embassy at a museum does not count.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      4 hours ago

      I dunno man, I was told progressives votes did not matter in the last election, and here you are crying about it like it does matter. Thats confusing-- Why bother if progressives had no power? And if their votes DID matter, why didnt the Harris campaign with their ‘biggest-warchest-ever’ consultants factor that into their brilliant calculations/triangulations?

      https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-nonvoters-policy-preferences/

      Seems like a lot of finger pointing when the killer’s call is coming from inside the house.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 hours ago

        I was told progressives votes did not matter in the last election

        I don’t know who told you that, but whoever they were, they’re an idiot. And if you believed that, well.

        And if their votes DID matter

        Yes, this is the same as 1+1=2. It’s not hard and you’re very well aware of how counting works. Every vote matters.

        why didnt the Harris campaign with their ‘biggest-warchest-ever’ consultants factor that into their brilliant calculations/triangulations?

        What, I got Kamala on line 2? Fuck, I don’t know. But here you are crying about not getting direct mailed on your feelie topic most just when the fucking nazis are literally dismantling the government in front of everybody and lefty-non-voters chose not to stop it.

        It’s unconscionable.

    • Anonymaus@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      3 hours ago

      Of course its everybody elses fault, never your own (typical american who cant take responsibility for his own actions)

  • ssroxnak@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    6 hours ago

    Just a friendly reminder that the 2nd Amendment is for all Americans, no matter how left you lean.

    • Glytch@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      5 hours ago

      “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”

      Even Karl Marx supports gun rights

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    37
    ·
    8 hours ago

    So these right wing nut jobs had families and ancestors that fought a global war to fight against fascists and nazis … so that their children and grandchildren can become fascists and nazis

  • mhague@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    36
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    8 hours ago

    I volunteer to train neonazis. We’ll do lots of live fire drills, get drunk and throw grenades, learn how “clean water” is a woke myth, and so much more.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    6 hours ago

    The base = Al-Qaeda. That’s pretty much a direct translation. Republicans always going on about their “Base”…face it, they’re radicals. Extremists. From guns to religion to nationalism and even anti-vax. Just like the terrorist group they spent decades of war hating.