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Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by Schiendelman on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @11:17AM (#26316875)
It's not clear that's the case. CPAC hasn't been willing to deny it. And the Charlottesville protestors did use that symbol: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/08/12/flags-and-oth...
Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by folknor on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:02PM (#26317443)
How is it relevant to CPAC that it was used in Charlottesville?
Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by Schiendelman on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:55PM (#26318128)
Because all the Charlottesville people vote for that party.

Because people on that stage, even, openly agree with the things the Charlottesville people marched about.

Re:Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked by monoideism on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:15AM (#26330389)
> CPAC hasn't been willing to deny it.

That's not true: they denied it almost immediately. Like QAnon, it's a hard question on whether to even acknowledge these kinds of conspiracies[0], since denying them can even help to spread them.

The Trump wing is without question populist, nativist, often conspiratorial, and caught in a cult of personality. But they're not Nazis, and by trying to conflate these things, you do a disservice to the victims of actual Nazism (note the publication I linked to, from a country of founded by Nazi survivors that has quite a few supporters of Trump).

Charlottesville Nazis likely did use it, but they're far from being Trump supporters. They deeply distrust him because of Jared and Ivanka. And they're a tiny, tiny percentage of our population - all extreme right-wing groups combined (neoconfederates, Nazis, militia, etc) are well under 1%. You'll see SPLC trumpet things like "30% rise!" without mentioning how tiny these groups are (and they have a good idea about how small they are, it's just harder to fundraise when you discuss these things).

0. https://www.timesofisrael.com/cpac-denies-stage-was-intentio...