Andrew Anglin

I cannot confirm that independently, but Jake had a little bit of a Occupy Bernie period of his life before these killer business ideas took off.

I think this is the part of the show where I do the obligatory role call of far right extremists who were also part of the Occupy movement, including Tim Pool, including Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer, including Andrew Weave Ornheimer of the Daily Stormer.

It was a weird moment.

in American culture that kind of split people into all kinds of directions afterwards.

Whenever we encounter the bigot's defense of, it's just a joke, I think immediately of two perfect answers.

One by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the other by American neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin.

In his 1946 essay on antisemitism, called Antisemite and Jew in the English translation, Sartre wrote, "...never believe that antisemites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies.

They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge, but they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words." The anti-Semites have the right to play.

It's not that they're afraid of being convinced.

They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.

If you're not entirely sure you catch Sartre's meaning here, a nearly identical sentiment is perhaps more clearly articulated by Andrew Anglin, the editor of the Nazi blog, The Daily Stormer.

Back in 2017, he wrote a style guide for the blog's contributors.

I mean, I have a circumstance where in 2017 I wrote an op-ed for The Daily Beast before Charlottesville saying Donald Trump needs to denounce white supremacist terrorism in that language.

The result is the guy who runs the Daily Stormer, uh, Daily Stormer, which is Der Sturmer, named after n- Hitler's favorite publication, Andrew Anglin, uh, smeared me.

They fabricated tweets in my name saying I was, well, involved in terrorism, because I'm Muslim, because they're really clever, and they actually go after Dean, and I got a lot of death threats.

And what did I do? I got some great lawyers in New York who volunteered, and we sued them, and I got a judgment of $4 million, which I don't have their money because they didn't have money.

keep going.

According to Jason Blizakis in a policy brief from the Global Center on Cooperative Security, quote, Andrew Anglin, a neo-Nazi propagandist and editor of the Daily Stormer, has also seen value in acquiring cryptocurrency.

Between January 2017 and September 2021, Anglin reportedly acquired from supporters at least 112 Bitcoins, with an estimated value of $4.8 million, end quote.

Now this was of course in like 2021 or something like that, so I don't know how much that's worth now.