"the last moral government on Earth"

On "the last moral government on Earth," and /pol/-based fans of Vladimir Putin.

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Kevin Collier - @kevincollier - 8:09 AM · Jan 18, 2021
For your reading pleasure, here's the complaint for Riley Williams, the Capitol rioter whose ex called the FBI to say that she had stolen a computer from Pelosi's office and planned to sell it to a Russian who would in turn sell it to the SVR. Man. [link to copy of Williams complaint]

Hm.

I have a small story here. Not much of one, but a small story.

I spent a lot of time on /pol/ (both 8ch/4chan), lurking, all that, in 2015/2016. I'd long checked in regularly, of course. But more as Putin's asset made his way up the ladder.

There was a _lot_ of Putin fandom on that board. A lot more, even, than for Bashar al-Assad. More, even, than for Augusto Pinochet, who they adored for his mass killings of leftists and liberals.

Holding up Russian government as a bastion of White government, etc. Holding up Putin as the example of the Strong White Leader, all that.

But there was one recurring theme that particularly stuck out to me.

And that was the repeated description of Putin's government as - and I quote - "the last moral government on Earth."

(For both the Strong Man misogyny, the anti-gay stances, the White Man, all that. But specifically, that phrase showed up.)

Nobody pushed back on that. Well, few, and nobody important. It would just go by in the discussion.

I can't think that _didn't_ resonate with our young fascists.

I can't think the FSB/SVR didn't pick up more than one asset, either.

I can only wonder how many.

After the inauguration, of course, they started making plans to assassinate judges ruling against Trump and his Muslim Ban.

(I'm not exactly a huge friend of the cops, but yours truly nonetheless took that shit to the FBI.)

The point is: assets.

And more, I'm sure, than one.