• Pluto [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah, Haz wants to take over CPUSA “by 2036”

      Hence, the oft repeated PatSoc slogan “CPUSA 2036.”

      He’s also friends with Jackson Hinkle and Caleb Maupin.

      Each one of them has 10s of thousands of followers with Hinkle having over 100,000 on YouTube, I think.

      I believe Rainer Shea has also become a PatSoc recently and has been on Maupin’s streams.

      You can see where them telling their fans to infiltrate and take over the CPUSA would be a problem.

      They’re trying to commit mass entryism.

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          No joke.

          They’re fucking feds, I tell you. Or so I think.

          They’re using social media accounts to galvanize people to commit mass entryism on various orgs. They apparently did this with the American chapter of the KFAUSA (or, at least, they may have a “PatSoc problem”). I questioned a PatSoc about this who turned out to be an anti-Semite during a Twitter Space and he was… fucking skittish. He wouldn’t give a straight answer.

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              So when Haz wasn’t even a thing yet, I remember seeing a suspiciously polished promo video for INFRARED that immediately set off alarm bells for me. Also strangely, I can’t seem to find that promo video anywhere now.

              I also remember not long after the channel started seeing a clip of Haz on a girl Twitch streamer’s stream and the title was something like “Haz flirting with ____” and the whole thing struck me as overtly trying to appeal to lonely young men on the internet, in a similar vein as gamer gate, red pill garbage, etc. Basically following the Steve Bannon/Mercer Family social media manipulation playbook. I haven’t really dug into it, but I’d be curious to see if there are any links with patsocs to people like Steve Bannon or Aleksandr Dugin.

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                He got recommended on r/chapotraphouse a few times, and because I don’t watch streams or go on twitter, I had no idea who he was for like… A while into chapo.chat

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                  It took us some time to work out the whole thing they were doing was sus to be fair. Initially Haz looked alright until the reactionary stuff piled up and up and up. Some of his early Stalin videos were genuinely good. Several of us, including myself, thought he was a good entry into the lineup of marxist creators at the time, Bay Area 415 was also suspiciously doxxed and taken out of commission at the time, there was a concerted influence and counter-influence op that was mounted against growing marxist influence at the time. That shitbag Beau of the Fifth too exploded during that period. And funny-clown-hammer growth was explosive too but we countered him relatively well.

                  Haz and the patsoc crowd started getting attention for being reactionary and double and tripled down on it for growth.

                  My take is that they’re fascists or feds. I wanna say feds because I don’t think the fascists put the kind of effort in to read that Haz and patsocs have done. Haz definitely has engaged with marxist literature to some extent whereas the fash rarely have the attention span.

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                    I know who doxxed BayArea415 given that I was an advisor of his.

                    Also, Haz and the PatSoc crowd initially were banking on fighting Maoism (which garnered them support) but ultimately they became right-deviationists.

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                    I would also argue that none of his videos were good, not even the first ones, and it’s telling that the original gang of Infrared isn’t there anymore except for Haz.

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                Dugin, yes. At least philosophically. I don’t know if his networks in Russia have any links to them in the US.

                But Bannon, sorta. Peter Thiel funded right wing podcasts and ecelebs including Red Scare.

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                Yeah, there’s something very weird about how he went from “guy on youtube that literally no one has heard of” to appearing on Tucker Carlson’s Fox show in a matter of months.

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                    I usually just write off the typical online “This youtuber/streamer/podcaster is definitely a fed!” stuff as bullshit, but this particular guy really makes me wonder.

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                  Dude looks like a grown man but is supposedly 19. He also recently started college. Normally I wouldn’t think much of that, but with all the context, he’s definitely grooming susceptible college kids into doing stupid shit.

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                    Dude looks like a grown man but is supposedly 19. He also recently started college.

                    I believe what you’re thinking about here was some dumbass bit he recently did for his youtube channel or whatever, where he just went to some random college class and started doing ePiC oWnS on the blue-haired sjw’s like it was 2015.

                    As far as I know he’s not an actual student, and he’s like 22-23.

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            They’re fucking feds, I tell you.

            I was wondering why they were specifically interested in CPUSA, and this clears it up. Good luck in your fight against them anyway.

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          We have a vetting process, but some are extra-sneaky. It’s not a problem anymore, especially thanks to Joe Sims (one other reason why he’s more popular than John Bachtell and beat him in election), but they still keep throwing people at us and some pass through the cracks.