The people in that area would have no idea where to buy socks if not for an entire themed store dedicated to it. Makes sense.

yeah, this late in the game, capitalism's random business name generator is kinda scraping the bottom

You know I don't know much about these 4, even when I was just a "lurker" on here. All I know is I see them all usually at each other's throats in the comments and honestly would like to know the entire backstory to that. All four accuse each other of being this and that and it's like, who exactly is right or wrong or neither.
Not passing judgment or saying don't keep taking each other to task, it just seems there's a lot of history between y'all and it's slightly intriguing.

Hint; only one person on this site constantly calls everyone racist as a shrill gaslight to defend Israeli apartheid and billionaire’s right to control society.

Also he likes to bring it up in unrelated videos because he’s a lonely loser and needs attention.

At least three of the four are habitual trolls. To me, their motives are ambiguous. I feel like I should have something more to say about that, but I don't.

@VI, the short guide is that Ashtar & Crackersmack are probably the same dude, a Trump troll who occasionally masquerade as "Bernie bros" and uses lots of 4chan jargon. SolRo is a frothing antisemite; his comment above is par for his typical QAnon-tier shit. Brawndo is an Islamophobe (though on a good day sometimes seems to be growing out of it), which makes him and SolRo something of a mirror image, each screaming "no HIS racism is wrong but MINE is cool."

As for the motives of trolls, who knows who cares.

You forgot to explain that Hazelnut contributes just as much vitriol as the ones he (de)rails against, but he thinks he's on the Side of Justice so he doesn't stop to consider that he's adding to the shit everyone else has to deal with.

goddamn dude get a hobby

Don't forget that Hazelnut loves to punch left, because he's an insufferable liberal piece of shit who can't imagine a better world.

I just want to say I'm so much more awesome than any of those people.

I should get a trophy just for showing up here at all.

Sounds like someone wants a participation trophy just for showing up.

I learned it from watching YOU, okay???

Oh wow ok that's, shit that's a lot, thank you all for the summary of it all. I guess only other question I have If you all don't mind me asking, how long has this been going on? Has this been like years or is there a particular year when you guys just started going at it?

It’s been a little over a year I think? Was going on before the pandemic. Hazel really went off the deep end after a couple people (myself included) dog pilled on him for defending billionaires in one video.

I believe he’s in Europe and the right wing media over there has been going full tilt trying to paint leftists as antisemites for things like supporting Palestinians. So he’s basically gotten brainwashed into being ultra defensive about anything related to Israel and Jewish stereotypes (hence hating rich people = hating Jews).

SolRo literally called Jews "the most wealthy, protected, represented and white minority group". He pushes videos claiming that Jews are just pretending to be oppressed, with tags like "Everything is antisemitism" and "Basic human rights are anti Semitic!" He makes hilarious Holocaust jokes like "It really is a slippery slope to Holocaust II if we let people criticize someone like Jeffery Epstein". These are verbatim quotes.

SolRo then plays the racist troll's game that if you object to his hating Jews, you must be a supporter of billionaire bankers and Israeli apartheid (as above). Which is obvious bullshit. Racial hatred is wrong because racial hatred is wrong.

@jf_caron and @glasseye, I'm terribly sorry it bugs you to see racial hatred called out. Might seem holier-than-thou to me, seems like basic human decency to me.

@Hazelnut: It's pretty damn clear you know nothing about basic human decency.

Oh? Let me lay out very clearly what I believe about decency. I reject this idea that "vitriol" itself is the problem, that pointing out racism is equally bad as racism itself ("adding to the shit that everyone has to deal with", as jf_caron says). Just stop arguing with them, dude!

Sorry, I don't buy it. Racism, bigotry, hatred IS the problem. "Just ignore it" is no solution. I took a 6 month break from pointing out the shit SolRo was pushing, and he got a lot worse -- into his full-on "Jews are making it up" routine.

Time was, when your old racist grandpa or young racist cousin dropped SolRo-esque shit like the dude in this video at 1:55, the polite thing to do was to pretend not to hear it. Especially after Jan 6 I don't think that's true anymore. I think the thing to do is say clearly and unafraid that's not right.

And yeah, I fully admit that's annoying, repetitive, not fun to hear. Sorry not sorry. But it sure the hell ain't "punching left": SolRo's no more a leftist than the National Socialists are socialist.

Identifying specific people from the video with poetv usernames isn't "calling out racial hatred", it's summoning imps. Proof: the rest of the replies to your comment. I hate that I am starting to feel like one of the imps, even aside from your passive-aggressive comment to me.

I don't think that you are identifying the words said at those times with coherent points made by the poetvers you name. If that's the case, then kudos for doing research and keeping track of this shit better than I can.

You can continue to call out racism when the racists are being racist, but taking the initiative and trolling them into activity isn't helpful. I'm content with racists being quiet and afraid to show it, and never acting on it.

Hazel loves making quotes out of context, like his favorite right-wing UK tabloid rags, to “prove” someone is racist.

Dude, the original post was a JOKE. Calling out racial hatred is referencing those direct quotes and words that you ignored. I also reserve the right to laugh at bigots, which is the whole point of posting a clip like this to a site like this.

SolRo, I repeatedly provide the context. Here, the context of that first quote is right here: https://tinyurl.com/rcfpmdrk The context is you deliberately conflating "rich people screwing us" with "hating the rich is antisemitism" right there in the tags, and then when more than one user cries foul you attack Jews as "most wealthy, protected, represented and white minority group" -- which is fucking disgusting.

You want to provide some context and how "it's okay for me to hate this group because they're a WEALTHY minority" is anything but utterly fucked?

Care to provide context when you said “I think brown people are subhuman and don’t deserve basic medical care”?

Oh right, that’s the other thing you love doing, inventing quotes out of whole cloth when you’re pushed into a corner.

Link's right there. Anyone can read it and judge for themselves.

even if what we assume what you're saying is true (which after looking at the link, i don't think that's what solro meant, but, whatever) you're still coming across like a guy who's using antisemitism as a cudgel to win points in an internet pissing contest with absolute strangers

and i doubt anybody on this site is so radicalized they're gonna run out and do a pogrom unless somebody here crafts a reply in such a masterful way to a truck nutz video that it solves racism forever

- Ashtar and Crackersmack are lame troll bots at best, tedious pro-Trump twats for the sake of being contrarian at worst.

- SolRo has been long been one of the site's anti-social, quick to anger personalities. Lately hasn't been as bad as...

- Hazelnut loves to pose as a woe is me peacemaker, is the very first to start shit like this as shown in parent comment. Crowning achievements include his call for "no ad hominem week", then was the very first to break it with the excuse "it's not ad hominem when I do it!". This followed his other claim to fame: judging billionaires as more moral than the rest of us because they donate percentages of their networth to charity.

Direct quote: "Warren Buffet has donated ($X million) to charity. How much of YOUR networth have you donated to charity?"

He justified this by saying it was "dangerous to paint all billionaires the same stripe" because it wasn't fair to demonize ones who donate to charity (it totally is). To do so was "echoing Anti-Semitic" BNP propaganda.

Calling the very existence of billionaires to be immoral makes you a British Nazi.

One wouldn't be wrong to brush off any accusations he makes.

Nominal has this weird thing of glomping on a two-year-old typo to insist I'm this huge pro-billionaire. Nope. Just not true. And it's a really weird stance -- it's like he's simply impossible that a person must be simply, honestly disgusted by racist bullshit. He can't hate bigotry, he must have a SECRET BILLIONAIRE AGENDA! It's the only esplanation!

@teeth, you're primarily taking exception to my tone, how I 'come off'. Who knows, maybe you're right. That's just a matter of tactics. But you're wrong when you justify SolRo by saying he won't ACTUALLY go out and commit an act of violence, as if anything short of that is just fine. It's not fine. That shit adds up and you know it.

At the end of the day, you're making excuses. So is SolRo. He screams "made up quote out of thin air!" so I give the exact quote. Then he says "quote out of context!" so I give the context. And the context is fucking wrong. Make whatever excuses you want. Invent ulterior motives for me. Take exception to my tone. Sure. You're still making excuses for racist old grandpa ranting against Jews at the Thanksgiving table, and that's a hell of a pity.

No, you literally make up quotes when you start struggling, either intentionally or your demented brain has started throwing you convenient memories when you start flailing.

I provide a direct link, you still say I made it up. Guess I hacked into your account. It's no weired than all you're other accusations: that I'm an Epstein-supporting pedophile, a billionaire agent, a brainwashed Fox News viewer, a politically correct censor, and my favouirite, a VIRTUE SIGNALLER.

I guess you find anything easier to accept than that someone might find that racist bullshit is in fact racist bullshit.

Funny thing is I still wish you well. I hope you find the courage someday to look in the mirror and listen to your own words, to what you've been peddling. Good luck.

"you're primarily taking exception to my tone, how I 'come off'. Who knows, maybe you're right. That's just a matter of tactics. But you're wrong when you justify SolRo by saying he won't ACTUALLY go out and commit an act of violence, as if anything short of that is just fine. It's not fine. That shit adds up and you know it."

no, i take issue with the fact that you're construing whatever he says and using that as evidence of grand, unspeakable crimes when they really aren't to try and win a internet argument. your evidence doesn't say what you say it does, no matter how badly you want it to, or how badly you need solro to be the villain. if you really think anybody on here is REALLY about to commit a hate crime stop posting and call the goddamn authorities instead of constantly bringing up these stupid, petty personal grievances in comments and videos completely unrelated to the topic at hand

i have plenty of problems with your tone, but that's not your main problem

"I provide a direct link, you still say I made it up. Guess I hacked into your account. It's no weired than all you're other accusations: that I'm an Epstein-supporting pedophile, a billionaire agent, a brainwashed Fox News viewer, a politically correct censor, and my favouirite, a VIRTUE SIGNALLER.

I guess you find anything easier to accept than that someone might find that racist bullshit is in fact racist bullshit.

Funny thing is I still wish you well. I hope you find the courage someday to look in the mirror and listen to your own words, to what you've been peddling. Good luck."

yeah, this response is fucking bonkers

Never said SolRo is about to commit a hate crime. I do say hate speech is shitty and at least deserves condemnation. But hey, you somehow know my SECRET HIDDDEN MOTIVES.

It makes me sad you can’t or won’t believe I sincerely take exception to racist shit. I’m outnumbered to the point where I have to concede that’s my fault: I was too repetitive, or too strident, or brought it up too often, or was just outmaneuvered by SolRo’s cute little “hating the rich is antisemitic!” dance. But I do promise that’s an error of hiw I expressed myself, not that I’m an “Israeli shill” in SolRo’s words — which, sorry, IS bigoted and racist and should never be excused.

Not much else to say about that.

Calling someone out for shilling for Israel is racist now?

Guessing you’ve moved on from UK tabloids to directly mainlining right-wing Israeli news, where any and all criticism of isreal is an antisemitic conspiracy.

Aaaand that's what you've been defending, right there.

And for the avoidance of doubt: of course criticizing Israel is not racist. I never once claimed it was. I criticise Israel all the time.

Using "Israeli shill" as a blanket term to erase any criticism of antisemitism, to push the whole Jews-are-making-it-up Big Lie? Yeah. Fucking racist.

I guess now criticism of you is antisemitic. We’ve come full circle.

I know you don’t actually follow any real news because human rights watch recently said that Israel is an apartheid state. The response of most Israeli news publications and right-wing politicians? “HRW is antisemitic.”

Thank you for moving my point. There you are literally using ‘Issraeli shill’ as a blanket term to silence ÁLL criticism of antisemitism. Congratulations! You’re a racist piece of shit — and deep down you know it or you wouldn’t put so much effort into dodging, lying, evading. Have fun swapping more Holocaust jokes w Crackersmack and pretending that makes you progressive.

And you run away from reality again with another deflection. You’re pathetic.

Not sure how pointing out in simple, straightforward terms exactly how you are being a bigoted piece of shit is in any way ‘deflection’ or ‘rnning away’. Or were you not talking to me — were you finally taking that look in the mirror?

If it makes you feel any better, I feel genuinely sorry for you. You’re clearly perfectly aware of what you’ve been peddling, and all that vitriol you direct at me (“shill!” “billionaire!” “pedophile!” “virtue signaller!”) is the outward projection of inner disgust.

If it helps, I want to remind you that nobody is forcing you to double down on peddling racist bullshit. You are now and always will be free to stop.

What a deranged, passive two-faced aggression douchecunt Hazel was.

Stay gone, douche!