Stormfront
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Stormfront is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between April 19, 2021 and December 07, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Neither Trump nor any of his officials (Cabinet, etc) will endorse the KKK, Stormfront, or explicit neo-Nazis publicly”; “Stormfront was founded in 1996”; “The alt-right was originally a bunch of Stormfront type people”. It most often appears alongside alt-right, Hillary Clinton, Trump.
Metadata
- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: April 19, 2021
- Last seen: December 07, 2023
Appears In
- Mantic Monday: Grading My Trump Predictions
- The Rise And Fall Of Online Culture Wars
- What Ever Happened To Neoreaction?
Related Pages
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- alt-right (3 shared issues)
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- Hillary Clinton (3 shared issues)
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- Trump (3 shared issues)
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- Twitter (3 shared issues)
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- 4chan (2 shared issues)
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- Bernie Sanders (2 shared issues)
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- Clinton (2 shared issues)
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- Donald Trump (2 shared issues)
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- George Floyd (2 shared issues)
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- New York Times (2 shared issues)
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- Obama (2 shared issues)
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- Peter Thiel (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
7. Neither Trump nor any of his officials (Cabinet, etc) will endorse the KKK, Stormfront, or explicit neo-Nazis publicly, refuse to back down, etc, and keep their job [confidence: 99%].
The alt-right started completely separate from any of this. The name was invented by Richard Spencer, a very serious movement white supremacist more on the "hold scary rallies full of skinheads" side of things than the "gripe about SJWs on Reddit" side. Although there have been white supremacists on the Internet forever - Stormfront was founded in 1996 - they didn't interact much with the early anti-SJW movement, who (again) were mostly liberal Democrat nerds who found geek feminists annoying.
The alt-right was originally a bunch of Stormfront type people who were not cool at all. But in 2016, Hillary Clinton gave a speech against them that sort of made them sound cool, and lumped them together with 4Chan in order to inflate their numbers. 4Chan was kind of cool, so the alt-right went from a handful of weirdos in jackboots to an umbrella term for any kind of weird edgy conservatism full of exciting young people. Also, they had the funny frogs.