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Vaush
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Two wild stories came out of the Breadtube scene within a 12-hour period earlier this week. Perhaps both deserve their own article, but they happened at the same time, and they might be related. I’ll explain why at the end.
The first story occurred on Monday night, when Communist Breadtuber Vaush announced to the world that he was a federal informant. In the middle of a livestream, the subject of “fed ops” came up and Vaush made the following jaw-dropping admission:
Like a fed op? You could say that about literally anything. There are informants everywhere. I’m an informant. Why do you think I did antifa work back in Santa Monica, you know? Yeah, I was ratting out names, absolutely. We’ve all been informants.
Vaush is a man who is willing to admit a lot of things about himself that anyone possessing even a molecule of shame would be too embarrassed to confess: that he’s a degenerate, that he’s a Communist, and that he’s pedophilia apologist (Vaush estimates that approximately 10% of his audience are pedophiles). But being a federal informant is usually something people will only admit to if they are caught red-handed, like Chris Cantwell.
You might be thinking that what Vaush means is that when he was in antifa, he was researching Nazis and reporting the ones who made violent threats to the feds. That’s “snitching” for sure, but when most people hear the term “fed,” they think of someone who reports on their own side.
All we can say is that antifa certainly did not interpret his statements as snitching. They are taking him at face value.
Vaush has since tried to claim he was joking.
In my opinion, being a federal informant is not something you joke about. If that was a joke, it was a pretty dark one.
I might still be inclined to give Vaush the benefit of the doubt if it were just that one incident, but in recent months, people have been alarmed at the amount of hawkish neocon talking points Vaush has been promoting. He has come out as being pro-intervention in Syria, and he is anti-Assange. Last week he said he would support a CIA coup to overthrow Putin and install a more “pro-Western” Russian leader.
Also, in a stream Vaush was on last month, he said:
As an anarchist, fuck the FBI. However. There are certain things we can trust the FBI to do that we can’t trust the police to do. Preventing civil uprisings is one of the jobs of the FBI, and right now, which group of people are most likely to engage in a supremacist uprising in this country?
This is not slam-dunk evidence that Vaush is an asset, but I would say it rises to the level of “probable cause.” If the CIA had wanted a controlled-opposition Communist out there to make the Lefty kids decide that imperialism is totally rad, I can’t see how that person would be much different from Vaush. And if the darkest speculations about Vaush’ proclivities are true, he would be easy to flip. Could he actually be trying to normalize acting as a federal informant?
The only reason that “Vaush is a fed” did not go more viral than it did was because it was drowned out by an even bigger story on Tuesday morning.
I recently wrote about the wave of censorship against antifa doxers on Twitter. With the possible exception of sex workers, this was the first time I can recall where a significant ban wave affected non-Right-wingers.
At the time of writing, I wasn’t sure if this was the result of Right-wingers exploiting a new loophole in Twitter’s terms of service that would soon be closed, or if this was perhaps part of a larger plan. I wondered if perhaps Big Tech wanted to purge a few token Lefties to give themselves some plausible deniability in case they are ever hauled before Congress. “Well, we aren’t only banning Right-wingers. Look, we banned some antifa, too!”
That second theory just received a big boost Tuesday morning when Vaush and Breadtube megastar Hasan Piker were banned from the video streaming site, Twitch. In Piker’s case he only got a one-week suspension, but Vaush has been permanently banned from the site.
The real curveball, however, is why they were banned — and you’ll scarcely believe it. Twitch banned Vaush and Hasan Piker for anti-white racism.
More specifically, they were banned for using the word “cracker.” Apparently, Piker got into an argument with one of his listeners over whether “cracker” was a racial slur, and repeatedly called the person one to prove it’s not. Twitch disagreed. Vaush is apparently keen on the word as well.
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I think a general rule of thumb is that any term for a group of people which that group of people does not use to describe themselves is a slur. I’m sure there are exceptions. I remember years ago seeing David Cole defend his use of the term “shiksa” by claiming that there was no derogatory intent behind the term, and that Jewish men tend to think favorably of shiksas. But you know, “shiksas” don’t call themselves “shiksas,” so there is something distasteful about it to me.
These bannings took everyone by surprise on both the Left and Right. In a tweet, Scott Greer approached the news with caution: “Prediction: They will get reinstated and Twitch will change its policies to allow anti-white racism.”
I’m not so sure. I think this may be another example of Big Tech doing some CYA. If they are ever called to testify before Congress, they can now say, “Well, we also ban people for being racist to whites!” They picked two extremely high-profile Lefties — one white guy and one Turk who could pass for an Italian – out of which to make examples.
Whatever they said was probably mild compared to your average BLM livestreamer. The fact that the first two people to get banned for racism against whites are both super-famous white/white-presenting streamers and not some deranged Tariq Nasheed type who calls whites “children of Satan” says that these are designated tokens to me.
Another possibility is that the liberal establishment has realized that the anti-whiteness is helping the Republicans, and they are trying to turn down the volume. The recent Virginia governor’s race, which some saw as a referendum on Critical Race Theory, resulted in a decisive Republican victory in a state that had gone to Biden the year before. Couple this with the term “anti-white” becoming normalized in mainstream Republican discourse, and any astute observer will recognize that something is going on.
The more intelligent Jews surely know that in order to bring about white genocide, they have to actually be in power, and in the short term, open anti-whiteness is an obstacle to that. They can’t rig every election — not yet, anyways. So maybe these bannings are the beginnings of an attempt to cool down the rhetoric. We shall see.
This episode also raises another question. It looks like we may see more Left-wing censorship in the future. How are we on the Right supposed to react to this? Is it appropriate to celebrate, or would that look like hypocrisy? I know I should do the whole Voltaire bit: “While I may disagree with what you say, I will defend to the death . . .” But I would feel like a chump in standing up for someone’s right to promote pedophilia when I know he does not support my right to advocate for my own existence.
If some Lefty got banned and said, “I was wrong. I should have opposed Big Tech censorship sooner. I should have said something when Milo got banned,” yeah, I might be willing to extend the hand of friendship in the name of one struggle (within reason, of course).
I have never actually seen a Lefty do anything like that, however. I’ve seen Lefties get banned, declare the ban unjust, and yet still uphold the company’s right to ban them. Their objection is never on free speech grounds. They don’t oppose censorship in principle; just in their own specific case. It’s always, “Big Tech is wrong to ban me because I’m a good person.”
Are these two stories connected: Vaush being a fed and then getting censored the next day?
If we want to get into tinfoil hat territory about it, there are two possibilities. It could be that the bans were enacted specifically to drown out the revelations of Vaush being a fed. It could also be that the ban was a way to give Vaush some anti-establishment street cred (“If I was a tool for the establishment, why would the establishment censor me?”). I’m sure losing Twitch is a bummer for Vaush, but he still has YouTube, so this is hardly a death blow.
On the Daily Stormer message board, Andrew Anglin suggested that by blowing his cover, Vaush has made himself a liability to his fed handlers:
This whole DNC fake socialism thing is really fragile, and they can’t really have these people going around saying they’re working for the feds. If this guy is going to do that, they can dig up another fat pedophile to astroturf stream talking points for 12 hours a day in about 12 minutes.
The main problem with these theories is that if these bannings came in response to Vaush admitting he’s a fed, why throw Hasan Piker into the mix?
A few months ago I did an interview with American Renaissance in which I said:
They have just about run out of White Nationalists to ban and the only people left are controlled opposition and people with superlative optics, and even those people are probably on borrowed time. There is now a cottage industry of people whose job it is to find people online to deplatform. It’s how they put food on the table. I don’t think those people will ever get to a point where they say, “Well, that’s it. All the racists are gone. We can go home now,” because then they would be unemployed and might be forced to go and do something productive. They will find new threats to democracy.
I dare say that I think my prediction is starting to come to pass. By opening the door to censorship, Big Tech has created a monster, and now fresh sacrifices need to be regularly dropped into the volcano in order to appease the gods of censorship. They ran out of all the pure virgins and are now abducting prostitutes off the street.
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19 comments
“They can’t rig every election…” I would be really interested in a discussion on this. Why can’t they? Who stopped 2020? Who was even allowed to ask?
Like every election? State, county, local, all down to dog-catcher? No, they can’t rig all of them.
Rigging an election is a monumental undertaking and probably involves some true believers in the justness of rigging. They either need true believers or sociopaths. I imagine it would be easy to find people who believed Trump is literally Hitler and would go along with the fraud believing it was for the greater good. They might have a harder time getting people to go along with a lower-stakes fraud with a less controversial figure. At least, not every time.
They wouldn’t be able to get away with it every time and after enough whistler-blowers, people would lose faith in the system. For the time being, the establishment does still need votes.
I was shocked at the outcome of the VA governor’s race, I thought sure they’d pull another “most popular in history” for McAuliffe.
Trump took them four years of major propaganda and lies.
I disagree. When Saddam Hussein got “100%” of the votes losing faith in the system didn’t matter. And he is just one example from across the world. Top-down tyranny is what they have achieved already. Now they just start passing laws for mail-in voting, no ID required, etc. and soon enough even the dog catcher will be rigged. I lost my faith in the system a year ago.
Forgive me for asking, but aren’t you the one who wrote about losing weight and making money during the lock downs? I’m all for being glass half full, but my family has been dealt a glass less than half full over the past few years and I am not going to pretend that voting harder is going to change anything.
I didn’t quite catch what exactly it was that Vaush did that got him banned and why he got an indefinite ban as opposed to Hasan’s temporary?
I think you hit the nail on the head with Democrats flying too close to the sun on the anti-white hate. It seems like Americans are fine with seeing their cities burn and heritage memory holed out of existence but the line is drawn with their kids being brainwashed with CRT. The Democrats are likely going to have huge loses come 2022 unless inflation gets under control.
On the note of being a fed. I was at a club once, place had everything from hip hop, reggae, to dubstep but mostly dubstep. I was there on a dubstep night and this random guy comes up to me and asks if I was a cop. I was tempted to tell him I was a DEA agent but then I saw people snorting cocaine nearby right as that thought crossed my mind and figured it wasn’t the right venue to be joking about being a DEA agent.
I am no philologist, but does not the yiddishism shiksa derive from a Biblical/Talmudic Hebrew word for an abomination or unclean thing? It is hard to see that as being other than uncomplimentary (to say the least), in which case Mr David Cole is either ignorant or dissembling. I leave it to the learned rabbins of Counter-Courrents to formulate responsa!
I could be wrong but Tory is Gaelic for Bandit. Nowadays Tory means high class aristocratic cut glass accented English with an Oxbridge degree. A distinction without a difference perhaps. Shiksa probably has come to mean a 6ft tall blonde with blue eyes button nose, weighing 110lbs among the Jews in the US today. Tory in the US meant Empire Loyalist.
The history of the word ‘Tory’ is complicated, but in VERY short, it does indeed mean ‘bandit’ or more literally ‘pursued man’, and was applied to Royalists in Ireland (Or opponents of Cromwell anyway), and seems therefrom to have come to mean ‘Royalist’ in general in the English-speaking world.
Censorship is censorship, period. Totally un-American and honestly, un-human. I can care less whether some witless fool calls me names. They have god given rights to do just that, just as I or anyone else has the right to reciprocate. To gloat about somebody getting censored that you disagree with morally or philosophically is just flat out childish and immature.
Ah, and this is why the right continues to lose
Speak for yourself.
These people want to gut you and strangle you with your own intestines and the best you can counter with is “censorship is un-American”? These ideas should have been crushed in their infancy, but they weren’t, and now things are really getting ugly. I find it deeply concerning that this level of naivete still exists in 2021.
Pfffff!!!!! Hahaha!! That made me laugh. Maybe I might like to do the same to them? I am not scared of ANYONE and neither should you. Naivety is thinking that they still won’t want to gut and strangle me just because they got banned or censored. I would rather know what people are thinking than not. One can never be too informed, only uninformed. I just think that with censorship, there are no “winners.” We all lose.
Much as I think of the chinese as shifty slant-eyed dog-eating cockroaches, why would Vaush be so anti-chinese as a supposed leftist? automatically he is reduced to mere shitlib status in my eyes. he is in reality yes, another CIA asset, as I suspect many prominent youtubers are. certainly I can’t think of a youtuber besides vaush who fundmentally shills more for the NWO except maybe contrapoints. as readers of this site know, the true enemy is internal. if we had an uncompromised strong leader instead of this festering walking corpse of a presidential administration china and mexico would not be the threats they currently are.
How does somebody become an FBI informant? I doubt Vaush went through Hogan’s Alley and became an FBI agent.
From what I’ve heard, if you get a big enough audience and the feds think that you might be of some use to them, eventually someone will approach you. Andrew Anglin has talked about how he was approached by feds years ago and told them to go to hell.
They might be like “we are only after the bad apples among you” or they might offer money or if you get in legal trouble, they might offer to help get you out of it in exchange for working for them.
The socialist/communist/anarchist Left have historically been at the forefront of every major anti-war movement so a guy like Vaush would be very useful to the establishment. In case they ever need to start a war, Vaush can go out and explain to his listeners how this new war is totally in line with what Marx would have wanted.
Many people get entrapped by breaking the law. Antifa are involved in rioting, vandalism, assault, stalking, etc. Many of them are drug addicts. A good number of them are pedos. If Vaush got arrested for kiddie porn or drugs, he could be blackmailed into being an informant. The system controls people through their vices.
Once again I reflect that I’m glad someone on our side is closely following this stuff, because I’d never heard of any of these people. It’s easy to make conspiratorial accusations, but until the actual government admits that this pedo-communist is in fact an informant, we must remain agnostic.
On the question of banning, we’re way past Voltaire. Generally, if one side fights clean and the other dirty, the latter will win. The Right in all of its iterations has always been morally superior to the Left, which is probably a large part of the reason why the Left has mostly won since 1789. The honorable European code of gentlemen was only meant to be applied to … gentlemen. Within Christendom, different combat ethics were always understood to be operative when fighting criminal scum or alien savages. The postmodern Left is mostly a mixture of both types.
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