>>16426137
Jankowicz like cronies all over it.
muh neo-facists
>>16426137
just found that site too.
anon could be correct >>16426066
>trying to associate Pepe with the Russians
Two photos emerged today that caught my attention. They are two different soldiers. One also has a tank with not correctly spelled Serbia on the tank, and we have a lot of Russian vehicles with “to Berlin” written on them. It is not clear if this tank has that on the barrel. But Serbia is not spelled correctly and the Kremlin has designs on the Balkans as well. So that is part of your context here.
The photos show a modern rifle, with likely a grenade launcher, or at least capable of receiving one. The special item on the weapon was not the weapon specifics, but rather Pepe the Frog. One patch on another soldier may indicate a mercenary formation, but I cannot be sure.
Pepe is very popular among the far right in the United States. It is something you can take to the bank when you see it on clothing. The person sporting it is most likely a neo-fascist. This has become common in places like Gab Social and 4chan, where it was thoroughly adopted by 2016. If you see it as an avatar on Twitter, chances are this is a far-right account.
Given the latter has an appeal outside the United States, it raises many questions. It includes the obvious. What is Pepe the Frog doing in the Donbas? We know some westerners have joined Russia. This may be evidence. Or it indicates something else.
Pepe the Frog started as an innocent thing, but it no longer is. This is a symbol of the antisemitic far-right. According to Digit Magazine:
In the next few years, many different versions of the Pepe meme started appearing on 4chan, but also on Instagram and Reddit. In 2014, celebrities like Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj posted variations of Pepe on their social media. This indicated that the meme had become mainstream. This was a big problem according to white nationalist @JaredTSwift, who gave an interview to Dailybeast. He said that if mainstream celebrities and traditional media get in on a meme, the meme is ruined. When a meme becomes more popular, it tends to get misused as people start using it in different ways than it was originally intended to be used. This is why a campaign was started to save the meme from so-called “normies”, according to @JaredTSwift. Racist, anti-Semitic and Nazi versions of the meme were thus created to troll mainstream media and celebrities.
Another reason why these memes were created, was to stretch the Overton window for extreme right ideas. Most of these extreme versions were made and spread by the alt-right movement (short for “alternative right”). The alt-right is “a loosely organized far-right movement that emphasizes internet activism and is hostile to both multicultural liberalism and mainstream conservatism” (Lyons, 2017). The alt-right movement mostly acts online and they spread their ideas through videos, memes, blogs and forums (Morgan, 2017). The internet is really embedded in the definition of alt-right as it has helped facilitate the spread of their ideology (Valencia-García, 2017). Small online communities brought people together who had ideas that were not accepted by the wider public. In fact, stretching the window of ideas that are accepted as “normal” is one of the alt-right’s goals, and a way they tried to achieve this was by claiming Pepe and using the meme as a carrier of their far-right discourse.
So in this context, seeing Pepe on rifles on the Donbas may symbolize a further reach of far-right white supremacy ideology. We know that Russia is home to far-right movements as well. It is clear that the regime of Vladimir Putin is a far-right fascist state that rejects LGBT rights, for example.
It is a society where traditionalism, as understood by Alexandr Dugin and Putin is the norm. Women know their place. Religion is ascendant, and LGBTQ people are persecuted.
This is a form of fascism, and as early as 2015 Russian experts were already using the word Fascism to describe the state Putin built. According to the Atlantic Council: