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June 27, 2018 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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War Plan Purple

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	If this gets 10,000 retweets, I will join UKIP.
	I'm not joking, this is not a meme.
	I'm being completely serious.
	And that's how it began.
	10,627 retweets later, Mark Meachin, otherwise known as the legendary shitposting outlaw Count Dankula, proved himself to be a man of his word and joined the UK Independence Party.
	It was all remarkably straightforward.
	When he asked me if I thought it was a good idea, I replied with, fuck it, why not?
	And announced that at the end of this week in Stupid, I was going to be doing it too.
	So I went to the UKIP website, clicked join and filled out the appropriate form, paid my £30 and checked the box that confirmed that I am not and have never been a member of the British National Party, the National Front, British Freedom Party, British People's Party, English Defence League, Britain First or the UK First Party.
	I was quite surprised when a miniature muckraker called Ethan Ralph claimed to have an email from UKIP head office, claiming that UKIP had rejected my application for membership because I'm an edgy boy on the internet.
	UKIP is open to everyone of all faiths, cultures, nationality and skin colour.
	Insulting people with the N-word is 100% diametrically opposed to that, and we condemn it utterly.
	This statement would probably have held more weight had the author of the email not used the N-word at the beginning of the very same email.
	But of course, Ralph doubled down.
	This email is 100% legitimate.
	An Anon gave me the password to his account and I checked it for myself.
	Sargon isn't going to be a part of UKIP.
	Lamoo!
	Ralph, not the swiftest of horses, had clearly been taken in by a fake email by some 4channer and was being taken for a fool.
	Here's Tony McIntyre, the UKIP chairman, who says that Sargon only applied to be a member.
	It's not going to happen, Carl.
	I guess you shouldn't go around using racist language.
	Tisk Tisk.
	Sargon UKIP failure confirmed.
	I guess he verified it.
	You might be wondering, who is this guy and why does he have such a severe case of Sargon derangement syndrome?
	And I'm afraid I really have no idea why.
	Ralph was an active participant alongside me during Gamergate and did good work, so I'm afraid I can't really explain why he's giving aid and succor to the SJWs, who took his fake email and spread it around to their social media circles, claiming, Sargon is too racist for UKIP.
	All I can say is that I have no regrets in calling neo-Nazis the N-word.
	Especially when my UKIP membership card arrived.
	And lo and behold, yet another 100% legit email arrived in Ralph's inbox that Ralph published to Twitter just to let you know that in fact, UKIP had changed their minds about me and indeed allowed me into the party.
	And Ralph wasn't actually being deceived by Anons.
	All 100% totally legit.
	Ralph wasn't making up lies and spreading them to SJWs in order to defame me.
	He just had totally real insider information.
	And the verified checkmark definitely hadn't gone to his head.
	I emailed Paul Joseph Watson and let him know that Dankular and myself were joining UKIP for the bands and extended him an invite to join us.
	So he did.
	Along with Sargon and Count Dankula, I've officially joined UKIP and planned to take it over in a soft coup that will lead to the total restoration of freedom in the United Kingdom.
	Good night.
	And as he accurately pointed out, joining UKIP is the new counterculture.
	Figuring that he was out of the loop, I sent a message to Milo to let him know that we were doing something at once important and hilarious, and he responded by posting a screenshot of his payment of £30 to become a member of UKIP.
	The game was afoot.
	First out of the gate was Jared Holt of left-wing propaganda website Right Wing Watch.
	At 12.56pm on the 18th of June, hot off the presses, he declared that the self-described classical liberals have joined a far-right party, demolishing their claims that they are merely classical liberals.
	However, Jared's argument demolished itself in the second paragraph.
	Benjamin, Watson, and most recently Meechin have become popular voices online for right-wing media audiences on YouTube in North America and Europe.
	For years, Benjamin and Watson have used their supposed classical liberal political orientation to present right-wing ideologies favourably and to incessantly bash caricatures of social justice warrior figures.
	Now these figures are joining an explicitly right-wing political party that has been rapidly crumbling since its political high points in 2015.
	In Jared's own view, it would be entirely consistent for what he describes as right-wing YouTubers to join a right-wing political party.
	I recently did a political compass test that still put me on the centre left, although much more centrist than before.
	But as Jared accurately quoted me saying, I don't want to be doing this.
	I've decided that as a Trumpian protest, fuck you to everyone, I'm joining UKIP as well, and if you've got a problem with it, you can fucking swivel.
	So Jared left the you're a Nazi allegation unspoken, but implied, despite the fact all three of us have demonstrable histories opposing Nazis online and UKIP do not permit Nazis to join their party.
	Russia today did the brave thing and picked up the you're a Nazi bat on where Jared left off at 4.30pm the same day with the demonstrably false headline Count Dankula and British alt-writers join UKIP in order to spite anti-racist campaigners.
	A number of prominent alt-right figures and YouTube comedians claim to have joined British political party UKIP ostensibly to spite anti-racist campaigners who succeed in getting them deplatformed.
	Paul succinctly pointed out in a Facebook post that literally everything about this sentence is wrong.
	One, I am not alt-right, I do not believe in an ethnostate and the alt-right hates me.
	Two, I have never been deplatformed by anyone.
	Three, I did not join in order to spite anti-racist campaigners.
	Things went quiet for a few days.
	It seemed that the verified checkmarks were sitting on their hands and sweating it out.
	What did all of this mean and wasn't going to go anywhere?
	Eventually they couldn't clench anymore and Peter Walker of The Guardian let slip his own intellectual bowel movement.
	UKIP welcomes social media activists linked to alt-right into party.
	Why the weasel words, Peter?
	Linked to alt-right?
	What on earth is that supposed to mean?
	The connection between us and the alt-right is the same as between Churchill and Hitler.
	Where we stand for bottom-up British liberalism, the alt-right stands for top-down continental collectivism.
	And so the inevitable link between the two is naturally adversarial, as one advocates freedom and the other tyranny.
	UKIP know all of this.
	So Peter's tagline of arrival of Watson, Meachin and Benjamin will alarm some senior figures in the ailing party seems remarkably dishonest, given how Peter himself points out in his own article, the party's rules forbid former members of the EDL or other far-right groups from joining.
	A UKIP spokesman confirmed that Watson, Meachin and Benjamin had joined, saying that he took issue with the notion that they were from the far-right.
	They know we aren't far-right, and they seem to be thrilled that we're joining them.
	Let's take, for example, the UKIP member of the London Assembly and absolute madman, David Curtin.
	David welcomed us into the party with open arms, as did Neil Hamilton, the leader of UKIP Wales, in a video he posted to Twitter.
	UKIP is at last going forward again under Gerard Batten, and I'm excited to learn that a number of big-name social influencers have joined the party.
	I'd like to welcome Paul Joseph Watson, Sargon of Akkad, Count Dankula, and Milo Yannopoulos to our party.
	Now if you're not a social media animal, some of these names may seem a bit strange, but they're all true crusaders for freedom of expression, and I'm delighted they realize that UKIP is the only party committed to this principle.
	I look forward to them developing truly dank memes that will trigger lefty lobbies like Gary Lineker, James O'Brien and the rest of their politically correct establishment chums.
	And he's right.
	UKIP really is the only major party that gives a damn about the erosion of liberty in this country and they're not afraid to say it.
	A verified checkmark called Technically Ron did his patriotic progressive duty and promptly called us all racist though.
	Teal dear, party of racist fuckflutes adds more racist fuckflutes.
	Great job Ron.
	You called someone a racist.
	Not only are you highly original, you're giving us exactly the kind of salt we expected to mine by joining UKIP in the first place.
	Thank you very much.
	Paul and I met with UKIP leader Gerard Batten in London and he was very welcoming of us into the party.
	We discussed how we could help UKIP, prevent Nazi infiltration and make Britain great again.
	Peter Walker's fearmongering turned out to be absolute nonsense if you can bring yourself to believe that a Guardian writer would just go on the internet and tell lies.
	We aren't taking over UKIP.
	UKIP supports practically everything we're saying and have been public about it for years.
	Dankula took it upon himself to ask Peter why he was trying to imply that we were alt-right, without evidence or reasoning, and Peter's response was very telling.
	Hi Mark, sorry for the slightly delayed reply.
	First thing to stress is that with all political labels, alt-right is subjective.
	Just because I slash the Guardian use it doesn't mean you or anyone else has to agree, but many would.
	As to you, well, to begin you have links to Stephen Lennon, who many associate with the UK alt-slash hard right, incessant focus on Islam, sort of cultural populism, etc.
	More generally, the term can be associated with a sort of highly robust, fairly confrontational libertarian right-leaning politics with a dash of support for Trump and opposition to Islam slash immigration.
	Not saying you tick each box, but it seems fair to say that you're around this milieu.
	But as I say, feel free to disagree.
	It's a hugely subjective term and in some ways not ideal.
	Peter's mealy-mouthed, weasel word-ridden response just showed that he did not know what the alt-right is.
	The alt-right are not confrontational libertarians.
	They are ethno-nationalists in the same vein as the Nazis, with equal amounts of anti-Semitism and white separatism.
	But hey, it's a hugely subjective term.
	So you know, let's just feel free to fling allegations of being white nationalists because what harm could it do?
	I mean, he's only a Guardian columnist.
	It's not like he's someone with any political influence.
	When Dankula pinned Peter on this, Peter decided that truth wasn't his game and no political label has a definite set of criteria that everyone agrees with, which just goes to show that Peter is an anti-Semite by the criteria that I've just made up.
	We don't all have to agree on that definition, Peter, but I'm definitely saying that you think Jewish influence in the media and politics has gone too far, which is why you undoubtedly support Jeremy Corbyn and oppose Israel.
	We were even featured in Newsweek, in which they specifically used the term alt-right linked, while using Peter Walker's ignorance as a source.
	One demonstrable untruth contained within the article is, Benjamin was banned from Twitter after anti-feminist comments led to rape threats against a female member of the British Parliament.
	I was not banned from Twitter because of a tweet to Jess Phillips, because Twitter specifically sided with me after she filed a complaint.
	We reviewed the content and determined that it was not in violation of the Twitter rules.
	This is the message I received this week after complaining about someone gloating in intricate detail about how they would not violently rape me.
	Oh, how awful.
	How did she ever cope?
	She must have been crushed.
	Oh wait, no, she didn't give a damn.
	Have you contacted the police?
	I haven't on this incident.
	I mean obviously it all sort of happened yesterday as a bank holiday I was actually.
	Whilst these people think that I'm sitting around playing the victim, I was playing games in the garden with my children most of the day.
	So don't let it bother me.
	I was suspended over a year later for reasons Twitter have still yet to disclose.
	At the time, I was arguing against neo-Nazis and was in the process of explaining to them that yes, the Holocaust really did happen.
	Why Twitter wishes to protect them from the evil facts I was presenting is a subject on which others can speculate, but come on Newsweek.
	Stop lying.
	And then we get to the Daily Beasts coverage by a fine young soy boy called Will Summer.
	Will contacted Count Dankula and Milo for comment, although not Paul or myself for reasons unknown.
	Will was absolutely lovely to Dankula in the email exchange leading up to the article, but Dankula was wisely skeptical of this and would only agree to a live interview on his channel.
	Will declined as verified checkmarks are wont to do, and Dankula then decided not to comment.
	But they ended the exchange on amicable terms.
	I mean, it's not like Will was going to write a hit piece basically calling us all Nazis, was he?
	Oh wait, of course he was.
	Far right YouTube stars plan takeover of UKIP.
	That's right, the far-right radical centrists are here to use the party to make Britain great again, or at least use UKIP's inner turmoil to build their own social media followings?
	Will, my dude, we have a combined subscribership of over 2 million people.
	We don't need UKIP to build a social media following.
	That's what we are bringing to the party, genius.
	Following the publication of the article, Dankula once more emailed Will to ask him why he was being such a duplicitous little serpent.
	Will's response was to drop the facade and sass him like a teenager.
	But Dankula was right to be thankful that he was careful, which is why Milo's response to their request for comment should come as no surprise.
	Milo sassed them first.
	When Will Summer emailed him for comment, Milo replied, I can't wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on site.
	That's pretty damn edgy.
	Obviously, this isn't a request, but a rebuke of the nerve of these jackasses to politely approach you while holding a knife behind their back.
	Something Milo has experienced many times in his career, which is why it was, as he said, his standard response to a request for comment.
	And as Will demonstrated with Dankula, Will's betrayal of trust was inevitable.
	And the real problem that they have here is that Milo knew what to expect and got the drop on him first.
	Maya Oppenheim of The Independent finally joined the fray with her article.
	UKIP gains 500 new members since allowing prominent far-right activists to join party.
	This is not true, as UKIP gained over 600 members within the first day of us announcing that we were going to do it, but never mind.
	The bulk of the article is the typical deliberate misinterpretations and implications that I've already covered.
	The article finishes with a quote from Hope Not Hate, a radical left-wing organisation that does literally nothing else but call people racists all day in order to shut down dialogue.
	It's no surprise that even if it was originally for a joke, they've found common currency with the increasingly extreme rump that remains of UKIP and joined up with the party.
	There are attempts afoot to forge an alliance between extreme figures who have made their names online and those involved with electoral politics and those out on the streets around an anti-Muslim and pro-free speech agenda.
	In following the path he's chosen, Batten is leading UKIP down a dangerous route and the acceptance of figures such as Watson and Co. just further underlines this.
	This is a fantastic statement in our defense.
	From the perspective of Hope Not Hate, there is indeed a danger of the word racist becoming an ineffective rhetorical weapon, and we are completely in favour of mainstreaming the conversation about the conflict between conservative Islamic values and British values.
	Best of all, however, is their admission that we are a pro-free speech movement, which we always have been.
	As stand-up to racism showed by censoring my Scarborough talk, or as Antifar demonstrated by trying to push me off the stage at my KCL event, the far left is deeply censorious and holds a fundamental opposition to free speech.
	You know who else opposes free speech?
	Alt-right leader Richard Spencer.
	I mean, yes, I think in the short term we would favor government regulation of speech, but long term, uh, are we even pro-free speech?
	No, of course not, but we have to use this platform in order.
	So we're being radically honest here.
	Yes, radically pragmatic.
	Yes.
	Put simply, folks, UKIP are our liberals.
	As Maya put in her article, a UKIP spokesman said, the new members would not have to change their social media usage, and UKIP would not attempt to dictate the views that they adopt.
	They support us, and we're going to support them.
	I'll leave a link in the description, so if you feel inspired to do so, you can join UKIP too.
	The more of us that join, the more afraid they become.
	So let's get this show on the road and make UKIP dank again.
	Are you tired of being stabbed and acid-attacked every time you leave your house?
	Tossing and turning late at night, plagued by thoughts of broken Britain.
	Just want those bloody Brexit papers signed because you didn't vote leave twice for this?
	Well, have we got the party for you?
	A vote for UKIP is a vote for British industry, against the single market, and for real English food, like fish and chips, or chicken tikka masala.
	A vote for UKIP is a vote for the thinking man, the working class hero, the proper British patriot.
	Join us and help us make UKIP relevant again.

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