Things found on Patriots.win aka "The_Donald", the pro-Donald Trump subreddit that is free-standing from the rest of Reddit

Warning! "The_Donald" has to be the most racist website I've seen since Metapedia. Normies May Melt Looking At This Crud. You Have been Warned!

The_Donald was a subreddit (forum) on Reddit, which is a daisy-chained collection of subreddits tied to an opening page and search engine. There was a massive banning of subreddits in 2020 (including r/chapotraphouse, the Chapo Trap House subreddit) in 2020 and The_Donald took a possible tipoff and set up a .win site using the free Reddit software (America.win, now defunct) before the subreddit was blocked and made useless. America.win had to be closed because it was involved on some level with the 2021 January 6th Capitol storming/planned riot, and the site switched over to Patriots.win that year, probably in late January. They have been trucking along ever since.

Above: some real charming nonsense using slurs. Democrats are not allowed to do anything macho or military in TrumperLand, and only fit for abuse.

Below: Racist idiocy and pseudolaw about the children of "illegal immigrants". Reading The_Donald is like reading the work of Gary Lauck, Nebraska neo-Nazi and operator of the NSDAP/AO website.

Above: Yes these scumbags have a ban list. Just like Wikipedia.

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A better website to look at is the Anonymous Comrades Collective, which unmasks neo-Nazis, such as  H.K. Graebener, aka the cartoonist behind the online strips StoneToss and RedPanels. They have two undeclared series of articles going, one of a series of exposes of The White Art Project, which is this mostly-Midwestern art collective (so far: music, drawings, poetry).....but it's all racist and full of dogwhistles. The other one is on the now-imploded National Justice Party; how it fell apart, who was involved, their plain-Jane headquarters (converted house), etc. When it comes to the farthest American right, the ACC knows everything.

Projects on this blog I need to finish.....

This is one of those things you are not supposed to do out in the open as a writer, admit that you have unfinished projects on a blog, but this place will be ELEVEN YEARS OLD in October, and I have to be honest with you.

Doing an Essjay article. I've started and stopped a post on the subject twice. I promised one years ago, and nothing came of it. The real problem in writing an Essjay article in 2025 is that we are now talking about an event that boiled to the surface 18 years ago.....which is a billion years in Internet time. It's like The Baffler writing indignantly about that time when suck.com made fun of them in 1997 or 1998 (the "Baffler happy meal" crack), but doing it now, when The Baffler's website is behind a paywall and suck.com's URL is a GoDaddy parked page, with all the ruins on the Wayback Machine. It has to be done, but it's is hard due to nobody willing to be interviewed after being fooled 20-plus years ago

Finishing the Fram post. That was started when Fram was being the enemy of the month at en.Wikipedia a few years ago, and it will be hard to finish because Fram has sort of petered away. I was never truly interested in Fram outside of the slight geographical connection to the Brabant Killers; to me he was yet another Wiki-asshole like MONGO or Kirill Lokshin, so that makes doing the work hard, if you have no emotional connection or interest in this example of dickheadedness.

The James Randi article. This is the Great White Whale of the blog, originally written as a rebuttal to the very positive BLP of Randi written by Susan Gerbic's crew of skeptic sycophants, it was supposed to be finished before Randi croaked, which he did in 2020. Now that he is dead, it's like the man never existed -- the JREF (James Randi Educational Foundation) is moribund, its messageboard was turned over to a made up "International Skeptics Society" long before Randi died (there was a lot of drama after 2007 and the organization closed its second office before 2016.) My only problem in doing all this work on a Randi bio is that I might not be able to publish it as a chapter in a book mainly due to Randi's partner Devyi Orangel Peña Arteaga (aka "Jose Luis Alvarez"), who might object over any recounting of Randi's (actual name: Randall James Hamilton Zwinge) actual life. Biographies were supposed to be written on Randi, by writers he picked, and yet a finished Randi bio has never been published. There are many possible reasons: Randi's dealings being exposed would make his "former" brothers in the Magic Castle unhappy (he was a member of that stage magicians' fraternity); Randi possibly did not want his connection to the False Memory Syndrome Foundation discussed in detail (he and Martin Gardner were "advisors" to the FMSF board, even though neither were neuro-scientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, or medical doctors; Gardner was still with the skeptic group CSICOP but Randi had left over legal issues, though Randi and Gardner will still close friends); the JREF drama was embarrassing; Randi found his time on stage in Montreal as "Randall the Telepath" in the 1940s to early 1950s retroactively embarrassing; the various slander/libel lawsuits with Uri Geller and others in the 1980s and 1990s look stupid in retrospect; having to discuss living in the closet for decades might be tough; there may be something else I'm not knowledgeable of. Randi was never the lifelong skeptic he claimed to be in the 1980s to 2010s, he switched to that viewpoint after Uri Geller showed up in America in 1973 because Geller infuriated him on some deep level. Anybody willing to share an NYC office with James "Saucer Smear" Moseley and Timothy Green Beckley (aka "Mr. UFO") in the late 1960s can't be a lifelong skeptic.

The loose ends of 2017. 2017 was not a good year for this blog; I had a laptop implode, and a few time-sensitive posts were never completed. I need to finish them for completeness' sake.

Wikimedia-Ops: January 1st, 2012

More grist from the mill....

Session Start: Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 2012
Session Ident: #wikimedia-ops
[00:04] <jeremyb> oh, huh, i forgot where i was
06[00:04] * jeremyb just tried to quiet in #wikimedia :P
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[01:05] <unfo> Hi all.  Could someone please kindly kick or ban 4723abd2@gateway/web/freenode/ip.71.35.171.210 (currently nicknamed ayan_) from #wikipedia?  This is the same user as Santa who was trolling there about an hour and a half ago.
[01:06] <log> But Santa is so nice and jolly.
[01:06] <unfo> log:  :)
[01:07] <Gfoley4> unfo: actually web chats are okay
[01:08] <unfo> Gfoley4:  except for this user.  :)
[01:08] <unfo>  
[01:08] <log>  
[01:09] <unfo> log:  Over time, the costs of trolls add up.  In attention spent to them.  In bandwidth * lines sent * number of users.  And if they distract from real conversation or make even one person angry, better IMO they should be kicked.  :)
[01:09] <log> {{done}}
[01:09] <unfo> log:  thank you kindly for the ban.
[01:10] <log> No problem.
[01:10] <Shirik> I just quieted that guy in -help ._.
[01:10] <Shirik> I guess he's just hopping channels now
[01:10] <unfo> Is there an easy way to ban him/her from all Wikimedia-related channels or from Freenode?
[01:10] <log> No, unfortunately.
[01:11] <unfo> A hard way?
[01:11] <AntiSpamMeta> [#wikipedia-en] - Shirik wants op attention () Theo10011, Cbrown1023, RichiH, Jamesofur, DanielB, closedmouth, Prodego, marienz, Rudha-an, Jake_Wartenberg, ST47, SpitfireWP, dave2, Werdan7, Gfoley4, NotASpy, Snowolf, Tawker, wimt, Courcelles, Cobi, Thehelpfulone, jeremyb, |X|, agkwiki, JohnReaves, Barras, Mike42, Logan_, Not_the_NSA, Corey, Luna-Santin, KFP, pctony, SeJo, Maximillion, DeltaQuad, mrmist, PeterSy
[01:11] <AntiSpamMeta> monds, Ryanposs, slakr, stwalkerster, Golbez, shimgray, and Fluffernutter
[01:16] <unfo> ah, indeed there is a feature that will let a Freenode staff ban him from Freenode.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat_operator#K-line
[01:16] <jeremyb> that's staff not us
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12[01:26] -eir:#wikimedia-ops- (9REM) ban[31166] *!*@14.0.20.89 was set on #wikimedia-ops by Gfoley4!~Gfoley4@wikipedia/Gfoley4 on 2012-01-01 03:17:35 with reason "trolled" and had an expiry date of 2012-01-01 06:17:35. It was removed by eir!~eir@freenode/utility-bot/eir on Sun Jan  1 06:25:59 2012
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12[02:32] -eir:#wikimedia-ops- (9REM) ban[30990] *!*@gateway/web/freenode/ip.76.250.250.153 was set on #wikipedia-en by Gfoley4!~Gfoley4@wikipedia/Gfoley4 on 2011-12-25 07:18:20 with reason "btset 30990 ~7d stalker dude" and had an expiry date of 2012-01-01 07:21:09. It was removed by eir!~eir@freenode/utility-bot/eir on Sun Jan  1 07:32:04 2012
[02:32] <Gfoley4> you may laugh at my failure
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[02:41] <jeremyb> hee, hee, hee, hee
[02:41] <jeremyb> {{done}}
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12[06:01] -mrmist- [Global Notice] - With this hour we welcome the New Year for American Samoa- Pago Pago, Niue (Alofi), Midway Islands, Jarvis Isl., Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll and that brings most of the populated world into 2012.  I hope everyone enjoys a Happy New Year and thank you all for flying freenode!
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Session Start: Sun Jan 01 23:09:22 2012
Session Ident: #wikimedia-ops
03[23:09] * Now talking in #wikimedia-ops
03[23:09] * Topic is 'Wikimedia IRC operators | Ops in Wikimedia channels are voiced | eir: http://freenode.net/eir.shtml | ASM: [[m:IRC/Bots/AntiSpamMeta]] | [[m:IRC Group Contacts]] | If you have a private message for ops, please /join #wikimedia-ops-internal | No public logging | See http://bit.ly/cloakrequest to request a cloak - http://bit.ly/cloakrequirements for requirements'
03[23:09] * Set by Barras!~Barras@wikimedia/barras on Fri Dec 16 14:30:27
[23:09] #wikimedia-ops url is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC
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[23:39] <AntiSpamMeta> 07Medium risk threat [#wikipedia]: Macheil - sending a notice to the channel; ping Theo10011, James_F, RichiH, bumm13_, Jamesofur, DanielB, closedmouth, Tanvir, Prodego, marienz, Jake_Wartenberg, ST47, SpitfireWP, dave2, Gfoley4, Snowolf, wimt, Courcelles, Mike_H, Thehelpfulone, Lucifer_Cat, tawker, jeremyb, JohnReaves, Barras, Mike42, Logan_, Corey, kibble, pctony, SeJo, Maximillion, DeltaQuad, mrmist, Cyr
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Session Close: Sun Jan 01 23:59:46 2012

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