HuffPo outs racist, anti-semitic, alt-right troll Ricky Vaughn

[Arctish]

Trump's Most Influential White Nationalist Troll Is A Middlebury Grad Who Lives In Manhatten

Who is Ricky Vaughn? That was one of the big questions for anyone following far-right politics during the 2016 presidential election. The Twitter troll who took his name and avatar from Charlie Sheen’s character in “Major League” was everywhere on social media, an indefatigable circulator of edgy memes and rah-rah Donald Trump boosterism.

And anti-Semitism and white nationalism.

There was no mistaking Ricky Vaughn’s influence. He had tens of thousands of followers, and his talent for blending far-right propaganda with conservative messages on Twitter made him a key disseminator of extremist views to Republican voters and a central figure in the “alt-right” white supremacist movement that attached itself to Trump’s coattails. The MIT Media Lab named him to its list of top 150 influencers on the election, based on news appearances and social media impact. He finished ahead of NBC News, Drudge Report and Stephen Colbert. Mainstream conservatives didn’t know they were retweeting an avowed racist and anti-Semite, but they liked what Ricky Vaughn had to say.

“He did this thing that people connected to organized white nationalism have not been able to do ― walk both sides of the extremist line in the sand,” said Keegan Hankes, a data intelligence expert at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Ricky Vaughn also played an important role in amplifying disinformation injected into American politics by the Russian government. HuffPost and a team of data scientists known as Susan Bourbaki Anthony that tracks online propaganda analyzed who was retweeting the now infamous Kremlin-controlled Twitter account @TEN_GOP, which consistently praised Trump, attacked Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and churned out a vile medley of racism, Islamophobia and “fake news.”

Interesting twist: the big reveal came about as a result of infighting in the white nationalist movement.

On Monday, white nationalist Republican candidate Paul Nehlen, who is running against House Speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin, grew upset about criticism directed at him ― and seemingly not disavowed by Ricky Vaughn ― as the alt-right fragments under the weight of infighting, lawsuits and anti-fascist opposition. Two main camps have emerged: the real-world extremists who want to continue holding rallies and mixing it up in the streets, and the “optics cucks” who think the best approach to the mainstream is to keep pushing alt-right ideas through better propaganda. Ricky Vaughn is in the latter camp. And he hasn’t been shy about it.


“I’m dividing the movement between effective people and dumb losers,” he wrote on Gab, a social media platform overrun by white supremacists.


Amid all this infighting, an angry Nehlen dropped Ricky Vaughn’s real name:

Douglass Mackey.

I predict we'll soon see a Schrödinger's Jest defense.

Whether he was joking or absolutely serious depends on what you see when you look at his tweets. Like this one, for example:

“You’re a crass, craven, disgusting worm," Ricky Vaughn recently declared on Twitter, about one of the survivors of the Parkland, Fla. high school massacre who advocated for gun control. "Smiling and laughing and taking selfies in the wake of a massacre. Why? Because you’ve punched your ticket now. You’re famous, just like you always wanted to be. A little theatre whore. Dance for the cameras, monkey."

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If you're offended, he was just joking.

 

[repoman]

Huh, Ricky Vaughn made a big mistake giving his details to Nehlen if that is the case. Nehlen had unstable wacko written all over.

stuff like this is probably what Nehlen didn't like



Hope Mister Metokur is not doxxed next.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Can we drown both of these clowns in the nearest toilet? It would make the world a much better place.

 

[untermensche]

“You’re a crass, craven, disgusting worm," Ricky Vaughn recently declared on Twitter, about one of the survivors of the Parkland, Fla. high school massacre who advocated for gun control. "Smiling and laughing and taking selfies in the wake of a massacre. Why? Because you’ve punched your ticket now. You’re famous, just like you always wanted to be. A little theatre whore. Dance for the cameras, monkey."

If you're offended, he was just joking.

How dare kids smile and take selfies weeks after some tragic event.

And who exactly is really the little theater whore?

Post fake outrage on the internet in the name of ignorance and hatred little monkey.

 

[fast]

Can we drown both of these clowns in the nearest toilet? It would make the world a much better place.

If I interpreted that article correctly, there is but one clown. A clown with an alter ego, but hey.