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Late Night Clown Show Open Thread: STR8 PRYDE!!!

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That’s not a numeral in the title, it’s an infinity symbol, representing the boundless stupidity / cupidity of these Very Normal Dudes. Our self-styled Hub of the Universe offers a rare opportunity for these “jokers”, since there are significant power blocs of both quasi-intellectual ‘independent thinkers’ and troglodyte pre-VaticanII Catholic revanchists, who occasionally manage to overcome their natural antipathy in the hopes of putting “those people” (everyone not a member of their musty little hate groups) in our place. Believe me, eyes are being rolled. Per the Boston Globe:

A small group of organizers say they’re gearing up to host what they’ve dubbed the “Straight Pride Parade” through Boston this summer, a claim that has set off a visceral reaction nationwide and drawn criticism on social media from the likes of Chris Evans and many others as Pride Month gets underway.

But as reports made the rounds on social media Tuesday, landing the “Straight Pride Parade” among the top trends on Twitter, the city clarified that the proposal isn’t exactly set in stone…

According to the screenshot of the Facebook announcement, the so-called Straight Pride Parade would tentatively take place on Aug. 31 — a prime move-in day for returning students, mind you — and follow the same route of the city’s annual LGBTQ Pride Parade that’s happening in Boston this weekend…

One of the lead organizers pushing for the parade is Mark Sahady. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the same person from the controversial Resist Marxism group, which hosted the Rally for the Republic on Boston Common in 2017 that attracted swarms of counterprotesters.

Sahady posted last week on Facebook that it looks like the proposed parade “will happen,” but his announcement didn’t get much traction on social media until Tuesday.

[Anybody surprised that a NYTimes reporter was the first to fall for this stunt?]

A group called Super Happy Fun America — of which Sahady is apparently the vice president — is taking ownership of the parade plans…

According to officials from Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s office, the group planning the “Straight Pride Parade” has been in contact with the city.

Despite some people claiming online that it’s “official,” organizers have yet to receive the necessary permits to hold a parade, the city said. Like any other group, they need to go through the permitting process.

As for Walsh, at first he didn’t directly address the parade, and instead issued a statement Tuesday about the city’s annual Pride Parade and Pride Week celebrations…

Walsh said he was at a lighting ceremony in the South End Tuesday, for Pride, when he told people “‘don’t even worry about it, there will probably be 10 people at the parade, if he has one.’”…

For his part, Hugo, one of the main organizers, said he thought it was “really funny” that Hollywood actors have been attacking him and his organization, adding that one of the members of his group is gay…

I’ll bet he has a Black friend, too — although that ‘friend’ may not know it. Click the link for a variety of tasty twotter ripostes.

Given the response to Sahad’s last ‘public provocation’ rally, I suspect he’s not gonna have a lot of followers show up…

Also, the brilliant Alexandra Petri, at the Washington Post:

HERE IT COMES! IT IS COMING AROUND THE CORNER! ALREADY FROM A DISTANCE YOU CAN HEAR THE NOISE OF — BILLY JOEL AND … THE BEATLES? SOMEWHAT STRENUOUSLY OUT OF TUNE? IS THAT STRAIGHT CULTURE, BEARING DOWN UPON US, AS IT WILL DO IN BOSTON ON AUG. 31? YES, IT IS!

And here come the floats!

The first float is a hot tub with two bros sitting in it, five feet apart, because they are not gay! They throw Charleston Chews to the assembled crowd. At one point their hands brush in the bucket of Charleston Chews and they both apologize, and then although there is more candy to throw, they stop throwing the candy and cease to make eye contact…

The next float is a dad being disappointed at a gender reveal party, firing a pink cannon into the air and saying, “Darn.”

Seth Rogen is the marshal, even though he does not want to be.

Next comes a polka band.

Behind the music comes a battalion of women with matching haircuts demanding that a manager, somewhere, turn the music down.

The next float is Adam blaming Eve for being cast out of paradise. Many people follow this float handing out pamphlets, and only some of them look happy…

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  7. 7.

    hervevillechaizelounge

    i mean no disrespect to Annie Laurie or anyone else but we need to stop falling for this shit—are we trying to make the cracker running this thing famous? Because we are.

    Why is every fucking newspaper giving this shitgibbon so much free advertising? He’ll use this attention to raise money from wingnut welfare. This parade is just a troll. The media would never shower a tiny parade for a good cause with this much attention.

    Nobody has learned ANYTHING from 2016. I’ve never been to J school, but let me explain how this shit should be handled: the MSM should’ve ignored it even if it trended on fascist twitter and Faux; then after 5 people showed up at the damn thing MSM could/should write articles about what a fucking failure it was.

    Now the so-called liberal media has given this shitbag standing in the wingnut community—better watch your back, James O’Keefe. You might have some competition for those oligarch hate dollars.

    Pardon my rant, but my rage at the media is incandescent lately—if photographed from space my loathing would look like a neon middle finger.

  8. 8.

    prostratedragon

    @hervevillechaizelounge: On the other hand it does rather inhibit the dude from slithering into more consequential discourses as if he might have a contribution, if his name is recognizable. (Not that I can’t see your point also.)

  9. 9.

    Aleta

    @hervevillechaizelounge: I think you’re right, and that the publicity matters more to them than whether the march happens.

    Still, here’s some information that I didn’t know yesterday when the humor was ascendant. (Apologies)

    The H. Fun group page sounded more like a spoof to me when I read it earlier.

    The event is a front for a far-right group founded by notorious right-wing brawler Kyle “Based Stickman” Chapman.

    Straight Pride organizer Mark Sahady announced the parade on Facebook, claiming he received permits for the event that would likely take place on August 31. But Sahady isn’t just a particularly aggrieved straight dude. Instead, he has a long history participating in controversial right-wing events around Boston as an organizer for Resist Marxism, a group Chapman founded at the height of the fame he earned attacking left-wing anti-fascist activists with his eponymous “stick.”

    Chapman appears to no longer be involved with the group now that he’s facing felony charges in two states over two assaults. But Sahady has taken up his position, organizing Resist Marxism events around the Boston area. In Facebook posts, Sahady has endorsed the far-right “helicopter” meme …. “We may get to throw anti-American communists from helicopters sooner than we thought,” Sahady wrote in one Facebook post.

    Resist Marxism’s politics get even uglier, though. In leaked internal chats published in 2018, members frequently made anti-Semitic jokes and used anti-Semitic slurs. At least one Resist Marxism event had security provided by Patriot Front, a white-nationalist hate group.
    Sahady isn’t the only Straight Pride Parade organizer with ties to Resist Marxism. Another promoter, John Hugo, unsuccessfully ran for Congress last year with an endorsement and organizing support from the group.

    It’s not clear that the parade will even happen, in part because Sahady has a history of failing to pull off his events. Last August, Sahady tried to organize a National March Against Far-Left Violence. The event’s Facebook page linked to a website offering free T-shirts for attendees, as long as they provided their names and addresses. The T-shirt site was later revealed to be an antifascist sting against Sahady and his compatriots, some of whom had accidentally handed their names and addresses over to their ideological enemies.

    A source familiar with the Boston government’s permitting process told Right Richter that Sahady had not been granted permit so far. Sahady didn’t respond to a request for comment.

  13. 13.

    Plato

    @Aleta:

    The idiot asshole can’t even grift properly.

    The event’s Facebook page linked to a website offering free T-shirts for attendees, as long as they provided their names and addresses. The T-shirt site was later revealed to be an antifascist sting against Sahady and his compatriots, some of whom had accidentally handed their names and addresses over to their ideological enemies.

  14. 14.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Entries for the H8 Pride parade:

    1. Giant AXE body spray float
    2. Bag of Doritos float
    3. A gendered single-person bathroom
    4. Big Mountain Dew float
    5. A tiny unwashed dick float
    6. Tomi Lahren rising a swastika
    7. Jacob Wohl, waving on a Twinkie
    8. Charlie Kirk in a diaper
    9. The curly haired gun girl in a beige leotard, riding an AK-47
    10. Giant-sized parent’s basement

  19. 19.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @Sister Golden Bear: https://twitter.com/AXE/status/1136260381645639680 I was impressed by the company’s reply. Obviously/

    Tony Posnanski
    ‏@tonyposnanski
    Jun 4
    Floats for the Straight Pride Parade…

    – Giant AXE body spray
    – Bag of Doritos
    – Big Mountain Dew
    – Tomi Lahren riding a Swastika
    – Jacob Wohl waving on a Twinkie
    – Charlie Kirk in a diaper
    – The curly hair gun girl in a beige leotard riding an AR-15
    – Giant Parent’s basement
    755 replies 4,265 retweets 24,800 likes
    Reply 755 Retweet 4.3K Like 25K Direct message

    AXE
    ‏@AXE
    Replying to @tonyposnanski
    we’ll be at the parade that matters and this one isn’t it

    Bella Q
    ‏@BellaIdahoQ
    I’m retweeting @AXE
    Filed under both
    things I never expected to do
    and
    how totally 2019 some of the replies to the comment are.

    That was exactly the right response for AXE to take. The product may be g*dawful, but the company is on the right path, I think.

  20. 20.

    Chip Daniels

    Where are the cop, the Indian, the construction worker the sailor and the biker?

  21. 21.

    Tenar Arha

    @hervevillechaizelounge: & @Aleta: Dead thread but maybe you’ll check back….I’ve been trying to work this out since yesterday. It’s really been bugging me too.

    Yesterday, when there was a story about how even when we had gatekeepers Orange Julius used to spread rumors to get picked up by the NYPost, the NYTimes, & then the AP, that British royals/Diana were buying a condo in his building or joining one of his clubs. Periodically Buckingham Palace would have to issue multiple statements debunking this nonsense. But by then there’d been plenty of buzz & probably sales.

    And so it is clear to me that what just happened in like the past ~3 days isn’t really a completely new phenomenon. However it’s significantly sped up. Because all possibility of reporters fact checking, even for uncorroborated events, goes by the wayside if it’s a good target for a knowing laugh, & if you’re good at getting noticed it’s now available to anyone on a massive scale bc of social media platforms.

    Unfortunately, in this world without gatekeepers, where even reporters & editors who should know better spread bullsh*t via their social media on the regular, I’m not sure it’s possible to stop these blatant ploys for free PR by white supremacist thugs. And I’m now wondering if there’s any way to use the connectedness of social media to spread the debunking &/ correction as far & wide as the original ploy—and I just don’t know.

  22. 22.

    sukabi

    @Tenar Arha: that would require the journalists and others eager to jump on the latest outrage to be just as eager to voceriferously spread the fact check….something that hasn’t happened to date.

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