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The videos featuring speeches by Hitler and other Nazi figures reportedly garnered high levels of engagement, sometimes receiving millions of likes from users. Adolf Hitler is the latest historical mass murderer to undergo a revival on TikTok, a Sky News investigation published on Friday found, with many of his Nazi speeches featuring as soundtracks across 72,534 videos. In November, Al Qaeda terrorist Osama Bin Laden, responsible for the September 11 attacks on New York, was commended by the short-form video hosting service’s users, as reported by The Jerusalem Post.  The videos featuring speeches by Hitler and other Nazi figures reportedly garnered high levels of engagement, sometimes receiving millions of likes from users. One such post listed in the investigation blamed Jews for the “Islamisation of Europe.” Between September 2 and 3 alone, the investigation found 50,023 posts with sound clips from Hitler and Nazi chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

via jpost: ‘We miss you’: TikTok sees resurrection of Hitler support, Sky News investigation finds

On September 11, 2024, in the Superior Court of Troup County, Hunter Blake Harrington, now 24, pleaded guilty to six violations of the Georgia Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act, one count of Possession of a Sawed-off Shotgun, one count of Possession of a Sawed-off Rifle, and one count of Unlawful Possession of a Silencer. In accordance with a negotiated plea agreement, Coweta Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Markette Baker sentenced Harrington to 40 years, with the first 15 years to be served in prison. Harrington entered “best interest” guilty pleas to the Street Gang Act violations, which meant he pleaded guilty without admitting guilt. Chief Assistant District Attorney Jack Winne prosecuted the case. Troup County Sheriff’s Office Investigator James Robson led the investigation, which revealed the following. On October 24, 2022, a concerned citizen who was acquainted with Harrington made a report to the Troup County Sheriff’s Office expressing concern about Harrington’s potential danger to others and his erratic behavior. The citizen informed law enforcement that Harrington possessed illegal weapons, was infatuated with mass killers, and was identified as a member of the Atomwaffen Division, a violent Neo-Nazi hate group and a domestic terrorist organization. Investigators soon learned that, at the time of the report, Harrington had been involuntarily committed as a danger to himself and others.

via lagrangenews: LaGrange man gets 15 year sentence for involvement in neo-nazi hate group

siehe auch: 15 years in prison for Georgia member of neo-Nazi ‘Atomwaffen Division’ who was ‘infatuated with mass killers’ Hunter Blake Harrington, 24, pleaded guilty to numerous charges including six violations of the Georgia Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act. A Georgia member of a neo-Nazi group will spend 15 years in prison, the district attorney in Troup County announced Friday, after pleading guilty in a gang violations case. Coweta Judicial Circuit DA John H. Cranford Jr. announced the guilty plea for 24-year-old Hunter Blake Harrington, a member of the “Atomwaffen Division.” Harrington pleaded guilty to numerous charges, including six counts of violating the Georgia Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act. Other charges included possession of a sawed-off rifle, sawed-off shotgun and silencer. His full sentence includes 25 years of probation after the 15 years in prison. (…) That person said that in addition to possessing the illegal weapons, he was “infatuated with mass killers and identified as a member of the Atomwaffen Division, a violent neo-Nazi hate group and domestic terrorist organization.”

Saints Culture – the glorification and veneration of extreme right terrorists – is a pivotal part of far-right digital culture in communities that support terrorism. The foremost adherents of Saint’s Culture are clustered around the so-called Terrorgram Collective, a loose consortium of Telegram channels whose aim is to promote accelerationist violence. Glorifying right-wing terrorists as “Saints” serves to transform their deeds from racist atrocities to quasi-religious acts. These acts are said to be righteously committed in “defense” of race and nation, which are perceived to be facing an existential threat from immigration, as reflected in the Great Replacement conspiracy.[1] In the pantheon of far-right heroes, these Saints are believed to have sacrificed their lives for their race and are thus elevated to the status of “martyrs.” The concept of martyrdom within Saints Culture is, however, somewhat elastic since it also encompasses perpetrators who, rather than being killed during the commission of their crimes, surrendered themselves to responding police and were subsequently jailed for life. In a further inversion of the concept of martyrdom, the suffering that being a martyr entails is sometimes not born by the killer himself but by his victims. Whilst this notion of martyrdom is clearly at odds with general understandings of the concept, what is indisputable is that these figures are revered across certain online communities. Their names, birthdays, and the dates of their killings are celebrated and commemorated online in numerous ways. The most notable is a “Saints Calendar” that bears more than a passing resemblance to online manifestations of serial killer lore. The propagation of Saints Culture serves as a tool to mobilize others within the movement to perpetrate their own acts of racist violence. Adherents believe that this violence will accelerate the demise of liberal democracy and that, from the carnage, a White ethnostate will arise. (…) Terrorgram channels deliberately target their consumers with a constant barrage of images and texts enjoining viewers to “Get the High Score” atop the “Leader Board” to encourage mass violence. Emulation becomes a process of competitive outbidding between individuals who have never met or perhaps even interacted with one another yet inhabit the same broad countercultural milieu online. In effect, individuals compete with one another to kill more and more people in hyper-mediatized ways such as livestreaming their attacks, videos of which are captured and recirculated to provide inspiration for further violence. Saints Culture thus works in tandem with the tendency towards gamifying violence.

via accresearch Terrorgram: Saints Culture By Graham Macklin What is Saints Culture?