It Could Happen Here - What’s Up with the Kyle Rittenhouse Cultural Center?

Episode Date: September 8, 2022

James, Mia, and Gare take a deep dive into some of the most truly cursed things we’ve seen on the internet, and explain the police raid on the Kyle Rittenhouse cultural center in ArgentinaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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most truly cursed things uh that i have ever seen on the internet that that maybe has ever existed so i i know people are just learning about this now, but I've known about this for a while because I kind of have a personal obsession with Kyle Rittenhouse for reasons that should be obvious. Yeah, I've known about this for a bit. I just have never had a good time to bring it up. But I guess we've now found it, is it's kyle in time yeah it's

uh it's time to talk about the central cultural kyle rittenhouse uh which exists uh in argentina uh as part of i think maybe we'll explain a little bit about like what the broader context of these centros is like what they are if people aren't familiar and then what the fuck this abomination is is all about right so these exist across uh latin america more or less uh also i've seen them in spain the spanish-speaking world but i think that's like a reflexive thing going back to spain and they're like community spaces they they vary hugely but I've been to different ones. They're nearly always leftist or at least progressive. And they're spaces where sometimes people can go and meet, right?

Communities can meet. Sometimes they're like cultural events, talks. You can borrow books. Often they're associated with neighborhood movements or what we might broadly call like anarchism but sometimes it's yeah explicit sometimes it's not it's like a community center type thing the closest thing we would have here would probably be like info shops but those kind of differ based on what what kind of anarchist info shop you're at

um but yeah they're like like community gathering places you can pick up books or whatever yeah and um this one's a little bit uh a little bit odd yeah yeah because it is very much not leftist uh it claims to be argentina's first openly rightist cultural center and it's run by this guy called jose deadman uh he is a poster right this is a guy who many people will have become aware of today i have spent most of my day watching his content on the internet uh good for you it's great i love my job i took three days off i went camping and then i just retoxified my brain with this shit immediately yeah um it's okay so jose den man right uh the reason that we are interested in him today uh is a because of his truly cursed posting history and b because the anti-terrorist police in argentina raided the uh central cultural car

written house uh last night i've got some audio of the raid which uh we have to we have to play this audio of the race yeah yeah there were flashbangs there were there were guns there were a lot of guys in plate carriers That's wild. That's like the first real time anything related to Kyle Rittenhouse has faced any sort of consequence. That's right, yeah. Based Argentinian cops. Yeah, well, again, they can only do things that are funny.

That's true and this is and and raiding a kyle rettenhouse themed cultural center is funny that is very funny this is extremely funny like this is one of the funniest things i've ever seen as they go in uh you're gonna see some some of uh not only like artistically offensive but really offensive in every way murals. They're really bad. Yeah, they're incredibly bad. The right is not good at street art. No, I mean, and this is the real problem that they have as a sort of like strategy of like trying to mirror sort of left-wing cultural spaces. Is that like as annoying as like left-wing cultural spaces are, like right-wing cultural spaces are like the worst thing to be and you can possibly imagine because there's nobody like every single one of these

people is completely insufferable and again left left left wing sort of like social movements always buffered by the fact that they have an incredible number of very talented artists these guys like donald trump with a square head is i i don't think you would describe it as as quality artists who are responsible for the for the murals at the kyle rittenhouse cultural center yeah he did them himself uh there are there are videos uh so do we want to talk about what before we talk before talking about like why this was rated do we want to first talk about like what this actually is and like why it exists like like where did this come from okay so this comes pretty much out of this uh he he seems to some of his earlier posts about the censorship of dragon ball

zed oh my god oh my god yeah which i will not profess i've probably it's probably z isn't it okay okay all right uh so i've i've given myself away as a non-anime understander at the outset uh i don't know why it was censored i and he claims that it was he uses a phase like femi bolshi a lot uh femi bolshe which i'm guessing is a portmanteau of feminist and bolshevik uh and he is god you're probably right yeah yeah so it's he's definitely an insult yes the feminists are censoring dbz and this means i need to start a fascist hangout spot yeah that's that's the journey of this yep well more or less uh i guess it seems to really come out of the lockdown uh it seems to come out of him being unemployed from March of 2020.

There's a big anti-lockdown group in Argentina called Fuerza Unidaria Argentina, which he's part of. And that's if you look, actually, it says like Kyle Rittenhouse Cultural Center, and then it has Fuerza Unidaria written underneath. And so that seems to be a large part of it uh it opened relatively recently i was looking for an exact date but i couldn't find it but it is within the last year yes it has it has been within the year i remember seeing something about this earlier this year um just to recap some of the art maybe because it didn't like art's a strong word paintings

depiction yeah no art art requires a few a few things to make it actually art i i don't think this stuff qualifies as art no uh but and some of them i genuinely was unable to discern who are they supposed to be it's really difficult like it's it's it's kind of hard to tell who trump is and it's trump like this is this is this is this is how this is the level of artist we are dealing with here yeah trap looks like someone out of minecraft or something like his head is entirely square the width is equal to the height uh yeah which but they've they've got uh one of the guys i saw was this guy called Malevo. Do people know who he is? No.

Perhaps not. Okay, this is probably one that we won't include the video of in the podcast. But, so he was, he went to prison because he tortured leftists as a cop in Argentina in the 70s, right? And then he escapes. And in 2008, the cops come to his house to take him back. And instead of going back to jail a live tv in front of his wife and children he shoots himself and like they just keep rolling the reporter's like five feet away and they're like oh he shot himself in the head he's down and now

he's immortalized by something that looks like a five-year-old's yeah incels finger painting on the walls this is this is what happens when people follow their leader hitler yeah it's true uh so there's there's other people that there's uh javier mile i think he's called he's like a he's the classic chad libertarian uh he's an argentine politician uh they of course have a confederate flag they have banners from the argentine civil war there's an imperial japanese flag yeah next to donald trump like i'm just i'm just looking at like the front like banner thing or like the front like mural on at at the end there's a horrible horrible picture of kyle rittenhouse wearing a suit that it looks so funny like it's like i it's the the the image is just amazing it's god well they had they have they okay i will say it looks like i drew it blindfolded with my left hand.

Like, it looks so bad. The one thing... Okay, I think they're... Well, okay. Their depiction of Bolsonaro, like... It's fine. It kind of captures the grotesqueness of him, but like... It does.

He's doing finger guns. He is doing finger guns. Double finger guns. With the Brazilian flag behind him. Remember, this started with DBZ. Yeah, Rittenhouse's giant thing has like...

What is it? The two holes? The two black circles on his face? I thought it was an eyepatch, but no, it's not. There's like two or three black circles on the inside mineral of Rittenhouse. It looks like he's wearing an eyepatch or like some kind of night vision optic maybe also as a Kyle Rittenhouse expert who spent hours combing through the clothing he was wearing

they have his hat completely wrong they have here like a reddish pinkish hat and that's not the hat that he was wearing he was wearing a tan hat with a with a white back mesh um and the hat was the reason we were able to figure out who he was because it has a little tear in the front and we were able to compare that to get an exact match onto the suspect's facebook profile um so the hat is completely wrong so already they've they've dropped the ball here on any semblance of accuracy by drawing the completely wrong hat for this picture it's i'm i'm insulted as someone who spent hours figuring out uh what this guy's name is i'm i'm insulted yeah there's all kind of cursed stuff this uh abascal the vox guy from spain like

anyone who you can think of he's just like a culture warrior is depicted uh in finger painting style um by this guy uh by hossi dead man uh so he he came to the attention of the author well actually he came to the attention of the authorities before uh it will shock nobody to find that he has been sending unsolicited images of his genitalia to women for a very long time so he's been sending out a lot of are you telling me the dragon ball z in cell who started a kyle written house cultural center has been sending out unsolicited dick pics yeah wait i wonder if oh no what maybe okay hold on hold on i i just i think i think i just had a revelation about this guy did you just crack this case wide open hold on hold on um yeah i can't wait to hear what you've come up with i i'm on the edge of edge of my seat i am thrilled uh i on the other hand

i'm on their facebook page which is toxic as hell yeah their face their facebook's pretty funny they they they have a video of a woman inside they call it yes when the woman comes in they're like just to prove it's a woman people say women don't come here like we have a woman who's offering they've filmed like of like a like a five minute video of this woman sitting inside just so there was proof that there was a woman inside this building yeah they were so shocked yeah yeah yeah it's it's very clear that like they had not been expecting it so he's actually been to jail for gender-based online violence welcome i'm danny thrill won't you join me at the fire and dare enter Welcome. I'm Danny Trejo. Won't you join me at the fire and dare enter Nocturnum, Tales from the Shadows,

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Gecko on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's the one with the green guy on it. I think I figured out how this connects to Dragon Ball Z. Okay. I'm not 100% sure about this. My guess is that this guy is like a hard line. i've never actually heard this guy's name said out loud uh vick mignagona like truther guy mcvick mcvick mcvick is like this he was a voice actor who was on dragon ball z who like sexually harassed and assaulted like a shit ton of people um and in 2019 like the stuff came out and there was like a huge right-wing backlash around him and i i really wonder if this is the fucking thing that he was mad about

he was mad that he was this voice actor that got canceled because oh he was mad that his favorite voice actor got canceled for sexually assaulting people yeah well so so vick tried to like uh the voice actor guy, tried to sue a bunch of people for defamation and got fucking absolutely owned in court. And then all of the shit that he'd been doing for, like, decades, like, came out. So it would not surprise me

if this was, like, part of this guy, like, if this is part of the thing he was fucking screaming about with Dragon Ball Z being censored by the feminist Bolsheviks. The feminist Bolsheviks, yeah. This is the worst thing I've ever said. This is the worst conversation I've ever had in my life. Yeah, that's pretty grim.

So I think a large part of this cultural center and kind of the stuff behind it stems out of a whole bunch of like the anti-communist groups that have existed in Argentina for a long time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. His like, so all his videos, he has his backpack with like a hammer and sickle with like the no you know the circle and line through it um and he then he stages that everywhere with him uh and he has like um some he has like a bunch of anti-communist graffiti that

he he also you'll see him in his uh like in his facebook profile it used to say sometimes anti-social always anti-communist and it had like the yellow and black little thing and yeah and he's he's betrayed i think the tweet that first like announced it betrayed them as like uh libertarian ancaps which like they have mejor mejor muerto que rojo like better dead than red yeah that's not a fucking and cap like these people are trying to revoke the era of violence against the left in argentina in the 1970s right like that's what they're going for here yeah i think like in case people are not aware of this argentina had a like a incredibly brutal military dictatorship killed a shit ton of people also like went around

latin america training other death squads they had this group called the triple a which was a basically a fascist death squad that sort of acted as a paramilitary for other wings of the state they killed a bunch of people eventually they coup the government um they're one of the people involved in operation condor they drop people out of helicopters. Also, they, yeah, it was really fucking bad. And these anti, these like anti-communist, basically fascist death squads,

or some of them fascist death squads. Literally fascist, yes. Yeah. Like we're too Nazi fascists. Like the style of slogans and propaganda that they're using for the center is in the same vein as that. They're carrying that tradition

in Argentina. And I think people are familiar with the Nazis. People should also probably somewhat familiar with the whole thing with tons of Nazis fleeing to Argentina. And Argentina being very welcoming to a whole bunch of like German Nazis, like actual Nazi Nazis nazi nazis

like with the membership card like third third reich nazis yeah so one thing that the uh that he did one thing that derman did or he they posted it as we on their facebook page with um las madres de la plaza de mayo they're like these mothers who made this weekly protest i think it was weekly and they wore white handkerchiefs right and they were like where are our disappeared children and they sort of mobilized maternity in this way that made it very hard for the state to crack down on them right especially a state which is all about like quote unquote traditional gender roles or whatever you you want to call it um so these mothers are like held up as a great example of peaceful protest of peaceful protest against dictatorship right of forcing them to acknowledge their crimes

uh they're looked up to by a lot of people all around the world and he and his bros went out and vandalized a monument to them and then posted about it on their facebook like pretty openly like we did this look at us go so generally pretty much piece of shit guy uh he claims that the really was radicalized by torturous sexual abstinence uh which was enforced upon him by the government with the covid 19 lockdown aha so he's claiming to be a var cell and not an incel of ourselves that's damn it i haven't said this in too long i mean and if it's forced on by the government then it is involuntary yeah yes yeah okay i guess i guess that's okay so some men choose incel yeah i'm just gonna stop right here we don't need to continue this conversation. It actually doesn't matter. No.

Yeah. He was unable to find intimacy with the people he wanted to and therefore decided to send them pictures of his penis instead. And then start a cultural center themed after Kyle Rittenhouse. That's correct. Yeah. I'm just trying to think of like, I did a lot of stuff on like the aftermath of the Rittenhouse. That's correct. Yeah. I'm just trying to think of like, I did a lot of stuff on like the aftermath

of the Rittenhouse shooting as well. We immediately saw a whole bunch of, a big wave of Rittenhouse stuff in the Better Dead Than Red and anti-communist action type like memes. And I think that this very much stems out of that tradition as well. Kyle Rittenhouse being this like symbol of,

here is a shining example of someone who actually put in the work to kill communists. Quote-unquote communists, obviously. And I think that with the whole anti-communist death squad framing of this, that matches up with a lot of the memes that were

circulating in the weeks after the original shooting in Kenosha. And we can see this as like a physical manifestation of that type of mimetic messaging. Like this is like a, it's a physical version of that. Of course, incorporating into just a larger kind of right-wing populist politics, you know, veering onto fascism. And I think it's, but specifically with like the anti-communist action and better dead than red type memes that were using Rittenhouse, that is a very,

a very clear kind of a nexus point between these two things. Because you're like, why is someone in Argentina super into Kyle Rittenhouse? It's because of this. We already have this big strain of anti-communist stuff inside Argentina. Kyle Rittenhouse it's because of this uh we already have this big strain of anti-communist stuff inside Argentina Kyle Rittenhouse was used memetically in this way very easy thing for the right there to use I think I don't know I think um James do you have do you have any other fun facts about this yeah I do yeah I do so there seems to be another guy who does most of this the speaking for them when they speak to the media uh he only gives his name once as jew uh like ju um but then

he also claims okay wait for it wait for it because he claims to have jewish ancestry as well and therefore they can't be anti-semitic so um very troubling maybe i'm pronouncing that wrong but you know i i can't think of another way it's only two letters uh so extremely troubling one thing that i did note as well is there is a whole lot of quote-unquote gender ideology talk right and a lot of cultural marxism talk so i think here's a guy who's extremely online and is parroting these kind of Ben Shapiro, American right turf talking points. You can also see like, one thing that's very funny is there appears to be a punk band called War Pigs who are selling, I think it's figurines, like World Cup figurines, perhaps, which they are selling. Mundial is the word he used. They seem to be basically pretending to be him online

selling these figurines, pretending they're fundraising for his center, but then they're obviously using the money for their anti-fascist efforts. That is incredibly rad. Yeah, shout out to them. War Pigs, look him up. Yeah, give him some money if you can.

That is so funny. He gets so fucking mad about it he made so many videos about it um and then his parents were uh like he talks about them as heroes of the marxist movement and like leftists and like revolutionaries so he's 38 now uh so his parents will have been young in the 70s perhaps perhaps, but certainly certainly like around in that period in their teens and 20s. And he talks about like how his parents were cruel to him and how the supposed Marxists like bullied him. How he he says at one point he has Tourette's and they forced him to do treatments, which he claims curtailed his opportunities to meet women. But he only mentions this once and he

sort of goes off on these weird diversions. Yeah, it's a lot of very basic kind of online incel type stuff. Welcome. I'm Danny Thrill. Won't you join me at the fire and dare enter Nocturnum, Tales from the Shadows Presented by I Heart and Sonorum

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that have haunted Latin America since the beginning of time. Listen to Nocturnal Tales from the Shadows as part of my Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast, and we're kicking off our second season digging into how Tex's elite has turned Silicon Valley into a playground for billionaires.

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On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean. He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba. He looked like a little angel. I mean, he looked so fresh. And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere. Elian Gonzalez. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian Gonzalez. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with. His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom.

At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation. Something that as a Cuban, I know all too well. Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story, as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I found out I was related to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly.

I am talking to a felon right now, and I cannot decide if I like him or not. Those were some callers from my call-in podcast, Therapy Gecko. It's a show where I take real phone calls from anonymous strangers all over the world as a fake gecko therapist and try to dig into their brains and learn a little bit about their lives. I know that's a weird concept, but I promise it's pretty interesting if you give it a shot. Matter of fact, here's a few more examples of the kinds of calls we get on this show. I live with my boyfriend, and I found his piss jar in our apartment. I collect my roommate's toenails and fingernails.

I have very overbearing parents. Even at the age of 29, they won't let to get out of your own head and see what's going on in someone else's head, search for Therapy Gecko on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's the one with the green guy on it i want to talk a little bit about the sort of trans angle on this too because i think so one of the things i think like is not very well known that at some point i will do a full episode on when I find when I'm able to like get enough stuff together and find people who are like really qualified to talk about it. But Argentina has had one of the world's most powerful trans movements for a long time. there is a law that passed um i think last year that were that like they have like a hiring quota so all for public service jobs there's a one percent hiring quota of people who have to be trans like really yeah they like they they have stuff there like they have done stuff there that

is like like not even like on the agenda for like any other like trans movement I've ever seen. So yeah, they're, they're very strong. They're very well organized. And the government has sort of like, has done like a bunch of like genuinely very good, like pro trans stuff, like under the pressure of this movement. movement and i i think that i think like in that context i think his his fact that he's obsessed with like gender critical shit makes a lot of sense because that's you know that's like one of the sort of right-wing things in argentina is opposing this shit but like it doesn't i don't know they're kind of losing that battle insofar as like yeah you know people people have done a really really good job and fought really really desperate and sort of horrible battles

for decades but yeah they're they're they're sort of bearing fruit in really cool ways respect nice good job and so what also is bearing fruit is his posting because he has been raided by i i would urge you to watch this video i'll tweet it so people can find it there as well. But a metric shit ton of armed police. And the reason they're raiding him is because he's made a public threat, basically. He made this 11 and a half minute video. Notably, he says,

our total to support to the Brazilian hero who tried to create justice for all Argentinians. And goes on to talk about this this is with reference to the assassination attempt that we saw what last week yes so so so last week this this fascist tried to assassinate the vice president of argentina and we're going to get more into this in our upcoming week of content titled assassination week assassination week assassination week upcoming we're gonna be a whole week of a whole week of episodes about assassinations um but in brief this this this happened and then the people at the cultural center made this live stream

celebrating the attack and calling the perpetrator argentina's brazilian hero yes uh it really was just he also like tells people to rise up and stuff like there's some very clear calls to action in there in the raid they found a mortar shell and 184 millimeter mortar shell a drone and they've confiscated a bunch of hard drive which i i do not envy the person who has to go through his phones and hard drives a lot of dick pics in there they're gonna see some balls they're gonna see some peen uh but hopefully that person can get some therapy and this isn't the first like this isn't the first time that the state has tried to come after them they actually uh there were there were discussions about like

denying the crimes committed under the dictatorship and how he can be prosecuted for that because that was the thing that they were very clearly doing. So it seemed like he'd kind of been in the crosshairs of progressive legislators in Argentina for a while. And then he went and made this batshit crazy video where he makes calls to violence he says the left can't ask for non-violence he says the left doesn't respect democracy uh and he calls the vice president a rat and a murderer and says that

it's just a shame that she wasn't blown up and it's only because the weapon malfunctioned that this hero didn't get to do justice for all Argentines. I should have been the Shinzo Abe guy. I'm sorry. Look, he's just built different. Yeah, he's built different because he got sabotaged by all of his esoteric Nazism, which we will get more into in the upcoming Assassination Week. Yep, we just got to record the theme music and then

we'll be there yeah the theme music yes cut together footage of all of the great assassinations yep this is going to be half an hour constant assassination collage yeah these guys are extremely cursed there's more cursed stuff that they've done that we probably shouldn't go into, I don't think, because I think you could just understand this is a lonely incel guy who's been on the internet too much, become more and more radicalized and surrounded himself with people who agree.

And it's been pretty funny to watch people prank him for a while, like scrolling down their Facebook page. It's very funny to see people consistently like he doesn't seem to be an intellectual giant but it's also worrying and obviously he's advocating for violence against people already marginalized whenever someone starts taking things that are online out into the physical world like making basically a monument like a physical place um it's always concerning it's always it's always one of the big big red flags yeah and and i think like specifically

the fact that he had both a motor shell and a drone is incredibly alarming oh you don't say yeah i just i just want to say i just want to put that on the record for a second yeah if he'd posted a little bit less, he could have made it into Assassination Week. But here we are. Cucked by your own posting. A tale as old as time. Yeah.

If he'd stuck to tradition and not posted. They did also, I just want to note, sell secondhand clothes at the center. I don't know why. I don't know what they were going for there. But they did that. He also sold coffee. Really?

If you're in Argentina and you want some second hand closing coffee, I can tell you where not to go. Don't go to this place. Because there's odds are you're going to get raided by police when you're there. I don't think there's much of this place left now. It looks like the door

has not recovered from their entry judging by the fact that they've taped a bin bag over it in the photos here yeah hopefully someone can squat this place maybe the war pigs can get it and just host a collection of figurines there that would be based that'd be so sick yep if they need money just let us know we'll do a fundraiser so i hope this is a good lesson in knowing when posting goes too far yeah try try to keep your cringe online if you're going to do it i mean because you don't want to be this guy no you certainly do not want to be this guy complaining about dragon ball z and posting that results in uh the police raiding your cow written house themed hangout spot yeah just yeah yeah truly one of the weirdest pivots from

online to the streets that i've ever seen uh this dude probably should have been in jail a long time ago uh they're probably worth noting that like gender-based violence is like the common denominator for people who do other terrible shit and this is not not an example of that yeah who could have thought that the raging incel misogynist would also have bad politics yeah so keep doing uh fami bolshie shit you have our full support indeed well that is it for us today toune in next week. I think next week, right? Some next week or maybe the week after for our upcoming week of episodes titled Assassination Week.

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