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What’s Up with the Kyle Rittenhouse Cultural Center?

Sep 08, 202231 min
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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 Argentina

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What's kyling your Written House? Oh, in in our in our centenious cultural center. Ya remember Kyle Written House. Remember remember that night where I spent way too much time online finding that kid's name, and then he was arrested a few hours later, and then he got off after murdering those people. Remember when that happened. I do. So. Are you saying that you're in some way responsible for what we're going to talk about today? No, this is

not on me. This is one of the most truly cursed things that I have ever seen on the internet that that has ever existed. So 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. Um uh, yeah, I've been, I've been. I've known about this for a bit. I just have ever had a good time to bring it up. But I guess, I guess, I guess we've now found it, which is it's Kyle

in time. Yeah, it's time to talk about the central cultural Kyle Rittenhouse which exists in Argentina. As part of I think maybe we'll explain a little bit about like what the broader context of these centrals is like what they are. If people aren't familiar, and then what the fuck this abomination is all about? Right, So these exist across Latin America more or less. Also, I've seen him in Spain, the Spanish speaking world, but I think that's

like a reflective thing, going back to Spain. And they're like community spaces. They they're very hugely but I've been two different ones. They've nearly always left this or at least progressive, and their spaces where sometimes people can go and meet, right, communities can meet. Sometimes they're like cultural events, talks, you can borrow books. Often like are associated with neighborhood movements or what we might broadly call like anarchism. But

sometimes it's yeah, explicit, sometimes it's it's not. It's like a communally center type thing. The closest thing we would have here would probably be like info shops, but those kind of differ based on what kind of anarchists infoshop you're at. Um. But yeah, they're like like community gathering places you can pick up books or whatever. And this one's a little bit a little bit odd, yeah, yeah, because it is very much not left if it claims me.

Argentina's first openly right its cultural center, and it's run by this guy called Josse dead Man. 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. Good for you, it's great. I love my job. I took three days off a went camping, and then I just re talked. I find my brain with this ship immediately. Yeah, it's okay. So

obviously dead Man right. The reason that we are interested in him today is a because of his truly cursed posting history, and be because the anti terrorist police in Argentina raided the Central Colt Written House last night. I've got some audio of the raid which we have to we have to play the study of the race. Yeah. Yeah, there were flashbangs, so we're there were guns. There were a lot of guys in plate carriers. That's wild, just the that's like the first real time anything related to

car written house has faced any sort of consequence, that's right. Yeah, based Argentinean coups. Well, again, they can only do things that are funny, that's true. And this is and raiding a Kyle Rendhouse themed Cultural Center is funny, is very funny. This is extremely funny. Like, this is one of the funniest states I've ever seen. As they go in, you're gonna see some some of not only artistically offensive, but really offensive in every way murals. So they're really bad, Yeah,

very incredibly bad. The right is not good at street art, no, I mean, and this is this is this is the real problem that they have. As is sort of like strategy of like trying to mirror sort of left wing cultural spaces. Is that like as 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, let let left

left wing sort of like social roupe. But it's always buffered by the fact that they have an incredible number of very talented artists. These guys like the Donald Trump with the square I don't think you would describe it as as as quality artists responsible for the for the murals at the Kyle Written House Cultural Center, Yeah, he did them himself. There are their videos. So do we want to talk about what before we before we talking

about like why this was rated? Want to talk about like what this actually is and like whists 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 centership of Dragon Ball Z, like oh my god, yeah, which I will not profess. I've probably it's probably Z, isn't it? Okay? Okay, alright, so I've I've given myself away as a non anime understander at the outset. I don't know why it was censored,

and he claims that it was. He uses a phase like Femi bolshi a lot Femi bolshe which I'm guessing is a portmanteau of feminist in Bolshevik. Uh. He's god, You're probably right, yeah, so he's definitely an So, yes, the feminists are censoring DPS and this means I need to start a fascist hangout spot. That's that's the journey of this. Yeah, Well, more or less, I guess it seems to really come out of the lockdown. It seems

to come out of him being unemployed from March. There's a big anti lockdown group in Argentina called Fuerts Ony Daddia Argentina, which he's part of, and that that's if you look. Actually it says like Carl written House Cultural Center, and then it has Fuests only Daddia written underneath um, and so that seems to be a large part of it. 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 need like art's a strong word, paintings, pictures. Yeah, art requires a few things to make it actually art. I don't think this stuff qualifies as as art. No, 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 kind of hard to tell who Trump is,

and it's Trump. This is, this is, this is, this is how. This is the level of artists we're dealing with. Your Yeah, trap looks like someone out of Minecraft or something like. His head is entirely square, the width is equal to the height. Yeah, which but they've they've got one of the guys I saw was this guy called Malvo. Do people know who he is? 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 copy in Argentina in the seventies, right, and then he escaped in two thousand and eight. The come to his house to take him back and instead of going back to Jaila Live TV in front of his wife and children, he shoots himself. Like they just keep rolling, the reporters like five feet away and they're like, oh, he shops lf in the head.

He's down, and now he's immortalized by Yeah, that looks like a five year old in cells finger painting on the walls. This is this is what happens when people follow their leader. Hitler. Yeah, it's true. So there's there's other people there. There's heavier Malay. I think he's called He's like, he's a classic chud libertarian. He's an Argentine politician. 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 looking at like the front like banner thing or like the front like mural the edge. There's horrible, horrible picture of Kyle House wearing a suit that it looks so funny. It's like it's the the the image is just amazing. It's god. They have 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

I think they're well, okay. Their depiction of Bolsonaro like it's it kind of captures the grotesqueness of him. But he's doing finger guns guns with the Brazilian flag behind him. Remember remember this started with DVZ. Yeah, Written Houses like giant thing has like what what is it? The two holes, the two blacks on his face don't have my patch but no it's not. It's two or three black circles

on the inside mineral of written House. It looks like he's wearing an eyepatch, like some kind of night vision optic. Maybe also as a Kyler Written House 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 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 suspects Facebook profile. Um, so the hat is completely wrong. So already they've they've dropped the ball here on any semblance of accuracy fight like the completely wrong hat for this picture. It's I'm I'm insulted. As someone who spent hours figuring out what this guy's name is, I'm insulted. Yeah,

there's a kind of cursed stuff. This scale the box guy from Spain, like any one who you can think of. He's just like a culture warrior. Is depicted in finger painting style by this guy by Hosy death Man. So he he came to the attention of the author well, actually he came to the attention of the authorities before. 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 cel who started a Kyle written host cultural center, has been sending out unsolicited dick fix I wonder if, oh no, what maybe Okay, hold on, hold on, I just I think I think I just had a revelation about this guy. Did you just crack this case wide opening? Hold on? Hold on, Yeah, I can't wait to hear what you've come up with. I'm on the edge of edge of my seat. I am thrilled. All right. I only other

hand him on their Facebook page, which is sick as hell. Yeah, their face, their Facebook is pretty funny. They have a video of a woman in the side of the culture when the woman comes in there, like just to prove it's a woman. People say women don't come here, Like we have a woman who thy 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. I think I figured out how this connected dragon ball Z. My Okay, I'm not sure. My guess is that this guy is like a hard line Um I've never actually heard this guy's names out out loud. Vic Mignagna like truth or guy MG voegot is like this.

He was a voice actor who was on Dragon ball Z who like sexually harassed and assaulted like a ship ton of people. Um, And in twenty nineteen, like the stuff came out and there was like a huge right wing backlash around him, and I really wonder if this is the fucking thing that he was mad about. He was this voice actor that got canceled because his favor

voice actor got canceled for sexually sultic people. Yeah, well so so Vic tried to, like 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 ship 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 with the feminist Bolsheviks, the

funds Bolsheviks. Yeah, that's the worst thing I've ever said. That's the worshianization I ever had in my life. Yeah, that's great. I think a large part of this cultural center and the 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 circling line through it, and he then that he stages that everywhere with him and he has like something he has like a bunch of anti communist graffiti that he also you'll see him in his h like in his Facebook profile that 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 announced it betrayed them as like libertarian and caps, which like they have way may like better dead than red. That's not a fucking ang cap. But like these people are trying to revoke the era of violence against the left in Argentina in the nineteen seventies, right, Like that's where they're going for here. Yeah. I think like in case people are not aware of this.

Argentina had a like an incredibly brutal military data show killed the ships. Some of people also like went around Latin America trading other death squads. They had this group called the Triple A, which was basically a fascist death squad that sort of actor as a pre military for other wings of the state. They killed a bunch of people. Eventually they kill the governments. Um, they're one of the people involved in Operation Condor. They drop people at helicopters.

Also they yeah, it was really fucking bad. And and and these anti these like anti communists they basically fascist death squads or some of them fascists literally fascist, yes, like like the style of slogans, the propaganda that they're using for this 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 probably somewhat familiar with the the the whole thing with tons of tons of Nazis fleeing to Argentina um and Argentina being very welcoming to a whole bunch of like like like like like German Nazi like like actual like Nazi Nazis, like with the membership God not Third Reich Nazis. Yeah, so one thing that the that he did, one thing that dead man did or he they just posted, as we on their Facebook page with last mad Day's de

la plazada mio. They are 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 I 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 want to call it. And so these mothers are like held up as a great example of peaceful protest, of peaceful protests against dictatorship, right of forcing them to acknowledge their crimes. 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 okay, So

generally pretty much piece of ship guy. He claims that the he was radicalized by torturous sexual abstinence, which is enforced upon him by the government with the COVID nineteen lockdown. Aha, so he's claiming to be a var cell, not an in cell. C that's haven't said. This is too long. I mean if it's first on by the government, then it is involuntary. Yes, yeah, okay, I guess, I guess some men here, we don't need to continue the conversations.

It actually doesn't matter. He was unable to find intimacy with the way you 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 trying to think of, like I I did a lot of stuff on like the aftermath of the Written House shooting as well, and we immediately saw a whole bunch of a big wave of Written House stuff in the better Dead than Read and anti communist action type like memes, And I think that this very much stems out of that tradition as well, at the cow Written House 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. Um. And I think that with with the whole kind of like anti communist death squad framing of this, that matches up with a lot of the kind of the memes that were that we're 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 it's a physical version of that, of course incorporating into just a larger kind of right wing

populist politics, uh, you know, veering onto fascism. Um. And I think it's but specifically with like the anti communist action and better Dead than Red type type memes that we're using written House, that is a very a very clear kind of uh nexus point between these two things, Like why is someone in Argentina super into cow written House? It's it's because of this we already have this big

strain of anti communist stuff inside Argentina. Kyle and House 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 that seems to be another guy who does most of the speaking for them when they speak to the media. He only gives his name once as a Jew like Ju, but then he also wait for it because he claims to have Jewish ancestry as well,

and therefore they can't be anti Semitic. So very troubling. Maybe I'm pronouncing that wrong, but you know, I can't think of another way. It's only two letters, so extremely troubling. One thing that I did know as well is there's a whole lot of quote unquote gender ideology talk right, and a lot of cultural Marxism talk. So here's a guy who's extremely online and is parenting these kind of

Ben Shapiro American right to 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 preps which they are selling Mundial the word he used. They seem to be basically pretending to be him online selling these figurines, pretending their fundraising for his center, but then they're obviously using the money for their anti fascist efforts. That is

incredibly bad. Shout out to them war pigs look him up. Yeah, they give him some money if you can buy so funny. He gets so fucking mad about it. He made so many videos about it. And then his parents were like he talks about them as heroes of the Marxist movement

and like leftists and revolutionaries. So he's thirty eight now, so his parents will have been young in the seventies perhaps but certainly certainly like around in that period in their teens and twenties, 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 tourettes. They forced him to do treatments,

which he claimed curtails these opportunities to meet women. But he already mentioned this once and he sort of goes off on these weird diversions. Yeah, it's a lot of very basic kind of online and cell type stuff. I want to talk a little bit about the sort of trans ale 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. And I mean they have stuff there that like like there, there's there. There is a law that passed um I think last year that that like that they have like a hiring quota, so all for public service job, there's a one percent hiring quota of people who have to be trans. Like yeah, they're like they

they have stuff. They're like they have done stuff there that is like like not even like on the agenda for like any other like trans wovel I've ever seen. So yeah, they're 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. And I think that I think like in that context, I think this his this the fact that he's obsessed with like gender critical ship makes a lot of sunse because that's you know, that's like one of the sort of right wing things in Argentina is opposing this ship. But like it doesn't I don't know they're kind of losing that battle insofar as, like 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 else is bearing fruit is his posting Because he has been rated by I would urge you towards this video. I'll tweet it so people can find it there as well, but a metric ship ton of our police. And the reason they're rating him is because he's made like a public threat. Basically, he may just say. It's about eleven 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 up Coming, We're gonna be a whole week of 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, it really was just he also like tells people to rise up and stuff like there's some

very clear course direction in there. In the raid, they found a mortar shell and one eight four minim moret to shell a drone, and they they've confiscated a bunch of hard drive, which I do not envy the person who has to go through his phones and hard drives. They're going to see some balls, they're going to see some pain. 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 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 batchet 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, 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 a llargent times, I should have been like, I'm sorry, Look, we're like, he's just he's just built different. Yeah, she's he's built different because he got sabotaged by all of his esoteric Nazi or something,

which we will get more into in the upcoming assassination week. Yep, we just got to record the theme music and then will be there, Yes, cut together footage of all of the great assassination. This is gonna be half an hour constant assassination college. Yeah, these guys are extremely curse that there's more curse stuff that they've done that like we

probably shouldn't go into. I didn't think because I think you could just understand this is a lonely in cell guy who's been on the internet too much become more and more radicalized and like 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. Wouldn't emoginized 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 that's always one of the big, big red flags. Yeah, and I think, like specifically, the fact that he had both a mortar shell and a drone is incredibly alarming. You don't say, yeah, 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 cocked by your own posting. A tail A tail is all this time. Yeah, if he stuck to tradition and not posted him they did. Also, I just wanted to 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 right. Just so, coffee really well in Argentina and you want some secondhand clothes and coffee, I can tell you where not to go. Don't cut to this place because the odds are you gonna get rated by police when you're there. Yeah. I didn't think there's much of this place left now. I think 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 toast a collection of figurines there that would be based. That would be so sick. Yeah, 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, because

you don't want to be this guy. No, you certainly do not want to be this guy complaining about tracking and bolz and posting that results in the police raiding your car and house steamed hangout spot. Yeah, just yeah, truly one of the weirdest pivots from online to the streets that I've ever seen. This dude probably should have been jail a long time ago. They probably worth noting that, like gender based violence is like the common denominator for people who do have a terrible ship, and this is

not not an example of that. Yeah, who who could have thought that the raging and cell misogynists would also have bad politics? Yeah, to keep doing Fami boulshy ship, you have a full support. Indeed, Well that isn't for us today. To tune in next week, I think next week, Right, next week or maybe the week after for our upcoming week of episodes titled Assassination Week. Yeah, it's gonna be great, of course, not not endorsing any political violence, resassinations any kind.

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