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Behind the Somali daycare panic is a mother-and-son duo angling to be top Maga influencers (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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YouTube influencer Nick Shirley, whose viral video alleging fraud by daycare centers servicing Minneapolis’s Somali American community came days ahead of the Trump administration’s declaration of a national funding freeze, has for years published conspiracy-minded takes on hot-button rightwing issues.

He also has close ties to the White House, Republicans, and to representatives of an earlier generation of rightwing partisan “ambush journalists” such as James O’Keefe. He worked with Minnesota Republicans to produce the viral video on Somali-run daycares.

Shirley has collaborated closely with his mother and fellow influencer Brooke Shirley, with the pair traveling together to flashpoints elevated by rightwing discourse online and in conservative media, and publishing across platforms including TikTok and YouTube.

Their US destinations have included the southern border, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, but they have also traveled overseas for big-ticket rightwing and anti-immigrant events including the Tommy Robinson-organized “Unite the Kingdom” rally last September.

Shirley’s videos frequently sensationalize conflict, or focus on street violence. The titles of recent videos include Dearborn Michigan has Fallen… Christians and Muslims Battle, Portland has Fallen… ANTIFA has Taken Control of City, and I Confronted Dangerous Migrant Scammers in NYC | Canal Street, the latter of which highlights a physical confrontation between Shirley and a street vendor in New York.

The last paragraph has links to the relevant videos, but I'm not posting them here.

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly I think this version of the right is moreso the end result of what amounts to propaganda runaway. Basically they e been doing propaganda and whatnot for so long that it's basically self evolving amalgamation of vibes, utterly unstable and uncontrollably past a point. There's a reason why it's hard to find a start point for the whole thing as a social movement, because it has like five of the damned things and is almost wholly inorganic in its maintenance and structure. There's a reason you come across folks who broke out of it all by just being isolated for awhile.

I do think it'll all burn out eventually it's moreso a question of why and what the end damage will be.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I sure hope you are right.

As for when it started: I think things started at least as far back as the Birchers (way before my time), but I think they've refined and honed their craft, and had more and more money dumped in by the donor class, and more tools came along to further weaponize them finding each other and spreading their message.