“Masked men! Topless brawls! Alliances with U.S. extremists!”
No, not the trailer for a failed MMA documentary — just The Telegraph’s latest scoop, served up by Martin Evans, who appears to believe that 12 sweaty blokes in a meadow = Weimar 2.0.
According to the breathless exclusive:
“Vanguard Britannica has launched a recruitment campaign ‘in preparation for a race war’…”
🎬 Cut to shaky footage of shirtless kickboxing.
Because nothing says “Fourth Reich” like lads weekend sparring drills and someone’s cousin filming it in portrait mode.
🧠 From Hobbyists to Hitler Youth — All in One Paragraph
Look, if these guys are planning violence? Charge them.
But what we’re reading isn’t prosecution material — it’s pantomime paranoia:
• No weapons caches, No Gas Chambers, No bomb plots, No actual crimes.
Just “combat training” and a “recruitment campaign” — AKA a Telegram channel and a bad logo.
Half of the story is built from promotional footage given to the journalist by the group themselves.
What’s the real threat here — the “neo-Nazi uprising,” or the fact that British media now print press releases for extremists?
🗞️ Martin Evans, Meet the Hype Machine
This kind of journalism doesn’t expose extremists — it elevates them.
It turns angry young men into villains with screen time.
It gives political LARPers exactly what they want: headlines, myth, meaning.
But you won’t see a single line interrogating:
• Why people fall for this stuff
• How political vacuum and economic collapse create extremism
• Or what mainstream politics has done to alienate people into these margins
Nope. Just panic, posturing, and one more front page to scare the grandparents.
🤡 So What Now?
The danger isn’t that fringe groups exist. They always have.
The danger is when our institutions stop thinking clearly — and start seeing fascists in every field where lads are doing push-ups.
This isn’t how you stop radicalisation.
It’s how you build legend out of nonsense.
🔥 Challenges 🔥
When did political journalism become free PR for fascist cosplay?
Why are we inflating a dozen posturing extremists into headline villains, while ignoring the vacuum that breeds them?
Chameleon Magazine 
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