UPDATE: 4th June 20:40 EVE Time - Since this was originally posted I’ve been sent a decent amount more material, which has now been incorporated into the doc. Along with some memes added to the end. (P.S> No, i’m not adding a contents page… sorry)
The RMT saga within RMC seems to be coming to a close:
Some of the RMTers are banned (https://zkillboard.com/character/94881538/):
Dodgey Dodger is under investigation, other sellers are avoiding him like the plague and refusing to sell to him:
A couple of other third party individuals were kicked from their alliances when their leadership audited their ESI's and found further damning evidence, all of which was forwarded to CCP for investigation.
That aside, I've grown tired of the 'RMC are RMTers' narrative and I'm sure you have too. I know it, you know it - and my work there is done. So I went digging for new salt to share with you all for funsies.
When you go digging for propaganda against your enemy; you end up going down a rabbit hole. You'll sometimes find some really good stuff you can post about and meme them the shit out of them for it. Just very occasionally however, you find the bad shit you just don't want to meme about and you just gotta blow the whistle. This is one of those times.
RMC, LinkNet and the deal with Absolute Honor:
As you know, after evacuating Feythabolis - Red Alliance set up in Providence and rebooted Red Menace Coalition there with a new and ever growing list of blues. One of those alliances is LinkNet, for which Silent Company is a feeder alliance. Despite their 1200 members on paper, they only really have around 50 active characters, and tend to only put 10-15 pilots at most into RMC fleets of 200 (https://dscan.info/v/d4d5f8474690), though this is 3x what they were putting in when they first took sov back in August 2023.
In order to survive, LinkNet needed more pilots, fast. So they struck up a deal with Governor Lee of Absolute Honor - ABSOH would be blue to LinkNet and could rotate its' various corps in and out of LinkNet whenever they wanted, in addition to being able to krab in LinkNet space. All LinkNet asked in return was that ABSOH showed up for defenses.
The deal goes sour:
Seems like a good plan, but there was friction almost immediately with LinkNet members complaining about ABSOH members being rude, racist, sexistand homophobic towards both neutrals and LinkNet's own members in local - with one member even going as far as telling people 'Kill Your Self' in local.
This resulted in a lot of internal drama within LinkNet - with members demanding a TownHall style meeting to discuss what to do with ABSOH. It appears that no such meeting happened, but LinkNet leadership spoke with Dodgey Dodger, whom knew they needed ABSOH's numbers to have any chance of defending their space. His solution was to give ABSOH their own sov - getting them out of LinkNet space - though LinkNet line members weren't particularly happy, believing ABSOH was getting better space than they had themselves. This proposed solution went ahead anyway, with ABSOH's sov-holding alliance 'Absolute Will' taking sov in January.
The Chronicles of Zepheran, your average ABSOW Racist:
Leadership Response (ref: the above two screenshots):
LinkNet Complaining about ABSOW:
LinkNet members notice deeper problems with ABSOH:
After attending General Lee's war speeches (Transcript linked here), LinkNet raised concerns over the similarity to speeches made by the WW2 era Germany:
As I don't have the Audio, this requires a little more context. You'll notice General Lee's script ends with 'Ave!' which members are told to chant back to him after he finished speaking (which they did with vigor): 'Ave' is a latin word that translates to 'Hail'.
ABSOH - Inspired by Fascism: [Suggested listening whilst you read from this section onward: https://youtu.be/Jvr6X054xLY?si=3i0b2GilcUzt0CeL]
On the back of finding the above, I went down the rabbit hole. Their website includes a manifesto where they classify their 'population' and determine privileges:
Depending on how good your knowledge of history is, you’ll see jarring parallels in the way different races and religions were classified during the holocaust by WW2 Germany.
The rest of their website is full of damning imagery:
Their discord is also full of the same shit - whilst some of their own members call it out as inappropriate and General Lee tries to play it off as 'Roman':
To Governor Lee:
I've got some news for you. You can't just play it off as 'Roman'.
Your own members have been calling you and your leadership out as far back as 2020(Context - the screenshot is recent, the guy has since changed his Discord profile picture, but as ABSOH's 'military commander' says, it was of Heinz Guderian - a WW2 General).
You have members in your corporation named Schutzstafell (AKA 'The SS'), and previously 'Gasus Jewus' the latter of which was renamed after THIS reddit post in October last year called it out.
Objectively, it's fairly difficult to tell if you're roleplaying or you actually believe your own bullshit, either way; If you're going to role play try looking for some inspiration from the likes of Ushra'Khan and CVA rather than WW2 Germany.
BONUS MATERIAL:
A SIMPLIFIED GUIDE FOR AO MEMBERS WHEN SALUTING THEIR ‘SUPERIOR’ POPULATION CLASSES:
ONE OF THE AO MEMBERS RESPONSE IN THE THREAD: (Check reddit acct name).
AO Leadership Calling for vote brigading to downvote the OP (Against Reddit ToS).
HOW TO JOIN ABSOW:
ChatGPT Responses:
‘Please analyze the speech below (Governor Lee’s speech linked in the document)’:
Analyze the following text (AO Manifesto):
