What’s Up with the Kyle Rittenhouse Cultural Center?

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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
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

(00:24):
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

(00:45):
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

(01:05):
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

(01:29):
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

(01:51):
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

(02:12):
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.

(02:33):
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.

(02:55):
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

(03:17):
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

(03:49):
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.

(04:11):
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,

(04:31):
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

(04:53):
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

(05:13):
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.

(05:36):
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

(05:56):
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

(06:19):
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,

(06:42):
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

(07:09):
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.

(07:31):
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

(07:53):
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.

(08:14):
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

(08:35):
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

(08:58):
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.

(09:19):
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.

(09:43):
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

(10:04):
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

(10:27):
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

(10:48):
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

(11:11):
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

(11:33):
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

(11:53):
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

(12:14):
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

(12:54):
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

(13:17):
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

(13:39):
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

(14:00):
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

(14:22):
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

(14:44):
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

(15:04):
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

(15:25):
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

(15:48):
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

(16:12):
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

(16:33):
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

(16:56):
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

(17:17):
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,

(17:39):
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.

(18:01):
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

(18:22):
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

(18:43):
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

(19:04):
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

(19:27):
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

(19:48):
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

(20:12):
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

(20:35):
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

(20:57):
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.

(21:19):
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

(21:41):
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

(22:03):
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

(22:29):
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

(22:52):
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

(23:13):
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

(23:35):
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

(23:57):
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

(24:20):
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

(24:43):
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,

(25:08):
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

(25:32):
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

(25:53):
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

(26:15):
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

(26:36):
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,

(26:58):
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

(27:21):
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

(27:45):
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

(28:07):
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

(28:30):
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

(28:52):
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,

(29:13):
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

(29:35):
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

(29:58):
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,

(30:21):
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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