I’d like to know if the implementation of pledgeship has helped out at all on member retention rates? Or has it been too soon to tell

Perhaps too soon to tell but I think it is helping and we need to identify new people more easily.

Ok nice 👍🏼

not quite what you asked, but giving good people who aren’t quite up to speed on the knowledge/ideas a second chance later on seems to be a good idea

I heard that’s a thing

I am very utilitarian. IE works best of all options. There fore IE knows best of all options proof in the pudding.

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN it knows best because it's constitutes if well-adjusted people, a very special thing

Very few orgs seem to be this way

@Matthias I guess next time someone throws up red flags I'll bring it up to leadership faster. I spoke with that guy just last evening. Kind of crazy how quickly it all happened.

We had an eye out but I think Ian had it when he posted that interview. Rightly so.

wewlad that was interesting to read through

couldn't figure out why his name was white until I kept reading

then i figured out why

Yeah he posted something by right-wing wingnat Ben Shapiro

next think you know he'll be posting gerbils quotes by famed extremist jack posobeic

dude that guy is way too radical. The things he’s done both in and out of Minecraft... sheesh

doesn't hold a candle to that stephen crowder natsee tho

*shudders*

@Matthias you saw the one they did in Austria? Had a GI canopy / info booth set up also

does our merch include an IE jacket again yet?

>winter is coming dot meme

Patches to brand your own

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN I totally get what you said about spergs. A lot of them aren't malicious people, they just feel hopeless.

Talking to them can be kind of scary. There's a lot of memes about them that are funny from a distance, but hearing people say genuinely extreme stuff with a straight face is a bit of a creepy feeling.

I don't mean that in an SJW sense of "his opinion triggered me", I mean the kinds of tactics some people advocate for.

I’d love some sort of IE jacket for banner drops

tbh it would look pretty cool at a banner drop to have a bunch of dudes wearing an official IE jacket/hoodie

ooh patches would be great. Maybe velcro patches for ball caps?

Yea it’s not an uniform but it’s professional

We’d look more organized immediately. Not suggesting that we are not

Patches are available. Buy them up so we can get more merch

agreed, I'm trying to walk the line of avoiding the white polo/khaki uniform look lol

@Valaska thanks! will check out

Yep! Identitarian Zone @Valaska

@Jacob I think a "help WigNats productively channel energy and look better" project could be beneficial to IE indirectly. It could prevent tragic events. And eventually after a period of betterment and reflection a few of they could apply.

Martin casually strolls in lol

That’s sort of what <#497878998949429249> is meant to be @Wood-Ape - OK/MN

@Matthias I mean for the general "alt right" audience. Not members.

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN I had a similar idea a while ago.

"Hope Not Hate", but to turn them into identitarians rather than liberals

I see

Think of it as a community service

Haha

I have no idea what alt skull has been up to lately, sucks that he's apparently gone wignat. back when I was still on twitter he was a really good follow. the alt skull that i knew back then was great for IE, idk what happened. he'd be a good target for what wood ape is talking about