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InfoWars Paul Joseph Watson and white nationalist Richard Spencer spent Tuesday beefing over white supremacys place in the alt-right. Then David Duke stepped in.

Is the alt-right an identity movement for white nationalists seeking political power in the United States and abroad, or is it just about hating Hillary?

Two of the ultra-conservative extremes visible provocateurs spent Tuesday duking it out on Twitter, fighting over the basis of the ideology, and splitting up the alt-rights followers in the process.

The ongoing fight is another divisive blowout in the months-long, often public squabble for the reins of a movement that defines many young supporters of President Donald Trumpplus its viral information army that sometimes reaches the administration itself.

White nationalist (and avid Trump supporter) Richard Spencer, who created the term alt-right, tweeted at InfoWars editor (and avid Trump supporter) Paul Joseph Watson shortly after 10 p.m. Monday night, saying that, the alt-right is an identity movement. Period. It's not about classical liberalism or hating Hillary.

The two extended their transatlantic fight well into Tuesday. Watson, who is based in the U.K., sarcastically quipped, Do tell me what is expected of me, mein Fuhrer.

Spencer had been mocking Watsons homemade style of YouTube videos during the squabble. I hope you'll one day learn that more is expected of you than yelling into a camera in front of a map, he wrote.

The dogfight was signal boosted, and effectively refereed by, former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, who threw his support behind Spencers brand of white nationalism and disavowed InfoWars Watson. You cannot fight invasion with libertarian individualism, he said, claiming Spencer shut down Watson.

Duke did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast by press time.

There were already fissures emerging between pro-Trump factions of the internet underbelly by the end of 2016. Shortly after Trump won the election, a proxy war over the identity and goals of the movement broke out over an inaugural party called the Deploraball.

Mike Cernovich, an organizer of the event who also popularized the #HillarysHealth hashtag to make up claims about a variety of illnesses from which he claimed Clinton was suffering, took issue with an attendee tweeting veiled anti-Semitic messages. That attendeeknown on Twitter as @BakedAlaska and, in the past, Tim Treadstonewas quickly banned from the event. Cracks in the coalition began to appear.

At the time, some in favor of the ban were referring to themselves as Trumpists. They considered themselves supportive of the presidents agenda, but didnt want to make it seem like they openly embrace anti-Semitism. Some alt-right originals against the ban, like Richard Spencer, began referring to Cernovich and others on his side as alt-light.

The alt-light has also hitched its wagon to free speech, Spencer told The Daily Beast at the time. The catch is, theres clearly some free speech they dont like, particularly regarding race and Jewish activism and influence. In order for the Alt-Light to maintain its current positionplaying footsie with the real alt-right and playing footsie with establishment conservativesthey are going to have to engage in thought-policing and disavows.

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Similarly, Spencer took issue with another Trump superfan earlier this year: the silver-shocked radio host Bill Mitchell, who has marketed himself as a Twitter Nostradamus after predicting that Trump would win the election. Mitchell drew the ire of the alt-right for tweeting disparagingly about Pepe, a frog meme that has been reappropriated by some as a symbol of the pro-Trump community.

Hes just a cuckservative. I really thought the Trump campaign was the death knell of official conservatism; I was overly optimistic, Spencer said of Mitchell at the time.

Responding to a question via email about his beef with Watson, Spencer simply said: He's counter signaling very hard.

On Tuesday, responding to the Twitter thread between Spencer and Watson, Mitchell told The Daily Beast dismissively: Richard Spencer is an ass who thinks he's a big deal when he's actually nothing. That's pretty much it.

Cernovich, who recently smeared humorist Vic Berger as a pedophile resulting in threats directed his way and has a sordid history including a claim that date rape does not exist, similarly disparaged Spencer saying that he is desperate for fame.

It's really sad, Cernovich said in a direct Twitter message to The Daily Beast. Spencer is jealous of Paul Joseph Watson, whose videos get more views than CNN shows. RS telling PJW what is expected of him is laugh out loud funny. You gotta have juice to call shots, and RS has none.

He added: David Duke is a nobody who the fake news trots out when a GOP candidate needs the guilt by association treatment. He has no influence and stole a bunch of money from his supporters. Total loser.

Emails seeking comment from Watson unreturned at press time.

Spencers week had already been eventful. His white nationalist think tank, the National Policy Institute, was stripped of its nonprofit status after it failed to file its tax returns, according to the Los Angeles Times Matt Pearce.

The National Policy Institute grabbed global attention for its meet-up in November, where Spencer exclaimed Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory! at a podium, conference goers were seen throwing Nazi salutes towards the groups founder.

Watsons pro-Trump brand skews considerably more toward anti-Hillary Clinton and anti-globalist fervor. Watson was one of the leading purveyors of conspiracies that claimed Hillary Clinton had diseases like syphilis or a brain tumor during the 2016 campaign. He also asserted days before the election that Clinton actively worships Satan.

President Trump is a noted fan of InfoWars. In December 2015, Trump told InfoWars founder Alex Jones on the sites livestream that your reputation is amazing and I will not let you down. Many of the presidents disproven or unproven claims about voter fraud or wiretapping originate or are heavily pushed by InfoWars, and sometimes Watson himself.

Spencers other recent claim to fame was a viral video of him being punched during an interview at the inauguration.

Cernovich seemed to find some humor value in the scenario.

I'm off to do cardio kickboxing with my wife, he told The Daily Beast on Tuesday. I suggest Richard spend less time on Twitter and more time learning how to avoid a punch.

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UPDATE 6:30am Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutchalt-right Party for Freedom, and the closest challenger to topple two-term Prime Minister Mark Rutte, says the face of European politics is changed forever.

Voters took to the polls on Wednesday (AEDT) in a Netherlandselection widely viewed as a weather gauge of changeamid a continent-wide shift to the right and fears of a disintegration of the European Union.

A result in expected by noon Thursday (AEDT). The early turnout figure for the election was eight per cent higher than the 2012 election, Ipsos reported.

Prime Minister Ruttes right-wing VVD party led the polls ahead of the opening of the Dutch polling booths, but with strong support forMr Wildersanti-Islam Party for Freedom.

With elections in France and Germany scheduled for later this year already showing unprecedented support for far-right populism,political and financial observers are concerned bythe potential of a Trump-style shift away from traditional politics in favour of the emerging European alt-right.

The genie will not go back into the bottle. People feel misrepresented, Mr Wilders was quoted as saying by The Associated Pressas he cast his vote.

Despite what the elite wants, politicians are getting strong who have a totally different concept of what the people want them to do, he said.

Mr Rutte has portrayed himself as a safe custodian of the nations economic recovery throughout his campaign, whilecasting Mr Wilders as a far-right radical unprepared to make tough decisions.

With Britain now preparing itsexit from theEU and Scotland lobbying for another referendum on its future within the United Kingdom, the Netherlands election appears to offer the latest threat to an increasingly unstableEurope.

Mr Wildershaspledged to follow Britain by taking the Netherlands out of the European Union, as well as closing itsborders to immigrants from Muslim nations, shuttingmosques and banning the Quran.

Despite the popularity of Mr Wilders and his views, election observers give Party for Freedom only a slim chance of gaining power in a voting system that all but guarantees coalition governments.

France goes to the polls in May, when the far-rightNational Front led by MarineLePen is expected to go to a second round in the presidential election against the conservative Francois Fillon.

President Francois Hollande is not seeking re-election.

Ms Le Penwas one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on his election in the US, saying the property moguls ascension to power shows that people are taking their future back.

She is opposed to multiculturalism and has proposed that the children of illegal immigrants in France should be refused access to public schools.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is tipped to win a fourth term at her countrys September election, but is expected to lose seats as the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) has surged in the polls.

Support for the AfD soared afterthe December 2016 truck attack in Berlin, while Ms Merkelsopen door approach to the migrant crisis has cost her dearly.

Polling booths in the Netherlands close at 7am AEST.

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Hes a very educated cunt, and thats the scariest kind of all.

Richard Spencer, a terrifying (but also completely douchey) neo-Nazi figurehead, does not have fans in the band Depeche Mode. In a new interview with Billboard, frontman Dave Gahan responds to Spencers recent (and rebuked) declaration that Depeche Mode is the official band of the alt-right:

First of all, hes a cunt and hes a very educated cunt, and thats the scariest kind of all. I think over the years theres been a number of times when things of ours have been misinterpreted either our imagery, or something where people are not quite reading between the lines.

My son Jimmy, who is 24, he was kind of shocked by it He was one of the first to say, You got to make a response immediately. Because people read shit unfortunately, as we know and they interpret it as being real.

In a statement to Esquire back in February, the band said: That [claim is] pretty ridiculous. Depeche Mode has no ties to Richard Spencer or the alt right and does not support the alt-right movement.

Gahan also noted, however, that he feels like the bands sound can be misinterpreted: If anything, theres a way more sort of socialist working class, if you like industrial-sounding aesthetic to what we do. Thats where we come from. We come from the council estates of Essex, which is a really shitty place, just 30 minutes east of London, where they stuck everybody when London was getting too overpopulated in the late 60s. So I dont quite get what he was [saying].

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Amy Schumers new Netflix standup special The Leather Special debuted on the streaming network last week, and if you were to believe a lot of the news headlines today, Schumers fans really, really, really hate it. Outlets like Decider, Yahoo, and The Wrap are reporting that Netflix viewers have been slamming The Leather Special with hundreds of negative reviews. Heres an excerpt from Deciders report:

Decider reviewed all 876 Member Reviews of the special that are currently posted on Netflix.com, and the results are pretty grim: 33 subscribers gave it 5 stars, 17 gave it 4 stars, 22 gave it 3 three stars, 85 gave it 2 stars, 710 users give it 1 star, and 9 gave it zero stars. That makes the average rating for The Leather Special 1.35 stars. Schumers popularity has certainly seen better days.

Sadly, a chunk of these negative reviews can be attributed to misogyny female comics are frequently criticized for making certain jokes that men make all the time but a large percentage of these terrible reviews are being written by self-proclaimed Schumer supporters. Guess what? They are not happy.

Putting aside the argument over whether Schumers special is good or bad, its this bit of info from The Wraps report that should make anyones suspicion kick in before assuming these are fans or true critics of Schumer whoare slamming her:

The comedians hour-long special, titled Amy Schumer: The Leather Special, has received more than 900 ratings since it premiered a week ago. Thats more than double the number of reviews for Trevor Noahs special Afraid of the Dark, which premiered on Feb. 21.

A quick Reddit search particularly in the alt-right r/The_Donald subreddit tells a very different story than what the above outlets are reporting, with posts like this one and this one encouraging people to give Schumers 2016 book a bad review on Amazon, plus all of these calls to give her special a one-star review:

There was even a concerted push over at r/opieandanthony for people to leave negative replies to Jim Nortons tweet about the special, and unsurprisingly,tons of Redditors obliged. Let this all be a three-pronged lesson: Amy Schumer has to deal with a ridiculous amount of sexist bullshit on an everyday basis, reviews for Netflix standup specials arent really useful unless theyre used to attack or boycott someone,and going forward, when a standup special suddenly gets tanked by hundreds of negative online reviews from supposed fans, their legitimacy is probably worth double-checking over on Reddit, where said fanshave a whole lot more free time on their hands to attack and harass people than Amy Schumer.

UPDATE: Schumer responded to the news today on Instagram. Read her full statement below:

I am so proud of my special and grateful to all the people spreading love on line about it. I am the first female comic who is selling out arenas all over the world and so grateful for that. I am embarrassed for the journalists who report on trolls activities as if its news. Its indicative of administration right now. Anyone who reported that viewers arent happy with my special, it would have been cool if you did a moment of research before posting. The alt right organized trolls attack everything I do. Read the @splitsider article. They organize to get my ratings down. Meeting in sub Reddit rooms. They tried on my book and movies and tv show And I want to thank them. It makes me feel so powerful and dangerous and brave. It reminds me what Im saying is effective and bring more interest to my work and their obsession with me keeps me going. I am only alarmed by the people printing their organized trolling as news this is what the current administration wants. So this post has nothing against the trolls. I thank you trolls so much. It fills me with hope and power to see you all furiously posting so as always accuse me of whatever lies you want. Call me a whale. Call me a thief and I will continue to rise and fight and lead. I know who I am. I am strong and beautiful and will use my voice my whole time on this earth. Journalists do better its embarrassing. Trolls see you on the next one!

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Andy Fletcher, left, Dave Gahan and Martin Gore of Depeche Mode.(Photo: Anton Corbijn)

Depeche Mode is back with itstimeliest work yet.

Take protest song Where's the Revolution, the lead single off the synth-rock trio's new albumSpirit (out Friday). "You've been lied to, you've been fed truths. Who's making your decisions?" frontman Dave Gahan hisses over blistering synths, urging listeners to question their religionand government. It's a searing statement from the British icons (including Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher), who recently denounced white nationalist Richard Spencer for calling them the "official band of the alt-right."

Gahan, 54, caught up with USA TODAY to discuss their latest:

Q: You've said that this isn't necessarily a political album, but was more or less inspired by what's going on globally.

A: A lot of these songs were written a good year and a half ago. ... (Last year), it seemed like you couldn't get away from this bizarre parade of oddballs all trying to claim their place to be the next president of the United States which, across the board, seemed so funny. That definitely rubs off on you. But it's other places in the world as well: the craziness in Syria and all the refugees. It's just like, "Wow, this is the world that we live in and we still can't figure out how to get on together?" All of that stuff found its way on to this record, this disillusionment.

Q: What specifically inspired Where's the Revolution?

A: That's one of Martin's songs, but we were both coming from the same place. Someone said to me recently, "I'm sure it's easy for you to say. You're successful, you've done well, I'm sure you live really well." And I said, "But that doesn't mean you stop caring about what's going on around you and the world your children are growing up in." I think Martin was really cleverly pointing the finger outside and saying, "Where is the revolution? Maybe that revolution needs to come from each individual;it comes from inside."

You've got to be able to change your thought patterns and ignore this constant fear that seems to be promoted by everybody in power: that you need to be afraid of these people or things. There's good and bad people all over the place, of all different races and religions. You can't single out a religion and say, "They're all bad people." It's ridiculous.

Q: What'd you make of Richard Spencer's "alt-right" remark?

A: It seemed to come out of such a left-field place that at first, we thought it must be some kind of joke. But then when we realized that this guy had made this really weird statement, we had to respond. Let's face it, he's a (expletive). And he's the worst kind, because he's educated. It's not like one of these crazy people, like Milo (Yiannopolous). This guy is actually dangerous because he's so educated and we don't want to be considered (as having) anything to do with something like that at all. I mean, has he ever listened to Strangelove or People Are People?

If anything, we're the most opposite a band to pick. We've always felt that our music is a little odd and we're a bunch of weirdos and proud of it. The music is listened to by people that have felt that maybe they were misunderstood or pushed aside or not the cool kids. We saw that very early on, where we were those kids that were chased down the street by people that thought we were a little odd as teenagers. So the music really doesn't fit with any of his views."

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