Rustle League is an internet troll group that became politicized over the summer and fall of 2013. The Rustle League’s name is a reference to an image macro widely circulated on 4chan /pol/ and Reddit featuring an angry-looking gorilla with the caption, “That really rustled my jimmies.” It’s widely used as a response to trolls online -- people who post deliberately offensive, shocking, or misleading content online to get a rise out of other users. Ultimately, the Rustle League group doesn’t want to take down Anonymous -- "it wants to rustle their collective jimmies." The group's goal seems to be to post over-the-top, offensive content as an effort to get the media interested. The group is anarcho-libertarian, spouting neo-Nazi rhetoric to antagonize Jews and Muslims, which gets under the thin skins of English Defense League and Tea Party members. Their main interest is "trolling," which co-leader Jaime Cochran defines as “a form of social commentary…
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