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Old 08-23-2021, 04:13 PM
 
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Proud Boys aren't extremist though. They're a boys club and basically if they hang out anywhere on the West Coast they get attacked by ANTIFA who record everything and edit out their instigations



6MWE meaning 6 Million Wasn't Enough.
Referring to the number of Jews killed during the holocaust.
Photos were taken at the capitol riot, which includes the guy with the Camp Auschwitz sweater.
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Old 08-23-2021, 05:10 PM
 
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Where the hell are all of the cops? The clip I saw wasn't a cop in sight.

I don't care about either group and we can't have this kind of stuff happening in our country. This is third world garbage taking root here.
The Portland police were well aware from web postings on both sides about the possible clash, and they announced they would not get in the middle.
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Old 08-23-2021, 05:35 PM
 
Location: New York City
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6MWE meaning 6 Million Wasn't Enough.
Referring to the number of Jews killed during the holocaust.
Photos were taken at the capitol riot, which includes the guy with the Camp Auschwitz sweater.
So you found the worst of the worst and claim those define all the proud boys? And even assume they are Proud Boys at all? How democrat of you

Truth is proud boys are a men's drinking club, and initiation involves things like reciting scripts while chugging cereal. Each chapter commonly has diverse members and basically just hang out on weekends. They are white, black, latino, gay, straight, jewish, christian.

But that doesn't fit your narrative
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Old 08-23-2021, 05:50 PM
 
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So you found the worst of the worst and claim those define all the proud boys? And even assume they are Proud Boys at all? How democrat of you

Truth is proud boys are a men's drinking club, and initiation involves things like reciting scripts while chugging cereal. Each chapter commonly has diverse members and basically just hang out on weekends. They are white, black, latino, gay, straight, jewish, christian.

But that doesn't fit your narrative
Their founder Gavin Mcinnes released a video called "10 Things I hate about Jews".

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The turn toward violence — and the blurring borders between ‘alt-lite’ and ‘alt-right’ — is typified by Brien James, the state representative for the Indiana Proud Boys and a member of FOAK. James gained his racist skinhead credentials in the Outlaw Hammerskins and the Hoosier State Skinheads before becoming one of the founding members of the Vinlanders Social Club (VSC), a racist gang known for its extreme violence. Since its creation in 2003, the VSC has been linked to at least nine murders nationwide. James once bragged that his Joint Terrorism Task Force file was “a mile long,†and allegedly nearly beat a man to death for refusing to Seig Heil at a party.
Source:
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-h...oup/proud-boys

Here is the leader of the New York chapter of the Proud Boys taking a selfie with David Duke:
https://i.redd.it/fflreuyv5yd11.jpg

Here is the leader of the Sacramento Chapter of Proud Boys Gabe Silva bragging about marching with neo-nazis and the Klan in Charlottesville:
https://twitter.com/ShelleDione/stat...20338272673792

Here is Gavin Mcinnes the founder of the Proud Boys wearing a t-shirt of a notorious neo-nazi skinhead band:
https://i.redd.it/e0x1bj057b501.jpg


They have marched with racist groups like with Identity Evropa and the Rise Above Movement in Berkley.
https://www.propublica.org/article/w...above-movement
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Old 08-23-2021, 05:54 PM
 
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Perhaps it was dumb to let Antifa run amuck for over a year in Portland. That lawlessness invites more bad eggs to show up and act out.
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Old 08-23-2021, 06:52 PM
 
Location: Old Mother Idaho
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The people writing the article(s) knew someone would try to say that. So before you did, they wrote:



....pointing out that both sides had guns, both sides had explosives, etc.

Maybe you should read the article before "guaranteeing" what's in it?
Both my sons live in Portland.
They say that a local offshoot of the Proud Boys, the "Patriot Prayer", are the ones who are doing almost all of the fighting.
From what my sons say, Patriot Prayer has been around for longer than the Proud Boys as an organization. They're mostly country folk who live out in the county and aren't Portland residents.
My kids don't know how the 2 groups affiliated or how close they are to each other, but according to local sources, the Proud Boys were the tagalongs in the earlier fights that were more unwilling to fight than to take all the credit for the fighting later. The Patriot Prayer have done most of the fighting.

Neither of the knew what to believe about the Antifa. Earlier, a lot of them were apparently street people Portland is full of them, and has been forever. Seattle, too.
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Old 08-23-2021, 06:57 PM
 
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The Antifa could not exist if the DOJ and FBI did not allow them to exist.

Think about that.
Proud Boys could not exist if the DOJ and FBI did not allow them to exist. Think about that too.

That's a valid statement about any extremist group.

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Old 08-23-2021, 07:58 PM
 
Location: New York City
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Their founder Gavin Mcinnes released a video called "10 Things I hate about Jews".
Calm down, it was satirical:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/N...ws.aspx/227053


Gavin is a great dude, he founded Vice magazine. Some say he invented the Hipster genre, but that is debatable.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMEfloGHFSk
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Old 08-23-2021, 08:05 PM
 
Location: Buckeye, AZ
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Geez, give it a rest, Jan 6th was a one off. In two decades there were none like it by "the right" and none since. Meanwhile antifa routinely engaged in 600 riots which were much worse confrontations than occurred on Jan 6th. Twenty years from now, you people will still pretend Jan 6th events happen every day.
You're making a strawman argument. I never said how many times January 6th happened. That Jan 6th due to what the intent was was far worse than the BLM rallies that live rent free in your head. I'm sorry but people acting like idiots because the election didn't go their way and wanting to act like the Johnny Rebs of 150 years ago is far worse than anything ANTIFA did with the CHADs.
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Old 08-23-2021, 08:16 PM
 
Location: New York City
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You're making a strawman argument. I never said how many times January 6th happened. That Jan 6th due to what the intent was was far worse than the BLM rallies that live rent free in your head. I'm sorry but people acting like idiots because the election didn't go their way and wanting to act like the Johnny Rebs of 150 years ago is far worse than anything ANTIFA did with the CHADs.
The intent of CHAZ was to secede from the US by force. This also happened in Portland and Minnesota. They controlled those zones for weeks, which was actual treason
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