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Facebook Has Been Profiting from Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War and Unrest

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Re: Facebook Has Been Profiting from Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War and Unrest

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Interesting. So some people in Hawaiian shirts are fomenting unrest and trying to bring about a second civil war, whilst some other people in much more sober clothing are fighting for righteousness and justice by smashing up neighbourhoods and businesses and forcibly occupying parts of a major city.

Interesting that your only takeway from the protest movement is "smashing up neighborhoods and businesses"

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Re: Facebook Has Been Profiting from Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War and Unrest

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Isn't this whole boogaloo thing some 4chan meme?

Yes, it's just a series of memes between a lot of people who don't share any other specific political beliefs, except maybe 2A support.

Same could be said of Antifa, though instead of being 2a that unites, it's just hatred of fascism.

Re: Facebook Has Been Profiting from Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War and Unrest

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

At this point, it's more about the extent to which Facebook is all in for the militant extreme right.

I thought Facebook was all in for the militant extreme left that controlled all social media. Which is it? Which conspiracy do I believe? Help me, Hacker News!

Facebook is behind all extremists, wake up, sheeple.

Re: Facebook Has Been Profiting from Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War and Unrest

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Is it me or does the design for the "Hoplite Armor"[1] look like the hong kong flag[2]? I did some digging and it looks even closer to the variant that the hong kong protesters are using[3]. Why would "anti-government extremists" (as described by the article) in America use this design? [1] https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2020-06/30/2... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Hong_Kong [3] https://…

A lot of boogaloo boys have a hardon for the hong kong protests, viewing it as a right wing militia standing up to a communist government.

>right wing "militia"

>no weapons

???

Re: Facebook Has Been Profiting from Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War and Unrest

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Is it me or does the design for the "Hoplite Armor"[1] look like the hong kong flag[2]? I did some digging and it looks even closer to the variant that the hong kong protesters are using[3]. Why would "anti-government extremists" (as described by the article) in America use this design? [1] https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2020-06/30/2... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Hong_Kong [3] https://…

The 'bloodstained' variant the company used is associated with the Hong Kong protests; not hard to see why the symbolism might appeal to people who style themselves as anti-government extremists. I'm sure the design's resemblance to the Hawaiian shirts already used by the Booglaoos helps it sell too. The vendor's website acknowledges both forms of symbolism.

Re: Facebook Has Been Profiting from Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War and Unrest

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of boogaloo boys have a hardon for the hong kong protests, viewing it as a right wing militia standing up to a communist government.

>right wing "militia" >no weapons ???

I didn't say they were correct in their assessment.

Re: Facebook Has Been Profiting from Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War and Unrest

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Isn't this whole boogaloo thing some 4chan meme?

Yes, and like the OK hand thing it started as trolling and became both semi-serious and still very much trolling.

The thing about communication, whether in speech, written word, or symbols, is that there is no practical difference between pretending to be hateful and actually being hateful. Using a common gesture to communicate white supremacy as a form of trolling and doing it sincerely both have the same effect. In fact, I think the people "trolling" understand this to some degree (it would require some intense self-deception to not understand this), which blurs the line between "trolling" and sincerity on these kinds of topics into perhaps non-existence.

Re: Facebook Has Been Profiting from Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War and Unrest

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Isn't this whole boogaloo thing some 4chan meme?

Yes, and like the OK hand thing it started as trolling and became both semi-serious and still very much trolling.

I think we've breached second-order simulacra at this point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order_simulacra
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