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Robert Evans and Jason Wilson have a pretty good overview here: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-move...
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It’s really unfortunate to see such an unchallenged application of the label “libertarian” here. Put aside your own feelings for a moment. Highlighting any connection between libertarianism with the alt-right, white supremacy, or anti-government militias seems as disingenuous as the superficial connection between atheism and fascist communism. In either case, does the ideology overlap in convenient areas (to the nega…
It’s really unfortunate to see such an unchallenged application of the label “libertarian” here. Put aside your own feelings for a moment. Highlighting any connection between libertarianism with the alt-right, white supremacy, or anti-government militias seems as disingenuous as the superficial connection between atheism and fascist communism. In either case, does the ideology overlap in convenient areas (to the nega…
It’s really unfortunate to see such an unchallenged application of the label “libertarian” here. Put aside your own feelings for a moment. Highlighting any connection between libertarianism with the alt-right, white supremacy, or anti-government militias seems as disingenuous as the superficial connection between atheism and fascist communism. In either case, does the ideology overlap in convenient areas (to the nega…
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People get confused when they can’t fit a movement (which, incidentally, this really isn’t) into a box on the left or right.
And yet the Atlantic, and recently the BBC, want us to worry about some fringe group who've collectively done nothing (good or bad). Going from disappointment that the right didn't get involved whatsoever in the last month, to attempting to meme a conservative boogeyman into reality.
>The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?
>Please become a terrorist movement, you guys, we and our ideological partners have significant egg our faces and it's limiting our candidate's election chances.
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Care to elaborate? This is the first time I hear about the "boogaloo" thing
Robert Evans and Jason Wilson have a pretty good overview here: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-move...
The whole world has watched on as crowds of leftists have looted, attacked property, chanted death threats, beaten and even killed people for a month straight. The same ideology captured a part of a city, set up an "autonomous zone" with its own police force who themselves shot and killed a kid recently. And yet the Atlantic, and recently the BBC, want us to worry about some fringe group who've collectively done noth…
This is possibly one of the first things they've done, but I'd hardly characterize that as doing nothing bad
The whole world has watched on as crowds of leftists have looted, attacked property, chanted death threats, beaten and even killed people for a month straight. The same ideology captured a part of a city, set up an "autonomous zone" with its own police force who themselves shot and killed a kid recently. And yet the Atlantic, and recently the BBC, want us to worry about some fringe group who've collectively done noth…
Not quite.
"On May 29, two federal security officers guarding a courthouse in Oakland, California, were ambushed by machine-gun fire as elsewhere in the city demonstrators marched peacefully to protest the killing of George Floyd. One of the guards, David Patrick Underwood, died as a result of the attack, and the other was wounded. For days, conservative news broadcasters pinned the blame on “antifa,” the loosely affiliated group of anti-fascist anarchists known to attack property and far-right demonstrators at protests. But the alleged culprit, apprehended a week later, turned out to be a 32-year-old Air Force sergeant named Steven Carrillo, the head of a squadron called the Phoenix Ravens, which guards military installations from terrorist attacks.
"According to prosecutors, Carrillo and an accomplice, 30-year-old Robert A. Justus Jr., were part of the “boogaloo” movement, a patchwork of right-leaning anti-government libertarians, Second Amendment advocates, and gun enthusiasts all preparing for another American civil war."[1]
[1] - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/ameri...