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The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?

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Re: The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?

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Post by m0zg »

ForHackernews wrote: post #29
m0zg wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But he tries his best to tie it to the "right" anyway, whatever that means nowadays. Conservatives shooting police? Give me a break.

Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building. It sounds like you're engaging in a "no true scotsman" argument if you're claiming that nobody associated with the political right uses violence against the state.

It's quite telling that you have to go back to Timothy McVeigh for an example of this. That was quarter of a century ago, and it was just one dude, and his connection to the right was tenuous at best.

Re: The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?

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Post by pvg »

ForHackernews wrote: post #27
devmunchies wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Can you explain what you mean by "folkish"? I googled and got very little except this wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lkisch_movement but it seems to be only based on a literal translation from German.

The sibling comment is circumlocutious but it's what you might think it is when you read the Völkisch wikipedia page. Here's another link that uses the term directly:

https://odinic-rite.org/main/what-it-means-to-be-folkish/

TLDR: it's Nazis.

Re: The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?

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Post by ForHackernews »

m0zg wrote: post #41
ForHackernews wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building. It sounds like you're engaging in a "no true scotsman" argument if you're claiming that nobody associated with the political right uses violence against the state.

It's quite telling that you have to go back to Timothy McVeigh for an example of this. That was quarter of a century ago, and it was just one dude, and his connection to the right was tenuous at best.

In 2016, a bunch of right wing goons with guns occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. They didn't kill anyone, but it was an armed standoff with federal agents.

Is that recent enough for you?

Re: The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?

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Post by dang »

devmunchies wrote: post #35
ForHackernews wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain what you mean by "folkish"? I googled and got very little except this wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lkisch_movement but it seems to be only based on a literal translation from German.

folkish means racially or culturally conscious and having an affinity for your "own people". An example would would be Israel, where jews can be with their "own". There's pros and cons. Pros would be that its more of a long-term strategy to preserve cultural diversity, since their large pockets of peoples (ie. japan is still overwhelmingly Japanese). It also allows the children in that folkish community to be raise w…

Not cool, and you've posted like this before. Please keep this kind of thing off HN.

Re: The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?

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Post by RickyInHell »

The Boogaloo movement is not a terrorist movement, we wish to accomplish the movements goals as peacefully as possible but we also don't want the nations standard to be a "War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength." because that is where this nation seems to be headed and if our second amendment rights are gone than if a government even more tyrannical than the present administration takes power we will have nothing to defend ourselves with.
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