I only see one person taking them up on their offer of a cosplay contest. He’s dressed as Left Shark, who became infamous at Katy Perry’s 2015 Super Bowl show. Jfc, a 2015 meme is gonna win their cosplay contest.
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The Straight Pride Parade— a grift event with connections to violent hate groups— have fewer than 20 people there. Three of them are teenagers who specifically said they just came out to troll the Parade.https://twitter.com/sebishop99/status/1167802112077684736 …
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There’s two guys dressed as “Clown Pepe,” a popular meme among white nationalists.https://twitter.com/fordfischer/status/1167811370609500160?s=21 …
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Background on the Clown Pepe/Honkler meme here.https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/white-nationalists-adopt-clowns-as-their-next-racist-symbol-yes-seriously/ …
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These dudes are from Pennsylvania, and say they’re repping “Kekistan,” a fictional country with a flag based on the Third Reich flag. https://twitter.com/sebishop99/status/1167812986121195521?s=21 …
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In 2018, a US military contractor was fired after sporting the white nationalist flag on his helmet.https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5baa88a2e4b0f101d3837d98 …
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And as always, the police are protecting the white nationalists’ event. Three counterprotesters were just arrested.https://twitter.com/steveahlquist/status/1167809023640518656?s=21 …
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Counterprotesters are having a dance party before they move to Copley Square at 11:30.https://twitter.com/steveahlquist/status/1167814005379010562?s=21 …
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A counterprotester just managed to commandeer their bullhorn to say, "This is the worst fucking parade. Fuck all of you Nazis" before they started grabbing it back. So much for absolute free speech!
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Bike cops are blocking counterprotesters. Meanwhile, they're letting in out-of-town fascists to hold a hate rally. Who do they really serve? It's not the people of Boston, who came out to protest.https://twitter.com/steveahlquist/status/1167822931327705094 …
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And who are they protecting? This Holocaust denier, for one, who's attending the Straight Pride Parade to spread antisemitic conspiracy theories. He thinks Jews created LGBTQIA people to destroy the world.https://twitter.com/sebishop99/status/1167818605800697862 …
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Meanwhile, some protesters are donating to LGBTQIA orgs on behalf of Super Happy Fun America, the group sponsoring the Straight Pride Parade.
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And it looks like Milo Yiannopoulos, the Parade's Grand Marshal, just showed up. On his 2016/2017 college speaking tour, Milo used his platform to harass individual trans students at the colleges he spoke at.https://www.thecut.com/2016/12/milo-yiannopoulos-harassed-a-trans-student-at-uw-milwaukee.html …
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Meanwhile, police arrested a medic and knocked off their medkit. As
@steveahlquist reports on the scene, that bag-- clearly marked with a red cross as a medkit-- was found by other police, and is being treated as a bomb threat.https://twitter.com/steveahlquist/status/1167840746914951169 …
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But on the bright side, absolute fucking LEGEND Vermin Supreme is here, trolling the fascists of the Straight Pride Parade.https://twitter.com/sebishop99/status/1167835649803804672 …
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Vermin's using his megaphone to yell "Douchebag pride!"
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After coming in to brutalize some medics and arrest them, the cops are just letting the two sides mingle with each other.https://twitter.com/sebishop99/status/1167844038516584448 …
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Meanwhile, a Parade attendee attacked a female-presenting counterprotester. The cops were nowhere to be found, the attacker was chased away by a crowd chanting "Nazis out!"https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1167844617309556736 …
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LIBERALS: "abolish police"? but don't we need police ME: good point, what am i gonna do when i need someone to attack our medics and then do nothing while fascists attack female-presenting people
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@broderick notes that the Parade has dissolved, and now the march is just a gang of far-right losers looking for fights on the street. This is Kenny Lizardo, the Proud Boy who showed up at@VicBergerIV's house to threaten him for making fun of Gavin McInnes.pic.twitter.com/cmI9StbtSj
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You can read more about that here.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/far-right-proud-boys-menaced-twitter-user-on-his-doorstep_n_5b06de68e4b07c4ea1060e92 …
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The Proud Boys have been part of numerous violent incidents lately. Proud Boys Maxwell Hare and John Kinsman were convicted last week on Gang Assault and Riot charges for attacking counterprotesters in Manhattan.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/nyregion/proud-boys-verdict-trial.html …
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And just yesterday, Thomas Christensen, the President of the Chicago Proud Boys, was found guilty of stabbing a man at a Dropkick Murphys show.https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-northerly-island-stabbing-verdict-20190830-cjkbkhtpnvfhbarja4cc4ck5ka-story.html …
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Reports on the ground indicate that police are now kettling counterprotesters. Why? To make sure that an event sponsored by a violent hate group goes smoothly.https://twitter.com/jrmartinson_/status/1167849147468341248 …
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The event is basically over now. How'd it go? I'll let
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Here's video of police charging into a crowd of nonviolent counterprotesters and macing them.https://twitter.com/deluxian54/status/1167855283252674560 …
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And here's a firsthand account of someone who witnessed cops hopping a barricade to charge a street medic, while other cops threatened people with OC spray.https://twitter.com/lkngrrr/status/1167852120105611264 …
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@steveahlquist just posted video of the first arrest he witnessed. Police knelt on the counterprotester's neck to make the arrest, even though they had him surrounded.https://twitter.com/steveahlquist/status/1167859790392856576 …
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Meanwhile, the Straight Pride Parade is hawking $25 t-shirts to make some cash. The city of Boston paid for the grifters' security and brutalized its own citizens so these jabronis could come out and grift their fellow patriots out of $25 a pop.https://twitter.com/sebishop99/status/1167861220717686791 …
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The cops behaved abominably, even for cops. They attacked medics for no reason and arrested nonviolent counterprotesters in an effort to intimidate activists.
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