Yes, and we need to be less surprised by this and figure out better counter-strategies, because the old ones aren’t working and treating the Proud Boys like we treat Patriot Front is ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1050987197019475968 …
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The Proud Boys exist solely to generate a narrative that the left is unstable, violent, and must be cracked down in. The Proud Boys have no real politics and very little ideology. The Nazis hate them. They have few convictions.
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The Proud Boys are white supremacist only in the sense that they know white supremacy evokes a response from the left.
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They don’t lose when they show up and get their asses kicked. That’s what they show up to do. They fucking loved PVD even though they got bloodied and wrecked.
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Even the doxing campaigns have been not very effective. They don’t hide, and they don’t seem to be impacted very much, unlike those distantly connected to Nazi groups.
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Gavin McInnes, however, did have connections to Unite the Right, and offered full support to the event which saw two terrorists marching side by side, only withdrawing that support when it became clear it would blow back.
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The most dangerous conclusion is that the Proud Boys are a creation of the GOP to set a narrative against the left. This could also be the most effective angle against them, because using them to expose the GOP would likely mean cutting off their support.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Do you think that some in the GOP would use this group to start something on a larger scale (fire, explosion, etc.) so government can blame the left/try and crack down?
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I don’t think they will do long as it continues to be effective to just roll out street fights
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