Proud Boys should be sent to hunt illegal immigrants, GOP candidate says
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Isn't that already who's in ICE?
Not exactly.
Two books that are absolutely essential to understanding what's going on now and what can be done about it: On Tyranny and From Dictatorship to Democracy (edit: Freudian slip...). "On Tyranny" talks about a very specific progression of how fascism undoes the law. I'll let Snyder explain:
Trump is a lot weaker than a lot of these "strongmen." He doesn't really have a loyal following; the Nazis had thousands of people looking to roam the streets brawling with Communists. Trump has to pay ICE people to do the same, and they have to hide their faces and cosplay as cops and people get to get up and scream in their faces and nothing happens. And, so far, there are little pockets of resistance from local law enforcement to that final intermingling stage, which is pretty unusual for this kind of thing. Definitely having people screaming at them or rescuing their victims and then getting away with it, or getting arrested for "assault" and then the grand juries refusing to indict, is very unusual. On the other hand, nothing's really stopping it. No cops are actually arresting anyone from ICE, which means this all can continue and escalate.
I would say that Proud Boys roaming around and trying to play the part of the brownshirts would be a great thing, because it would drive the wedge which is slightly inserted between ICE and local law enforcement in a little deeper. Because when ICE and the police really do knit together into a single law enforcement body (which would necessarily be obedient to Trump and not to the law), brother, watch the fuck out.
You had me up to there. It would not be a great thing. A great thing would be to see more of what we got in NYC today. Clog the streets immediately with people that ICE is trying brandish violence and kidnapping.
Trotsky's definition of revolution: revolution is an open measurement of the strength between social forces in a struggle for power.
We want the numbers. We don't want them to have more numbers.
Ergo Proud Boys in the streets is bad.
Don't you want an open measurement of the strength between New Yorkers and Proud Boys?
I mean these two scenarios are not mutually exclusive. If you think bullying a squad of ICE people is easy, wait until it's a little handful of Proud Boys with absolutely no legal protections getting chased out like Patriot Front in Philly.
It's complex. There are a bunch of ways it can play out. But I think the Trump forces losing the de-facto legal protections that ICE people have, and losing the pretense of legitimacy that's so far kept them from getting arrested, would be the perfect tipping point for everyone to just get sick of Trump's shit and start tackling them and getting away with it as far as the local authorities are concerned.
There are other ways it could play out, it could be bad or real bad also. I'm just saying that Proud Boys coming out and fucking everything up for this whole operation could come in conjunction with bullying the ICE people away through sheer numbers.
Antifa should be sent to hunt GOP candidates 😆
Antifa is an idea
Proud boys are a group
Yeah I'm not saying that as a cheeky comparison, I'm saying antifascists should literally actually do that
Too many people don't seem to understand the difference.
Nazis saying nazi shit.
Citizen should be allowed to hunt ice and proud boys for a reward.
As a vet, I'm ready to start hunting fuckers and do are many other vets.
Let us loose you son of a bitch. We are itching to get some.
Don't wait for permission.
What's the old saying? Better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Agreed. This isn't what I served to protect.
Back during my time at the University of Texas at Austin, the Young Conservatives of Texas would host "Immigrant Roundup". Members would dress in big orange "Illegal Migrant" shirts and students would be encouraged to chase them around campus with butterfly nets.
This was considered perfectly fine and good by university administrators. But the LGBTQ club had to meet off campus, because it was immoral and in violation of state laws forbidding sodomy.
Texas is a shithole state with less freedoms than I have as a Californian.
The women in my life have rights that Texan women don't.
I can walk down the street right now and buy weed from the weed store. Texans can't.
Texans are a bunch of cucks that let their legislators shit on them.
Americans are a bunch of cucks that let their legislators shit on them.
When you're getting your head caved in by the cops, the LAPD doesn't feel much freer than the thugs running Austin.
Most major Texas cities have fully given up on marijuana prosecution as a waste of time and resources. Meanwhile, California's the state with ICE agents crawling up everyone's assholes, while your governor does dick all to stop it. Quixotically safer to be undocumented in San Antonio than San Bernadino, simply because your state is on the President's shit list.
Californias are a bunch of cucks that let their legislators shit on them, then insists the shit doesn't stink.
Dianne Feinstein was more responsible for the appointment of Amy Comey Barret than Ted Cruz, ffs. Your state is as big of a fascist shithole as anywhere in the country. You just cover yourself in Patchouli and dose yourselves in Kambucha, then pretend you don't use slave labor to keep your wildfires in check.
Young Conservative groups at colleges seem to revolve around thinking of ways to get attention and "lolz"
They are pretty separated from reality, I feel like that's some sort of dissonance they are trying to find the edge of.
We haven't really done right by these people and figuring out how to help then back is going to be a bear.
SWAT teams should be sent to hunt Proud Boys.
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
One of Americas bigger problems, yes.
And angry mobs should be sent to hunt swat teams
If they are doing their jobs hunting ICE, I'd let them.
There's always a bigger fish.
Your average proud boy is a 300lb, neck beard with clogged arteries.
They will fuck around and have a damn heart attack or something. Fat white guys dead everywhere. Looking like a god damn olive garden exploded.
Fun note: olive garden is own by a company that was founded out of red lobster. And backed by general mills. We really do have like 3 companies running the u.s.
ICE is a government agency, so in theory, they still have some accountability. The Proud Boys have none.
No, they're just contracting out to them.
Cool, but let’s send tigers to hunt the proud boys. The ciiiiircle of liiiiiiife!
Don't have any tigers, best I can do is furries.
The country from which the proud boys originate, Canada, has declared them a terrorist organization. But I guess this is on brand for the USA these days.
Send us your violent, your delusional, your hate filled...
Is this Jack Lang going to give the "proud boys" their Brownshirts, or will they be required to provide their own?
If you're going for it, why only go half way?
The Proud Boys should be renamed "Storm troopers", and be dressed in brown shirts and knee-high leather boots, whilst immigrants should be mandated by law to wear yellow David Stars in a highly visible place on their chest.
"Storm Troopers" sounds a little ominous don't you think?
Maybe something innocuous, like "Protection Squadron"
Protection from Immigrants Special Squardron or PISS for short.
Remember when the MAGA crowd was crying about personal freedoms and wearing yellow stars?
Oh how the turn tables
Is what an evil person says.
I thought they were already doing that? Isn’t ICE a sub sect of PB?
Same. Pretty sure every proud boy has already joined.
How long until Trump demands TV networks start broadcasting The Running Man live, and that it also be displayed on all video billboards…
Another pride parade? No thanks.
Hunt like real men. Naked. Unarmed. We'll give the immigrants flamethrowers. A true ubermensch would win regardless
They desperately want lawlessness.
I liked the proud boys better when they were a club that didn't want to jerk off.
Fucking asshole.
They are doing this. It’s just a matter of time before they start attacking, SAing and imprisoning citizens too. This is dangerous and uncontrollable ideology. This lawless and criminal administration gets stronger by the day. Has anyone ever voted Nazis out of office when they were attacking their own people with several military forces at once? I’m skeptical
Sounds like a profoundly stupid plan that will fail spectacularly and accomplish nothing but wasting tax payer dollars. So on par for Republicans.
Does this mean that the reverse is also true?
Every day news USA!! That's the spirit.
I am sure they already are.
We REALLY need to bring back state mental institutions