The plan was simple: Infiltrate MAGA world and tell everyone what she saw.

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Ali Breland
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amanda moore (aka @noturtlesoup17) spent the better part of 2021 traveling across the country, going undercover in maga land. documenting everything she could, moore found a bizarre and concerning world. i profiled her about all of it:

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The plan was simple: Infiltrate MAGA world and tell everyone what she saw. Then she was found out.
Amanda Moore went undercover and witnessed how fascism has burrowed into the right.
7:43 AM · Feb 2, 2022

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/amanda-moore-undercover-maga/

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“December was incredibly disturbing,” she explained, describing a tone of menace at the next major MAGA rally in D.C. that followed Biden’s victory. “It was tense all day and people were telling me about how the Proud Boys had protected and saved them at the last rally, and how the police can’t do anything”—anything meaning, she says, commit violence against counter-protesters. “I remember, this guy walking by me and saying ‘When it gets dark…’”

When the sun set, a group of men in “America Strong” hats and clothing with golden laurel wreaths—a typical Proud Boys uniform—surrounded and beat a Black counter-protestor outside of Harry’s bar, the group’s notorious D.C. hangout. (The protestor fought back with a knife and was arrested, along with one man who was stabbed.) Other fights broke out, as the Proud Boys, known for inciting street brawls, roamed around town. By the end of the night, four churches had been vandalized.

Amid the rampaging, Moore heard Proud Boys claim that everything beyond the domain of the MAGA rally was dangerous and riddled with antifascists looking to sow violence. “They would offer to walk me places. They offered this to old men and other women,” Moore says, describing how it created paranoia, and the impression that it wasn’t safe to move around D.C. without protection.

The group’s messaging seemed to have worked. That night while walking around downtown D.C., Moore says she saw little critical reaction to swirling rumors about what had happened outside Harry’s even among MAGA demonstrators who weren’t themselves Proud Boys. They seemed to assume that the Proud Boys, despite their history of prompting and inciting violence, were simply doing what they had to. She says she overheard people say that while they didn’t necessarily condone violence, if a Proud Boy attacked someone “he must have had a good reason.”

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[TheRealNorth]

1. It's funny....

The press has no problem reporting on the crazy shit Project Veritas does or say, but a lefty infiltrating the right to report on what is being said or done is "unethical".

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Comprehending lunancy is outside most people's wheelhouse.

[calimary]

3. Indeed.

[uponit7771]

4. K&R,