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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy the MSM will never report that the mass shooter is a MAGAt Donnie Dipshit lover
It would require them to acknowledge that they were culpable in helping a terrorist organization come to power in America.
Ziggysmom
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Beachnutt
(7,308 posts)Botany
(70,479 posts)And some of the mouth breathers who invaded the Capitol on 1/6/21 were Boogaloo Bois and Trump told them
that he loved them and were proud of them.
The Boogaloo movement is an important fixture of armed right-wing politics in the United States. Its impact on the perception of protests, the relative lethality of its adherents, and its focus on fomenting civil war are all dynamics that grew out of years of online organizing, and they are unlikely to dissipate soon.
The potential for new gun restrictions and the Boogaloo movements ability to grab media attention through violence, as well as its armed presence and participation in demonstrations, has ensured its momentum post-election, albeit at a smaller scale. A reliance on social media organizing, which initially bolstered the movement, has now clipped the wings of its cells, as Boogaloo actors struggle to gain an immediate organizational foothold online in the aftermath of a deplatforming effort since June 2020. Though the threat of direct violence from Boogaloo adherents has waned, it remains imperative to monitor the movement for signs of a return to violent street activism.
Boogaloo adherents (often termed Boogaloo Boys or self-described as Boogaloo Bois) follow a diverse set of neo-dadaist aesthetics connected to the intention of setting off a second American Civil War, which they often regard as inevitable. The ideology behind Boogaloo is decidedly right-wing, though public commitment to right-wing ideals varies between adherents and cells, with some cells claiming to take a pseudo-left-wing position publicly (Bellingcat, 27 May 2020). The aesthetic and ideological tendencies of the loosely aligned movement is one of absurdity and disregard for ones safety or life, combining a frustration with the current state of affairs with the notion of online culture.
The earliest reference to the Boogaloo as a term for civil war or race war was in 2012 on 4chans board for firearms, /k/. However, the movement gained steam in 2019 motivated by anti-government anxiety, when the term was frequently used on far-right racist channels on Telegram (WIRED, 18 June 2020; Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 26 June 2020). The term has since gathered greater appeal among armed absurdist libertarian activists. In early usage of the term, the Boogaloo was explicitly in reference to a race war, though this etymology is one that some media-savvy Boogaloo actors regard as unimportant or untrue (Southern Poverty Law Center, 5 June 2020; Al-Jazeera, 16 April 2021).
https://acleddata.com/2021/08/16/actor-profile-boogaloo-boys/
Beachnutt
(7,308 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,115 posts)IronLionZion
(45,404 posts)by stepping on someone else. Not sure how shooting a bunch of parade goers helps anything.
bucolic_frolic
(43,115 posts)brooklynite
(94,462 posts)You don't want the shooter to get publicity, but you want the shooter to be publicly tagged as a Trumpist?
hay rick
(7,600 posts)If the media is going to give this story heavy coverage, I want the Trump connection emphasized as opposed to seeking refuge in the "mental illness" narrative.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)The other trumpers will want to join their "brother" in creating chaos.
Marthe48
(16,926 posts)The host was interviewing the NBC journalist who specializes in Internet terrorism. During the segment, he said that there were 2 photos of trump in the guy's posts and you couldn't say what his political leanings are based on just 2 photos. I thought the comment was lame. Other things the guy talked about was a death cult you can find online, who discuss causing violence and death and egg each other on. He said that the latest murderer had 'art' that depicted violence. I thought fortran was mentioned in the segment, but I googled it and just got the computer programming language.
So far, people of the left haven't resorted to mass killings to solve anything. Neither have minorities or women. I'm thinking that would-be male terrorists should have a choice of having a penis or a weapon, but not both.
IronLionZion
(45,404 posts)Marthe48
(16,926 posts)I definitely didn't hear him right
KS Toronado
(17,180 posts)Sounds like it started out innocently enough but then allowed anything & everything to be posted.
It's also responsible for hoaxes, cyberbullying and extreme Internet pranks
(e.g. leaking celebrity nudes, calling in fake bomb threats).
The QAnon conspiracy theory, which revolves around an anonymous account known as "Q," started on far-right
message board site 4chan, later moving to fellow far-right message board site 8chan ...
I understand the 1st amendment and why, but it feels like websites should have some standards as to whats
acceptable content in today's society, too many are growing "Homegrown Domestic Terrorists"
IronLionZion
(45,404 posts)Their whole thing is no moderation and no standards. So loonies love it.
The irony that it has plenty of both Qanon and child porn is lost on idiots.
KS Toronado
(17,180 posts)Only good thing is that the FBI probably has a watchful eye on the place, as they should.
yardwork
(61,585 posts)FakeNoose
(32,612 posts)No wonder the cops found him so quickly.
jaxexpat
(6,813 posts)appleannie1
(5,066 posts)moondust
(19,966 posts)in 2019 posted a 74-page manifesto online in which he called Trump a 'symbol of white supremacy.' He said he was motivated by far-right extremism he saw in the United States to carry out the attack at Al Noor Mosque.
And don't forget this love affair:
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,367 posts)By the way, among the pictures that are being posted this morning at DU is this one:
There's something about that picture, some information that has been stripped from it.
It was taken by a photographer for the Chicago Tribune, which is about as mainstream as you can get.
@chicagotribune
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