Please consider listening to the sheer animal joy the Proud Boys take in beating someone up for taking pictures
Please compare this to the tone of any video--ANY VIDEO--you might find of leftist ANYTHING
There is a pleasure in violence here that should scare you
Please compare this to the tone of any video--ANY VIDEO--you might find of leftist ANYTHING
There is a pleasure in violence here that should scare you
https://twitter.com/mxtaliajane/status/1434307985359114245
What you are seeing in violent videos like this one is the end point of an ideology. This is where "civic nationalist" or ethnonationalist ideology ends up, every time, because it has to
The ideology is what we need to fight, if we want this to stop
The ideology is what we need to fight, if we want this to stop
We have to understand the logic of the far right. Understand its appeal. Try to get people out when we can
Fascism is a bad solution to real problems. We need to offer real solutions to those real problems if we want to head it off at the pass
Fascism is a bad solution to real problems. We need to offer real solutions to those real problems if we want to head it off at the pass
Everyone who participated in this violence should face consequences.
Also: even if everyone involved in this faced consequences, there are any number of disaffected cannon-fodder young men ready to step into their place
Go after the ideas. It's the only way this stops
Also: even if everyone involved in this faced consequences, there are any number of disaffected cannon-fodder young men ready to step into their place
Go after the ideas. It's the only way this stops
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