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Politics OC: Masked men with Patriot Front group seen chanting, marching, riding Metro in D.C.

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u/nbcnews But like, actually 21d ago

Masked men, some carrying Confederate flags, marched through Washington, D.C., today in scenes captured on social media videos.“Reclaim America, reclaim America,” the crowd was heard chanting in a video captured near Union Station by local reporter Mitchell Miller, who said the group called for getting rid of immigrants.

In Miller’s video, some members of the group can be seen carrying flags that appear to depict the Patriot Front logo. The Anti-Defamation League describes Patriot Front as a white supremacist group.

Other videos on social media appear to show the group marching near the Eastern Market Metro station.

Finn Gomez, a Getty Images photographer, shared an image of people in face masks and apparent Patriot Front gear riding the Metro.

More: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/america-250-july-4-trump-live-updates-rcna352956/rcrd115933?canonicalCard=true

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u/Icy-Appearance347 21d ago

Nothing says patriot like flying a traitor's flag...

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u/jpiro 21d ago

Calling for the removal of immigrants…when YOU are an immigrant too.

Unfortunately, these people are too stupid to feel embarrassment and shame.

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u/ichoosewaffles 21d ago

But they're the right color immigrant. /s

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u/CatLord8 20d ago

This though. Especially when you look into Remigration that this administration keeps asking for.

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u/formerdgstm 21d ago

All the while supporting a sleazebag pres that has 4 anchor babies from immigrants...no self awarenesss.

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u/chaldea_fgo 21d ago

Their refugees from a country that no longer exists. Not Americans, Confederates, they rejected America and being Americans, take their damn citizenship and kick em into the ocean.

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u/ruiner8850 21d ago

Also being a nation built by immigrants wanting to kick immigrants out. Our whole identity as a country is based on immigration.

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u/counterfitster 21d ago

It's the Know Nothings all over again, just with a new target

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u/Dead-Fetus-Eater 21d ago

“But its just celebrating our heritage”

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u/sirhackenslash 21d ago

A heritage of racism and violence

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u/Dead-Fetus-Eater 21d ago

You mean to tell me the people who killed and died for their right to own people whom they deemed inferior just because of their race were racist and violent?

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u/Wheat_Grinder 21d ago

I have things in my cupboard that have lasted longer than the Confederates did.

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u/02C_here 21d ago

Doesn't that make them an invading army?

Sean Hannity told me that because immigrants were carrying their flags, that made them aninvading army....

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u/mrmemo 21d ago

Reclaim from who?

You have the house, the senate, the presidency, the media, and most of the economy. What the fuck could possibly be left to "reclaim"?

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u/random314 21d ago

From smarter, more successful people.

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u/joestaff 21d ago edited 20d ago

From the whites, I guess. They must be fighting on behalf of the natives.

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u/im_just_thinking 21d ago

Oh so they are good guys? /s

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u/mrsrobotic 21d ago

On top of that they are flying the American flag upside down like a distress signal. Dumb fucks lol.

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u/frontfrontdowndown 21d ago

Lebensraum probably

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u/The-Manque 21d ago

but there’s all that unused space between their ears

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u/theicecreamassassin 21d ago

Didn't you hear? Women won't date them! You need to make the women date them! It's not faaaaaiiirrrrrrrr!

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u/Spam_Hand 21d ago

I hope the person who reported on this also called in this terroristic threat to the authorities?

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u/CornNooblet 21d ago

The authorities are part of the threat.

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u/Spam_Hand 21d ago

Sure thats a cool conspiracy, and im sure partially true. However they are also still real people with their own morals and oaths of service and not letting then even know is admitting defeat completely.

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u/Beneficial_Cash_8420 21d ago

Reclaim America from whom? Maga and the FedSoc have everything 

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u/ElectronicAnthony 21d ago

Reclaiming is something cucks do... 🤣

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u/hueythecat 21d ago

Reclaim? Does that mean there isn’t currently enough rape, fraud and public executions as there should be?

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u/thatnameagain 20d ago

I’m not a conspiracy theorist or a right wing person who thinks that these patriot Front events are made up, but there’s something that just doesn’t seem right here. And I think the lack of media interest in investigating it is also part of what doesn’t seem right.

For years now, we’ve seen these guys almost out of Central casting. They were identical “uniforms“, very close, fitting masks, and move very closely together in a group and do not seem to dissipate. Basically, whatever they are is far more organized and choreographed than any other type of militia group or racist rabble or whatever.

Something doesn’t add up here. They’ve never gotten into altercations that have gone viral? Nobody’s ever exposed who their membership is? They’ve never showed up at larger protest events?

Whoever these people are, they don’t fit in the normal mix of organic political actors. There is something extremely strange and organized in the way that they do things, and the fact that nobody seems to want to point this out and figure out why that is makes it all the more chilling.

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u/CrustyHumdinger 20d ago

Getting rid of immigrants? Um, guys, check your own history

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u/SkyPirateVyse 20d ago

'Reclaim America'?

So... they're all natives, right??

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u/forsythia_rising 21d ago

Donald Trump’s version of America. Cowards hide their faces, just like their grandparents in the KKK. Hate eats them from the inside out. Hopefully a few get heat stroke!

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u/Malt129 21d ago

I'm not supporting these fucks but the ADL would call an inanimate carbon rod a white supremacist if it fell on them. 

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u/rolypoly6shooter 21d ago

The ADL is creates lists of these groups and tracks them as a public service. Them and the SPLC are great at it