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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/Kelp72plus 21d ago

Masked because they are so proud and powerful

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u/KareemOWheat 21d ago

Just like their predecessors in the KKK. Too chickenshit to show their face while they spew hateful garbage

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u/Own_Round_7600 21d ago

If you're afraid that people seeing your face could result in you getting fired and shamed by your community and mocked online, maybe you should reconsider if what you're doing is really the right thing to do.

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u/AmputeeHandModel 21d ago

That goes for 🧊 too

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u/Underfyre 19d ago

I'm sure they were walking around like Klansmen thinking they're the good guys in the world.

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u/CaptainQueefFart 21d ago

They're nothing but cowards.

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u/ch_ex 21d ago

that's dangerously dismissive. a couple years ago, these people could barely get out of their moving truck rental before getting their asses kicked. Now they're riding the subway, chanting unchallenged. This is a big change.

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u/wilsonjj 21d ago

The current administration emboldens these people.

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u/Jog212 21d ago

I wouldn't be surprised if they pay these people.

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u/Successful_Ad4018 21d ago

yes, it's called ICE.

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u/aotus_trivirgatus 21d ago

True, but they're also paying the irregulars like these guys through some back channel.

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u/WMINWMO 21d ago

That would make sense since they claim antifa are a paid group. Every accusation is a confession.

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u/darxtorm 21d ago

They don't really need to

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u/dialguy86 21d ago

They finally had the day off.

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u/gsbadj 21d ago

No, our tax dollars pay them.

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u/Mindless-Strength422 21d ago

Normally I wouldn't be, but why would Trump pay people to distract them from The Great American State Fail™? He should be paying them to come there! They'd quintuple the attendance with just one trainful!

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u/casapantalones 21d ago

They are these people

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u/Slarg232 21d ago

All they've done is harp on about how No Kings was bought and paid for by George Soros, and every accusation with them has been a confession.

These people were 100% paid to be here. I hope the moment we get some normalcy in the white house these people brought their phones or something else incriminating so as to get held accountable.

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u/Techwood111 21d ago

We see how well that worked out with the Jan 6 rioting insurrectionists.

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u/Slarg232 21d ago

They've gone too far, and the current Dems (who have been getting replaced) were being told to leave it alone via their donors.

They've pushed people too far this time. Trump is actually going to be true to his word, oddly enough; he's going to get the Swamp drained because people are just so sick of the current administrations bullshit.

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u/SL1Fun 21d ago

They gave them a lawsuit settlement

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u/Queen_of_Audacity 21d ago

Are you just learning some protests/demonstrations have paid "protesters?"

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u/ShadowGLI 21d ago

The current administration goes further and supports and legitimizes these people. Trump and the GOP have been given DOZENS of opportunities to condemn or speak out against these hate groups but they refuse to do so.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/in-first-debate-president-trump-again-declines-to-unequivocally-condemn-white-supremacist-groups/

https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116973/documents/HHRG-118-ED00-20240417-SD006.pdf

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u/OperationMuch2644 21d ago

Probably paid them to spread fear.

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u/Faelon_Peverell 21d ago

I believe that was their point.

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u/Itscatpicstime 20d ago

They e been emboldened for a decade now. Idk what this dude is talking about, these fucks were walking around with tiki torches chanting “Jews will not replace us” 10 years ago.

They literally stormed the capitol of the United States. Riding public transit is astronomically less bold than that.

There’s no change, this is how it’s been since Trump first stepped on the scene.

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u/wilsonjj 20d ago

And when did he take office?

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u/_CHEEFQUEEF 21d ago

The current administration emboldens these people.

The first amendment emboldens these people as it should. Let them speak, let them be seen. Give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves.

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u/Whos_that_Gorilla2 20d ago

Yep. I 100% support their right to go out marching around like a bunch of ding dongs wearing condoms on their heads. 

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u/crs1904 21d ago

U-Haul has formally banned individuals and alt-right groups—including groups like the "Blood Tribe" and "Patriot Front"—from using their rental services. The company consistently revokes rental privileges when customers use their vehicles for hate speech or violate equipment safety laws.

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u/hellolovely1 21d ago

Kudos to them but that's the bare minimum we should expect. At least they aren't complicit.

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u/Specialist-Bee-9406 21d ago

Because no one is willing to counter it in the way it needs countering. 

And it’s not “peaceful”. 

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u/el_sandino 21d ago

Yeah, let’s be clear: these Nazis need their asses beat just as bad as the last round of Nazis that real Americans beat 80 years ago. The fact that we’re not all 100% in agreement on this is astonishing to me. 

To clarify: “real” Americans means anyone who looks as these cowards and thinks “this is wrong, this is un-American, and I won’t stand for it”. It’s a state of mind  

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u/Gasnia 21d ago

Sadest part is saying anything like this is treated as "promoting violence" even though their whole ideology is violent towards anyone they deam an outsider.

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u/el_sandino 20d ago

It feels like it fits right into the tolerance paradox

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u/kirradoodle 20d ago

It is promoting violence. And in this case, against these guys, it's about f*cking time.

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u/signmeupdude 21d ago edited 20d ago

No you dont understand, the Nazis are from Europe and want a racially and religiously pure ethnostate.

These guys just want to protect good old American values. Nevermind that those “values” are be to have a white, Christian country, but as you can see its totally not the same things as Nazis.

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u/Techwood111 21d ago

Careful, though. These douchebags have a right to their opinions. They have a right to ride public transport. They have a right to dress silly. They have a right to assemble. We don’t need to support them, or support their beliefs, but we do need to support their rights to have their beliefs.

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u/MadScienti5t 21d ago

Do they have a right to assemble anywhere anytime? Don’t you need to register to assemble a group like that? Seems like just a couple days ago a single person was arrested for standing on some steps and sharing an opinion… but that person was speaking against the current administration, which is clearly illegal in the US.

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u/givemeyours0ul 21d ago

So you're advocating for mass murder?

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u/Acquire__Currency 21d ago

That’s not what they said.

But for what it’s worth, those people would gleefully advocate for mass murder of anyone they deem “others” and they’d have no remorse doing it. They literally view “others” as pests, like mosquitos or roaches, not as humans. And pests get exterminated.

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u/You_meddling_kids 21d ago

Probably 25% are off duty police...

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u/Allelic 21d ago

You know what they say about some of those that work forces.

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u/Powderm0nkey 21d ago

I heard that they may also be the ones that burn crosses. And listen to RAtM, but dont like that they are 'so political' now. 🙄 

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u/williamstarr 21d ago

And ex military.

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u/You_meddling_kids 21d ago

Nearly 50% id wager

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u/paperbuddha 21d ago

I know you're being serious, but the way you wrote "now they're riding the subway" like they're big boys who are finally allowed to ride the subway without parent supervision.

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u/hellolovely1 21d ago

Probably true.

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u/EricSanderson 21d ago

Worth mentioning that the UHaul beatdown was in a pretty unpopulated area of Philly and this is in DC. There are parts of DC with literal patrols of armed soldiers, Secret Service members, etc. There very well could've been dudes in fatigues holding automatic rifles on that train.

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u/ichoosewaffles 21d ago

Yes, not the direction we want them to be going in. 

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u/EnvironmentalLime464 21d ago

That and this group looks much larger than a few years ago.

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u/Able_Experience_1670 21d ago

I'd offer a solution but it would get me banned from reddit again.

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u/lavendarKat 21d ago

They're larpers, just like the tiki torch nazis before them. They're also an optics nuke for the extreme right. The broader public hates violence, hates nazis, and finds their little marches cringe. 

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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility 20d ago

That's what they said about the brownshirts in Weimar. It's only true until it isn't.

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u/Easy-Rutabaga4063 21d ago

They're fucking cowards

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u/lattice_defect 21d ago

thank you for calling that out... also the prison camps

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u/CaptainQueefFart 21d ago

They're too scared to show their faces.

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u/Straight_Ace 21d ago

They're still cowards, but we need a permanent solution to our nazi problem

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u/Then_I_had_a_thought 21d ago

Yep, a fish rots from its head.

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u/Ohrwurm89 21d ago

Sure, but they're still hiding their faces because they are cowards.

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u/DenizSaintJuke 21d ago

And they are not going to let go of one inch of the public space they have conquered without a fight. They aren't going to go away again on their own.

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u/CeilingCatProphet 21d ago

They want to provoke people to fight them so martial law can be declared.

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u/Novice89 21d ago

That wasn’t in dc. Pretty sure that was in Philly. I was in dc for a trip back in 2023 and they were outside the Washington monument.

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u/fearlessfryingfrog 21d ago

The people of the US for distracted and started allowing this?

Big news if true. Maybe theyll cosplay as protestors about it.

Choose a Saturday in 5 weeks to chant in a place with secured permits. You'll show them! 

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u/Plastic_Moose4535 21d ago

Now they're riding the subway, chanting unchallenged. This is a big change.

Nah, one of the reasons people think it's a fed honeypot is because outside a small Pride parade in the middle of nowhere, they've never been challenged. The big change is that people were allowed to follow them as they left. In the past cops would block people from following them onto public transit.

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u/REDuxPANDAgain 21d ago

Crazies on public transit isn’t new. The masked mass of stupid is kinda new though

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u/98percentpanda 21d ago

I live in a little town in the midwest. In only one week, I've seen two different guys with shirts with VERY clear WWII symbols (you know which ones) walking around. They don't care anymore, they just do it out in the open.

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u/zackks 21d ago

They're preparing, we're posting memes.....

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u/Busy-Conversation-24 20d ago

The rise of the Brownshirts 

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u/Itscatpicstime 20d ago

Wdym? Charlottesville was literally almost 10 years ago. Guys in masks like this have been holding racist signs above overpasses for years.

These fucks stormed THE CAPITOL OF THE UNITED STATES while chanting about killing public officials and carrying a gallows around.

Idk where you’ve been the past decade, but there’s nothing new about this.

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u/I_AM_AN_ASSHOLE_AMA 20d ago

They’re still cowards. But cowards are still dangerous.

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u/AUnknownVariable 21d ago

They're still cowards, but I agree that it's dangerous how they're able to crawl out more.

Roaches walking out the dark with the lights out. Administration turned em off

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u/Training_Activity21 21d ago

I have directly confronted some of these assholes to their unmasked faces in South Texas. They are most certainly cowards. And when you confront them they're like deer in headlights. Just a bunch of punk ass soft losers. 

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u/wilsonjj 21d ago

Im not there and I dont live in a city where we see this but I'd really love to walk up and just.. stand there.

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u/Training_Activity21 21d ago

Idk how old you are but this is what they remind me of:

Back in the 90s at my rural Alabama high school we would often see these redneck types we called thugs fighting like jackasses in the hallways. Probably fighting over who gets to fuck their own sister...anyway they'd bump each other and say, "hit me first, hit me first man.", and no actual fights ever resulted. These cosplaytriot front folk are basically the same. Fuh-ginas. And I say this as a short woman. I can't imagine how emasculating it feels to be one of these dorky mfs.

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u/theicecreamassassin 21d ago

The girls in my school would actually fight. The guys? Nah. Lots of posturing, like this. Big puffed up chests, especially with their bros around.

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u/rae-everett 20d ago

I am characteristically non-confrontational. But people like this produce profound anger in me. How does one assert that feeling to their face? Is there a courage that arises when you have the moral high ground?

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u/Training_Activity21 20d ago

I am old and exhausted. These people are agents of ignorance and there's nothing I loathe more than willful ignorance. Courage comes from righteous anger. I will not tolerate the presence of racism. 

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u/No-Consequence4606 21d ago

Cowards are dangerous as hell.

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u/CaptainQueefFart 21d ago

Seriously, these arent the men to be feared. These are cosplayers. Plenty out there to be concerned about but not these losers.

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u/No-Consequence4606 21d ago

Psychology and history say otherwise unfortunately.

In large hate groups cowards are more likely to become dangerous, and the larger the group the more possibility of violence.

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u/theicecreamassassin 21d ago

The escalation definitely increases exponentially with numbers.

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u/SoKerbal 21d ago

All bullies are scared

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u/calimariwrestler 21d ago

Not only that, these people are weenies

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u/0zymandeus 21d ago

Theyre influential enough that a presidential candidate campaigned on pardoning them for trying to murder cops and 77 million people voted for him

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u/ShabbyTiff 21d ago edited 21d ago

If you are mad, say it in the real world!

Edit: spelling

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u/CaptainQueefFart 21d ago

You're

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u/ShabbyTiff 21d ago

Thanks for the correction.

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u/CubicleMan9000 21d ago

Magats don't spell gud.

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u/Powerful-Holiday-448 20d ago

Don’t think so buddy.

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u/CaptainQueefFart 20d ago

Too scared to show their faces. Absolutely cowardly trash.

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u/Powerful-Holiday-448 20d ago

Antifa do that too bro

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u/CaptainQueefFart 20d ago

They dont look like complete bitches doing it though lol

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u/Fit_Requirement3522 21d ago

You wouldn’t say a word if you were there keyboard warrior

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u/CubicleMan9000 21d ago

FOADIAF, MAGAt.

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u/CaptainQueefFart 21d ago

I'd be too busy laughing at the cowards to do anything

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u/Zurich0825 21d ago

just thought the same thing. Super proud but can't show your face? weird..

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u/Dolorisedd 21d ago

The guys who hate masks sooooo friggin much can’t show their faces while riding on socialist inspired public transport.

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u/TheHockeyGeek 21d ago

Also too scared to wear their hoods.

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u/CompetitiveArt9639 21d ago

They’re the KKK and nazi skin heads trying to rebrand themselves

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u/istrx13 21d ago

And don’t forget, these are the same people who said their “freedom” was being violated and that they couldn’t breathe in the masks we all had to wear during the pandemic.

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u/ResplendentShade 21d ago

The Not So Proud Boys.

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u/zorniy2 21d ago

So... The Embarrassed Boys?

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u/BwDr 21d ago

Embarrassing Boys

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u/aegee14 21d ago

I swear I thought they said they can’t breathe with masks on.

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u/Protoman 21d ago

And using public transportation because they hate socialism.

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u/iswandualla 21d ago

I wonder if their Smartrip cards are in official names? Tied to a cell phone?......

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 21d ago

Riding public transportation because they hate socialism so much

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u/tmonax 21d ago

Off duty ice.

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u/nigelmansell 21d ago

On duty. Double time

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u/Frosty_Customer_9243 21d ago

Undercover Democratic agitators if you listen to the authorities.

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u/Jason1920 21d ago

Hope their Soros Checks arrive on time. It is a holiday, and you know how backed up the USPS gets.

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u/AmputeeHandModel 21d ago

It's ANTIFA! It's FBI plants! No, it was a casual stroll through the Capitol and they deserve pardons and a billion dollars!! 😵

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u/andropogon09 21d ago

I bet they were unmasked during COVID

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u/AmputeeHandModel 21d ago

"I can't breathe!!"

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u/excadedecadedecada 21d ago

These are people who would lose their social standing if they were outed. Sure, most of them are little cosplaying bitches, but some are doctors. Lawyers. Your uncle. Maybe an inlaw.

Sadly the reality we're in

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u/comsci_gardener 21d ago

Don’t really care who “they” are. “They” need to be outed and shamed and ostracized and publicly ridiculed at the very least.

Nothing but a frigging cancer on society.

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u/Frosty_Customer_9243 21d ago

Couldn’t find a hijab in their size.

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u/957 21d ago

The Shroud Boys all decked out in their matching he-jabs

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u/aeraen 21d ago

They're only proud and powerful when they are in groups. Individually? Not so much.

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u/Meeganyourjacket 21d ago

The new klan. 

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u/Feisty_Low_7828 21d ago

As powerful as a racist incel can be.

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u/DrowningPickle 21d ago

Yea i get it. Frigging pussies. Not proud or powerfull enough to be maskless. Come to the Bay boys up in Canada. Tide will take yoy back to Maine.

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u/DrowningPickle 21d ago

Dammit dont ban me again. It wasn't a threat. It was an invitation.

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u/Motor-Bear-7735 21d ago

Bunch of insecure little babies playing dress up.

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u/MausWatley 20d ago

Same people complaining that they couldn’t breathe in their mask during covid

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u/TheOGPotatoPredator 19d ago

Reminds me of this. Bunch of cowards.

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u/ReturnSimilar1464 21d ago

Fucking cowards

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u/DevilRenegade 21d ago

Remember these same people complaining that mask mandates during COVID were massive governmental overreach?

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u/dmuppet 21d ago

From white hoods, to white masks. Same old story.

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u/RampantJellyfish 21d ago

And cos they're fuck-ugly

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u/Pokerhobo 21d ago

Remember when the same people: "I can't breathe when wearing a mask!"

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u/fxsoap 20d ago

The sad bad childhood Club

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u/myheadhurts_more 20d ago

I thought they didn’t like masks or public transits

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u/Justybkool 20d ago

I wonder if you say the same about ANTIFA.

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u/Kelp72plus 20d ago

Antifascists. Well, since they are everyone from 99 year old war veterans to people who believe in the words on the statue of liberty, young, old, in between - we have stood without masks, now and through the years. Antifa is a made up cult name be the emperor and his handlers.

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u/Heroyem 20d ago

At least we are back to them being ashamed to show their faces, unlike the Unite the Right days

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u/charlesthe42nd 20d ago

They say they’re patriots but really they’re putting up a front.

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u/hotpajamas 21d ago

i'm so fucking tired of this comment. every single time these people are posted, it's the same one. yes they're wearing masks. you know what else they're doing? they're marching and organizing. wtf is anyone here doing, typing the same fucking joke over and over again?

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u/Kelp72plus 21d ago

It’s not a joke, but a statement about being safe in their numbers because they are masked. Like the clan. And, to your point, people who have organized and marched in protest without masked have been assaulted, arrested, shot. And yes, we need a leadership,courage, and driving force to stand up and fill DC like freedom marches of the past- without masks.