• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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    6 months ago

    Didn’t he travel a good distance to “defend” a business

    If I remember correctly he traveled from a neighboring town to Kenosha WI. But people get hung up on how he traveled from his home in Illinois all the way to Wisconsin to do this without bothering to look at a map and see that Kenosha is right on the border with Illinois

    But he also immediately after getting bailed out went and did a photo op/party with white nationalists, I think I remember he even made white nationalist gestures for the camera so guilty or not he’s a piece of shit

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      Iirc fwiw that “White nationalist symbol” was the OK symbol, which is not a white nationalist symbol and never was. The closest it gets is 4chan convinced some news agencies that it was simply because 4chan is trolls, the news bought it, and then instead of saying “ok you got us good that time Mr Anonymoose” they doubled down and said “no look it really is and if it wasn’t it is now,” and as a result of that every right winger nazi or not thought it was hilarious and in using it weren’t saying “white power” but rather “liberals are idiots, they still think this means WP.” It’s literally just a hand signal version of “lets go brandon.”

      Idk about whatever group he was with, but I cringe every time I see that old troll still working on people. It gives them too much power, they’re literally using it making fun of “stupid people who think it means WP” and by being one of those people we play right into their desired role.