Far-right figure blames ‘corrupt leftwing media’ for January 6 attack on US Capitol in new Trump documentary

The founder of the Proud Boys, the far-right group that played a major role in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol and was memorably instructed by Donald Trump to “stand back and stand by”, has told the makers of a Trump documentary: “We want to make America hate again.”

Gavin McInnes, the UK-born British Canadian citizen who co-founded Vice magazine and was influential in the New York hipster scene of the early 2000s before becoming a far-right militia figure, also claimed to the BBC that his group wasn’t responsible for what happened that day.

“It was you,” he told the makers of the documentary, which has aired on the BBC’s Panorama strand. “If anyone should apologise … it should be the corrupt leftwing media, and I’ll accept your apology now if you want to do it.”

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    UK-born British Canadian

    Found another foreigner that wants to destroy the USA.

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      No! I would love to see him actually…on my phone while resting on my warm bed. I would love to see him while traversing the vast artic ice cap on foot with no shoes or other clothes other than his underwear. You know, being superior to me and proud since he can do that and I cannot. I admit my inferiority in this area.

      Another such Netflix special would be a SpaceX adventure into the sun. He can wear anything he wants for this one. So long as the proper telescope satellite is viewing how superior he is over all of us, I would be so very satisfied with all my inferior fellows down here far from the superior vastness of the universe. I mean sure, he could also go to Mars where he can be superior too. But I don’t have all day man, I gotta do some work. Maybe Mars with no helmet?

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        The reactions from people when I declare without hesitation or questioning, that I do not believe in universal free speech in America. “But who decides what is policed??” The reasonable people I vote for that represent my interests do.

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          The reasonable people I vote for that represent my interests do.

          I do not feel like this is an accurate representation of the people who actually get elected.

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      Nah, you’re supposed to take them seriously and give them various platforms to speak on and beat them with FACTS and LOGIC because that’s what’s needed for a marketplace of ideas and functioning democracy.

      In other unrelated news, fascism is now rising tremendously in the world.

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      You have to fire them into space so they can die alone and unloved.

      This is why Elon has never gone up on one of his rockets. He doesn’t want to be shoved out the airlock.

      (No it isn’t. He’s just a coward.)

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    Ah yes, Gavin “I enjoy practicing anal sex to defeat those degenerate liberals” McInnes has an opinion about something.

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          Can we avoid becoming like the Area 51 raid where only one guy does it and all the chickens say they were just joking?

          For everyone saying eat the rich, launch them into space, guillotine them… How do we figure out when to do that, on which billionaires first? How do we prevent the billionaires from buying the website (or whatever) where it’s planned?

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              Even then, how can trust scale up? Who makes the call “today is the day” for a huge group without that person getting a knock on their door?

              I forget where I read this, but if the British had just all the metadata we have today, then they could have stopped Paul Revere.

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                  Right, but encryption doesn’t necessarily eliminate metadata. And since so little traffic gets onion routed, even that is a signal.

                  Cold war espionage is a different situation because Soviet/Western hierarchy eliminated coordination problems.

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    I love that he called his little gang ‘The Proud Boys’. It makes think of him and his little buddies all sitting around playing video games, proudly shitting in their pants, with big smiles on their happy faces.

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      You should look up ‘proud flesh’ on horses(warning, its a graphic skin condition). It’s what I think of everytime I see proud boys, except somehow they’re more disgusting.

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    Several individually coordinated crimes and violent lyrics got the ICP a gang designation.

    This motherfucker has had centrally planned riots and an attempted insurrection, has a jumping in process, has perpetrated stochastic terrorism campaigns, and is still invited to speak at public and campaign events.

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    I hear he’s sleeping with other proud boy’s’ partners. They should all know that.

    Let him die a traditional neonazi death

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    This toolbag again? He moved to a town not too far from me and people started putting up “Hate has no home here” signs on their lawn, and he threw a fit. What a crybaby. Like if you’re going to be a bigot, you should probably have thicker skin. Dude has the spine of a jellyfish.

    Here’s an article on that whole thing:

    Https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-mcinnes-emily-mcinnes-neighbors-over-anti-hate-signs_n_5c34c117e4b05d4e96bcc88d/amp

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    I like it when they grow a spine and tell the truth about what they believe. It makes it easier for the normies to figure it out and leave the group.