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DC police arrest leader of the Proud Boys ahead of far-right protests
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- Title
- D.C. Police Prepare For Far-Right Protests As Congress Counts Electoral Votes
- Authors
- Elena Moore
- Published
- Jan 4 2021
- Word count
- 559 words
Reporters on Twitter are stating that Enrique has been released but issued a stay away from D.C. order by the judge until his next court appearance in June. We will see if he tries to come back to D.C. tomorrow still for the January 6th riot his group is planning at BLM plaza. I would not be surprised if he flaunts the order and I doubt this will have any material impact on the broader street gang members tomorrow.
Edit: NPR Article - Proud Boys Leader Released From Police Custody And Ordered To Leave D.C.
I wonder if they would re-arrest him if he shows up at the rally...
Even if they don't arrest him on the spot, violation of the order would carry further consequences later. This looks like building up reasons to charge him with further, more serious offences. Note that the reason he was taken in this time was in regards to a simple property damage charge. However, if he violates this order that's a more serious issue, leading to more serious response. This looks like preparation to imprison the head of the Proud Boys, though I don't know enough of their internal organization to say how important he is as an organizing figure.
Without having done any research whatsoever, I had assumed that the Proud Boys had about as much organization/leadership as any internet-era movement such as the Boogaloo Boys. Which is to say, none, and everyone.
Now someone's going to tell me the Boogaloo Boys also have a leader, and an office somewhere, or something
The Proud Boys are a fascist street gang with a defined hierarchy, rules, levels of membership (to attain level 4 they have to agree to stop masturbating), and all sorts of other shit.
In contrast, the Boogaloos are just an assortment of shitposters trying to egg each other on to commit acts of terrorism under the guise of shitposting.
Uh, so... what's the rationale here?
Standard ethnonationalist playbook: propagate your race through focusing all sexual urges towards procreation. Also, redirecting all pleasurable individual activity into realms the group can control.
Oh they’re all about T levels, that’s why they call the opposition “soyboys”.
Soy, I guess in large quantities can block some T production? I don’t know if there’s any legitimate veracity to that but it’s like their mantra to avoid anything that interferes with T levels.
It’s insidious how they’ve tied masculinity to this cause.
No, it's complete bro-science trash. It originally comes from one study on the affects of phyto-estrogens in clover on sheep. The connection to soy (that it has some similar phyto-estrogens) is strained at best. If you are at all concerned about consuming hormones, animal hormones and in particular mammal hormones, are likely to be the most compatible and thus most destructive to humans, for obvious reasons. The real reason you see this so much is that vegetarianism/veganism are seen as being feminine-coded and are a sign that you are a bleeding heart, must make men weak and "girly," right? Well I'm on perhaps the most soy-boy diet of all, Whole Food Plant-Based (vegan with no added oil, sugar, or any non-whole-grains) and, although I haven't had it tested, it's very clear that my testosterone is much higher than it's ever been, gaining muscle faster, body and facial hair darkened and thickened rapidly, all this in less than 2 years and I'm coming up on 40.
A 30-minute comedic but well sourced video about the full history of the soyboys trend and the "science" it is based on, and also why its all bullshit
Edit: Just because I hate this fucking soy talking point so much I'm just going to also directly link to a metastudy of the effect of soy intake on men and quote the conclusion to make it super clear that anyone making this talking point is wrong. They might not be malicious, but they are definitively wrong:
Looks like some of the folks got a little antsy last night and tried to kick things off early. A bunch of MAGA supporters and other chuds clashed with police last night in D.C. around BLM plaza and several were arrested already.
With Tarrio banned and now some more folks arrested, I wonder if this means some of the more troublesome folks are already going to be shut out of today's downtown skirmish.
Anyway, I really enjoyed watching the clips of Proud Boys get just a light squeeze of pepper spray last night and completely break ranks because they have no experience dealing with police.
https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1346662458916630528
https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1346731403950505984
Hopefully we get more of the same today.