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.”

  • deaf_fish
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    136 months ago

    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.

        • @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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          16 months ago

          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?

            • @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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              16 months ago

              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.

                • @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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                  16 months ago

                  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.

  • @DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I have heard that this guy has small balls, a really tiny penis and enjoys the company of “boys”

    • @otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      26 months ago

      Don’t disparage pedophiles by association. They’re altogether vile and unfathomably sick in the head, but this fuck-smear? Far worse

  • @frezik@midwest.social
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    116 months ago

    I can’t take them seriously after learning where their name came from. Which is a discarded song from Disney’s “Aladdin” that was later revived for the stage musical. Yes, really.

    • The British-Canadian Hipster found of Vice became the leader of an anti-immigrant white nationalist group in the United States? Weird character arc. Anyone have any insight?

        • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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          The thought is still making its way from the rectum up, hasn’t reached the cerebellum yet

      • Yeah I’m… agog.

        Am I wrong to think of hipsters as generally lefties?

        Am I wrong to think of Vice as the people that do edgy progressive journalism and interesting documentaries?

        Something is wrong with my preconceptions about these things.

        … or maybe he just smoked too much crack and is suffering a psychosis.

        • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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          16 months ago

          Yea, same as you, I can’t connect those dots. Vice is absolutely left leaning from what I know and watch

        • @Wahots@pawb.social
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          Honestly, probably brain damage. Getting big head trauma can make people prone to rage and become less empathetic. Not everyone, of course. But the brain is complex, and some types of brain damage can really affect someone’s personality and mental capabilities.

  • @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    2076 months ago

    The left are the violent ones. They burnt down this country for 2 straight years.

    me looking at all the intact cities, towns, and unincorporated townships that haven’t been burnt to the ground for 2 years straight

    These assholes literally live on Earth 2, don’t they?

  • madjo
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    176 months ago

    UK-born British Canadian

    Found another foreigner that wants to destroy the USA.

  • Phoenixz
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    You’re the criminal because you broadcasted my crimes on tv

    You have to admit that the dude has a fascinating brain; such gymnastics

  • 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.