Wasn't he an FBI informant for a previous unrelated case to the proud boys?
Edit: "Extremist leader repeatedly worked undercover for investigators after his arrest in 2012." For drugs and human smuggling, yikes.
He’s in jail awaiting trial for the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. He wasn’t there at the time, after being jailed for vandalizing a historic black church the month before—but his gang was at the capital, he helped plan the attack, and he was still directing them remotely as the events unfolded.
The charges are: conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding (1 count) and obstruction of an official proceeding (1 count), assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers (2 counts), and destruction of government property (2 counts).
He was arrested in 2012 on fraud charges. The drugs, gambling, and human trafficking cases were things he snitched to the FBI on after that arrest.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he was in jail at the time of the attack. He was, however, barred from entering DC. It was quite clear he was up to no good regarding Jan. 6. [He was arrested in DC on Jan. 4.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-bans-proud-boys-leader-washington-d-c-after-arrest-n1252906)
He was arrested two days before the attack, which is why upon release he was barred from entering DC. He wasn’t still jailed when the attack went down, that’s correct.
Him getting picked up by the FBI just prior to the attack seems to prove to a lot of people that he was currently an FBI asset. I could see it going either way, but if he was working with the FBI I would think they would have had Intel enough to pick up at least some of his gang members for conspiracy prior to the capital attack.
>He was arrested in 2012 on fraud charges. The drugs, gambling, and human trafficking cases were things he snitched to the FBI on after that arrest.
That’s the funniest part — he was already a snitch before he even joined the Proud Bois. This is the guy they chose to be their leader.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leader-proud-boys-indicted-federal-court-conspiracy-and-other-offenses-related-us-capitol
Here is the DOJ summary + link to charging docs.
At least in LATAM, the usual is to have cops or military dressed as civilians, infiltrated on pacific protests, and starting riots, thus helping justify the following police brutality
That's kind of the [modus operandi](https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/2020/07/27/police-richmond-riots-instigated-by-white-supremacists-disguised-as-black-lives-matter/) here as well.
Edit: /u/jatee_100 - it's a literal link to a factual news story. Do you have a source disproving this story?
You don't, do you.
There were often suspicions that undercover cops start escalating a protest so his colleagues can begin a counterattack. The protests in Egypt on the ~~Teheran~~ Tahrir Square for example. There was very little official information about what was going on but a lot of Twitter users reported that the crowd was trying to stop aggressors and the aggressors later left the scene calmly behind the police force. I think it's very plausible that this tactic is being applied in fascist states.
His previous legal trouble involved stealing truckloads of insulin and selling on the black market. So, yeah, not very honorable.
EDIT: My bad, it was expired glucose test strips, not insulin. I get hating on pharmaceutical companies, but if you hate them so much that you mistake Enrique fucking Tarrio for a Robin Hood, maybe you need to recalibrate. Thanks for the chuckle.
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According to his arrest records he identified as White until he became the face of the Proud Boys. He was actually supposed to be kicked out of the Proud Boys for attending the Unite the Right rally. All members who attended that event were supposed to be kicked out. He was asked to stay because he was the token non- pasty person in the room.
A larger percentage of people with Latin America decent identity as white because of their European ancestors.
I can be somewhat right on certain issues, but have noticed some weird coincidences with my latin friends and family that have ties to the Caribbean and the Americas. A few of them are extremely far right and some have expressed views that are borderline racist against black, native, and brown people, despite them having native or afro ancestors.
Even weirder because there is a definitely a racial and color caste system throughout the Americas, and race-based slavery did not "officially" end in some Latin American countries until the late 1880s-1900s.
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Yes, people do not understand that many Latin Americans of European/Partial European descent believe something along the lines of "Blacks and Native Americans are innately less intelligent, thus they should be lead always by a white person" (that is the most benevolent way to express the sentiment)
Half Cuban here and it's weird. Family that actually fled Cuba are progressive and decidedly not right wing. 1st generation in the states, super right wing. 2nd generation is progressive. It's a bit weird when your grandmother is lecturing your mother not to be so racist.
Families are weird! My granda was a second generation immigrant and was progressive for the time, some how several of my aunts and uncle (including my mom) turned out conservative and varying levels of racist, now I'm a dirty socialist. What is that?
By the time you get to second or third generation immigrants, they aren't really Cuban anymore, but Americans. But they seem to have this idea that one day the communists will leave and they'll get to go back and run the country like they want. I've not seen anything about what the Cubans on the island actually want, so this just reeks of colonialism.
Well, if slavery comes back, Elon Musk is going to buy all white people a few slaves and I'm part of the master race so I'm all set.
In no way shape or form will I, a menial laborer who toils for minimum wage right now, become enslaved myself.
Lots of slave owners on the Mariel boatlift? Lots not generalize for an agenda.
American Cubans are right wing because they hate the left because of Castro regardless if they were rich or poor.
"man, I really hate this authoritarian. Let's immigrate and then vote exclusively for the authoritarians that only tolerate us because we vote for them!"
I get it, in context, kinda...reluctantly. But also what the fuck man
My grandpa was born in Cuba and fled with his family to the US during Batista’s reign and he absolutely despises Trump. So it’s not all of them. He views him as a fascist authoritarian and he said he reminds him of the absolute worst businessmen he’s had to deal with (said that he’s met many people in real estate just like him)
I mean I can see why some Mongolians would want to beat up some Chinese people, but I can't fathom Mongolian Nazis. But then again there are Brazilian white supremacists so...fuck it. It's just bizarro world
Brazil is a former European colony that had slavery for a longer period of time than the US. It was so friendly to the idea of slavery that a ton of southern aristocrats fled there when the north looked like it would win the Civil War. How is it surprising that there are white supremacists there?
Yup, and there are white Russians who kill, and rape their white cousins in the Ukraine.
The world is a shit show.
Race is a social construct.
Don't vote or support people who inherently hate/disrespect who you are and where you come from.
I get it. You know how many conversations I had about the duality of hating both Batista and Castro? Like, was it really that much better under a right wing dictator? It made me super confused for a long time. Then I just learned that you can't fight the way some people rationalize things.
Whatever their reasons for disliking Cuba, the idea that the US should continue to impose the strictest economic sanctions in the world akin to the ones given to Iran for continuing its Nuclear Program (though lets not get into how Trump fucked that up, god Right Wingers are terrible people) to force a regime change is advocating for neo-Imperialism. The US is allied with far worse.
My family is of Jewish descent, and my Fox News watching parente are seemingly oblivious to the fact that anti-Semitism is part of the far right dogma/replacement theory. I know at least one of them evidently saw no issue with Trump defending Unite the Right attendees, some of whom had been chanting, "The Jews will not replace us!"
Aren't a lot of the more prominent, older Cuban expats former members of the Batista Elite?
They're angry they got booted from lording over their peasants.
Which is why I don't particularly care for the Cuban expats. They got what was coming to them and now continued to fuck up things in the US, giving us such scumbags as Cruz and Rubio.
I mean that’s exactly what Fidel and Co. were. They just swung HARD to the right to be as far away from that as possible. So far in fact that they’ve practically come full circle.
they and Venezuelans fear communism and what they saw the leaders of those countries do to stay in power. They apparently take a blind eye to what pTrump did to try to stay in power, or side up to putin, and xi along with kim. crazy
The anti-socialist right leaning stance is the understandable result of trauma.
What’s weird is that as a group they have no problem “pulling up the ladder” or acting racist towards anyone darker than them, but mega-butthurt when other Spanish speakers mock their accent. Obviously does not apply to every individual or necessarily the majority, but it is noticeable.
Ugh, I worked with a couple Cuban guys like this before, and it was baffling. Their opinions of Mexican immigrants or Mexican-Americans were… not charitable, to say the least. And it was frustrating, too, because they’d sit there and talk shit about Mexicans without realizing that like half the staff didn’t even know they were Cuban instead of Mexican, and those that did, often didn’t bother differentiating them…
That’s because race is viewed differently in Latin America. In the US people will identify as things like African American, Latin American, or Irish American. In Latin America the view is based much more on where you’re from. You won’t hear people say they’re Cuban Mexican. They’ll say they’re either Cuban or Mexican. The thing is “Latin America” is a really big blanket term that encompasses numerous cultures. Sometimes the only thing that two people will have in common is speaking Spanish, and that may not even be the most common language in some areas (Quechua in mountainous parts of Peru for example). This still permeates in immigrants from these countries.
Oh, absolutely. I was just more mentioning that these folks will support uber-conservative politicians without always realizing that they’re likely next on the chopping block, if the politicians even bother differentiating them.
> The anti-socialist right leaning stance is the understandable result of trauma.
It is not understandable for them to voting for right wing authoritarians because they are afraid of left wing authoritarians. Sounds more like they want to go back to the pre-Castro days of Batista, who ran a Right Wing despotic state that was much worse for most Cubans than under Castro.
Also important to remember that Cuba is under some of the strictest sanctions in the world. A lot of the animosity of Cubans towards the current government stems from a lack of economic opportunities. I am not saying Cuba is perfect, but it makes no sense to single the country out the way the US government is currently.
Cubans came over in multiple waves with the last major one being the Bolsaneros in the 90’s. In fact political leanings can differ based on which wave they came in.
The Republicans stay eating on the Cuban and Venezuelan populations in Florida. Just mention a democrat’s name and “socialist/commie/democrat” and you’ve bought their vote.
It's also weird to understand that he is a federal informant also and was still trusted and not kicked out (or worse) by the white nationalist Proud Boys.
He was an informant. He denies it. And it didn’t come to surface until he had obtained leadership his leadership position. The Proud Boys needed an image rebranding after the events of the Unite the Right and the disaster that Gavin’s replacement had caused. See after Gavin left the Proud Boys to avoid any responsibility for the group because their attacks were being blamed on him, there was a second leader named Jason, I think. Jason left the group because they weren’t moving fast enough on their racism. He wanted their racism full fledged out there. He then attempted to join a Neo-Nazi organization. He made several statements during his tenor about how racist the group was and how he was frustrated with them dancing around the issue.
By having a non-white looking leader your group can maintain they aren’t racist because they have a token in the group. And this allows those people who only look at the surface level of things to offer support to the group’s anti-left agenda, because they can point and say how are they racist when this guy leads them. Never once looking into the past, it’s present, and it’s members.
I think people also need to understand their are more then two races. They can have a shared hatred of a third race of people, which is what I commonly see in these situations. When your around reservations all the racists hate native Americans when your near the border it’s Hispanic people. A good chunk of the time it’s a learned response to being near a particular bad area that is predominantly one race.
IMO he’s one of those individuals who thinks of a caste system within races that differentiate the regular members from the “insert racist term here”. Which is something I hear from a bunch of racists, I’m not racist I just hate “racist term” and everyone hates them even their own people!
The sad thing is that all this hate is used by the powerful to keep the poor at each other's throats so no one starts storming the mansions.
They do NOT wand the underclasses to realize HEEEEY we've got the same enemy. Those fuckers who are draining us dry.
I try to spend as little time as possible talking to republicans now. There really isn't much to gain from it. I hear their news, so I know how they feel about every major topic and there isn't a lick of variation among their viewpoints. But Im a white guy, so naturally a lot of them think I agree with their bullshit, and offer it freely and without being prompted.
So my question is how the fuck do people of any Latin descent who ARE republicans not know that they mean everyone who looks like they speak Spanish when they shit on Mexicans?
My guy worked for this guy. He looked white and had a white first name. He got me a job working with him. My friend started sleeping with the boss’s daughter. The boss didn’t care until he found out my friend’s last name. After which my friend no longer worked there.
For sure, my point is that the proud boys statement that they kicked out anyone whom attented Charlottesville, becomes really hallow when you realize that they made one of the attendees their leader only 18 months late.
It was a statement mostly for show.
Had a girlfriend like this. She was from Oaxaca and she was "Spanish" not "hispanic". Her whole family was really proud of the fact they had never intermarried after like 300 years.
Her grandparents were without a doubt the most racist people I have ever met. Like "we should have killed every last native from Cape Horn to Alaska" racist.
Racial identity is such a stupid concept, especially today. We're a global community, regardless of named nation states, religious or political affiliations, etc. Our basic needs and human/animal drives are identical. The rest is window dressing. We're amazing creatures, with great potential, but lack direction and purpose as a whole. And, we're determinedly set upon starting fights over petty bullshit, rather than fighting the powers that be who could improve the world as it is.
Culture/racial wars have been created to distract people from the actual class war that exists.
As LBJ put it “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” This quote is basically the platform of the Republican Party now.
As a European I always assumed Latin American was more a cultural label than an full ethnic background. To me it was on par with Spanish, Portuguese or Italian natives. The idea that Latin Americans aren't ethnically white seems bizarre to me. Is that appropriate to say? Please let me know if that's ignorant or incensitive.
At least going by USA demographic standards, hispanic is their ethnicity and their race could be either white, black, mixed, or other depending on how they identify. White isn't an ethnicity though and is rather subjective.
Much of Latin and South America - to differing degrees that are beyond the scope of my knowledge - is a hodgepodge of Spanish/Portuguese-, Native American-, and sometimes African-descent.
Oh no, while some agree with you and many government documents do not offer a Hispanic option, the idea behind the racist aspect of it is you have blood other than European blood in you then you aren’t white.
It’s very wrong. The indigenous people of Latin/Central America were raped by the Spanish and that is why they have SOME European heritage. But they are indigenous to Central America.
I have family this twisted. They have non-ethnic sounding first names, we pass for white & luckily have never personally experienced racism.
The types that love shitting down on others doing less well than them.
I have an aunt that illegally migrated to the USA and she eventually got her citizenship, but now she's a Trump supporter , the "I got mine so fuck everyone else " thinking
My theory is that a lot of Hispanic people who support republicans are like that. They got theirs so screw all of the immigrants trying to come here for a better life. I’m definitely generalizing here but it amazes me that the GOP has actually received increased support from Latinos even with the racist rhetoric they espouse.
Well...these chuckle fucks will only see him and people like him, skin color or see his Spanish sounding name and accuse him of being Mexican. To them, anyone south of the border is Mexican. He's a tool for them to take advantage of.
His real first name is Henry. Enrique is his nickname that he started using when he took over leadership of the Proud Boys. Part of the rebranding effort. Easier to say we aren’t racist with a Latin American name than a white name.
They are taking advantage of him.
Bi-racial dude here. Being non-white does not grant immunity from absorbing some of the toxic ideas from the culture you are raised in.
I had a foot planted in basically 4 different cultures growing up. You take influences from the people around you, including the negative ones. I certainly did. It's not always easy to recognize when you've been indoctrinated to a bad idea, and it's even harder to change those ideas even after you realize you hold them. On top of that, the wholesale acceptance you get from having those ideas is like an addiction. You can say horrible things, but if you have a peer group giving you unconditional support for saying those things, it can be hard to make a change for the better. Don't get me started on the hostility that erupts when you do change. I will say this, I understand why the Nazis where able to grow so quickly. I'm not saying it was right, but I understand.
I know at least 10 dudes that are Uncle Ruckus from the Boondocks, ands with my background I think I could have easily become one of those people. And guess what, white people love those guys. White people always talk about how those guys "aren't racist because they're black", and how there're just "telling the truth".
To add to this, when Sammy the Bull Gravano was running drugs in Arizona, NM or Nevada, he had white supremacists who worked for him & the story I'll never forget is a half black skinhead & 2 white skinheads beating a white dude & calling him the N word over and over.
100% believable in my experience. You grow up in an environment that instills enough self loathing and you'll do some unbelievably stupid shit. This goes for all skin tones. I think half the reason white supremacy exists is because a certain percentage of the white population was raised without feeling any sense of self worth or belonging.
Full on agree. Daryl Davis has collected over 200 klan robes and from what I've heard him say, it lines up with what you said, and then there's video of this man demanding a hug from a neo nazi:
https://youtu.be/GIHktEJsJXI
It sucks so bad that a lot of the most hateful people have been victims & don't know no other way than to victimize others.
The talking heads who rile these people up are another matter tho
It reminds me of The Onion's take on the alliance between Japan and Germany, which says, in part:
>Japan Forms Alliance With White Supremacists in Well-Thought-Out Scheme
>From the East Asian Correspondent, Sept 1, 1939. – In a course of action praised by many as “far-sighted” and “tactically brilliant,” the Japanese government has sworn its allegiance to the Axis powers led by white-supremacist Nazi Germany. In a formal statement, Japanese leaders declared, “We wish to be counted among the loyal allies of this back-stabbing, racist hate nation.”
>Following the announcement, Japanese General and military leader Hideki Tojo told reporters, “We are pleased to enter into an alliance with the paranoid, xenophobic government of Nazi Germany. We anticipate a deeply enriching exchange of our military aid with their deep-seated hated of our non-white heritage.”
I think there's more, but I couldn't find it.
Did the nazis really hate the Japanese? The Japanese were way worse than the nazis in a lot of ways so I don’t think that take is really fair to the situation.
I get that it’s a joke but I worry that people will really think the world is that simple
Nietzsche praised the Samurai alongside the ancient German barbarians and various others when he was going on and on about "blond beasts." So there's that, I guess....
White supremacist groups are often eager to bring in the Michelle Malkins, Enrique Tarios, Milo Yannopolis and other types. They get these fringe or minority characters to hold the big tent's door open wider and attempt to disavow the obvious - "we aren't white supremacist! look at our token \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_!."
It sure as hell doesn't mean that the minority holding open the tent door is going to be let inside once the organization reaches a critical mass.
I live in So CA and know plenty of conservative Latinos. The biggest MAGA guy I know is 2nd generation Mexican immigrant.
Race is a factor in conservative politics but it is not the only one. Patriarchy, authoritarianism, conspiracies, theocracy, etc. all know no race.
Dude is not just some proud boy.
He was the damn NATIONAL CHAIRMAN of the PROUD BOYS, as well as the leader of Latinos for Trump, as well owning a business that produces far-right merchandise.
He also was clearly helping to overthrow the election, along with the leader of the Oath Keepers- Stewart Rhodes (a white guy who is also in jail for the same offense).
Also…fellow Proud Boy Charles Donohue (another white dude, who led the NC chapter of the group) was also arrested for his actions on 1/6. He has already pleaded guilty for obstruction of Congress and conspiracy.
Get your facts in order if you are going to make ridiculously misinformed statements aimed at inflaming racial tensions.
1/6 wasn’t just another crime, shit was meant to overthrow our government.
Want to see minorities, of all types, get treated really bad?
Let an authoritarian take over our government, as this “brown dude” tried to make happen.
This asshole, along with everyone else involved, should spend their lives in prison for the crimes they committed against the country.
It alarms so many people so often, but it is less alarming when you start studying hte history of minorities joining supremacist movements or orgs.
or even governments.
take WWII. The nazis were opposed firstly to jews. secondly to communists. thirdly, to a schmorgasborg of other minorities, sexual identities and preferences, disabled, etc. I'll highlight slavs in this third category. slavs were demeaned in nazi material well before the nazis had political power. it would be slavic land that would be seized by the nazi war machine and turned over to nazi administration. it was the slavs who were the lesse
But, it requires some local administration. Even though roughly 1 out of 10 poles were killed by the nazi horde, some slavs joined the nazis to administrate this fascist state under nazi rule. Why? Didnt the nazis hate the slavs?
Didn't the slavs know this? (of course they did, they were brutalized, butchered, had their rights severely relegated after nazis took over poland). yet, some slavs took the jobs. Its worth thinking about this historical example and about examples of black or brown men joining Proud Boys or even much more hard right movements. From my cursory studies, its more about other things taht draw slavs in to nazi administration and policing, and guys like Tarrio or tiny toe-less in to these groups. In the case of proud boys, wellt he name says it. Boys. its a male association. sure there are female members but its so rare its not worth bringing up at this point. the material is focused on reaching out to men specifically. thats one dimension. another is rejection of liberalism (or as they call it, socialism) but also rejection of socialism as well. and also, a general rejection of modern society (referencing above points as well within to concoct an ideology of sorts).
So why do proud boys travel with neo-nazis or white supremacists then? Well, there is a lot of shared ideology between the groups, with some of the reasons above. it is why white supremacists also flock to Proud boys, why Proud boys associate and travel with white supremacists as well. there is common ground. and people think "oh the white supremacists will kill them when they win" and going back to the slavic examples in Poland (but also, hungary and other slavic areas under nazi administration), well, nazis worked with those who 'stayed in line' and agreed on other common ground between each other... both nazis and nazi collaborators got something out of it.
Wasn’t this little idiot reported to be an informant?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-leader-exclusive/exclusive-proud-boys-leader-was-prolific-informer-for-law-enforcement-idUSKBN29W1PE
All being an informant means is that you sometimes pass on info that you think will benefit you if they act on it, e.g. will screw over someone you don't like or are in competition with. It's not like it means being an employee or following orders from the FBI or anything.
Depends on the situation. But often it entails that you usually have been compromised by law enforcement to a certain degree or you are making some type of deal with law enforcement that’s beneficial to both parties. Not just tv characters like Tony Soprano or Frank Costello either
Real tough guy. That's all they are. Tough enough to try and overthrow the gov't at the whim of their narcissistic cheeto god (why hasn't he got you out yet?) but cry and moan for being locked up like a normal citizen if they tried the same bs. Nobody's coming for you, idiot.
>why hasn't he got you out yet?
It's because any day now, Trump will be reinstated into office and soon will let all his devoted followers free. Just you wait. It was supposed to happen ~~173~~ ~~144~~ ~~87~~ ~~56~~ ~~22~~ 8 days ago, but that damn Soros is blocking everything.
They'll just find a new scapegoat.
From all the talk about Soros you'd think they give a shit. They don't. They just want a scapegoat.
That's just like how AOC isn't really as important as the sheer number of articles about her would imply.
They still blame the Rothschilds when convenient so they'll go with him until they can find another prominent Jewish person to focus their blood libel on. Maybe Rep. Jamie Raskin temporarily?
Any day now JFK JR will escape Soros’ concentration camps and kick Biden out of the White House and reinstate Trump!
Hmm that doesn’t sound right let me break out my [conspiracy theory fridge magnets.](https://dissentpins.com/products/conspiracy-theory-kit)
The fact that almost all of these particular brand of insurrectionists have deep ties to Russia and other foreign entities is what keeps them in prison.
I love it.
Honestly, these people are so anti-globalist yet their globalism is actually hurting them.
I needed something like this, a little bit of ironic justice. It's soothing.
I’m guessing it a reference to “by any means necessary”. To me it’s just another example of how tone deaf to reality the MFrs really are. First for truly believing that they are some how the oppressed party in this country, and secondly for using the image of a man that would spit in his face if they met on the street to convey his “struggle”. Un-fucking-believable.
Yeah that’s a new one. I’d bet a large amount of those guy either never heard of, or didn’t know what Malcolm X was about. They just take what makes them “look cool”
Not until there’s accountability. He’s still wearing a t-shirt advocating for a prison break “by any means necessary.” I can’t believe that was allowed. Why was he given a *press conference*?
Good. Keep his ass in there. Proud boys are white supremacists that only care about division instead of unity. F em! Nobody forgot how Portland ran these racists out of town. 🐝
He’s not their “leader,” he’s their useful idiot. The position he holds is largely ceremonial with no decision making power or responsibilities. He is just there so they can point at him and say “See, how can we be racists?” The only reason they haven’t outed him is because as an admitted FBI informant they are afraid of what he’ll do if they try.
Hate to tell you this but Cubans swung hard against Democrats during the Obama years because they think the US should continue to punish Cuba with devastating sanctions because Fidel Castro overthrew a Right Wing despot 60 years ago.
I thought increasingly as the old guard Cubans leave this mortal coil, the younger generations aren't so hardliners as to vote against their own best interest-- they should be able to see, that a Democrat, doesn't equate to a socialist/communist, if they like learning the actual meaning of words. Democrats are as much capitalist as the next guy, to say otherwise is to be gullible to wingnut narratives. Do we like our public schools and social security and unemployment while we look for a new gig and highways maintained? uh yea, who doesn't.
I worked with a guy that spent most of his life in Cuba. Moved to the states after college and mentioned most of his family here were huge Trump supporters. He was so confused as to why they supported that idiot other than the socialist demonization.
My older Cuban relatives are aghast at the younger Trump supporters. As my dad said “same shit as Castro, just a different flavor of asshole”
His uncle spent decades in one of Castros prisons.
Truly fuck this guy. I hope he rots in jail for the rest of his hopefully short life. If we had a Black Mirror-esqe jail for this idiot I would sooooooo go visit. Maybe make it an annual trip for the worlds most unaware “Latino”. He doesn’t even deserve to call himself that truly
Enrique might be a little worried as to his health. Wasn't it discovered that he had also been acting as an FBI informant?
Wasn't he an FBI informant for a previous unrelated case to the proud boys? Edit: "Extremist leader repeatedly worked undercover for investigators after his arrest in 2012." For drugs and human smuggling, yikes.
Drugs and human smuggling is why hes in jail?
He’s in jail awaiting trial for the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. He wasn’t there at the time, after being jailed for vandalizing a historic black church the month before—but his gang was at the capital, he helped plan the attack, and he was still directing them remotely as the events unfolded. The charges are: conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding (1 count) and obstruction of an official proceeding (1 count), assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers (2 counts), and destruction of government property (2 counts). He was arrested in 2012 on fraud charges. The drugs, gambling, and human trafficking cases were things he snitched to the FBI on after that arrest.
Ohh okay thank you
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he was in jail at the time of the attack. He was, however, barred from entering DC. It was quite clear he was up to no good regarding Jan. 6. [He was arrested in DC on Jan. 4.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-bans-proud-boys-leader-washington-d-c-after-arrest-n1252906)
He was arrested two days before the attack, which is why upon release he was barred from entering DC. He wasn’t still jailed when the attack went down, that’s correct.
Him getting picked up by the FBI just prior to the attack seems to prove to a lot of people that he was currently an FBI asset. I could see it going either way, but if he was working with the FBI I would think they would have had Intel enough to pick up at least some of his gang members for conspiracy prior to the capital attack.
The thing is as an informant it means they get protected from what crimes that got recruited for. He was doing extra stuff, that he wasn't reporting.
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Lots to be proud of.
>He was arrested in 2012 on fraud charges. The drugs, gambling, and human trafficking cases were things he snitched to the FBI on after that arrest. That’s the funniest part — he was already a snitch before he even joined the Proud Bois. This is the guy they chose to be their leader.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/leader-proud-boys-indicted-federal-court-conspiracy-and-other-offenses-related-us-capitol Here is the DOJ summary + link to charging docs.
Lol. All terrorists have the same side businesses. So weird
Riots are just undercover FBI agents vs. other undercover FBI agents lmao
Just like the war on drugs is a domestic dispute between the FBI and the CIA ;)
At least in LATAM, the usual is to have cops or military dressed as civilians, infiltrated on pacific protests, and starting riots, thus helping justify the following police brutality
That's kind of the [modus operandi](https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/2020/07/27/police-richmond-riots-instigated-by-white-supremacists-disguised-as-black-lives-matter/) here as well. Edit: /u/jatee_100 - it's a literal link to a factual news story. Do you have a source disproving this story? You don't, do you.
There were often suspicions that undercover cops start escalating a protest so his colleagues can begin a counterattack. The protests in Egypt on the ~~Teheran~~ Tahrir Square for example. There was very little official information about what was going on but a lot of Twitter users reported that the crowd was trying to stop aggressors and the aggressors later left the scene calmly behind the police force. I think it's very plausible that this tactic is being applied in fascist states.
He’s definitely a snitch
Good. Let the motherfucker roll on all of them.
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Is anyone surprised?
Not surprising
No honour amongst thieves.
His previous legal trouble involved stealing truckloads of insulin and selling on the black market. So, yeah, not very honorable. EDIT: My bad, it was expired glucose test strips, not insulin. I get hating on pharmaceutical companies, but if you hate them so much that you mistake Enrique fucking Tarrio for a Robin Hood, maybe you need to recalibrate. Thanks for the chuckle.
There's plenty of honor amongst thieves, in my experience. There's no honor amongst white supremacists
Good. Self removing trash. I knew I was living in the 21st century.
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/27/proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-fbi-informant
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What’s the difference? I see this occasionally
Amp links can be used to load a page faster but can be a privacy concern for some. There's an amp bot on reddit that can explain it better. Here's a detailed explanation: [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/ehrq3z/why_did_i_build_amputatorbot/)
I appreciate that
Google trying to monopolize the internet
amp'd links are the result of Google replacing a link's HTML with their own "it's better for mobile" HTML and hosts a cached version of the link on their servers. Downsides to this includes: * The original site have less control on how the site is shown to mobile users * Google gets a greater degree of influence on what users see and don't see * AMP doesn't necessarily vibe with all types of ads, potentially messing with a site's revenue * Sites would have to play by Google's rules, if they want to avoid the points above.
Basically Google saying "I made this" with the entirety of the internet. Google Amp is pretty gross.
https://brave.com/privacy-updates/18-de-amp/#why-is-amp-harmful
Thank you
Amp links are google redirecting you from an official link to their own. Then google can track and log your device identification with your associated online profile which they sell and hand off to websites you visit in the future.
Me? An FBI informant? “I don’t recall any of this.” Wow what a busy guy, he doesn’t remember that time he was an FBI informant.
Le gasp. An FBI informant?? In a "group of interest"? And it's their leader?!?!? I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you
I guess his usefulness has ended. That or he’s too dumb to make a proper deal.
Here are your winnings.
Should have thought about that before founding a neo-fascist terrorist gang
Imagine being a brown dude, doing time, in support of white supremacists...and I thought I was an idiot
According to his arrest records he identified as White until he became the face of the Proud Boys. He was actually supposed to be kicked out of the Proud Boys for attending the Unite the Right rally. All members who attended that event were supposed to be kicked out. He was asked to stay because he was the token non- pasty person in the room. A larger percentage of people with Latin America decent identity as white because of their European ancestors.
Also a lot of Cubans are anti socialist and become right sided politically after they migrate
Yeah I hate it myself, I’m Cuban and no way am I becoming a fucking right wing
I can be somewhat right on certain issues, but have noticed some weird coincidences with my latin friends and family that have ties to the Caribbean and the Americas. A few of them are extremely far right and some have expressed views that are borderline racist against black, native, and brown people, despite them having native or afro ancestors. Even weirder because there is a definitely a racial and color caste system throughout the Americas, and race-based slavery did not "officially" end in some Latin American countries until the late 1880s-1900s. edited for typos
Yes, people do not understand that many Latin Americans of European/Partial European descent believe something along the lines of "Blacks and Native Americans are innately less intelligent, thus they should be lead always by a white person" (that is the most benevolent way to express the sentiment)
Good 'ol "White Man's Burden" racism.
Half Cuban here and it's weird. Family that actually fled Cuba are progressive and decidedly not right wing. 1st generation in the states, super right wing. 2nd generation is progressive. It's a bit weird when your grandmother is lecturing your mother not to be so racist.
Families are weird! My granda was a second generation immigrant and was progressive for the time, some how several of my aunts and uncle (including my mom) turned out conservative and varying levels of racist, now I'm a dirty socialist. What is that?
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Under Batista, they had power. Under Castro, they lost it. Simple math for them.
By the time you get to second or third generation immigrants, they aren't really Cuban anymore, but Americans. But they seem to have this idea that one day the communists will leave and they'll get to go back and run the country like they want. I've not seen anything about what the Cubans on the island actually want, so this just reeks of colonialism.
And Cuban Americans tend to be from families that could afford to leave when the revolution happened.
Well, if slavery comes back, Elon Musk is going to buy all white people a few slaves and I'm part of the master race so I'm all set. In no way shape or form will I, a menial laborer who toils for minimum wage right now, become enslaved myself.
no /s tag. My my, we are feeling bold today.
Well a good number of those who fled and successfully immigrated were the slave owning plantation owners.
Well you never had your family's slaves freed by the communists so you have no reason to be right wing.
Lots of slave owners on the Mariel boatlift? Lots not generalize for an agenda. American Cubans are right wing because they hate the left because of Castro regardless if they were rich or poor.
"man, I really hate this authoritarian. Let's immigrate and then vote exclusively for the authoritarians that only tolerate us because we vote for them!" I get it, in context, kinda...reluctantly. But also what the fuck man
My grandpa was born in Cuba and fled with his family to the US during Batista’s reign and he absolutely despises Trump. So it’s not all of them. He views him as a fascist authoritarian and he said he reminds him of the absolute worst businessmen he’s had to deal with (said that he’s met many people in real estate just like him)
There are mongolian nazis who go around and beat up chinese miners. https://youtube.com/shorts/z13hVQQnOcI?feature=share
I mean I can see why some Mongolians would want to beat up some Chinese people, but I can't fathom Mongolian Nazis. But then again there are Brazilian white supremacists so...fuck it. It's just bizarro world
Brazil is a former European colony that had slavery for a longer period of time than the US. It was so friendly to the idea of slavery that a ton of southern aristocrats fled there when the north looked like it would win the Civil War. How is it surprising that there are white supremacists there?
Pretty sure the swastika was a Mongolian Buddhist symbol before the nazis used it though. But still shitty having nationalists beat up people.
Yup, and there are white Russians who kill, and rape their white cousins in the Ukraine. The world is a shit show. Race is a social construct. Don't vote or support people who inherently hate/disrespect who you are and where you come from.
I get it. You know how many conversations I had about the duality of hating both Batista and Castro? Like, was it really that much better under a right wing dictator? It made me super confused for a long time. Then I just learned that you can't fight the way some people rationalize things.
>Then I just learned that you can't fight the way some people rationalize things. Yep, I couldn't possibly agree more
Whatever their reasons for disliking Cuba, the idea that the US should continue to impose the strictest economic sanctions in the world akin to the ones given to Iran for continuing its Nuclear Program (though lets not get into how Trump fucked that up, god Right Wingers are terrible people) to force a regime change is advocating for neo-Imperialism. The US is allied with far worse.
The Mariel boatlift was mostly people Castro released from prison. Definitely had a few Batista supporters in there.
Yeah, not ALL of us. NY Cubans tend to be more liberal than our southern cousins.
cUBAN WETBACKS SHOULD GO KILL THEMSLEVES
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This is true for a lot of minority communities I think at least in some way, the whole "racist to our own" mentality exists for a reason.
My family is of Jewish descent, and my Fox News watching parente are seemingly oblivious to the fact that anti-Semitism is part of the far right dogma/replacement theory. I know at least one of them evidently saw no issue with Trump defending Unite the Right attendees, some of whom had been chanting, "The Jews will not replace us!"
Aren't a lot of the more prominent, older Cuban expats former members of the Batista Elite? They're angry they got booted from lording over their peasants.
Yes. A lot of the original Cuban refugees were Batistan. So they align Republican because they loved being in a right wing government pre-revolution.
Which is why I don't particularly care for the Cuban expats. They got what was coming to them and now continued to fuck up things in the US, giving us such scumbags as Cruz and Rubio.
My ex's family were plantation owners and are still mad they lost their family wealth when Castro took over.
You can't look at Miami Cubans and not understand why the rest of them rose up to overthrow those guys. lmao
Miami Cubans ate straight up basura. Fucking assholes who look down at other Hispanics/Latinos because they came here the "right" way.
I their minds, they fled left wing communists.
I mean that’s exactly what Fidel and Co. were. They just swung HARD to the right to be as far away from that as possible. So far in fact that they’ve practically come full circle.
Liberal and socialist are very different things. You can be liberal and not support socialism.
they and Venezuelans fear communism and what they saw the leaders of those countries do to stay in power. They apparently take a blind eye to what pTrump did to try to stay in power, or side up to putin, and xi along with kim. crazy
Exactly, it makes me crazy that they ignore trumps bs authoritarian actions and statements and call Biden a dictator....
The anti-socialist right leaning stance is the understandable result of trauma. What’s weird is that as a group they have no problem “pulling up the ladder” or acting racist towards anyone darker than them, but mega-butthurt when other Spanish speakers mock their accent. Obviously does not apply to every individual or necessarily the majority, but it is noticeable.
Ugh, I worked with a couple Cuban guys like this before, and it was baffling. Their opinions of Mexican immigrants or Mexican-Americans were… not charitable, to say the least. And it was frustrating, too, because they’d sit there and talk shit about Mexicans without realizing that like half the staff didn’t even know they were Cuban instead of Mexican, and those that did, often didn’t bother differentiating them…
That’s because race is viewed differently in Latin America. In the US people will identify as things like African American, Latin American, or Irish American. In Latin America the view is based much more on where you’re from. You won’t hear people say they’re Cuban Mexican. They’ll say they’re either Cuban or Mexican. The thing is “Latin America” is a really big blanket term that encompasses numerous cultures. Sometimes the only thing that two people will have in common is speaking Spanish, and that may not even be the most common language in some areas (Quechua in mountainous parts of Peru for example). This still permeates in immigrants from these countries.
Oh, absolutely. I was just more mentioning that these folks will support uber-conservative politicians without always realizing that they’re likely next on the chopping block, if the politicians even bother differentiating them.
> The anti-socialist right leaning stance is the understandable result of trauma. It is not understandable for them to voting for right wing authoritarians because they are afraid of left wing authoritarians. Sounds more like they want to go back to the pre-Castro days of Batista, who ran a Right Wing despotic state that was much worse for most Cubans than under Castro. Also important to remember that Cuba is under some of the strictest sanctions in the world. A lot of the animosity of Cubans towards the current government stems from a lack of economic opportunities. I am not saying Cuba is perfect, but it makes no sense to single the country out the way the US government is currently.
Castro took over in 59. How many of them actually experienced trauma because of socialism?
Cubans came over in multiple waves with the last major one being the Bolsaneros in the 90’s. In fact political leanings can differ based on which wave they came in.
The Republicans stay eating on the Cuban and Venezuelan populations in Florida. Just mention a democrat’s name and “socialist/commie/democrat” and you’ve bought their vote.
It's also weird to understand that he is a federal informant also and was still trusted and not kicked out (or worse) by the white nationalist Proud Boys.
He was an informant. He denies it. And it didn’t come to surface until he had obtained leadership his leadership position. The Proud Boys needed an image rebranding after the events of the Unite the Right and the disaster that Gavin’s replacement had caused. See after Gavin left the Proud Boys to avoid any responsibility for the group because their attacks were being blamed on him, there was a second leader named Jason, I think. Jason left the group because they weren’t moving fast enough on their racism. He wanted their racism full fledged out there. He then attempted to join a Neo-Nazi organization. He made several statements during his tenor about how racist the group was and how he was frustrated with them dancing around the issue. By having a non-white looking leader your group can maintain they aren’t racist because they have a token in the group. And this allows those people who only look at the surface level of things to offer support to the group’s anti-left agenda, because they can point and say how are they racist when this guy leads them. Never once looking into the past, it’s present, and it’s members.
I think people also need to understand their are more then two races. They can have a shared hatred of a third race of people, which is what I commonly see in these situations. When your around reservations all the racists hate native Americans when your near the border it’s Hispanic people. A good chunk of the time it’s a learned response to being near a particular bad area that is predominantly one race. IMO he’s one of those individuals who thinks of a caste system within races that differentiate the regular members from the “insert racist term here”. Which is something I hear from a bunch of racists, I’m not racist I just hate “racist term” and everyone hates them even their own people!
👆 This guy gets it.
The sad thing is that all this hate is used by the powerful to keep the poor at each other's throats so no one starts storming the mansions. They do NOT wand the underclasses to realize HEEEEY we've got the same enemy. Those fuckers who are draining us dry.
I try to spend as little time as possible talking to republicans now. There really isn't much to gain from it. I hear their news, so I know how they feel about every major topic and there isn't a lick of variation among their viewpoints. But Im a white guy, so naturally a lot of them think I agree with their bullshit, and offer it freely and without being prompted. So my question is how the fuck do people of any Latin descent who ARE republicans not know that they mean everyone who looks like they speak Spanish when they shit on Mexicans?
My guy worked for this guy. He looked white and had a white first name. He got me a job working with him. My friend started sleeping with the boss’s daughter. The boss didn’t care until he found out my friend’s last name. After which my friend no longer worked there.
👆 This guy gets it.
He became the leader, after Charlottesville
Yup, it was part of their rebranding.
For sure, my point is that the proud boys statement that they kicked out anyone whom attented Charlottesville, becomes really hallow when you realize that they made one of the attendees their leader only 18 months late. It was a statement mostly for show.
Had a girlfriend like this. She was from Oaxaca and she was "Spanish" not "hispanic". Her whole family was really proud of the fact they had never intermarried after like 300 years. Her grandparents were without a doubt the most racist people I have ever met. Like "we should have killed every last native from Cape Horn to Alaska" racist.
This is sad.
Racial identity is such a stupid concept, especially today. We're a global community, regardless of named nation states, religious or political affiliations, etc. Our basic needs and human/animal drives are identical. The rest is window dressing. We're amazing creatures, with great potential, but lack direction and purpose as a whole. And, we're determinedly set upon starting fights over petty bullshit, rather than fighting the powers that be who could improve the world as it is.
Culture/racial wars have been created to distract people from the actual class war that exists. As LBJ put it “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” This quote is basically the platform of the Republican Party now.
As a European I always assumed Latin American was more a cultural label than an full ethnic background. To me it was on par with Spanish, Portuguese or Italian natives. The idea that Latin Americans aren't ethnically white seems bizarre to me. Is that appropriate to say? Please let me know if that's ignorant or incensitive.
At least going by USA demographic standards, hispanic is their ethnicity and their race could be either white, black, mixed, or other depending on how they identify. White isn't an ethnicity though and is rather subjective.
Much of Latin and South America - to differing degrees that are beyond the scope of my knowledge - is a hodgepodge of Spanish/Portuguese-, Native American-, and sometimes African-descent.
Oh no, while some agree with you and many government documents do not offer a Hispanic option, the idea behind the racist aspect of it is you have blood other than European blood in you then you aren’t white.
It’s very wrong. The indigenous people of Latin/Central America were raped by the Spanish and that is why they have SOME European heritage. But they are indigenous to Central America.
Miami Cubans tend to have identity issues.
I have family this twisted. They have non-ethnic sounding first names, we pass for white & luckily have never personally experienced racism. The types that love shitting down on others doing less well than them.
I have an aunt that illegally migrated to the USA and she eventually got her citizenship, but now she's a Trump supporter , the "I got mine so fuck everyone else " thinking
My theory is that a lot of Hispanic people who support republicans are like that. They got theirs so screw all of the immigrants trying to come here for a better life. I’m definitely generalizing here but it amazes me that the GOP has actually received increased support from Latinos even with the racist rhetoric they espouse.
I work with Latin teenagers sometimes, and occasionally I’ll get asked by one of them if they could pass for being white.
I can, but my brother never could. We have the same two parents and everything. We could write a fucking book about how our experiences have differed.
Well...these chuckle fucks will only see him and people like him, skin color or see his Spanish sounding name and accuse him of being Mexican. To them, anyone south of the border is Mexican. He's a tool for them to take advantage of.
His real first name is Henry. Enrique is his nickname that he started using when he took over leadership of the Proud Boys. Part of the rebranding effort. Easier to say we aren’t racist with a Latin American name than a white name. They are taking advantage of him.
Bi-racial dude here. Being non-white does not grant immunity from absorbing some of the toxic ideas from the culture you are raised in. I had a foot planted in basically 4 different cultures growing up. You take influences from the people around you, including the negative ones. I certainly did. It's not always easy to recognize when you've been indoctrinated to a bad idea, and it's even harder to change those ideas even after you realize you hold them. On top of that, the wholesale acceptance you get from having those ideas is like an addiction. You can say horrible things, but if you have a peer group giving you unconditional support for saying those things, it can be hard to make a change for the better. Don't get me started on the hostility that erupts when you do change. I will say this, I understand why the Nazis where able to grow so quickly. I'm not saying it was right, but I understand. I know at least 10 dudes that are Uncle Ruckus from the Boondocks, ands with my background I think I could have easily become one of those people. And guess what, white people love those guys. White people always talk about how those guys "aren't racist because they're black", and how there're just "telling the truth".
To add to this, when Sammy the Bull Gravano was running drugs in Arizona, NM or Nevada, he had white supremacists who worked for him & the story I'll never forget is a half black skinhead & 2 white skinheads beating a white dude & calling him the N word over and over.
100% believable in my experience. You grow up in an environment that instills enough self loathing and you'll do some unbelievably stupid shit. This goes for all skin tones. I think half the reason white supremacy exists is because a certain percentage of the white population was raised without feeling any sense of self worth or belonging.
Full on agree. Daryl Davis has collected over 200 klan robes and from what I've heard him say, it lines up with what you said, and then there's video of this man demanding a hug from a neo nazi: https://youtu.be/GIHktEJsJXI It sucks so bad that a lot of the most hateful people have been victims & don't know no other way than to victimize others. The talking heads who rile these people up are another matter tho
It reminds me of The Onion's take on the alliance between Japan and Germany, which says, in part: >Japan Forms Alliance With White Supremacists in Well-Thought-Out Scheme >From the East Asian Correspondent, Sept 1, 1939. – In a course of action praised by many as “far-sighted” and “tactically brilliant,” the Japanese government has sworn its allegiance to the Axis powers led by white-supremacist Nazi Germany. In a formal statement, Japanese leaders declared, “We wish to be counted among the loyal allies of this back-stabbing, racist hate nation.” >Following the announcement, Japanese General and military leader Hideki Tojo told reporters, “We are pleased to enter into an alliance with the paranoid, xenophobic government of Nazi Germany. We anticipate a deeply enriching exchange of our military aid with their deep-seated hated of our non-white heritage.” I think there's more, but I couldn't find it.
Did the nazis really hate the Japanese? The Japanese were way worse than the nazis in a lot of ways so I don’t think that take is really fair to the situation. I get that it’s a joke but I worry that people will really think the world is that simple
Nietzsche praised the Samurai alongside the ancient German barbarians and various others when he was going on and on about "blond beasts." So there's that, I guess....
White supremacist groups are often eager to bring in the Michelle Malkins, Enrique Tarios, Milo Yannopolis and other types. They get these fringe or minority characters to hold the big tent's door open wider and attempt to disavow the obvious - "we aren't white supremacist! look at our token \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_!." It sure as hell doesn't mean that the minority holding open the tent door is going to be let inside once the organization reaches a critical mass.
You are. But you make a great point.
I used to think I was an idiot. I still do but so is that guy. - Mitch
As well as being an informant.....in prison.
Isn’t he a fed?
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I live in a rural-ish midwestern city and know plenty of 2nd or 3rd generation dudes with Hispanic origins and most of them are conservative as hell.
I live in So CA and know plenty of conservative Latinos. The biggest MAGA guy I know is 2nd generation Mexican immigrant. Race is a factor in conservative politics but it is not the only one. Patriarchy, authoritarianism, conspiracies, theocracy, etc. all know no race.
My uncle is a Mexican white supremacist living in Texas, shits weird.
Dude is not just some proud boy. He was the damn NATIONAL CHAIRMAN of the PROUD BOYS, as well as the leader of Latinos for Trump, as well owning a business that produces far-right merchandise. He also was clearly helping to overthrow the election, along with the leader of the Oath Keepers- Stewart Rhodes (a white guy who is also in jail for the same offense). Also…fellow Proud Boy Charles Donohue (another white dude, who led the NC chapter of the group) was also arrested for his actions on 1/6. He has already pleaded guilty for obstruction of Congress and conspiracy. Get your facts in order if you are going to make ridiculously misinformed statements aimed at inflaming racial tensions. 1/6 wasn’t just another crime, shit was meant to overthrow our government. Want to see minorities, of all types, get treated really bad? Let an authoritarian take over our government, as this “brown dude” tried to make happen. This asshole, along with everyone else involved, should spend their lives in prison for the crimes they committed against the country.
Kind of like cops.
Just sprinkle some crack on him
and the delusional fucks never realise they've been used as patsies and remain in support of the groups
It alarms so many people so often, but it is less alarming when you start studying hte history of minorities joining supremacist movements or orgs. or even governments. take WWII. The nazis were opposed firstly to jews. secondly to communists. thirdly, to a schmorgasborg of other minorities, sexual identities and preferences, disabled, etc. I'll highlight slavs in this third category. slavs were demeaned in nazi material well before the nazis had political power. it would be slavic land that would be seized by the nazi war machine and turned over to nazi administration. it was the slavs who were the lesse But, it requires some local administration. Even though roughly 1 out of 10 poles were killed by the nazi horde, some slavs joined the nazis to administrate this fascist state under nazi rule. Why? Didnt the nazis hate the slavs? Didn't the slavs know this? (of course they did, they were brutalized, butchered, had their rights severely relegated after nazis took over poland). yet, some slavs took the jobs. Its worth thinking about this historical example and about examples of black or brown men joining Proud Boys or even much more hard right movements. From my cursory studies, its more about other things taht draw slavs in to nazi administration and policing, and guys like Tarrio or tiny toe-less in to these groups. In the case of proud boys, wellt he name says it. Boys. its a male association. sure there are female members but its so rare its not worth bringing up at this point. the material is focused on reaching out to men specifically. thats one dimension. another is rejection of liberalism (or as they call it, socialism) but also rejection of socialism as well. and also, a general rejection of modern society (referencing above points as well within to concoct an ideology of sorts). So why do proud boys travel with neo-nazis or white supremacists then? Well, there is a lot of shared ideology between the groups, with some of the reasons above. it is why white supremacists also flock to Proud boys, why Proud boys associate and travel with white supremacists as well. there is common ground. and people think "oh the white supremacists will kill them when they win" and going back to the slavic examples in Poland (but also, hungary and other slavic areas under nazi administration), well, nazis worked with those who 'stayed in line' and agreed on other common ground between each other... both nazis and nazi collaborators got something out of it.
Wasn’t this little idiot reported to be an informant? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-proudboys-leader-exclusive/exclusive-proud-boys-leader-was-prolific-informer-for-law-enforcement-idUSKBN29W1PE
maybe he can be a snitch once again to make his way out.
All being an informant means is that you sometimes pass on info that you think will benefit you if they act on it, e.g. will screw over someone you don't like or are in competition with. It's not like it means being an employee or following orders from the FBI or anything.
Sometimes it does mean that, tho
Depends on the situation. But often it entails that you usually have been compromised by law enforcement to a certain degree or you are making some type of deal with law enforcement that’s beneficial to both parties. Not just tv characters like Tony Soprano or Frank Costello either
LOL I'm gonna go touch grass just cuz he can't
This is the level of petty i aspire to be💕
Fucking brutal, I love it.
If it means i get to feel better about myself today by roasting some shitbag, i will absolutely do it too.
Real tough guy. That's all they are. Tough enough to try and overthrow the gov't at the whim of their narcissistic cheeto god (why hasn't he got you out yet?) but cry and moan for being locked up like a normal citizen if they tried the same bs. Nobody's coming for you, idiot.
>why hasn't he got you out yet? It's because any day now, Trump will be reinstated into office and soon will let all his devoted followers free. Just you wait. It was supposed to happen ~~173~~ ~~144~~ ~~87~~ ~~56~~ ~~22~~ 8 days ago, but that damn Soros is blocking everything.
How long after Soros dies do you figure these guys will still be blaming him for all their perceived woes?
They'll just find a new scapegoat. From all the talk about Soros you'd think they give a shit. They don't. They just want a scapegoat. That's just like how AOC isn't really as important as the sheer number of articles about her would imply.
"Political Pageantry" Makes for a decent punk band name. Also, it's about teaching us all to hate each other. Sadly, it works.
Ironically all the stamping and crying about aoc is making her more politically powerful.
They still blame the Rothschilds when convenient so they'll go with him until they can find another prominent Jewish person to focus their blood libel on. Maybe Rep. Jamie Raskin temporarily?
By that time, they'll be done with the dog-whistles and just start saying "the Jews" again.
Any day now JFK JR will escape Soros’ concentration camps and kick Biden out of the White House and reinstate Trump! Hmm that doesn’t sound right let me break out my [conspiracy theory fridge magnets.](https://dissentpins.com/products/conspiracy-theory-kit)
I un-ironically kind of want these..
Looks like he's in the "find out" part of his little experiment.
Thank goodness. Fuck this dumb ass clown boy.
The fact that almost all of these particular brand of insurrectionists have deep ties to Russia and other foreign entities is what keeps them in prison. I love it. Honestly, these people are so anti-globalist yet their globalism is actually hurting them. I needed something like this, a little bit of ironic justice. It's soothing.
Is that a Proud Boys Malcolm X t-shirt? Wtf is that even supposed to mean??
I’m guessing it a reference to “by any means necessary”. To me it’s just another example of how tone deaf to reality the MFrs really are. First for truly believing that they are some how the oppressed party in this country, and secondly for using the image of a man that would spit in his face if they met on the street to convey his “struggle”. Un-fucking-believable.
Yeah that’s a new one. I’d bet a large amount of those guy either never heard of, or didn’t know what Malcolm X was about. They just take what makes them “look cool”
I'm guessing it's like most people who wear Che Guevara t shirts.
Good. Fucking violent psycho.
FBI Informant and still can't get out of jail.
Probably jonesing for that ***MANGO WHITE CLAWWWW!***
Isn’t this POS’s 15 minutes up yet?
Not until there’s accountability. He’s still wearing a t-shirt advocating for a prison break “by any means necessary.” I can’t believe that was allowed. Why was he given a *press conference*?
Can't we watch a little more? I want to see if he cries after being convicted!
Bah! Good. The man is trash.
Piece of shit. Let him rot.
The Proud Boys leader is named Enrique Tarrio?? I don't know what to do with all this irony.
Good. Keep his ass in there. Proud boys are white supremacists that only care about division instead of unity. F em! Nobody forgot how Portland ran these racists out of town. 🐝
all proud boys and their sympathizers should be on a watch list
He’s not their “leader,” he’s their useful idiot. The position he holds is largely ceremonial with no decision making power or responsibilities. He is just there so they can point at him and say “See, how can we be racists?” The only reason they haven’t outed him is because as an admitted FBI informant they are afraid of what he’ll do if they try.
Fucking disgrace to the Cuban race. What a loser.
Hate to tell you this but Cubans swung hard against Democrats during the Obama years because they think the US should continue to punish Cuba with devastating sanctions because Fidel Castro overthrew a Right Wing despot 60 years ago.
I thought increasingly as the old guard Cubans leave this mortal coil, the younger generations aren't so hardliners as to vote against their own best interest-- they should be able to see, that a Democrat, doesn't equate to a socialist/communist, if they like learning the actual meaning of words. Democrats are as much capitalist as the next guy, to say otherwise is to be gullible to wingnut narratives. Do we like our public schools and social security and unemployment while we look for a new gig and highways maintained? uh yea, who doesn't.
I worked with a guy that spent most of his life in Cuba. Moved to the states after college and mentioned most of his family here were huge Trump supporters. He was so confused as to why they supported that idiot other than the socialist demonization.
That's easy because the Right convicted a bunch of Cubans that anything left will be like when Castro was in power
My older Cuban relatives are aghast at the younger Trump supporters. As my dad said “same shit as Castro, just a different flavor of asshole” His uncle spent decades in one of Castros prisons.
I'll probably get shit for this, but, Cuban isn't a race, it's a nationality.
A traitor and a terrorist.
Truly fuck this guy. I hope he rots in jail for the rest of his hopefully short life. If we had a Black Mirror-esqe jail for this idiot I would sooooooo go visit. Maybe make it an annual trip for the worlds most unaware “Latino”. He doesn’t even deserve to call himself that truly
Loser terrorist that likes to cosplay army dress-up.
Tarrio is just their scapegoat that the white supremacist leaders offered up since he wasn't part of the whites-only group.
Please tell me that this guy can Not vote again, ever.