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

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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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    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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    He’s kind of given out the secret to defeating MAGA. Pity them, don’t hate them. Challenge them, don’t lower yourself to their level. Beat them at the polls, not with a pole.

    The MAGA nuts are victims of the MAGA movement too. They’ve literally been tricked by a failed casino owner nepo baby into thinking that he and other rich people are gonna save the country, share the wealth and fix their sex lives.

    I can’t back up that last part, but I feel like it’s implied by all the incel and anti woman shit they keep drumming up. Coincidentally they really are obsessed with penises which I’m sure says something about them I’m not qualified to determine.

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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

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      Thank you for bringing this up. Anytime this fuckwit is allowed back in the public eye, this should be right at the top to help invalidate the shit he spews.

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      Didn’t he also eat cereal with pee instead of milk and take a picture of himself stepping on his own nutsack? I feel like this dude is just forcing his gross fetishes on people left and right.

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        Which I’d respect if he was honest about it. I don’t think he’s capable of being honest with himself, much less anyone else.

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        Honest question: is it physically possibly to step on one’s own nutsack? Do I have to dislocate my pelvis or something?

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          I find if you use a pair of scissors to remove the nutsack first, then stepping in it becomes a lot easier.

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          Unfortunately, I can confirm that it is possible because you can’t actually bleach something like that from your brain once you see it. Really it was just the skin that he’d stretched way out but still.

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    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?

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    UK born British-Canadian citizen? So another far right anti-immigrant immigrant, coming to the US to stir up shit? When will we deport this clown and Phony Stark?

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      That’s one area I’m proud of Australia for. We frequently deny travel for problematic people - most recently Candace Owens was denied entry. Most likely for saying that Australia should be invaded, but she’s said a lot of horrible stuff so who can tell!

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        We do have our share of anti-immigrant immigrants though.

        Jack van Tongeren comes to mind. A Dutch migrant that hated asians. He set fire to a bunch of Asian restaurants. There was something of a political movement IIRC, they wanted to send asian migrants back to where they came from (?!) and relocate Australia’s Capital City to Alice Springs because it was geographically central.

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          I don’t know much about Australia, but isn’t the geographically central part the least pleasant livable part?

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            Yes!

            I mean I don’t want to be mean about where someone lives. About 33k people live in Alice Springs and I’m sure it’s a great place to be.

            That said, it really is in the middle of the desert. It’s harsh beauty is breathtaking even on google maps satellite view:

            There’s no sensible reason to move Australia’s Political capital in any case.

            I doubt it’s even feasible to support a large population in that area.

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              Yeah, perhaps I should have said livable instead of pleasant. I’ll change it. But Phoenix and Las Vegas have a lot of problems because they’re giant cities built in places that can’t really support populations that size using water in the way they do.

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        Deporting just means we kick him out of our country, you don’t have to accept him in yours. A raft in the Atlantic should suit him fine!

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          There’s the actual real garbage island in the ocean, he belongs in the trash. (And no I don’t mean Puerto Rico, that island has suffered enough)

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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.)