I've seen the universally negative media reports about the Boogaloo movement and how FB has banned it and how Wikipedia tars them as being violent ultra far right anarchists, which naturally means the left doesnt like them. So whats the truth?
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The media is a freaking joke. They call antifa and BLM peaceful...even while they are shooting guns and beating old white people and cops!
Besides, the lying Dem media has to have somebody to BLAME for all the violence.
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They don't really know what to make of Boogaloo. You've got everything from Antifa members to white supremacists and everything in between in the Boogaloo movement.
I can tell you this: The Antifa Boogaloo folks are so badly outgunned and poorly trained, if they ever start shooting it will be all over with before they know what hit them.
I can tell you this: The Antifa Boogaloo folks are so badly outgunned and poorly trained, if they ever start shooting it will be all over with before they know what hit them.
Wikipedia is in bed with the BLM, their was a big article on it, as far as Boogaloo goes, don't trust them in any format. In fact I don't like the Left, don't like the BLM, KKK, Neo-Nazi's, Black Panthers, Socialist, Marxism, Rhinos and Jerry Springer
They all can go straight to g'damn hell
They all can go straight to g'damn hell
That's just great. I have a lot of nice Hawaiian shirts. I probably can't wear them to a nice restaraunt now without some liberal waiter spitting in my food. 
When they say "be the gray man", I guess they literally mean, wear gray.
When they say "be the gray man", I guess they literally mean, wear gray.
The rise of America's deadly 'boogaloo' extremists – and how they captured social media
Behind a spate of far-Right terror plots lies a strange new online subculture that has been spreading for months with little opposition
By Laurence Dodds, US Technology Reporter, San Francisco 2 July 2020 • 6:00am
Hawaiian shirts and heavy weapons: two trademark signs of the boogaloo subculture Credit: Jef Kowalsky/AFP/Getty
It was the evening of May 29, four days after the death of George Floyd, and the police had lost control of downtown Oakland. After months of lockdown, the diverse Californian city's once-vibrant main drag was suddenly full of billowing tear gas, burning debris and crowds of jubilant protesters building impromptu barricades.
A few blocks away, barely noticed amid the din of choppers and pyrotechnics, a terrorist attack had just been committed. The murder of US federal agent Dave Patrick Underwood in a drive-by shooting that night would spark national speculation that black nationalists or even one of Oakland's many street gangs might be to blame.
Two weeks later, however, authorities announced they had arrested Stephen Carrillo, a 32-year-old former airman who had driven 72 miles from the tiny mountain town of Ben Lomond. Carrillo had allegedly plotted with a friend he met through a Facebook group – part of a strange and predominantly online new extremist subculture known as "boogaloo".
The boogaloo movement has now been linked to at least six attempted attacks across the US. Its members, with their distinctive Hawaiian shirts, igloo symbols and high-end firearms, have been spotted at many anti-lockdown and anti-police protests. On Tuesday, Facebook branded one boogaloo group as a "dangerous organisation", banning all support or praise of it.
But what precisely is a boogaloo?
"It's a meme that's been turned into a rallying cry," says Prof Julia DeCook, who studies online extremism at Loyala University in Chicago. "There's no real structure: some want to target minorities; some want to target law enforcement and government; some want to target both...
"They don't have a centralised set of goals that they're trying to achieve or anything like that. They're just coalescing around this pro-gun, anti-government ideology – and the more extreme factions call for a total societal collapse."
Civil war becomes an internet meme
Boogaloo is so fragmented and fluid, so lacking in clear leaders or spokespeople, that DeCook hesitates to even call it a "movement". Instead she describes it more as a "subculture", part of a wave of "informal" ideological networks made possible by digital technology.
Yet it also has deep roots. Chris Jones, a forensic reporter covering far-Right groups in America's impoverished Appalachian mountains, describes it as a "direct descendant" of the decades-old American militia movement, made famous by the 1993 Waco siege.
Militias have grown increasingly active since the election of Barack Obama in 2008, with heavily-armed groups such as the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters purporting to "keep the peace" at protests, marches, occupations and even the Mexican border. They have often been implicated in or accused of terror plots, vigilantism, voter intimidation and kidnapping, with a habit of threatening or predicting "civil war".
Members of the Right-wing Patriot Prayer group at an anti-mask rally on June 26 in Vancouver, Washington state Credit: Karen Ducey/Getty
This is the literal meaning of "boogaloo": a second US civil war or nationwide uprising, which adherents tend to welcome, consider inevitable or actually hope to bring about. The term comes from the cheesy 1984 breakdancing film Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, whose subtitle long ago became an internet meme used to signal a ridiculous or cynical sequel.
Its ghoulish new usage appears to have started around 2012, in the firearms section of the infamous anything-goes discussion site 4chan, according to the investigative website Bellingcat.
It soon jumped venues, spreading from white supremacists to disparate other groups who shared a hatred of the federal government and a conviction of imminent apocalypse: hardcore gun rights activists, traditional libertarians, survivalist "preppers" and even, reportedly, anti-racist anarchists.
"Unlike previous iterations of militia movements, [boogaloo] ideology comes out of an intersection of gaming culture, online Right-wing counterculture and a fascination with weapons and military hardware," says Prof Joel Beeson, who studies social media at West Virginia University and works with Jones on the Appalachia project.
Boogaloo first made headlines in January, when white supremacists using the term threatened to incite violence at a massive gun rights rally in Virginia. The rally ended peacefully, but boogaloo began to proliferate across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and the chat service Discord, driven by both activists and opportunistic merchandisers.
Then came the pandemic, and then George Floyd. "For a community held together by an obsession with civil warfare, the idea of open battles... was incredibly alluring," says Jones. "Many thought this would be the beginning of said civil war."
Behind a spate of far-Right terror plots lies a strange new online subculture that has been spreading for months with little opposition
By Laurence Dodds, US Technology Reporter, San Francisco 2 July 2020 • 6:00am
Hawaiian shirts and heavy weapons: two trademark signs of the boogaloo subculture Credit: Jef Kowalsky/AFP/Getty
It was the evening of May 29, four days after the death of George Floyd, and the police had lost control of downtown Oakland. After months of lockdown, the diverse Californian city's once-vibrant main drag was suddenly full of billowing tear gas, burning debris and crowds of jubilant protesters building impromptu barricades.
A few blocks away, barely noticed amid the din of choppers and pyrotechnics, a terrorist attack had just been committed. The murder of US federal agent Dave Patrick Underwood in a drive-by shooting that night would spark national speculation that black nationalists or even one of Oakland's many street gangs might be to blame.
Two weeks later, however, authorities announced they had arrested Stephen Carrillo, a 32-year-old former airman who had driven 72 miles from the tiny mountain town of Ben Lomond. Carrillo had allegedly plotted with a friend he met through a Facebook group – part of a strange and predominantly online new extremist subculture known as "boogaloo".
The boogaloo movement has now been linked to at least six attempted attacks across the US. Its members, with their distinctive Hawaiian shirts, igloo symbols and high-end firearms, have been spotted at many anti-lockdown and anti-police protests. On Tuesday, Facebook branded one boogaloo group as a "dangerous organisation", banning all support or praise of it.
But what precisely is a boogaloo?
"It's a meme that's been turned into a rallying cry," says Prof Julia DeCook, who studies online extremism at Loyala University in Chicago. "There's no real structure: some want to target minorities; some want to target law enforcement and government; some want to target both...
"They don't have a centralised set of goals that they're trying to achieve or anything like that. They're just coalescing around this pro-gun, anti-government ideology – and the more extreme factions call for a total societal collapse."
Civil war becomes an internet meme
Boogaloo is so fragmented and fluid, so lacking in clear leaders or spokespeople, that DeCook hesitates to even call it a "movement". Instead she describes it more as a "subculture", part of a wave of "informal" ideological networks made possible by digital technology.
Yet it also has deep roots. Chris Jones, a forensic reporter covering far-Right groups in America's impoverished Appalachian mountains, describes it as a "direct descendant" of the decades-old American militia movement, made famous by the 1993 Waco siege.
Militias have grown increasingly active since the election of Barack Obama in 2008, with heavily-armed groups such as the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters purporting to "keep the peace" at protests, marches, occupations and even the Mexican border. They have often been implicated in or accused of terror plots, vigilantism, voter intimidation and kidnapping, with a habit of threatening or predicting "civil war".
Members of the Right-wing Patriot Prayer group at an anti-mask rally on June 26 in Vancouver, Washington state Credit: Karen Ducey/Getty
This is the literal meaning of "boogaloo": a second US civil war or nationwide uprising, which adherents tend to welcome, consider inevitable or actually hope to bring about. The term comes from the cheesy 1984 breakdancing film Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, whose subtitle long ago became an internet meme used to signal a ridiculous or cynical sequel.
Its ghoulish new usage appears to have started around 2012, in the firearms section of the infamous anything-goes discussion site 4chan, according to the investigative website Bellingcat.
It soon jumped venues, spreading from white supremacists to disparate other groups who shared a hatred of the federal government and a conviction of imminent apocalypse: hardcore gun rights activists, traditional libertarians, survivalist "preppers" and even, reportedly, anti-racist anarchists.
"Unlike previous iterations of militia movements, [boogaloo] ideology comes out of an intersection of gaming culture, online Right-wing counterculture and a fascination with weapons and military hardware," says Prof Joel Beeson, who studies social media at West Virginia University and works with Jones on the Appalachia project.
Boogaloo first made headlines in January, when white supremacists using the term threatened to incite violence at a massive gun rights rally in Virginia. The rally ended peacefully, but boogaloo began to proliferate across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and the chat service Discord, driven by both activists and opportunistic merchandisers.
Then came the pandemic, and then George Floyd. "For a community held together by an obsession with civil warfare, the idea of open battles... was incredibly alluring," says Jones. "Many thought this would be the beginning of said civil war."
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The men in Hawaiian shirts
Ashley Dorelus, a freelance photographer, was live streaming nearby on the night of the Oakland shooting, and has since travelled to protests across the US filming a documentary. She says she has often seen strange people in Hawaiian shirts attempting to rile up crowds.
"They'll come up to you and whisper stuff that doesn't make sense," she recalls. "There was one woman telling us she was from Russia. Talk about unsolicited information – we didn't ask to know that. You're trying to make us react. We know what they want: destruction, chaos; they want to see it burn."
Sometimes, she says, they pause in one place trying to start a new chant or change the mood; if nothing happens, they move elsewhere and try again. "They're over here screaming 'black lives matter' and then they're over there bumping into teenagers and trying to incite riots."
A boogaloo adherent appears to support George Floyd protesters in Detroit on May 30 Credit: Rebecca Cook/Reuters
Why Hawaiian shirts? As often happens in internet culture, the already-ludicrous "boogaloo" has since evolved, via puns and half-rhymes, into a kaleidoscope of codewords and symbols. So boogaloo becomes "big Luau" – a traditional Hawiian party, often featuring roast pig – or "big igloo", which has led to the adoption of igloos as a kind of heraldic emblem (Steven Carrillo's body armour had a igloo patch).
This playful propaganda – or "memetic warfare", as some boogalites only half-jokingly call it – is one key difference between boogaloo and the older militia movement, whose ideas it often recycles.
DeCook argues that boogaloo often merely echoes the philosophy that drove Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh to murder 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. "If McVeigh was alive today he'd definitely be wearing a Hawaiian shirt," she concludes.
On the other hand, Jones says boogalites have "set themselves apart" through their use of social media to recruit younger Americans, whom established groups – now mostly comprising baby boomers and ageing Gen-Xers – had so far failed to entice.
"There's quite a bit of evidence that the boogaloo movement is some people's first experience with political extremism," he says.
Armed protesters in boogaloo garb rest by the Michigan state capitol building during an anti-lockdown protest on May 20 Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP
'This isn't the dark corners of the internet'
All this has made it harder for tech firms to monitor and identify boogaloo believers. Facebook is currently tracking more than 50 derivative terms of "boogaloo", and has had to train a special group of content moderators to keep up.
Though its powerful AI systems find and wipe out millions of examples of terrorist propaganda every month, it has so far been unable to build a boogaloo-hunting equivalent.
For boogaloo groups, this is probably the point. Beeson says they tend to present a "coded, acceptable narrative" on mainstream social networks, redirecting any "strategic or sensitive" subjects to an encrypted or anonymous alternative.
An example of the subculture's semi-satirical patches, seen at a protest in North Carolina on May 29 Credit: Logan Cyrus/AFP/Getty
The result has been a successful digital marketing strategy in which big sites are used to "groom or recruit people to the cause" with what Beeson calls "adjacent content" – jokes and memes that avoid open propaganda while still reflecting boogaloo ideology. One study found that in the 30 days after America's first lockdowns, 36,117 people joined boogaloo-related Facebook groups, doubling their total membership.
In some cases, social media algorithms actually helped out by automatically recommending boogaloo content to potential followers, using the same targeting and profiling systems that have made them a fortune in advertising money. Though Facebook has now stopped such recommendations, DeCook believes the damage may have been done.
"Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have all been really slow," she says. "This isn't the dark corners of the internet. Your 11-year-old is pretty well exposed to white supremacist content via YouTube and TikTok. I think a lot of people don't want to confront that reality, but it's the case."
A dangerous powderkeg
With no leaders and little ideological agreement, the future of boogaloo is volatile. Jones says the community is "having a bit of an identity crisis": some members are die-hard racists, while others claim Black Lives Matter as natural allies. A few have declared themselves socialists, though this is probably misdirection.
“If there was ever a time for bois to stand in solidarity with ALL free men and women in this country, it is now," one Facebook group administrator wrote after Floyd's death. Others appeared to celebrate the idea of business owners shooting black protesters.
This very disunity may be boogaloo's most dangerous quality. Jones argues that its mix of "shifting and competing ideologies", coupled with its very real interest in violence, creates especially fertile soil for spontaneous terrorism and recruitment by more organised groups.
Even as America careens towards a highly-charged presidential election, boogaloo could fizzle out. But Jones believes it could also be co-opted by its most extreme elements and marshalled towards coordinated bloodshed.
DeCook further warns that the subculture includes "a high number" of military veterans or even active service members, and that many come from affluent families with funds to spare. Boogaloo-sympathetic YouTubers, she says, often have very professional recording equipment.
And Joan Donovan, director of Harvard University's media research unit, fears that some coverage of boogaloo has come "dangerously close to validating this small group". Its surreal trappings are part of a now-common far-Right tactic of using the absurd or unexpected to attract media attention and inject their symbols into the mainstream – which is part of what they mean by memetic warfare.
Meanwhile, boogaloo believers continue to make themselves known at protests, and to plot real violence. Some activists fear an outburst of violence on July 4, when a large number of marches are planned to coincide with America's independence day.
Ashley Dorelus, for one, is sceptical of boogaloo's help. "If you're here for Black Lives Matter, just put down your boogaloo," she says. "Don't bring your s--- to the fight." She does, however, agree on one point: "As much as people don't realise, the civil war is happening right now. It's happening right now."
The men in Hawaiian shirts
Ashley Dorelus, a freelance photographer, was live streaming nearby on the night of the Oakland shooting, and has since travelled to protests across the US filming a documentary. She says she has often seen strange people in Hawaiian shirts attempting to rile up crowds.
"They'll come up to you and whisper stuff that doesn't make sense," she recalls. "There was one woman telling us she was from Russia. Talk about unsolicited information – we didn't ask to know that. You're trying to make us react. We know what they want: destruction, chaos; they want to see it burn."
Sometimes, she says, they pause in one place trying to start a new chant or change the mood; if nothing happens, they move elsewhere and try again. "They're over here screaming 'black lives matter' and then they're over there bumping into teenagers and trying to incite riots."
A boogaloo adherent appears to support George Floyd protesters in Detroit on May 30 Credit: Rebecca Cook/Reuters
Why Hawaiian shirts? As often happens in internet culture, the already-ludicrous "boogaloo" has since evolved, via puns and half-rhymes, into a kaleidoscope of codewords and symbols. So boogaloo becomes "big Luau" – a traditional Hawiian party, often featuring roast pig – or "big igloo", which has led to the adoption of igloos as a kind of heraldic emblem (Steven Carrillo's body armour had a igloo patch).
This playful propaganda – or "memetic warfare", as some boogalites only half-jokingly call it – is one key difference between boogaloo and the older militia movement, whose ideas it often recycles.
DeCook argues that boogaloo often merely echoes the philosophy that drove Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh to murder 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. "If McVeigh was alive today he'd definitely be wearing a Hawaiian shirt," she concludes.
On the other hand, Jones says boogalites have "set themselves apart" through their use of social media to recruit younger Americans, whom established groups – now mostly comprising baby boomers and ageing Gen-Xers – had so far failed to entice.
"There's quite a bit of evidence that the boogaloo movement is some people's first experience with political extremism," he says.
Armed protesters in boogaloo garb rest by the Michigan state capitol building during an anti-lockdown protest on May 20 Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP
'This isn't the dark corners of the internet'
All this has made it harder for tech firms to monitor and identify boogaloo believers. Facebook is currently tracking more than 50 derivative terms of "boogaloo", and has had to train a special group of content moderators to keep up.
Though its powerful AI systems find and wipe out millions of examples of terrorist propaganda every month, it has so far been unable to build a boogaloo-hunting equivalent.
For boogaloo groups, this is probably the point. Beeson says they tend to present a "coded, acceptable narrative" on mainstream social networks, redirecting any "strategic or sensitive" subjects to an encrypted or anonymous alternative.
An example of the subculture's semi-satirical patches, seen at a protest in North Carolina on May 29 Credit: Logan Cyrus/AFP/Getty
The result has been a successful digital marketing strategy in which big sites are used to "groom or recruit people to the cause" with what Beeson calls "adjacent content" – jokes and memes that avoid open propaganda while still reflecting boogaloo ideology. One study found that in the 30 days after America's first lockdowns, 36,117 people joined boogaloo-related Facebook groups, doubling their total membership.
In some cases, social media algorithms actually helped out by automatically recommending boogaloo content to potential followers, using the same targeting and profiling systems that have made them a fortune in advertising money. Though Facebook has now stopped such recommendations, DeCook believes the damage may have been done.
"Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have all been really slow," she says. "This isn't the dark corners of the internet. Your 11-year-old is pretty well exposed to white supremacist content via YouTube and TikTok. I think a lot of people don't want to confront that reality, but it's the case."
A dangerous powderkeg
With no leaders and little ideological agreement, the future of boogaloo is volatile. Jones says the community is "having a bit of an identity crisis": some members are die-hard racists, while others claim Black Lives Matter as natural allies. A few have declared themselves socialists, though this is probably misdirection.
“If there was ever a time for bois to stand in solidarity with ALL free men and women in this country, it is now," one Facebook group administrator wrote after Floyd's death. Others appeared to celebrate the idea of business owners shooting black protesters.
This very disunity may be boogaloo's most dangerous quality. Jones argues that its mix of "shifting and competing ideologies", coupled with its very real interest in violence, creates especially fertile soil for spontaneous terrorism and recruitment by more organised groups.
Even as America careens towards a highly-charged presidential election, boogaloo could fizzle out. But Jones believes it could also be co-opted by its most extreme elements and marshalled towards coordinated bloodshed.
DeCook further warns that the subculture includes "a high number" of military veterans or even active service members, and that many come from affluent families with funds to spare. Boogaloo-sympathetic YouTubers, she says, often have very professional recording equipment.
And Joan Donovan, director of Harvard University's media research unit, fears that some coverage of boogaloo has come "dangerously close to validating this small group". Its surreal trappings are part of a now-common far-Right tactic of using the absurd or unexpected to attract media attention and inject their symbols into the mainstream – which is part of what they mean by memetic warfare.
Meanwhile, boogaloo believers continue to make themselves known at protests, and to plot real violence. Some activists fear an outburst of violence on July 4, when a large number of marches are planned to coincide with America's independence day.
Ashley Dorelus, for one, is sceptical of boogaloo's help. "If you're here for Black Lives Matter, just put down your boogaloo," she says. "Don't bring your s--- to the fight." She does, however, agree on one point: "As much as people don't realise, the civil war is happening right now. It's happening right now."
Trust me on this the LEFT is as terrified of the Boogaloo movement as the Cowboys were afraid of Apaches, and we Brits were afraid of your minutemen skirmishers. I'm not sure the Boogaloo movement is essentially bad, it just needs leadership to ensure its protests are LARGE, POWERFUL and PEACEFUL. Antifa cannot react to these folks.
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I don't trust them, looked like they all shopped at flying fairies tactical wear R US.
It's a fabrication of the left.
I have a nagging feeling that you are correct.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/stando...7kunXWMNExSFW99VMibBCmeAEZNI6yQHjpYe6dK02B1A#
they are hunting down a gang of "fabrications" and locked down the area >>>>>>>>>>>>
and they were heading to Rhode Island to join up with other fabrications ......
they are hunting down a gang of "fabrications" and locked down the area >>>>>>>>>>>>
and they were heading to Rhode Island to join up with other fabrications ......
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"Wearing tactical-style gear" So what, is that illegal?
"Armed with a combination of rifles and pistols." Every heard of the Second Amendment?
SHEESH! This would have been a non-incident in the "Free States."
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The same media who says antifa is an idea, and violence in Portland (where murder is up 800%) is a myth? The same media that says republicans are responsible for defund the police? The same media that celebrates BLM and woke culture? The same media that crucifes every cop who has to shoot someone to defend themselves or someone else? F the left media. They say anyone who isn't far left is a "Boogaloo Boy", white supremacist, domestic terrorist. They look like clowns to me, but I support them over the left any day.
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Anyone willing to take up arms against the Left is a hero in my book.
I thought that MA State Trooper was stupid for pulling up on two vehicle loads of blacks without calling in an assist - screw seeing any tact gear or firearms >>> confronting a group eating roadside fried chicken is enough for a riot these days
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MSM actually said that they were part of a right wing group. Zero Hedge said they were pulled over, and in the same article said they were already on the side of the road. And this was all filmed by the guys and put on youtube. For publicity? The news can't keep anything straight at all, I swear that they make it up. People can wear tactical gear. Evidentally they can't own a firearm driving thru that state with out a "gun license". But last I looked, this is America and there is the 2nd A.
I think there's more to this story we are not hearing.
I think there's more to this story we are not hearing.
To the OP,
I knew of a so called boogaloo yahoo, and I use the term "yahoo" as one of disrespect.
He was an idiot. Delusions of grandeur. Based off the crap he spewed, it was a weird mix of race war like things, and a big dose of anti-government stuff. He was all over the place.
Turns out he could not hold down a job for more than a few weeks to a month at best, has a few kids by different mothers he does not support financially.
Real winner of a guy.
I knew of a so called boogaloo yahoo, and I use the term "yahoo" as one of disrespect.
He was an idiot. Delusions of grandeur. Based off the crap he spewed, it was a weird mix of race war like things, and a big dose of anti-government stuff. He was all over the place.
Turns out he could not hold down a job for more than a few weeks to a month at best, has a few kids by different mothers he does not support financially.
Real winner of a guy.
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