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The Proud Boys don't seem that proud at all

If they want to reach their right-wing death squad aspirations, they'll need to improve their cardiovascular health.

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D.J. Byrnes
Jan 08, 2024
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An AI-generated image of Proud Boys driving to their protest in Columbus, Ohio.

I remember attending my Marxist public school in Marion, Ohio, and reading about Nazis for the first time. “These guys seem pretty bad,” I thought. Unfortunately, I was naive enough to think that line of thinking had been personally extinguished by my two antifa supersoldier …

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