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> Both the left and the right in the US have paramilitaries (antifa, proud boys).

If you believe this, you are severely misinformed; if you don't believe this, you are a liar. Either way, it is nefarious.

I've been to every single counter-protest of the proud boys in Portland.

Who brings guns? Proud boys, 3%ers, PatPrayer, and Trump supporters.

Who doesn't bring guns? Counter protestors.

Who gets arrested from bringing guns to a protest? No one.

Who protects the proud boys? The police.

Who gets shot at by police? Counter protestors.

I had a gun pointed at me by a Proud Boy amongst his militia several months ago. I've been bear-sprayed but thugs with ARs strapped to their bloated bellies. Don't for one instant try to pull this "both sides have mililitias" bullshit.

It is so clearly right-wing propaganda.

P.S. And I know what you are about to say next, "But a Trump supporter got shot in portland..." YEs, he did, and it was awful, and then the Feds shot the perp w/o due process, while Rittenhouse gets a pat on the back. There were NOT heavily-armed groups of counter protestors on the left, but there sure as hell are from the right, all the time.




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