Proud Boys founder says ‘corrupt leftwing media’ should apologise for January 6 riot
www.theguardian.com
Gavin McInnes told makers of BBC Trump documentary that far-right group wasn’t responsible for US Capitol insurrection

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.”

  • madjo@feddit.nl
    16·
    2 days ago

    UK-born British Canadian

    Found another foreigner that wants to destroy the USA.

    • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      98·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • frickineh@lemmy.world
      61·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        182·
        3 days ago

        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.

      • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        3 days ago

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

        • SilverCode@lemm.ee
          7·
          3 days ago

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

        • frickineh@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 days ago

          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.

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    201·
    4 days ago

    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?

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      No! I would love to see him actually…on my phone while resting on my warm bed. I would love to see him while traversing the vast artic ice cap on foot with no shoes or other clothes other than his underwear. You know, being superior to me and proud since he can do that and I cannot. I admit my inferiority in this area.

      Another such Netflix special would be a SpaceX adventure into the sun. He can wear anything he wants for this one. So long as the proper telescope satellite is viewing how superior he is over all of us, I would be so very satisfied with all my inferior fellows down here far from the superior vastness of the universe. I mean sure, he could also go to Mars where he can be superior too. But I don’t have all day man, I gotta do some work. Maybe Mars with no helmet?

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 days ago

    You’re the criminal because you broadcasted my crimes on tv

    You have to admit that the dude has a fascinating brain; such gymnastics

  • Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • don@lemm.ee
    22·
    3 days ago

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

  • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
    89·
    3 days ago

    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?

    • solomon42069@lemmy.world
      34·
      3 days ago

      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!

      • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
        4·
        3 days ago

        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.

        • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 days ago

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

          • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
            4·
            3 days ago

            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.

            • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
              2·
              3 days ago

              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.

      • Mesophar@lemm.ee
        3·
        3 days ago

        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!

        • madjo@feddit.nl
          1·
          2 days ago

          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)

  • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 days ago

    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

  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    221·
    3 days ago

    I love that he called his little gang ‘The Proud Boys’. It makes think of him and his little buddies all sitting around playing video games, proudly shitting in their pants, with big smiles on their happy faces.

    • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
      5·
      3 days ago

      You should look up ‘proud flesh’ on horses(warning, its a graphic skin condition). It’s what I think of everytime I see proud boys, except somehow they’re more disgusting.

        • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Can we avoid becoming like the Area 51 raid where only one guy does it and all the chickens say they were just joking?

          For everyone saying eat the rich, launch them into space, guillotine them… How do we figure out when to do that, on which billionaires first? How do we prevent the billionaires from buying the website (or whatever) where it’s planned?

            • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              Even then, how can trust scale up? Who makes the call “today is the day” for a huge group without that person getting a knock on their door?

              I forget where I read this, but if the British had just all the metadata we have today, then they could have stopped Paul Revere.

                • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  3 days ago

                  Right, but encryption doesn’t necessarily eliminate metadata. And since so little traffic gets onion routed, even that is a signal.

                  Cold war espionage is a different situation because Soviet/Western hierarchy eliminated coordination problems.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 days ago

    I hear he’s sleeping with other proud boy’s’ partners. They should all know that.

    Let him die a traditional neonazi death