From NBC News:

What is the ‘boogaloo’? How online calls for a violent uprising are hitting the mainstream
The movement says it wants a second Civil War targeting liberal political opponents and law enforcement.

An anti-government movement that advocates for a violent uprising targeting liberal political opponents and law enforcement has moved from the fringes of the internet into the mainstream and surged on social media in recent months, according to a group of researchers that tracks hate groups.

While calls for organized and targeted violence in the form of a new Civil War have previously circulated among some hate groups, the emergence of the term “boogaloo” appeared to be a new and discrete movement. NCRI researchers who analyzed more than 100 million social media posts and comments found that through the use of memes — inside jokes commonly in the form of images — extremists have pushed anti-government and anti-law enforcement messages across social media platforms. They have also organized online communities with tens of thousands of members, some of whom have assembled at real-world events.

I think I’ve used that term once or twice so guess what guys, we’re on a hate group list.

“Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI): where we can’t tell a Hispanic immigrant and a borderline libertarian Jew from Stormfront, but you should totally trust us.”

The current boogaloo movement was first noticed by extremism researchers in 2019, when fringe groups from gun rights and militia movements to white supremacists began referring to an impending civil war using the word “boogaloo,” a joking reference to “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo,” a 1984 sequel movie about breakdancing.

The term is used to describe an uprising against a seemingly tyrannical or left-wing government, often in response to a perceived threat of widespread gun confiscation. For many, the word “boogaloo” — silly on its face — is used jokingly or ironically, but for others, the boogaloo memes are shared alongside violent text and images, seemingly to inflame an eventual confrontation.

David Hogg gets a national platform to call us all murderers with blood on our faces.

Beto gets a national platform to say that “hell yes, we’re going to take your guns.”

Eric Swalwell says that he wants to nuke middle America and have the military go door to door to take our guns.

Joe Biden says he’s going to confiscate our guns.

Governor “Blackface” Northam considered activating the National Guard if his gun confiscation bill passed.

But a bunch of gun rights activists meme a reply and all of a sudden it’s an existential terrorist threat?  Ha ha, fuck you.

Boogaloo extremists have used social media to “strategize, share instructions for explosives and 3-D printed firearms, distribute illegal firearm modifications, and siphon users into encrypted messaging boards en mass,” according to the NCRI report. The report also notes how the boogaloo concept has been monetized, through merchandise advertised through Facebook and Instagram ads, and marketed to current and former members of the military.

Miguel, you’re an “extremist” now for your “Can’t stop the signal, Mal” posts about 3-D printed guns.

Much like the OK hand symbol co-opted by white nationalists who later denied the association, the ambiguity of the term “boogaloo” works to cloak extremist organizing in the open.

You mean that complete hoax cooked up by 4Chan to show just how much Trump broke the media?  The one where the media can’t stop embarrassing itself, going as far as to say that Army and Navy cadets at the Army/Navy game were closet white supremacists?

NBC is really just slathering itself in glory as it loses all of its credibility.

The term “boogaloo” has also been seen in real-world activism. At the Virginia Citizens Defense League’s annual Lobby Day in Richmond in January, a group of protesters who go by the name Patriot Wave wore Pepe the Frog patches emblazoned with “Boogaloo Boys.” One man carried a sign that read, “I have a dream of a Boogaloo.” The rally was held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The rally filled with guns and not a single shot fired?  For a group that is going to engaged in armed insurrection because of internet memes, when you got a shitload of them together, they were harmless.  The police response to that was minor as well.  No tear gas or pepper spray had to be deployed.  Just some cops standing around, mostly it seemed, to keep the Leftist from starting some shit.

That Virginia rally was a real dangerous group of anti-cop insurgents, wasn’t it.

Let us compare that bullshit to how NBC News covered Antifa.

Far-right rally in Portland met by anti-fascist protesters

A rally of far-right groups was met by a large counterdemonstration in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday.

One antifa protester at the rally, Skyler, told MSNBC that she wants “to show is that the far right has no place in America.”

This was the same rally that saw Antifa throwing concrete milkshakes and attacking people with hammers.  But according to NBC they were just a counterdemonstration.

Portland leaders send unified message ahead of Proud Boys rally: Stay home

This is the image from that article, with the caption.

The guys in masks with the Communist hammer and sickles painted on their helmets, carrying homemade shields, they are just “counter-protesters” to the real threat.

Portland’s Rose City Antifa, the nation’s oldest active anti-fascist group, says violence against right-wing demonstrators is “exactly what should happen when the far-right attempts to invade our town.”

Members of antifa have also been at odds with police after it was revealed a Portland police lieutenant and the leader of the far-right group Patriot Prayer shared friendly text messages. Wheeler ordered an independent investigation into the potential existence of bias in the actions of the police leading up to and during demonstrations involving the far-right and anti-fascists.

But this is different than the anti-cop Booglaoo because the Portland cop was on the Right.  It’s okay to fight the police when the chief is on the Right.  When the police are on the Left, going door to door disarming citizens in violation of the Second Amendment, resistance to the police is bad.

As Portland deals with Proud Boys protests, here’s what Trump doesn’t get about antifa
Why the debate about the status of antifa is likely to be guided more by political ideologies rather than hard evidence.

The concrete milkshakes, attacking journalists, hitting people with sticks and hammers, spraying people with bear mace and pepper spray, that’s not hard evidence that Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization.  Who are you going to believe, your lying eyes or the experts at NBC who create your opinions for you?

Many on the right now argue that the failure to label antifa a terrorist group proves that the mainstream media supports a double standard. Those on the left respond that the failure to counter right-wing extremism in the 1930s allowed the disastrous rise of fascist political parties in the first place. Indeed, anti-fascist opposition groups can be traced back to the 1920s and the 1930s, when militant leftists battled fascists in the streets of Germany, Italy and Spain. Antifascist movements faded with the end of World War II but began to rise again in Europe and the United States in the late 1980s, in response to a perceived growth in neo-Nazism.

That’s right.  Antifa in Portland are just like Dietrich Bonhoeffer because Trump is a Nazi.

Antifa illustrates these complexities. Thus far, it is more of an amorphous movement than a group. People who call themselves antifa or are labeled by others as antifa are most often engaged in legal behavior. 

Right….  Legal, pro-Communist behavior.

Clearly NBC is totally biased.  That is no surprise to anyone.  Just when the people who defend Anitfa try and slander the entire gun rights world as a bunch of white supremacist insurrectionists, because we don’t want to comply with gun confiscations, we’re allowed to call out their bullshit.