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This is the first time I've heard the word boogaloo in connection with insurrection. Banning it makes it sound like a genuine threat/possibility, something I should learn more about.

Facebook is streisanding boogaloo.

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You must not have much exposure to alt right groups and or 4chan, because you can’t scroll through those for more than 5 minutes without seeing a reference to Boogaloo.

To be clear, I’m not some deep Internet lurker, but I’ve known the term for about 5 months (circa the Pizzagate news), and whenever I check out a place like that, usually in response to a news story, I’ll see it there.

It's not facebook streisanding, they've gone mainstream after years of alt-right/incel/QANON build-up. A lot of outlets are covering it and having not heard of it by now is probably getting on the back end of the bellcurve.

They're getting arrested routinely by FBI counter-terrorist police e.g. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/joint-terrorism-task-forc...

Hawaiian shirts, Race War Electric Boogaloo, "Great Awakening", the radical right has gone off the deep end

I've seen it around. Pretty sure it's just a joke taken way out of context, or I'm just not aware of it being taken too far. I've seen the amusing memes about ATF only knowing how to shoot dogs, then there's dog whistles for mildly illegal things like hiding their now-outlawed Bump Stocks and describing that as a "boating accident" i.e. "losing" them in a lake.

It's no joke when they show up to any demo wielding guns.

It's been reported in mainstream publications before this [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/05/31/us/politics/ap-u...

It started as some idiots trolling and calling for "Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo" and it got taken up by nutters who thought they are for real. But it has been around for a while

It's actually pretty horrible to suggest that, now that you're learning about white supremacists attempting to start a race war, that you might go participate -- "streisanding boogaloo".

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