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foozballisdevil t1_j1qg0db wrote

Reply to comment by dementiadaddy in TIL Sigmund Freud made the decision to flee Austria after his daughter Anna was interrogated by the Gestapo for nearly 12 hours. He was able to buy safe passage out of Austria just in time with 31,000 Reich marks in 1938 by Ok_Copy5217

Don't they call themselves proud boys now?

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the_blessed_unrest t1_j1rbsre wrote

Yeah except the proud boys are not nearly as bad. Like not even remotely close.

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HammerandSickTatBro t1_j1rfman wrote

They have way less state-invested authority for sure. Not no authority (their buddies in police forces frequently let them get away with or condone shit like the intimidation and violence which the proud boys frequently engage in). The could develop into full blown deputized brown shirts pretty easily and quickly. But most branches of law enforcement in the u.s. and Canada already have secret police, and given the key part that police have played and are playing in the current fascist upsurge, I doubt they would require or allow the Proud Boys to encroach on their turf by becoming like the Gestapo.

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