A total of 31 Patriot Front members, including one identified as its founder, were arrested in 2022 after someone reported seeing people loading into a U-Haul van like “a little army.”

  • Flying Squid
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    841 year ago

    Idaho has a huge white nationalism problem and I doubt this made much of a dent.

    • ArugulaZ
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      291 year ago

      Stick with potatoes, Idaho. At least those are delicious after you poke holes in them and put them in the microwave for eight minutes.

    • ptsdstillinmymind
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      1 year ago

      FTFY AMERICA the WORLD has a huge white nationalism problem.

      • Flying Squid
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        I agree, but Idaho has an especially big issue there. White nationalists are trying to make it a mini-ethnostate.

        • Idaho native here.

          They operate through a nonprofit here in order to lobby for hate. It is an exceptionally huge problem. There’s a dude not 40 minutes from the capitol city with a warrant for his arrest and a militia and the government is just letting him do what he wants.

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      “someone reported seeing people loading into a U-Haul van like ‘a little army’ at a hotel parking lot in Coeur d’Alene”

      That’s all you need to know to see how safe these guys felt in their actions. It literally didn’t occur to them to maybe hide all that, just a bit? FFS, when I’m loading up to go shoot at my camp, I keep it on the downlow. And this is a hyper conservative area.