General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGun Dealers Rack Up Profits By Marketing To Right-Wing Extremist 'Boogaloo Bois'
Gun Dealers Rack Up Profits By Marketing To Right-Wing Extremist 'Boogaloo Bois'
Like most far-right movements, the so-called Boogaloo cult is also simultaneously a big moneymaking opportunity for right-wing operatives and their enablers
By David Neiwert
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/07/gun-dealers-rack-profits-marketing-right
"SNIP.....
Like most far-right movements, the so-called Boogaloo cultwith its built-in fetishes around guns, body armor, banners, patches, T-shirts and assorted accoutrementsis also simultaneously a big moneymaking opportunity for right-wing operatives and their enablers, eager to milk the gullible Patriots who flock to their websites.
Chief among the enablers have been Facebook and Instagram, who have, as BuzzFeed News reports, been raking in advertising dollars from Boogaloo-related merchants hawking their wares. But perhaps more ominously, chief among the people both promoting the cult on social media and offering such goods are the businesses marketing to believers the means with which to conduct the second civil war that is the object of their shared violent fantasy: gun dealers.
Ian Karbal at The Informant and The Trace reported this week on the profits being racked up by gun sellers tailoring their wares to a booming Boogaloo market online. Altogether, he found more than 35 dealers or manufacturers of firearms and associated tactical gear that have posted references to the civil war cult on social media.
Chief among them has been Fenix Ammunition, which saw its online daily sales in March rocket from 4,000 to 40,000. It also sells such Boogaloo items as a Big Luau Competition Jersey with a Hawaiian design, and a Thin Hawaiian Line sticker featuring the cults banner (black-and-white striped with an igloo and a palm tree).
.....SNIP"
mitch96
(13,911 posts)Real red neck... He said he hated Obama and all he stood for but he was great for his ammo business.. He went belly up when tRump came into office...
m
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)I've picked up some Boogaloo Bunny "repellent" myself.