The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right

An international neo-Nazi terrorist organization is boldly continuing to build in the US and planning a new paramilitary training event without fear of local authorities or the FBI, which once dismantled it in a nationwide effort.

The Base, founded in 2018 by a former Pentagon contractor living in Russia and now suspected of Kremlin-sponsored espionage, once boasted close to 50 stateside members before the bureau made more than a dozen arrests in a years-long counter-terrorism operation.

But since the presidential election campaign last year and what many then believed to be a surefire victory for Donald Trump, the Base saw an opportunity in a potential administration uninterested in policing white supremacy and went about ramping up its ranks.

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    Just a friendly reminder that the 2nd Amendment is for all Americans, no matter how left you lean.

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      “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”

      Even Karl Marx supports gun rights

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          Yeah, the US is sooo McCarthyist Marxist, it’s super fashionable.

          Also, Black Panther is a superhero movie, and Malcolm X is a member of the X-Men.

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          Authoritarians cloaking themselves in Marxism aren’t the same as Marxists.

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            Dunno which authoritarians you are talking about, most leftists in the wild will be for gun control.

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              7 hours ago

              Gun control does not always mean outright banning guns.

              Do you think the Russian, Cuban, Chinese, and Parisian revolutionaries did not have or use guns?

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                We are talking about guns for civilians, the revolutionaries usually apply to themselves the same rules they’d use for the army after their revolution.