Behind a neofascist facade, Patriot Front is really just another 'white nationalist pyramid scheme'

[multigraincracker]

For all us Michigan "Amway is not myway" folks, you may get this.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/2/2120505/-Behind-a-neofascist-fa-ade-Patriot-Front-is-really-just-another-white-nationalist-pyramid-scheme

Recruits are particularly drawn in by Patriot Front’s emphasis on creating “young warriors” and a “warrior elite,” Moon said. This includes an emphasis on fitness and diet, and is manifested in the real-world paramilitary training sessions it organizes.

Once recruits sign on, they’re quickly drawn up in Patriot Front’s authoritarian operations. They’re required to attend monthly online meetups and street demonstrations, and to meet a weekly activism quota that the group’s top lieutenants, called network directors, monitor with spreadsheets. Should a recruit fail to meet those requirements, Rousseau expels them, Moon said.

A data leak of Patriot Front chat rooms published earlier this year by the journalism collective Unicorn Riot revealed these operations in detail. Rousseau and his network directors oversaw the chats, organized by region. They organized real-world “actions” in the chatrooms, such as pasting propaganda stickers and fliers around the downtown areas of cities where they lived, as well as hoisting banners with their slogans and logo over freeways on overpasses.

[dalton99a]

1. They should look at this guy's bank accounts

Patriot Front leader Thomas Rousseau discusses charging members “above market rate” for materials like stickers and posters, which he requires all members to purchase from him personally.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/patriot-front-fascist-leak-exposes-nationwide-racist-campaigns/

[multigraincracker]

2. Multi-Level Marketing Business Pyramid Schemes always fail.

Some take longer than others. The rebound of reality can hit members hard in the long run. There needs to be a de-programing movement to help them before its too late for these poor souls. I feel sorry for them rather hate them. The leaders are the ones that need our attention. When new members begin to question the "product", they get kicked out or just move on and learn from it.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. It costs a lot to be a chump. nt