• Silverseren@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Proud Boys leaders breaking and giving up information to lessen their own jail time, ie becoming an informant, doesn’t mean they’re an FBI plant as claimed by the morons there.

    They really are just the left version of Qanon, huh?

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      1 year ago

      An informant in this context is someone who was providing the information to the FBI during the conspiracy, not as part of a plea agreement.

      Like the last paragraph in the screenshot says- they’re accusing the FBI of allowing the insurrection to happen because they were too busy using the Proud Boys as a honeypot to bother shutting it down. Obviously the Proud Boys are still a problem, but it may recontextualize things to have the extra info about the FBi’s extensive foreknowledge of the attacks.