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Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (New York Times Gift Article)

www.nytimes.com Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized

A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

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Does Google image search still return really borderline homo erotic photos if you search their name?
- if not, there's work to be done
  
  Someone needs to make a twink fetish porn site under that name. The fact that they'd then be associated with twink porn would really infuriate them.
- For me, it didn’t. Also tried DDG with safe search off, and I got only gay picture of two guys kissing. All the other photos were from demonstrations etc. Never tried this search before, so I don’t know what it was like in the past. Was it like 100% gay porn?
  
  There was a moment in time where reddit had an unreal effect on Google SEO. Proud boys did something assy, and reddit responded by getting tons of pride photos that were just barely SFW upvoted to the top with post titles "Proud Boys".
  This resulted in manipulating search results, so not surprised Google thwarted it, that is their bread and butter.
  Id bet if you image searched proud boys reddit you'd uncover what happened back then.

Hilarious 🤣🤣🤣 They can still rename to Freedom Boys or something.
- Or Fuck Boys, since that's really what they are
  
  Wait, I thought I heard that they don't get laid?

That's funny.
I hope the church licenses the name back to them for an astronomical fee.
- Fuck that. Why give a racist, fascist group that ability to market themselves? Just issue cease and desists on all merch and use of trademarks and sue if it continues.

Now the only question is what to product to market with that trademark that will cause those barely sentient man-shaped shitsacs the most pain. Poor quality lube? Doilies? A DEI handbook prominently featuring interracial couples? It's worth spending the time to do it right.

What are "Proud-Boys" again ?
- They are an American far-right group that beat an initiate until they can name 5 cereal brands for their initiation ritual, can't masturbate more than once every 30 days, and are named after a deleted song from Disney's Aladdin movie which is also their club song, and are against "feminization" of American men.
  When asked in a 2020 debate if Trump would publicly condem them he told them to "Stand down and stand by."
  I have not made up any of those facts.
  
  are named after a deleted song from Disney's Aladdin movie
  I...
  (According to wikipedia: yes, this checks out.)
  The Proud Boys, an American far-right neo-fascist group, derived their name from the song.
  This is definitely the weirdest fucking timeline.
- It sounds like a name for a boy band. Sort of like backstreet boys, but more gay.

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