Well, sure. We’ve decided that while Nazis are bad, standing up to them hurts their feelings and is therefore worse than the whole Nazi thing
I think all that symbolism - Nazi symbols, Confederate symbols, that stupid christofascist heaven flag, etc - should be legally ruled as implied threats of violence that are essentially always open to defend against.
TLDR see a nazi punch a Nazi should be federal policy.
As someone who looked up to the US as a kid in totalitarian East Germany, I feel so sad about what this country is turning into.
All countries have their crazies. Currently we’re seeing a wave of said crazy minority rising up (Duterte, Bolsonaro, AfD, Mussolini, RN). Sometimes we become so complacent as a people that we forget these kinds of ideologies exist. So they fester and attract others. Hopefully this time we don’t have to fight a war to top it and can change the tides peacefully.
As someone else said, the secret is that the US isn’t ‘turning into’, it’s been bad for at least a century. We’ve finally gotten to the point where racism is starting to get unpopular enough that it’s not just normal and largely ignored.
We have gone through cycles where the racists are unpopular enough to have to hide their intentions or “true feelings” behind convoluted rhetoric (red-lining housing, welfare and food stamp rules, or just blue lives matter, for instance), or just plain hiding (like the nighttime hooded gatherings).
We knew about them, but kept them marginalized. Now they are less marginalized, but also encouraged by a right wing nationalist Republican Party that has far too much of a chance of controlling the country in a few months.
The problem is that they are loud, and have majorities in places where their vote literally counts more. Low population red states especially (Wyoming, Idaho, Dakotas), and districts that have been gerrymandered around to weaken liberal democratic representation that overall outnumbers the racists, is seriously dangerous and un-democractic.
Time to do a Bleeding Kansas again. But a bunch of them
Hitler copied segregation from the Jim Crow South. Also, before that is even worse in the US. A sizeable part of the US population was forcibly taken from their families and subjected to a lifetime of hard labor and rape. This was considered legal and normal at the time.
Every so often you hear about some freako who has kidnapped someone and kept them alive for years chained in a basement. Maybe they have to work or do sexual favors for their captor. We now consider that person a victim and their captor the worst kind of criminal. That disgusting criminal was an average slaveowner in the US South.
Hitler mentioned Jim crow with praise in mein kampf.
Black GIs came back from killing nazis to be tied to trees and tortured.
The south lost a war, then ignored everything and went right back to doing what they were doing for 150 years.
George Washington bypassed multiple state laws about runaway slaves being granted their freedom in an effort to get his slave Ona Judge back.
this is literally the guy that’s supposed to be freedom incarnate violating state rights to get his fucking slave back illegally.
USA was truly fucked from the beginning.
He also died a hilariously painfully long death at least.
If no one is doing anything about it, maybe Nashville is that. The racists are really a problem that can be fixed aside from removing them all. The real problem is those people standing with their backs to that and ignoring it.
It absolutely is, when I lived there the urbanites just pretended it was only the rednecks, “you know, the ones who live in the boonies”, even while being just as racist and virulently segregationist as possible.
Oh,but they have a black friend at work, so, clearly we all misunderstood completely.
Did anyone else see the handlebars on the scooter and think that guy had a rifle?
Where’s the meme?
This is just a screenshot of a comment and photo.
an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations.
Not all memes are, or are ment to be humorous. This is more of a “spread it around” type thing than a joke.
Legally this constitutes a meme
No meaning left in the term at all anymore. People think it means “image” now
“When I post a meme,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”
I hate Tennessee Nazis
I hate Nazis.
That is a riff on a Blues Brothers line.
“Whites against replacement”. WAR
Like, you can raise awareness on any issue you think is happening, but that flag you’re flying says this has nothing to do with “replacement”.
Speaking as a “white”, I’m ok with these guys being replaced.
I’m ok with being replaced. Maybe the replacements will be happier than me.
-antinatalist
Wins Above Replacement. They’re racists, but also fans of Sabermetrics.
The “replacement” these losers are panicking about is TV commercials with black people in them.
It kind of does, because Nazis had this Lebensraum policy. They wanted to replace as much of Europe as possible with Germans. So Nazis really are very much for replacement.
I hate Illinois Nazis
Failing to recognize motion parallax makes you think adopting nazi symbolism is a good idea?
Motion parallax: sitting in a parked car with your head down, vision tunneled in on reading or whatever. Car slides into the parking place right next to you. Briefly, it offers the cognitive-visual illusion that your car is rolling backwards. Looking up corrects for this, showing you that your car is not rolling backwards, the other car is the only one moving, up to a space right next to you.
These assholes desperately need to look up from their tunneled vision.
Nashville isn’t this.
Picture shows something different.
It is in Nashville. Here’s a street view link to the exact spot:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/qFr3uxhDbw9VVmB99?g_st=ac
Apologies if you meant like, metaphorically speaking Nashville isn’t this.
Recently listening to the history of country music kinda suggested Nashville is like that. They regularly ignored black artists and the few that did break through were usually using white sounding voices and/or names.
I think it was more of a metaphorical objection: “Nashville isn’t this.” Well, clearly, it is, because here’s a picture of something that’s happening in Nashville.
The building in the background is Ole Red. It’s an event venue in Narshville at 300 Broadway.
The optimal counter to people inciting hateful violence is directing violence at them.
Fascists are worshippers of power, and, furthermore, they’re cowards. A large counterdemonstration weakens them. Beating them up cripples them.
Remember that one simple trick to counter nazis: you can break their kneecaps
Everyone is acting like this latent shit hasn’t been brewing for decades.
Looks like the US is finally getting a full view of what the world has seen for decades.
The US is most certainly a NAZI safe haven. And it is time to stop pretending that it isn’t a NAZI secret garden.
Time to keep glass bottles in the car/bike bag 🤗
Not exactly the alpha males they portray themselves as
