• oce 🐆
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      6 months ago

      And reinforce their cult of violence?

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        If you aren’t intolerant of intolerance then rest assured their cult of violence will find you.

        It isn’t a debasement to meet violence with violence, it’s survival. Keep taking the high road and you’ll find yourself undermined from the low.

        I go out and greet the fascists when they think it’s safe enough to propagate their hate and I remind them that shit ain’t safe. I’m not violent in any manner except when the situation calls for it, and then it’s done as a duty, like putting your pet down to end their suffering. It’s the adult thing to do.

        In a perfect world none of this would be needed. In a perfect world, blah blah blah. It’s not a perfect world, and there’s no amount of pacifism and kind words that’s going to stop the waves of violence while theyre happening.

        I was of those ideals when I was younger and knew less. Then I read Heart of Darkness and bore witness to life ending evils committed because of boredom, because they could, because they couldn’t create so they sought validation thru destruction.

        There’s not enough time to be on the fence. You gotta stare into the void until it stares back.

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          If you aren’t intolerant of intolerance then rest assured their cult of violence will find you.

          It seems to have found you all right.
          I am not against self-defense, but going out of your way to punch your nearby extremist is not going to make them less extreme. What’s your next step when they get more violent, assassinate them? Put them in camps?

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            You tell me, how do you reason with the irrational?

            Theres been one way to deal with fascists that’s been proven to work, and that’s active resistance meeting violence head to head.

            Fascism is a reactionary consolidation of power. Industry leaders usurping regulatory control. Social wedges are pressed, laws are passed, that aren’t applied to the ruling class yet are widely used to control, or disappear, minority after minority.

            When capitalism fails the common man thatan has a choice; 1. Fuck capitalism and fuck capitalists. But what do you do about it? Do you work towards democratizing the market or do you, in your dog eat dog society, look out for yourself and hey…these guys that look like me are thinking the same and they want us to all gang up…

            Fascism is easy choice. I get it. But it’s the wrong choice. The answer is eating the rich, not serving the poor up to them hoping for their scraps…like those fatcats ever let anything fall to the floor.

            Fwiw the goal isn’t communism. It’s raising people educated and compassionate enough that there’s no need for government.

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    The department said it made its finding based on the group’s history of violence rooted in “its openly racist, anti-immigrant, antisemitic, anti-LGBTQI+ platform”. The United States remains deeply concerned about the racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist threat worldwide and is committed to countering the transnational components of violent white supremacy,” a department statement said.

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      I understand why you’d instinctively mock people you dislike, but perpetuating a culture of body shaming helps no one in the end. There’s no need to convince yourself that everyone evil has to be ugly. There are plenty of great, nice people in the world who also happen to be very unattractive.

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      I really love the attitude, but use your eyes please.

      There’s a picture of a shameful of Neo-Nazis, and only 2 of them have beards.

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    kagis

    Okay, so usually I feel like “Nazi” is a bit overused for racist groups – and this is just “neo-Nazi” – but these guys even self-identify as Nazis:

    https://nordicresistancemovement.org/welcome-to-the-nordic-resistance-movement/

    The website is the result of many hours of work spent by devoted activists and sympathizers of what is probably the largest and most successful explicitly National Socialist organization in the world.

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    I know white supremacists are fucking stupid, but you’d think they’d at least be smart enough to not need clip-on kiddie-sized ties.

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      Considering the Nazis I’ve met over the years, I’d say most of them are barely bright enough to tie their shoes, let alone a tie.

      In general, if you think your skin tone has something to do with your superiority, you’re not all that bright.

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        I don’t know, I think that makes sense personally. I think a good portion of them are actually struggling with feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness, or at least did at some point. When you’re feeling like that, and you have no skills or intellect, you’ll take any lifeboat out, even if the only thing making you different is your skin color. At that point, the only thing I have, my skin color, makes me better than everyone else.

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          And I would argue that if those are your circumstances, thinking you’re better than everyone else is not very bright.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The United States on Friday designated a Scandinavian neo-Nazi group and three of its leaders as terrorists, saying the Nordic Resistance Movement poses a threat to Americans.

    NMR, known by its Swedish acronym, is the largest neo-Nazi group in Sweden and has branches in Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland, where it has been banned since 2020.

    The state department added the movement and the leaders to its Specially Designated Global Terrorist list, meaning that any US-based assets will be frozen and they will be blocked from using the US financial system.

    The leaders being blacklisted, all Swedes, were the group’s chief, Fredrik Vejdeland, and two other senior figures, Pär Öberg and Leif Robert Eklund.

    Founded in 1997 in Sweden as the Swedish Resistance Movement, the group saw sister organizations spring up in other Nordic countries until they were united under NMR in 2016.

    After taking office in 2021, Joe Biden’s administration laid out a strategy to counter domestic terrorism that included identifying foreign groups that provide support.


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    Why are the police protecting them? Throw them to the wolves, and let’s see if they stay confident enough to do their marches after getting pummeled.

    I guess we can safely say they’re state sponsored.