The group of more than a dozen masked individuals marched wearing red shirts and black pants, waving flags with swastikas on them. It is not clear at this time who the group is or affiliated with, though many of the shirts said “Blood Tribe.”

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    Free speech absolutism goes way too far.

    Nazis marching is an implicit threat of violence and should be treated as such.

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      Meanwhile Pelosi is accusing anyone who’s critical of U.S. support for Israel as being a Russian plant. Here’s a crazy idea, instead of considering walking back free speech rights in the name of security we try something less drastic? Like I don’t know, maybe electing someone different than Biden in the 2020 primaries? Maybe not blocking worker strikes? Maybe not sending weapons to a country using them to commit war crimes?

      Let’s try all those things first before we jump to removing first amendment rights.

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      oh gee a decade into worldwide hard right authoritarian rise and there’s always some yahoo making this same fuckdamn stale joke IN EVERY FUCKDAMN THREAD.

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    Shoot them? I mean you have guns over there right, so for fuck sake use them at least once for a good reason.

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      Exactly. Americans are always going on about how they need guns to defend themselves from tyranny.

      You have tyranny marching on your streets. Just go and shoot them with your guns. What’s the issue?

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        they were all busy with some other event.

        Laundering their white hoods, of course.

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      Yeah, I don’t know if free speech covers this.

      We (Allies) never made peace with the Nazis. We crushed their military and hanged any officials that didn’t eat cyanide, but there was no treaty or surrender. We didn’t even let the Germans govern themselves until we could figure out who wasn’t a Nazi.

      I would argue that anyone who flies that flag is effectively pledging allegiance to an enemy. And like… The enemy. The guys who industrialized genocide and literally tried to take over the world.

      So idk about shooting them if they’re just jerking each other off in the street. But I would like to channel Aldo Raine and carve swastikas into their foreheads.

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          half our nations cops

          Half? Police is literally a fascist institution - ie, funded and manipulated into existence by capitalists to protect their power and privilege from the people they exploited to get said power and privilege in the first place.

          It’s not half - it’s all of them by default.

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            My estimate is that only about half would actually march under the banner if there was no social consequences. I could be wrong but I’ve known a few hundred cops.

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              They are marching “under the banner” right now - every time they put on that uniform, in fact. Nobody forced them to be hencherproletariat - traitors and opressors to their own class - did they?

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        Dude come on. Plenty of officials in West Germany after the war were Nazis. We took Nazis and used them in NASA. The US loves Nazis if they serve the ruling class or are the alternative to socialism.

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        We (Allies) never made peace with the Nazis.

        The west made peace with nazis when they saved nazism by filling Germany’s post-war intelligence services with them. That, and the fact that the ruling elites in the west never gave up it’s admiration of them in the first place.

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    Of course they were wearing masks. If they sincerely thought their beliefs were in the right, they wouldn’t care if people knew who they were. They would proudly show themselves and stand behind those beliefs publicly.

    Cowards.

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      Not defending them, but they can certainly think they are in the right and realize that most of society violently disagrees with them. I’d say they were smart to wear masks to avoid repercussions from their vile, awful, hateful behavior.

      I hope that if their names come out that they lose their jobs, get their asses kicked, get disowned by family and friends, and get run out of town. They know that many people feel the same as I do so, even if they really believe the filth they represent, they are probably scared to show their faces.

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    I miss when Nazis weren’t such cowards they covered their faces. How else are we supposed to ostracize them from society.

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    Conservatism is a plague of oppression, sickness and death. It should be outlawed entirely.

    We could at least take a page from modern Germany’s laws and prohibit public expression of right wing ideologies. They know first-hand what happens when you don’t deal with an infestation early.

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      How about we take a page and a box of .45 from grandpa and his lessons about how to deal with Nazis. You don’t ask, or deal, or outlaw it.

      The 1911 should be cleaned and oiled regularly.

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      We could at least take a page from modern Germany’s laws and prohibit public expression of right wing ideologies.

      The entire German political establishment is right-wing (just like every other formal political establishment on the planet) - so obviously those laws don’t mean squat.

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    This is an article on a local Tennessee FOX News page. The comments on the article have some disgusting whataboutism brain rot being posted trying to distract from the fact that THERE ARE LITERAL NAZI FLAGS BEING MARCHED UNIRONICLY IN PUBLIC. Tennessee has some filth within its borders…

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    So…they are neonazis and they somehow name themselves after a primitive type of group, a tribe, that belongs to an inferior civilization, according to their views? Are they incapable of proper thinking or what?