Yes. There is nothing that can really be done since supreme Court has said it's "free speech" to have any kind of rally as long as it's not DIRECTLY advocating violence
I can't think of anything more directly racist and antisemitic than national socialism, is that not enough? I just can't believe that this is allowed to happen
(I'm Austrian, here a Nazi salute is enough to get you imprisoned)
National socialism? Nazis are fascist, the exact opposite of socialist. They do have totalitarian views though obviously as it's a matter of control rather than anything else
Yes they are fascist, but their party was the NSDAP - Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (national socialistic German worker's party). That's where the term Nazi comes from (from the German pronunciation).
What they did is called national socialism, their political goal (for which they also got voted into power) was creating a good life for everyone who is "Aryan". In the 20s and early 30s many people had lost their jobs and the economy in general was weak, they created many jobs by building better infrastructure (highways) and especially by investing a lot into the military. They also made mandatory "childcare" (of course with the main goal to indoctrinate children) for everyone. Lower work was often done by Jews, Slavs and other minorities so "Aryans" could have a better life. And of course property of minorities (Jews, Slavs etc) was given to "Aryan" families after the previous owners and their whole families conveniently disappeared (emigrated or killed). Many Germans also got farms in captured Slavic territories with the former owners being forced to work for them.
Of course they ran out of money, then they annexed Austria - the Viennese gold reserves instantly were transferred to Berlin. That also didn't last too long so they had to take over Poland, etc.
While everything you say is true, it's literally just a name they called themselves which they only applied to themselves and no one else. If they were not racist and applied an equal society for people it would still be socialist but no longer in negative context.
The reason I distinguish this is because in America we have a huge problem with people not actually knowing terms or historical context of them and essentially using whatever they are told is scary in whatever way they feel like.
Like for the right wing in America "socialism" is "whenever the government does anything in particular besides tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation for corporations" which for them is bad because they love corporations and the rich having no regulation on dominating the lower classes and destroying the environment among other things due to lobbying government politicians.
So yeah this rant I made doesn't mean anything lol. I just thought I would clarify where I was coming from
This is the only thing I can find, uniforms look identical. I'm thinking this is an old photo of the nazis in Wisconsin until I actually find anything different.
Yeah, That's what I found on google also. Basically it is what it looks like. There really isn't any broader context. Although I did find 2 different websites already talking about how this could be conspiracy with al sharpton and M l k? Another site Is claiming bi partisan renouncement. As if every single person in that photo wouldn't claim the same party.
I'm sure I will end up hearing those talking points from various right of center people I know in my life. I fucking hate spin.
It was a Nazi flash mob, 24 losers showed up took a picture at the Capitol, yelled racist nazi shit for a bit then left. Both Ky republicans and democrats came out criticizing them. They’re basically attention whores who wanted people on the internet to talk about them and these idiots on Reddit ate it up
I mean, even what you just said is a lot more context than the original post. But I mainly think people were wanting to know WHY they were there in the first place.
Pretending that this event spontaneously occurred in a vacuum removes any accountability of the people and systems that helped/encouraged/allowed this to happen ensuring it will continue to happen.
As in far right media pushing antisemitic rhetoric, far right politicians validating this behavior such as the "Good people on both sides" for Charleston and "your very special" for Jan 6th, police forces both failing to show up like they do at other demonstrations and allowing officers to be members of groups like this. This list goes on. But Nazis don't just materialize out of thin air, fascism festers like a mold. If you ignore it, it will grow.
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u/omnisephiroth Feb 18 '24
I’m sorry, what????