Well there were various groups there. Iâm sure each was doing their own thing. The salutes I saw looked quite Naziesque.
Worth watching all the way through
And yet I still see so many Facebook commenters claiming âthere are no Nazisâ or âBLM is just as badâ or âCommunists killed a lot more people than Nazis!â and other completely idiotic drivel. Maybe thatâs just Trumpâs self-appointed social media troll army thoughâŚ
Roughly the same number of people say theyâll never stop disapproving, though itâs not like Trumpâs detractors are being bombarded by his achievements.
Some percentage of the population are simply impervious to informationâtheyâve learned to excuse, deny or rationalize away anything that reflects poorly on âtheir side.â Itâs not really political positions theyâre defending, itâs their identitiesâand how do you get someone to change his/her identity?
Found the nazi!
Werd!
I celebrate the constant reminders that identity is a fiction. One neednât try to change identity, any more that one needs to try changing oneâs memories. It happens whether people want it to or not - only most apparently arenât aware of it.
(FWIW âtheir identityâ sounds more inclusive)
Also, encourage discussing issues where political positions/solutions count more than identities. More inclusiveness, more discourse, more direct actions. Less cult of personality, less leave-it-to-the-professionals. Authoritarianism weakens when desperate people realize that they can rely upon and help each other - without any parasitic mediators.
Whatever they are, itâs all about trying to stop a popular front forming against the far right.
I just saw more âbut the alternative to white supremacy is communism!â comments on Twitter this morning. I donât know how you even have a baseline discussion with people who honestly think being against fascism automatically makes you a communist.
About 50, in my estimation.
âEveryone who disagrees with us is a Communistâ is a KKK thing.
Partially because at the time the KKK had its resurgence, Communists were the thing that almost everybody in the US could safely hate, so they could declare Jews and interracial marriage and so forth âCommunistâ even though it had nothing to do with anything.
And I suspect itâs partly the âcultural Marxismâ idea, that social standing and power are a kind of capital and in order to treat everyone equally, that means taking status away from those who have the most (straight white Christian men), who believe they deserve it due to merit, somehow.
Yes, so weird if you watch the Vice video they keep talking about âThe Commies.â Uh, itâs 2017, right? Or did I travel back to the 1950âs?
and yet they like the russians!!! it literally makes no sense.
It seems to be only the establishment Dems that (bizarrely) still associate Russia with communism. The Trumpeter fascists recognise the Putin regime as fellow travellers.
Couldnât make it.
Are you saying you canât hit their site?
No. I could see it, but I couldnât make it all the way to the end as you recommended. I got as far as the bald Nazi explaining to me that black people act funny. Couldnât watch any farther. I guess I really am a snowflake.
Yes, disturbing to watch these people up close. I think itâs important to see how they are behaving and shut them down.