• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Folks wave these flags and the cops just wave back.

    But try hosting a union rally at a Starbucks or Amazon warehouse, and security will be on you like white on rice.

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      That probably has something to do with private property. I wouldn’t expect anything to happen to you waving a pro-union flag on a corner like this either.

      We can hate Nazis without making stupid comparisons.

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          This is a good example of exactly what I meant. It has to do with private property.

          Honestly, when I saw the link, I expected to be directed to an instance of someone being arrested on public property. But no.

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            It has to do with private property.

            • Workers cannot leave the jobsite to meet with people bringing them lunch

            • People bringing lunch can’t carry the food onto the jobsite without being arrested

            Beginning to feel like its the people who are the property.

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              If we’re playing dumb, sure.

              Here in reality, it seems that specific person who was not an employee was not permitted on their private property.

              Also, this wasn’t just lunch and anyone who read your link knows that so can we quit being cute?

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                that specific person who was not an employee was not permitted on their private property

                My staff orders a pizza, but I arrest the pizza delivery guy because he is not an employee. Because Private Property.

                Also, this wasn’t just lunch

                No. They were wearing pro-union t-shirts while they delivered the lunch, which means they were committing a crime.

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                  Alright. Keep playing ignorant.

                  But thanks for the example of exactly what I meant.

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              Dislike/disobey them all you want. It’s reality which the other user helpfully provided an example of.

              Learning the difference between public and private property can help you avoid the stupid comparisons which started this thread.

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    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.

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      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.

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    Meanwhile in the North: What’s that? This is happening in the south? Makes sense.

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    Years of “but what about the communists?”, “the nazis are bad trope is overdone”, and “what if false nazism allegations?” did this.

    It happened in my country, Hungary, now our prime minister poses with a football scarf depicting Greater Hungary, a pro-territorial revisionist symbol.

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    None of those fatties look like Aryans, in Nazi Germany they’d be made into lamp shades on day one.

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      I know, you wanted to be a bit edgy and make fun about those motherfuckers. But we must never forget, that the original Nazis weren’t those perfect human beings, they propagated. Just look at Hitler that caricature of a clown.

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        The Nazis never believed they were the “pure” ones. They believed that their generation, and the generation they gave birth to, were already lost causes and their children’s children would be the first vanguard of their “perfect” Aryan race.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.