I’m all for it, but what kicked it off?
What’s the deal with the grid symbol? The “hashtag” with extra lines?
Imgur did this same thing before not too long ago. People posted the gif for several days. I think some accounts were lost.
One of the reasons I left, they were banning accounts that posted the nazi asshat getting punched. It was also broadly pro Ukraine, and apparently Ukraine was geolocked from imgur, but not russia
Me too. I deleted a 10 year old account. I used to love that little corner of the net, even when it was small.
Good on them
Any idea whether imgur is still allowing advertising from AfD? I ended up migrating away from them because of that and haven’t been back.
I remember they made a statement about it and I think they stopped.
You know what? I don’t care what kicked it off. I don’t care if it’s a billionaire paying for bots. I’m just glad that the kind of people that get programmed by social media to vote for horrible shit might finally get programmed to do some good for a change.
Fuck, 92 really?
Meet the people who decide if you are a nazi: https://youtu.be/LXcHL2K-RSg
Somebody was banned for posting the GIF of the Nazi Guy getting knocked out (you know the one).
The community is not having it.
You mean Charlie Kirk getting shot in the neck?
That was funny too, but no they’re talking about this.
a lot of people, regardless of what they think of charlie kirk, got traumatized because it is very graphic. i think some people encouraged playing tetris as a way to get your mind off that video. is it insensitive to tell people to play tetris after watching that graphic video?
Sure, but zoom out. I think the vast majority of people watched it over-and-over in sheer glee.
And later slept much better, knowing that a horrible person spreading hate was no longer
“zoom out”?
The one that gets its tooth knocked out?
Man I love that clip, you can live vicariously through it for a second.
imgbox is the way to go
That video always makes me uncomfortable because I dont know the actual context. Maybe he was in Halloween fancy dress?
Yes fuck nazis, but I dont know in my bones the person deserved it.
- Go find out then
- Wearing Nazi apparel is never acceptable
Unless you’re cosplaying a dead Nazi
I think it more reminds me how easily influenced we can be. “Go find out” is great, but its not possible to research everything you see. Even if I did I’d only find other people talking about the video and would have no real way of discerning who actually knows what theyre talking about and who’s just making credible sounding shit up.
Do you guys not feel that worry somewhere in your mind when you see things like this?
I mean, it’s not like me enjoying the video is going to affect the guy who got punched. I think it’s good that as a society we support videos that appear to show Nazi cosplayers being punched and don’t give them the benefit of the doubt. If I were actually there IRL and able to affect the outcome, I would also be able to ask for the necessary information to determine what to do.
Yeah, I think you should cosplay as a nazi the same way we wear fake guns. You better make it abundantly clear that it’s a toy/costume.
YOU NEVER COSPLAY AS A NAZI…
Someone I know cosplays as a Nazi. He doesn’t walk around the streets wraring an armband. He goes in full military gear, riding around on an original WWII german bike with sidecar at WWII historic events. You know, like a cosplayer.
If true, then the person you know is a loser and someone should beat the shit out of them.
It doesn’t matter how authentic it is if you’re cosplaying as a fucking Nazi.
Do it yourself then tough guy
Literally know nothing about the person, that doesn’t make them a Nazi lol
People like you are the reason why the US is a fascist nation now. Giving literal Nazis the benefit of the doubt over and over because they say that “it’s just a joke” or whatever.
I mean, I think historical reenactments are a valid exception to the rule.
Is that “cosplay” though? Certainly not what I would call it.
Fun fact I have a swedish tankers trench coat from 1940 and a Swiss helmet from 1942 when I wear them together it basically looks like legally distinct werhmacht. I can pull the samething with an American armor school long coat and a Yugoslav helmet for the Soviet equivalent.
It’s technically not Nazi apparel. It annoys my friends though.
Kinda weird dude…
Well aware but kitbashed great value brand versions of historical uniforms is just kinda a weird side effect of me collecting military surplus and military antiques.
So we’re not allowed to make movies that show the horrific history of Nazi Germany?
You’re allowed, but surely you’d be aware enough not to walk in your costume outside the set. The same goes for theatre or anything. An actor who thinks it’s a good idea to walk outside in a nazi costume has it coming, and that’s a good thing.
Don’t even engage with such a bullshit attempt at deflecting. Look, they’ve already got you talking about a bullshit hypothetical that they literally just made up whole cloth
There’s no deflecting, a stupid statement was made and the stupidity of it is being demonstrated.
The number of people willing to provide cover, and give the benefit of the doubt to people dressing as, and behaving like literal Nazis is too damn high. I’m seeing it everywhere on here lately.
“I don’t know anything about the thing you guys are talking about, but what if he was dressed like that because he’s an actor in a movie?”
Really?
Oh, I’m not defending a specific instance. I’m merely pointing out that there does exist a time and place where people should be allowed to dress as despicable characters from history
Also, in the one scenario where I would find dressing up as a nazi acceptable, which is if they’re an actor for a movie/show/play that requires nazi characters, they are not going to just put an armband on their everyday modern clothing.
They’ll wear a proper reconstruction of an actual nazi uniform, and they’re not going to just walk around in that costume, they’re going to be on or around a set, which also gives any possible passerbys the context clues needed to understand that they’re just an actor, thus saving themselves from being punched.
Correction in regards to 2: When you’re in the “are we the baddies”-sketch it’s OK. In fact, I’d say David Mitchell has a free pass, as he always manages to portray the insecurity required to become a nazi.
Mr Chaplain also does a great job with it
Bait used to be believable SMH my head…
Fancy dress? That’s a stretch. Usually in fancy dress you’re imitating someone. Who is he meant to be? Just a generic Nazi.
The sources for this video indicate the person wearing the armband:
- Harassed a black man on a bus.
- Walked around downtown Seattle for an hour dressed that way.
- Had several verbal confrontations with passerby who commented on his clothing.
Source 1
- Several 911 calls were placed about this man attempting to instigate fights.
- The man declined to file a police report after the police did appear.
Source 2
For at least an hour at any point leading up to this, the person wearing the armband could have taken it off and stopped interacting with others. To my knowledge, the person who was punched has never spoken to media to explain why they were dressed as such, despite the massive internet fame of the video.
Do you still feel uncomfortable? Do you know in your bones if the person deserved it?
In this specific case im happy enough thanks for that. Thats actually cheered me up a little.
I’m not sure if I’ll ever truly get there, think I’ll be a little more comfortable joining the mob without context next time. This is the most consistent engagement I’ve ever had on this site and I think ive learned a thing or two here.
Well, don’t join the mob blindly. Do your own research. The above information was gathered from one internet search using the available context clues from this post.
It did not take very long and was easy.
Yeah, his hand coming up in a way that could be “this isn’t what you think” doesn’t help. The description makes the situation sound very different though and there’s not much of an excuse for the armband right now. But yeah, not a fan of the gif now I’ve seen it
this is clipped. in a longer version he’s talking shit a second before he says “wait hold on now”
https://tenor.com/view/punch-nazis-punch-nazi-gif-4407514585179777115
Oh yeah, I can get behind this gif a lot more
It’s a really old video, from like 8 years ago I think. But a timeless classic.
Consider:
Someone is getting knocked the F out on camera.
There is a crowd of people
No one is stopping or diffusing the situation
No one is stopping over the check on the fallen
Then calculate it appears to be a guy wearing a nazi arm band
then consider that it would be the shittiest idea for a halloween costume south of blackface and even wearing nazi garb would likely get you a rightful ass-kicking.
There’s no math there that makes that even slightly questionable.
Halloween fancy dress?
Dude… give me a break.
Or a movie prop. Or a weird stag night. Or a mentally ill person unaware of the severity of the joke. Or theres a gunman behind the camera making him put the armband on. Or digitally altered before release. Or the list goes on.
What you think you see “Nazi scum punished”
What you actually saw “man gets punched”
Im lowkey shook fr how easily #2 becomes #1. Again, I’d like to point out I’m all for nazis getting fucked up.
Fuck off, Nazi sympathiser. You’re literally inventing reasons to justify proudly wearing the symbol of hate and genocide.
Asking for nuanced is not sympathizing with them.
If it is a movie prop than the person stays on the lot. There is no stag night justification, mental illness ok…
But you are reaching.
There are certain things you never choose to do. Pretending to be be a Nazi is one of them.
So youre happy that you know based on a 2 second gif and it doesn’t even slightly worry you how easy it is? Maybe it was cut to only show the good bit, but maybe its been cut to rob you of any context.
We have the ability to make anything look like anything, and we’re cheering on violence based on a momentary flash of bad-guy logo, while being the same species that had literal witch- finders like a few generations ago.
I’m more worried now, because instead of seeing the point I’m trying to make people seem to be assuming I’m defending nazis.
Because you are you fucking moron
Listen it took 4 hours and 70 odd down arrows before anyone provided any actual information, and you people are still piling on.
Minimum 70 people. I dont have enough of a metaphysical language set to get the original point across, but there are lessons to be learned here for all of us.
people seem to be assuming I’m defending nazis.
You are normalizing them by defending a guy who chose to dress as one in public.
Dude come on. Context alone.
Did you just really ignore monuments comment two above?
I guess we know where your sympathies land
The one that was posted a clear hour after? Im not a time traveller man
Yeah and the community does not understand what it means to protect your audience from certain content. Violence is violence. At this point it does not matter who is who. But the community just had too much lead in the water and is unable to form their own thoughts, thus just follow the other sheep.
Removed by mod
You’d be the first to cry when Imgur had to shut down because of problematic content on it. And please, drink less of that tap water.
No, I don’t go on imgur. And uh are you literally going for a doctor strangelove insult there?
I don’t know the one
@tanisnikana@lemmy.world was so kind to link the video for us who don’t know.
wow never seen that.
I know its an unpopular opinion, but I don’t agree with punching Nazis. It makes them look like a victim, and violence never works.
I am proud though of the movement against a Nazi resurgence though. The youth deserve more credit than they get for standing up to fascism.
All Nazis deserve to get punched. It makes it look like there’s consequences to their moronic beliefs.
Every time I walk past that stretch near Pike and 3rd in Seattle, right over that bit of concrete where the nazi got laid the fuck out, I punch the air. Every time.
Damn, that’s where it happened?? I fucking bike right past that!!
https://www.bet.com/article/x7v52n/seattle-man-records-video-of-a-neo-nazi-getting-knocked-out
Yeah, check the tiles, this is just right outside of one of the entrances to Westlake TC.
“I had eaten over 800mg of THC and was way too high for confrontation so I just held back with two other passersby to watch what would unfold.”
This story just gets better.
Lol, I would wake up some time in February with an apetite sufficient to cause a global famine.
I wouldnt be functioning at that level holy hell
I remember a post on Reddit of someone taking around 1000 mg and going to the bath, then realizing their mistake and being stuck there for half a day and nearly having to call an ambulance.
Anyone eating that much THC has been working their way up to that for a long time.
I’m ready to sleep half the time at 5mg. Holy shit.
Hell yeah, awesome 😂
That site needs to pick a font and stick with it.
Woah, wearing the armband and everything. And apparently he was harassing some guy? No wonder he got punched right in the face.
I fucken love that GIF
Have you seen this one?
https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/oe7svu/former_astronaut_buzz_aldrin_punching_a/
Not as satisfying as a nazi, but still very good
Sadly the punch didn’t knock any sense in him as Bart Sibrel still believe space is fake, none of the moon landings happened and the earth is flat.
Not the person you responded to but i love that one too!! Thanks for posting it 🙂
I love that one.
Someone needs to make a monument, like that woman hitting the nazi with her purse. Maybe, until then, some graffiti to make the location to people passing by? Or maybe some other cheap temporary display.
No wonder. Some rich guy must have got very upset. Strange though, plenty of people get punched all the time, and there are plenty more GIFs people getting punched. Banning specifically the Nazi guy getting punched isn’t good PR I think…
gill o’ teens
It just amazes me how to doing the Nazi salute, uniforms and speech’s are entirely okay now. However, being against it gets you banned.
The world has gone a full circle and we are back to the days were fascism, hatred and all that is okay. Unfortunately.
we need socialism. we need to organize a lot more than ever. we need to be revolutionary optimists, and NOT give in to counterrevolutionary doom and gloom and defeatism. seriously!
Imgurians are an odd bunch but I’m glad they’re anti Nazi.
Yeah, best politics of any centralised social media by a long shot.
I know it is, technically. I just never group Imgur into social media. Its always been just an image host in my mind.
When I last used Imgur about ten years ago, they communicated exclusively in gifs and meme phrases. It’s a bit odd.
But, when those browsing /new on Imgur had a mini-uprising and upvoted just anything for a day, weirdest and most outlandish stuff actually made it to the front page. That was the most fun I’ve ever had on a social-media site.
Heh. Propaganda hits both ways, sunshine
kind of wish we would stop letting them have Nordic runes.
“what kicked it off?” gestures broadly at everything
I’d say it all started in the late 1960s with Nixon’s implementation of the southern strategy. What we’re seeing today is the resultant avalanche of American fascism, appropriately composed of fragile white snowflakes.
Well it started with a genocidal colonial project. Then it started with the repression of class revolts like Bacon’s Rebellion. Then it started with the framing of a union of states that gave extra representation to rural slave-owners because their economic production was important. But it all started when those rural slave-owners wanted to make sure that new territorial expansions (remember, genocidal colonial project) also allowed slavery. Later it started when Lincoln was assassinated and his successor, Andrew Johnson, gave up on Reconstruction so the seditious slave-owning traitors weren’t held accountable for the sedition or slavery and were allowed back into seats of political power.
they could be spamming that webcomic that explains “the paradox of tolerance” by k. popper ;) it would be very fitting to the ongoing situation.
PS. I couldn’t find a cleaner, high res. version and pictoline.com (listed there at the source) only has it in spanish. To make things even worse, there are many edited versions that replace nazis with other ideologies :/ f* the volatility of the internet… Oh. gotta search the internet archive… yeah, nope… not there either. Anyone can find a better version or knows the original source to this? else shall we try upscaling this JPG?
Ironically found a bigger version on twitter of all places.
The top right picture needs “HH” added to it. It’s what people use on license plates. Used to be banned in Germany, but I saw one yesterday so I think My Little Nazi has unbanned it.
Wild. I saw a car here in California just the other day with an odd looking plate on some old dude’s hotrod that had a little “HH” off to one side that, here, just means it’s a historical vehicle used in classic car shows.
It’s the city-code for Hamburg “Hansestadt Hamburg -> HH”.
Don’t even try with the smooth brains bro these people are not ready to be unplugged.
The local codes are FR, MüL and Lö. This guy’s licence plate was FR HH and then the number.
I’d assumed y’all would be smart enough to figure out I didn’t mean the first two letters but I suppose I was wrong.
Are you suggesting that 88, which literally stands for HH isn’t a thing?
No, when did they do that?
Since at least 2006, possibly earlier.
You realize you are the reason that the “r” word is back right? Remember when your ilk thought the “ok” symbol was a Nazi symbol? Please just get it over with and become neighbors with Tarantino permanently.
Nope. I mean, yes, it is, but the one I saw yesterday had a Freiburg code (FR) and then HH.
Especially funny because hamburg is a pretty leftist city
should’ve been “hb” (stands for hamburg). seriously!
Already taken by Hansestadt Bremen
maybe “HSH” (Hansestadt Hamburg)?
The plates are limited to 2 letters only for the state/province. The reason Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck have their own province code is due to their provincial level city status retained from the middle ages.
They might be using the wrong swastika but I get the sentiment
see it’s interesting to me because I thought it was the way it looks like it should spin that matters, with the Buddhist one looking like it should spin clockwise and the Nazi one looking like it should spin counter clockwise. Is it the 45 degree tilt that makes the big difference?
It’s the direction the legs go. Nazis mirrored the eastern one and then tilted it 45°.
Its used both 卐 or 卍 ways in different non-nazi examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
Plenty of modern nazis don’t know how to draw it though, so you can never be sure…
antifa made those to make us look stupid!
/s
This is glorious. Fucking idiots
Well yeah, one has to think to feel empathy and compassion. It’s easy to hate, place blame and ignore responsibility. I am all for peace and equal treatment, but those who refuse tolerability must be stopped.
John Browning intensifies.
Explain please. All the ones I see in the image are shaped like four adjoined letter L’s which is the same way around that the Nazis used. Or are you referring to the fact that most of them aren’t stood on a corner, diamond-wise?
I reckon it’s the latter, I noticed it too. Nazis are the only ones who use it tilted like that, as far as I know.
Let’s be real here, they’re the only ones that use it at all anymore.
Every Hindu and many Buddhists disagree. Way to just ignore almost a billion people dude. The world isn’t just the west.
You know, the subcontinent has around a billion people on it? Who see it scattered all around, for thousands of years.
I totally forgot it’s also mirrored. Thanks for pulling it up
Yes and no. The one the Nazis used was / is also a symbol used in Asia. (And really, everywhere. It’s a fairly basic pattern.) The Nazis used it because of their obsession with Aryans. Sometimes it’s at an angle, sometimes it’s not.
Generally in the west, unless it’s on a statue of budda, any swastika-ish symbol since the ~1930s is going to be a reference to Nazis though.
The spam bots are out in full force. I have seen this spam everywhere I browse, in so many flavours and forms it’s exhausting
Or perhaps there are really a lot of people who really hate Nazis? Is that a far-fetched idea to you?
are you a sh*tlib?
Ok nazi
