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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 43 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Patriot Front is a fascist neo-nazi group, as seen marching in DC and riding the subway 4th of July 2026

They can also be seen doing this shitty training that was leaked by an infiltrator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyer3A4TiP0

How to catch a fascist is an interesting book that talks a lot about the leak and these pieces of shit.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe this is a Nash the Slash tribute band.

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The point is cruelty and violence.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world -4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

well it's nice to be in a club/cult with all your mates massaging eachothers bubbles, dressing up and shitting on the other side; very comforting

same as the commies

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You had me at the first part, not gonna lie.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To cosplay. To pretend they are tough guys who aren't monumental disappointments.

And hide their faces like little bitches. Proud? Proud of your life choices? Yeah right. Proud people don't hide their identities.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago

Except on Lemmy.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The point of power is power. The point of fear is fear.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The point of power is self-aggrandizement channeled to the fewest possible. The point of fear is to be aware and protect yourself.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Your comment is doubleplusunsmart.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah...the old quadruplespeak. You're right of course. Or wrong, I guess? Damn language.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

To trick undereducated, naive young people with selective angles in their propaganda literature and if not recruit them, draw them down that path with gateway chuds like kirk. Also to intimate American people of color and make immigrants feel unsafe. All in the back of 115° uhaul or subway ride even though billionaires fund groups like that through shell orgs and "friends"

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There’s so much happening I didn’t even know about this until today. How can any one of us hold a job, maintain credentials, engage with family, and keep up with all this trash behavior, fraud, and legal fuckery at the same time?

[–] ContactClosure@lemmus.org 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

We can't. It's by design. Steve Bannons design to be precise.

[–] dcpDarkMatter@kbin.earth 14 points 3 weeks ago

"Flood the zone with shit"

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 3 points 3 weeks ago

Muzzle velocity, yes.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

You can't, if you live in this connected tech world. The best bet is to become a plumber and join a local slo-pitch league, live a simple life, raise a family, and try your best to ignore all the bullshit. Nobody needs to hop on the wire unless they want to. If things get out of hand though you may have to eventually take a stand.

They demonstrate so that other reactionary CHUDs will see it's okay to do so and demonstrate themselves. The plan is to become visible enough to "frighten" their enemies in hopes of suppressing them. It's about power, always had been and will be. To get the "wrong" people to live in fear of them and only allowing them to live by their supposedly good graces. This is the same as when the KKK demonstrated, burned crosses on lawns and similar.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Weird, one thing I've noticed is how these people are not boomers. The ones in that YT video look like little kids.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The poor and young go to fight the old and wealthy's wars.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

These guys are not conscripts.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

One reason my 13 year old still doesnt have his own cell phone with internet access...

They (the all encompassing they) have gotten really really good at propagandizing social media this last decade. It seems to work wonders on our youth

[–] MrSelfDestruct@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Boomers probably fund them

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh come one the boomers are dying out. And not everything is their fault the richest people in the world are not boomers. There are shifty people in every generation sorry to tell you.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

I wish more people would think this way instead of all the vague, general brush strokes that are used to paint everything else.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I was listening to the Professional Left podcast this morning and they played a snippet of that song Tomorrow Belongs to Me. I think nearly everyone here can probably identify with the old man in there (and the movie wants the viewer to do that):

Rather chilling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPvB94VqZsQ&list=RDOPvB94VqZsQ&start_radio=1

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Phew! For a second there I thought we wouldn't be able to blame the boomers. /s

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought masks where bad?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Only if they might help others.

Because that is what someone who is ~~considerate of others~~ a woke pussy would do.

[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 5 points 3 weeks ago

They are serious.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] FullPenguin@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Which is the point of their marches, they want a very public presence so like minded people will seek them out and join.

These chodes might not be threatening marching through a major city in daylight, but as the country deteriorates, if 50 or 100 of them show up at your house at night... What's your plan?

This is just public facing side of the new Klan.

The best thing to do if they show up at your house is to know they will hurt you, they will maim you, batter you, break your bones, kill your family in front of you before leaving you to bleed out with multiple gut wounds. They want you to suffer, to be in misery. Go out on your feet, not your knees.

[–] fira@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Uh oh! Mainstream media is normalizing fascists & white suprematists marching in the streets! In the Nation’s capital no less.

How long until these goons go mask off?

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Uh oh! Mainstream media is normalizing fascists & white suprematists

Always have been

[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

On the bright side, while they are marching their flags around I bet domestic violence and police brutality goes down to nearly 0.