Outside of us causing a nuclear war, it will eventually get better. Every empire eventually falls, it's just a question of, do we take Mother Earth with us?

Ah, maybe the police were stopping them to pick up their coworkers from out of the van so that they could start their shift.

...probably just relocating them to the department so they can change back into their cop uniforms.

I won't believe this story has a happy ending until they're in prison. Because I have a feeling they're about to get a huge amount of help from the incoming administration.

People calling you a nazi when you're acting like a nazi doesn't count.

Oh pretty please indulge us with your tall tales of all the violence you've seen from the left since Nov of 2023.

sure you have, sweetie

The hate and bigotry: people being upset at being intentionally misgendered.

Prove it.

Hallucinogenics are a hell of a drug...or did you just notsee what the entire GOP has become?

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Imagine having a brain so wasted and misused as to actually believe this.

It's disrespectful to the forces of nature to treat your brain like this after so many millions of years of evolution.

Get yourself some help.

Haha, no you haven't you fucking dork.

You mean the left also tried to overthrow the government through violence?

The next time they'll get the right police on shift first so they won't be arrested for attacking people. Then no one speaks up the third time because no one is there to protect us and we've arrived at totally fucked.

Because the civil war losers were never held to account, allowing this shit to continue festering underneath the veneer of American society.

Exploitation of the religious liberties clause of the first amendment.

Any system is allowed to self-destruct, I guess

You think these dumbass neo nazi chucklefucks have enough brain cells to rub together to make that distinction?

It isn't colonialist. It is a place we can force-project our military from in a valuable and very anti-west part of the world. If our military didn't need it, we wouldn't even be near the place.

Most Jews are not israeli and israel is not representative of Judaism, but israel does claim Judaism as a core part of its "national" identity, so there's nothing antisemitic about pointing out the irony of Nazis supporting israel. The irony may be pretty superficial tho, some of the other replies here point out several reasons why Nazism and Zionism/israel are actually aligned.

They know that they're being bad. That's why they're wearing them.

I mean hell, not even dog whistles this time. Trump and his allies were loudly shouting Nazi slogans publicly and there was no pushback.

I’m a pacifist, but punching Nazis has been self defence for 80+ years.

Appeasement is a terrible idea when we're talking about Nazis, it has never worked and will never work. I don't get why people are so ignorant about history. I guess you're not part of a minority that would get brutalized or murdered under their rule? Otherwise you probably wouldn't attempt to play nice with literal Nazis.

It's really irritating to watch this shit unfold as a German. You guys are basically begging fascists to take over at this point.

Easy.

Nazis aren't people. They cashed out their people card the second they picked up that flag.

Always punch Nazis. It’s pretty simple.

They're Nazis.

Jury nullification.

Nazis bad :)

You're going to be really disappointed if anyone ever tells you it's raining cats and dogs.

Alright then Neville

The laws of engagement in WW2? I remember they were apparently building concentration camps and rounding up and murdering the Jews, the gays, the gypsies, the anarchists, the communists, the Slavs, the mentally disabled, allied prisoners of war etc etc. I think right about then the law was ok with fucking-up Nazis… but I’m not an historian so best to double check this comment.

Over half the planet was in agreement about fucking up Nazis at one point

There's no such thing as a peaceful Nazi.

You will never get the answer. Not here on Lemmy or Reddit. These are keyboard badasses.

Exactly. Some of them may actually be cops. They always get some number of facists.

That would be great if they would shoot each other!

Yeah, I was in a rush when writing that, and should have been more thorough in explaining what I meant.

I meant that's their mentality: these idiots will become increasingly emboldened as Trump takes over, and make the assumption that they can do anything they want because Trump & the Republicans have taken over the Justice system and will allow them to do whatever they want to the "evil libs." There will be no hate crimes prosecuted (unless against white and/or prominent right-wingers) - at least not on a federal level, but these idiots often don't really understand that difference (and TBF there effectively may not BE a difference in red states).

He ran on doing so.

He will.

He doesn't have to worry about pissing people off now. It's his 2nd term.

"Party of law and order".

I've read he plans to upon retaking office.

No one mentioned Jan 6 until you did.

We're part of it. It's our country and the majority decided to take America down this path.

We are "we" because we are part of this society.

I didn't vote for it. I know, very clearly, what direction we're headed in. Anyone that didn't just float through their history classes with barely passing grades should know. But I still accept that I'm part of it. WE are a very stupid society.

Everyone shares some level of accountability, and I know nobody wants to hear it and will stomp and huff and gnash their teeth at the notion, but it's true. Some carry a much larger chunk of that responsibility than others, from of course the people who didn't care and didn't vote, and the people who cared and still didn't vote, to just the people who rolled their eyes every time someone posted a "political" picture in /r/funny and had to start a 300+ comment deep thread about how stupid politics is, down to the small pieces held by everyone who did everything right but never valued their community, didn't make a stand against people saying and doing things we didn't agree with, and lets not forget everyone who never involved themselves in their local elections even enough to vote for the people who represent them, they allowed many to go unchallenged and those people went on to prop up a government run by and representing a minority ideology.

Nothing. I was a little busy calming my sister down who basically broke down crying in the middle of the store. And even if she was calm, I would have stayed in the store where it was safe. Those men weren’t exactly there to make friends.

What answer were you hoping to hear?

Police said the individuals were "armed with firearms."

Yup.

What's your point?

DOX them

These things are going to keep happening. Go buy paint now and pour it into some wide mouth plastic bottles. If you want to stop facsim, you have to plan to do antifa work, just like any work

Deploy the cops who hit you with a bicycle

No