A Nashville lawmaker is alarmed to find a group of what appeared to be Nazis in broad daylight, marching the streets of Nashville this President's Day weekend.R

The group of more than a dozen masked individuals marched wearing red shirts and black pants, waving flags with swastikas on them. It is not clear at this time who the group is or affiliated with, though many of the shirts said “Blood Tribe.”

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    9 months ago

    Fighting, war and death is a last resort when all hope and possibility is lost.

    We’re not there yet so it’s still possible to convince others not to follow these movements and make those that do follow so uncomfortable and unwelcome that they can stay in the shadows where they belong.

    It’s mostly our political leaders right now. If we allow leaders that allow this behaviour or leaders that even are part of this then we people have the power to either put them in power or remove them from power through elections.

    And it’s not just political leaders either … it’s those with wealth and power that fund and support these movements as well as corporations that would not mind seeing fascist and anti democratic governments in place. The more we call out the instigators and supporters, the more uncomfortable they will be.

    Because it also works the other way, the more people speak out, the more they see that there are many more people who share the view of anti Nazism and anti fascism. If we all just sit silently, we never know how many supporters are around us and it makes us feel like a minority.

    So speak out in public and speak up with your political leaders.

    • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
      31·
      9 months ago

      Sure sure, I don’t want anyone anywhere to die of violence.

      But there are people out there who do, and some of them are nazis, and there is a nonzero statistical chance that me or my loved ones will be caught in some form of mass shooting or domestic terrorist act.

      So it is good to prepare, and point out the danger.

      And speaking to our politicians does nothing, they know the threat of white nationalism more than any of us.

      The only thing that changes the tragic trajectory of civil guerilla war we are chugging towards is for the right to publicly and viciously throw off the extremists that have taken over their party.

      We cannot do that, no amount of talking to our politicians will give them the 2/3rds majority needed to impeach and convict all the fucknuggets complicit in jan6.

      And I have literally no words to say to any repugnicunt to try and convince them to do it.

      Either they do it on their own, or at some point we will get an authoritarian that isn’t as stupid as drumpfh.