There are things that happen to people who are nazis.
Those things usually aren’t just done by random people alone. They happen because people were networked,organized and working together.
The number of days left to begin organizing are getting less and less.
On one hand, yes, these people are pathetic and have little idea what the symbols they’re playing with truly mean beyond white supremacy. And yes, it is useful (and fun) to mock farcists.
On the other hand, some of these people are (literally) astronomically rich, in bed with leaders of one of the most powerful military forces ever to exist, and the others are those supported by these rich haute-booj oligarchs (just like the original Blackshirts and Brownsharts were supported by landowners and maginates). A Nazi salute, understood with respect to history and the powerplay of today, is personal to many people. If it’s a teenage edgelord fucking around to get a reaction, sure, dismiss them or let them ‘find out’, but Musk and Bannon are people with huge influence over politicians and mass media. Elon Musk, for example, literally owns a pervasive media platform. They can start sizable rallies gathering both the batshit unhinged and the ideologically driven, armed and hungry.
So if you’re someone who the Nazis would have sent to the extermination camps (and there are many, many groups that were, basically most of humanity), then that salute is someone with state power declaring they want you dead. I wouldn’t call it insulting as much as a credible death threat.
If you don’t know something, just ask.
I did. I asked a question.
The quote of mine are several of the explicitly stated goals of that terrorist group that were successfully carried out.
Where are these goals explicitly stated by al-Qaeda? Please provide sources.
For example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks#Motives
In November 2001, bin Laden defended the attacks as retaliatory strikes against American atrocities against Muslims across the world.
He also maintained that the attacks were not directed against women and children, asserting that the targets of the strikes were symbols of America’s “economic and military power”.
This is why the planes were sent to the Twin Towers (symbol of economic power) and the Pentagon (symbol of military power).
In bin Laden’s November 2002 Letter to the American People, he identified al-Qaeda’s motives for the attacks:
U.S. support of Israel[48][49] Bin Laden’s strategy to support and globally expand the Second Intifada[50][51][52][53] Attacks against Muslims by U.S.-led coalition in Somalia U.S. support of the government of Philippines against Muslims in the Moro conflict U.S. support for the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon U.S. support of Russian atrocities against Muslims in Chechnya Pro-American governments in the Middle East (who “act as your agents”) being against Muslim interests U.S. support of Indian oppression against Muslims in Kashmir The presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia[54] The sanctions against Iraq[48] Environmental destruction[55][56][57]
Their goal was to combat US military intervention .They don’t care about random US citizens being scared, that doesn’t help them combat the US military, and they didn’t want the US to be in their country so why would they want to be chased? It makes no sense for "terrifying the US population and forcing them to waste resources chasing an unseen enemy” to be the goals of al-Qaeda. They didn’t want to waste resources, they wanted soldiers gone or killed.
to destroy an important symbol of the US, terrify the US population and force them to waste resources chasing an unseen enemy.
Are you implying the ‘inside job’ conspiracy theory, or suggesting these were the goals of Al-Qaeda?
I’m not saying that to reject the former, it has some debatable credibility, but if you’re proposing the latter, “to destroy an important symbol of the US, terrify the US population and force them to waste resources chasing an unseen enemy” doesn’t make sense from Al-Qaeda’s perspective, contradicts the choices of targets, and contradicts their stated motives both years before and after the 2001 attacks. (quick wiki summary to launch from)
On the other hand, some have explicit ideological positions or themes (e.g. lemmygrad.ml, slrpnk.net) and others are shaped by moderation (.ml taking a hard stance against the sinophobia normal in mainatream media, .world and a few other instances/staff banning comments making light of violence e.g. luigi)
Yep. I don’t judge a comment before reading it, but there are a couple of instances where I will think “yeah, not surprised” after reading a reactionary or low-quality post.
I’m curious if people are sinophobic or anti Russian.
Some instances, notoriously lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, aggressively ban Sinophobia and Russophobia, so much that many visitors get banned without understanding how what they said was prejudiced (many of their prejudiced views are simply ‘common sense’ as a result of normal Western propaganda) and yell about the instances being Russian/Chinese genocidal propaganda. So if .world gives you trouble, these places could be worth considering.
but the amount of practical real life skills I’ve acquired over the years
Are there any particularly unexpected ones?
The way the clothes they wear are flying off the shelves, and Luigi’s outstanding photogenic quality, you bet they’re a model prisoner.