You also wanna make sure to get in the habit of punching with your thumb at the side of your fist and not in front of your index finger, cause you might otherwise break your own thumb on impact.
Don’t hold it inside your fingers either for the same reason.
Wait is the guy with the a red shirt pinching the nazi’s beard?
This is my first post on the fediverse! Fuck Nazis.
Until it is done.
That dude’s neck placement is hilarious
Some nazis turn back though, so there’s potential value in their lives. Some even use their previous cred in those circles to try to turn more. Probably being more effective than anyone who punches nazis.
I grew up in the bible Belt and spent years watching my friends and family get deeper into the MAGA memes and conspiracies, so take it from someone who poured their heart and soul out trying to convince good people not to believe provably false nonsense when I say this.
Fuck em. They know it’s all bullshit. They know they can’t actually prove their bullshit. They don’t care. Few might eventually come back, but it’s not worth the emotional toll on you to try and convince them.
True, but you should not assume that they will. As long as they are a nazi, they need to understand the societal shunning and physical danger cost that goes along with such a disgusting ideology.
Also, it’s a meme not a nuanced political essay about dealing with nazism. Obviously JUST punching them isn’t goint to work. Or at least not forever.
You can defeat particular group by force, but unless You deal with bigotry, nationalism and the material conditions that gave rise to it in the first place, the ideology will return in some form or the other
True, but you should not assume that they will.
And most importantly, you should never tailor your community around this assumption.
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THIS IS *NOT* OKAY.
This sets a dangerous example, and we need to talk about it.
If you punch a Nazi like this, you’re going to break your wrist. Remember, make contact with the largest two knuckles (index and middle finger) and keep a strong wrist. You want to hurt the Nazi, not yourself!
Stay safe out there and keep punching Nazis.
This has been a public service announcement.
[Two images shown side by side. The first shows a young man in a black shirt standing on a crowded sidewalk, his hand raised above his head in the historical “Nazi salute” with a lightly smug expression. There is a person’s hand holding up their middle finger prominently in his direction visible from the right side of the screen, but everything past their forearm is out of the image frame. In the second image, the same man in the black shirt is shown with his hand at his side, as a second man in an orange shirt is shown in the middle of punching the taller black-shirted man in the jaw. The fist of the man punching is angled slightly upwards at the wrist, so his fist makes contact at the knuckles on his fingers rather than using the flat surface of a typical punch. The image is captured before the man in the black shirt reacts to the punch. The hand holding up a middle finger is still visible in the right of the frame.]
^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^
Thank you fellow human!
Beep boo- I mean you’re welcome!
That guy is quite clearly a nazi… but remember guys, some people call anything a nazi.
I’m generally a very peaceful person.
But I think physically attacking tyranny, and tyrants, is morally justified.
My ring finger is longer than my pointer finger, though I can’t tell if their knuckles are the largest two. Should I punch with those knuckles?
Probably yeah. You want the most stability in your punch. Think of the line the force has to take back into your body, the more bone and muscle that line goes through the better.
But if you really want to learn to punch go take lessons. Join an anarchist gym if you’re fortunate enough to have one.
Wear some metallic protection when punching nazis, just in case
No, either index/middle or middle/ring/pinky.
Punching the head isn’t a great idea in general, it’s better to just open palm it and save knuckles for the soft places. Better yet, just use your elbow or forearm, or a baseball bat.
Reminder that Mahatma Ghandi was a plant by the UK government to stop the india independence movement, and delayed independence by decades. Also a pedophile. Nonviolent protest doesn’t work.
Do you have sources for this? Curious to know more, thanks in advance.
Sure, here’s one: https://himjournals.com/article/articleID=302
Alow me to quote Justice Markandey Katju, justice of the supreme court of india (source)
Gandhi—A British Agent This post is bound to draw a lot of flak at me, but that does not matter as I am not a popularity seeker I have often said things knowing that initially that will make me very unpopular, and I will be vilified and denounced by many. Nevertheless I say such things.as I believe they must be said in my country’s interest. I submit that Gandhi was objectively a British agent who did great harm to India. These are my reasons for saying this :
- India has tremendous diversity, so many religions, castes, races, languages, etc ( see my article ’ What is India ?’ on my blog justicekatju.blogspot.in ). Realizing this the British policy was of divide and rule ( see online ’ History in the Service of Imperialism ’ , which is a speech delivered by Prof. B.N. Pande in the Rajya Sabha ). By constantly injecting religion into politics continuously for several decades, Gandhi furthered the British policy of divide and rule. If we read Gandhi’s public speeches and writings ( e.g. in his newspapers ‘Young India’, ’ Harijan ', etc ) we find that ever since Gandhi came to India from South Africa in 1915 or so till his death in 1948, in almost every speech or article he would emphasize Hindu religious ideas e.g. Ramrajya, Go Raksha ( cow protection ), brahmacharya ( celibacy ), varnashram dharma ( caste system ), etc ( see Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi ). Thus Gandhi wrote in ’ Young India ’ on 10.6.1921 " I am a Sanatani Hindu. I believe in the varnashram dharma. I believe in protection of the cow ". In his public meetings the Hindu bhajan ’ Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram ’ would be loudly sung. Now Indians are a religious people, and they were even more religious in the first half of the 20th century. A sadhu or swamiji may preach such ideas to his followers in his ashram, but when they are preached day in and day out by a political leader, what effect will these speeches and writings have on an orthodox Muslim mind ? It would surely drive him towards a Muslim organization like the Muslim League, and so it did. Was this not serving the British policy of divide and rule ? By constantly injecting religion into politics for several decades, was Gandhi not objectively acting as a British agent ?
- In India a revolutionary movement against British rule had started in the early 20th century under the Anushilan Samiti, Jugantar, and revolutionaries like Surya Sen, Ramprasad Bismil ( who wrote the song ’ Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein hai ), Chandrashekhar Azad, Ashfaqulla, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, etc ( who were all hanged by the British ). Gandhi successfully diverted the freedom struggle from this revolutionary direction to a harmless nonsensical channel called Satyagrah. This also served British interests.
- Gandhi’s economic ideas were thoroughly reactionary. He advocated self sufficient village communities, though everybody knows that these communities were totally casteist and in the grip of landlords and money lenders…Gandhi was against industrialization, and preached handspinning by charkha and other such reactionary nonsense. Similarly, his ’ trusteeship ’ theory was all nonsense, and an act of deceiving the people Some people praise Gandhi’s bravery in going to Noakhali, etc to douse the communal violence at the time of Partition. But the question is why did he help setting the house on fire in the first place by preaching religious ideas in public political meetings for several decades, which were bound to divide the Indian people on religious lines? First you set the house on fire, and then you do the drama of trying to douse the flames.
Further details on his status as a british agent: https://himjournals.com/article/articleID=302
For the record, himjournals.com, while masquerading as an academic publication, is actually an “open academic journal” meaning that its pay to play if you want your work published (payments is one of the main links in the header).
While I have no specific knowledge of this “journal”, open academic journals are infamous for have little or no peer-review process—despite publicly claiming otherwise—and allowing authors to publish whatever serves the author’s agenda.
TL;DR: this source has the approximate credibility of a blog post, so think critically before accepting it’s conclusions.
Man I miss RES tagging, you’d get “gullible” FYI.
What’s RES tagging?
Reddit Enhancement Suite. One of its functions was tagging users.
I mean that’s a slapmnkt a punch but good effort.
Now I know Nazis are not known for many good things but given their leadership I though keeping facial hair neat would be one.
Why do these self-proclaimed superior race types always look like they smell like unwashed scalp and sour milk breath? A rattle of phlegm always present in the back of their throat when they speak.
I had the misfortune of meeting a neo-Nazi with a substantial speech impediment. He would have been persecuted, or worse under the Nazi regime. I guess it’s self-loathing that draws some of them into the ideology.
It tells them that none of that matters, they’re still superior because they’re white. In fact, none of their problems would exist if it wasn’t for those people
A dream of being better.
Theres always shitty people and always will be. No matter the name they go by we just have to keep putting them down.
My parents raised me with unfortunate views, as did the churches they forced me to attend. It was only through life experience did I come to realize they were wrong.
Violence didn’t help me, it made me feel isolated and more inclined to think that those using violence against me didn’t have rational arguments against my views.
Violence doesn’t win arguments, and it should be a last resort, using it for instant gratification is a sure strategy to prolong conflict.
Thanks for sharing a bit about your life. I’m very proud of you (however much that means) and agree 100% with what you wrote.
However, I have also been on the receiving end. The childhood experience of watching racists shout slurs at my parents in a grocery store has permanently impacted my perspective.
Many try to ignore or debate with racists for years, and the violence you see often is the last resort.
I want to thank you for mentioning your belief that violence is not a good answer, because it prompted me to read up on the Stonewall riots before using it in a reply, which lead me to learning a lot more about the LGBTQIA+ community’s long struggle for equality in the United States than I ever expected.
Edit: I’m not sure I replied to the right comment here.
Hell yeah! Punch all the Nazis!
THE ONLY GOOD NAZI IS A DEAD ONE!
You’re godamn right, and I want my scalps!
removed by reddit
Reddit Nazis: Just can’t wait to go have a genocide!
*spez sleeps*
Anyone Else: Fuck the hell off. Your jaw needs a realignment
*spez announces red alert at Reddit HQ and personally fires a cruise missle to ‘removed by reddit’ your life*
How could you call them Nazi?!?!
They’re only saluting Hitler, the literal figure of the Nazi movement and regime – see, absolutely innocent!
The word Nazi gets used so inflatedly these days. Also, why is everyone calling me Nazi?
I wish this wasn’t the case! Was part of one of the carpet bombings
Legit, my entire account and all of the accounts that ever touched the OFFICAL reddit app, were all removed when I made a comment “Yeah, punch a Nazi, with a bullet.”
The accounts were all insta/perma-banned across all of reddit for this one comment.
Basically reddit was defending Nazis.
I am kind of not too sad to see reddit start sinking.
That’s basically what happened to me, too. Reddit is actual garbage.
Oh yeah. When one of those subs start laughing it up about “free helicopter rides”, crickets. Reddit let them do that for YEARS before public outcry forced them to exercise some asshole control.
When people started laughing about Richard Spenser getting punched, the bans started flying almost immediately.
Let’s call /u/spez what he is: a Nazi sympathizer.
