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Summary
Following a February 7th neo-Nazi rally, residents of Lincoln Heights, a majority-Black Ohio town, formed an armed Safety and Watch Program to protect against hate groups.
The rally, where participants waved swastikas and shouted slurs, received little police intervention, sparking fears of future threats when no arrests or identifications were made during the incident.
Volunteers now patrol bus stops and neighborhoods. “I’ve never felt safer as a Black man in my community,” said spokesperson Daronce Daniels.
The historically underserved and self-governing community shows strong support for the initiative with yard signs and sees this as a continuation of its legacy of self-reliance and community defense.
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KKK aren’t the only ones who can run militias.
Good move for the black people.
It’s a good thing Ronald Reagan isn’t around anymore.
If Reagan were around to see this we might stand a chance at getting some kind of gun control.
With Trump you just might
I read this with the subtext that Ronald Reagan worked as governor of California to pass gun control after Black Panthers were exercising their right to bear arms.
Underrated comment, ty
You read good.
The cops didn’t didn’t show up for the same reason that you never see Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus at the same time.
They were already there! Just in a different uniform
What uniforms were Hannah and Miley wearing?
The same ones
Like they were identical to each other or they were identical to the Nazis?
Well, let me put it this way, Hannah and Miley wear the same clothes all the time, much like how police and white nationalist wear the same clothes all the time.
I got it I got it, I was just making a stupid jokey joke
No worries
Good news: Law enforcement has operatives highly placed in every domestic terror organization.
Bad news: they are not informants.
Every group of people need to have autonomy and independence, and the right to self-govern. No people should have to fear violence and repression from another group.
May as well. We’re well on our way to being third-world anyway
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We need these in every neighbor hood now
It’s fucking hog-wash I tell ya
Hey I think I’ve seen this episode before!
Yeah, this I’d the first season. Next season the US military will bomb the city
Or they might just have the local police bomb and incenerate an entire city block like in Philly.
*Edit: typo
Wanna bet this community sees a temporary decrease in crime?
Hell, I personally would feel safer as an opponent of facism there too.
History shows us that this will not be tolerated for long though, regardless of the constitutional right. I hope this idea is picked up elsewhere. There are a lot of places that could benefit from running their own regulated militia: cities, towns, and neighborhoods.
You wanna bet they’re gonna make some laws now to restrict them because black people are exercising their 2nd amendment rights.
That’s the part I’m curious about. California did enact a law in 1967 requiring permits to openly carry loaded firearms, but the Black Panthers didn’t just go away.
Anything enacted at a federal level will get pushback, and I’m very curious about how it will be constructed to avoid pissing off their support. In either way, I would presume that people aren’t just going to passively hand over their guns. We know how that ends up.
That will be the true test on how strong fascism is in this country. I have ten bucks on Republicans willingly handing their firearms over at the direction of the current administration after decades of not being able to shut the fuck up about keeping their 2a rights.
Black father’s are why Reagan, and the NRA passed gun control in the past. Fox will be fully utilized to push an agenda of dis-arming pigmented people. And when enough of the community has forgotten the experiment, they will go back to pushing ‘gun rights’.
I mean I can certainly imagine, why.
But this feels so strange, reading as European…
Ask someome in their 90’s if it feels strange.
The rally, where participants waved swastikas
Why isn’t this enough to shot them in the face?
Millions died at war to stop swastika-waving scum, and the world united to never allow this to happen again, so why is American society suddenly ok with letting them terrorize communities?
Because the Venn diagram of those waving swastikas and those enforcing the law is nearly a circle.
Some of those that burn crosses???
Blue by Day, White by Night. On a Klan/Cop button I have from the 70s
You ever been to an anti far right protest? You can tell who the cops like more. It’s the cowards in hoods
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Almost all of the WW2 vets are gone man. I worry that the far right resurgence around the world is being allowed to happen because people are simply ignorant to the horror of WW2. I remember talking to someone younger than me about Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. He didn’t seem to think much of the Holocaust which I found disturbing. I started bringing up the numbers and I could see the shock in his face. He genuinely didn’t seem to grasp just how many people were murdered because of fascism.
History classes in the US cover WW2, but barely touch on the causes of WW2.
History classes in the US are patriot washed to convince soon to be laborers that they’re living in the greatest country to ever possibly exist.
“People’s History of the United States” and “Lies My Teacher Told Me” were eye opening to the omissions from my primary education. “Trail of Tears” should be required reading.
The resurrection of the Black Panthers
When it’s necessary, it’s necessary
Resist fascism!
I think letting everybody have a gun is absolutely moronic. But if i was living in the US right now i would definitely be stocking up on assault rifles and ammo.
I think you’d be better off with one, and spend the change left over on more ammo. You only have two hands.
Maybe I’d find some people to use the other ones.
Valid.
At current gun ownership rates in the US, every willing person who wanted a gun could be issued one instantly if enough people were willing to share.
An assault rifle just tells everyone you can’t aim and are happy with indiscriminate targeting. They are fine when you are fighting 1000 of something, but there’s a reason the army sharpshooting badge doesn’t include burst fire (or didn’t thirty year’s ago, anyway).
I’d recommend just about anything else for self defense, actually.
I can’t because of some mental health concerns in my household (not the least of which, my own), but otherwise I’d have a revolver.
An assault rifle just tells everyone you can’t aim and are happy with indiscriminate targeting.
Tell me you’ve never shot a gun, without telling me you’ve never shot a gun
Qualified expert with an M-16. Which also implies I’ve fired an M-60, but that’s not really relevant to the discussion.
I’m not thinking about self defense against some burglar. I’m talking about self defense in the sense the US gun nuts have been talking about for decades. Now that tyranny has actually arrived, they’re very quiet all of a sudden. Who would have thought.
WWI more than a hundred years ago demonstrated conclusively the military worthlessness of a bunch of dudes armed with rifles, when faced with the real elements of state military power: artillery, tanks and airplanes. The US government has no fear of a bunch of fat old dudes with closets full of peashooters.
Oh yes, on an open battlefield against declared combatants, absolutely. However, that’s not how it’s going to go down in the US. This is where we get to dredge up that old quote about a rifle behind every blade of grass.
Take a look at any “anti-insurgency” operation in the last ~80 years or any situation that devolved into door-to-door warfare in a city full of both nongovernment combatants and also where basically every single civilian also hates you and your army. Except in our case about a third (32%) of those civilians are armed.
Even if only half of those civilians are on our side, we’d outnumber the entirety of the US police and military forces combined by a little over 13 to 1. Nobody wants to fight a war of attrition and I’m not recommending one, but the fascists would have to achieve an unrealistically ludicrous k/d ratio to succeed. There’s no way around it other than this would outright require indiscriminately blowing up large sections of their own cities and infrastructure to get us, surely killing a handful of combatants each time but also taking out at least double their number in uninvolved civilians.
That sort of thing does not tend to go any way towards making the rest of those civilians left get less involved.
That must be why they beat theTaliban so decisively.
[Assault rifles] are fine when you are fighting 1000 of something, but… I’d recommend just about anything else for self defense, actually.
(Pointedly) Yeah, we know.
antifa supersoldiers /j
