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'Hate will never prevail.' Local residents confront group displaying swastika flags on I-75 overpass
(www.cincinnati.com)
The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
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Aren't nazis like literally the enemy? They were eradicated after WWII, they never stopped being the enemy. As soon as they're back, it should be open season. Cmon America, use that military budget of yours.
I regret to inform you of Operation Paperclip. The USA hiring Nazi scientists as soon as they could manage after WW2 is unfortunately how "we" got to the moon
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The American military gets its orders from Nazis now.
Well, for too many white Americans, especially the ones in power right now, "America" should stand for a white ethno-state, so they see Nazis as allies who have the same ideals.
This isn't new either, Nazis took inspiration from American segregation and Jim Crow laws.
Amen
Swastikas on an overpass in 2025—the audacity of irrelevance. A group of historical reenactors clinging to symbols of failure, only to be chased off by locals with more backbone than the entire justice system. No arrests? Predictable. Hate groups operate with impunity while law enforcement plays referee.
”Hate will never prevail,” but it sure gets a free pass when wrapped in a flag and parked in a U-Haul. The NAACP is right—this isn’t random; it’s the byproduct of policies that embolden the worst among us.
Good on Evendale’s residents. If the authorities won’t act, the people will. Let them retreat into their truck of shame—the future doesn’t belong to cowards with banners of extinction.
I worked in Evendale about a year. It's a very white area, not particularly progressive, I'm sure the Nazi shitlords thought they were going to be safer and more tolerated.
Good on Evendale.
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Fun tip. All u-hauls have a padlock hasp on the back door. The rental truck trick is a known method of white supremacist groups for these cute little pop-up hate experiences.
It is perfectly fine to carry a small padlock around at all times, too.
And after you've expended your anti-nazi padlock, if said uhaul just magically burst into flames...
Something something nothing of value something
Ya I carry around a couple Molotov cocktails to help speed up the spontaneous combustion of fascist and their property.
pop-up hate experience
I hate that it’s a thing, but I love the nomenclature.
It's also perfectly legal to carry a length of cloth and a lighter. You know, just in case.
"No arrests were made"
Because half the people in the U-Haul were probably co-workers.
It baffles me that in this day in 2025, with hundreds of data points being reported hourly, that we can't look at the obvious preferential treatment fascists get from their cop buddies. Had that been a Free Palestine protest and some racist nutjob showed up to harrass them, the cops would have cleared the bridge and arrested a handful of the protestors, MAYBE one of the nutjobs IF they were REALLY pushing it. Then they'd find a reason why that bridge can't be used for protesting, release the nutjob with a "stern" warning and rake all the protestors across the coals with any minor "disturbing the peace" type charges so they have a record for next time.
You might be thinking about this in a slightly wrong way.
"The protest was occurring on sidewalks designed for pedestrian travel. The protest, while very offensive, was not unlawful," a press release from the Evendale Police Department said. "The protest was short lived in duration. The protesters left the area on their own. No further action was taken by the Evendale Police Department."
However, several upstanding citizens interfered:
Eley said they eventually made it past police and someone snatched a flag from one of the demonstrators.
"The Nazis began to back off," Eley said. "They quickly jumped in the back of a U-Haul truck and took off."
A woman brought out lighter fluid to burn the flag, and he joined in with others stepping and spitting on the flag, said Eley, who was a Boy Scout.
"General flag disrespect: it's a flag that deserves disrespect," Eley said.
Resisters got past police, took property, set it on fire, and weren't arrested.
That's a good thing.
For once, I am grateful for do-nothing police?
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Sure, you have a right to Free Speech - you can say whatever you like. I also have the right to not do business with you, to not hire you, to remember your face and call you out on the street and let eeeeeeveryone in my neighborhood know who you are and what you do, and to not allow you to use my online services.
hmm I wonder if anything happened recently that these traitors felt encouraged that they can be out and about nazis.
I know no one publicly made a sieg heil or anything. that's what every major media outlet said.
residents pushed past police
as usual the pigs weren't doing anything because they're part of the group
In other places flying swastikas is illegal
As a kid I was conflicted with the act of making symbols or such things illegal, like @yabai@lemmy.world said above it's all protected so I'm not sure what people wanted arrests for since it wouldn't hold and it's another victim complex for the poor white nationalist to hold or gives cops more leeway for future incidents.
Now as an adult who's lived most of his life in the southern states of America, we really fucked up the Reconstruction Era after the civil war. Things like banning the symbols of hatred drastically reduces the influence it has on vulnerable populace.
Instead, those same sadistic leaders who used humans for fodder got to stay in control and continue spreading their influence and corrupting greed in their domain. These are literal breeding grounds with school age children flying flags of enemy armies that sought to enslave and conquer the country.
Ban it, ban it all to make a statement that "Yes, this shit is unacceptable for a human society".
“They were actually just having a picnic”
—The Anti-Defamation League
Just to be clear here, no arrests were made because they were exercising their first amendment right the Americans are so proud of.
They displayed their message on public ground (the sidewalk) and were otherwise peaceful. Do I hate their message? Hell yeah I do, but unless the US realizes that free speech should have its limits then what they did was lawful.
In opposition, what the other people did was unlawful AND THEY WEREN'T ARRESTED FOR IT! The police actually did a good job here!
Hate speech, fighting words, and word that cause dangerous situations, (think yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater) are specifically not covered by the US version of Freedom of Speech.
No arrests were made because the thugs with badges don't arrest their coworkers.
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Agreed (mostly).
Just because something isn't illegal, that doesn't make it morally right. The inverse also applies.
Even though the First Amendment prohibits government suppression of speech, it doesn't mean that the expression is immune to consequences from society including non-governmental suppression.
I think the "no arrests were made" observation was meant in relation to your last point, not the first at all.
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Remember: these neo-Nazis are usually tourists from interestate. Look at Patriot Front for example, where arrests proved what antifascists already disclosed - the arrested were often from other states around the country. They do these rallies to provide an illusion of decent membership and locality, but it's complete bullshit. Same strategy is used in other countries too.
While I haven't seen a source yet, I see a post already claiming the names of all 5, only one of them is even from Ohio. If true, it's completely unsurprising.
You know what'd be hilarious? Start referring to all of these nazis and far right extremists and red hats as Fags. My how it would piss them off like no other.
I'd say it's the perfect slur for fascists: Perhaps from a diminutive of Vulgar Latin *facus, from Latin fascis (“bundle of wood”)
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The swastika is like brandishing a sword and should be banned from all public use except museums.
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Oh was Elon in town? They should be careful, he might shut down their local hospital and put a high schooler in charge.
People should start modifying drones to drop...brochures and fliers and such
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Nothing else needs to be said except, Fuck Nazis🖕
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