Ben Becker spotted the anti-Marx, Nazi-navy flag wearing Trumpies assembling at City Hall Plaza before their little rally on the Common this morning.
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Are we absolutely certain that's not a Dungeons
By MC Slim JB
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 12:59pm
and Dragons LARP?
Bravo
By TheGrovehaller
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 1:45pm
You won this thread! Now I have to watch Role Models.
Hate speech is not free speech.
By anon
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 1:33pm
Disagree? Feel free to move to the libertarian paradise of Somalia.
One positive change
By Irma la Douce
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 1:36pm
This time the media had access to cover the speakers. Thanks, ACLU!
Good.
By anon
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 1:51pm
The police finally realized that racists don't have lasers that shoot out of their eyes.
After Charlottesville
By lbb
Mon, 11/20/2017 - 2:23pm
After Charlottesville, after watching the way that the Charlottesville police completely got their pants pulled down*, if a bunch of one-tooth-having inbred white supremacist trash were all HURR HURR BOSTON NEXT, what would you have done?
*this is with the generous interpretation that they weren't a-ok with the neo-nazi-klan violence; some Charlottesville cops were observed smirking and standing by while white supremacists attacked protesters.
Pathetic men children.
By Roslindaler
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 4:12pm
I had assumed that green flag was some obscure Nazi thing. It turns out is the “flag of Kegistan” which is a thing made up by basement dwelling failures who have wrapped their bigotry into a whole new subclass of social disfunction. You have to look it up to unwind all of the absurdity. How do these people call themselves grown men? I bet they also take on silly names and titles like the Klan did. Someone should start doing some serious sketch comedy around these bafoons. Go back to your basements sad people and play more video games while the rest of us do grown up things.
Also, as an aside I will continue to honor my pledge of donating $1 to the Southern Poverty Law Center for each hate marcher at these looser fests. I estimate this one to be about 50 people. I hope you will join me.
It's two tastes in one!
By adamg
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 5:09pm
It's not just some stupid frog thing, it's based on the German naval flag used during World War II. So just enough deniability to satisfy the most discerning of neo-Nazis.
The green flag
By BikerGeek
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 7:29pm
is based on the "Vinland" flag, designed by Peter Steele of the goth/doom-metal band Type O Negative back in the '90s, and as used in the band's artwork and in live performances. Type O Negative are decidedly NOT associated with fascism, white supremacy, or neo-Nazism. If anything Peter Steele's personal political beliefs tended toward socialism. Steele has said that the flag was intended to represent his interest in his Norse heritage, connection with nature, and socialism.
The flag has the same "cross" design seen on the flags of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland, but in green, white, and black.
Unfortunately, like a certain cartoon frog, it's a symbol that's been appropriated by far-right groups. "Kekistan" was a meme that started on 4chan /pol/, and they turned the VInland flag into the Kekistan flag. They kept the green background but changed the black and white stripes, adding a "KEK" logo in a circle, and adding the 4chan logo in the upper left.
Fans of Type O Negative have been known to wear the Vinland flag on t-shirts and other clothing, but, given that this is another symbol that the far right is managing to f--k up for everybody, many of them may stop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnland_flag
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symb...
No, it resembles the
By anon
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 7:13pm
No, it resembles the Kriegsmarine flag.
Guess the flag
By dmcboston
Sun, 11/19/2017 - 10:53am
Shame on you, bikergeek, you're going against the narrative.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/ogFO41U.png[/img]
Guess the original frog...
[img]https://i.imgur.com/pad8CiQ.jpg[/img]
HOW WHITE NATIONALISM BECAME NORMAL ONLINE
By anon
Sun, 11/19/2017 - 5:31pm
[youtube]yprnIU29GYA[/youtube]
The path for radicalization has particular roots in the online communities in which they have forged their identities.
In today's Globe: "When the pizza delivery guy is Bob the Nazi"
I think you are missing it
By Roslindaler
Sun, 11/19/2017 - 8:28pm
It is just some stupid frog thing. I get it, they are nazis. But fundamentally, they are just a bunch of pathetic losers who belong in their patents basements. And that is where they will end up while the rest of us run the world. I don’t care if they call themselves national socialists, white nationalists or whatever. They are just good old fashioned white trash and deserve nothing more than mockery. Taking them seriously only makes them feel important. And they aren’t. They are the butt of jokes, at most.
In the spirit of taking them lighty, think back on this from the Big Lebowski:
Donny: Are these Nazi’s Walter?
Walter: No Donny, these men are nihilists. Nothing to be afraid of.
Donny: Are they going to hurt us Walter?
Walter: No Donny. These men are cowards.
It would be nice to think so
By perruptor
Mon, 11/20/2017 - 6:27am
Unfortunately, the American who comes closest to running the world right now is one of them, not one of us. These people are dangerous, and ignoring them empowers them.
The mistake would be to
By ZachAndTired
Mon, 11/20/2017 - 11:16am
The mistake would be to ignore them just because they're basement dwelling skids though. The original nazis were also fucking losers before becoming nazis. Goebbels was a failed author. Himmler was a failed chicken farmer for christ's sake. They couldn't take responsibility for their own failures, so they blamed it on "the others" just like the "alt-right" shitheels are doing now.
This
By lbb
Mon, 11/20/2017 - 2:24pm
And Hitler was an outright bum who couldn't hold down a job. Read "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". They were LOSERS. Do not assume that our modern American losers are harmless.
Kegistan?
By Ron Newman
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 7:22pm
Is that a country full of breweries?
No, kegistand
By BikerGeek
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 8:25pm
a juvenile prank at drunken undergraduate parties, where one does a handstand atop a beer keg.
This is the way it should have been last time too
By anon
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 4:31pm
Let the pathetic tiny group of people show up, have their little fun and crawl back under their slimy rocks, all but completely ignored. No fuss, no muss. Free speech at it's best. Not like last time when hordes of hundreds of thousands of "decent people", some clearly ready for confrontation, showed up to counter protest the Nazi rally on the Common consisting of about twenty ineffectual little people without so much as a PA system and ended up causing all the trouble themselves which went on into the night long after the Nazis were gone.
The indelible Marc Maron coinage for these dudes is
By MC Slim JB
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 5:53pm
"unfuckable hate nerds." Applies equally to the benighted legion of basement-dwelling online commenters with odious causes like the so-called Involuntary Celibates, recently banned from Reddit for their jaw-droppingly ugly, violent misogyny.
Recommended reading: https://medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-w...
Too bad it's a fallen world.
Yeah, except that...
By Sally
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 7:05pm
there were hundreds of cops deployed to deal with these shitheads. I’d be happy to ignore the losers but I’m pissed off that a heap of taxes are going to protect them. F em—they can protect themselves.
They're not deployed to deal with them
By matt
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 7:39pm
They're deployed to deal with violent reactions
Did you see the photo above?
By Sally
Sun, 11/19/2017 - 7:27am
No one gives a shit about these pathetic dudes. We certainly don’t need hundreds of cops to protect them from us not caring.
Bingo
By Thumb Zup
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 7:08pm
Very well said.
"should" on yourself
By lbb
Mon, 11/20/2017 - 9:26am
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If you feel that way, exercise your right to stay away. Do not presume to dictate others' response or preach about what they "should" do. And at the same time, when you get a mouse or two in your house, feel free to "completely ignore" them, secure in the conviction that it can't possibly turn into a larger problem (or at least if it does, it won't threaten you personally, or anyone you care about).
So, that's why ...
By jmeltzer
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 6:21pm
there were cops all over Haymarket this afternoon?
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By jmeltzer
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 6:21pm
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By jonbowen
Sat, 11/18/2017 - 11:49pm
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The power of AM talk radio
By bulgingbuick
Sun, 11/19/2017 - 8:42am
ia unmatched,...
Glad to see we keep the company we do here.
By Somebody Else.
Sun, 11/19/2017 - 11:05pm
to quote our Nazi associate:
Cape Coddah @capecoddah
Jan 30
the "Palistinians" can go back to their own countries. Terrorism sucks.
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By Somebody Else.
Sun, 11/19/2017 - 11:08pm
and that adorable attempt to dress up hate speak as political theory is as pathetic now as it was back in Germany.
Palestinians
By capecoddah
Mon, 11/20/2017 - 12:28am
[quote]the "Palistinians" can go back to their own countries.[/quote]
Palestinian ideology is so backwards that they are probably never going to have a real country.
Lesson learned: Do not start wars with stupid empty slogans like "streets running with blood" or anything like that. Real wars involve land grabbing, not saying dumb stuff then losing pathetically. Wars like that are over in less than a week... but the whining can go on for half a century or more.
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