Summary
Masked neo-Nazis marched through Columbus, Ohio’s Short North neighborhood on Saturday, displaying swastika flags and making racist and antisemitic statements.
Police are investigating, and no arrests have been reported.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Columbus officials condemned the display, emphasizing that hate and bigotry have no place in the state.
The incident follows a similar demonstration in Michigan last week, where masked protesters displayed Nazi flags outside a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank.
Get ready to see a lot more of this.
This is America now.
The majority voted for this. We wanted this.
Don’t lump me into the collective “we”.
We’re part of it. It’s our country and the majority decided to take America down this path.
We are “we” because we are part of this society.
I didn’t vote for it. I know, very clearly, what direction we’re headed in. Anyone that didn’t just float through their history classes with barely passing grades should know. But I still accept that I’m part of it. WE are a very stupid society.
Everyone shares some level of accountability, and I know nobody wants to hear it and will stomp and huff and gnash their teeth at the notion, but it’s true. Some carry a much larger chunk of that responsibility than others, from of course the people who didn’t care and didn’t vote, and the people who cared and still didn’t vote, to just the people who rolled their eyes every time someone posted a “political” picture in /r/funny and had to start a 300+ comment deep thread about how stupid politics is, down to the small pieces held by everyone who did everything right but never valued their community, didn’t make a stand against people saying and doing things we didn’t agree with, and lets not forget everyone who never involved themselves in their local elections even enough to vote for the people who represent them, they allowed many to go unchallenged and those people went on to prop up a government run by and representing a minority ideology.
Yup.
Democracies only work for average citizens if average citizens inform themselves responsibly and vote responsibly. Americans are AWFUL at that.
I’m honestly ashamed of our country. Never really felt that before. At least not to this degree.
3 of these guys marching down the street: a joke.
3,000 of these guys marching down the street: a nightmare.
You only hide your face if you’re proud of something that you’re probably not supposed to be proud of…
Or you fear being harassed by the cops… oh wait nvm.
Exactly. Some of them may actually be cops. They always get some number of facists.
“They always get some number of facists.”
My observation is that if they didn’t start out that way, they sure end up that way.
And yes, I resisted the temptation to make a joke about “facists”
Why are you putting “fascist” in quotes when we’re talking about a march literally displaying Nazi flags?
Maybe I’m mistaken in thinking Nazis are fascists?
Why are you putting “fascist” in quotes when we’re talking about a march literally displaying Nazi flags?
Slow down, you read too fast.
“facists” vs fascists.
Fair enough.
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This will be normalized within the next 4 years.
When the masks come off, that’s when it’s really bad.
Oh, don’t worry. That was just the new Secretary of Defense and a few of his buddies out blowing off some steam and having a good time.
Considering how passive the title is here I think maybe they’re normalized now.
The fact this is literally the 2nd story this week of Nazi shitheads openly waving their flags around is a good indicator it’s not going to take nearly that long.
No. No it won’t. They want to sensationalize this. Don’t buy into it.
Yeah nothing to report here, just some Nazis marching through US streets unmolested.
They were molested. The got in a few fights, pepper sprayed some people and then scuttled off to their U-Haul where the cops arrested them.
Can you elaborate on this?
I am not American (although I have lived there). I am just curious.
I am an American (and Jewish) and I have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. It has gotten worse and worse and worse.
I hope you are able to stay safe where you are. A lot of New England states prepared for an influx of people needing medical care when roe vs wade was overturned. Some blatantly said they will not cooperate with states like Texas and will not release people’s medical records.
I’m hoping if things escalate they’ll follow that trend and help people get out. There’s been some states like Vermont and Connecticut that have had a decrease in population over the past 10 years so there’s room for more people should it come to that.
I have dual citizenship with the UK, which is where we plan to escape to, but New England is Plan B if I can’t find a job.
That’s good to hear! The UK is probably a lot safer than staying stateside. But if you find job prospects better in New England we welcome you!
The roads are kinda crappy, and we still have some trump supporters, but it’s definitely muted compared to other parts of the country.
We have good friends in Baltimore (a queer married couple) so it’s a better plan B than nothing.
You paid pretty much zero attention I’m school, huh?
“They” being the majority of Americans who looked at this as said “yeah, sure”.
the only thing sadder than this is that they managed to survive to the end of their little walk and go home.
In a just society they would have been napalmed and/or turned to ground mince by a large truck.
It would be a shame if Nazis got massacred and noone saw what happened.
WE CALL THEM NAZIS ABC
I hate Ohio Nazis.
Ohio Nazis aren’t real Nazis.
If they don’t come from the 1944 Germany region, they are sparkling fascists.
Indeed, we need the 1974 Dodge Monaco…“It’s got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas.”
hate and bigotry is literally the only thing republicans agree on
I’ve seen more hate, violence, and bigotry from the left over the last year…
People calling you a nazi when you’re acting like a nazi doesn’t count.
Oh pretty please indulge us with your tall tales of all the violence you’ve seen from the left since Nov of 2023.
sure you have, sweetie
The hate and bigotry: people being upset at being intentionally misgendered.
Prove it.
Hallucinogenics are a hell of a drug…or did you just notsee what the entire GOP has become?
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Imagine having a brain so wasted and misused as to actually believe this.
It’s disrespectful to the forces of nature to treat your brain like this after so many millions of years of evolution.
Get yourself some help.
You mean the left also tried to overthrow the government through violence?
Haha, no you haven’t you fucking dork.
Police are investigating, and no arrests have been reported.
I wonder what the amount of Trump gear vs Nazi flags was. It’s also very ironic how when Nazi’s march in the streets without a permit the cops just block off the street with their cars and perform crowd control to “help protect the city” (the Nazis). And when people of color march without a permit because cops killed another person over something stupid they get met with riot gear, tear gas, and rubber bullets.
It’s going to get so much worse before it gets better …
To be fair they were severely understaffed for exactly the duration of the march for some mysterious reason.
Remember that cops have no duty to protect. They protect who they like. They protect what they are.
Yep, racists are going to be racist.
If it gets better…
Outside of us causing a nuclear war, it will eventually get better. Every empire eventually falls, it’s just a question of, do we take Mother Earth with us?
Let me guess: there were good people on both sides in that masked group.
the masked group is just one of the sides
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Masked groupNazis marches through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flagsFTFY ABC News.
They appear to have been arrested, traveling in a U-haul.
Interesting. The article ends by saying there were no arrests.
Ah, maybe the police were stopping them to pick up their coworkers from out of the van so that they could start their shift.
So the story gets a happy ending… and I’m guessing so will his cellmate.
…probably just relocating them to the department so they can change back into their cop uniforms.
Some of those who work forces…
I won’t believe this story has a happy ending until they’re in prison. Because I have a feeling they’re about to get a huge amount of help from the incoming administration.
Prison for 1.5 months until pardoned?
That will depend on whether they face state or federal charges. I’m curious if they will be charged at all if the only thing they did was “protest”.
It will depend a lot more on whether or not the fascist dictatorship coming into office in January gives a shit about state charges being out of their legal jurisdiction.
I’m betting on not.
Yeah, people are basically sticking their heads in the dirt with what’s about to happen in the US.
Source: I live in Ohio and the apathy is palpable. I’m in a Blue bubble, but I even when I go to some small town you can tell everyone is just too burnout from the freight train of nonstop crazy politics stuff.
People really want to believe Trump won’t be a fascist dictator despite coming right out and saying he will be. I know he lies all the time, but that’s a stupid reason not to believe him on this one.
I don’t think Trump will bail them out. It doesn’t benefit him to do so.
Sure it does. They can join his SS.
What, just because of every single thing they’ve said or done?
Wasn’t that a previous Nazi rally? Or did it happen again?
This picture is top of the Columbus subreddit from yesterday, so doesn’t seem like it’s from a previous occurrence.
Reddit is not a reliable source for verified facts in any way, at any time, at all.
I can nearly swear I remember this photo from the last trump administration.
Ah, I forgot to consult the internet’s most reliable source for verified facts: random dude who sears he remembers somethings.
Given the details of the post with multiple photos, it’s plausible reddit’s the source of the image. I wasn’t able to find an older posting of it, but by all means share your link from 4+ years ago if you’ve got t.
They’re not entirely wrong though. Remember how Reddit “caught” the Boston marathon bomber?
I think they *are *entirely wrong though. This thread’s about Nazis in Columbus and whether they were caught. I don’t think “I remember this from years ago, trust me bro” is a convincing reason to dismiss the photos. Neither is their having been posted in reddit, even if they fucked up an unrelated thing over a decade ago.
Again, I’m happy to be disproven. If the image above was actually circulating years ago, it should be relatively easy to find it posted somewhere else prior to yesterday. I couldn’t find it, hence why I commented about it in the first place
yeah thats all fair
I’m just addressing the fact that Reddit isn’t always correct and we should want more credible sources than random people submitting things online with no vetting. That’s where they aren’t entirely wrong. I’m not saying they’re right and their memory is a reason to believe this is incorrect, but they’re just some person online just like the Reddit user.
I checked tineye and it didn’t find any other copies of this image. Says it was posted to imgur yesterday.
https://tineye.com/search/3518bf0ca837e6e509d9c43e7c772c455e4ab33d?sort=score&order=desc&page=1
It legitimately looks like the cop on the left is giving that guy tips for next time.
I will never again wonder how a group like the KKK was able to form, thrive, and persist for so long, inside the USA.
So glad I don’t live there. I’m worried about you all.
Good luck.
I live here and do not understand how it is allowed to happen.
Because the civil war losers were never held to account, allowing this shit to continue festering underneath the veneer of American society.
Sherman should have finished the job.
His weakness was sympathising with southerners.
Traitors should’ve been hanged. Their lands should’ve been confiscated and given to newly freed peoples, 40 acres and a mule and all that. Reconstruction failed in large part because the traitorous, racist losers were allowed to go home and start implementing Jim Crow laws instead of being held accountable.
That they and their descendants were allowed to live out their days peacefully pretending their cause was somehow noble and honorable and not just chattel slavery is a crime that persists to this day in the systemic racism throughout our government.
Yup.
We didn’t hold the Confederates to account. We aren’t holding Donald Trump and his Republican enablers who spread lies about our democracy and took part in the fake electors plot to account. We’re too pussy to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.
Which is why our democracy won’t last.
It’s inevitable.
Exploitation of the religious liberties clause of the first amendment.
Any system is allowed to self-destruct, I guess
I’m worried about us too. What the ever-loving fuck, man.
We’ve always been a racist nation. The Civil War just shut them up in public for a while.
Trump will pardon them, so there’s gonna be a fuckton more of this shit over the next four years. Likely progressively worse as we go.
Yup.
Things aren’t getting better in America anytime soon. Even if the “pendulum swings”. Pendulum doesn’t matter in a society full of fools and racists. There is no magical reset button every 4-8 years for mistakes of the magnitude we just made as a society.
Buckle up.
Pardon them for what? Unless their possessing firearms wasn’t in line with the law, or that “physical altercation” mentioned that questioning apparently went nowhere reemerges as a thing then I don’t know what they’d need pardoned for based on the article.
The marching with Nazi shit and spewing whatever hateful bullshit is protected speech, because speech protections in the US are extremely broad.
And that’s before getting into whether or not the hypothetical crime is federal (which he could hypothetically pardon) or state (which he can’t).
Yeah, I was in a rush when writing that, and should have been more thorough in explaining what I meant.
I meant that’s their mentality: these idiots will become increasingly emboldened as Trump takes over, and make the assumption that they can do anything they want because Trump & the Republicans have taken over the Justice system and will allow them to do whatever they want to the “evil libs.” There will be no hate crimes prosecuted (unless against white and/or prominent right-wingers) - at least not on a federal level, but these idiots often don’t really understand that difference (and TBF there effectively may not BE a difference in red states).
Unless they violated a federal crime and are convicted of it, Trump can’t do shit.
Did he pardon anyone who participated in Jan 6?
Not yet but he will. They will form his loyal brown shirts which he will turn into the SS.
Also those court cases had not finished by the time Biden took office so he couldn’t have if he wanted to anyway.
He ran on doing so.
He will.
He doesn’t have to worry about pissing people off now. It’s his 2nd term.
“Party of law and order”.
I’ve read he plans to upon retaking office.
I think it’s incorrect to link all the January 6th protestors with actual Neo-Nazis and that sort of hyperbole was part of the reason Democrats were out of touch with how regular people felt. Neo-Nazis are partly increasing because of the memification of racism, giving racism a more viral quality, combined with how fast society is changing and people incorrectly making sense of it through racism.
No one mentioned Jan 6 until you did.
