A hidden timestamp on a 'menacing' Neo-Nazi video aimed at Lidia Thorpe indicates who the likely architects are (www.abc.net.au)

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[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 11 months ago

I sometimes wish exile was still a thing. It's only an idle thought and I know if it was it would be misused massively but god damned.

My mum and her parents came here to rebuild away from all the pain caused by Nazis. Now they're on the rise again, it's such an odious and infectious ideology that I'm not sure we're culturally prepared to handle.

Even just the presence of a handful poisons community, as you can see here where a couple of horrible people can inflame and terrorise a lot more.

[-] Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

I don't like thinking of the individual people this way but personally I think Nazism like a virus. It's always dormant and attaches itself onto subcultures and fringe communities. It evolves and adapts to different contexts, always trying to exploit opportunities for division and hatred. And it thrives in democratic societies that tolerate different points of view - it exploits that. Essentially any complex, cosmopolitan society is always at risk of a nazi epidemic breaking out. Similar to viruses, you can never really erradicate them but you can try to immunise your society and prevent it from taking over your democratic systems.

[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Same. It would be better for everyone if we paid other countries to take criminals and extremists instead of putting them in cages.

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

No not like making them someone elses problem. Just like sending them off into the no longer existing vacant wilderness to survive or die as they see fit, cut off from the communities they parasitise.

It's a very silly daydream.