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submitted 10 months ago by DevCat@lemmy.world to c/usa@lemmy.ml

After anti-LGBTQ+ neo-Nazi leader Christopher Pohlhaus purchased a 10.6-acre property in Springfield, Maine with the hopes of turning it into a Nazi training ground, local residents found out about his plan and made him feel very unwelcome. He eventually sold the property, blaming “militant leftists” for the unwanted attention he earned.

Pohlhaus is founder of the fascist group “Blood Tribe,” a group that protested an Ohio drag brunch last May. His group chanted the words “Blood,” “Under the Aryan Sun,” and “No transgenders on our streets,” while throwing Nazi salutes. He also led a similar protest against a drag queen story hour in Akron, Ohio in mid-March.

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[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 87 points 10 months ago

Feel-good story of the day.

Only downside is that he didn't eat a brick. Fascists shouldn't ever feel welcomed anywhere.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

eat a brick

Never seen "5.56 NATO" spelled like that, but you do you. ".45ACP" is my favorite spelling. Little slow to pronounce, but gets the point across like a brick to the head.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Bricks go down better with knuckle sandwiches! Also, would you like to taste our seasonal whines? We've got, just for you, Summer Teeth!

[-] MycoMadness@reddthat.com 68 points 10 months ago

"People were coming up there all the time, snooping and getting very brazen, even driving down into the clearing.”

Awww, is the wittle neo-nazi concerned about people having a problem with Nazism in their town? Good, should've caught a brick in the jaw before selling the land though.

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 39 points 10 months ago

basically too dangerous to fulfill its purpose to be a safe space for families to make the transition up here

oh no!

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago

basically too dangerous to fulfill its purpose to be a safe space for families to make the transition up here

oh no!

[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

Look at that guy. It's always the ones you least suspect.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Militant leftists" my ass. Sounds like concerned citizens doing their job as citizens.

Militant leftist sounds more like me. And had this man setup camp in my little country town? He would have never seen or met me.

snooping and getting very brazen, even driving down into the clearing

How does, "Hiding well inside the tree line", sound? Like that better you fucking Nazi? Take that as you will.

We need to pull our collective head out of our liberal ass. "EEEK! Call the police on the bad men!" And the police are on their side.

"Noooo! We must ban guns!"

Why? Bad guys are well armed, won't obey those laws, and you expect me to disarm myself?! Hard pass.

[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm with you brotherman. Intolerance isnt a paradox. Those being intolerant have broken the social rules, therefore the agreement and compromise that tolerance is does.not.apply.to.them

Let the others take the high road. I don't want a mic anyway. I'll be around, down with the rest of my working class, guarding the rear on the low road. You see, my dreams were crash after crash made impossible for me and my copium is simply ensuring that those responsible don't get to live there's either. The dies been cast, I've made my peace with it.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

the agreement and compromise that tolerance is does.not.apply.to.them

Can't clap my hands together hard enough. At some point we have to say, "NO. You're clearly outside the tribe's rules and have to go away." 10 Nazis at dinner, add a non-Nazi, now you got 11 Nazis.

Right with you. There's more of us than you hear from on social media like this.

[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Or that modern proverb about the bartender not serving kicking out the respectful skinhead. In summary, if you let one in, next time he'll bring his 2 buddies and they'll behave. Then a week later you turn around and your a nazi bar.

I have a pretty easy litmus test for people. If you want your personal beliefs to become law and force other people to live your values, it's simple. I think you're a monster. End of story. The basic do whatever you want as long as you don't hurt anyone is really all we need. If you can't eat pork, don't live on a pig farm, but if you can't control yourself then your failings are between you, your conscience and your god and nobody has fuck-all to do with any of that. I have personal beliefs I think would make for terrible policy. I thought everyone had that, or could recognize that but holy shit was I giving some ppl way too much credit. I can't tell you how many grown ass adults, living on their own for decades, I've had to look dead in the eye and say that just bc you thought something doesn't mean it means shit. Your thoughts aren't holy, aren't a revelation from some esoteric being, and they aren't a conduit or embodiment of the divine. At least a dozen people who've never even considered the alternative. It still stuns me, as much as it disgusts me.

It's like too many people think that because the boomers got away with acting despicable (and they we're collectively lead poisoned and essentially stopped emotionally maturing at 14) that that's the norm and now it's their turn. And yea, nope. Strike that thought from your brain. Act right or GTFO. Most of Gen X, almost all of Millennials and a larger chunk of GenZ haven't turned conservative upon getting older. If anything I've swung harder left. We outnumber them.

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Get straight fucked, dude!

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

A cowardly Nazi Street gang basing their schtick on the actual bloods is pretty amusing.

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