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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh you can definitely punch Nazis in the face nowadays. Highly recommend.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Obligatory

(I hope embedding this gif works)

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Brown shirts?

What are those?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fascists. An alt definition is more specifically nazi and/or racist.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So you were born in time to punch Nazis in the face?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US is still full of them, yes. I included the alt definition because I'm a little confused by the premise of the meme. It reads "born too late to punch nazis, born too early to punch terminators, born just in time to punch nazis".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, I seem to have confused the moderator tag with an "OP" tag, for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Basically party thugs. Go around harassing people

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Ah ok? Is that specific to a region? I never heard of this.

Edit: I meant region, not reason. Autocorrect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Kinda. It’s a reference to the SA. It’s become a shorthand for fascist paramilitaries that haven’t seized power, so like one could call the proud boys brownshirts.

But it’s regional because they only wore brown in Germany. Italy had the blackshirts and Americans wore silver.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes and no. Read some WWII history

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Other users were kind enough to point out that they are a Nazi group. That's all I needed to know.

[–] festnt 1 points 1 year ago

i read twice and still though "region" was "religion"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"punch Nazis in the face"? You know they were armed, bro?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So were the anti fascists.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

and that's why we need something more permanent than a fist!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anti-fascists get tougher with every year Hitler is dead. You can't imagine what life under terror is like. Luckily, me neither, but I'm not under the illusion I'd be some kind of hero when I and by extension my whole family were threatened by torture and death.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can’t imagine what life under terror is like.

You say that like someone who isn't already an Atlantan intimidated into inaction by the persecution of Stop Cop City protestors, up to and including police murdering them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, well, I don't live in the US. But you're proving my point exactly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, but to put it frankly: They got fucked up. In the most permanent sense possible.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminder:

Steve Buscemi is not a Brown Shirt.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My buddy Eric could’ve really used this reminder yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago