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skipThings
May 21, 2007

Tell me more about this
"Wireless fun-adaptor" you were speaking of.

McCloud posted:

Turns out a lot of people think both Antifa and the nazi demonstrators are just same type of trash with a different authoritarian flavour. The logic is that "if no one cared the nazis would go away, and afa is playing in to their hands by confronting them, because they want attention".

Obviously ignoring nazis is just a tacit endorsement of their behaviour, so they should be confronted and shown in no uncertain terms their bullshit won't fly, but I can understand why you would recoil from the leftist activists as well. Things like the riots 2001 and violence with collateral damage to innocent people has given them a terrible reputation, one not undeserved .

Yea, I know those bullshit arguments, no matter what anyone does it totally play either into the Nazis hands or the liberal establishment who can't wait to collaborate with them takes pity on the poor little hurt Nazi feelings

gently caress that poo poo, Nazis deserve violence

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McCloud
Oct 27, 2005

Revelation 2-13 posted:

No, you see, the people explicitly and openly advocating for, and supporting, the genocide of people with different skin colors, are pretty much the same as the people who are trying to stop them for advocating/enacting mass murder and spreading their hateful ideology. It's really two sides of the same coin when you think about it and both sides are pretty bad.

I think there's this part in people where they don't think losers like the NMR can accomplish anything, and are ultimately harmless, so why not let them have their little parade, because what's the worst that can happen?

Add to that that AFA do stupid poo poo like throwing rocks and firecrackers at the mounted police and cause collateral damage, and the end result is that people see their involvement as just needlessly causing problems for everyone for something that wasn't considered an issue to begin with.

Of course, one only needs to look at what happened in Charloteville to see how very quickly nazis can grow out of control. There needs to be a cost associated with being a nazi, and since these losers probably don't have much of a social circle outside of nazis, having a bunch of people bash your head in will have to be the cost they pay. But attacking police and causing damage to public property just turns people against AFA, and is only counterproductive. Especially in a situation like this when the police actually seem like they're doing a good job

McCloud
Oct 27, 2005

skipThings posted:



gently caress that poo poo, Nazis deserve violence

On this, we're agreed.

Anta
Mar 5, 2007

What a nice day for a gassing

McCloud posted:

So what exactly happened yesterday with the protests? I read that the nazis tried to change the marching route and the police used that as an excuse to shut the whole thing down. Why did they try going a different route? Why didn't they listen to the police?

Did they honestly feel they could just do whatever the gently caress they wanted?

Apparently, the original route they applied for was longer and also went right past a synagogue. The police had the approved route shortened and changed.

For some mysterious reason, it was really important to them to march past this synagogue?

lilljonas
May 6, 2007

We got crabs? We got crabs!

Anta posted:

Apparently, the original route they applied for was longer and also went right past a synagogue. The police had the approved route shortened and changed.

For some mysterious reason, it was really important to them to march past this synagogue?

The police didn't, but a court overruled the permit that the police gave (i.e the one passing by the book con and the synagogue). The attempted breakthrough aimed at getting through the police blockade and charge the book con afaik.

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012

skipThings posted:

Yea, I know those bullshit arguments, no matter what anyone does it totally play either into the Nazis hands or the liberal establishment who can't wait to collaborate with them takes pity on the poor little hurt Nazi feelings

gently caress that poo poo, Nazis deserve violence

And yet the majority of the antifa were non-violence and they outnumber the nazis by a lot. That is a pretty great way of showing the nazis how few they are.
Bonus point comes when the nazis inevitably gently caress up and gets grabbed by the police.
The ones similar to the nazis are the minority of the antifa that are only there for the violence.

Finally there is no political side in Sweden that wants to have anything to do with the nazis and they have no power whatsoever. But keep on living in your bubble.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Anta posted:

For some mysterious reason, it was really important to them to march past this synagogue?

It's all very mysterious. :allears:

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

McCloud posted:

Of course, one only needs to look at what happened in Charloteville to see how very quickly nazis can grow out of control. There needs to be a cost associated with being a nazi, and since these losers probably don't have much of a social circle outside of nazis, having a bunch of people bash your head in will have to be the cost they pay. But attacking police and causing damage to public property just turns people against AFA, and is only counterproductive. Especially in a situation like this when the police actually seem like they're doing a good job

Thing is, how are you supposed to know in advance whether the cops decide to actually do their jobs this time or if they decide to just let the nazis do their thing? They don't exactly have a stellar track record here.

EDIT: Also it doesn't really matter what antifa do or don't do, the liberals are too in love with both sides-ism to care.

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

I want to believe that the police allowed the nazis to do their illegal "practice" march earlier to trick them into believing that they could get away with poo poo this time.

Svartvit
Jun 18, 2005

al-Qabila samaa Bahth

my girlfriend is Legos posted:



I was right there on the front row at Heden, but goddamn, I had no idea there were that many people. I figured the crowd extended maybe twenty metres behind me. When we started jumping the barricades after the police left because the nazis were clearly not coming, a liberal in a sailing jacket yelled after me and called me 'våldsverkare' :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqOJgV6rDa8

skipThings
May 21, 2007

Tell me more about this
"Wireless fun-adaptor" you were speaking of.

Cardiac posted:

Finally there is no political side in Sweden that wants to have anything to do with the nazis and they have no power whatsoever. But keep on living in your bubble.

Except for the Swedendemocrats, but keep on living in your bubble,

Pal.

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

Savage Cracker posted:

All I want is to get rid of a few ethnic, religious and sexual minorities and if you can't respect that then you're the nazi
:same:

MiddleOne posted:

It's all very mysterious. :allears:
Completely inscrutable.

lilljonas posted:

The police didn't, but a court overruled the permit that the police gave (i.e the one passing by the book con and the synagogue).
Its as if the police is somehow enabling nazi demonstrations? So surprising!

evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Oct 1, 2017

McCloud
Oct 27, 2005

Cerebral Bore posted:

Thing is, how are you supposed to know in advance whether the cops decide to actually do their jobs this time or if they decide to just let the nazis do their thing? They don't exactly have a stellar track record here.

EDIT: Also it doesn't really matter what antifa do or don't do, the liberals are too in love with both sides-ism to care.

True, cops history with dealing with demonstrations isn't stellar, wasn't it a month or so ago they let a bunch of nazis demonstrate without a permit? But I also kind of feel that attacking the police accomplishes nothing, and is counterproductive.

If the police are outright hostile then yeah, but that was not the case yesterday.

As an aside, how the hell is the NMR protest not classified as "hets mot folkgrupp"? These guys aren't being coy about being nazis,they're not hiding their intentions in doublespeak.

McCloud fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Oct 1, 2017

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

McCloud posted:

True, cops history with dealing with demonstrations isn't stellar, wasn't it a month or so ago they let a bunch of nazis demonstrate without a permit? But I also kind of feel that attacking the police accomplishes nothing, and is counterproductive.

If the police are outright hostile then yeah, but that was not the case yesterday.

Again, how are counterprotesters supposed to know how the cops are going to act in advance? Unless you know a hotline to Nostradamus himself, you're kinda asking for the impossible here.

McCloud
Oct 27, 2005

I'm asking that they not go in assuming cops will be violent dicks, and instead hold off on throwing rocks on them until they act out of line. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.
Ultimately aggression against cops, even if they would have been protecting the nazis, would not have been productive.

But then again, my contact with the police is non existent, and I'm a white middleclass male, so I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt in that they're actually trying to do their jobs in limiting collateral damage and injuries, instead of having a pro-nazi agenda or wanting to bash some heads.

I'd like to think our police is held to a higher standard than the US or UK ones, but :shrug:

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Cardiac posted:

The ones similar to the nazis are the minority of the antifa that are only there for the violence.


No, they're not.

my girlfriend is Legos
Apr 24, 2013
Being there in an antifa capacity and being there solely for the violence seems like a contradiction in terms to me.

Meanwhile, apparently 22 of the 23 kept in police custody are nazis.

Revelation 2-13
May 13, 2010

Pillbug
In the 90s in Copenhagen, anti-fascist (mostly just called anti-racists at the time) would have to patrol the streets in the evenings because neo-nazis groups would literally be out looking for immigrants kids to beat up, immigrant shop windows to break and set fire to, and the police didn't do gently caress all. Plenty of 'moderate' politicians would go on and on about them 'just looking for a fight' back then too. Fighting nazis is not something you do because you're 'just in it for the violence'. If that's your thing you join the football violence.

In addition, antifa is not some monolithic entity, with a single unified purpose, some of them do see police primarily as tool of capitalist oppression and want to smash the symbols of capitalism and so on. However, as long as they're fighting nazis, and if you're too pussy/busy to join in, please just get out of their way and say thank you when they're done. If it's so important for you to point out 'both sides!!!', then at least save the 'some are bad eggs!&$!' moralizing for when they smash up a McDonalds or something, so you have just a fig leaf of a moral leg to stand on.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Cardiac posted:

Finally there is no political side in Sweden that wants to have anything to do with the nazis and they have no power whatsoever. But keep on living in your bubble.

Literal nazi Jimmie Åkesson would like a word with you

Cerebral Bore posted:

Thing is, how are you supposed to know in advance whether the cops decide to actually do their jobs this time or if they decide to just let the nazis do their thing? They don't exactly have a stellar track record here.

EDIT: Also it doesn't really matter what antifa do or don't do, the liberals are too in love with both sides-ism to care.

Indeed. Last time nazis (illegally) marched in Norway, cops protected them and arrested the protesters.

TheRat fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Oct 1, 2017

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Revelation 2-13 posted:

In the 90s in Copenhagen, anti-fascist (mostly just called anti-racists at the time) would have to patrol the streets in the evenings because neo-nazis groups would literally be out looking for immigrants kids to beat up, immigrant shop windows to break and set fire to, and the police didn't do gently caress all. Plenty of 'moderate' politicians would go on and on about them 'just looking for a fight' back then too.

Don't forget the Swedish nazi letter bombing International Socialists and killing a dude, which the police insisted for years was a bomb-building mishap despite being in possession of clear evidence to the contrary. I simply can't imagine why anti-fascists would distrust the police.

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

my girlfriend is Legos posted:


Meanwhile, apparently 22 of the 23 kept in police custody are nazis.

See​ both sides are just as bad.

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

SplitSoul posted:

Don't forget the Swedish nazi letter bombing International Socialists and killing a dude, which the police insisted for years was a bomb-building mishap despite being in possession of clear evidence to the contrary. I simply can't imagine why anti-fascists would distrust the police.
It's a myyyyyystery

Neeksy
Mar 29, 2007

Hej min vän, hur står det till?
I wonder if in Scandinavia there is the same "let's all join the police force" campaigns that KKK and neo-nazis have done for the last few decades in the US, where you find officers, sergeants, and even higher ups with nazi and supremacist tattoos.

McCloud
Oct 27, 2005

SplitSoul posted:

Don't forget the Swedish nazi letter bombing International Socialists and killing a dude, which the police insisted for years was a bomb-building mishap despite being in possession of clear evidence to the contrary. I simply can't imagine why anti-fascists would distrust the police.

Wait, what? When did this happen?

Mercrom
Jul 17, 2009

Sandweed posted:

See​ both sides are just as bad.

clearly the people oppressed by the police are the victims here

Savage Cracker
Jul 21, 2010

McCloud posted:

Wait, what? When did this happen?

92

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

McCloud posted:

Wait, what? When did this happen?

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ller%C3%B8dgadebomben

And the nazi network ORG got the information for their "traitor" registry from a police officer:

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORG

Hedenius
Aug 23, 2007

Neeksy posted:

I wonder if in Scandinavia there is the same "let's all join the police force" campaigns that KKK and neo-nazis have done for the last few decades in the US, where you find officers, sergeants, and even higher ups with nazi and supremacist tattoos.

I don't think so. At least not these days. The loser fuckups probably won't even get in and the more capable ones are more likely to join one of our scandinavian "we're NOT nazis (officially anymore)" parties.

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

You could try but one of the hassles of Sweden (like Scandinavia in general) taking police competency seriously is that you're extremely like to get weeded out at some stage of the education or application process if you're a radical. If you're going to swing that way you have to fall into it after you're already half-way in or hide it really well. Like that excluded SD-youth party guy in Stockholm who is still a professional military paratrooper despite being an outspoken neo-nazi.

In the US any idiot can with a high-school diploma can join up, get through the very short a rudimentary education process and wear a badge and gun. Not quite so here.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Oh, forgot to mention, the cop that did over 8,000 searches of police databases and the Civil Registration System to fill up the ORG "traitor" registry with personal information like street addresses, names of spouses, etc., was merely given probation and fired. They only charged him with unwarranted access, not the fact that he passed the information on to his secret nazi network.

Why all the distrust for law enforcement, anti-fascists? Why?

MiddleOne posted:

(like Scandinavia in general) taking police competency seriously

:laffo:

Yeah, sure, like our new six-month course to become a cadet that any idiot 18-year-old without a high school diploma can apply for.

Wild Horses
Oct 31, 2012

There's really no meaning in making beetles fight.

SplitSoul posted:

Oh, forgot to mention, the cop that did over 8,000 searches of police databases and the Civil Registration System to fill up the ORG "traitor" registry with personal information like street addresses, names of spouses, etc., was merely given probation and fired. They only charged him with unwarranted access, not the fact that he passed the information on to his secret nazi network.


wow thats hosed up

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

SplitSoul posted:

:laffo:

Yeah, sure, like our new six-month course to become a cadet that any idiot 18-year-old without a high school diploma can apply for.

Fine, on average :v:

evil_bunnY
Apr 2, 2003

SplitSoul posted:

Oh, forgot to mention, the cop that did over 8,000 searches of police databases and the Civil Registration System to fill up the ORG "traitor" registry with personal information like street addresses, names of spouses, etc., was merely given probation and fired. They only charged him with unwarranted access, not the fact that he passed the information on to his secret nazi network.

Why all the distrust for law enforcement, anti-fascists? Why?
Goddamn

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




gently caress the police:
https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/svenske-victoria-raser-mot-norsk-politi-etter-utlendingskontroll--apenbart-raseprofilering/68755828

Government Handjob
Nov 1, 2004

Gudbrandsglasnost
College Slice

thotsky
Jun 7, 2005

hot to trot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lw1MrMHQ9o

Cardiac
Aug 28, 2012


Ah, Kawesa, the resigned leader of Fi who will be on trial for forging "scientific papers in genus theory" (which is an achievement in a field made up of make belief). Also known for not paying her illegal cleaner (the latter might be another Fi profile).
For some reason I would take her statement with a grain of salt.

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

Next election I'm going to print out some dickbutts and slip into the voting envelopes. :cripes:

murphyslaw
Feb 16, 2007
It never fails

Cardiac posted:

Ah, Kawesa, the resigned leader of Fi who will be on trial for forging "scientific papers in genus theory" (which is an achievement in a field made up of make belief). Also known for not paying her illegal cleaner (the latter might be another Fi profile).
For some reason I would take her statement with a grain of salt.

nice dig, the other woman who was with her confirmed the story though.

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Revelation 2-13
May 13, 2010

Pillbug
Also, if you go into the immigration section of the police, probability of you being a huge racist quintuples, like people working in immigration "services". I know some are forced in there by circumstance, and you have to put food on the table and all, but most non-assholes have the dignity to start sucking cock for a living instead, or become a hobo or something. Or if it's real hard times, even turning to things like politician and/or lawyer, rather than sink that low.

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