The inside-the-law approach that works to some limited extent is public community rejection. Things like large groups showing up and standing with their back to the Nazis.

The method that has historically stopped Nazis like this involves getting some level of police cooperation and beating them up

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Let them march. A bigger problem is that a huge number of people seem to think they’re a thing of the past and don’t really exist in any strength. Let them prove otherwise.

You can’t suppress them into defeat anyway, we’ve tried that before.

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We can’t suppress them into defeat!? What?? That’s how the German Nazis were defeated! That’s how modern Nazis have been symbolically defeated, worldwide. Repeat after me: “We don’t serve you here.”

Any place, anywhere in the world, if an equal number of people stand up against them and for human equality, they run away with their tails between their legs. They’re fucking Nazis…

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There were several laws put in place in postwar Germany that specifically suppressed them. This was broadly effective, though I think the modern-day position of the AfD shows it was not completely so.

In the US, any such legislation would be struck down in court as unconstitutional.

So, it’s just not that simple.

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Newsflash: some number of people are absolute shitbags.

If you let them take over and run the show it’s gonna get real bad.

Nazis are absolute shitbags. They will always be around in some number. You need to always suppress them so they don’t fuck up the good shit we have managed to eek out.

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Right, so you start beating the shit out of them until they learn to shut the fuck up and stop showing up. Make them afraid.

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“We don’t serve you here.”

Yep.

  1. take picture
  2. post picture near register
  3. under sign saying “we prefer not to serve nazis”

(#3 sounds less harsh than it is in enforcement. #canadian)

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That’s how the German Nazis were defeated!

The German Nazis were defeated with overwhelming manpower & firepower, not passive suppression.

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They were defeated by actually standing up to them. That’s all I’m suggesting we do now!

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We didn’t though, we let them fester, just like the Confederates. We should have also, not let them fester.

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Actually, Ulysses S Grant clamped down very brutally on groups like the KKK during the Reconstruction Era, essentially continuing the civil war against the south in a sense. He ended up reducing their strength significantly and driving them underground.

Unfortunately, an idea cannot be destroyed with military might, it can only be fought by teaching critical thinking skills and sound information gathering and decision-making methods, so people don’t think so stupidly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement_Act_of_1870

Note the line that says the law allows the use of the army to enforce it, that’s what Grant ended up doing.

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