220
submitted 1 month ago by memfree@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

Article details how reporter -- pre-armed with relevant facts and cameras -- confronts neoNazis in Tennessee. | Excerpts:

Members of the Goyim Defense League harassed people in the heart of Nashville's entertainment district, berating a lesbian mom who had just left a restaurant.

Later, the neo-Nazis assaulted a bartender who had confronted the group.


"I'm curious: Why Nashville? Why did you guys choose Nashville?" I asked Minadeo.

A fellow GDL member, Nicholas Bysheim, quickly answered.

"It's the only place that respects freedom of speech," Bysheim said.

Minadeo added, "Yeah, this city respects freedom of speech, but communist Jews like yourself don't."

A Californian who moved to Florida, Minadeo leads the hate group as it goes around the country trying to create scenes that they hope will bring them attention and followers.

One of their favorite tropes: Falsely accusing Jews of being pedophiles.


Over and over, it became clear that these are people who are blind to any facts that don't support their hate.

These are really pathetic human beings.

They are the only ones who seem not to know it.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 118 points 1 month ago

This journalist just gave us a masterclass in everything you shouldn't do when interacting with nazis: appeals to logic, appeals to emotion, bringing up facts and logic, and ultimately platforming them. This is the kind of liberalism that promotes fascism. There is no excuse to give fascists time on TV and to platform them. There is no "debating" fascists. There is only violence.

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

Please, this is the most important comment here. There is nothing to be gained from communicating with a Nazi. Even when they're playing nice

Zero tolerance, nazi punks fuck off

[-] redisdead@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Make Punching Nazis Legal Again

[-] ampersandcastles@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Punching seems too nice when blades exist.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 month ago

Imagine being so wrapped up in your hateful bullshit that you are terrifying young children on the street and you still think you are the good guy.

[-] memfree@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago

I feel sorry for the kid. This sort of crap makes me angry.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

No, no, grown men making little girls cry is just normal and an essential part of free speech.

[-] rando895@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

The grown men are free to choose to make little girls cry, and little girls are free to choose to cry. What don't you understand tankie?!?!

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Can I make the grown men cry?

[-] rando895@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

You are few to choose

[-] ampersandcastles@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Let me know when you do. I want to help.

[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 29 points 1 month ago

The GDL’s founder — a failed rapper and actor named Jon Minadeo who recently moved to Florida after he was fired from a catering business in California owned by his parents — was himself arrested in Palm Beach in February for littering offenses involving the fliers

From another article, lo fuckingl the dudes parents fired him!

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Anyone remember r/BeholdTheMasterRace? It was pretty funny. Plus, it's always good fun to dunk on racists.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

That's exactly what I thought of. Alas, permanently gone dark in protest of Reddit's API changes. Fortunately, we have the power to create it anew! !beholdthemasterrace@lemmy.ml

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 26 points 1 month ago

Goyim Defense League

That would be funny if they were 16 and not fully grown men.

[-] broton33@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Damn, it takes guts and patience to confront and be honest with nazis.

[-] memfree@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago

And cameras. Don't forget to record what they are doing. I feel like this sort of interaction could go really wrong if there isn't a video record.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

The Nazies sure stopped trying to have a conversation when the reporter asked if the known pedophile in their group wasn't hiding behind one of the hoods/masks.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

"When I hear 'culture,' I reach for my gun" is a favorite quote of Nazis.

Their take is always whoever shoots first wins.

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

You see how ignorant they are.

Whoever shoots last wins.

[-] AdlachGyfiawn@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 month ago

A great example of why debating Nazis is pointless. Throw a Molotov in the middle of them instead—it's the only language they understand.

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Jon Minadeo II is also an indophobe, it seems. But little does this clown know that the Aryans that these neo-Nazis claim to be, used to live in modern-day Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and north India? The word 'Arya' means noble and honorable one, and this clown is neither of that.

[-] prole@beehaw.org 9 points 1 month ago

The "Aryans" these clowns claim to be never actually existed, they're some lame occult-adjacent bullshit cooked up by Himmler et. al. to sell the big lie.

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

EDIT: Saw this was .ml so I'm gonna try to be nicer about it

The issue with neonazi's is not that they misuse and abuse words, history, rhetoric. Though they certainly do.

The solution to neonazi's then is not to correct them on their lexicon or try to catch them in a logical fallcy or a lapsus.

Flippantly, the cure is simple: cure-for-fascism

Less flippantly, the cure is organized, militant worker movements willing and prepared to resist the reactionary violence that is sure to come as the West steadily loses its hegemonic status in the world. The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. And you don't debate a vampire that's got his fangs in your neck. You go get a stake.

[-] memfree@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Not sure if the boy works here, but... @aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me REAL Americans FIGHT Nazis!

Style:sovietpropaganda

[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Fantastic article. Gets right to the heart of the problem. Angry people disappointed with how their lives turned out feel like they have to cling to something. Something that gives them the value that they don’t see in themselves as individuals.

Race is an easy crutch. There are centuries of bullshit pseudoscience about skull shapes and whatnot for them to discover. And most of all, it gives them enemies. They can take all that hate and frustration they feel in their own lives and direct it outwardly.

It’s ultimately sad and pathetic. Maybe if people like this had economic opportunities, better education, etc. they wouldn’t have the underlying self-loathing that leads them down this path.

[-] spacecadet@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Alternatively, simply punch the nazis

load more comments (16 replies)
[-] arswaw@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

This is great but the interviewer should've asked why the member who tried to meet up with a child was kicked out if it really was a police setup.

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

The fuck is wrong with these freaks?

[-] HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

People stopped punching nazis in the nose, it used to be a fun pastime

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

Insulting to small-chinned comrades. Just because they're nazis doesn't mean body shaming is okay.

[-] Enkrod@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I agree, the subtext of this comic could be read as if it was okay if they were all blond, blue eyed chads.

If the "masterrace" people were all ultra good looking, highly educated supermodels, they'd still be wrong, evil and ugly on the inside.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago
[-] seaweedsheep@literature.cafe 2 points 1 month ago

Preacher by Garth Ennis, who also wrote The Boys.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. Specifically #46, reprinted in the collection "Preacher: Salvation".

Really, all of Preacher though is just solid gold. Shame the TV show didn't do it justice.

load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
220 points (97.8% liked)

United States | News & Politics

7104 readers
307 users here now

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS