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[CW: Violence] American Nazi Jake Lang went to an immigrant neighborhood in Minneapolis to disrupt anti-racist protests. In the end, Jake got what he wanted and was beaten severely. (video.twimg.com)

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American Nazi Jake Lang went to an immigrant neighborhood in Minneapolis to disrupt anti-racist protests against Trump's Gestapo-like policies, provoking residents and shouting xenophobic slogans. In the end, Jake got what he wanted and was beaten severely.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2012741019763146754/vid/avc1/1280x720/cIdnzndgnkEWUlTA.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2012741627882721591#m

"Immigrants are insidious parasites who reproduce more than we do." A few months ago, Jake Lang, a Nazi who, as usual, is also a Zionist fanatic, went to a working-class neighborhood in Dearborn, Michigan, to insult and incite hatred against immigrants... and they turned the tables on him. First they insult, provoke, attack... and then they play the victim; that's how fascism has always been.

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[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It's wild. He not only got beat up but people were outright chasing him, they were out for blood. If he'd hung around there are big chances he would have not made it out alive. In the end it was the people he despised who helped him get out. At one point he was cowering against a window as people were pelting him with water balloons - that's the part you can see he realized he was not in control of the situation and he was fearing for his life, but that was very tame compared to what came for him later.

A black man helped him through the crowd and the red car he ultimately gets into belongs to a trans couple who were just caught up in the middle of it. They explained in one video they allowed him in because they thought he was pursued by ICE, and once he got in and the rest of the crowd followed they had no choice but to drive away as they couldn't get out of the car themselves to get him to GTFO the back seat (completely understandable). After a couple blocks they asked him who he was and told him he couldn't stay. Apparently the owner of the car got his contact info and wants him to pay for the damage to the car lol.

[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 5 days ago

It's serious disgusting. Thanks to these people this dude got EVERYTHING he wanted. He went in there to get clout and fame. He wanted to be relevant and now he is. He's already getting thousands in donations. They really think he's gonna pay for their car damaged out of some sense of honor? Lol. Fucking what a joke. Guys like this will take your hand to save their life, then toss you in the pit as soon as they are safe. This dude should have disappeared into the crowd and not emerged.

And for fucks sake turn your fucking cameras off. We film our own actions and do the feds jobs for them. We incriminate our own movements all for Internet points. Either leave your phone home, off, or take a burner. They will track your shit and know everything that's going on.

[–] ComradeRandy@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 6 days ago

Showing compassion for people who actively want you dead is a classic example of the scorpion and the frog.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Should have been ground into chum

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 week ago

And let me guess his gofundme is a 45 billion dollars right now? Grifting the hogs is the easiest ever.

[–] narr1@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 week ago

love to see it

[–] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Deserved worst to be honest. Hopefully the crowds of Minneapolis learn how to rectify that issue.

[+] dRLY@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 week ago

That would require a disciplined, organized, armed, and educated group of people doing the protest, and then dealing with him in that way would need to be a calculated move. The fascists get away with what they do because the police and military are largely on their side; because the police and military are their own brand of fascist. And those fascists have lots of guns. Dealing with that problem isn't as simple as making a few rando "influencer" fascists scared to do a nazi salute in public.

In other words, I don't think what you're describing is primarily a "lib" problem, even if liberalism does contribute to the problem. It's more a problem of the masses not yet being prepared enough for what is needed to overcome. The institutional liberals (e.g. in congress) failing to do anything is a different problem because they do have some actual power. Some random people at a protest don't in the same way.

In general, people need to stop having faith in anything to do with their rights and go into this stuff assuming that the fascists are going to do anything ranging from shooting at them to provoking them like this guy tried to do, and prepare accordingly, i.e. expect to be mistreated and plan for it. Don't expect them to "play fair" by any stretch of the imagination and don't think that some clips of being brutalized by the state on camera while protesting non-violently are going to fix things. It has its place in raising awareness about the violence of the state, but 2020 showed how little that could move the needle on its own.