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Nazis are regularly using the "muh freeze peach" excuse to continue pushing their crap and demand to be listened to, or be platformed in general (and not be punched in the face when they openly advocate for murdering fellow Americans).

In more civilised countries (see e.g. Germany) this kind of shit gets shut down quickly.

You Americans have a very weird relationship with the ~~second~~ first amendment - and the Nazis really took it as a "free from criticism" amendment, now, haven't they?

Stop giving these assclowns the benefit of the doubt. Stop accepting the "it was only in jest" excuses when they push their agenda. Sartre said it right:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

While he does specify anti-Semite, in the context it's clear that he means Nazis.

Push back on Nazism and stop accepting excuses on why it isn't "really" Nazism.

Like taking the literal Nazi marches seriously in 1938-39 while the war was raging in Europe?

For me it's pretty simple why I don't go there.

A Pizza Hut large pizza, sans discounts, begins at £23/£27. And it tastes likes ass, while also in the past ~2 years the amount of cheese and toppings was reduced by half, at least.

Meanwhile, the little "greasy spoon" pizza place that delivers within 15 minutes, for the same price, will do a family meal deal of 2 large pizzas (with tons of toppings and proper amount of cheese!), a large garlic pizza bread, an extra side and a 2L drink.

Oh and the latter pizza tastes awesome, is delivered with care (by their own drivers, not an UberEats fuckwit who'll toss the pizza in his backpack vertically), and the place regularly tossed in a little extra for frequent orders, like an extra dessert...

Here's a better idea, expand the building on the Canadian side, and house all the books of the US side (and even more), so that Canadians literally have no reason to go across the border.

Sends a stronger message IMO.

A combination of various renewables (solar, wind, hydro in its various forms), combined with sustainable high density storage and a global network of power delivery with multiple redundancies is the solution.

But it will obviously not happen as it isn't in shareholders' interest to have sustainable, cheap energy.

True, but don't forget that the internet essentially destroyed the last guardrail against stupidity: social exclusion.

Pre-internet (not even social media mind you as prior to that, BBSes and forums existed), if you were a dumbfuck, you got excluded. No friends, no hanging out with people, nobody wanted to spend time with you. And most people being social beings, you'd want to avoid that, therefore you either didn't voice those opinions, or learned to change them.

Then came the internet and suddenly, the morons found brethren. First were the conspiracy theorists who were already excluded, finding safe havens to hide out at. But then slowly - and this is where mass social media, and easy access to it via smartphones and tablets, and affordable computing, comes in - the other morons, let them be racists, antisemites, homophobes, transphobes, etc., slowly discovered that hey, while they might be alone in their surroundings, they're not alone when you account for 7 (back then, today it's 8) billion people!

And so the last guardrail was gone, and stupidity, a la Idiocracy, has begun to spread.

Not to mention that the Nazis, coming out of hiding, were quick to utilise these new spaces to recruit people. Now with less overt racism and antisemitism, they preyed on the newer generation.

Remember when around 2012-13-14, all the big meme sites - 9gag, iFunny, etc. - slowly became more and more extremists, racist, and overtly Nazi? That was a somewhat coordinated move, capturing the youngest generation knowing full well their parents aren't yet tech-savvy enough to do anything about it. Kids under 20-22 lack the reasoning skills older people do, this directly leads to lesser understanding on how bad their actions are, and how they're being influenced. Which did happen slowly but surely, and resulted in the Trunp win just a few years later.

Mind you I'm not saying these people don't need to take responsibility for their actions - they most definitely do. I'm purely explaining the reasons why things unfolded as they did, so we can prevent it in the future.

The real mistake was not finishing the job of getting rid of all Nazis back in 1945.

Can't put direct blame on Dear Leader, after all.

Oh, good to know. Last time I checked around WASM this wasn't really an option.

Sounds like at this point if you want to kill someone, it's enough to report them to the police.

They either get swatted or the investigation opened will make life impossible enough for them to commit suicide...

Even if it is... You'd seriously deny a vet housing because they had an investigation opened against them, that, again, was closed without further action?

Troops ain't worth shit in this case, sadly. The real deterrent is the presence of quick-response military at large.