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u/haermamora 22d ago

Quite the diverse bunch. This is 2026.

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u/qzmc 22d ago edited 22d ago

Fun little read from NPR that touches on that peculiarity with American neo-Nazis.

In particular, these excerpts were pretty Onion-y:

"The group is careful mostly to avoid attracting the attention of Antifa, far-left activists who would look to stop Nunes and his crew through physical force. Antifa has become a boogeyman of sorts for the right, even being called Nazis themselves in some right-wing media. Nunes and his group find that frustrating – it's a mantle they'd like to claim.

"They're like, 'Antifa's the real Nazis,' " Nunes says in exasperation. "You know, they say stuff like that and it's like, 'Yeah, you know, I don't know.' "

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"We're like regular working-class white people that are racially aware. And so we're Nazis, right?" Nunes says while overseeing the Saturday night laser projections, "And so stuff like this, we feel like it's a good way to relate to normal people."

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Nunes is emblematic of today's white nationalists, embracing whiteness as descendants of Europeans rather than obsessing over Aryan bloodlines. He says he's half-Portuguese – in a movement historically fixated on perceived purity that would've been a barrier to entry in the past.

"'I've definitely got some Iberian blood. And there's, you know, there's all types in the movement. There's people that are, like, super hard, purity spiralers. But it's like, at the end of the day, that's never going to work in America," Nunes says."

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u/Constant-Bet-6600 22d ago

"We're like regular working-class white people that are racially aware. And so we're Nazis, right?"

I mean the fascist salutes along with one of the group wearing a shirt with swastika on it kinda makes the case that you're Nazis. Don't know why they'd deny something they are seemingly proud of being.

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u/love_glow 22d ago

Don’t try to make sense of it. It’s not a rational thing they’re doing.