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The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
Aren't nazis like literally the enemy? They were eradicated after WWII, they never stopped being the enemy. As soon as they're back, it should be open season. Cmon America, use that military budget of yours.
Swastikas on an overpass in 2025—the audacity of irrelevance. A group of historical reenactors clinging to symbols of failure, only to be chased off by locals with more backbone than the entire justice system. No arrests? Predictable. Hate groups operate with impunity while law enforcement plays referee.
”Hate will never prevail,” but it sure gets a free pass when wrapped in a flag and parked in a U-Haul. The NAACP is right—this isn’t random; it’s the byproduct of policies that embolden the worst among us.
Good on Evendale’s residents. If the authorities won’t act, the people will. Let them retreat into their truck of shame—the future doesn’t belong to cowards with banners of extinction.
I worked in Evendale about a year. It's a very white area, not particularly progressive, I'm sure the Nazi shitlords thought they were going to be safer and more tolerated.
Good on Evendale.
I don't think arrests should be made. Our first amendment guarantees the right to free speech and demonstration, and that includes things we don't necessarily like. Counter protests, identifying the Nazis, and naming and shaming are all fair game however.
Free speech isn’t a shield for moral cowardice. Sure, the First Amendment protects their right to spew garbage, but it doesn’t absolve society from holding them accountable. Counter-protests and public shaming are the bare minimum—this isn’t just a "disagreement" over zoning laws; it’s hate with historical blood on its hands.
Letting them parade their insignias of failure without consequence only normalizes their rot. The law may not act, but communities can. Naming them is fine, but what about dismantling the systems that let them thrive in the first place? Shaming isn’t enough if the soil remains fertile for their return.
The future belongs to those willing to fight for it—not just with words, but by uprooting the weeds entirely.
Look up the Paradox of Tolerance, or the 'Contract of Tolerance.'
The only thing a tolerant society cannot abide by is intolerance.
And in this case? The rights and morals of free speech means we must- not can, must- abhor nazis.
And now you have nazis in control of the country, great job
Fun tip. All u-hauls have a padlock hasp on the back door. The rental truck trick is a known method of white supremacist groups for these cute little pop-up hate experiences.
It is perfectly fine to carry a small padlock around at all times, too.
And after you've expended your anti-nazi padlock, if said uhaul just magically burst into flames...
Something something nothing of value something
Ya I carry around a couple Molotov cocktails to help speed up the spontaneous combustion of fascist and their property.
hmm I wonder if anything happened recently that these traitors felt encouraged that they can be out and about nazis.
I know no one publicly made a sieg heil or anything. that's what every major media outlet said.
residents pushed past police
as usual the pigs weren't doing anything because they're part of the group
The swastika is like brandishing a sword and should be banned from all public use except museums.
It's messed up that these guys are more pro-Isreal than most people.
Remember: these neo-Nazis are usually tourists from interestate. Look at Patriot Front for example, where arrests proved what antifascists already disclosed - the arrested were often from other states around the country. They do these rallies to provide an illusion of decent membership and locality, but it's complete bullshit. Same strategy is used in other countries too.
While I haven't seen a source yet, I see a post already claiming the names of all 5, only one of them is even from Ohio. If true, it's completely unsurprising.
"No arrests were made"
Because half the people in the U-Haul were probably co-workers.
It baffles me that in this day in 2025, with hundreds of data points being reported hourly, that we can't look at the obvious preferential treatment fascists get from their cop buddies. Had that been a Free Palestine protest and some racist nutjob showed up to harrass them, the cops would have cleared the bridge and arrested a handful of the protestors, MAYBE one of the nutjobs IF they were REALLY pushing it. Then they'd find a reason why that bridge can't be used for protesting, release the nutjob with a "stern" warning and rake all the protestors across the coals with any minor "disturbing the peace" type charges so they have a record for next time.
You might be thinking about this in a slightly wrong way.
"The protest was occurring on sidewalks designed for pedestrian travel. The protest, while very offensive, was not unlawful," a press release from the Evendale Police Department said. "The protest was short lived in duration. The protesters left the area on their own. No further action was taken by the Evendale Police Department."
However, several upstanding citizens interfered:
Eley said they eventually made it past police and someone snatched a flag from one of the demonstrators.
"The Nazis began to back off," Eley said. "They quickly jumped in the back of a U-Haul truck and took off."
A woman brought out lighter fluid to burn the flag, and he joined in with others stepping and spitting on the flag, said Eley, who was a Boy Scout.
"General flag disrespect: it's a flag that deserves disrespect," Eley said.
Resisters got past police, took property, set it on fire, and weren't arrested.
That's a good thing.
Cops learn how to respect protesters.
For once, I am grateful for do-nothing police?
Sure, you have a right to Free Speech - you can say whatever you like. I also have the right to not do business with you, to not hire you, to remember your face and call you out on the street and let eeeeeeveryone in my neighborhood know who you are and what you do, and to not allow you to use my online services.
You know what'd be hilarious? Start referring to all of these nazis and far right extremists and red hats as Fags. My how it would piss them off like no other.
Hey are you the fags i heard about?
Just driving by em. "Faaaaaags"
Just to be clear here, no arrests were made because they were exercising their first amendment right the Americans are so proud of.
They displayed their message on public ground (the sidewalk) and were otherwise peaceful. Do I hate their message? Hell yeah I do, but unless the US realizes that free speech should have its limits then what they did was lawful.
In opposition, what the other people did was unlawful AND THEY WEREN'T ARRESTED FOR IT! The police actually did a good job here!
Hate speech, fighting words, and word that cause dangerous situations, (think yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater) are specifically not covered by the US version of Freedom of Speech.
No arrests were made because the thugs with badges don't arrest their coworkers.
Ok, that's some bullshit, because they have ruled that causing a panic is illegal. Schenck v. United States, 1919.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/249us47
The law is fucking imaginary.
It's a different thing, I'm talking about hate speech specifically
You can do hate speech as much as you want in the US, if you threaten someone with violence or incite people to be violent with others it's something else and so is causing a panic by screaming "FIRE!" in a theater when there's no fire.
Three different things, one of them is legal and is what was done by the Nazis in that article.
The end goal of hate speech is violence, what's special about the US is that violence targeted specifically against marginalized groups is condoned if not encouraged.
So yes, hate speech that threatens violence against a marginalized group is legal in the US. I.E. Nazis.
Yea but not really though...
You can say "I hate Nazis" and that's hate speech (as stupid as that might sound), but it doesn't mean "I want to hurt/kill Nazis", the intention behind the message isn't stated therefore the message is lawful.
If you don't want to punch Nazis you're probably a bad person.
We're having a discussion about the law, not morality, I used that as an example to reverse the situation and put the counter protesters in the other position, but it's exactly the same as those Nazis saying they hate blacks or Jews or whoever, in the US they have the right to say that, they don't have the right to say they want to hurt them.
You don't choose to be born Jewish or black, you do choose to be a Nazi, and a Nazi is someone who inflicts violence on people.
Identifying as a Nazi is a threat of violence that is considered legally acceptable in the US because the US already partway to being a Nazi country.
Use whatever example you want, it's always the same thing. It's a discussion about laws and you keep mixing your feelings in the equation. In the eyes of the law there's a difference between stating your hate X and stating you want to be violent towards X, one is legal, the other isn't, no matter which group X is.
Yes, because the US is halfway to being a Nazi state, the law is overly permissive of Nazis.
Just like how the US started as a white supremacist nation where the law allowed slavery.
My feelings have nothing to do with the extent to which white supremacy and Nazism influences the US state to allow threats of violence against marginalized groups to be permissible. US law is not impartial, it is biased in favor of Nazis and white supremacists.
If the law is the same for everyone no matter who they say they hate then the law isn't overly permissive to a certain group of haters.
You're spouting the same bullshit used to justify redlining. The law is not the same for everyone. Even if letter of the law stays neutral, the way it gets enforced matters.
Notice how students that peacefully protest for Palestine get arrested and put in handcuffs, but literal Nazis walk free. The law is not the same for everyone.
If you notice, the discussion has been about the law from the get go, not enforcement (although in this case this specific law was enforced properly). I was correcting someone who said that free speech doesn't protect hate speech in the US, but it does.
I was correcting someone who said that free speech doesn’t protect hate speech in the US, but it does.
Yes, I agree, you are correct on this point. Where you are wrong, and where I was correcting you, was that you were saying hate speech is not violence.
Hate speech is violence, Nazism is violence, but it's protected violence, not because of any morality or value around free speech, but because the US is already partly a Nazi state.
It's not violence in the eyes of the law, which is the point of view we were talking about until you jumped in, if you want to have a conversation about that then go ahead, start a conversation about how "free speech law is wrong and hate speech is violent and should be banned" and I'll be on your side, but this is not this conversation.
People should start modifying drones to drop...brochures and fliers and such
I had the same exact thought. I was thinking water balloons filled with soda or something. Or... eggs.
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