Summary

Masked neo-Nazis marched through Columbus, Ohio’s Short North neighborhood on Saturday, displaying swastika flags and making racist and antisemitic statements.

Police are investigating, and no arrests have been reported.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Columbus officials condemned the display, emphasizing that hate and bigotry have no place in the state.

The incident follows a similar demonstration in Michigan last week, where masked protesters displayed Nazi flags outside a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank.

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    people who hate Jews voted for a guy who took all restrictions off of Israel

    inhale

    HAHAHAHAHAHA

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      These ding-a-lings have been supporting Israel (cynically) for a long time. First of all, they hate Muslims even more as a general rule, and for their silly fantasy that involves Yeshua flying back on a cloud, they think the Jews need to occupy Israel. This is why we have xtian zionists.

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      Israel isn’t representative of Jewish people. It uses jewish people as a shield from criticism. Israel is a pro-US colonialist project before it’s jewish. This is like saying that people hate leftists but they voted for the national socialist german worker’s party

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          yes, they hate arabs most of all, so they probably consider israel’s genocide to be based. they probably love the concept that they’re funding a war that will kill lots of jews and lots of arabs

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      Police are investigating…sure I bet a few officers were in the march. Yes because Trump going allow nazi the only right to free speech. When fhe protest begin Trump will send in the troops to put them down.

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      The fact this is literally the 2nd story this week of Nazi shitheads openly waving their flags around is a good indicator it’s not going to take nearly that long.

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      Oh, don’t worry. That was just the new Secretary of Defense and a few of his buddies out blowing off some steam and having a good time.

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        “They” being the majority of Americans who looked at this as said “yeah, sure”.

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          I am an American (and Jewish) and I have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. It has gotten worse and worse and worse.

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    I wonder what the amount of Trump gear vs Nazi flags was. It’s also very ironic how when Nazi’s march in the streets without a permit the cops just block off the street with their cars and perform crowd control to “help protect the city” (the Nazis). And when people of color march without a permit because cops killed another person over something stupid they get met with riot gear, tear gas, and rubber bullets.

    It’s going to get so much worse before it gets better …

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      It legitimately looks like the cop on the left is giving that guy tips for next time.

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        6 hours ago

        This picture is top of the Columbus subreddit from yesterday, so doesn’t seem like it’s from a previous occurrence.

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          Reddit is not a reliable source for verified facts in any way, at any time, at all.

          I can nearly swear I remember this photo from the last trump administration.

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            Ah, I forgot to consult the internet’s most reliable source for verified facts: random dude who sears he remembers somethings.

            Given the details of the post with multiple photos, it’s plausible reddit’s the source of the image. I wasn’t able to find an older posting of it, but by all means share your link from 4+ years ago if you’ve got t.

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              They’re not entirely wrong though. Remember how Reddit “caught” the Boston marathon bomber?

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                I think they *are *entirely wrong though. This thread’s about Nazis in Columbus and whether they were caught. I don’t think “I remember this from years ago, trust me bro” is a convincing reason to dismiss the photos. Neither is their having been posted in reddit, even if they fucked up an unrelated thing over a decade ago.

                Again, I’m happy to be disproven. If the image above was actually circulating years ago, it should be relatively easy to find it posted somewhere else prior to yesterday. I couldn’t find it, hence why I commented about it in the first place

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                  I’m just addressing the fact that Reddit isn’t always correct and we should want more credible sources than random people submitting things online with no vetting. That’s where they aren’t entirely wrong. I’m not saying they’re right and their memory is a reason to believe this is incorrect, but they’re just some person online just like the Reddit user.

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        Ah, maybe the police were stopping them to pick up their coworkers from out of the van so that they could start their shift.

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        I won’t believe this story has a happy ending until they’re in prison. Because I have a feeling they’re about to get a huge amount of help from the incoming administration.

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          That will depend on whether they face state or federal charges. I’m curious if they will be charged at all if the only thing they did was “protest”.

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            It will depend a lot more on whether or not the fascist dictatorship coming into office in January gives a shit about state charges being out of their legal jurisdiction.

            I’m betting on not.

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              Yeah, people are basically sticking their heads in the dirt with what’s about to happen in the US.

              Source: I live in Ohio and the apathy is palpable. I’m in a Blue bubble, but I even when I go to some small town you can tell everyone is just too burnout from the freight train of nonstop crazy politics stuff.

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                People really want to believe Trump won’t be a fascist dictator despite coming right out and saying he will be. I know he lies all the time, but that’s a stupid reason not to believe him on this one.

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    “We will not tolerate hate in Ohio,” Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement on the social media platform X on Saturday evening.

    Talking from both sides of your ballot box, are we, Mike? Fucking moron. You support the hate candidate and you get a hate populace.

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      Considering this was happening before the election was declared as well, I’m willing to take the stance that Ohio is just a magnet for trash Nazis.

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      Don’t worry, he’ll get pushback on that statement and then declare Ohio the fifth reich. He always takes the right stance first then manages to flip flop to worse than he was asked to

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    I miss the days when it was acceptable to beat the shit out of Nazis. Can we bring that back?

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      Under what laws was it acceptable to beat people until shit comes out of them? It sounds like you just want an excuse to become violent whenever you feel justified.

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    My sister and I are in Columbus for a concert and we were in a store right across the street from this happening. Shook us up pretty good. I have never seen something like that before.

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        The next time they’ll get the right police on shift first so they won’t be arrested for attacking people. Then no one speaks up the third time because no one is there to protect us and we’ve arrived at totally fucked.