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Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by erikpukinskis on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:12AM (#15078950)
Yes, those people can credibly be labeled Nazis, but I assume roceasta is referring to the wider halo around them, of people also being labeled Nazis. For example, Trump was frequently labeled a Nazi for condeming violence, in his words, "on both sides. On both sides."

Which I found disturbing, but I don't see how it makes him a Nazi.

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Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by gasof on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @03:16AM (#15079270)
Why did you think it was disturbing, and what's your opinion on the theories the violence at Charlottesville was planned?

The police seems to have effected a policy that all but necessitated a violent confrontation, by forcing the alt-right protestors to move through a large hostile crowd of Antifa protestors on the way to their new location, and the police not protecting the alt-right protesters.

There's more strange things that happened that day, but was there any official explanation why the police officers were ordered to use these unusual and harmful tactics?

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Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by hsod on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @12:13PM (#15082712)
"If ten guys think it's OK to hang out with one Nazi, they just became eleven Nazis" -Chris Rock

This is why people call Trump a Nazi.

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Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by observation on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:23PM (#15094940)
That literally and metaphorically doesn't add up.
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Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by alphaalpha101 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:26AM (#15078994)
It suggests that he sympathises with Nazis, which is close enough to being a Nazi for most people.
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Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by busterarm on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:35AM (#15079050)
Yes, because anyone who disagrees with Antifa's tactics should reasonably be assumed to be a Nazi sympathizer... I can't roll my eyes hard enough at this.
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Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by flukus on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:40AM (#15079066)
How on earth does it suggest that? If I say "Hitler was evil and Stalin was also evil" am I somehow sympathizing with Hitler?
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