Submitted by the_honeyman t3_107v59d in springfieldMO
I was starting to get disappointed in yall, Patriot Front. Didn't find any stickers for a bit, only found one last week, today there were 7! Well done getting those steps in, even if you could only make it 1.5 miles again.
Thanks for cleaning up after these inbred fuckers. It sure would be nice for someone to actually see them putting out these stickers.
Theyre a still little pissed after their banner was taken down before anyone in springfield actually noticed it by some other people
They do post their stickers on telegram when put up, I've been trying keep on it everytime some pops up. They come in 4s or more usually.
Bring a small bottle of goo gone next time. The orange citrus stuff, not the volatile one. It'll help release those stickers and not mess up any surfaces.
I usually bring my plastic ice scraper, it works better than the knife and doesn't scratch the signs, but I forgot it in my car this time.
Thank you for your work.
So what's this Patriot Front that I keep hearing about? What are their beliefs?
White supremacist domestic terrorist group.
They're Nazi's
As in seriously they're Nazis. They prescribe to white supremacist fascism and are known for looking up to Hitler and Mussolini.
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/patriot-front
From a quick google search. They have a website as well with their whole batshit crazy racist manifesto.
neo Nazis.
It's a liiiiitle bit more complicated than that. But not much more.
Ugh, gross. Does Springfield have a lot of people who subscribe to irritating political groups like Patriot Front and Antifa?
I just...I just want to get to work without the road being blocked.
Antifa means Antifascist, it does not describe to a specific ideology. If you're against fascism, you're apart of Antifa, congratulations.
Imagine equating Patriot Front with antifa.
I dunno if you did that on purpose, or if you actually don't know any better.
My general rule is "assume no malice until given a good reason to think otherwise" so I am going to assume you didn't know any better.
But to answer your questions directly it, it's very hard to say how many people ascribe themselves to, let's say, heavily activistic political wings, but it's a good bet that there are a fair few.
You're out here doing God's work.
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Beating these jagovs back into shameful obscurity will have to be a community effort. Problem is penetrating their circle and figuring out who they are. I've made attempts at it, but as best I can tell they communicate primarily on discords and whatsapp or telegram groups and most of them have no idea who each other are.
You'll never be rid of this kind of filth, but is just part of, I dunno, civilizational maintenance that every so often this social gunk builds up and you gotta flush it out and clean it up.
If anyone has any ideas or thoughts on how to penetrate these groups, PM me. I've not had much luck alone.
I like the Dead Kennedy's reference.
blasting this online gives more exposure than the stickers.
im glad you arent a nazi. thanks for cleaning up.
Eh, I thought about that. Last time I posted as well. But I removed their website, and I think it's important they know there are people who will resist them, even if this time it was just removing some stickers.
Silence is worse than calling them out. Its assumed silent support and they'll continue to operate with less scrutiny Vs the more public backlash and callouts tend to make sure more people view them unfavorably plus shines a spotlight on their actions. Dont discount public shaming.
The more we call them out and make it clear their actions aren't ok the more quiet and hesitant they become spewing their bs.
i would say they dont care about the shame we throw there way as long as they can move one new set of eyeballs to their website.
It's the classic conundrum. Decrying something obviously by it's very nature brings more attention to it than not decrying it. Will that extra attention in a critical form hurt and diminish the influence of the thing, or increase it?
It can easily go either way. For example, let's take some cults, like Nexium or Scientology. They would have been much better off if left allow and allowed to recruit in their own ways among circles that were safe for them to do so. Exposure and large amounts of public attention and criticism didn't empower them, it collapsed them in the case of Nexium and has seriously hurt their recruitment in the case of scientology. There are lots of cases like this.
But some times, something like Trump for examples, thrives off the free media of even negative or critical coverage and is aided by it.
It's hard to tell which it's gonna be, but I can say that I think it's better for humanity, for people and their souls, to unabashedly decry and publicly renounce evil, instead of ignoring it and hoping it shrinks and goes away.
disturbed_beaver t1_j3onjwu wrote
Ah yes. True patriots always vandalize public property with their bullshit stickers. Bunch of sad, morbidity obese incels that group is.