A group of nearly two dozen people waving swastika flags and chanting antisemitic rhetoric marched on the Wisconsin state Capitol grounds Saturday afternoon, performing a salute originally used by Nazis at political rallies, often called the “Hitler salute.”
How did all those cops get off of work?
I was surprised and ready to compliment a Republican governor for coming out against white supremacy and racism. That would have been a brave move.
I’m still happy he did it, but I shouldn’t have assumed Wisconsin had a Republican governor, and should have known better than to think one would.
Fun fact about Wisconsin: the Republicans were furious that a Democrat was going to be elected after Scott Walker’s fascist stint, so they rushed through several legislative changes to limit the powers of the incoming governor as a final middle finger to democracy.
Yes, because taking exclusive executive power away from the head of a government and giving it to the legislature to vote on instead is famously anti-democracy.
When it is abused for years by your guy, then explicitly changed ONLY because the opposing party takes over, yes it’s absolutely undemocratic
They did that in North Carolina too, but they sure as hell didn’t stop there. A couple more years of calvinball politics like this and Wisconsin will join NC in being a non-democracy.
The legislature took that power for themselves because they had gerrymandered the everliving fuck out of Wisconsin’s electoral districts and held solid majorities with 47% of the vote.
They made this move specifically to counter the will of the people, so no I don’t think it’s very democratically-minded of them.
It must be hard going through life without understanding context.
Not as hard as the basic definitions of words are for lemmy users, it seems.
You are obviously ignorant as fuck
Hey wo/man, I understand being autistic makes it difficult to accept/understand certain things. I recommend seeking help, there are resources out there that you can utilize.
Given Wisconsins famously un-representative legislature vs the representative statewide election it is. The most gerimandered legislature in the country completely ignores the will of 60% of the population in literally every thing they do.
Yes it absolutely is when it’s not your guy. Lmao. Stfu.
Yes, when it erodes supposed checks and balances.
I hate Wisconsin Nazis.
I hate Illinois Nazis.
I hate Nazis.
Everyone who’s not a Nazi hates Nazis.
What about babies?
Looking forward for when Nazis get the pirate treatment.
I think there’s a fundamental difference there. The pirates did a lot of bad shit, but they’re cool because rebels and criminals are cool. Tyrannical governments aren’t. Al Capone is cool, but Jefferson Davis isn’t.
The Empire and The Imperium of Man are both extremely cool, and both are fascist dictatorships - the latter is also a theocracy lol.
It’s all in the presentation.
As someone who grew up in Madison and saw the various protests with tens and hundreds of thousands of people at the capital, I find it hilarious how they couldn’t even muster 24 people to show up. That’s almost as bad as the daily peace protest, which as a daily demonstration that’s been going on for years really doesn’t attract too many people
He shoulda said something before the demonstration.
Capitol buildings have demonstrations near daily that mostly get zero coverage. He waited to see if it would be a small, no-show situation. Otherwise there is a risk of unintentional spotlighting and advertising the event.
“There are dozens of us, I tell you! Dozens of us!”
