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[theignoramus]

Matthew Heimbach is the type of Nazi whose ready and eager for the bullshit. I would exercise caution around his type, they could be looking for the slightest agitation to justify shooting someone.

 

[shawnbuddy]

Matthew Heimbach is the type of Nazi whose ready and eager for the bullshit. I would exercise caution around his type, they could be looking for the slightest agitation to justify shooting someone.

Oh yeah, Kentucky is a Stand Your Ground state. No duty to retreat. The Nazis would be in their right to carry and could most likely shoot a few Antifa and get away with it under the law if things get ugly.

 

[michaelius]

It's not like the ardennes (or the whole western front) had 15 million military casualties so your comparison doesn't really make sense.
I do feel like russian contributions to WW2 are underrepresented in the west(for obvious reasons with the cold war straight after the war).

So is knowledge about Russian war crimes during WW 2 and I wonder how many people remember Soviet Union was quiet ally to Nazi Germany before they 1941.

 

[shawnbuddy]

Talking to people today, Antifa is just as unpopular in town as the Nazis. Most people didn't agree with the Nazis, but we thought we had it in hand with the non-violent protest. Now that protest has been canceled because of worries about violence coming in from the outside and our neat little Main Street looks to be an arena for a brawl. I saw an Antifa post asking for them to come "support" us. If this is "support," people here don't want it. It feels more like we're just being exploited by both outside groups, and of course outside exploitation is something our area is very familiar with and resentful of.

 

[Seiryoden]

Guardian article and video: Armed neo-Nazis prepare for potential clash in small Kentucky town. Stay safe.

 

[Count Dookkake]

Get some friends and join the counter protest.

No retreat, no surrender!

 

[capitalCORN]

What you do is what you do. But letting nazis march in daylight is bad precedent. Stay face, but make yourself known.

 

[SENPAIatLARGE]

Don't get hurt because some gaffers want to protest vicariously through you. If you're not prepared to throw down, find another avenue to help.

 

[Tritroid]

I was just in Pikeville last weekend for work, and I'm there a ton off and on for work in general.

What's so stupid though, is that none of these people are from Pikeville itself. They're embarrassing the town by being there, and in general they don't represent the general beliefs of the people in the downtown/college area. The town has made significant positive changes in average household income, medical advancements through the college, and it's starting to grow and expand in general. Is it a trump town still? Sure, and there are people in the mountains of eastern Kentucky that probably DO think along the same lines as these Neo-Nazis, but Pikeville has made serious strides to try to get away from that type of culture. It sucks that shit like this only serves to make them take a few steps back.

 

[shawnbuddy]

As far as I know there wasn't any locally organized counterprotest, and both my mother and my brother begged me not to go, so I sat it out. I checked a couple of minutes on Facebook Live and so far it's been a big nothing. There are about 150-of-town Antifa on one side of the street chanting "Get the fuck out!" and stuff about punching Nazis in the face. There a few Nazis in the other side chanting stuff but not as loud. And between them there are two metal barriers and a ton of cops. There are so, so many cops in town today, from so many agencies.

Facebook live streams:

https://www.facebook.com/WYMTNews/?ref=ts&fref=ts

 

[Jmanunknown]

I was just in Pikeville last weekend for work, and I'm there a ton off and on for work in general.

What's so stupid though, is that none of these people are from Pikeville itself. They're embarrassing the town by being there, and in general they don't represent the general beliefs of the people in the downtown/college area. The town has made significant positive changes in average household income, medical advancements through the college, and it's starting to grow and expand in general. Is it a trump town still? Sure, and there are people in the mountains of eastern Kentucky that probably DO think along the same lines as these Neo-Nazis, but Pikeville has made serious strides to try to get away from that type of culture. It sucks that shit like this only serves to make them take a few steps back.

No kidding Pike, County is not just a trump town its a trump stronghold. From the article in the guardian

"Pike County is 98% white; about 80% of voters there supported Trump."

I thought Pikeville sounded familiar I remember reading about the town in an article from the Washington post(https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...43a0ea-8492-11e5-8ba6-cec48b74b2a7_story.html) after Kentucky elected Matt Bevin a republican as governor and he campaigned on repealing Kentucky's health exchange.

 

[Salvatron]

Time to break out the tuba.

Yes! Out noise them!

 

[shawnbuddy]

Looks like they've finally left town and left us alone. I'm sorry, we're still a little bit hillbilly and that's the way we like it. Wrap up article:

http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article147594424.html

A line of local and state police officers stood nearly shoulder-to-shoulder in the street between the two sides as they screamed at each other.

The white nationalists hoped to recruit members with a message of help for working people in a place where the economy has been hurt by a sharp drop in coal jobs, but they spent more time condemning their opponents for trying to shout them down.

“We see the forces of degeneracy!” Jeff Schoep, commander of the National Socialist Movement, yelled as he looked across the street at the protestors.

For their part, the protestors hooted on plastic horns, blew whistles and yelled “Shut the --- up” or chanted slogans such as “Punch a Nazi in the face! Every nation, every race!”

One held a sign with a picture of Adolph Hitler shooting himself in the head, with the words “Follow your leader.”

After about an hour of speeches, the white nationalists left the courthouse and headed to their cars.

The opponents, called anti-racists or anti-fascists, followed them down the street. About 40 heavily armed state police in riot gear, who had been waiting during the rally, moved in to make sure there was no violence as the white nationalists left.

There had been concern that opponents of the white nationalists would try to violently disrupt the rally, as they have in other places.

Local officials said they were determined to keep the peace, but they cautioned on Friday that authorities “cannot ensure the public that there will not be personal or property damage” based on violence at similar rallies.


Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article147594424.html#storylink=cpy

 

[sphagnum]

Looks like a good job on Antifa's part.

 

[Michael F. Assbender]

One held a sign with a picture of Adolph Hitler shooting himself in the head, with the words “Follow your leader.”

A god damn hero.

 

[luxarific]

Funny how all the enemies of the United States have the special cultural capability to decouple from basic humanity.

Stalin's purge of the Red Army's generals certainly had something to do with the high number of Russian casualties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purge_of_the_Red_Army_in_1941

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge

 

[Shaanyboi]

One held a sign with a picture of Adolph Hitler shooting himself in the head, with the words “Follow your leader.”

 

[RoyaleDuke]

A god damn hero.

I'd buy that man a beer for the rest of his life.

 

[Quixzlizx]

I wonder how many Americans know that the Soviet Union took by far the most casualties fighting nazis in WW2. We mostly commemorate D-Day, which did not feature the Soviets, but this is the reality:

I wonder how many Russian shills on NeoGAF know that the Soviets were considered part of the Allies in WW2?

 

[Monocle]

Time to break out the tuba.

This is still amazing.

 

[Ryuuroden]

I wonder how many Russian shills on NeoGAF know that the Soviets were considered part of the Allies in WW2?

I wonder how many know the Russians allied with Hitler first in order to carve up Poland and Finland. They were perfectly content to let Hitler do his thing.

 

[Lord Frieza]

A god damn hero.

That should be preserved in a musuem

 

[shawnbuddy]

A follow-up for a nice lol. Pikeville authorities took the rally as an opportunity to present Nazi scumbag and Trump supporter Matthew Heimbach a summons for assaulting a black girl at a Trump rally.

http://www.wymt.com/content/news/Ma...y-served-summons-in-Pikeville--420857923.html

Pikeville City Manager Donovan Blackburn told WYMT Michael Heimbach was served with the criminal complaint summons on a harassment charge.

Heimbach, known as the leader of a group which promotes white supremacy, is accused of pushing a young African-American protester and yelling at her while attending a Louisville rally for then-candidate Donald Trump in March 2016.

At that rally, Trump asked security to remove the protester. Trump is heard on video saying "get 'em out of here!" Police say Heimbach took it upon himself to try and remove the woman.

The woman, Kashiya Nwanguma, filed a lawsuit against Heimbach as well as Trump and his campaign.

Heimbach claimed in a federal court filing that he "acted pursuant to the directives and requests of Donald J. Trump and Donald J. Trump for President."

Louisville Judge David J. Hale recently ruled against efforts by Trump's attorneys to throw out the lawsuit accusing him of inciting violence at that rally. Hale said speech inciting violence is not protected under the First Amendment.

This fucks Heimbach and helps to fuck Trump, so maybe one good thing came out of all this.

 

[RoyaleDuke]

A follow-up for a nice lol. Pikeville authorities took the rally as an opportunity to present Nazi scumbag and Trump supporter Matthew Heimbach a summons for assaulting a black girl at a Trump rally.

http://www.wymt.com/content/news/Ma...y-served-summons-in-Pikeville--420857923.html



This fucks Heimbach and helps to fuck Trump, so maybe one good thing came out of all this.

Collar the nazi.