Neo-Nazis Gloat as Florida Becomes a Magnet for Hate
Neo-Nazis have been ecstatic in the wake of their headline-grabbing action outside Orlando earlier this month. White nationalists with handles like “Dietrich,” “Red Pill,” and “Scotty Big Balls” greeted each other with shouts of “Hail victory!” on a Sept. 10 Telegram livestream. Echoing the sentiments of many participants, “Combat Carl” told listeners it was “probably the best weekend of my life.”
The march represented a merger of two neo-Nazi hate groups with different styles — the hard-edged BloodTribe, aka Blutstamm, whose Maine-based leader Christopher Pohlhaus has a runic face tattoo goes and goes by the name “Hammer”; and the Goyim Defense League, a meme-savvy group whose antisemitism is steeped in layers of irony, led by Jon Minadeo II, who calls himself “Handsome Truth.” This was the largest, but only the latest, of a series of high-profile neo-Nazi actions in Florida.
More than 50 members of both groups joined together on Sept. 2 — wearing red shirts and dark shorts, with most covering their faces with black masks. Some toted massive swastika flags, and their hate march culminated with a demonstration on a freeway overpass in Altamonte Springs, where the neo-Nazis performed stiff-armed Hitler salutes and shouted antisemitic threats like, “Jews get the rope!”
Many of these haters were not Florida natives. As detailed on the livestream, they’d traveled from as far Canada and California, spending thousands of dollars on flights and hotels to participate in this show of intimidation in the Sunshine State. And this joint mobilization was augmented, on the same day, by a third neo-Nazi group that rallied just a few miles away, outside DisneyWorld. Members of the Order of the Black Sun staked out an entrance to “the most magical place on Earth,” holding placards reading: “Have you thanked Hitler today?”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/neo-nazis-gloat-florida-becomes-140000174.html
Welcome to the Sunshine Hate.
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Is your own "sunshine hate" magnet in Florida? Or somewhere else? If so, do you actually imagine you don't have people like that there?
Organized hate groups are in every state. FL is not even among the top 10 states in numbers of hate groups per capita.
Whatever. Please do your part to stomp divisive attitudes and not spread them via DU, and not just the ugliness that can accurately be ascribed to "Nazis." We have a bunch of friends in FL who really don't deserve it.
48% of Florida's voters voted for Biden. Go, Florida Democratic voters! 
And they're using it as a blueprint for the rest of the country. Fuck Rupert Murdoch. 
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