I know how to stop the Nazi marches

[Happyhippychick]

Or at least make them helpful

Borrowed from a friend on Facebook

In the small town in Germany where Nazi leader Rudolf Hess was born, every year right wing activists have been showing up to commemorate his birthday. Counter marches didn't stop them. What really got to them was when people organized to sponsor donations on their behalf, treating their march like an AIDS walk. For every meter marched, there would be 10 euros donated to anti-racist organizations. People then turned it into kind of a sports event as they showed up with banners and music cheering the facists on like "Thank you for marching for racial justice" and updating with bullhorns how much money the facists marching had already raised.- Yannik Thiem

Let's do this!

[shenmue]

1. Huzzah!

[WinkyDink]

2. OMG, this is beyond brilliant!! Spread the word!

[blaze]

3. Even better... the marchers didn't know they were fund-raising until after they started marching.

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I saw a video from this (2014, I think) the other day, but now I can't find it.

It was a thing of beauty to watch!

[More_Cowbell]

5. Here's *a* video, anyway (might not be the one you saw)

https://thinkprogress.org/german-town-pranked-neo-nazis/

[Canoe52]

7. Loved it, thanks for sharing!

[blaze]

8. Yup. That's it.

Thanks!!

[Squinch]

4. Genius!

[2naSalit]

6. It's about time we did the same...K&R...nt

[TNNurse]

9. Reminds me of people donating to Planned Parenthood in Pence's name.

He got notifications.

I can see the signs: For every Nazi flag, Confederate flag, Tiki torch and MAGA hat, we will donate X amt of money to the NAACP and to synagogues and mosques.

[orangecrush]

10. ...

[Honeycombe8]

11. That's a wonderful idea! nt

[LeftInTX]

12. I like this!!!!

[defacto7]

13. That's ingenuity!

It's a great idea. The only problem I see is that in Germany the Nazis probably wouldn't fight because they'd be way outnumbered. Here I'm not so sure. If it happened, we'd really have to outnumber them big time to keep them in check. Germany has a very outspoken but peaceful public.

[logosoco]

14. That is a good idea!

I was thinking of something similar about the Confederate statues. They should put them in a museum and charge people to get in to see them (that reminds me of Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi!). The money goes to college scholarships for students at HBCs (historically black colleges) or something along that line. Those people fought to make life even more miserable for those stolen from Africa, this could give something small but positive to the descendants.

[Corvo Bianco]

24. Love it!

[d_r]

29. I was thinking

that if they are so dang proud of their "heritage" and don't want to "forget history" they might want to take some responsibility and pay some reparations.

[klook]

15. LOL, brilliant

I nominate the Southern Poverty Law Center as a recipient of this Nazi largesse.

[beachjustice]

16. awesome idea

it's really ingenuous.
I'd donate.

[BobTheSubgenius]

17. I read an article about this some time ago.

I never thought of applying it to Shitsacks On Parade. BRILLIANT! I am IN!!!

[Equinox Moon]

18. This is important.

Sounds like a winner. And you know how Americans are, we will make it a REALLY big sports event. I can see it now the bands, vendor booths, dancers... If we make a mockery of them it could be very effective. Laugh at them with their silly helmets, shields, batons and dress code.

[H2O Man]

19. Beautiful!

Recommended.

[yardwork]

20. We must do this!!!!

[SCantiGOP]

21. I would support this.

[Lucky Luciano]

22. LOL! Like the time I saw a protester outside of a planned parenthood...

...I approached her as a friend and asked her name. Then I walked into the PP building and donated in her name! She was not amused!

[MADem]

23. They handed out bananas to the marchers

Emblazoned with that Nazi Gothic script, that said Mein Manch (my snack).

[Stinky The Clown]

25. BRILLIANT idea!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

26. In that case, I would sponsor a Nazi!

Someone tell me why I'm wrong.

[LonePirate]

27. I say we ask college aged women to carry signs like these along their marching routes.

"I will never date you!"

"I voted for Hillary"

"I only go out with liberals"

"My antifa boyfriend has a bigger penis than you do"

[Blue Owl]

28. Now that's some good thinkin'...

[a kennedy]

30. This is a great idea.......

[southerncrone]

31. Brilliant!

[disillusioned73]

32. The bananas are a nice touch..

[doodsaq]

33. Excellent article here

How to Make Fun of Nazis https://nyti.ms/2vHcTpH

One of the key points made which argues against the antifa:

"Most important perhaps, violence is just not as effective as nonviolence. In their 2011 book, “Why Civil Resistance Works,” Dr. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth examined how struggles are won. They found that in over 320 conflicts between 1900 and 2006, nonviolent resistance was more than twice as effective as violent resistance in achieving change. And nonviolent struggles were resolved much sooner than violent ones."

So please drop support for the naive antifa young ones and support the strategy of ridicule.

Nothing crushes a bully more than being made into a joke.

[murielm99]

34. I remember some group of people

who did this when the Westboro church people showed up, too. They gave money to pro-LGBT causes.

[salin]

35. It was done in my home town to a Wannabe group 50 miles away

more than a decade ago. Making a big stir coming to the evil college town. I think they came no more than two times.

If I recall people manned a donation board (like the United way) to keep track, during the protest, based on how much time the group stayed of all the money raised.

[murielm99]

38. Wonderful!

I knew I remembered something.

[tom_kelly]

36. Awesome!

Happy, please keep posting on this if it moves forward. I'd love to be involved somehow.

[Blue_Tires]

37. BRILLIANT