League of the South forms paramilitary arm "The Indomitables"

The League of the South, a group which advocates Southern secession, theocracy and white supremacy, has tapped a veteran to train their new paramilitary arm. Some of you may recall that a politician closely related to the group was elected to the Prince George's County Council in Maryland recently. (Judge Roy Moore of Ten Commandments fame is also a supporter.) They plan to target "...political leaders, members of the hostile media, cultural icons, bureaucrats, and other of the managerial elite without whom the engines of tyranny don’t run.".

Y'all Quaeda is on the move again!

They're neither brown-skinned nor environmentalists, thus not of concern per the FBI.

I am certain that the tea party types will find them to be terrifyingly useful idiots.

Paleocon wrote:

I am certain that the tea party types will find them to be terrifyingly useful idiots.

Probably, but I see that relationship going south (pun!) pretty quickly Venko and Hammer style.

The problem with inviting someone like that into the wheelhouse is that, eventually, they may uninvite you, possibly with extreme prejudice.

Malor wrote:

The problem with inviting someone like that into the wheelhouse is that, eventually, they may uninvite you, possibly with extreme prejudice.

Are you talking about Republicans and the Tea Party or the Tea Party and these more recent nutbars?

Farscry wrote:

This is apparently one of their chosen symbols. Yes, really.

IMAGE(http://www.splcenter.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Untitled1.png)

Just... wow. I am nearly speechless. Wow.

Wow.

Note to white supremacist groups: Explicitly invoking Nazi imagery won't make it impossible to discuss you—Godwin's law doesn't work that way.

And seriously, the level of I don't even know what that they have to do that is... Wow.

We can't see what you're linking, Farscry. That site is doing something weird. You might want to grab the image out of your cache and stick it on imgur.

Paleocon wrote:
Malor wrote:

The problem with inviting someone like that into the wheelhouse is that, eventually, they may uninvite you, possibly with extreme prejudice.

Are you talking about Republicans and the Tea Party or the Tea Party and these more recent nutbars?

Well, both, I suppose.

I expect we'll be lectured on how they're just regular Americans whose opinions are slightly different any minute now.

Farscry wrote:

This is apparently one of their chosen symbols. Yes, really.

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/lPFKtaT.png)

Just... wow. I am nearly speechless. Wow.

Fixed.

edit: my interpretation is it's a Nazi falcon that caught its confederate prey and is going to feed it to its young.

The Nazi eagle is a dog whistle call-out to the white supremacists, who otherwise might not get the association from just the Confederate battle standard. /eyeroll

I'm surprised it doesn't have South Park's flag draped over one arm just to be sure you get the message.

This is apparently one of their chosen symbols. Yes, really.

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/lPFKtaT.png)

Just... wow. I am nearly speechless. Wow.

Edit: apologies, I was direct-linking to the image on the news story because I am lazy.

This is the funniest thread the Onion has ever started!

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What's that? It's not?

I see rebel flags just about everywhere I look around where I live but the whole Nazi symbolism is usually kept a little more hush-hush. Swastikas and the like are reserved for bathroom wall graffiti and for carving into wooden tables at parks or rundown restaurants. Getting a large chunk of the good ol' boy demographic to latch onto a cause that hearkens back to the nazis might be a bit tougher sell. I mean the biggest pie in the sky dream I hear from most of the rednecks I know is that the zombie apocalypse happens and the zombies are nazis. They're quite proud of the US of A beating up Hitler in WW2.

Yeah, another misinterpretation of history popular in the South.

Kehama wrote:

Getting a large chunk of the good ol' boy demographic to latch onto a cause that hearkens back to the nazis might be a bit tougher sell. I mean the biggest pie in the sky dream I hear from most of the rednecks I know is that the zombie apocalypse happens and the zombies are nazis. They're quite proud of the US of A beating up Hitler in WW2.

But it would be very easy to get the good ol' boy demographic to latch onto a cause that hearkens back to the days when the white man was supreme and the nation was strong, pure, and uncorrupted by minorities, gays, feminists, atheists, and other social malcontents.

Robear wrote:

Yeah, another misinterpretation of history popular in the South.

Yeah, I learned the hard way how well the line "Actually the Russians probably made the greatest contribution to beating the Germans and without them it's doubtful we would have won." goes over here. Germans were bad guys, Russians were/are bad guys. No way they could've done something good for the world.

OG_slinger wrote:

But it would be very easy to get the good ol' boy demographic to latch onto a cause that hearkens back to the days when the white man was supreme and the nation was strong, pure, and uncorrupted by minorities, gays, feminists, atheists, and other social malcontents.

Sadly, yeah.

Robear wrote:

Yeah, another misinterpretation of history popular in the South.

Wait, are you trying to tell me that the version of history I see in the movies isn't 100% accurate.

If so please enlighten me to what role John Wayne did actually play in the downfall of the 3rd Reich.

Agent 86 wrote:

If so please enlighten me to what role John Wayne did actually play in the downfall of the 3rd Reich.

Wikipedia[/url]]Wayne was exempted from service due to his age (34 at the time of Pearl Harbor) and family status, classified as 3-A (family deferment). He repeatedly wrote John Ford saying he wanted to enlist, on one occasion inquiring whether he could get into Ford's military unit, but consistently kept postponing it until after "he finished just one or two pictures".[29] Wayne did not attempt to prevent his reclassification as 1-A (draft eligible), but Republic Studios was emphatically resistant to losing him; Herbert J. Yates, President of Republic, threatened Wayne with a lawsuit if he walked away from his contract[30] and Republic Pictures intervened in the Selective Service process, requesting Wayne's further deferment.[31]

Wayne toured U.S. bases and hospitals in the South Pacific for three months in 1943 and 1944.[32] By many accounts, Wayne's failure to serve in the military was the most painful experience of his life.[33] His widow later suggested that his patriotism in later decades sprang from guilt, writing: "He would become a 'superpatriot' for the rest of his life trying to atone for staying home."[34]

U.S. National Archives records indicate that Wayne had, in fact, made an application [35] to serve in the O.S.S., today's equivalent of the C.I.A., and had been accepted within the U.S. Army's allotted billet to the O.S.S. William Donovan, O.S.S. Commander, wrote Wayne a letter informing him of his acceptance in to the Field Photographic Unit, but the letter went to his estranged wife Josephine's home. She never told him about it.[36]

Yeah, I learned the hard way how well the line "Actually the Russians probably made the greatest contribution to beating the Germans and without them it's doubtful we would have won." goes over here. Germans were bad guys, Russians were/are bad guys. No way they could've done something good for the world.

I'm sure that's true, but wow, it's sad.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, but for others who've never really looked into it: the suffering of the Soviet Union in that war was unspeakable. They lost more than twenty million people, possibly close to thirty, between military and civilian casualties.

By way of comparison, using Wikipedia's figures, we lost about 420,000, nearly all soldiers or merchant marine. It looks like just a few thousand actual civilians were killed.

Another way of putting that: the US lost about a third of one percent of its population in that war, nearly all of which were explicitly designated as combatants. The Soviet Union lost somewhere between 11 and 14 percent of its total population.

edit to add: I'm sure I've talked about this before, but you remember that early Call of Duty game, where in the first Russian mission, they alternated between handing out rifles to one soldier, and five bullets to another? That was more or less real.

edit to add: I'm sure I've talked about this before, but you remember that early Call of Duty game, where in the first Russian mission, they alternated between handing out rifles to one soldier, and five bullets to another? That was more or less real.

True, but so was the part where commanders were shooting their troops for retreating. :\ They certainly suffered more during the war, but some of that was also their own doing.

Stalin had his own agenda in helping end the war, of course, but that doesn't change the main point.

As a side note, Field Marshal Montgomery, among other people, was convinced that Stalin had played the other allies. Montgomery wasn't exactly known for people agreeing with him after the war, so I take that with a grain of salt, but his writings on WWII are definitely interesting.

Gremlin wrote:

Stalin had his own agenda in helping end the war, of course, but that doesn't change the main point.

As a side note, Field Marshal Montgomery, among other people, was convinced that Stalin had played the other allies. Montgomery wasn't exactly known for people agreeing with him after the war, so I take that with a grain of salt, but his writings on WWII are definitely interesting.

Monty was a dickhead, and an egotist at the best of times.

boogle wrote:
Gremlin wrote:

Stalin had his own agenda in helping end the war, of course, but that doesn't change the main point.

As a side note, Field Marshal Montgomery, among other people, was convinced that Stalin had played the other allies. Montgomery wasn't exactly known for people agreeing with him after the war, so I take that with a grain of salt, but his writings on WWII are definitely interesting.

Monty was a dickhead, and an egotist at the best of times.

No disagreement here. (He also is responsible for the disaster of Operation Market Garden, though of course he disputes that too.)

Gremlin wrote:
boogle wrote:
Gremlin wrote:

Stalin had his own agenda in helping end the war, of course, but that doesn't change the main point.

As a side note, Field Marshal Montgomery, among other people, was convinced that Stalin had played the other allies. Montgomery wasn't exactly known for people agreeing with him after the war, so I take that with a grain of salt, but his writings on WWII are definitely interesting.

Monty was a dickhead, and an egotist at the best of times.

No disagreement here. (He also is responsible for the disaster of Operation Market Garden, though of course he disputes that too.)

I'll be dick waving it to Patton quotes for a while now.
Back to point, Russians and the Osfront killed the third reich.
Racists in south use Nazi imagery in racism.

They're really dragging the nazis' name through the dirt.

"Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, but at least that's an ethos."

garion333 wrote:

This is the funniest thread the Onion has ever started!

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What's that? It's not?

This is also my response. They cannot have done that with a straight face, right?