It’s so sad to see this happen. Wtf is wrong with some people?

We CAN'T let this keep happening. The response of normal people to bullshit like this can't be to just be sad about it. Are there local organizations/protests we can join?

You can become a member of red ink! There is also the John Brown group, they provide security to the groups that are being targeted.

We need to go back to treating Nazis like we did in the early 1940s.

Thank you so much!! I will be joining/supporting both right now

For fucking real

Sounds suspicious… did they call the police?

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Nazis AND communists all need to fuck off.

Yes

Yes, because nazis espousing the murder of many groups of people and threatening bodily harm are EXACTLY the same than some nerds reading Capital.

Fuck communists and their ideology every bit as hard as those hateful fucking Nazi douche bags. Let ANY of either of those ideologies flourish and before you know it we're making a "great leap forward" or staring down the barrel of genocide.

The "evil" communists at Red Ink don't do anything but community focused activism, Dungeons and Dragons, local band shows, and are a public library.

SO TERRIBLE

Putting communism and nazis on the same level is really telling. Big yikes, bud

Bigots are feeling emboldened due to the political climate since 2016 and realizing that there aren't any consequences.

Groups like the Nationalist Social Club (who have been targeting Red Ink and posting their flyers all over Providence in the last year) literally just have people traveling around New England, posting their recruitment flyers, and stirring up trouble knowing they can get out of town before there's consequences.

Do you know who Mao Zedong was?

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Are we going to finally start talking about how the people who likely did this are headquartered in Massachusetts and start asking what is that state doing about this? NSC attacks libraries in both states and may even be part of the terrorizing of Boston Children's Hospital.

Zedong was in the mid-twentieth century, and communism has killed no less than 5x the number of people as Nasis/Fascism. Do some reading for yourself and learn which ideology has produced the higher body count.

I’m assuming the homophobic term was erased because the brick thrower realized that use of the term could turn this from a vandalism charge to a hate crime.

So they bought two bricks. Seriously - brand new bricks (actually, Holland concrete pavers sold by HD). And bought two, or else why erase the message and not just start over. And of course, the day is important, so they can’t just buy another brick tomorrow.

So they planned this out, poorly, had the clarity of mind to take action to reduce the severity of potential charges, planned it for a day that is very significant to the store and surely was at the front of their mind, and still went forward with the act? Pretty brazen - I hope the cops track down footage from the area and local HDs that sold 2 pavers and can piece this together.

A hero to over a billion people

We're just gonna gloss over the 50,000,000 he let starve to death for the "good of China"?

I just became a member of red ink. Let's show them our support! https://www.redinkri.org/

Edit: Where they go, we go.

that's a lot of work for a cop to do though 😔

Especially when literal Nazis are the one committing these crimes. Like, literally self declared white supremacists…

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Communism killed over 100 million people in the 20th century.

A name you'll undoubtedly drop to defend a false correlation between economic systems and likelihood to commit crimes against humanity.

I think nazis are worse but it's a fact that Stalin criminalized homosexuality and sentenced gay men to 5 years hard labor.

Why? I think it'd be a good thing for whoever threw these bricks to be arrested and charged, don't you?

Hopefully whoever did this gets identified, arrested, and charged

Care to tell me how many people capitalism has killed?

Do you think the police would dedicate any time to a broken window investigation with no camera footage? Even with a fairly good image of the person they would do next to nothing.

Unless you need a police report to file an insurance claim why would you call them in this scenario?

They can't do anything if they aren't contacted

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

Or you can have it your way and make no effort to apprehend the individuals who did this, who are potentially neo nazis

Apparently some people in the comments are saying that red ink shouldn't call the cops, so I guess we won't find out either way if they take that advice. 🤷

I wouldn't care to guesstimate.

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>Especially when literal Nazis are the one committing these crimes. Like, literally self declared white supremacists…

While likely, we don't know that for sure for this specific case because the suspects are still at large.

I'm guessing that Red Ink is hesitant to call the Police due to their political views but it could potentially help in tracking down whoever did this

Edit / apparently they called the police. I hope whoever did this gets caught

They don't do anything regardless of if they are contacted. You like doing tasks for no reason at all? Contact the police and waste your time for them to do nothing?

If you think they would open an investigation into what is considered petty vandalism you've really got a fantasy view of the police.

So you are saying the best course of action is to... not attempt to investigate this vandalism to find out who did it, ergo meaning they can do it again. 🤔

You keep saying nothing can be done but if you don't even make an attempt the success rate drops to zero

The article says they gave the police one of the bricks.

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

Installing them in government? We tried that in 2016

They will not investigate the vandalism. They will take the report and nothing will come of it. It's an insurance claim.

Do you also think the police investigate every instance of graffiti?

>so I guess we won't find out either way if they take that advice. 🤷

I mean it’s pretty clear from the article that they did call the police.

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If only there was this thing that had the entirety of human knowledge and history, but I guess you don’t really give a shit about loss of life.

There's also anarchist groups like Federation of Anarchists and Syndicalists and homeless outreach groups like warm up Boston

Google is not going to give you that answer, Because outside of the theater of war, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, shit, even our own Civil War, taking the lives of "the enemy", there has never been an American leader, under whose sole authority, that has wilfully/purposely allowed/caused, as many as a 100 million of their own citizens to perish or outright slaughter them(Stalin, Kim, Zedong...).

I'm honest to god nervous over what these kinds of groups are going to look like following '24

You should learn the difference between type of governments and types of economic policies. Because you seem to be treating them as the same thing… they’re not. Communism isn’t a form of government, it is a type of economic policy.

Capitalism: economic policy. Democratic Republic: form of government.

So then you should no trouble finding out how many deaths capitalism has caused.

I do want to point out that this happened back in Feb on Red Book Day, this is just a recently published piece about the incident. There wasn't a recurrence.

Buying new bricks for your hate crime vandalism is really funny. Some sheltered suburban basement dwelling 8chan nazi who has never worked a day in his life not knowing where to find bricks or paving stones. Working class folks know where to find a brick, we hoard them in a little pile in our yard when we find them and save them for garden beds.

This guy bought 2 bricks and a pack of sharpies at the Home Depot self checkout with an airline miles accruing Visa.

I wouldn't say no trouble... I would have to search the breadth of the Internet for many, many smaller examples. Good place to start would probablythe market crash preceding the great depression. And I will amend my comments regarding Russia and the deaths of those citizens, since under Stalin's watch a lot of those deaths were the results of his insanity and his struggle to keep power rather than failure of economic policy.

John Brown group is full of absolutely amazing people who do so much to help the community.

You’d think they’d have video cameras after all the trouble they’ve had there.

>If you think they would open an investigation into what is considered petty vandalism you've really got a fantasy view of the police.

The homophobic note attached to the brick puts it into hate crime territory, not just petty vandalism.

The only legitimate reason to not contact the police is if they're criminals also.

Well considering it was written on the brick and then attempted to be scrubbed off it's unlikely the hate crime would stick - hence them mentioning in the article it was most likely scrubbed off to avoid hate crime charges (which is a surprisingly amount of foresight for neo nazis honestly).

And the cops were contacted, but shockingly they haven't made any arrests. Even though members of the (presumed) same group have made appearances throughout the city since then.

And That makes the people in the comments arguing they shouldn't have seem that much more ridiculous

Its not vandalism it'd a hate crime

Except if you read the article you would see that it is not being investigated as such.

Good job reading past the headline and making assumptions though!

False Flag. Were I a leftist, I'd write anti-left shit on the brick too

Oh no! I'll get down voted and kicked from the sub! GOOD! Perhaps reddit won't keep asking me if this is a sub I want to participate in even though I've never posted in here.

You are comparing it to Graffiti, I'm going by what you said. Jesus

As did capitalism. What's your point? People die under every economic system.

It is entirely possible, but with no evidence to support your theory, it's a wild accusation at best. We work with the evidence given until proven otherwise.

I do wish we still lived in a time where you could kill any admitted, outspoken, and proven Nazi. Support of the ideology is in and of itself a death threat and anyone Nazis dislike would inherently be acting in self-defense. This isn't a "two-sides" issue. One is evil, the other is good.

Next level micro peen energy. Just go kiss your father on the mouth like you really want to and leave other people alone ya cunts.

Lol

Maybe they could take someone off speed trap duty and go investigate a hate crime or something idk

you mean possibly let someone commit a traffic violation?!? that's not a world i want to live in! /s

Nah bro, Stalin and Mao were cool… sips Starbucks and twirls pink hair

“But USSR, East Germany, China, Cuba, North Korea…THOSE ARENT REAL COMMUNISM”.. taps away on iPhone made for 1.00 an hour, ordering clothes from Shein

Funny all the old Commie propaganda I see…none of the people are overweight, or gay, or have pink and purple hair…

Yeah, commies do what they are told. This isn't groundbreaking.

I feel sorry for people who don’t know history.

It's the Nationalist Social Club, a neo Nazi group that operates heavily out of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Their goons have been spreading recruitment flyers and doing stupid shit all over New England over the last year. Providence has had issues as of late with their flyers posted all over the place and they were the ones that formed a mob at Red Ink last year.

Thanks for the info

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The Nazi side is evil, the anti-Nazi side is good.

Let me guess those neo nazis that showed up there a few months ago were actually the staff in disguise too lol

Red Ink doesn't deserve they hate they receive it's really sickening. Also hope they've invested in some 4k cameras inside and outside

Yeah, a few months ago it was halloween! Are you like juicy smollet thinking roving bands of yazis roam the streets of providence?

OR it's publicity stunts since the need for yazis outstrips the supply of yazis and there isn't as much money in being a commie as people thought?

I'd pay to see some commies take the boats delivered by cuban nationals and have them bring it back. It's state property after all.

Lol!!! Will it ever not be Trumps fault with you morons! There was no racism in America before 2016 right? You are a fool!

Let’s start a protest! That will work!! That’s sarcasm if you didn’t realize Sarox366!

Is anyone acting in this? Does this look like halloween? www.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/szgt0f/heres_a_clearer_look_at_the_nazi_cunts_who_showed/

So, you couldn't even fill out a softball team.

They're wearing the same uniform, no plate carriers, no weapons, and you're scared of these people?

It looks like LARPing to me.

No need to pity yourself, you just have to turn off the internet and open a book 🤯

Why haven't I run into any of these people. I'll knock some people tf out and take the charge. Complete bullshit

There was a nazi group that protested in front of this library last year that’s a fact. That being said, these bricks and messages are little too on-the-nose. Their main effect has been to gather support and sympathy for this Communist club. We could very well be looking at a juicy Smooyay situation.

China Mieville's new book on the Communist Manifesto is excellent, I recommend you check it out. (Seriously, if you're open to reading something that may challenge your views, check it out)

Unlike many on here, I don't subscribe to the idea that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

This isn't simply right versus left. It's an extreme right hate group versus people who embrace and push an ideology that goes against everything our country stands for.

I don't understand why anyone would choose to support either side.

Oh no! Not colored hair! What is America coming to! Next they'll be dancing to that "Rock and Roll" music I keep hearing about and smoking the Reefer

Now you've posted in here. Terrible strategy for avoiding a sub you have no desire to participate in

why have hate crimes gone up dramatically since 2016?

I love when neo-nazis advertise for leftist orgs. They seem to host some pretty good events and they have a D&D night which is awesome.

This. Exactly.

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And communism is even worse, yet you have people in this very thread supporting it.

They just advocate for killing you and your family.

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How do you know it was even Nazis that did it?

Where's the proof that they did this? Communists are almost universally hated, anyone with sense could have done this.

Leftists pull that shit all the time.

Communism is not worse than Naziism. One is an economic system without any moral good or bad attached, the other is an ideology founded upon the notion of fucking killing people. Quit being a cunt.

It’s fucking crazy people worship communism and have no idea what it is or what it stands for. How do you think they get this theoretical commie utopia they drool over? By killing everyone who has any property or money, and forcefully taking over every aspect of society. Communism destroys culture and stomps human rights.

I don't worship communism, I don't support communism, but comparing it to Naziism is idiocy, lunacy, and disgusting. Go fuck yourself.

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your comments read like a confession to me

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