They were socialists punks & goths from east germany who would regularly get in fights with reactionaries in their youth??? I genuinely did not see this coming. Maybe it would have been obvious if I spoke german but I don’t and I am shocked. Genuinely expected chud behavior

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    after more than 30 years of fascist organizing and downright settlement policies, and tons of leftist or just not-fascist people moving away from dying towns ravaged by neoliberal shock treatment, there aren’t many of these places left.

    I have never considered how this might be the case. Is there anything written about it? Sounds like an interesting rabbit hole if there’s ever been a deliberate effort and any similarities to like west bank shit or whatever.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      The modus operandi is less West Bank and more cult compound, or just large parts of the nazi scene in a Western city buying cheap, abandoned houses in an almost-ghost town in the East. I can dig up sources, but i don’t know anything in English about this.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        I mean, that’s not really that dissimilar. Difference is they’re not literally stealing the houses. So what they take over an area with small numbers of people an impose their cultural presence on the local area then move on to do it again elsewhere? Can probably do that with 15-30 people in areas with up to a few thousand.