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[–] 61 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

20 yrs ago...

Driving through upstate new york with my family. Passed through a small town looking for some food and/or gas.

One house had nazi banners hanging openly on the front of the house. Not flags, they were like those big vertical banners behind hitler during speeches.

Nope. We can hold our pee and get gas later.... drive a little faster and get out.

As a canadian, i was shocked.... i thought stuff like that only existed in the deep south.... we were 3hrs from the canadian border or something.

In hindsight, it explains a lot about the current state of affairs in the US

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    In upstate New York one of my college friends borrowed my car and was driving around with it. My car had a Norwegian flag decoration on it and some guy pumping gas at a gas station mistook it for the Confederate flag, pointed at it and said, “yeah the South will rise again!!!” while my (Asian…) friend was also filling up. When she got back she had a lot of questions for me about what kind of flag it was since she wasn’t familiar with the Norwegian one.

    Never ever seen a Nazi flag in person and I’ve lived in the Deep South for about a decade. Confederate ones are super common though, albeit less so than just a few years back.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I live in Albany, NY. It's a city of about 100K people, and it's pretty diverse. I've found lots of pro nazi shit on peoples houses within 10 miles of the city limit.

    I sort of think, people were always Nazi douche nozzles, but trump made them brave about being open and upfront with their hate.

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