A new report shared with VICE News outlines the massive growth so-called Active Clubs, neo-Nazi fitness and fight clubs, have experienced in both the United States and internationally.

A new report shared with VICE News outlines the massive growth so-called Active Clubs, neo-Nazi fitness and fight clubs, have experienced in both the United States and internationally.

  • edric
    41·
    1 year ago

    Made up of guys who make Tyler Durden their personality. Makes sense.

    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 year ago

      If they can actually follow through and destroy the entire financial banking systems data centers at the end…Then there’d be at least one thing positive Nazis did.

  • Hyperreality@kbin.social
    382·
    1 year ago

    I know this is number 123 on the list of bad things about nazis, I have a relative who spent a less than enjoyable holiday in Dachau during the war, but it really annoys me how they’ve all co-opted Norse/Viking mythology and symbols.

    There’s this webshop in Sweden which sells really cool rune and viking crap. Really nerdy stuff, I think owned by one of the guys from metal band Amon Amarth (who AFAIK are not racist), also made stuff for the show vikings.

    But 9/10 people wearing their stuff or stuff like it are far right. It’s really annoying. I like Viking stuff. It’s really cool. I’m a big guy, do a bit of weight lifting, so I can pull it off. But I really don’t want to be associated with weird weedy incel racists living in trailers.

    • brognak
      21·
      1 year ago

      Can confirm Amon Amarth 100% not white supremacists, they have spoken out about how much they utterly despise they appropriation of their cultural heritage for racist purposes.

      Buying their merch is super tricky as a white dude who lives in New England. Was at their show recently and most of their shirts have giant Mjolnir on them, and YOU and I know it isn’t being used by racists, but a random on the street wouldn’t 😅. Did end up with a rad hoodie with stylized Geri and Freki though.

    • lyam23@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

      The co-option classical and ancient Western culture sucks but it’s pretty typical of fascism. It’s even in the name. I’m interested in fitness, Hellenistic culture and history, Western mythology and philosophy, Jungian psychology, and YouTube think pieces. It’s extremely hard to find videos on these topics that aren’t actually being produced by crypto fascists.

      • Hyperreality@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        I can see how that would be a problem.

        If I watch any kind of documentary on youtube, it’ll inevitably start serving up pseudo-intellectuals and crypto-fascists.

        The comment sections are inevitably very culty too. Pretty scary stuff, because that’s a very effective way to convince the unaware that the charlatan they’re watching is actually a great thinker.

        Important to stay (self-)critical and google stuff/people.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      62·
      1 year ago

      Now I’m wondering how many of the little CrossFit gyms with skull logos and blacked out workout equipment are actually Nazi training clubs. They seem to be attracting similar audiences.

    • fosforus@sopuli.xyz
      251·
      1 year ago

      No, this is not good, jesus fucking christ. They’re practicing while their counterforce is at the keyboards.

      • Leviathan@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        I boxed for many years, dudes who get knocked out a whole bunch of times are generally slower and easier to knock out. These morons probably pride themselves on bare knuckle type shit. Wouldn’t surprise me if they routinely land each other in the hospital.

      • socsa@lemmy.ml
        23·
        1 year ago

        Practicing what exactly? Losing brain cells?

        If it comes down to there being any form of political power being dictated by such single combat, society will already be irredeemably fucked.

        These people are just squirting toxic masculinity onto each other. Who gives a shit?

        • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          1 year ago

          It’s the organizing that should scare you. These groups grow comaradarie and start showing up in other areas of daily life to push agendas that should scare freedom loving people. Growing a community of hate while other groups just sit around and think that “it can’t happen here” while attacking each other instead of organizing is what bothers me.