• DamarcusArt
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      Why do nazis love flaming torches so much? They’re a very dangerous and impractical thing to bring to a demonstration. Do they use they because they know the cops will never stop them and so don’t need to worry about that sort of thing?

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Cuz it looked cool in Triumph of the Will and the alternative ways of looking cool on a parade take a shit ton of training and discipline and coordination that they can’t pull off.

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          We need another Mel Brooks “The Producers” style play that makes fun of these goons and how goofy they look when they’re trying to be cool.

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        Probably feudal times, when heretics and rebellious women were burnt at the stake.

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        In addition to other comments, they probably have some feeling that it intimidates potential protestors to be carrying a flaming stick.

        Maybe they are also going for causing a variation of the “suspension bridge effect” in their followers to be carrying and surrounded by dangerous objects.

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          Would make sense that these Cro-magnon brains think that people are scared of fire.

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        At least they’re not tiki torches from walmart this time.