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This guy showed up to a LGBT youth center and filmed supporters outside it and the parking lot for the building. He has a baphomet tattoo which leads us to suspect he's a black metal nazi. Clearly a member of Local 18.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Proud union member. Supports fascists.

Make it make sense.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Republicans are dumber than dogshit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Wait until you meet libertarians...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

There's unfortunately a lot of them in unions. My friend is in one and I've become his fact checker for the crazy shit his coworkers tell him.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That man does black metal a disservice. I speak on behalf of many metalheads:

FUCK FASCISTS

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hailing Satan? For evil?? Wild how the culture is a direct track to either being the chillest of people, or this guy.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Giving Satanists and union workers a bad name in one sweep. If he was in my local ID raise hell.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look, not to defend Satan but I'm sure a metric shit ton more people died in the name of god than in his name. All in all he seems like a pretty chill dude with an open policy for his afterlife club.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Seconded!

As a metalhead and card-carrying member of The Satanic Temple, I want people to understand that we're not cool with this shit.

I fucking hate the way dumbass bigots like this guy misappropriate culture. Like Paul Ryan saying he loves Rage Against The Machine, or Nazis going to Dead Kennedys shows.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If that Jeep has "American Infidels" across the windshield I see him near The Islanders in Middleburg Heights most mornings

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

This was in Fairview Park so not far away. I didn't get a great look at the front unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (7 children)

That backwards pointing light bar on top of his emotional support vehicle is the cherry on top of the insecure douchebag sundae. So is it a colored strobe that he uses to impersonate a police car or is it a floodlight that he uses to blind other drivers behind him?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It alerts drivers to his undersized appendage.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

God, he has a baphomet tattoo and is a union member. He should be cool. Should be...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think we need to talk about your discord notifications....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

"Mark all read" fixes that bug for me.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

For anyone new or just unfamiliar with the organization that is associated with the image of Baphomet

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a member of TST, anyone anti-LGBTQ is not TST. There's no gatekeeper or reviews, so this dbag might think he's a Satanist, but his views are not in line with TST.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Right absolutely. I was only trying to help people understand TST is not CoS. Which seemed to be happening in comments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This does not explain the baphomet - black metal nazi connection?

And from the rest (flags, t-shirt...) it doesn't really point to either of these organisations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Cant speak to the black metal nazi connection, i just noticed more than a few people speak about a connection to that symbol and satanism.

And i had knowledge of the satanic temple and the church of satan being very different organizations despite any connection between them, but that its the satanic temple that is openly associated with it. Its very confused so i was only trying to provide context for the comment sections comments to help inform and avoid misunderstandings

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

maybe its an american thing (in uk here). is there a correlation with baphomet and nazism? i hadn’t heard that connection before

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No. There is such a thing as "national socialist black metal", but trying to correlate a baphomet tattoo with NSBM is a stretch. He very well could be a Nazi, but I wouldn't associate that with satanism solely from some images. There are assholes in every religion, we don't need another satanic panic out of ignorance and fear.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Satanists are often diametrically opposed to Nazis, since they believe in freedom, and Nazis don't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These Satanists sound like stand up people! I just wish the "satan" part didn't immediately bring them a stigma.

Then again, I know nothing else about them except your post, so I may be extremely out of the loop for context.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The Satanic Temple is by far the most famous from the US. They fairly regularly prevent attacks on separation of church and state by pulling stunts such as:

  • Demanding a statue of baphomet be placed in any government building that has the ten commandments

  • Doing satanic prayer before local government functions that do Christian prayer

  • Doing after-school Satan clubs as an alternative to Christian Sunday school

  • Using religious exemptions to get people abortions, as their tenets claim an individual's body is purely their own to do what they will with

And much more. They're a spicy bunch.

They like the stigma. They weaponize the stigma to keep separation, as they will and do use any opening Christians give them by weakening that separation to scare them away.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You keep making them sound more and more awesome.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Wow that’s not something I’ve ever wanted to do to Biden but hey whatever his kink fantasy is

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

the only nazi emblems are his maga/GOP worshiping things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Being in public with obscenities on you / your property is the most cringe / childish / idiotic thing I can think of.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Happen to have anything with more of the face visible?

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