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Resist: It's Time

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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."

The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.

The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.

It's time.

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An "unannounced demonstration" by Nazis ends when upstanding citizens push past police, steal a Nazi flag, and set it on fire. The Nazis leave, and the resisters are not arrested.

These people were just going about their day, and it was important to enough people to stop and get directly involved. They took on risks of bodily harm and arrest. I'm willing to bet that none of them were "prepared" for the confrontation.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

The Nazis began to back off," Eley said. "They quickly jumped in the back of a U-Haul truck and took off."

Every time i see a u-haul now I'm gonna be thinking about how many Nazis it'll fit. This isn't even the first time I've heard of them using u-hauls for mass transit, lol

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

Uhauls are made to have padlocks placed on the door... Just something to think about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Uhauls are also fairly standardized, so one could put a padlock just big enough to fit but not big enough to cut off easily.

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