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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.
Proud union member. Supports fascists.
Make it make sense.
Republicans are dumber than dogshit.
Wait until you meet libertarians...
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.
That man does black metal a disservice. I speak on behalf of many metalheads:
Hailing Satan? For evil?? Wild how the culture is a direct track to either being the chillest of people, or this guy.
Giving Satanists and union workers a bad name in one sweep. If he was in my local ID raise hell.
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.
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.
If that Jeep has "American Infidels" across the windshield I see him near The Islanders in Middleburg Heights most mornings
This was in Fairview Park so not far away. I didn't get a great look at the front unfortunately.
God, he has a baphomet tattoo and is a union member. He should be cool. Should be...
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?
It alerts drivers to his undersized appendage.
I think we need to talk about your discord notifications....
"Mark all read" fixes that bug for me.
For anyone new or just unfamiliar with the organization that is associated with the image of Baphomet
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.
Right absolutely. I was only trying to help people understand TST is not CoS. Which seemed to be happening in comments.
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.
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
maybe its an american thing (in uk here). is there a correlation with baphomet and nazism? i hadn’t heard that connection before
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.
Satanists are often diametrically opposed to Nazis, since they believe in freedom, and Nazis don't.
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.
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.
You keep making them sound more and more awesome.
We are, for the most part.
I got my card and diploma thing back when one of my Black Isrealite coworkers wouldn't stop loudly telling the Christian lady in the office across from me that he's the REAL Jew and his god would kill her when time came, taped it proudly to my door and just stared at him.
HR had a "better not discuss religion" email out 2 days later but my paper stayed up.
Also, the 7 tenets (satanists version of the 10 commandments, they're on the cards):
I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
V Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
No
Wow that’s not something I’ve ever wanted to do to Biden but hey whatever his kink fantasy is
the only nazi emblems are his maga/GOP worshiping things.
Happen to have anything with more of the face visible?
Being in public with obscenities on you / your property is the most cringe / childish / idiotic thing I can think of.