He's always been the le reddit anti-hero but holy fuck he legitimately becomes a nazi around season 4. Its not like he was forced into working with them like the cartels in the earlier season, he willingly chose to work for nazis, Walter White is by every definition, a nazi. It doesn't matter he killed them at the end, he did that because of a personal vendetta not because they were nazis. He's like one of the nazis who tried to assassinate Hitler, still a nazi. Walter White is a nazi :jesse-wtf:
I'm sorry, but is working with a skinhead gang somehow worse than poisoning a small child and bombing a nursing home?
Edit: Also, like, yeah Jack and his gang have Nazi tattoos and were almost certainly white supremacists, but at the end of the day they're just a particularly vicious gang of criminals. There's no indication that they're motivated by politics or do anything to consciously advance a fascist agenda. IRL, there's a big difference between the Aryan Brotherhood and, for example, the Proud Boys or the 3%ers. They're all scumbags, but the Aryan Brotherhood probably isn't politically dangerous.
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What "Bruh?" They're not the same thing. Criminal gangs and fascist militias or political parties are different kinds of social formations formed for different goals. That's not a moral judgment, it's just a fact.
It's a distinction without meaning. A gang formed around a white nationalist identity is by definition political, and it's terminal electoralism brain to claim otherwise.
More to the point, the AB has the same capacity to engage in stochastic terrorism and fascist suppression of vulnerable/marginalized groups anywhere they have a foothold. I don't see how their funding coming from drugs makes a difference. I certainly don't see how a BIPOC or LGBTQ person living in an area where AB are active could or should feel any safer, just cause it's not the Proud Boys or whatever.
What's more, as material conditions worsen, it will be all too easy for them to take a more active "political" role and get funding from CIA, oligarchs etc. Will you claim they only became Nazi's after then? Sure they had the swastikas, violent induction rituals, organizational structure etc, but they weren't doing politics!
It does have a meaning. The Aryan Brotherhood isn't going to be leading the march on Rome or installing the next fuhrer. The Proud Boys or the 3%ers or any number of other groups might actually do that. You know for a fact that that's true, and you know why that's true. You know what the difference between these two different kinds of social formations are, so stop this pointless hectoring please.
:PIGPOOPBALLS: <- his name is Hector
no i do :pigpoop: to you
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My point isn't to imply that one is somehow "better" than the other.
Dude they're both dangerous in different ways. Like do you think the AB stops recruiting when they get out of prison? I know comrades who were firebombed by the AB for "political" reasons. The fascist brownshirts weren't just vets they were also street thugs.
That's my point.
nah
that kind of danger is to a few people
political danger is to the world