• It'sbetterwithbutter@lemmus.org
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    2 hours ago

    Meanwhile Americans are holding peaceful protests that will change everything… Just like the Pro Palestinian protests changed everything, just like the massive global protests stopped the second Gulf War… It’s time people realise that while protesting peacefully does bring awareness, it changes nothing, especially when the administration is purposely working against the interests of the majority of the population.

  • 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de
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    NS clearly signifies “national socialism” , i.e. what Hitler’s party called their ideology. Don’t evne worry about the lightning shaped rune in the center.

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    18 hours ago

    I think it’s more likely that dude saw it and went “oh man that’s fuckin siiiiiiccccccckkkkkk” probably has skull stickers on his truck too

    I want to note that this is exactly what that actual Nazis did when they stole symbolisms from various cultures including the rune ᛋ and of course the swastica. Both of which represent the sun.

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      The swastika is one of the oldest, they have ones etched in stone in bulgaria from like 40k years back or something I forget, maybe it was 10k. Also later ones in india and elsewhere.

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      15 hours ago

      Related from my own defunct blog: Skulls in military symbolism are actually not particularly odd, as indicators of toughness and ferocity (and in Navy a nod to the Jolly Roger, which was partly an identifier of the pirate vessel, but also a call to surrender with the promise of quarter…)

      Discussing the M&W Are We The Baddies skit and the preponderance of skulls in Waffen SS kitch.

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    16 hours ago

    The SS fucks had a flat top and bottom, this one appears pointed. Anyway, close enough and most their ranks are filled with neo-Nazi turds.

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    20 hours ago

    I’m starting to wonder if these “ICE” people aren’t just kids who outgrew video games like Call of Duty, but didn’t care to join the army.

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    You dont have to look back very far to determine how this started on a low level, this is just aggresive inaappropriate counter-culture , 4chan internet troll, basement dwelling shitheel behaivor from the 90s and 00s but carried over into adult life

    Contrarians will always be contrary, so I guess being contrary to a boring “regime” that didnt particularly say or do anything except for ask for generic human rights for everyone, means cosplaying as the most offensive thing you can think of because it makes them mad, Cosplaying as Nazis and even doing the same thing the Nazis did with randomly and incorrectly co-opting norse iconography.

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      They aren’t Nazis just for contrarianisms sake, a large portion of the right wing in the US is inspired by and wants to emulate the Nazis and agree with their racist worldview. A lot of the people trolling and posting ironic racist stuff were just being edgy at some point, but many of them do agree with the things and just troll/joke as a cover.

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    15 hours ago

    Seeing SS symbols in everything related to lightning sign is a guaranteed way to have 0 people take you seriously.

    We know already that ICE agents are bad, no need to bring in conspiracies.

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      National socialist initials amd ss mark is hardly a conspiracy, you calling it as such is why no one takes you seriously.

      Why are you covering for nazis though?

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      𝕹ᛋ𝕾

      that’s just a normal lightning sign, nothing to see here, move along, the 𝕹𝕾 stands for 𝕹ational 𝕾overeignty of course, a very normal, run-of-the-mill thing to print on your camo helmet while abducting immigrants, please do not be alarmed.

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    ICE are all the raging assholes that constantly demanded violent responses to everything a minority or liberal did, or suggested nuking every foreign country for whatever perceived infraction, while safely behind a screen and keyboard. They refused to sign up for the military that would impose rules, expectations, and restrictions on them. Also, people shoot back at you if you get deployed. Can’t have that. Too scary. So they join ICE and get to beat up on those foreign people and piss off the libs while under State Protection, nobody gets to shoot back. They’re protected from consequences. Cowards and bullies.