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It’s the Same Tattoo (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 months ago

Scared traitor piggy

[+] [email protected] 103 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I just really like Thor. It’s totally a coincidence that this looks like nazi shit.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ok, legit though, a friend of mine started going bald in his mid 20’s. Tried growing his hair out but was eventually convinced that shaving his head was a better look.

Then he started to really get into Melodic & Power Metal and similar sounding music.
Then Amon Amarth. Which lead him to Norse mythology. So he gets a Mjolnir necklace. And he likes leather jackets.

Perfectly innocent!

And he visits some friends in Germany. Coincidentally there is an anti-nazi protest going on. This huge German dude takes one look at the pasty-white, skinhead, Norse symbol, leather jacket friend of mine and gets RIGHT UP I HIS FACE. Very intent on kicking his ass until the people he is visiting defuse the situation.

I think it’s a funny story, at least.

P.S. Fuck Nazis. 🖕

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

So norse runes are nazi symbols now?

Can we make a list of symbols that aren't associated with nazis? How much of the Latin alphabet can we keep?

[–] Bertuccio 68 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nazis have borrowed Norse symbology since like the beginning of Nazis. Their most recognizable symbol is also borrowed from other cultures.

Unlike the swastika, Norse symbols aren't so strongly associated with Nazis that they're now completely unacceptable, so some Nazis use them as a way to broadcast their interests while keeping some plausibly deniable "I just think they're neat" shit.

[–] FlyingSquid 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget they also called themselves Aryan despite the Aryans being from central/south Asia. They're generally considered to be Indo-Iranian based on where they ended up and where they started. But it flows off the tongue better to put the former first.

[–] Bertuccio 5 points 2 months ago

They also call themselves Caucasian despite that being Eastern European and Asian.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

The Nazis were super into Norse runes. Hitler legitimately thought that they held magical powers.

I'd say I'm surprised you didn't know that, but honestly, I'm not because there's a lot of those kinds of things that they don't mention when teaching about WW2. Plenty of skinhead dog whistles that I didn't learn about until later on.

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

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbols/search?page=0

But the opposite of this one

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

I just want to put this out here because it happened to me. I've had a deep interest in Norse mythology since I was a child and have several tattoos featuring runes and Norse mythological imagery. I knew that Othala was a common white supremacist symbol as well as things like the sonnerad, triskele, and valknut so I avoided them.

However, my most visible piece is a raven skull with 3 runes running down the middle. 2 of them are apparently associated with Nazi shit. Thankfully they're obscure enough that normal people don't assume I'm a white supremacist, but it's dog-whistley enough that I've had Nazis assume I was also a Nazi and try to strike up conversations with me.

For anyone considering getting runes, be very careful with which ones you select and how you present them. Here's a decent list of Norse symbols that have been associated with white supremacist movements

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

Adding more:

[–] captainlezbian 8 points 2 months ago

Also the full star of chaos sometimes gets you an anarchist, sometimes a Nazi, and most likely a warhammer player. It’s a weird symbol

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

88!? Dafuq, that's my favorite number! 😭

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's dumb numerology shit. Obviously Nazis can't go around saying "Heil Hitler" since they will immediately be clocked as a Nazi, and H.H. is pretty obvious what they are alluding to. So they post "88" since H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. You'll often see it coupled with "14" which represents the 14 words "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"

[–] TexasDrunk 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's also why they think that everything is a bad code that they can descramble. They have these super obvious codes to signal to others and assume every other group has a code that's just as poorly disguised. That's how we ended up with shit like Pizzagate. If you order certain pizzas that unlocks the secret basement with the kids! It's also why a lot of them think there's a super secret cabal running everything.

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

Nah pizzagate has an even stupider but simpler explanation. Qanon folk thought that pedophiles were using the term Cheese Pizza or CP as a code for Child Prono.

[–] TexasDrunk 6 points 2 months ago

You know the super secret code! That means you've been to the basement of the pizza parlor that has no basement! You're one of them auntie faw child molesters!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Never got around to it, but I wanted to do a statistical search of Reddit usernames that pop up in subreddits with two or more numbers at the end. You'll of course have lots of people with '86 or '92 because they had their birth year at the end of their username. I'm betting '88 sticks out on the bar chart. Not everyone with an '88 at the end will be a nazi, but a disproportionate number with '88 would be a hint towards what kind of people the subreddit is attracting.

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[–] Nuke_the_whales 27 points 2 months ago (12 children)

I hate how these bastards ruined Norse art and mythology imagery

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Norse runes rule.

They don't belong to nazis, and everybody saying otherwise is an ally of the nazis and an enemy of the people.

Norse runes rule.

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[–] spankmonkey 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's the beginning of a maze!

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's my favorite dungeon in the original Legend of Zelda

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[–] FlyingSquid 10 points 2 months ago

I once walked into a gas station (a local one, hooray) and the guy behind the counter had a giant swastika tattoo on his arm.

Considering the sort of management that would allow such a person to work there, I avoided that station from then on.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This tat is an artistic representation of "scratch a cop and a fascist bleeds".

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[–] affiliate 67 points 2 months ago

he basically turned his arm into this flag

[–] qarbone 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hi racist!

[–] FlyingSquid 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A racist cop. But I repeat myself.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

hey! not all racists are cops

[–] RattlerSix 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never forget what really started the Ferguson riots. After a peaceful candlelight vigil, Ferguson police let a K-9 piss on the memorial to Michael Brown then ran over it with their police cars

[–] JustZ 5 points 2 months ago

For real? God damn.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

When you roll around in pig shit then take a pig shit bath to clean it off

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

Got a warning for a tail light being out about 15 miles from Ferguson last month. The douche had a similar tattoo to the first one. Instead of Monster can logo it was a sweet tribal design with parts of the Confederate flag mixed in. Stay classy St Charles Police department

[–] finitebanjo 29 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Its absolutely awful, but I do like how they utilized the blue in the flag for the stripe. Very symbolically fitting, in a way.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Uh!
[...]
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me

When the first eight lines are true, but then government is still surprised_pikachu.png when the result is the last line. Smh

Anyway woop woop people! Woop mother fucking woop!

The overseer rode around the plantation
The officer is off, patrollin' all the nation
The overseer could stop you, "What you're doing?"
The officer will pull you over just when he's pursuing
The overseer had the right to get ill
And if you fought back, the overseer had the right to kill
The officer has the right to arrest
And if you fight back they put a hole in your chest

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[–] middlemanSI 18 points 2 months ago

Hi, my name was John Dumb. I didn't like my name anymore, so I changed it to Robert Dumb.

[–] masquenox 14 points 2 months ago

White supremacism in, white supremacism out.

[–] ZILtoid1991 11 points 2 months ago

This reminds me the Hungarian "moderate conservative" who left behind Hitler's Mein Kampf for Evola's Rebellion Against the Modern World.

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