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[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

White supremacism in, white supremacism out.

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 hours ago
[-] Username@feddit.org 5 points 5 hours ago

Yes, "Killing In the Name"

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 46 points 15 hours ago

he basically turned his arm into this flag

[-] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 29 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] frezik@midwest.social 61 points 21 hours ago

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

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Were the confederates fascist? Racist oligarchies exist before fascism as a concept existed(like the confederacy). But I think fascism also requires certain economic and political policies that idk if the CSA had.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 7 hours ago

If the Confederacy existed today you'd call it a fascist state with zero mental conflict, but Orwell actually addressed a similar situation with criticizing Kipling that he resolved by simply calling him a pre-fascist.

No, they do not meet a technical definition of the term on a policy level, but if they'd been around in 1930 you bet your ass they'd have been babbling about Autarky and such.

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

There is also a huge emphasis on military worship in fascist societies, sometimes even trying to make civilians dress and act like the military does. Which, once again, confederates didn't do.

[-] Hamartia@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

A big problem with how people conceptulise fascism is that they only look at a couple of full grown animals. This causes them to overlook the nascent stages and to discount regional variances caused by the different environments they grew up in.

Whether they have been propagandised to frame this perception this way because most Right Wing movements utilise fear, anger and devisiveness in a discomfortingly similar way, is worth pondering.

[-] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 28 points 19 hours 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

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 58 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)
[-] praxis_jack@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Exactly what I pictured hahah

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 31 points 22 hours ago

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

[-] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago
[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yeah look, theres a verticle strip of blue on the skull going straight down from a wonky edge of the tear which aligns with where the blue is on the flag. Also, the skulls eye socket coveres where some of the red might have been in between.

[-] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

thanks for the downvote, but you are wrong and this is too trivial to explain, just look at the ridges of untatooed skin

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Have another

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 19 hours ago

I have no idea what you're on about. At the top of the largest piece of the earlier tattoo, there's a ridge where it flares out, and at the base of that, it splits red on the left with blue on the right.

On the new tattoo, at that same ridge, there's white on the left, and the exact same blue on the right.

Below the eye socket in the skull, the blue under that would be color matched and added, since that part of the original was red. At the same time, since they had to at least try to color match it, they may have touched up the upper part of the blue (above the eye socket), but it's hard to tell.

The white balance in these pictures doesn't match, so the colors are all over the place and it's hard to tell if they're the same hue.

Either way, on both, the blue line above the eye on the final tattoo does align with the blue present in the original tattoo.

I dunno if you're trying to say something else, but it's clear as day if you reference the other edges of the piece, to align everything.

[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 95 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of the time somebody in r/nursing asked if they would run into any problems having tattoos. Most places don't care too much these days and especially since they wanted to work psych which is pretty in-demand but I commented that if they're gang related or look similar to gang related symbols there could be trouble because there's a lot of crossover between the psych and corrections patient populations.

They told me "oh they're just some norse runes." Bruh. I thought you were gonna tell me it was a butterfly on your wrist or something you gotta be kidding me. They stopped responding before telling me which runes specifically but if an internet stranger clocked them from a few message board responses maybe they rethought some things.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 24 points 22 hours ago

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.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 21 hours ago

There's even some arguments that we should go back to them. Runes are the original English alphabet, and spelling would be more natural with them. But ripping them away from the nazis would be hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4npuVmGxXuk

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 7 hours ago

There might be an argument for adding back in thorn and such but the funny thing about the Anglo-Saxon/Germanic rune system is that it was copied and altered from Etruscan/North Italian sources in the first place!

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 47 points 1 day ago

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

[-] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 86 points 1 day ago

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. 🖕

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@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago

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@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] EldritchFeminity 23 points 1 day 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.

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[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago

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

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 day ago
[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours 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

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I’d love to see an anti fascist Viking type get “kill Nazis” transliterated into runes as a tattoo

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours 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.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

It's the beginning of a maze!

[-] SatyrSack@feddit.org 4 points 21 hours ago

A place free from darkness...

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[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 100 points 1 day ago

Scared traitor piggy

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 1 day ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 23 hours ago

A racist cop. But I repeat myself.

[-] match@pawb.social 11 points 18 hours ago

hey! not all racists are cops

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 32 points 1 day ago

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

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago

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

[-] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

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

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