The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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Gotta focus on the truly hateful symbols, like rainbows, “everyone is welcome” signs, and abstract nouns.
What the fuck???
About 40% of Republican staffers have gone full Nazi at this point, and the rest (and their bosses) are ok with this. Just making sure their buddies can get military training is all
so the most hateful symbol ever made, the swastika, is now just potentially divisive… sweet….
i will say that the noose has a lot of meaning other than referring to lynchings… pretty popular in suicide and any other type of execution….
it’s certainly used as a hate symbol but it’s not always that.
e.g. Hangtown, California (although they did remove the noose from their city logo)
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maybe they changed it because the swastika has much older cultural and religious meaning elsewhere?Not disagreeing with current meaning behind the swastika, but it was appropriated from Sanskrit; it was not created to be hateful.
It’s still used today in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
It’s not the reversed, 45-degree angle one the Nazis used to set theirs apart.
It wasn’t appropriated from Sanskrit, the design was a popular across the Indo-European cultures for millenia but happened to survive into modernity in Sanskrit. The Nazis ripped it from artifacts being found mainly in Germanic and Celtic archeology sites, they also ripped a bunch of other symbols but most of those were dropped by the start of the war, they also made the black sun symbol (I just woke up from a nap and can’t rember the name) based off the solar symbols of ancient Neolithic to Bronze age Old European cultures.
i hope someday that will be the first thing people think of when they see it, again
No, the swastika only has one meaning. It was changed from the original symbol, and so that original symbol is still safe. The swastika is the swastika, and it means nothing but hate and is worn by no one but cunts.
Edit: Lot of swastika apologists on this site…
The Nazi swastika is, not the others.
This isn’t really accurate. I agree with your sentiment on some level… But the swastika has existed for thousands of years in many different forms in many different cultures. It was co opted for sure, but not really changed. I agree that it is predominantly used as a hate symbol in modern culture, but it’s not quite as simple as you are putting it here, imho. Ancient Buddhist or Hindu temples shouldn’t be torn down because of a madman that stole a symbol nonsensically that had nothing to do with Aryan superiority. Might be nice if someday it could be rehabbed but certainly today, in America especially it is generally used as only meaning one thing. Not trying to be pedantic, it’s just not quite as cut and dry as you’re representing.
I think you are advocating for the wrong devil here, friend.
In the Indian context, the reverse swastika (counter-clockwise, or sauvastika) symbolizes night, the goddess Kali, and tantric practices, while the right-facing swastika represents day, the sun (Surya), and auspiciousness. Both symbols are ancient and sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, but the left-facing sauvastika is specifically associated with the night and Kali in Hindu tradition.
Now do Lynchburg, VA.
ok: Lynchburg was founded in 1757 by John Lynch
Charles Lynch was a Virginia Quaker,[12]: 23ff planter, and Patriot who headed a county court in Virginia which imprisoned Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War,
read your own link… it wasn’t about murdering black people, originally….
i’m not not saying it’s just cool to have a hangman’s noose t-shirt in america, given the rest of history. But america kinda had a thing with hanging all sorts of people.
huh. Grew up in VB. TIL.
Any relation to David?
i’m assuming he was a direct descendant… just because i want to
In other news, ICE has now adopted the swastika and noose as their official departmental symbols
Swastanoose it’s a swastika with 4 nooses at each point.
so can we make an ironic version to hang four of these traitors at a time or violence doesn’t solve violence etc.
250,000 US Coast Guard Troops were deployed during WW2. A quarter of a million people. This is a hell of a disservice to their memory.
https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Conflicts/World-War-II/
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.ml user. Downvote, block, and move on. Don’t take the bait.
Who cares what instance I signed up on lol. Do you have anything substantial to say?
In case you didn’t know, the .ml instance has a very earned reputation for hosting tankies.
Yes, I learned about that quite a while after I had signed up. So what? It’s like refusing to talk to someone simply because they’re from Florida - sure, most Floridians are racist lunatics, doesn’t mean they don’t deserve the benefit of doubt.
I’d buy that if your original comment didn’t sound very much like something a tankie would say.
That’s just it though. They don’t.
I am starting to think we need to overthrow this regime
Let me guess, Hegseth?
Since it’s under Homeland Security, it would be the dog murderer Gestapo Barbie or one of her underlings.
GODDAMIT
