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    THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNTIED STATES IS CALLING FOR LAWMAKERS TO BE EXECUTED FOR UPHOLDING THE LAW! WTF IS GOING TO BE DONE ABOUT THIS SHIT?

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    Following the double negative rule: Anti Anti Fascists leaves you with

    Fascists

    The USA is dropping the mask for all the world to see.

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      AND STILL PEOPLE ARE ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL! AT THIS POINT I WANT TO SEE MASS PANIC SO I KNOW I’M NOT CRAZY! AND I’M IN CANADA, I WANT MASS PANIC IN CANADA! I AT LEAST WANT THIS SHIT TAKEN SERIOUSLY ENOUGH THAT CANADIANS STOP FUCKING GOING TO THE STATES AS IF EVERYTHING IS NORMAL!

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        It would be nice if Canadians would also stop voting for politicians who lead Canada in the same direction as the USA. We need to turn left, not right.

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    Combine this policy with declaring anti-fascists as terrorists, and I think a pattern is emerging here.

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    I think I see this differently than most. I’m all for this. This would make it so much easier to know who to kick out during the next administration.

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      Ah, a potentially divisive hand gesture, inscrutable, controversial and puzzling. What on Earth could it mean?

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    Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as ‘potentially divisive’ under its new guidelines. The new policy, set to take effect Dec. 15, similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag

    Threatening racial lynchings is “potentially divisive” but not hateful, apparently. I guess there are very fine people on both sides of the white supremacist lynchings debate.

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    How else are they going to hire people? Most guys that want to sign up are all tatted with these symbols.

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    Oh for a moment there I was beginning to doubt the direction of USA.
    Well I guess it’s still full steam ahead to dismantle democracy and introduce an authoritarian dictatorship.

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    Brief anecdote. In school, we used to draw swastikas on everything in order to get others in trouble or to make ourselves seem like assholes. At no point did we consider what we were doing ok, it was just kids riding the edge of something they couldn’t understand for the sake of ignominy. Even we, as ignorant as we were, recognized that the swastika was a hate symbol and thoroughly unacceptable, we were, again, just assholes.

    I’ve been saying this quite a lot but this culture war bodes poorly.

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      On a similar tangent, I find hilarity in poorly drawn swastikas - or to use an entertaining but horrendously ablest term, a spastika.

      I make no apology for equating the sort of dickhead that scrawls this shit everywhere in adult life with the sort of clueless fuckwit that tests sockets with a fork, and couldn’t pour water out of a boot even if the instructions were on the soles.

      I don’t often like punching down on the lesser-intellectual folk (mainly because I’m dumb as rocks for 23 hours of the day myself) but this is one of the few times I enjoy the opportunity.

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        Damn been awhile since I’ve thought about a good old Hale Hortler. Thanks for reminding me that while I might be stupid I at least am better than these fuckwits.

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    If you read between the lines, this is the clearest sign to date how much they’re struggling with recruiting for the armed forces.

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    I know its a drama we’re past by now but I can’t help but think about the people who defended Platner with the line “the military would have stopped him if it was really a Nazi tattoo.” Because most of us knew that in fact they would not, and now they have put it in writing.

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      Platner said that the marines actually rejected his reenlistment for having a death’s head tattoo (even though he says got it while in the marines and that it was a common tattoo for marines to have) so he had to join the army out desperation. He really was determined to go back over there and kill more brown people.

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        Can you give a source on that or a general direction on where to look? I’ve heard about the tattoo and looked into it during the initial controversy and did not find that information at the time.

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          Although reading it now it seems the marines rejected him for having visible tattoos on his arm.

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            If you know about MARADMIN, can you elaborate on what he means? I looked it up and understand it as a kind of code of conduct, but don’t see what changed in 2007, just that he said a USMC based tattoo was what prevented him.

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        But I thought he didn’t know what it was? So he thought they rejected his reenlistement because of a regular skull tattoo?

        Sketchy af

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          He was in the Marines, they aren’t known for being particularly bright outside of maybe the specialists, NCOs, and COs. They ain’t called America’s greatest crayon eaters for nothing, but hey since the 80s or so theyve diversified their eating habits with MRE wrappers and chemical heaters.

          I grew up round Vietnam era army mud boots, I will take any opportunity to bash the Marines.

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    “Divisive.”

    I mean, COME ON guys, lets just meet halfway. They wear swastikas and SS uniforms, and you don’t complain anymore, it’s called COMPROMISE.

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      “Don’t you see? Those people find civil rights offensive too! Why don’t we just compromise and only call klan hoods “divisive” rather than “hateful.” That will solve the issue!”

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        Pretty much every reddit comment section on default subs.

        At least before most people got replaced by bots.

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    Of course Nazis don’t think the Nazi symbol is a hate symbol.

    That would be like me saying the weed leaf image is a hate symbol.