• Edgarallenpwn [they/them]
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    658 minutes 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@lemmy.world
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    173 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.

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        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
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          -113 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

          • @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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            116 minutes 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.

  • @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    63 hours ago

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

  • @Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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    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
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      73 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.

        • @Madison420@lemmy.world
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          Not at all most of the image of Vikings is wildly inaccurate and the britons don’t have much wiggle room to talk about crazy shit their people did in the woods.

    • Flying Squid
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      94 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.

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

      • Scratch
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        686 hours 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. 🖕

        • Captain Aggravated
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          56 hours ago

          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
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            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.

            • Flying Squid
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              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.

          • 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.

      • @BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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        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

            • Edgarallenpwn [they/them]
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              141 minutes ago

              Me over here with decades of usernames including 14 in them because it was my “lucky number” in speedway math.

              • @TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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                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@lemmy.world
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                  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.

              • @frezik@midwest.social
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                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.

  • Lad
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    307 hours ago

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