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on a post in r/houston about some dipshit who saw a work truck with a russsian flag and Z decal and wanting to do redditor style investigations into them

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

Liberals

Azov using an actual swastika: It's just a cultural thingrage-cry

Z and a Russian flag:OMG Nazis among usjon-yell

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

that Z is half a swastika

Glances at my elementary mathematics textbook chapter on addition

Oh shit. Oh fuck.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Do these idiots literally just ignore the nazi symbols used constantly by the Ukraine military or something?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. They goalpost shift around them constantly

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean it literally took me 4 seconds to wikipedia it, so it's not even a hidden feature

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right but they’ll goalpost shift into saying they’re just trying to provoke the Russian orcs or something. They dont actually examine evidence, they ignore shit in whatever way they can

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By the way, can anyone read the pictures I posted? They don't expand on my end and are really small, too small to read. Is it just me or is it part of the image hosting?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

On phone so im not sure

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

have to open new tab to read for me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh ok sorry then, on a web browser

I'll have to keep it in mind

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depending on their mood or the point they're trying to argue against, those symbols can be

  • Totally different from Nazi symbols, they're ancient runes (that are not from Ukraine, but ah well nevertheless)
  • Definitely Nazi symbols, but only for the purpose of "trolling" the Russians who lost millions to the Nazis (which includes the Ukrainians lost, but a lot of those were undesirables so ah well nevertheless)
  • One or two bad apples, what are they going to do ban using Nazi symbols in their military? (which other western militaries do, but ah well nevertheless)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I saw a lot of enlightened geopolitics experts on Twitter arguing that it was totally German and Scandinavian religious icons, nothing with Nazism pinky swear

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

An excuse I hear a lot lately is that they just use nazi iconography to own Russia so it's fine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They know absolutely nothing about Ukraine. In particular, they nothing about Ukraine's long history of using antisemitic violence to protect the rich.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really don't want to know what this guy thinks about sleeping people going "Zzz"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

whoah buddy that's 1.5 swastikas worth of the letter that shall not be named!!!1

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tbf wielding the Z symbol is cringe and possibly an uncritical endorsement of Vladimir Putin thought

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

It's Texas, every 20th truck has six Trump/punisher/q anon flags mounted in the bed. The Z is less cringe than any of those and none of these redditors is worried about "what's going on"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Someone's going to get hate-crimed for a Zelda tattoo.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

And this is from just 4 years ago

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

dril bits about turning the racism dial before an audience are becoming reality.

Dril bits. kelly