alright, I'll say it, this has to be either an accident or one or a couple powerful people shitposting. Something as impactful as the quantity of produced vehicles - which is never arbitrary, it's always driven by budget, time constraints, floor space, or some other factor - would be pretty unwise to use as a dogwhistle. Even if they are dogwhistling here... to whom? Why? It's not like this recruits anyone.
Ukraine and Germany are crawling with Nazis ofc but using something like a quantity of tanks to advertise that fact seems... unlikely. The positives of doing this are nothing as far as I can tell, and the negatives are, well, being compellingly tied to nazis when they're already fighting that propaganda battle. In fact, 14 words is an English phrase, and this is a German-speaking country dealing with a Ukrainian-speaking country; there's no guarantee that the translation is even 14 words long.
I think they realize Germany sending tanks into Ukraine to fight Russia is so obviously a rerun of WW2 that they want to trivialize that similarity.
“Just because they’re using the numbers 14 and 88 doesn’t mean they’re Nazis bro, obviously any opposition to this is just some Qanon numerology bullshit.”
It’s a trap card. They want to make the conservation about these numbers and the meaning behind them, which is easy to trivialize since it is actually a trivial detail, it’s an attention grabbing trivial detail which forces the conversation to be about that rather than the fact this is a rerun of WW2.
Considering we’re talking about German here, it’s very possible that the words were combined into one gigantic word, like donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft or something.
alright, I'll say it, this has to be either an accident or one or a couple powerful people shitposting. Something as impactful as the quantity of produced vehicles - which is never arbitrary, it's always driven by budget, time constraints, floor space, or some other factor - would be pretty unwise to use as a dogwhistle. Even if they are dogwhistling here... to whom? Why? It's not like this recruits anyone.
Ukraine and Germany are crawling with Nazis ofc but using something like a quantity of tanks to advertise that fact seems... unlikely. The positives of doing this are nothing as far as I can tell, and the negatives are, well, being compellingly tied to nazis when they're already fighting that propaganda battle. In fact, 14 words is an English phrase, and this is a German-speaking country dealing with a Ukrainian-speaking country; there's no guarantee that the translation is even 14 words long.
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I think they realize Germany sending tanks into Ukraine to fight Russia is so obviously a rerun of WW2 that they want to trivialize that similarity.
“Just because they’re using the numbers 14 and 88 doesn’t mean they’re Nazis bro, obviously any opposition to this is just some Qanon numerology bullshit.”
It’s a trap card. They want to make the conservation about these numbers and the meaning behind them, which is easy to trivialize since it is actually a trivial detail, it’s an attention grabbing trivial detail which forces the conversation to be about that rather than the fact this is a rerun of WW2.
Considering we’re talking about German here, it’s very possible that the words were combined into one gigantic word, like donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft or something.