A Pop Band Tricked Americans Into Being Nazis
www.cracked.com
Do you remember Ace of Base? I should tell you something: Ace of Base was probably a bunch of Nazis.

This is a very interesting article about the 90s musical pop group "Ace of Base".

Actually, that they have ties to the neo-Nazi movement isn't in dispute, or at all a secret. A few years ago, Vice music editor Ben Shapiro wrote an article that revealed that Ace of Base founder Ulf Ekberg was once in a Nazi punk band called Commit Suiside.

Yah, I read 'Cracked Magazine' for the articles.

  • Krem [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    burgers when they hear the word "base":

    The name is most likely a reference to the Keroman Submarine Base, a massive U-boat launching and docking facility constructed by the Nazis in the French town of Loriant.

    burgers when they hear the words "happy nation":

    A nation that dreams of the perfect man? And then you cap that verse off with the word "brotherhood"? You're right, I'm completely crazy for suggesting this might be a love song to Adolf Hitler.

    burgers when they hear a song about casual sex:

    Right off the bat, a quick scan of the lyrics reveals that it's basically about a woman who leeches off society by tricking men into getting her pregnant so she doesn't have to work.

    burgers when they reminisce about the 90s:

    A time when ... winning a war in the Middle East was a thing we were still capable of as a country.

    lol hell yeah there are a bunch of cryptofash and even blatant fash in the nordics but don't blame them for your own blatant fash country which has been going strong for as long as fash have existed

    • reddit [any,they/them]
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      1 year ago

      burgers when they hear the word "base":

      Did you read the rest of that section? Keroman was literally the "base of aces." This isn't burgers misconstruing stuff, this is someone noticing a bit too many coincidences in a band lead by a straight up neo Nazi

      • Krem [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        i think there's like a 50/50/50 change (for a total of 150%) that it's either a) a nazi referencing a semi-obscure nazi military base which is gross but no one picked up on the reference anyway or b) the dumb story of a recording studio being called a "base" or c) them meaning to call it "ace of bass" but their english not being good enough to distinguish the homophones "base" and"bass" especially since they translate to the same word in swedish

        not trying to defend some nazi doing shit but i think it's more likely it's just shit rather than specifically nazi shit