33 people killed in a missile strike in Chernihiv, just hours ago.Why is everyone in the West pretending not seeing these horrors?! pic.twitter.com/8xiB29Nstx— Inna Sovsun (@InnaSovsun) March 3, 2022
I think Wagner Group has an Austin Red Guard chapter, too.
One of the most cursed sentences I've ever heard.
Also the Wagner group leader has Nazi tatoos, bit they seem to be all over the place with pagan and Norse mythology stuff too. Why are fascists like this?
My favourite is these so called warriors always end up being the opposite of that. During the failed Wagner deployment to Mozambique, I think about 25% of them left because they couldn't handle the weather/local conditions.
They seem to fight much better in central Africa though, don't know why. It's not like the local climate is any more hospitable. Maybe they just sent the worst of the worst to Mozambique. Or they learnt their lessons.
As for the pagan/Norse stuff, I think it has something to do with that whole "reject modernity, embrace tradition" meme, where "modernity" basically goes all the way back to the Holy Roman Empire and the spread of Orthodox Christianity and/or Catholicism, depending on the region. So they start reaching for any sort of identity they can dredge up -- especially when we start talking about Vikings, thanks to the ahistorical "omg based white people" aesthetic and the abundance of written historical accounts.
It really sucks for the Neopagans when their iconography gets hijacked by fash and white supremacists, too.
One of the most cursed sentences I've ever heard.
Also the Wagner group leader has Nazi tatoos, bit they seem to be all over the place with pagan and Norse mythology stuff too. Why are fascists like this?
Vague fetishisation of anything and everything "warrior".
My favourite is these so called warriors always end up being the opposite of that. During the failed Wagner deployment to Mozambique, I think about 25% of them left because they couldn't handle the weather/local conditions.
They seem to fight much better in central Africa though, don't know why. It's not like the local climate is any more hospitable. Maybe they just sent the worst of the worst to Mozambique. Or they learnt their lessons.
:kelly: General Summer
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As for the pagan/Norse stuff, I think it has something to do with that whole "reject modernity, embrace tradition" meme, where "modernity" basically goes all the way back to the Holy Roman Empire and the spread of Orthodox Christianity and/or Catholicism, depending on the region. So they start reaching for any sort of identity they can dredge up -- especially when we start talking about Vikings, thanks to the ahistorical "omg based white people" aesthetic and the abundance of written historical accounts.
It really sucks for the Neopagans when their iconography gets hijacked by fash and white supremacists, too.