Genuinely idk what to do... I really need a vehicle where I am at but I don't want to deal with a nazi.

  • LaBellaLotta [any]
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    4 months ago

    I mean they probably have repellant views but this doesn’t scream neo nazi to me. The Iron Cross, while carrying some connotations, plenty of Normies just don’t recognize those and just think it’s a cool bad ass cross. Maybe I’m just missing something but that’s my read

  • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    Isn't Independant a skateboard company? They changed their terrible logo: https://shredder.news/independent-trucks-logo-change/

    • BobDole [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      Lmao, they probably just googled “independant [sic] logo” and were like “oh cool a cross!”

    • HexBeara
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      27 days ago

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    • bubbalu [they/them]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      This is def the iron cross and not the truck logo tho...

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        4 months ago

        Yeah but the article shows that they used the iron cross before changing it. Could be an older jacket but I don’t see anything online

  • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    Dude's just a clueless suburbanite. Also, don't sew three patches onto the back of your jacket, even if it is this jank rando shit. Banner at the top, center piece, lower banner - that arrangement is a no no.

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    This isn’t damning on its own, plenty of people would just see the iron cross as a cross. Becomes apparent if they’re just clueless if it is a pattern with other signs or not.

    • booty [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      plenty of people would just see the iron cross as a cross.

      I don't think there's any Christian who would look at that symbol and naively think it's for Christianity

      They might not know what it means but they definitely aren't thinking it's "just a cross" lol

      • Barabas [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        It is literally a Christian symbol that was used as a Christian symbol by the Prussians and later the Nazis.

        It isn’t standard looking, but it isn’t a rare form of cross.

  • anonochronomus [comrade/them, she/her]
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    4 months ago

    Looks more like a clueless wannabe biker than an actual nazi. Early Hells Angels and other motorcycle clubs appropriated Nazi symbols, helmets, etc. Their goal was more shock value than anything else. Hells Angels were founded by WW2 fighter pilots that couldn't adjust to normal life again, so I can kind of understand how waaay back in the day the original dudes might have felt like it's NBD because they killed a bunch of nazis. TO BE CLEAR, I'm not going to bat for the Angels or other 3%er clubs, they are shit people who do awful stuff, but context kinda matters, and I don't think some suburbanite who's trying to dress like a fake biker is necessarily a nazi.

  • Silenus2@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    The Bundeswehr still use the Iron Cross, AFAIK. A biker who wears a fake Pickelhaube is not inherently a prussiaboo, so why's this any different?