• Poplar?@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Im guessing this parodies how Nazis defend the swastika with the same justification. That was good.

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      9 months ago

      The history of the swastika is interesting, or I should say histories, because it’s not that unique of a symbol and has been independently created in half a dozen cultures.

      But yeah, the Nazis ruined it for everyone. There’s actually a story about how a Native American tribe had used the symbol going back easily a thousand years, and after the Nazis ruined it, they officially retired their own version.

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      9 months ago

      Not just Nazis. Sometimes Hindu, Buddhist and Jains, too. And then there are those like me, white, Western Dharmicish folks who will not use it, or defend it, but know about it’s uses pretty intimately, and get nervous whenever the conversation comes up, because so not a Nazi

      Fucking Nazis ruin everything they touch

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    'Hey, you have to take that down. Don’t you know what that means?’ For me it was synonymous with a right-wing hate group. Thankfully, my friend noticed me staring at the frog, and he soon set me straight.” Stewardson went on to explain that, in Sanskrit, the word Pepe roughly translates to “Feels good, man.”

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    9 months ago

    Is it me or have the articles gotten seemingly non-existently short on The Onion when they don’t just do the thing where they post pictures with satirical responses below?