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Graham Platner on Reddit 6 years ago commenting on a thread mentioning the totenkopf on a post discussing SS soldiers with a visible totenkopf in the photo
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Still think giving him the benefit of the doubt is cool?
"I wasn't being a nazi when I spray-painted a swastika on the grave, I'm a Buddhist actually"
"It's not a nazi swastika, it's wider than it is tall. The nazi swastika is square! It's a Buddhist symbol!"
"I'm comfortable around nazi imagery, that must mean everyone else is too"
what an obvious bad faith bullshit comment lol, reminds me of the company behind this poster claiming how it was totes a complete coincidence that it looks exactly like a nazi poster, you can tell because the guy on the right is wearing a hat, a key feature not present in the nazi version!!!:
nazi swastika is rotated by 45 degrees 🙄
I know you mean well but this is a myth and there are countless examples of the Nazis using 90 degree swastikas:
Even medals:
And Hitler's own personal standard:
Not to mention in one of the most iconic videos depicting the Nazi swastika:
I'm not trying to drag you here. Fascists use this argument tactically for plausible deniability and it's widely accepted as common knowledge in the west but it's straight up untrue.
A year or two ago i had someone join my discord with a swastika in their name and tell me they were just a big fan of the finnish air force.
v finnish airforce flag
Yeah, the Finnish government who was vehemently anticommunist and quite cosy with Nazi Germany has continued using the swastikas to this very day.
"I'm not a Nazi sympathiser, I just love the quiet collaborators of Nazi Germany and their particular use of the swastika" isn't the defense that some people think it is.
i remember reading that the white army in finland allied with the liberals were known as "the butchers" for their extensive field executions of red army soldiers during the overthrow of the tsar