• Lasherz@lemmy.worldM
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    I feel like the approval process at these federal institutes used to be about 7 people long and now the approval process is 1 nazi giggling with 2 other nazis and then some normal military person parallel to them continually has to clean up the mess.

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      I just assumed it was Pete Hegseth after a bender going “Swastikas for all!!!” And some poor intern figuring out how to make his boss not fire him.

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        I don’t believe there’s an after to his benders. The day he wakes up sober asking what he did is the day he wakes up in an ominously heated cave.

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    Wow they managed to do the right thing by not doing anything at all.

    That really ought to be a sign for them but as we know they’re just not very smart.

    Dig UP, stupid!

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    “Divisive or hate symbols and flags are prohibited,” the latest Coast Guard policy, released late Thursday, declared before adding that this category included “a noose, a swastika, and any symbols or flags co-opted or adopted by hate-based groups.”

    I’m trying to wrap my head around nooses being ‘coopted by hate groups’ as when used as a legal punishment their only use as a symbol served the same purpose. Still, rolling back far enough to add ‘hate’ back to the policy is better than just divisive.

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      Nooses in America are deeply associated with lynching, a form of white supremacist extrajudicial murder that typically involves torture, mutilation, and display of the corpse as a warning.

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        Yes, I am saying that the noose is very different than hate groups coopting the swastika and Norse runes, where the original context was not hate based.

        The noose was a symbol of hate before the hate groups used it.

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        Lived in the US my whole life and apparently wasn’t clear enough.

        I am saying the noose was already being used as a hate symbols by the state. The state used them to threaten runaway slaves for example.

        It is very different than hate groups coopting the swastika and Norse runes, where the original context was not hate based.