The whole "it's a Roman salute and the Nazis don't own it" thing is such obvious bullshit, but I remember ostensibly liberal accounts making similar arguments whenever some bigwig in the Ukrainian military was caught with swastika merch ("mAyBe hE's zOrRoAstRiAn"), so...yeah. 💀
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This German public broadcasters video (with english subtitles) is a great and memorable example of how modern nazi's deny and deflect them using blatant nazi symbology.
The english title is "Playing the Nazi Card in the Third Reich" (In case your instance picks up the German title instead)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI
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@sofiav I mean before it was a Nazi salute it was an American salute and imperial salutes are just fascist anyway like
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@mapachin true. But also like...even the Americans stopped doing it when the Nazis took it over
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@sofiav they stopped doing it, but hired all the Nazi officials into high offices :bobsus:
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@mapachin used to be that liberals ONLY cared about symbolism, and now they don't EVEN care about symbolism 💀
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