USA Politics (redux)

[drogulus]

     From CPAC we get some cool symbolism in the design of the stage.

     

     The symbol is called the Odal Rune, and it was used in place of the swastika on Waffen SS uniforms as seen above. Thanks goes to Morgan Freeman for pointing out this happy coincidence on Twitter.

     

[71 dB]

A study from Cambridge University shows that conservatives and nationalists are more prone to "reduced strategic information processing..."

"Our brains hold clues for the ideologies we choose to live by, according to research, which has suggested that people who espouse extremist attitudes tend to perform poorly on complex mental tasks."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/22/people-with-extremist-views-less-able-to-do-complex-mental-tasks-research-suggests

[T. D.]

     From CPAC we get some cool symbolism in the design of the stage.

     

     The symbol is called the Odal Rune, and it was used in place of the swastika on Waffen SS uniforms as seen above. Thanks goes to Morgan Freeman for pointing out this happy coincidence on Twitter.

   

Holy s**t! Good catch.
But I'm sure it's merely a coincidence...

[BWV 1080]

     From CPAC we get some cool symbolism in the design of the stage.

     

     The symbol is called the Odal Rune, and it was used in place of the swastika on Waffen SS uniforms as seen above. Thanks goes to Morgan Freeman for pointing out this happy coincidence on Twitter.

The wiki article says the odal was 'Kinship, family and blood unity', which makes me think it was not a coincidence

   

Some Waffen SS uniforms.  It would have been the deaths head on a Totenkopf uniform, for example.  The Odal was on Nederland, the brigade of Dutch traitors raised in 1943
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_insignia_of_the_Schutzstaffel

Apologies, am too much of a WW2 geek to let that past

[Karl Henning]

Some Waffen SS uniforms.  It would have been the deaths head on a Totenkopf uniform, for example.  The Odal was on Nederland, the brigade of Dutch traitors raised in 1943
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_insignia_of_the_Schutzstaffel

Apologies, am too much of a WW2 geek to let that past

Thanks.

[drogulus]

     Also from Wiki:

The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" (7. SS-Freiwilligen Gebirgs-Division "Prinz Eugen"), initially named the SS-Volunteer Division Prinz Eugen (SS-Freiwilligen-Division "Prinz Eugen"), was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS during World War II. It served only in occupied Yugoslavia. Formed in 1941 from both Germans and Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) volunteers and conscripts from the Banat, Independent State of Croatia, Hungary and Romania, the division fought a bloody counter-insurgency campaign against communist-led Yugoslav Partisan resistance forces in the German-occupied territories of Serbia and Montenegro, as well as elsewhere in Yugoslavia.

     

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Heard on the news this morning (CNN) that nearly 400,000 Texans are still without safe drinking water. 

[BWV 1080]

Dont think the odal was an accident and it is not 'just one of many' runes used by the Nazis, looks like it has been adopted as the replacement for the swastika - these articles are about 5 years old:

https://forward.com/news/356753/neo-nazis-shed-the-swastika-in-new-effort-to-reach-mainstream/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/us/alt-right-national-socialist-movement-white-supremacy.html

[drogulus]

Dont think the odal was an accident and it is not 'just one of many' runes used by the Nazis, looks like it has been adopted as the replacement for the swastika - these articles are about 5 years old:

https://forward.com/news/356753/neo-nazis-shed-the-swastika-in-new-effort-to-reach-mainstream/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/us/alt-right-national-socialist-movement-white-supremacy.html

     That's good stuff about "mainstream" symbols. I have to agree that swastikas are a bit much. It's harder to not know very much about what they signify.

[BWV 1080]

Even more troubling was the afterparty entertainment at CPAC

https://www.youtube.com/v/HPXHRX8Q2hs

[Karl Henning]

Dont think the odal was an accident and it is not 'just one of many' runes used by the Nazis, looks like it has been adopted as the replacement for the swastika - these articles are about 5 years old:

https://forward.com/news/356753/neo-nazis-shed-the-swastika-in-new-effort-to-reach-mainstream/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/us/alt-right-national-socialist-movement-white-supremacy.html

No coincidence, indeed.

[SimonNZ]

Damn you "Dr Seuss Enterprises" - you've got me agreeing with Fox hosts.

"On Beyond Zebra" was one of my favorite of his books. I'm trying to find what the offensive image is supposed to be but haven't found it yet.

[BasilValentine]

Damn you "Dr Seuss Enterprises" - you've got me agreeing with Fox hosts.

"On Beyond Zebra" was one of my favorite of his books. I'm trying to find what the offensive image is supposed to be but haven't found it yet.

Let us know when you find it, okay?

[milk]

Damn you "Dr Seuss Enterprises" - you've got me agreeing with Fox hosts.

"On Beyond Zebra" was one of my favorite of his books. I'm trying to find what the offensive image is supposed to be but haven't found it yet.

I was remembering those Warner Brothers cartoons I grew up on with characters literally getting bombed and having their faces blown apart. Not good.

[BWV 1080]

I was remembering those Warner Brothers cartoons I grew up on with characters literally getting bombed and having their faces blown apart. Not good.

No, they were great!

[BasilValentine]

And we thought Trump was bad! Biden has taken to insulting entire species. Today he compared Neanderthals to Texas republicans. So unfair. Neanderthals demonstrated the ability to learn from the past.

[Karl Henning]

And we thought Trump was bad! Biden has taken to insulting entire species. Today he compared Neanderthals to Texas republicans. So unfair. Neanderthals demonstrated the ability to learn from the past.

Surprisingly insensitive to our precursors, I thought.

[SimonNZ]

Let us know when you find it, okay?

Done. It appears to be this one:

[BasilValentine]

Done. It appears to be this one:

I guess that's offensive(?)

[milk]

I guess that's offensive(?)

aren't there much worse ones?