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The capital letters imply "1488" and the post is 14 words long, both of which are well-known nazi dog whistles.

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[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip 58 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I would say this is a stretch but that's exactly the crowd that loves all *their symbolism bullshit.

Also, that painting accurately depicts the fear of the natives and wildlife at seeing the colonizers.

[–] appropriateghost@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 days ago

THis painting was created not to highlight the brutality of colonialism but to celebrate it.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

My guess, it's legit, but part of the reason is to distract from something else (namely, Epstein). You can't prove anything and it just makes you sound paranoid, and then they can use that as ammunition to ignore the Epstein claims.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 49 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
  • 14 words in the post, an allusion to a notorious Nazi formula
  • 1884, birth year of Anton Drexler, a far-right politician who founded what later became the Nazi Party
  • 1488 and 88, notorious Hitler-related numerology
  • Painting showing Manifest Destiny and a bunch of other white people chasing Native Americans into darkness

I think we can safely conclude that Homeland Security are deliberately sending Nazi dogwhistles on their social media.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

1884, birth year of Anton Drexler, a far-right politician who founded what later became the Nazi Party

Oh, I didn't know that one. Thanks for new info.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Turns out everyone going back in time to kill baby Hitler didn't achieve much

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah because great man theory isnt reality and material conditions would have given rise to a nazi-esque party anyways.

[–] Afflictedlife@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 days ago

The entire platform is run by and for a specific nazi so....

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 days ago

Entirely unsurprising.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

that is the part that i think Americans are not seeing.

that ~~they~~ we will all be called NAZIs if we don't destroy the NAZIs

if the USA waits for another country to do it then all of us will be complicit

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I think you might be missing the historical context here.

Here's an example:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/30/fascism-in-america-book-trump

This one is a lot more thorough and damning:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/the-u-s-did-not-defeat-fascism-in-wwii-it-discretely-internationalized-it/

But the upshot is, the US is the agglomeration of the Dutch, English, Spanish, and French empires - all empires that enslaved and traded people as property, that pioneered new forms of social control, that committed genocide and mass atrocities. The US is not a break from those things, it is a continuation of those things. Those things all informed modern Euro-fascism that peaked in the 1930s under Germany and Italy. Hitler explicitly wrote in Mein Kampf that he was modeling his program on American innovations in social control and economic extraction. German propagandists directly lifted American techniques. The first ever gas chamber for mass murder was invented by the French during the Haitian rebellion.

And when the Axis lost in WW2, the US worked with the Vatican to save, relocate, and integrate Nazis into its empire around the world. When the US created NATO it staffed it with Nazi officers who were hellbent on fighting the USSR, which created a culture inside NATO that was driven by Nazis. And one of the major operations of NATO, Operation Gladio, was focused on finding, organizing, arming, and training Nazi sympathizers and neo-Nazis all over Europe.

America isn't at risk of becoming fascist. It has always been a particular form of fascism, not easily recongizable as fascism for those of us who are not the target of its police and military, but easily recognizable by the subaltern both domestically and globally. Stop waiting for it to look exactly like 1939 Germany before you call it fascism.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't see that there's any way to avoid that at this point. It seems everybody with any power is on the Nazi side. We're a Nazi nation, and the world would be justified to treat us as such. The US is a vile country I'm ashamed to be a part of and have no method to leave.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago

Join a socialist party like PSL!

[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

The only people with any heritage here are the natives which we decimated.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

That explanation is a huge stretch to put it mildly, but yeah, the entire US government has been replaced with Nazi puppets so at this point who knows

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We literally inspired the Nazis with the native genocide and Jim Crow and our corporations worked with them.

People need to accept this isn't a recent phenomenon, but what America is at its core.

[–] appropriateghost@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

I encourage everyone to research on IBM's business dealings with Nazi Germany.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Uh huh, it's still stretching like there is no tomorrow with the capitalization, it's a wee bit too conspiratorial and not needed, there are way more bigger pieces of evidence that the US government is becoming authoritarian

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

"replaced"
They're literally have always been nazis dawg

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The D at the end throws some doubt in it but the capitalized letters are AHHD aka 1884

[–] YellaLeber@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

This is qanon levels of reaching, you look for a pattern you're gonna find it

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago
[–] aeischeid@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

gross, but thanks for sharing

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Time to start encoding things with 8688 :wao:

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

This isn't news to anyone, is it? If you put Nazis in power you're gonna have Nazis running things. Seems pretty obvious

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean, the homeland security website once had a 14 words dogwhistle. this was many years ago.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

The only change with Trump is they’re comfortable being open about it. It’s been a Nazi organization since its founding.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What about the capitalized Defending?

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I mean this is closing towards Black Dynamite kind of logic, but ... A = 1, H = 8, H = 8, D = 4. Rearrange and it's 1488. Alone this would be silly, but together with the 14 words and that picture, it's a dog whistle.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Ohhh my mind immediately jumped up HH and missed the 1488 thing.

Yeah that's no coincidence

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

88 is also common shorthand for nazis for the phrase 'heil hitler'. Theres narry a shadow of doubt in my mind everything here is intentional just as you assume it to be.

Its also a lucky number in Chinese I think in part due to its symetry. It's important to know the context each example comes from, but in this context it's certainly exactly what you think it is.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago
[–] Xande@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Wait for it and in some time the US will be like back in 1865... just like after the civil war. But this Time I think the religious fascist morons are better equipped with weapons and will win!

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes. And NASA spelled something (forgot the details) is SATAN according to Youtube Shorts.

/S