“Honestly, Hans, am I to be held personally responsible for verifying the provenance of every last Jolly Roger I stumble across in a tattoo parlor?”
If you’re too fucking dense to be able to tell the difference then you should be working in a role that has nothing to do with politics or media.
If you can’t tell than you should quit your job, loser
This is the same way these disingenuous fucks play dumb about language too.
not sure how you’re supposed to tell if a given skull insignia is specifically a Nazi skull.
Buddy, you put images side by side and use your eyes. Literally Wikipedia has a list.
This dog whistle of a post is malice trying (poorly) to hide behind ignorance.
The benefit of doubting whether a given skull insignia is specifically a Nazi skull is that now I have no doubt that you’re a Nazi apologist.
Evidently Matthew Yglesias has made it this far in life without discovering the concept of the dog whistle, among many other concepts.
Like people who dismiss hesgeth tattoos. You don’t even have to read between the lines for this one
Yeah, one would assume that a reasonable person who was somehow unaware of the well documented history of that specific skull definitely being the Nazi skull would still consider that generic-seeming symbols still have uses as signals for certain groups, but then you have Mr. Yglesias, a man who’s every pronouncement reveals him to be utterly bereft of reason.
somehow unaware of the well documented history of that specific skull definitely being the Nazi skull
Yeah I’m not going to act like I’d heard of the Totenkopf before this Platner stuff because Texas education but I also wouldn’t tattoo it on myself, defend someone doing that, or make disingenuous remarks like OOP after it has been called out quite clearly.
Another Hexbear user put it quite well:
The benefit of doubting whether a given skull insignia is specifically a Nazi skull is that now I have no doubt that you’re a Nazi apologist.
It’s not like it’s the fucking One Piece logo, Matty. It’s a goddamn totenkopf.
All skull military symbols are nazi because glorification of war is fascist
Take it from someone who has fought in em, the term war is hell is not hyperbole.
Talking points have been sent out from Dem HQ
Damn, if the NYT certified “smartest dude around” doesn’t know then I guess none of us lowly proles should be able to discern either. Shucks!
Has this dinosaur really never heard of reverse image search? I definitely remember people talking about it like a decade ago. I thought it was common knowledge at this point, even if most people don’t use it super regularly.
2016, 2017 Reddit definitely had a lot of TIL posts and stuff about nazi symbols. I was a lib then, and I even remember learning about Nazis in Ukraine using those symbols. Yet another case of liberal goldfish memory.
He’s lying. It’s just bad faith bullshit
dinosaur
lol, this guy is in his 40s, he has no excuse.
Physically, he may be 40 years old, but spiritually this man is a diplodocus.
I will not tolerate this sauropod slander.
diplodocus
I had to look this one up. Spiky Brontosaurus is a new one.
shut up u egg
By not being a worm brained dumbass with a toddler’s knowledge of history Matt
