#cw: nazi mention

[gemsofgreece]

On October 12, 1944, the Germans leave Athens.

📷"The helmet of the last Nazi who left Athens"

This helmet fell off the head of one of the last German soldiers to leave Athens, on the downhill of Anagnostopoulou Street, while they were fleeing at full speed on motorcycles. The helmet was collected by Stéfanos Ayélastos who donated it to the National Historical Museum on October 28, 1964.

© Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece

Photo from the National Historical Museum

[deathrooteater]

So. Those election results.

I'm not even from the US, and I already fear for my safety. I'm literally so mad that this could happen. Between Harris' campaign being stupid as fuck, and Trump voters (who I hope come to regret voting for him), holy shit. The ball really was dropped here.

And before people come to say "You're not even from America/the US, why are you complaining", have you forgotten that the US has its fucking fingers on the entire world? Like, my country went through a military dictatorship at least partly because the US promoted and paid for it it back in the 70s. And I don't doubt it could happen again under Trump.

Also, a good bunch of things on the Internet are bound to US laws iirc, which could spell a lot of trouble for the rest of the world, too.

Not to mention that Trump winning will embolden the right wing in a lot of places, or at least I expect that to happen. We barely avoided having an actual Nazi for president here in Chile; I don't want him to get a chance.

I'm not blaming anyone who didn't vote (though I'm side eyeing that group), because Harris' campaign was idiotic. I'm also not blaming anyone who voted for anyone other than Trump.

The blame is squarely on the shoulders of the fuckers that couldn't see past their own belly and and didn't have enough empathy to not vote for the worst fucking option.

God, I fucking hate everything about this.

[lokiinmediasideblog]

I'd love if someone created a version of Thor which is to Marvel!Thor what Homelander is to Superman/Captain America.

The comicbook version of Stormfront was meant to be a mixture of Thor and Shazam.

[segasister]

Not happy at all with how low Lily has sunken just to satiate her ego. Why would she think it's a good idea to align herself with a white nationalist? I don't give a damn if they have a trans flag in their bio, a fascist is a fascist, and this just makes Lily even MORE of a cruel and self-righteous hypocrite. Accusing others of being a fascist while buddying up with an actual nationalist...

I posted messages to her in the past when I was in a dark mental state, and wanted someone to validate my anger towards the fascism rising in the world, something that her content at the time seemed to help with. I started distancing myself from her once I got out of that headspace and found better support, and began to really scrutinize what she was actually saying, and finding out the extra evidence against her. I was already losing a lot of my good opinion of her the more I found how how depraved and selfish she was capable of being.

But to find out that she completely ditched her supposed morals on the one thing that you should NEVER ditch your morals towards like this is absolutely infuriating.

… [sighs]

[hero-dwelling]

I do wonder if MHA academia would work better as a show aimed at a much younger demographic - then the villians can do crime that doesnt involve killing, hence then there is more lenience in both in and outside the universe to redeem them and even have them join the heroes without worrying about having them go to prison. Hell even Toga's blood thing wouldnt need to be totally censored - Avatar was a Y7 show on american TV and yet it still could deal with "bloodbending" - and vampires are a common enough trope in childrens media, that a charachter "drinking blood" could get through somehow - and in a more broader sense, a children show having the moral of "if we treat each other more kindly the world will be a better place" is more fitting than whatever MHA tried to be at certain moments...

Justice League Unlimited. You described Justice League Unlimited--which is a good thing. 

Or, the new Batman animated series Caped Crusader is something that, despite how quote-unquote “adult” it is, in visuals and in plot and characterization and action is really not that much worse than when The Animated Series aired on Fox Kids in the 1990s. 

In other words, you could totally do My Hero Academia but skewed to a younger audience without changing much in the plot, just in the visuals. 

The thing is, though, I wouldn’t want to do that just for the sake of changing which crimes the Villains did to make it easier to redeem them--but I do think, if you tell us what they did and maybe don’t make what we see so graphic, it’d be easier to accept or tolerate their redemption. 

I do wonder if MHA academia would work better as a show aimed at a much younger demographic - 

I mean, this has as much to do with how what is marketed to a teen demographic in Japan tends to be much more violent and sexually open than what is marketed to a teen demographic in the United States. 

then the villians can do crime that doesnt involve killing, 

I bristle at this idea. I appreciate a story that has characters killed, even one targeted to a younger audience--just look at The Lion King. 

But it is a point of how you stage it. 

Lately I’ve had an aversion to certain stories that insist on making the content graphic to sell the point that someone was injured or killed. “But that’s not realistic--there would be more blood!” And I would counter that the violence already in My Hero Academia is not realistic yet still so over-the-top and violent that it can be distracting to watch. My criticism is personal and not at all objective: I’d rather My Hero be less bloody, I get why it isn’t. This is why I tend to agree with you that I would rather the series lean more into stylized violence for the sake of seeming to appeal to a younger audience despite how high the body count gets. 

At the same time, to reiterate my point, I don’t want the story to get rid of killing. The stakes do need to increase as the story continues. 

Sure, having people die randomly is not going to raise stakes: Midnight’s death did next to nothing to help the story, same with Crust--the former was so abrupt that it barely did anything to motivate the students more than they already were, and it did nothing to give insight into Aizawa and Mic. 

But that’s the thing, the story already showed how well it could raise the stakes by killing someone off--and that was Nighteye. 

Nighteye’s death was one that did have its flaws: we didn’t get to know him as well as other characters who could have died; killing him off in the same arc that introduced him was disappointing because, if this could have been improved, we would have introduced him at the same time that we were introducing Gran Torino, Nana, and David and Melissa. 

And, while Nighteye should not have died, this was a story that pretty much said, as awful as this is to say, “Nighteye brought this on himself.” He kept trying to fix the future as something immutable, which helped drive the wedge between him and All Might that in turn did make things worse for Pro Hero society, with the Number One Hero hiding in his shell and not reaching out to people. He trained Mirio and pressured Izuku so severely that they didn’t save Eri when they had the chance. I do not agree with people that Toga had to die--but it’s that same mindset that happens with Nighteye, his death was tragic in the most classical sense because the actions he took brought him to this point, and it is a tragic death I can tolerate because he died with the peace of mind that Mirio would rise to the occasion as a true hero, he made peace with All Might and to some extent Izuku, and what came after, while still horrific, at least led to some good, as it was a sacrifice of his life that still saved others. I wouldn’t want to lose that by trying to appeal to a younger audience--but I know that appealing to a younger audience could still have the exact same plot description, just revising the visuals to suit that younger audience. 

hence then there is more lenience in both in and outside the universe to redeem them and even have them join the heroes without worrying about having them go to prison.

Let’s set aside redemption for a moment. The thing is, things in this world are messy, and there are people who are going to be reintegrated into society despite horrible things they have done, and we are only going to get through this together by getting through this together. I just think the story failed at trying to reintegrate characters. 

Now, as for redemption: I think it’s fine not to redeem every character, I think it would have been better if the story hadn’t been trying to redeem Shigaraki, Toga, Dabi, Spinner, and others. But that has less to do with the age demographic the story is targeting, and Horikoshi making storytelling decisions I personally didn’t enjoy. 

But let’s say that we do want to redeem, not just reintegrate, into society: yeah, I think targeting this story to a younger audience could still make it work to keep the characters’ personalities the same, their struggles exactly the same, but change what they did for the sake of making their redemption easier to accept. 

I know the worst people online will scream, “Ugh, what is this, Steven Universe, where we redeem all the fascists?” which, yeah, I’m not getting into that, I understand people wanting to redeem the villains there, but I’m also in the mood to punch some fascists, I’m not interested in tolerating their shit today. 

And the worst people online will scream, “Ugh, My Disney Academia,” which, fuck off, I just pointed to Lion King, that film had Mufusa’s death, Scar eaten by hyenas, and fucking Nazi imagery to beat you over the head that “Nazis are bad, the hyenas are being led by the nose by Scar like Hitler leading violent motherfuckers around”--that was a dark movie that managed to do what it did because, first, it knew when not to cross certain lines visuals, and second, it didn’t shy away from scaring the young audience. (And, third, this was back in the 1990s when we fucking knew Nazis can go die and weren’t fucking role models to be admired by the Republican Nazi Party. But there I go being political.) 

My point is, maybe you don’t have Shigaraki wipe out all of those people in the MLA. Maybe when skewing to a younger demographic, you still have Shigaraki’s family die, but we’re not having to see “meat chunks” to see them dying like that--shadows and silhouettes can communicate the same idea. The anime was less graphic when it came to Toga and, yeah, was censoring her so you don’t have a teenage girl running around naked--which, look to the video games, Toga’s transformations there don’t make her clothes dissolve, we can absolutely accept that she doesn’t have to be naked to transform, we don’t need to insist on “realism” just so the artist can keep drawing her naked. 

Hell even Toga's blood thing wouldnt need to be totally censored - Avatar was a Y7 show on american TV and yet it still could deal with "bloodbending" - and vampires are a common enough trope in childrens media, that a charachter "drinking blood" could get through somehow - 

I completely agree with these points. 

Servamp is pretty violent with the vampire attacks, but it still visually skews younger than My Hero Academia. 

The Brave and the Bold had Batman go vampire against the Justice League. 

And I know Spider-Man 1994 gets crap because of how they changed Morpheus from sucking blood orally to sucking out plasma through his hands--but, first, that is such a disturbing image, and second, it helps mirror Morpheus’s plasma-sucking palms to Spidey’s web-shooters and his entire Ditko-esque body horror, and third, he’s still sucking blood no matter that you are calling it “plasma,” so get over yourselves, you thundering dumbasses. 

and in a more broader sense, a children show having the moral of "if we treat each other more kindly the world will be a better place" is more fitting than whatever MHA tried to be at certain moments…

I agree. And like I said above, maybe that does mean you are redeeming these characters, or, as I keep putting it, you’re reintegrating them into society. I know that is a hard pill to swallow: Shigaraki killed; Dabi bragged out killing. And yet, the story shows what led them to awful actions, and to prevent the next Shigaraki and the next Dabi, you do need to figure out how you’re going to imprison these people, and rehabilitate these people, and if safe and ethical, how you’re going to reintegrate them into society without house arrest or imprisonment. I want a story that looks at the challenges of this world: I know we have complained that My Hero Academia worried so much about the worldbuilding, but I’m not talking about worldbuilding, I’m talking about the story about what you do with what comes after the war--I wanted My Hero Academia to continue in order to show us how difficult it is to have a world after war, after villainy, when there are no more heroes but just citizens and bystanders and people trying to live again. 

Okay, more rambling below from earlier attempts I was making to respond to this question--and that means some of what I say below is going to contradict some of what I say above, so, sorry about that: 

All of this being said, the goal should not be “target only a younger demographic”: the goal should be make it so that even the younger people can watch, even if some stuff goes over their heads, as opposed to “let’s throw in a lot of blood and naked people so that we keep the young people from watching.” (Granted, they’re still going to end up watching: parents aren’t paying attention, “it’s just a cartoon,” etc.) 

Horikoshi seemed invested in giving just about every character a moment to shine in the final arc and to complete worldbuilding and the last bits of most important historical details and backstories. The problem was not intended audience, tone, or even trying to cover up the more violent aspects to his story; the problem, I think, was trying to respond to so many characters and worldbuilding details that the story comes across as unfocused. 

(This is why I think having a second concurrent manga covering events happening alongside the current events in the main manga may actually have helped make the story more enjoyable. In other words, rather than the side adventures of Team-Up Missions or the earlier setting of Vigilantes, take the underbaked details for certain characters, and have their stories told in this second series--maybe it’s just about the Todoroki family, maybe it’s just the Villains’ side. But I don’t think that would have been as profitable and, even if this spinoff had someone else handling the scripting and artwork, that still would require Horikoshi’s supervision and still spread him too thin.) 

What you’re describing sounds like the Bruce Timm DCAU--and even those stories, however much they suppressed or removed certain details to not be too adult (don’t call the obvious sex workers “sex workers,” leave the dialogue vague enough to not just come out and say “they had sex,” don’t show too much blood, don’t sever the limbs of too many main or supporting characters) still were something kids could and were watching because they got the broad strokes of what the story was saying, and many of them at that time or when they grew up started to realize the larger significance (“oh, this is about how relationships are hard,” “oh, this is an allegory about post-9/11 police state tactics,” “wait, what did Terry think Waller meant by Bruce leaving his DNA everywhere?”). In those series, people still died or were even murdered: Luthor had Mercy kill a scientist for leaking info about kryptonite to Lois; Joker shot Bonk dead (yeah, yeah, this was edited for the initial home video release); Despero turned into a fucking tree. 

I can appreciate Horikoshi’s willingness to show that this world has horrible things happen in horrific ways. It’s one reason, as ambivalent as I am, I appreciate the story had characters with lasting physical injuries. But I still think many of those moments were either bandaged too easily (Bakugo’s physical recovery, Izuku losing his arms). Or they were needless and overly symbolic to the point that the characters are making foolish decision just to get to the symbolism (there is zero reason to have the Todorokis interfere with Endeavor’s attempts to stop Dabi when there is absolutely nothing their ice powers could have done--the solution always should have been that Endeavor and Shoto are the only ones there to stop Dabi, they don’t have the power to, but once the rest of the family shows up, even if they get scarred, it is enough to contain Dabi, because the point should be the family following Shoto and even Endeavor’s example, not just acting on their own and not doing something so stupid that was never going to work except get them all killed). Or they are largely not shown in cross-media content because we have to freeze these characters at one moment in time before their disabilities. (Are we ever going to get mainstream merch of Aizawa without an eye and a leg that will be more readily available than merchandise of him before his injuries? How likely is it that the production company wants to keep artwork of Mirko before she loses limbs due to a misunderstanding why her injuries are important to represent and to appease an audience that likely is horny on main and being disablist in the process?)

I appreciate your point that targeting the story to a younger audience would make it easier to swallow how adamant the heroes are at trying to rehabilitate the villains. The thing is, though, the story’s entire message is that there is no action that is too extreme that we should turn our back on someone else. At worst, as shown when Izuku tries to talk down Muscular, imprisonment should be when the person is absolutely not going to change, however impossible it is to fully determine that potential for change. Once you target all of this to a younger audience, now there is hardly any struggle: of course these criminals should be rehabilitate, it’s not like Dabi who is a mass murderer, Shigaraki who killed numerous people, Toga whose compulsions led her to kill people, Compress who…whatever the hell his deal was, the “Robin Hood” persona was never fully defined. My Hero Academia has had enough cases of people who were technically criminals who get redemption and rehabilitation; we don’t need to young-down the manga to get those stories, we had them already. 

(And that’s not even getting into the side-step I could take with this discourse when trying to get through the weeds with the IDW Sonic the Hedgehog comics: Christ, how do you over-complicate a story about a freedom fighting furry to turn this into something the story is not?)

[soul-dwelling-not]

Someone on cable television--Donny Deutsch on MSNBC--just now referred to that orange Republican nominee for president--that convicted felon, that adjudicated rapist--as "funny--my friend thinks he's funny."

First, that's probably Deutsch's own opinion: "I have a friend who thinks he's funny--I don't mean me, I mean my friend." You laughed your ass off to when he was on with Scarborough and Brzezinski, Deutsch, you piece of shit? Either Deutsch believes this (the "girlfriend in Canada" approach), or he has a pretty shitty friend--so what does that say about Deutsch's own taste in politicians and how he will vote?

Second, no, he fucking isn't funny.

Third, I try not to do "I told you so," but I remember complaining about this shit _back in 2015 and 2016_, that there were reporters and commentators (go fuck yourself, Josh Barro) saying, "He's funny, he's charismatic, he's entertaining--"

No, he fucking isn't, he fucking wasn't. What the fuck is funny about remarks he made suggesting Mexicans are rapists, "grab them by the pussy," that he could shoot someone and get away with it, saying someone was too ugly to rape, that there were "fine" Nazis in Charlottesville, that protesters should be beaten up, and now his threats to defund public education and vaccination, ban reproductive health, and campaign against immigrants and LGBTQ people? And that's not even getting into his dangerous policies: banning Muslims, denying reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, clearing out protesters so he could hold a Bible and pretend he gives a shit about any religious faith, conjecturing about carpet-bombing and nuking countries and guillotining American citizens, knowing the dangers of COVID and letting it spread and kill, leading a goddamn insurrectionist where his followers wanted to hang his own running mate. What person listens to all of that and says he is "funny"--without that person being just as bad as this sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, rapey motherfucker?!

Cable TV, repeating the same mistakes as 2016--and not one of those idiots has been fired.

(Register to vote, vote for Democrats, campaign for Democrats.)

[notaplaceofhonour]

It’s maddening to find out that the scholar who first developed the idea that “Zionism is Settler Colonialism”, Fayez Sayegh, was a member of the Syrian Nazi Party during and immediately after the Holocaust, was an active participant in the Red Scare, using it to demonize Israel as a manifestation of a Global Communist Threat™️ through the height of the Cold War (true to his Nazi roots, accusing Israel of Judeo-Bolshevism) before switching to a Colonialism narrative when Post-Colonialism came in vogue in the 60s. And yet, the people I hear parroting the talking points of this anti-Communist, Ultranationalist Fascist-turned-scholar are the people who are constantly talking about how Liberal Progressives aren’t Communist enough and actually enemies because “Liberals will always side with Fascists”. Maddening.

If you’ve ever noticed how the “Zionism = Settler Colonialism” narrative eerily shares the core components of the far right’s Replacement Theory (that there are 1. Jews 2. conspiring to invade a given place and 3. replace the population with Jews), this is why; it’s because the idea that Zionism is Settler Colonialism came from a literal Nazi.

It is very literally Nazi propaganda.

[t-a-c]

I never had to cut any rap artists out of my life for saying that a mass shooting event that had a profound effect on people close to me was an Obama false flag operation, so there's that

"I can't condone rap music because it has a problematic culture", says the heavy metal fan.

[sorrel-scribbles]

I don't watch Bailey Sarian often (no disrespect, I just have other youtubers I prefer for true crime), but today I watched the latest ep. of Dark History, and there were a couple small things I noticed that were off in terms of historical accuracy in regard to the Nazi party.

1)

No, not really. The Abwehr was a military intelligence organization, meaning an agency who's goals in conducting intelligence work on foreign soil is to provide information about troop movements, military targets, etc. The CIA is a foreign intelligence organization, meaning an organization that gathers information mainly for the purpose of aiding foreign policy and preventing or mitigating conflict (though if you're talking the CIA specifically, they have also functioned as military intelligence). My point here is that the Abwehr and the CIA are not a 1:1 of each other and should not be treated as such.

2)

While you could argue my greivence about the Abwehr is splitting hairs, this one is just wrong. I understand untangling the web of Himmler-controlled agencies can be confusing, but that's still not what the SS did. The Allgemeine-SS were a paramilitary organization and also functioned as a "peacekeeping" force in occupied territories, guards for certain high ranking officals, and staff for some concentration camps. The Waffen-SS was an eltie Nazi fighting force and also staffed some concentration camps. (all that it still somewhat of an oversimplification because the Nazis did the bureaucratic shuffle a lot, but it's closer to the truth) Neither of those really functioned as a police force. The Allgemeine-SS could and did preform police duties sometimes, but it wasn't their primary job. They had the actual police, the Gestapo, and to some extent the SD, for that.

(The organizations under Himmler have a way weirder, more complicated history than this, and if you want to know more feel free to send an ask)

[incognitopolls]

For instance, you've met someone a few times before and you're going to their house for the first time. They haven't expressed anything radical to you before, and their behavior hasn't indicated anything out of the ordinary. When you arrive at their house, you see very obvious historical nazi-related objects. Is this weird?

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[astirysk2electricboogaloo]

I got the majority of this information from the YouTuber Annamarie Forcino's video "The Alarming "Gnome Hunting" Trend No One's Talking About". (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pf0bZOMuVFs)

This post is to help spread this information.

Please be aware:

• If you come across anything with the term "gnome hunting" or anything listed below online, block and report the account immediately. If you come across it offline, covertly and safely get the absolute fuck out of there. Warn others.

• Keep yourself safe. As with any bullshit like this these people may be violent. The wearing of tactical gear and the use of the word hunting when talking about a group of human beings is not peaceful or respectful of life. Exercise caution. Especially if you are in a group the groups they're in target.

• This is mostly on TikTok, DO NOT SEARCH FOR IT ON SITES WITH THE ALGORITHM. This will drive engagement and help it spread. If you come across it block and report it but do not search it.

The term "gnome hunting" is being used by antisemitists/neonazis/white supremacists to refer to themselves, they themselves being the "hunters" and those they target, Jews, being the "gnomes" and is a way for them to talk in code.

Things to watch out for with this specific wave of antisemitic bullshit are but are not limited to:

"join the hunt" = join us.

"millions wear the hats" millions = the Jews, hats = the Jewish Yarmulke/Kippah (a Jewish head covering). This phrase refers to Jewish people in general. When they use this phrase they are talking about Jews.

"kike" a slur against those of Jewish descent and or those who are practicing Judaism.

"88" H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. 88 = hh = "hail hitler".

"⚡⚡" "ᛋᛋ" "ϟϟ" Two lightning bolt emojis, two Greek letter ᛋ's, or two lighting bolt symbols side by side = the nazi ss. The nazi ss flag is two lighting bolt symbols side by side.

"Z" or "z" The English letter Z/z is used by russian nazis against Ukrainians who are being murdered by and suffering war crimes at the hands of russian nazis since the current russian dictator putin invaded Ukraine. Has unfortunately spread and is being used by nazis in other countries. The symbol has similarities to the wolfsangel.

"Ƶ" The wolfsangel. An ancient runic symbol believed to have been capable of warding off wolves, appropriated by nazi organizations in nazi Germany. Still used by white supremacists/nazis today.

(Cannot find a symbol for this.) The sunwheel, sonnenrad, or black sun. A symbol from old Norse and old Celtic culture. Also appropriated by nazis, still used by neonazis today.

"schizopost" "schizoposting" Used by neonazis when they use neurodivergence/mental illness (they do not struggle with) as an excuse for their bullshit. Ex: saying "I'm insane" "I'm schizophrenic" "me and the boys being schizophrenic" in the same post about "gnome hunting" or with any relation to nazi/white supremacists ideology.

[mixterglacia]

I am pleased to report that G.I. Robot is helping modern day Nazi's accidentally out themselves on Twitter. As in "it's so sad he killed his new best fwend so twagic."

To which everyone is responding, trying to get through to this guy. Every time he tries to say "oh I'm not a Nazi, but- (the most obvious fascist rhetoric you've ever seen)"

Which is retorted to with:

Moral of the story, if you can't understand that being a Nazi in this day and age is a deeply shameful thing that could and should get your shit rocked, then maybe you are a Nazi. Anyone who would show up to a meeting to try re-start their political beliefs final solution deserves what they get.

[lokiinmediasideblog]

Came across a bad take from super-hero-confessions defending Thanos and claiming Loki is "literally Hitler" on the loki tag and now I am slightly pissed off...

Loki-haters, stop calling a queer comic book character a Nazi. It's disrespectful and reductive to compare a comic book villain's half-assed alien invasion to a real life genocidal dictator's methodical torture and murder of Jews, Romani, disabled, and queer people. You're all fucking annoying and you are all acting like your families died in the Chitauri attack in NYC (That Thanos wanted Loki to do, and is implied to at the very least coerced him) or Jotunheim.

Thanos kidnapped and tortured children. Stop acting like he's noble and had no choice.

[snail-friend]

Billy Batson has one boundary that NO ONE can cross and that's his Radio time. Genuinely. This is the only time I've seen him actually huffing mad!

Context: In Issue #10 of 'Captain Marvel Adventures' there's a whole radio takeover from some real sleazebag types and Billy is just. So steamed! So ticked off!

HE PUNCHED THAT MAN INTO THE CEILING

He is just like ':) back to my favourite thing in the world!'

AFTER BRUTALLY KNOCKING THIS GUY UNCONSCIOUS???

i mean to be fair this was after they tried to murder him by throwing him onto train tracks and simped for nazis on his time slot and-

but I'm pretty fucking sure THIS WAS PERSONAL ABOUT THE RADIO bc he's had lots of villains do stuff like this before and only this sod has had the honour of being punched the fuck out by Billy himself.

I think the Cap saw Billy wanted to finish this off with his own two hands and they swapped for maximum revenge

[safety-pin-punk]

ive been out of the DIY loop for ages and google isnt helping, sorry for the ask. whats the deal with studs and spikes? they fash or something? that would suck ass.

No worries, ask box is open for a reason lol (my turn around time on answering is just extremely unpredictable and can be anywhere from a few hours to a few months)

Studs and spikes started selling iron crosses under their ‘badges and pins’ section. Iron crosses were a German military award under the Nazi regime. (Though they have roots in the Prussian military and a modified version is the symbol of the modern German military, though they are no longer an award). 

Iron crosses were at some point adopted by bikers in the US for ‘shock value’ but in punk spaces, they are still heavily associated with white supremacy.

What studs and spikes sells (in a few more colors too):

The modern German Military symbol:

Some more info about iron crosses and the ADL glossary of hate symbols:

[facts-i-just-made-up]

whats equation??

An equation is a statement that shows the equality of two things, thus revealing a new understanding of mathematics or other truths about the world, like E=MC², or A²+B²=C², or MAGA=NAZI.