#swaztika

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Since it was asked in the comments my opinion about the Swaztika and Hindu people continuing to use it.

First of all, I the Swaztika is not only a Hindu symbol but was also a Germanic one (I think it was also used in Greece to if memory serves correct).

Most cultures have halted use of the Swaztika with exception of Asian religions.

And it is not my job, as a white person, to talk about Asian Religions especially given how England and Christianity colonized India and tried to convert them.

You see how a white person telling people of color how to practice their religion could be a bit of an issue?

Discussion of the use of the symbol in Hinduism is a discussion to be had between the Jewish and Romani people, and the Hindu people.

And imma keep my white ass out of it and stick to issues within my own community.

(Included some tags just to be safe)

-fae

[cultofthepigeon]

seeing any take on the soviets/ussr online is a hassle already but trying to genuinely learn anything about that era/time period thats not vastly biased one way or another is a fucking nightmare.

anytime you see someone mildly positive its 50/50 on them being nuanced about the history vs them being tankie

but then anytime you see someone being critical its like 70% chance theyre pro-capitalist libertarian fuck heads and then a 25% chance theyre Literally Actually Just Nazis

[not12001ants]

I’m so tired of telling people something is anti-semitic just for them to not believe me, like bro, you’re not Jewish, you don’t get to make the rules on what is and isn’t anti-semitic. If you wouldn’t do the same thing if a person of color said something was racist, don’t do so when we say something is anti-semitic.



[rin-tezuka]

Westerners continue to flock to obviously fascistic talking points so long as they're not cloaked in a swaztika and wearing jackboots. Many, many such cases.

[prontaentrega]

the main thing i couldnt stand abt the punk scenes i found was that the antifash leftists were so obsessed with trying to reclaim aesthetic things nazi punks overtook that they made it fucking impossible to actually identify the actual nazis. im not gonna call them cryptofash because i have the 100% certainty that they were actually leftists and anti nazi and all that but they were also stupid as all fuck. i dont think i should spend 5 mins trying to find a crossed out swaztika in your jacket to know youre not a nazi i should just beat the shit out of you if you choose to look like one

[fanbynature]

"Smosh might have set to genuinely hire people with different personalities, backgrounds, ethnicities, etc. but perhaps can't actually handle the responsibilities that come from the cast not being all the same." THIS is what I was thinking about when I made the ask about Jackie. Like making a space for POC in the workplace doesn't mean JUST hiring, you have to include them in discussions, putting effort into highlighting their qualities just as much as any white worker, just generally making them feel welcome and having a plan for dealing with any bigotry from the fanbase/workplace or, cough, not breed bigotry in your fanbase/workplace in the first place, which Ian editors-have-to-censor-my-bigoted-jokes-lol Hecox and Anthony swaztika-funny Padilla evidently can't do. I can think of a good amount of times where people were outright disrespectful towards Jackie and (admittedly less) Chanse in plain sight in videos. Your own damn boss acting like they don't know you and not bothering to even learn what your name is.... is just not cute

Completely agree anon

[pattern-recognition]

since 2016 i’ve been consistently seeing those posts along the lines of “familiarize yourself with these totally enigmatic fascist dogwhistles that nobody knows about!” and they’re always without a doubt the most overtly fascist icons save the swaztika. the worst part though is that, as all the fucking ukraine situation shows, american liberals are amongst the most historically illiterate people on the planet and wouldn’t recognize a totenkopf or a black sun if it was on a tank running them over

[askshivanulegacy]

That thing about carbon emissions for T Swift is also inaccurate—someone broke the math down here:

https://zulie.medium.com/lets-fact-check-that-taylor-swift-private-jet-usage-story-32d226bd3682

Plus she paid for twice as many carbon offsets as necessary to negate the Eras Tour:

https://www.insider.com/taylor-swift-spent-160-hours-using-private-jet-eras-tour-2023-8?amp

“Before the tour kicked off in March of 2023, Taylor purchased more than double the carbon credits needed to offset all tour travel.”

People say a lot of misleading or flat out incorrect things about her. It’s popular to hate on her. People bring up a photograph with a ‘fan’ who hid his shirt until the photo went off so she would be smiling next to a swaztika. They bring up a phone call with Kanye where it turned out the (illegal) recording was edited in a misleading way and actually Taylor was telling the truth the whole time.

There’s other stuff people accuse her of, but it’s all similar bullshit. None of it adds up.

I went digging because I was wondering the same thing. The worst I found was ‘not using her platform for politics’ but when I looked into that… Ugh, gonna be anon so no Swifties come for me, but she’s just…she’s liberal (at least on social issues) but she went to a private Christian homeschooling program for her junior/senior year because they could accommodate her touring schedule. In one of her tour movies (Reputation), a stage designer says something is the size of a Boeing 737, and she has no idea what that is.

She likes books and stuff, and she writes beautiful lyrics, which make Swifties assume she’s a nerdy genius, but being good at English isn’t connected to being good at history or sociology or political science.

Basically, I don’t think she’s an idiot or anything, but I think she maybe isn’t very well versed in politics. She’s said she’s trying to educate herself, but still. If she hasn’t got the background or relevant knowledge…isn’t it better that she keep listening and researching rather than spouting off a half-cocked opinion when she has so many rabid fans? So, to me, ‘not using her platform enough’ (because she only uses it to drive youth voting registration and a handful of clear cut political topics) is ultimately a good thing.

Anyway. Apart from that, I legit couldn’t find anything except a couple months of chaste dating another teen when she was a teen herself. She was 19, he was 17, they went to a couple hockey games together. Both were out of high school and he was like…two months from being 18. They’re still friends.

For some people, that’s unforgivable, I guess? But… I dunno, man, seems like normal behavior to me. (Of course, I’m used to countries where you become an adult at 20, so that might be a factor on my part.)

Anyway. No idea if any of this was helpful. I just thought I’d write in because I tried doing the same digging about why she’s so problematic. Instead I found people complaining about the porn preferred by a guy she was seen next to at a mutual friend’s birthday party. People keep saying they dated, but I can’t find any actual proof of even that. (It also led me down a rabbit hole on that guy where I found out the complaint ‘he literally did a nazi salute at a concert’ was about him mockingly doing one during a song about idiots. Apparently he was trying to say Nazis are stupid or something? Not a great way to do it, but completely different from the accusation.)

Anyway. That’s all I could find. 🤷‍♀️ I couldn’t even verify the billionaire thing—everyone cites Bloomberg, but Bloomberg just credits an unnamed ‘analyst’ who doesn’t show their work. Which is wild to me.

But yeah. That’s all the digging turned up for me. Hopefully this ask can spare you a few hours of fruitless googling.

Thanks so much for the detailed info! I'm currently halfway through a YouTube vid that I'm speeding through just for funsies, and yeah, between that and post comments, it's all pointing to similar things: she basically had a golden girl start in life, funded by reasonably rich parents, and rose to stardom.

Good for her. People are whining that "she should do more" and I'm here to ask ... WHY. Why should she? Because she has money? Because she's famous? Isn't it enough for an artist to simply make the art she wants to make? Why should she be expected to do more, and why is NOT choosing to do that suddenly a moral failing? Like, it's an utter non-issue. It's the opposite of hurting anyone. She gets to decide what to do with her time and her money and maybe it's not what her fans want, but who cares.

I could understand being upset if she actively used her money to do something bad, but not using it is just not using it.

And everything else? Non-issues too. People can have boyfriends. And people get to associate with whoever they want and they are not responsible for that person's questionable dealings.

And the carbon emissions thing is such a joke anyway. I admit I don't know much about it, but the premise of "paying money to offset carbon" is obnoxious and has no meaning. No normal person needs to be concerned about that. That is firmly rooted in corporations, who can and should bear all the costs to change what they're doing.

[ramseyr]

Fuckin chuds and their MAGA hats.

Just wear an armband with a swaztika and put your whole pussy in it, you freaks.

[spookeyzesty]

i now understand the argument against crossed out swaztikas on battle vests. saw someone w one but didnt see it crossed out n i was AGHAST before quadruple checking n seeing the red crossing.. yall r right it IS easy to confuse at a glance !!

[just-jess-78]

*walks in and slams my hand on the table…told ya.

So I had my son go with me. When we get there he says “come in” not too creepy but then…he says “hello ladies” thinking it was me and my friend from yesterday. I said “oh yeah I’ve got my son with me today” he’s 16 but he’s 6’4 and pretty intimidating looking. The look of disappointment/anger on his face said all I needed to know. THEN I noticed another guy that was 100x creepier looking sitting on the couch and he looked so confused like he was expecting two girls. The old man had his pants UNBUTTONED. Nothing showing but come the fuck on. But wait…there’s more again…he had a swaztika tattoo on his forearm. Needless to say, I will never again not in one million years go to any man’s house like that. My friend kept telling me “he’s harmless he’s old as hell he lives in the old money part of town” I let her know real quick that her old creepy guy radar was busted and she was going to need to have me go with her on my side of town like she does me.

I swear I think maybe I have been picking up on that too. Idk but I know I’ve been feeling like I’m on high alert all week and now I don’t.

I just know that aside from this guy, I have been meeting the best people in the world and they’ve become like family to me. So all the bitching aside I’m so lucky the universe is doing its thing 💫⭐️💫

[ramseyr]

nice to see the star of David become the next swaztika 😒

[decora-kai]

Just had an hour long conversation with some right wing & capitalist loving twat from my school who hates socialism. Honestly drained me so fucking much. I had to just agree with what he said cause he would not fucking stop

He literally posted a fucking swaztika and said I was taking it "too seriously" and then proceeded to talk about how much he hates Nazis and socialism (cause Nazis where socialists apparently. Like no they weren't, they are fucking wolf in sheep's clothing)? Like mate your supporting the alt right.. They are fucking neo-nazis themselves.

I don't even know how he was invited to this group chat I'm on cause literally no one likes him

[convertgrapeling]

the way decolonial language has been co-opted to suggest that nobody in "the West" has any business being uncomfortable with blatant fascism in Eastern Europe is really wild.

"ahh but you don't understand the history and it's arrogant to presume you know better than we do." I don't think it's all that arrogant to presume that people wearing swaztikas are bad guys, mate. There are some universal truths and one of them is that wanting to kill people cos you've deemed them "ethnically Russian" is probably not okay. It's not necessary to be a Putin-apologist in order to think that war is bad.

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Finding out literal Nazis have been touring my state all month and plan to continue until November but the news hasn't covered it.

The only reason why I even found it is they ended up in one of the liberal cities, and so images as well as the name of the group have been posted in liberal Facebook groups.

These are literal Nazis with literal swastikas.

I can't.

And no one FUCKING told me.

Here's what the local cops think about the literal Nazis. Look at them. The Klan and the Nazis are getting along fistbumping!

(If you reblog please put "tw nazi" in the tags)

-fae

[collageartburrybuermans]

Charles manson just died today. Made this work "Helter Skelter" about him and Jhon Lennon the two most contrasting figures of the 60's #charlesmanson #manson #jhonlennon #lennon #love #hate #helterskelter #contrast #birds #swaztika #collage #collageart #burrybuermans #collector #70s #60s