irish_link
@irish_link@lemmy.world
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 1 day ago:
Your points and observations are very well taken and I admit yes now I would be like WTF.
Your good man, that’s why we should always keep engaging with conversations and discourse. No apologies needed.
Again you are correct and have change my view on it. Accepting “they may not know” (I honestly wouldn’t put it past people like this to suggest to their entire squad to get ‘this cool skull and bones tattoo’) is a bad position and forgives people for not knowing what they are doing. And I think I read it was freaking months of not years after he was informed and fixed it. If I found out there was a symbol on my body was one of hatred and violence I would find an ink shops that very day.
I had seen it and found the skit very entertaining. However I honestly thought it was just a made up symbols akin to pirates for that skit and only recalled the skull but not the bones. (Doesn’t help that I only remembered the ‘they have skells on them’)
Not trying to be combative with this point because I think it goes with location and personal history. I know you have much more knowledge about this stuff based on how you speak about it. For me it was not a know symbol and not in the top 5. Swastika, SS, war eagle, Astra pistols (my grandfather took one off a soldier in WW2 and had it in his box, to me that was a symbol), then the black sun. Just trying to point out that other symbols were the major ones for me due to the effect they had on my upbringing.
Thanks for keeping people focused on real issues, and continuing to engage in conversations about pitfalls we can fall into by ignoring things.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 2 days ago:
I think you’re missing my point. And YES, I just told you it wasn’t part of my history lessons. Are you based in the U.S.? If so, eastern, western, north, south, midwest? They all have different types of history being taught in school. For example, in the southeast there was a much bigger unit on trail of tears than in the Midwest. Also I bet if I asked you the name of the fertility statue from the Paleolithic you wouldn’t know it because it wasn’t part of your history lessons. Clearly that version of the totenkopf image was part of your history lessons or part of your history.
If you asked me what skull a bones together mean I would have said pirates and I would have been right because that’s the version of totenkopf I know. As I have now done a quick read on Wikipedia I must disagree with you about it be one of the most recognized symbols. How can it be one of the more recognized symbols if the main use was in concentration camps. They weren’t flying it all over or even putting it on all the uniforms. So yes, please accept that many people don’t know it.
Also no I didn’t say “ohh no this guy is totally not a nazi” but by all means put words in people’s mouth and ignore what they’re saying as it seems you do constantly. What I’m saying is most people I know, don’t know that symbol and thus can readily believe he didn’t know either. Thus the issue with pointing to it and saying “see this guys a nazi” is history lessons. If you’re going to point to shit, point to his words and comments not a tattoo.
Am I going to go dive into this guys Reddit history and learn about him, no. I will not be voting for him and I won’t be voting for his opponent. Not my area and thus I don’t need to go learn all the shit about him.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 3 days ago:
I fully admit I am not the smartest or best student of history. However I recall no lessons un symbolism in any history class other than ancient Egypt and Neolithic era or late Stone Age.
Make not mistake I am not supporting any hatred other than towards Nazis. However when I first saw the image I honestly thought it was from Warhammer or something.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 3 days ago:
The issue with this kind of stuff is history. As a 40 you’re old American, whose grandfather served in World War II, I had no idea what that tattoo meant before this whole scandal.
The only symbolism we ever went over in school was the flag and swastika. I believe they thought dumb kids would mimic the iconography to look edgy.
- Comment on All cells are bastards 1 week ago:
Right?!
They should post stupid stuff online for fun instead! That makes a real difference!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
And even if it truly isn’t for measuring a perfect shot for making a cocktail, it STILL IS a perfect equal measure if you want to hand out shots to a group of people. May not be a full shot but no one gets less or more than others.
- Comment on When you first realize you are about to be replaced 1 week ago:
Instant recognition as well. I remember the owner eventually swatting the thing out of the house. Or was that Tom?
- Comment on bummer 5 weeks ago:
Hey now, that is only in Merica
- Comment on tech never works for long 2 months ago:
HomeAssistant for the win! Not everything needs to be connected but for those things I would like to control I want CONTROL. So only my server (not even the nubucasa servers) control it!
- Comment on 8<9 2 months ago:
Unless they are fucking muskets. No, octopus has plenty of bullets.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 3 months ago:
Okay, I guess it’s PC then.
- Comment on This happen to anyone else? 3 months ago:
Dafuk?
- Comment on we're all a little gay inside 4 months ago:
Right, your point is taken but the point is more to explain the full portion of the rainbow. Not just the section you see.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 6 months ago:
Just as important is what they connect to. You know the plastic part it connects to inside whatever device you are connecting to. Same concept when monster cables were a thing, the gold plated connectors that connect to the back of your tv using plastic and undefined metal.
- Comment on Has anyone considered maybe Epstein was sex trafficking donald trump? 6 months ago:
Fucking finally!!!
For the longest time I have been bitching about this exact thing. Recently no one has been posting anything accurate like this.
It’s about damn time we had a decent shitpost. ;)
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 7 months ago:
I can’t tell if I should upvote this or downvote this.
- Comment on Caw caw 8 months ago:
no
- Comment on Piegoth Ur 8 months ago:
Legends of the hidden Pie!!
- Comment on Do you recognize this guy playing video games? 9 months ago:
We’re a union just by saying so!
- Comment on Explains everything if you think about it 9 months ago:
Ahh shit, and here I thought “How to train your dragon” was just a fantasy.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 10 months ago:
I am sitting here going “WTF is this Doc talking about, it was a Bluesky post.”
Then i saw the one and only comment regarding servers.
- Comment on No brainer 10 months ago:
There was nothing that said you can’t teleport up. Meaning you can go up and over. Almost no effort way of getting our of traffic or cleaning the gutters, fixing things up high. Or ya know essentially low flight. This is all assuming there is no cool down and its like walking.
- Comment on It slaps tho 10 months ago:
The best place to start is this guy or some others like him.
There are tons of good tutorials online but I would start with the Guru.
- Comment on It slaps tho 10 months ago:
Fair point.
- Comment on It slaps tho 10 months ago:
Didn’t you just cook the hot dog?
- Comment on It slaps tho 10 months ago:
Yep.
- Comment on It slaps tho 10 months ago:
Yep, 2 min in blender. I really could have made it better but it’s to make a point about a hot dog on the internet.
Free, amazing, and cross platform.
- Comment on It slaps tho 10 months ago:
Am i the only one who would cut it in half and then cut those in half if it was going on white bread? I would then stack them and make an actual sandwich.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 11 months ago:
Please take down this post. It will give the current administration ideas. First term he just drew outside the lines and this is exactly that.
- Comment on Bugs 1 year ago:
Thank you space trooper. I knew I knew the bug but couldn’t place it right away.
