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The “Bro visited his friend” meme template. In panel one, a character says “hi GOG any new deals tod-” and another character, labeled with the GOG.com logo, replies with the screenshot of a mail header titled “Slavic adventures 𖥞 ꥟ ϟϟ”. In the second panel, the first character looks at the second one with a worried look on their face.

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
    386·
    1 day ago

    well yea, unicode doesn’t include nazi symbolism for obvious reasons, so the nazis have to get creative

    i could, with the good faith GOG frankly doesn’t deserve, see how the first two symbols could’ve happened accidentally. but the SS? nah, whoever wrote this email did this 100% intentionally.

    this is nazi shit, in the same way that someone sending you “hey pretty do you want to have some 🍆🍑💦” is not inviting you to drink a peach-eggplant cocktail.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
      41·
      1 day ago

      tangent: when i went to vilnius a few years ago there was a lot of symbolism that weirded me out and felt kinda fascist. but it turned out it was from buildings that were built in the 1700’s, based on baltic legends and traditions. which is what the nazis co-opted. but the people there still had those symbols in their culture.

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
        163·
        1 day ago

        this one is in reference to the swastika used for centuries across cultures, way before the nazis even existed. the nazi one is (usually) angled and thicker.

        obviously that doesn’t stop nazis from using it, same for the futhark or koppa.

        • lime!@feddit.nu
          84·
          1 day ago

          so are the other two. the slavic religions are more than a thousand years old.

          Edit: okay the kolovrat is iffy. the new version of that religion is very racist.