• Echo Dot
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    3017 hours ago

    Surely them doing the Nazis salute counts as cultural appropriation. The right-wing German should be complaining about it. They need to come up with their own salutes

    • @Acidbath
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      1117 hours ago

      Didn’t we used to do the nazi salute for the pledge of allegience before ww2? I remember reading it somewhere but also FUCK NAZIS

      • Fiona
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        11 hours ago

        AFAIK it was a reference to the “Italian Salute”, aka Mussolini, the coiner of the term fascism… So not really all that much better…

      • @nandeEbisu
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        312 hours ago

        Tbf, it didn’t have the Nazi connotation then. It’s like how the meaning of the Swastika has changed over time. It been common in Hindu and Buddhist iconography for over a thousand years.

        • @LovableSidekick
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          211 hours ago

          TBF in this case stands for “to be rational”.

      • @Klear
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        1316 hours ago

        The pledge itself is already nazi bullshit.