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        I have absolutely no knowledge about any of this but just wanted to say that’s well-written. Hope you get that pathetic POS.

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          Thanks! I doubt I’ll get a response or find out anything that happens, but hopefully this asshole at least needs to replace their plates.

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        That boogie-board enthusiast, who happened to be born in 1988, is going to be pretty pissed if they try changing their license plate.

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          Prank idea: Turn your mate’s number plate into a Nazi dogwhistle so they have to change it

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          This is Boogie Time Boogie Board incorporated, isn’t it?

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        I thought this was about that Boogie guy who makes YouTube videos and has bad views. Thank you for explaining!

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      It’s Indiana, they’ll probably retaliate.

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    Looks like someone who needs some break lights replacing, maybe two tires as well.

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    In a Korean car too which is funny.

    What does the BODG stand for?

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      It says BOOG, as in boogaloo, as in Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo

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        You’ve got to be kidding? They’re appropriating Electric Boogaloo (a film about break dancing and the black community) as their slogan? That is wrong on so many levels.

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          Not only that, according to the wikipedia article OP linked:

          “The boogaloo movement has created logos and other imagery incorporating [igloo] snow huts and Hawaiian prints based on these derivations.”

          If white supremacy was so “supreme”, why are these morons using Indigenous-based iconography for their movement I wonder. They’ll claim it’s to “fly under the radar”, but that just makes them look even more smooth brained.

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            Wait what the fuck I wear Hawaiian print shirts all the time, have I been looking like a fascist and not known it?

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          I’m sorry you had to find out this way

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          A few years ago Republicans were also dancing to System of a Down’s Killing in the Name Of song as if it was pro-them.

          Never underestimate the amount of stupid and innapropriate conservatives are capable of.

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            “Killing in the Name” is by Rage Against the Machine, but the point stands

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              Woops, apologies XD thank you for the rectification

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            Then the douchebag CEO for Dutch Brothers coffee wears a RATM shirt to their NYSE IPO which is where they filmed their anti-wallstreet music video “sleep now in the fire” with Michael Moore

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        Oh, I didn’t even think about that. Definitely makes sense.

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        That’s what they meant but I just read it as they were a self aware booger brained racist.

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          Out of curiosity, does anyone know if there’s any word/language where “oiz” creates that “ahts” sound??

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      It just occurred to me how absolutely accurate it is that the cops are holding the line defending the small number of Nazis from the counter-protestors. They also have that cop who hates the Nazis just like everyone else, but he’s still doing his job keeping everyone back, which is also pretty accurate.

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    These idiots are the most adolescent childish racists ever.

    This is the equivalent of a 10th grader typing 80085 into the school calculator!

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    I’m sitting behind a California plate that reads “88 RISE”. Is that…?

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    So, funny story, as a kid my favorite number was 8, had a few reasons that matched 8.

    So I always used it in names and such. But, often it wasnt unique, so I used 88 instead. Emails, account names, even video game characters have 88 in them to this day.

    … Am I accidentally a Nazi?

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      Born in 1988? Lots of folks born that year decided to have those two digits in their first Internet usernames as well. A few of those will still be in use, no doubt, so you’re not alone. (Me? No, I’m older.)

      In your shoes, I’d maybe think about changing things around, especially the easy ones, but you’re not me, nor I you.

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      No. 88 is just a number. It can be used as a dog whistle, but it can also be used, for instance, to describe a quantity equidistant between 87 and 89. Numbers and symbols don’t make a Nazi, actions and rhetoric do.

      I love Norse symbology. I’m not going to stop loving it because some fuckbrains use it to spread hate. Fuck that.

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        Based. Same goes for the boogaloo “movement” just because there are Nazis in it doesn’t mean it’s a primaryily Nazi community.

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          No, but it is primarily a white supremacists movement and the ‘88’ on the license plate kinda takes away all doubt.

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            Bro. Read the comment. There’s shitheads in every community. Boogaloo is about preparing for what we see as the inevitable second civil war. Not anyone’s skin color.

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      Literally in the exact same position… I’ve been using it for 20+ years and I’ll be damned if I let them take that away from me though.

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      88 is also a popular number in China as it looks like 囍 which is the symbol for double happiness.

      Just don’t be a Nazi and keep using 88 for good.

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      No. Use swastikas to mean peace and good luck, use the color red to mean communism, wealth, that you like the color red, whatever you like. Don’t refuse to use a symbol because others have used it for bad. Co opt it back.

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      Tell me about it… I got banned from asklemmy after leaving a completely innocuous comment, pretty sure because I have 88 in my username. I’ve been using this in various emails/usernames since before I even knew what fascists were.

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    Maybe they just really like Boogey2988. In which case, yeah, report them.

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      That’s what I thought this was referring to at first. Interesting that Mr. “Centrist” has an 88 in his handle.

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        I wouldn’t read too much into his YouTube handle. He’s a chode but I don’t think he’s a nazi simp. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was auto-generated.

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          Yeah, he made it before that was a popular thing, I think. But still, interesting!

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    The disambiguation page for Boogaloo is now a bunch of awesome shit like music and dance styles plus an extremist movement…

    Fuck you, choose a different name for your whack ass antics.

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    So I grew up in Canada, on the west coast, basically Vancouver. So I’m well aware of the dog-whistles. I now live in Scotland. There was an event where I work recently, and the event contractors were 88 Events. And immediately I was like: FUCKIN NAZIS!

    My wife seems to think that they’re too…idk…girly? to be nazis, but where the fuck did 88 come from, they started up in 97, so couldn’t be that. I feel like I’m being fuckin paranoid, but the fascy bastards are coming out the woodworks lately…shrugs