• Thorry@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    The idea of a dog whistle is as you say only dogs hear it. So in the use case of Nazis letting each other know they are Nazis it’s usually a subtle thing. A phrase or gesture that’s innocent on the face of it, but signals to other Nazis they are Nazis. Like what they tried to do with the OK hand signal.

    Putting up your hand and shouting Heil Hitler isn’t really a dog whistle, as everyone knows at that point you are a Nazi.

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      5 days ago

      Yeah I tend to agree. But a uniform somewhat looking like the SS uniform is not as obvious to everybody. Its at least plausibly deniable.

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        4 days ago

        It’s fairly clear that you are a person that moves through your life thinking you are intelligent and that you’re constantly delivering precise repartee in this thread or that, but in actual fact…

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          4 days ago

          You think I’m a person? I would have thought my opinion entitles me to not being considered human. Maybe throw a little guillotine in as well. ;)

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            4 days ago

            Feeling guilty for something, Mr/Mrs “somewhat resembling a nazi uniform”?

            Garbage take, you got one.

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              3 days ago

              Not at all. Trump had an AI generate a space force uniform and given there are two major space franchises it picked star wars. This is a nothing story and you shouldn’t start making more shit up as Trump is already plenty of dumpster fire.

              I’ll take the liberty of blocking you. Thanks for the nice sub though.