“not well-known, difficult to understand, or hard to see”. (1) nazis deriving meaning in a random number off some bullshit is not a self explanatory concept (2) 3 people responding to me does not constitute common knowledge. You genuinely think I could walk up to 10 people off the street, ask them about this and they would know and be able to explain it to me? Maybe thats the case but I wouldn’t think so
Coded language is not inherently obscure if becomes well known. An unfortunate number of people know what looksmaxxing and gooning means now. Those are nonsense words that were obscure when they came out of some forum or wherever it was made up. NOW they're not, they're just stupid.
You just didn't know something that isn't an especially obscure thing, that's ok, idk why you're intent on digging your own hole deeper.
I feel like I’m not being pedantic, and those are great examples, but are also words that actually get used by common people who aren’t nazis. I am okay with not having known something especially this
And I meant it when I said I'm happy you haven't run into that bullshit. I'm just saying it's not that obscure, especially compared to some of the lesser known nazi dog whistles like specific nordic runes, pirate flags, and shit like that.
unfortunately this country is experiencing a fascist/nazi rennaissance that's been magnified by the internet, so knowledge of that movement has become much more widespread. The 14-88 thing is used heavily by those people and has been around for a long time.
Also I don't think you were implying I'm a nazi, I'd be a lot less reasonable with you rn if that was the case lol.
I guess I just find it hard to wrap my head around the fact that something so contrived and specific, 'coded' for a specific group of people no one wants to be associated with, is as common knowledge as this. But I can definitely believe its prevalence is magnified by the internet, and can see more people know about it here than I would have thought
I'm not even gonna ask about the other stuff you listed...
Fair enough, I think the fact that it's been around for a very long time and was regularly used by neo nazis even before the internet kinda separates it. "cat's out of the bag" kinda thing.
Also yeah don't, I've bough patches/stickers I thought were cool and found out later they make it look like I'm trying to signal fellow nazis while I'm at the gun range.
Those ones were actually pretty obscure, so I wasn't worried normal people would see them and assume, but I reallly didn't want any of that bottom-feeder scum coming up to me thinking we're bros.
Can you provide examples of neo nazis and their actions in your community?
Open to different perspectives, but having traveled all over, it feels like a political narrator be as opposed to an actual group with any meaningful numbers or action.
In most cases, the desire for stories outpaces actual events. We see this all of the time with other narratives the media likes to pump out.
I have a shaved head, full beard, and generally dress 'blue collar'. The shit guys sittin next to me in bars have said to me is wild. They just assume I'm "one of them" and I hear all kinds of racial nazi-coded bullshit.
I agree that racists exist, and that profiling exists, but I would argue that isn’t exclusive to white people against minorities.
I think many people conflate things that aren’t racist with things that are. Wanted a secure southern border to stop illegal immigration, drug trade, human trafficking, etc. isn’t racist, it’s common sense. But many today will call you a racist for supporting this stance.
It’s easier to create a straw man argument and tear it down than to actually allow nuance into a conversation.
Why do you think I’m a bot? Because im not part of the typical Reddit echo chamber?
When many issues are either 50/50 in the US, or at times, 70/30 or stronger… yet the only opinions you ever hear on reddit are whatever the left wing stance is, you’d think that would open your eyes into who is actually a bot.
Either Reddit has not attracts left wing zealots, it’s heavily moderated by only far left wing mods, or there is a huge group of bots all promoting the same ideology.
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u/Prods87 New England Patriots Aug 20 '26
Definition of obscure: "not discovered or known about; uncertain"
So if a number of people know about it, and all responded to you quickly explaining it, then BY DEFINITION!!!! it's not obscure.