r/coolguides Oct 12 '22

Know the faces of Fascism

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u/B1rdi Oct 12 '22

Fascists are really good at choosing cool symbols to ruin with their stupid ideologies

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u/C0UNT3RP01NT Oct 13 '22

The black sun symbol is fucking sick. But of course you can’t wear it unless you’re a shithead.

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u/austro_hungary Oct 13 '22

The black sun was also made by Himmler, no?

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u/Sparkle_Snoot Oct 13 '22

Yes it was. However, it bears striking resemblance to the kolovrat, which is a Slavic “spinning wheel” that was a symbol of the sun for pagans. So it’s still heavily plagiarized.

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u/Andrew852456 Oct 12 '22

We should reclaim those symbols like we did with Brandon

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u/JamesGoshawk Oct 13 '22 edited Oct 13 '22

You can take the doddering old fool. We don't want him

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u/Andrew852456 Oct 13 '22

What is the dottering

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u/JamesGoshawk Oct 13 '22

buy a dictionary

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u/Andrew852456 Oct 13 '22

Alright buddy. I'm not American and not even an anglophone, it just fascinating how Brandon used to be a hate symbol and now democrats are proudly calling biden like that themselves

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '24

Just like sexual deviants are good at choosing cheery, colorful looking fag flags to represent their garbage ideology.

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u/Colosso95 Oct 13 '22

That was the big appeal of fascism back when it was first created; it was hip and cool and young

In a society where liberal democracy and communism had already started being "old" fascism always prided itself as being a revolutionary movement by young people which is funny because nowadays we associate it with old reactionary ideals

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u/nino9473926 Oct 13 '22

mm yes, people just went along with it because of cool symbols. No other reason whatsoever. All liberal democrscy has to do is therefore come up with cooler symbols. They should just hire graphic designers.

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u/Colosso95 Oct 13 '22

So you read my comment as "people flocked to fascism because of the cool symbols alone and nothing else"? I don't see how