danc4498

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Exactly. I had a guy I worked with that used examples of liberals complaining about the OK symbol as an excuse to ignore every awful thing Trump did and said during his 2016 election and while he was in office.

I’m not saying he wouldn’t have done that anyway, but we make it so easy for them to ignore us!

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world -2 points 11 hours ago

Hi, I’ve never heard of adl.org, but I searched for Jerusalem cross on this site and found no results. Does that work as confirmation that this symbol is NOT a white nationalist symbol?

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Honest question, are there examples of this symbol being used by white nationalists regularly?

I’ve done some light googling and looked at more photos of white nationalist rallies than I ever want and I didn’t see this symbol in any of them. Even adl.org doesn’t mention this cross.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago

Save billions on essentials while spending trillions in bullshit.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world -2 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Yes, and any cross is a symbol of white nationalism because they were used by the KKK.

Not every symbol used by racist people is a symbol of racism. You gave the one most extreme example where a symbol was co-opted and can never mean anything else again.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Dude is definitely a nut, but when we start throwing around terms like “white nationalists” for things that are absolutely not white nationalism, it dilutes the impact of claims about people who legitimately are white nationalists.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world -2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The article specifically mentioned that tattoo and no other ones… I’m not saying this dude is qualified for the job. There’s probably tons of legit reasons to hate this pick.

This article is just rage bate, though. And judging by this thread it is a successful one.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world -4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (34 children)

Might be an unpopular comment, but I googled the Jerusalem cross and it appears to be more of a religious symbol than anything.

Saying he has tattoos linked with white nationalists is just sensationalism. And it has gotten the exact response in this thread that it wanted.

Edit:

For the pitchfork wielding lemmings, if you search for “Jerusalem cross” on ADL Hate Symbol Searcg, it returns ZERO results.

Hating on this guy because you misinterpreted a tattoo that he has only makes you and people like you look ridiculous. And when the next guy stands up and says actual hateful things, WE won’t have a voice because YOU wasted it on garbage news stories like this one.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not surprising since this could also be the headline:

Trump ~~'s pick for top intel job~~ has been accused of 'traitorous' parroting of Russian propaganda

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 108 points 1 day ago

As for the vitamins and supplements, we are halting their sale immediately. Utilitarian logic dictates that if we can extend even one CEO's life by 10 minutes, diluting these miracle elixirs for public consumption is an unethical waste. Instead, we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWarswarehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

It’s been coming doing for years, but much like Trump took credit for Obama’s economy, he will take credit for this too. And 50% of the country will learn the wrong lesson.

 

2 great movies about bad moms. One from the child’s perspective, the other from the mom’s perspective.

 

I’m not really sure where to ask this question. Maybe there’s a lemmy dev community where these kind of discussions already happen.

I feel like the default front page in Lemmy is still severely lacking when compared to Reddit’s r/all algorithm. I find hot and top hourly to be nearly identical. The top 6 hour is closer, but still not as good as what the Reddit default front page is.

 

And it never has.

 

Not sure if this is where suggestions go, but I'll put it he anyway.

I think the community name should be shown above the preview image of the post. Seeing the community name is important for the context of whatever the post is. I'd like to see the name before seeing the actual post.

 

I feel like with the 3rd party apps shutting down tomorrow, Lemmy could be flooded with new users. It would be a shame if their first experience here is with that front page bug.

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