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[–] 90 points 2 months ago (19 children)

if anyone curious: swastika symbol is not exclusive to Nazis and more ancient culture have used it (and some still do).

English word swastika is originally of the Sanskrit language (स्वस्तिक, lit. 'conducive to well-being').[1][9] In Hinduism, the right-facing symbol (卐) is called swastika, symbolizing surya, prosperity, and good luck; while the left-facing symbol (卍) is sometimes called sauvastika, symbolising night or tantric aspects of Kali

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

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  • [–] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    In this case it looks more like it's being used as some kind of ratchet than as a secret symbol

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  • [–] 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Too uneven. On a video someone made it is like a bump that sticks out to push something behind the button.

    Most likely it is just a hidden good luck symbol from whatever Asian country made the part.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Is that's the case then usually those are + symbol shaped. But adding additional fins in the end would distribute force more evenly, and make it slightly stronger and less prone to breaking. Easy and cheap fix if that part was breaking more than an acceptable amount.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I kinda hate it's still so strongly associated with the Nazis with no real attempt to reclaim it; it's one of humanity's oldest symbols, and they shouldn't have nice things

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I mean give it a short time - 500 years or so - I'm sure it'll be forgotten.

    No one really associates roses with the Tudors and Stuarts any more, the Trikelion and the Triquetra aren't sacred symbols any more, people use the Cadeceus when they mean the Asclepius staff, depending on context some enemies of France would've seen the Fleur de Lys as an offensive symbol...

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    We have fortunately gotten rid of many kings and removed the social basis of feudalism. However, Neo-Nazis persist today and seem likely to persist for a while longer. Their symbolism will remain known as such until the destruction of the basis of fascism.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Monarchists also persist unfortunately.

    https://www.salon.com/2025/02/26/from-maga-to-monarchy-how-tech-billionaires-are-engineering-american-autocracy/

    Curtis Yarvin is a piece of shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Somewhere out there are honest-to-god Bourbonists but they do not have a material basis to exist as a major force.

    Russian and russophilic fash still fly the imperial banner (thus keeping its meaning in memory as a symbol) but they will never reinstate tsarist feudalism, only fascism. The conditions for tsarism simply no longer exist. The coat of arms of the House of Bourbon on the other hand has not been widely used by the modern French far right. Bourbonism as a movement no longer exists. Thus it does not symbolise the white terror anymore, while the imperial banner does.

    Roman symbolism exists in an in-between state where it is not necessarily the domain of imperialist reactionaries but remains in use by them.

    The strongest reactionary monarchist movements, and thus those whose symbols still hold weight, are in places which still have monarchs (e.g. Ulster traitors, neo-falanguists).

    This only really proves my point that symbols retaining hateful meaning do so through active use by hateful movements and that it only really loses its connotations when the movement is symbolises ceases to exist in a meaningful way.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I had a misguided but well meaning friend who tried to reclaim it by putting a sticker on her bass. It was the inverted form to what the nazis used, and had some extra elements to it which should have differentiated it enough to know it was meant as a peace symbol... it was not enough. I don't think a single person that saw that sticker DIDN'T think it was a hate symbol.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'm Jewish and my wife is Indian. For our wedding, we had to print literature for my family to understand the original meanings of swastik symbols. For her family, many visiting from India, we had to include a brief history lesson about the Holocaust and the Nazi's abuse of this symbol.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    "Yes, even though he killed a lot of British people and was the enemy of history's greatest monster Winston Churchill, Hitler was still a very bad man because of... other stuff... and is really quite evil in the eyes of most Westerners. And especially Aunt Rachel who he personally tried to put in an oven."

    That must have been a fun pamphlet to write.

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