What IS a fucking hate symbol then????

Combine this policy with declaring anti-fascists as terrorists, and I think a pattern is emerging here.

Oh for a moment there I was beginning to doubt the direction of USA.
Well I guess it's still full steam ahead to dismantle democracy and introduce an authoritarian dictatorship.

Brief anecdote. In school, we used to draw swastikas on everything in order to get others in trouble or to make ourselves seem like assholes. At no point did we consider what we were doing ok, it was just kids riding the edge of something they couldn’t understand for the sake of ignominy. Even we, as ignorant as we were, recognized that the swastika was a hate symbol and thoroughly unacceptable, we were, again, just assholes.

I’ve been saying this quite a lot but this culture war bodes poorly.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNTIED STATES IS CALLING FOR LAWMAKERS TO BE EXECUTED FOR UPHOLDING THE LAW! WTF IS GOING TO BE DONE ABOUT THIS SHIT?

Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines. The new policy, set to take effect Dec. 15, similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag

Threatening racial lynchings is "potentially divisive" but not hateful, apparently. I guess there are very fine people on both sides of the white supremacist lynchings debate.

I know its a drama we're past by now but I can't help but think about the people who defended Platner with the line "the military would have stopped him if it was really a Nazi tattoo." Because most of us knew that in fact they would not, and now they have put it in writing.

Following the double negative rule: Anti Anti Fascists leaves you with

Fascists

The USA is dropping the mask for all the world to see.

Literally the defining symbol for the term 'hate symbol'.

Hey, what's a hate symbol? Oh, you know, like a swatztika. Ohh, right of course, how could I be so fucking dumb? Jesus CHRIST. Dude, calm down, it's-- NO. PUNCH ME IN THE FACE, I'M TRASH.

Why would white supremacists see swastikas as hate symbols?

Of course Nazis don't think the Nazi symbol is a hate symbol.

That would be like me saying the weed leaf image is a hate symbol.

For context that means a guy like this would now be allowed to serve. They check your tattoos when you come in so this doesn’t qualify as a hate symbol now.

great; now hegseth can finally finish his chest tattoo

They have declared that nooses and swatzikas are not hate symbols, time to test that by drawing a picture of a Nazi being hanged I guess

Already reversed.

https://www.jta.org/2025/11/21/united-states/after-outrage-coast-guard-says-it-will-continue-to-define-swastikas-as-hate-symbols

What the fuck‽

Please put an NSFW tag on that image, it can get you in trouble if you accidentally show it in public in many countries, for good reason.

It wasnt even 24 hours before the the colossal apopcalyptic blowback on this made them reverse their decision.

Now we just have to wonder why they want to make hate symbols okay in the military.. I'm sure its totally not anything to do with trying to build a white nationalist military that will gleefull obey illegal orders and slaughter the "other" in the streets at piggy boys command.