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[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Guess I've been living under a rock or something because I had to look up what 1488 meant.
I still don't fully understand though... Is this something that a lot of people recognise as a nazi / white supremacist symbol, or is it more of a niche reference?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

They say it to each other as a greeting, usually they just say 88. Another great one is TTMFBBTT, which means they are Aryan Brotherhood members "til the motherfucking body bag toe tag". Or they say "wood wood", which is short for either peckerwoods or feather woods, which is a male and female AB member.

The Klan say KIGY, AKIA, and KLASP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

In the US it may be more popular. I only know about 88 or 18 for HH or AH.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Gee, I wonder if Aryansoldier1488 knows if 1488 is a dog whistle for Nazis? I'd hate for Aryansoldier to get caught up in this. It was probably a random number.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Poor guy was probably just born on 1/4/1988 and his real name is just Ayra N Soldier. People these days just call everybody a Nazi smh /s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

As a radical centrist, I must find any possible reason that someone would stick an obvious dogwhistle in their name besides being a Nazi. We can't just go assuming the blatantly obvious.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

His name is really just Ryan Adams Soldier

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe he could switch to ASoldierNamedRyan

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Don't give them ideas.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I do feel bad for people born in the year 1488 though, their usernames look really suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I feel bad for the Jewish rabbi, Joseph ben Ephraim Karo

JosephKaro1488 was his gamertag

(He was actually born in 1488 lol)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ma boi Yosef, I don't see him play anymore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

These people probably feel so ashamed they can't even look at themselves in the mirror.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The whole number or just the 88? I learned about 88 in high school because I questioned why all the racist kids wore it.

Edit: I just noticed the rest of his name. Hooboy. lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

88 is a lucky number in Vietnam. You'll see Vietnamese restaurants use 88 in their name sometimes.

Different cultures, different meanings. Not that Nazis are a culture. They are distinctly uncultured.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The swastika was also appropriated by the Nazis. In Indian cultures, it is a symbol of blessings and prosperity. You still won't catch me sporting that shit anywhere.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

"Aryans" originally referred to Indo-Iranians but guesd what Nazis did to the term

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The 14 refers to “The Fourteen Words”

“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's funny because it's hardly an inspiring or memorable 14 word sentence. It's just awkward and clunky.

Like, why "secure"? Why not "safeguard" or "defend"? IMO those are stronger, more emotionally resonant words.

And why "existence"? Why not something stronger like "survival" or something more than survival like "prosperity"?

And just "a future" for white children? Not "a glorious future" or "a triumphant future"?

And, why "white children"? Not the white race?

Also, how is "a future for white children" distinct from "the existence of our people"? Are white children distinct from "our people"?

I could get it if it were framed as: we must defend our survival now so that our children can prosper. In that case you're saying that the present might be tough but the future will be bright. But they're not painting the future as bright, just "a future", which is really the same as an "existence" so it's basically saying "Our people must survive and so must our children, who are also our people, but smaller."

Like, they memorized the first draft of some dumb saying and revere it as "the 14 words", but it's just badly written, nevermind all the racism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Secure" doesn't just mean "defend" or "safeguard". "Secure" also means "capture", so it implies you need to go out and get it, like with invasions or something maybe, idk. It's a lot less passive.

"Existence" means both "survival" and "prosperity". It implies that both their existence is under threat, while creating the idea that they might be able to make it better. Maybe they could, idk, make america great again, trying to return to some mythical prelapsarian era by beating back the eternal threat.

"A future" does this too, implying they may not have a future at all.

And talking about the "children" brings up the concept of making new people, evoking the idea that non-white races are out-breeding them. It also includes the common "think of the children" idea.

And finally the fact that it's short and boring comes from the fact that nazis are uninspiring and uninspired, and they need a simple, to the point slogan to repeat without thinking about it too hard. They certainly know how to make a message concise, even at the cost of saying almost nothing of meaning when you think too hard about it.

All of this is classic fascism.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's the same tactic as the "It's OK to be white" or "White lives matter" slogans, but more clever because it leaves enough ambiguity such that just about anything can be justified under it. It mentions children to come across as more innocent and to implicitly accuse the opposition of endangering children (also playing into LGBT scaremongering, with the Nazis using the same tropes they use today). "Think of the children!" is a common and effective propaganda line.

Saying "future" instead of "glorious future" suggests that the children wouldn't have a future at all otherwise. That the white race is under attack and is otherwise on track to be eliminated by Jews and communists and so forth. It's harder to justify atrocities in the name of "a glorious future" vs "a regular future" as opposed to "a regular future" vs "we are completely exterminated ourselves."

It is, of course, bullshit, because it's literally Nazi propaganda trying to frame them as on the "defensive," but it is carefully and intelligently crafted propaganda. It's important to understand the enemy and their approaches in order to better counter their movements and defeat them, they should not be underestimated.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Secure" also has the meaning of taking something with great difficulty, not simply defending. It's a threat. All the rest is just using catastrophic/severe language to lure in followers to their cause.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

This reminds me of an anecdote talking about language differences between the US armed services:

If you told a Marine to secure a building, they would kick the door in and take control of the building.

If you told a soldier in the Army to secure a building, they would set up a fence around it and establish a sentry.

If you told a Navy sailor to secure a building, they'd turn off all the lights and close and lock the door on their way out.

If you told an Airforce airman to secure a building, they would write up a purchasing contract.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

"Just warning you that GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY SERVER" ban

[–] [email protected] 235 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Whoever took this screenshot is the user with that Discord name

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (28 children)

That looks like screenshot from any user to me. The highlighting is the same as me taking a screenshot of a comment where I @ someone else. It also looks the same when I see someone else's comment @ someone else.

Edit: thank you all for down voting me for admitting that I didn't notice the difference in the background and replied thinking they might be referring to the name highlighting. Clearly I must have been disagreeing with the comment I replied to and not just trying to learn something!

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The message in the OP has a yellow tint to the background along with a yellow line on the left.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Shoutout to DarkViperAU (formerly DarkViper88, because of birth year)

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What do we call a Discord that allows nazis in it? A Nazi Discord.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

Well, now that Discord is going public, we can probably just call it Discord.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Considering the avatar, there's like a non-zero chance it's one nazi telling another.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

No he’s just from Iran who likes the third unification of Iran he’s just off by twenty years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I usually rain hellfire on Nazis, when they actually Behave like Nazis & not just because of a number

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

And until they behave like nazis, you'd defer to the friendly warning, correct?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (8 children)

It has Aryan Soldier in the name and they are worried about 1488 lol, this is a good one.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Thank you for explaining the punch line

You must be fun at parties

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They might be fun at parties, you don't know them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Matter of fact I am. Also, I don't know him.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Nathan Higgers, born 13 January, 1988:

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Seriously, I didn't see the name until after I read the comments. I got totally tricked; good job!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just the number? The Aryan Soldier part is fine? Dude there's no redeeming part of that name. It translates as IamANaziIAmANazi.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

That's a train whistle.

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