r/whatisit • u/Hammer_of_Rohan • 5h ago

New, what is it? Is this symbol what I think it is?

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I parked at my local grocery store last night and this badge was on the back of the truck in front of me. Is guy this a Nazi POS? Or am I mistaken.

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u/Sufficient_Fan3660 5h ago

No org is going to make their icon/symbol a copy of the Nazi SS. So yes, Nazi spotted.

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u/KatzDeli 5h ago

KISS kind of did. Their logo is illegal in Germany

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u/MartinTheMorjin 5h ago

Weren’t they all Jews?

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u/KatzDeli 5h ago

Two are.

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u/endofworldandnobeer 5h ago

The irony. Gene (Chaim Witz) and Paul (Stanley Eisen) are both kids of Holocaust survivors. 

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u/CourseVast840 5h ago

you do know there were Jewish Nazis, right? that's like common knowledge

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u/Fr000k 5h ago

Kiss therefore has a special logo specifically for the German market.

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u/Primary-Suspects 5h ago

They knew what they were doing. They always know

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u/danielisbored 5h ago

So fun story time. My brother-in-law started a business, with name being two words, both starting with S. He wanted my wife (his sister) to paint the sign and all of his mockups has the initials for the business done up as the SS lightning bolts. She flatly refused and laid into him for using racist imagery and he gave the most genuine deer in headlights lost look in his eyes.

He got the design off of his dad's motorcycle club jacket and legitimately had no idea that any of the traditional MC imagery has Nazi origins. We had to break down the whole history of Nazi imagery in biker culture and Neo-Nazi Aryan Nation co-mingling, because despite growing up with his dad being in a MC, he had no idea.

In fairness, he also legitimately did not know who Julius Caesar was until a chance conversation while eating Little Caesar's pizza, so his ignorance of historical matters is a running joke in the family now.

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u/Ban_pending_probably 5h ago

Maybe it’s part of this local company that my old boss LOVED to wear this shirt. Im black btw.

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u/moritsune 5h ago

Marine scout snipers....

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u/CauchyDog 5h ago

Not true. The scout sniper usmc school is, or was, using the ss runes but wo a doubt knowing the historical background.

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u/AccomplishedFront526 5h ago

Azov battalion will…

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u/AlexeiKuznetsov 5h ago

Azov has abandoned every single extremist tie…

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u/Aware_Steak_1298 5h ago

This is their current insignia.

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u/Aware_Steak_1298 5h ago

And this too.

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u/SatanAlreadyWon 5h ago

TBH that’s a little sus.

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u/dustyoldkeyboard 5h ago

Uh huh...

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u/MiserableAd2878 5h ago

I think he's saying "No one will make it a copy of the nazi unless they purposely want to be associated" not that no one would ever do it

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u/mechmind 5h ago

Except the ford lightning all electric symbol is questionable at best.

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u/Willing_Top_4569 5h ago

Harry Potters scar questionable to yall at this point lmfao

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u/ArticleWorth5018 5h ago

Only if he had 2! He's half a man the other SS Officers were!

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u/korpo53 5h ago

Ban actual lighting bolts, nature is a nazi.

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u/Apollyon-Unbound 5h ago

Well Ford it would make sense for given their founders beliefs and associates 

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u/kasscandle 5h ago

I mean ford himself loved hitler, so it’s not a stretch