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OK - avowed NOT A NAZI here.
I think the cross and skull could easily be used as gang symbolism to represent the 1 and 3. It's not that far fetched.
Personally I never looked deeper than the poorly photoshopped MS13 on his hands and I thought it was ridiculous Trump would believe it. But now that I realize the MSPaint is labels for the symbols:
-M on marijuana
-S on a smile.
-1 on a cross.
-3 on a skull.
it does actually kind of make sense in the cryptic symbolism of gang tattoos. If I were LE I would 100% believe that to be a marker of MS-13. Especially since MS-13 is notorious for using publicly visible tattoos to brand their members as a way to intimidate the public and prevent members from being able to leave.
I think Trump et al are absolutely going to do horrible things. But they're starting with sympathetic causes and choosing their targets so the lines are incrementally crossed one at a time. In the case of Garcia he has two very important features, 1 - he is not an American citizen, and 2 - he (probably) is actually an MS-13 member. (And it really seems like Bukele wanted him in particular, even having reached out to Trump prior to inauguration.)
But the next step is to deport citizens as we've seen with those little girls getting deported with their mother. They use that as the excuse, but the fact is at least one of those girls had a father in the US who was a citizen and they should have had the option to stay with him by default.
What comes next? Deporting citizens who are just criminals? I bet Trump is going to find someone (brown) who is a violent convicted criminal. Then the next will be someone (brown) who is a non-violent convicted criminal. Then someone (white) who is a violent convicted criminal. Then fill in the blanks until we get to someone who was never convicted of anything except not bending the knee.
I'm pretty sure I read the whole comment, but I didn't see the /s anywhere
How exactly tf is a skull supposed to be a 3???
"skull" only has 3 letters
Have you seen actual ms-13 member tattoos?
They don’t hide it under code.
Also the point here is trump is actually stupid enough to think those letters are real. And no one corrected him. Someone lead him to believe those are tattoos although maybe he put them there himself. Either way you’re looking at someone fooled him to be so cruel or he tampered with evidence himself to be cruel.
Either way: this is a human right being stripped away illegally by a president with intention of slaughter and you should be absolutely worried .
Oh, I know he's an idiot and a danger to the entire world. No dispute there.
I was talking with a colleague about this. They’ve had a lot of “gang culture” exposure.
Their opinion was it wasn’t a MS13 tattoo.
They said MS13 tattoos were notorious for being massive and blatant, not secretive and subtle.
They elaborated that gang tattoos are used for “repping” and need to be immediately clear who you’re repping for, otherwise it defeats the purpose of showing reputation and providing protection.
Just my $0.02
Trump didn’t shy away: “I’m all for it,” he said.
“If they’re criminals and if they hit people with baseball bats over the head that happen to be 90 years old and if, uh, if they rape 87-year-old women in Brooklyn, yeah, yeah, that includes them,” he added.
“They’re as bad as anybody that comes in. We have bad ones, too.”
The marijuana smile cross skull is actually symbolism for 👊🇺🇸🔥which means "prayers up for our troops" and "we are currently clean on OPSEC."
“Gutsiest move I ever saw, Mav.”