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Man Trains Crows to Attack MAGA Hats (futurism.com)
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In a particularly creative expression of anti-MAGA sentiment, a man who goes by the username “biz_dave” says he successfully trained crows to attack MAGA hats. As detailed in a series of posts on Threads, the self-proclaimed “big nerd” and “very part-time artist” stuck some tasty treats, including “peanuts, chicken scraps, mealworms, and dog kibble,” underneath a MAGA hat.

“Once they were coming regularly, it was only about three months to get them to the hat removal stage,” biz_dave wrote.

https://www.threads.com/@biz_dave/post/DTSvEhIDory

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[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we can give up the swastika

Well, who's this "we" you're talking about, then? Seems like the only people in the west who need to "give up the swastika" are nazis.

But I certainly don't get bent out of shape when I see the eastern version in a western setting, such as in the various decorations of immigrants from the east. I was mainly saying that we shouldn't expect folks from the east to abandon their version because of what the nazi version represents.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

By "we" I am referring to the west. People who live in places with a history of significant Nazi influence, where the symbol is most strongly associated with Nazis, where anything sufficiently close to that symbol arouses the possibility that Nazis are being endorsed. I also don't have a problem with the symbol itself when used in other contexts, but that one dominant context makes it pretty suspicious in the general western population. So it goes.