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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Related: Why TF is ICE wearing camo if they're law enforcement?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

there's actually a Wikipedia article about it here

[–] devedeset@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 days ago

It's a LARP until it isn't, and we're really approaching the point where it isn't.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Why are they wearing camo in a fucking city?

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

Army surplus

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 111 points 6 days ago (11 children)

it could be an homage, but it's not "nazi style" any more than a toxic chemical label is a Nazi style "Totenkoph"

it needs to have flat tops and bottoms to be "SS style"

Fuck ice, etc.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 89 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't see what NS split by a lightning bolt would refer to other than National Socialist - eg literally claiming affiliation/support to the Nazi party.

It is possible its something else and just incredibly bad fortune and an incredibly ignorant person who wouldn't get that connection is wearing it - but given the context that it's ICE.. I'm leaning to it being a nazi dog whistle to other like-minded ICE officers.

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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 51 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Regardless of how bad it is, the lightning bolt is clearly intended as nazi shit.

They're not good at making swastikas either, but no matter how deformed they still count as nazi shit.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 40 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the old hail hortler.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (12 children)

I feel like you're playing exactly into their hands. Make it similar enough that everyone is in no doubt as to what they're saying, but different enough to give them plausible deniability if it ever got escalated.

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[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (15 children)

You need a bit of mental gymnastics to go "oh but the style is such and such, therefore it is not nazi sign".

I know fuck all about nazi styles and to me this looks like a nazi n⚡s, proclaiming that he is a national socialist.

He IS A FUCKING NAZI.

Edit: another point to add. If I was a dumb racist scum turned nazi, since I know fuck all about the 'original' nazi styles, most likely I would come up with some shit like this, that delivers the message but is not in the original style.

Remember, ICE agents are not smart or educated people that would know much about original nazi styles.

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[–] PolarPirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I think it's more likely that dude saw it and went "oh man that's fuckin siiiiiiccccccckkkkkk" probably has skull stickers on his truck too

I want to note that this is exactly what that actual Nazis did when they stole symbolisms from various cultures including the rune ᛋ and of course the swastica. Both of which represent the sun.

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[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 84 points 6 days ago
[–] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

NS clearly signifies "national socialism" , i.e. what Hitler's party called their ideology. Don't evne worry about the lightning shaped rune in the center.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 12 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Assumed it stood for Norfolk-Southern. That's a domestic terrorism firm responsible for the horrifying Palestine bombing.

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[–] bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Not ⚡️Sexy

Not ⚡️Seeing anyone

Not ⚡️Socially well-adjusted

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 39 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'm starting to wonder if these "ICE" people aren't just kids who outgrew video games like Call of Duty, but didn't care to join the army.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] notso@feddit.org 57 points 6 days ago (3 children)

These thugs don't even have any reason to hide their convictions anymore at this point... The US is in dire need of denazification and it should begin with ICE and it's fascist employees. Prosecute the fuck out of this administration, it's henchmen and the billionaires that endorsed it.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

ICE are all the raging assholes that constantly demanded violent responses to everything a minority or liberal did, or suggested nuking every foreign country for whatever perceived infraction, while safely behind a screen and keyboard. They refused to sign up for the military that would impose rules, expectations, and restrictions on them. Also, people shoot back at you if you get deployed. Can’t have that. Too scary. So they join ICE and get to beat up on those foreign people and piss off the libs while under State Protection, nobody gets to shoot back. They’re protected from consequences. Cowards and bullies.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Trying to find specific context on this guy, here's what I got so far: The picture was taken 14. October 2025 "around 11 a.m." in Chicago, "near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood". The rest of the uniform indicates he's a member of a Special Response Team, whatever that is.

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/crash-involving-immigration-agents-in-east-side-leads-to-tear-gas-detentions

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

The SS fucks had a flat top and bottom, this one appears pointed. Anyway, close enough and most their ranks are filled with neo-Nazi turds.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (4 children)
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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is this really an SS style bolt? I'm genuinely asking. And I know a lot of bad faith dialogue starts with that. I'm mostly asking because I don't want to accidentally use something people view as an SS symbol. I hadn't seen anyone call this the SS bolt until a few weeks ago. I always associated the flattened tips with it more.

[–] MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I mean it's verbatim a black version of the lightning bolt ⚡ emoji on Android - so it could just as easily be that. I'm no fan of ICE, but we've got plenty to be mad at and fight them about. When the arguments seem trivial, we lose face in public opinion.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You dont have to look back very far to determine how this started on a low level, this is just aggresive inaappropriate counter-culture , 4chan internet troll, basement dwelling shitheel behaivor from the 90s and 00s but carried over into adult life

Contrarians will always be contrary, so I guess being contrary to a boring "regime" that didnt particularly say or do anything except for ask for generic human rights for everyone, means cosplaying as the most offensive thing you can think of because it makes them mad, Cosplaying as Nazis and even doing the same thing the Nazis did with randomly and incorrectly co-opting norse iconography.

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 22 points 5 days ago

Nazis wearing nazi shit :O

Nazi lives DO NOT MATTER.

Do with that what you will.

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

is this what cops splurge on after breaking the piggy bank? kids these days...

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[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Ah yes, "Nazi Sympathizer". Makes sense.

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[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What's the NS stand for though? Only thing that comes to mind to be labeled a nazi is "National Socialist"

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[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Meanwhile Americans are holding peaceful protests that will change everything.... Just like the Pro Palestinian protests changed everything, just like the massive global protests stopped the second Gulf War... It's time people realise that while protesting peacefully does bring awareness, it changes nothing, especially when the administration is purposely working against the interests of the majority of the population.

[–] WalterLego@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, Like the last generation was successful in advocating climate activism, the German RAF successfully sparked a revolution with their kidnapping and bombings, like the IRA successfully drove out the English from Northern Ireland or like Ghandi failed to free Britain and the East Germans tore down the wall with dynamite.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Showing their true colors.

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