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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 111 points 2 months 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 90 points 2 months 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 52 points 2 months 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 41 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the old hail hortler.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

Conservatives think Tylenol causes autism... Do you really think they have an eye for brand styles? Come on... Can we stop being intellectually dishonest?

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[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 84 points 2 months ago
[–] notso@feddit.org 57 points 2 months ago (2 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.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

denazification

you say? I know of a certain European "neighbor" who specializes in those. It'll only take three days.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Issue is, that European "neighbor" is also in dire need of denazification.

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[–] PolarPirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

there's actually a Wikipedia article about it here

[–] devedeset@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Army surplus

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

Why are they wearing camo in a fucking city?

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 2 months 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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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months 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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[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, "Nazi Sympathizer". Makes sense.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

National Socialist more likely. Literally referring to the Nationalsozialismus Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) - the Nazis.

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[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months 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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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 months ago

Probably what they do after they hawk the items they stole from an apartment. They'd be too scared to break a piggy bank, it would probably freak them out and they'd point guns at random things.

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 22 points 2 months ago

Nazis wearing nazi shit :O

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months 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.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months 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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[–] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 months 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 2 months 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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[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

ICE agent larping as a racist airsoft player.

[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Except that they're not really larping, they are racist and they carry real guns.

"ICE agent ~~larping as~~ a racist ~~airsoft player~~."

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[–] bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Peerpeer@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 21 points 2 months ago

National Socialist, I'd guess.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

That font also looks suspiciously similar to fraktur

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[–] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If they're so shitty at being Nazis, can we call them "Notzis"?

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

They're using the wrong symbol: the rune ᛋ is not a lightning bolt ⚡. That old Norse symbol for sun ☀️ inspired theirs.

Nazis need to get their symbols right. We also need to defend our thunderbolts ⚡ from confusion.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You should see the Secretary of War's tattoos.

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