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And that’s basically it!
Only "after drawing fierce criticism". Basically they admitted to being Nazis, but decided to keep the existing rules to avoid too much backlash, and I bet they won't be enforcing them.
It's just their way of recruiting new Nazis. "Hey, we don't think Nazis are bad, come join us" - Nazi scum Admiral Kevin Lunday
The quintessential hate symbols are not hate symbols? Weird... In other news, a yellow circle with two dots and and an arching line with upturned ends is no longer a smiley face.
Sounds like a good time to make insignias of swastikas hanging from nooses.
A picture of exactly that, several swastikas dangling from nooses, would make a great cartoon or art-piece.
Maritime Christmas Ornaments if you want to be seasonal.
This was necessary to do ... because of what?
Cuz they're Nazis.
Was the classification as a hate symbol ever a problem for them?
Seems like it, because they made a specific effort to undo it.
To recruit more like minded Nazis
USA was founded by literal enslavers and remains so extremely racist that the military openly recruits nazis.
.... Sounds about reich
They can reclassify all they like, people still know when they see someone wearing one of those symbols, they're looking at a POS.
"Admiral Kevin E. Lunday assumed the duties of Acting Commandant on January 21, 2025." Day after inauguration. And he is "acting" commandant so he didn't have to go through Congressional approval.
These racist fucks from Trump down are trying to be slick, but it's obvious what their values are.
As usual the orange disease is slowly infiltrating our service sector employees
Aight, let's draw a Nazi being hung from a noose to test that out.
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
But rainbows and watermelon slices are, I assume?
Ohhh, boy, this is going to go over well with the Jewish and black servicemen and women, won't it?
I’m sure that’s part of the intentions so they can fill the ranks with white incels
ding ding ding
Jews will be rightly upset but zios have a long history and current reality of nazi collaboration.
Nein nein nein nein nein
Sound about reich...
US Coast Guard is now classified as a terrorist organization.
So, this naturally raises the question... if those things are taken off of the list of hate symbols, then what's left on the list of hate symbols?
I tried to find the answer by looking at the article, but all it has is this Excerpt from February 2023 U.S. Coast Guard policy document,
The following is a non-exhaustive list of symbols whose display, presentation, creation, or depiction would constitute a potential hate incident: a noose, a swastika, supremacist symbols, Confederate symbols or flags, and anti-Semitic symbols. The display of these types of symbols constitutes a potential hate incident because hatebased groups have co-opted or adopted them as symbols of supremacy, racial or religious intolerance, or other bias.
So, if that's non-exhaustive, there might be others, but surely, they'd list the worst symbols as examples. So, basically, there's nothing left that is identified as a hate symbol.
I personally find it interesting that they didn't do this in stages to hide their intent. Like, first remove the Confederate flag, and later remove the Nazi swastika. They did them both together at the same time, which I think shows that they do actually understand that the Confederate flag has the same basic meaning as the Nazi swastika today.
They will be adding trans and pride flags in their place, maybe a Palestinian flag for good measure.
Next step, put it on their flags?
How long before they're flown on said US Coast Guard ships
Well I still hate them.
They played Fallout and want to larp as the Enclave. I just wish the real techno-fascists won't be as competent as the Enclave.
Classy
Sounds like it's time for the targets of these symbols to quit the armed forces.