Comment by utdoctor
19 hours ago
Not even just that, the main villain (Amon Göth) in Schindler’s List (which won Best Picture) has it on his uniform throughout the film.
It’s not like it’s some obscure icon.
19 hours ago
Not even just that, the main villain (Amon Göth) in Schindler’s List (which won Best Picture) has it on his uniform throughout the film.
It’s not like it’s some obscure icon.
If the bones are a little longer, it's a Jolly Roger. If the teeth were longer, it would be a punisher skull. If it weren't turned at that particular angle it would just be a generic skull. If it were 2 angular lightning bolts, it would obviously be SS but a skull is really common in a lot of contexts.
If you happened to clock this particular skull shape as a symbol from an SS division, then congrats, but 95% of people just would not and that's why it didn't land as a scandal. Everyone said "Huh. I didn't know either." and then accepted "Marine gets dumb skull tattoo while drunk on shore leave" as a fairly normal thing to have happened.
If I had wheels I’d be a bicycle. I don’t see your point? It’s very obvious what it is and just because you can alter an icon to make it look like something else doesn’t change what it is.
Ignorance of something doesn’t change what it is. “Oops I accidentally had a Nazi for nearly 20 years and only had it covered up 9 months ago when it became a political liability” isn’t a good look to say the least.
My point is that it's not very obvious what it is unless you are super studied in Nazi symbology. I thought I was clear but there it is in case I wasn't.
If this were a swastika, the SS lightning bolts or even the Iron Cross, yeah, that looks pretty Nazi. Instead it's a skull and crossbones just like every other one used all over the place, including the very cool jolly roger, except this one happens to be Nazi. I didn't know, most people didn't know, he can credibly say he didn't know, and we all think the jolly roger's cool. Dog's not gonna hunt.
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>which won Best Picture
And that's relevant how?
Because it demonstrates it’s not some obscure piece of history that only WWII buffs would know.
A major film with one of the most acclaimed directors of all time that won the highest award you can win as a movie had the icon featured prominently on the main villain’s uniform throughout the nearly 4 hour movie. Come on my guy.
Winning "best picture awards" is not a relevant history buff thing, it is just a made-up meaningless BS awarded on favors, politics, nepotism, cronyism, and fucking the right industry gatekeeping pedophiles and sexual harassers of Hollywood mafia (Philip Berk, Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, etc) that are also the ones responsible or part of the same in-group as those dishing out the movie awards, and who all happened share the same religion together as the original founders of hollywood's studios, which i'm sure is just one giant coincidence and not a long-running mob-like organized crime group that ensure preferential treatment and exposure for their in-group while gatekeeping whistle-blowing outsiders using these fake awards in order to ensure they can all cover up and get away with crimes and control of their political narratives that then get parroted as historical gospel by the clueless.
I'm still in awe how easy it is to get seemingly intellectual people who built careers on pattern recognition, to accept the programming without question and refuse to recognise the patterns that are right in their face.
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