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[–] [email protected] 11 points 39 minutes ago

That is an out-fucking-standing protest projection.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 44 minutes ago

Introducing the new Model SS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 44 minutes ago (3 children)

This is fake though. The letters don't match and there is no other pic on the Internet to prove, it happened. But the fact it seems real, speaks volumes :D

[–] [email protected] 11 points 36 minutes ago

I don't think anybody is suggesting that Tesla had a sign that says "heil" in Tesla's don't manufactured and installed on their factory next to their name. It's a projection by a protestor to draw attention to Musk's Nazism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 minutes ago

@[email protected] & @[email protected] I see the news article and see the logic behind it, but this can't possibly be the only pic out there. I am not denying Elon isn't Nazi. He definitely is and everything he touches is now, lightly put, tainted.

But there has to be another angle or even a video. Just a single blurry pic immediately seems suspicious to me.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The Swasticar Wankpanzer is 100% something he would call the truck if his sycophant followers jokingly suggested it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I want to hear dialogue like the fitness pacer test describing it

"The Swasticar WankPanzer is _____"

[–] [email protected] 93 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Brave protest. Pretty sure Nazi imagery is illegal in Germany. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong

[–] [email protected] 266 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Making the German state officially state that this is Nazi imagery would be a worthwhile win lol.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago

I'm pretty sure they have explicitly come out and said that the gesture was what we all know it to be. I'm sure the Internet can verify it for you though

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 hours ago

Holy shit nice

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 hours ago

lol didn’t even think of that

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

There's plenty of "fair use" cases which would allow it.

§86a STGB allows for the use of "symbols of anti-constitutional organizations" in cases of:

  • art (e.g. the movie "Downfall")
  • scientific research
  • education
  • news or other broadcast (covering Nazi Protests in the US for example, German news station don't have to censor the Swastika flags or the like)

And probably applying in this case - in protesting said anti-constitutional organizations, for example a crossed out Swastika as a form of protest against Nazis is still very much legal.

Most important is the intent. If you plan to use those symbols with the intent of furthering the ideology of anti-constitutional organizations, it is probably forbidden. The intention has to be clearly against those organizations, otherwise it might be actionable.

Btw the communist party of Germany, the KPD is also considered an anti-constitutional organization and therefore it's symbols are forbidden in the same way.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

§86a STGB allows for the use of "symbols of anti-constitutional organizations" in cases of:

  • art (e.g. the movie "Downfall")
  • scientific research
  • education
  • news or other broadcast (covering Nazi Protests in the US for example, German news station don't have to censor the Swastika flags or the like)

Which is funny because the video game series Wolfenstein famously had to change all of their in-game imagery. The series is about killing Nazis, but it was banned in Germany until the game devs removed all of the swastikas. Because apparently showing the swastika is banned, even when it’s used explicitly to say “these are the bad guys.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

"Are we the baddies?"

"I dunno, our gear looks okay now?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, there were some real conservative views on what counts as art or education and what does not that influenced that decision I figure.

It's silly regardless on both sides in my personal view. Like yeah it's a little silly to not allow it, since the law would easily have allowed for it but also - it's a Swastika, I'm fine in a video game without it, I'm not gonna die on that specific hill for sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

You wouldn't even have to die on that hill anymore because you can buy the uncensored wolfensteins in Germany today.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It is with few exceptions. Given that it looks like the purpose is to call out a Nazi supporter I think they wouldn't get in trouble for that though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

It's not exactly uncommon for systems set up to oppose something to end up supporting them instead. See the ADL covering for Elon and condemning those opposed to genocide as antisemitic. In theory the ADL should be opposed to fascism, but because Israel has become fascist they found themselves on the same side as those who had been and would be their oppressors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

German police have been especially harsh on anti-genocide protesters as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

In the United States, teenage kids were put on the sex offenders registry for sending each other nudes. Those laws are in place to protect minors from people who are not minors, but apparently the judges did not see it that way in sentencing. Gotta love the word of the law being worth more than its spirit!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 hours ago

Man baby needs to be held accountable for his actions.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

The photo of Ellen and the “HEIL” appear to be projected onto the wall of the factory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I like to mix it up when talking about Elmer

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Das ist fantastisch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What's next for Leon Hitler, a Fackelzug (Fackelmarsch)?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

I'm guessing, he'll stop paying his workers, surround the factories with barbed wire so they can't escape and tattoo numbers on them to easier keep track of what they are doing.

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