• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Do you think this is a Nazi flag as well?

    Because this is a flag of people who literally fought and died against the actual historical Nazis.,

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        14 hours ago

        But you’ve been arguing that any Totenkopf or Death’s Head is by definition a Nazi symbol. So clearly you must think the US Marines who flew that flag while killing actual historical Nazis must themselves have been Nazis.

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          14 hours ago

          The picture presented is not a Totenkopf though.

          What is the name of the flag? Or a source of it? I don’t recognize it.

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            14 hours ago

            It’s the Marine Raiders expeditionary flag, a military unit in WW2.

            Skull and crossbones imagery has been used by militaries since the dawn of time. And if you look on the wikipedia article for Totenkopf, you’ll find it is indistinguishable from other skull and crossbones imagery. Totenkomf is just the German word for skull and crossbones. Wikipedia explicitly labels the following image a Totenkopf:

            Honestly, you’re doing the equivalent of right wingers who hyperventilated about the fact that Obama attended a “Madrassa” for awhile as a child. The mouth breathers were too stupid to realize that madrassa is just the Arabic word for school.

            There is no difference between a deaths head and a “totenkopf.” It literally means “dead person’s head” in German.

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              Lmao you’re doing God’s work out here rehabilitating the totenkopf’s image. Just… why? Other than the obvious reason…