42 points

Im guessing this parodies how Nazis defend the swastika with the same justification. That was good.

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The history of the swastika is interesting, or I should say histories, because it’s not that unique of a symbol and has been independently created in half a dozen cultures.

But yeah, the Nazis ruined it for everyone. There’s actually a story about how a Native American tribe had used the symbol going back easily a thousand years, and after the Nazis ruined it, they officially retired their own version.

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11 points

Not for everyone. Here in Nepal and India we don’t care. We paint it everywhere.

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3 points

Behind the Bastards recently did a pretty solid 2 episode pod on the subject. Worth a listen.

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1 point

The “whirling log”

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Not just Nazis. Sometimes Hindu, Buddhist and Jains, too. And then there are those like me, white, Western Dharmicish folks who will not use it, or defend it, but know about it’s uses pretty intimately, and get nervous whenever the conversation comes up, because so not a Nazi

Fucking Nazis ruin everything they touch

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35 points

Upvoted for that photo alone. So good

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Why does the Onion have so many stories take place in Eugene, Oregon?

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15 points

As someone from Oregon it totally makes sense to me. lol

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Yeah, I’m in Eugene and it makes sense to me too. But why does it make sense in the Onion’s writers room… and that one episode of Futurama

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3 points

Portlandia fandom in exile is what it is

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2 points

You ever been there bro?

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'Hey, you have to take that down. Don’t you know what that means?’ For me it was synonymous with a right-wing hate group. Thankfully, my friend noticed me staring at the frog, and he soon set me straight.” Stewardson went on to explain that, in Sanskrit, the word Pepe roughly translates to “Feels good, man.”

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Is it me or have the articles gotten seemingly non-existently short on The Onion when they don’t just do the thing where they post pictures with satirical responses below?

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