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Saw a nazi today (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by abbotsbury@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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For explanation: Boogaloo movement, "Neo-Nazis use the number 88 as an abbreviation for the Nazi salute Heil Hitler.[11] The letter H is eighth in the alphabet, whereby 88 becomes HH.[12] "

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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Plus, the chances of randomly getting BOOG88 have got to be pretty small.

But not impossible.

I'm just imagining the guy that randomly got that license plate with no idea of any possible meaning.

He just can't understand why his car is always the victim of such vandalism. Every time he gets it fixed, he finds it keyed again, or the tires flat, lights smashed...

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure, I'm not saying this is smoking gun proof beyond a shadow of a doubt, but at the same time, it would be one hell of a coincidence.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I'm not saying it was random chance either. I'm just amused by imagining the possibility of some poor sad sack who got it and can't figure out why everyone hates him.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, actually impossible.

The "randomly assigned" plates aren't random, they're sequential. They have a pattern, like letter-number-letter-letter-letter-number-number, and they stamp plate after plate to ship out to DMVs to have ready. Every state has a pattern, they look random by design - they only pick certain letters and cycle through the numbers before picking the next run, you won't get something like this on a "random" plate

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Party pooper.

[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The change for an individual of getting it randomly may be pretty small, but also doesn't matter. The change the OMV/DMV gives out this plate is all that matters.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

This. It doesn't matter that this specific guy got it. It matters whether or not it CAN exist. If it CAN exist, then eventually someone will get it.