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The poster says; "We protect our children"

The extended arm i guess shapes a roof over the children?

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago

So they are going to fix the housing crisis by not building any houses but Sieg Housing.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Not the first poster they've made involving Nazi salutes either. I felt dirty just from having to search "AfD poster" in Google Images.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I thought the nazi salute was illegal in Germany

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 29 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Can't you see it's a house? /s

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago

But now you get what they were Göring for?

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

It's pretty gross that nazis are willing to sell out their own children to grab power. In character, though.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

AfD logo looks like an erected penis

[–] AntelopeRoom@lemm.ee 7 points 6 hours ago

Its also like a Nazi salute

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

What do you call a dog whistle when it's screeching this loud?

[–] Matombo@feddit.org 4 points 4 hours ago

this, when the poster was first revealed it even made it in the news, but there is no bad publicity i guess

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 26 points 11 hours ago

a nazi salute

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"Aryans" keep calling themselves the master race yet continuously show off the dudes with the most disgusting hairlines.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago

Rush Limbaugh taught us all that evil always disguises it's intent by saying it's protecting "the children".

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 71 points 22 hours ago

I don't see what the big deal is. This is just a Roman roof shape.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 27 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Also the swoosh logo is a sieg heil

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 17 points 21 hours ago

Looks like a WikiHow graphic on how to do it, that's crazy

[–] frezik@midwest.social 75 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Besides the not so subtle gesture, Nazi propaganda often emphasized an idealized family like this.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 31 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Midsommar is an excellent film about exactly how this type of back-to-basics all natural anti-modern vibe can be a vehicle for fascism. I recommend going in without learning more if you haven't seen it, but there is a lot of symbolism, foreshadowing and deeper meaning in easy to miss moments.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I think there’s also something to be said about fascism as a comfort. There are many people I’ve seen argue that it’s somewhat of a happy ending for Florence Pugh’s character. These also seem to be the types of TERF radical feminists who are more likely to be in lockstep with the current administration based on its treatment of transgender people.

When you have been hurt in that way, burning it all down can make sense. The movie does make you feel comfortable with the deaths of the characters I think - they all very much come across as more “deserving” of what happens to them than is typical in most horror films. I think that’s another amazing aspect of that movie - you don’t feel bad about them dying and maybe that should concern you?

Hereditary is another movie that has so many layers to it. The problem there is that it’s basically impossible to watch more than once to form a proper analysis of it lol

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[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 39 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

How did they manage to make the family look soooo white? Even before I processed what the topic of this post my mind recognized how white that family looks. That and the nazi salute they were doing. So weird.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

The Nazi salute is worse than weird : it's horrifying. People creating such propaganda are obviously racists ... which is also very bad.

But skin color, would it be extremely white-pink or extremely black, is never weird. You would see a lot of such impossible-to-tan-skin in some Nordic countries 😋 !

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 16 points 22 hours ago

It is like they photoshoped out all the healthy red color out of this children faces.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 174 points 1 day ago (5 children)

They're trying to normalize the "Sieg h*il" in the public. Very basic Propaganda strategy but highly effective.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 104 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And punishable by prison in Germany

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 71 points 1 day ago (29 children)

Yeah, watch that go away after the coming election.

Check out https://fragdenstaat.de/ to see that germany is not as democratic as it seems.

It is "vote hard left or die" in germany now. Otherwise we have more blood on our hands.

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[–] oyo@lemm.ee 27 points 23 hours ago

Just to be clear about the timeline... This was going around the internet months ago and it is guaranteed Musk saw it before he decided to do his little socially awkward gesture.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 111 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"We protect your children"

Some nazi giving a kid an iron cross medal, illustrating use of child soldiers in the Third Reich.
Sometimes they even decorate them!

Fourteen wording pieces of shit.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe the parents are just socially awkward and autistic

[–] braxy29@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

please don't. this is the second time i have seen this today. yes, i know it is /s, but it's still reinforcing an association with the potential to hurt people.

lately i have been thinking about the notion that one way to fight fascism is not to use their language. every day i read comments on lemmy that are intended to mock fascists by repeating their narratives, and i fear they are only feeding it.

didn't we learn anything from the fact that internet shit-posting played a part in putting fucking 47 into power in the us?

but yeah. please stop conflating autism with nazism, regardless of what idiot felon-fans say to try to downplay it.

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe those are the people my grandfather was killing in WW2

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

He was a great man!!

Very aryan family

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 43 points 1 day ago

President Musk recently did a thing too...

I feel like the Facism is in the room with me, doc

[–] illi@lemm.ee 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mildly interesring? More like mildly horifying

[–] peto@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago
[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 62 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Gotta admit, that's a clever dog-whistle.

I mean, it's horrifying, but I appreciate the level of guile behind it.

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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 16 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

There are so many fucked up layers to this, like using the term "Schutz," as in "Schutzstaffel."

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

This isn’t a seig heil, it’s a seig home.

[–] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Minor correction: We protect your children

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[–] PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The poster actually says "we protect your kids".

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