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CPAC 2021

Guess who designed that Nazi stage? The same people who designed the stage at Biden's Cancer Summit in 2018 and the Nelson Mandela 100 Year Gala in 2016.

In an exclusive statement to the Forward on Tuesday evening, Design Foundry, a stage design firm based in Hyattsville, Maryland, said it “had no idea that the design resembled any symbol, nor was there any intention to create something that did.” The organizers of CPAC have announced that it will not use the firm for future events.
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Belz... said:
You'd think the swaztika is also, but you'll still find a lot of them in Asia, mainly at buddhist temples.
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FWIW, a prominent skyscraper in downtown Detroit (the Penobscot building- tallest building in the city until the construction of what is now the GM world headquarters in the late seventies) features swastikas in the stone work of surrounding many of the windows.
 
Belz... said:
You'd think the swaztika is also, but you'll still find a lot of them in Asia, mainly at buddhist temples.
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I'm told there actually is or at least until the 1980s was one in the local synagogue, built in the latter half of the 1800s. The story is that the congregation leaders had decided that since it was there before the Nazis even existed, it will stay there until after they're forgotten.

It was probably the left-handed version, which I believe is also the one buddhists use most.
 
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Belz... said:
You'd think the swaztika is also, but you'll still find a lot of them in Asia, mainly at buddhist temples.
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but usually in pairs of clockwise and counter-clockwise swastikas, as they meant to represent something similar to Ying and Yang.
 
Distracted1 said:
FWIW, a prominent skyscraper in downtown Detroit (the Penobscot building- tallest building in the city until the construction of what is now the GM world headquarters in the late seventies) features swastikas in the stone work of surrounding many of the windows.
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You say you live in Philadelphia and yet you give an example of a Detroit building? Perelman building much?
 
Belz... said:
I wouldn't say "usually". Sometimes. They're not diagonal, though. The point is that they are essentially the same symbol, but they have not been tainted in asia.
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Admittedly neither has Hitler or Nazis.

Hitler Ice Cream
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/tasteless-but-true-made-in-india-hitler-ice-cream-cafe/story-C6usCqTUqv4zAeU30b0GVM.html

Nazi Weddings

https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-09-14/chinese-lovebirds-nazi-garb

Nazi cosplay at school
https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/asia/taiwan-nazi-school-asia/index.html
 
Mumbles said:
Frankly, I wouldn't think any less of them if it turns out it were an odal rune anyway. When your featured speaker is a guy that proposed special armbands and lists for a disfavored religious group as a political promise (even if he broke it), you're past that line anyway.
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d4m10n said:
I don't recall this one.
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I'm curious about this too. Which group? When was it suggested?
SteveAitch said:
Just after the Donald finished speaking, his niece Mary put the boot in, suggesting he will only pretend to run, in order to continues raking in the donations.

As if he'd do such a thing! ;)
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I recall that being the theory the last time.

dudalb said:
GOP seems intent on comitting suicide.
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Seems that way. I listen to a few conservative podcasts. Some are totally on the Trump train and some are still confused and depressed about the Trump train.

Shalamar said:
They have literally erected a golden statue of The Chosen One at CPAC for them to worship.

Conservatives are a cult.
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Have you seen the thing? Its clearly a joke. It looks as much like a golden Alec Baldwin bobble head as Trump.

Brainster said:
It was a dog whistle and it appears the dogs are the only ones who heard it as usual.
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I'm generally amused about the dogwhistle claims. The supposed dog whistles are either just obvious racism or dog whistles only the opposition can hear.

On the rune thing, the possiblities are:
1. Legit dog whistle to Nazi's
2a. Deliberate trolling by conservatives.
2b. Deliberate trolling by a lefty designer.
3. Coincidence.

Its a weird enough shape that I lean towards 2. Seriously, though, lefties who recognize the symbol almost certainly out number right wing racists who do. I doubt even most white supremecists even know what it is.
 
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ahhell said:
On the rune thing, the possiblities are:
1. Legit dog whistle to Nazi's
2a. Deliberate trolling by conservatives.
2b. Deliberate trolling by a lefty designer.
3. Coincidence.

Its a weird enough shape that I lean towards 2. Seriously, though, lefties who recognize the symbol almost certainly out number right wing racists who do. I doubt even most white supremecists even know what it is.
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Are 1 and 2a different? Kind of like the idea that ha ha ha using the OK symbol makes you only think I am a white supremacist, the swastikas' tattoos are all ironic too kind of thinking?
 
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ponderingturtle said:
Are 1 and 2a different? Kind of like the idea that ha ha ha using the OK symbol makes you only think I am a white supremacist, the swastikas' tattoos are all ironic too kind of thinking?
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I do think there is a difference, intent does matter. Especially because its a relatively obscure thing. The OK symbol was just straight up trolling that worked remarkably well. Literally just folks saying, "the OK symbol is a symbol of white supremecy" and seeing what happened. It worked amazingly well. Lefties kvetching about ok hand signs and hawaiin shirts looked far more foolish that the right wing types flashing ok signs and sporting hawaiin shirts looked sinister.

My first to the rune thing was to roll my eyes. Its only when actually spending a few minutes to look at it that I admit its pretty weird. I'm reminded of the old Navy Hospital that looked like a Swastika, nobody new until google earth.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/N...7877a0e4f0033!8m2!3d32.6717284!4d-117.1653585

Hard to imagine that nobody noticed during design in the 60s, also hard to imagine that a bunch of WWII vets approved a swastika shape on purpose.
 
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ahhell said:
I do think there is a difference, intent does matter. Especially because its a relatively obscure thing. The OK symbol was just straight up trolling that worked remarkably well. Literally just folks saying, "the OK symbol is a symbol of white supremecy" and seeing what happened. It worked amazingly well. Lefties kvetching about ok hand signs and hawaiin shirts looked far more foolish that the right wing types flashing ok signs and sporting hawaiin shirts looked sinister.
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And it let us know that the whole christchurch shooting wasn't really the work of a white supremacist just the work of a troll. Oddly many supposed terrorist attacks are done ironically.
 
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