Those Marines Bought an SS Flag Without Knowing What it Was? Seriously? That’s Your Excuse?, page 2


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reply posted on 12-2-2012 @ 08:57 AM by Kenrichaed
reply to post by vkey08



I simply said it isn't associated with the Nazi's as much as some other symbols such as the Swastika are.



reply posted on 12-2-2012 @ 08:59 AM by AlreadyGone
Seriously...you bought a T-Shirt with Che on it... and didn't know who he was?

Seriously... you bought a Xmas Tree ornament with Mao Ze Tung on it and didn't know who he was? Just like the one Obama hung on the tree in the White House...really?

Seriously... you bought a poster with a Marijauna leaf on it and din't know what it was?

Seriously... you bought a Skull and Crossbones pirate flag and didn't know that they sank ships, killed innocent people, and raped and pillaged?

Seriously... you bought a green shirt with a red star on it... the symbol of Communist Soviet Union... responsible for the deaths of more people than Hitler...really?

Seriously... you own a Japanese flag... responsible for the "Rape of Nanking" and the "Bataan Death March" and Pearl Harbor...really?

Seriously... you bought a Gasden Flag... the same one as used by some extremist militia outfits?

Seriously... you fly an American flag... the same country that kept slavery until 1865, interned Japanese-American citizens in camps during WWII, troops led by MacArthur fired on "bonus army troops", and installed programs to sterilize "less desirable" citizens....you sick bastard.

Frankly, if these Marines had posed with any flag or symbol...someone, somewhere would have been offended.

If you are so outraged, where was the outrage when Southern States Farmers Co-op adotped the SS in stylized runes on a patch that very much resembles the collar patch of the SS in WWII. Does that make everyone that buys and sells there a Nazi? Maybe a sympathizer? Or does anybody else get the right to use SS?

If a couple names their child Adolf or Heinrich or Herman... are they Nazis?

The abreviation for Social Security is SS... so when we see SS#...do I use my social security number or do I write 3rd SS Panzer Totenkopf or 2nd SS Panzer Das Reich?

Yes, I am being extreme and sarcastic, but hopefully someone will see my point.


reply posted on 12-2-2012 @ 09:03 AM by Kenrichaed
reply to post by AlreadyGone



Good point

People tend to make mountains out of molehills sometimes. Has anyone actually asked these guys what was going on with the flag?
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reply posted on 12-2-2012 @ 09:05 AM by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by Grimpachi



I really don't know about that. If they used it regularly we would have seen it by now. Can you show me an example? They knew what they were doing. They knew it was a nazi symbol they just wanted to use it to represent scout snipers because they were being stupid.

Do I care? Not really. It doesn't look good, but neither does bombing whole families into the ground.
So eh.. they have a sadistic sense of humor. They are snipers after all.


reply posted on 12-2-2012 @ 09:06 AM by Slavich
reply to post by GogoVicMorrow



You guys really think these guys knew what the SS was? Hell I didn't even know that it was a nazi symbol and I consider myself pretty well educated. So you think some derps in the military are going to know what it means? Distractions people... you all fall for it.


The SS looks pretty cool. Maybe that's why they used it. HERPDERP.
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reply posted on 12-2-2012 @ 09:08 AM by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by AlreadyGone



Eh.. I don't think those are clean examples, but I get the idea you are going for.

Sidenote: Japanse flag? I don't know if that one belongs. Plus that flag is super kawaii.


reply posted on 12-2-2012 @ 09:11 AM by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by Slavich



Yeah "herpderp" except you just admitted to not knowing what one of the most recognizable symbols of the last 100 years was and consider yourself decently educated.

These are scout snipers, obviously you don't know what that involves, but they aren't ignorant. They know what it means. I knew what it was. I am 25, I am shocked that so many people are willing to get on here and confess they don't know what this symbol is.

Even our 40 year old military history major.
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reply posted on 12-2-2012 @ 09:16 AM by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by SprocketUK



I don't think it's as simple as that when you are representing a country in warfare and holding up a NAZI flag under the American flag. It's easy to see why people would be upset. EASY to see. I personally don't care, but come on.



reply posted on 12-2-2012 @ 09:22 AM by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by CX



Hey! Your teen and pre-teen daughters are smarter than half this thread! Including a history major (with focus on military) apparently!
You owe them some kind of reward.
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reply posted on 12-2-2012 @ 09:26 AM by CX
reply to post by GogoVicMorrow



Lol i know, i must admit i was a little surprised, but at least they seem to have been taking notice at school.

I'll hold off on shooting their laptops just yet.

CX.


reply posted on 12-2-2012 @ 09:32 AM by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by 1lluminatus



Not to mention it's located directly below the US flag. I wonder if they have flown them together on anything?
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