• solrize@lemmy.ml
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    I don’t get it. Yes this planet has some messed up people on it, including even wannabe Nazis. But don’t they know better than to out themselves with that stupid salute? Couldn’t they blend in more without it? Sheesh.

    • john_brown [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      One of the top government contractors, Elon Musk, has done the nazi salute in front of the whole world and nothing happened. Why would a bunch of cousin-fucking ukronazis have more decorum than him?

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      “Sierra Hotel” is an oft heard greeting in the bundeswehr. It’s nato alphabet, SH = “Sieg Heil”.

      It’s to affirm group membership. Outing yourself as part of a group makes it harder to break with it. Be it communist, christian, nazi or whatever.

    • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      They are already a Banderite government that openly celebrates people who perpetrated part of the Holocaust. It’s a core part of their identity and by this point they are well aware that western press will simply ignore it because reporting on it would be “spreading Russian disinformation”.

    • space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      But don’t they know better than to out themselves with that stupid salute?

      The scary part is that they do, it’s just that times have changed and they know it’s more accepted nowadays so they can be open about it in more contexts than before.