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Comparisons of law makers to fascists and Nazis isn't uncommon these days, but on Saturday the hashtag #Nazi was trending alongside mentions of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where former President Trump is set to speak on Sunday. This time it wasn't Republican lawmakers who were compared to Nazis however, but rather the similarity of the stage to an ancient Norse symbol used by Nazis was noted by thousands of users on Twitter.
By Saturday afternoon there had been nearly 100,000 tweets that compared the CPAC stage to the ODAL Rune, which was used by a unit of the insidious Waffen SS, the initially named the SS-Volunteer Division Prinz Eugen (SS-Freiwilligen-Division "Prinz Eugen" later the 7th Volunteer Mountain Division. That unit was formed in 1941 and took part exclusively in action against the communist-led Yugoslavian partisans during the Second World War.
Many on Twitter shared images of the symbol along with photos of the CPAC stage: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2021/02/27/cpac-stage-compared-to-nazi-symbol-on-social-media/?sh=6e1fa6971e80
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CPAC Stage Compared To Nazi Symbol On Social Media (Original Post)
Quixote1818
Feb 2021
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Ocelot II
(115,683 posts)1. OMG, that's it! And I can't believe that was coincidental.
Quixote1818
(28,930 posts)2. The way the two lines in the back only go part way, just like the symbol
is clear attention to detail.
intrepidity
(7,294 posts)3. I thought they did, until you just pointed it out
and I looked more carefully at the "serifs" of the stage.
(i mean, I thought they went all the way)
Ocelot II
(115,683 posts)4. Yup. A swastika would have been too obvious, but
the people who are into this shit would recognize the symbol.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)5. Incredibly Blatant
sop
(10,167 posts)6. Even if Trump showed up Sunday sporting a Hitler mustache, they'd still say it's only a coincidence.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)7. This is comic book level evil stuff
This is stuff right out of Marvel. Its exactly something Hydra (one of the evil organizations) would do. EXACTLY.
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)8. Way too odd a shape to be...
...haphazardly selected.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,168 posts)9. trump supporters are all Nazis and right wing nut cases