• Feyd@programming.dev
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    12 days ago

    I literally just learned what it is. I would have thought it was random pirate or metal shit

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      12 days ago

      OK, then look at it this way. Would you have gotten a tattoo on your chest of something you didn’t know the meaning of?

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        12 days ago

        I wouldn’t, but then again I’m not a drunk Marine.

        Like the other user above, I’ve also never heard of the Totenkopf and I don’t recognize the emblem. Looks like any other skull and crossbones to me. I’m not saying it isn’t a harmful symbol, but I can understand how a lot of people would be totally ignorant to its history like I am.

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          Yeah, I’m more inclined to believe that he was drunk, and a foreigner wasn’t a fan of American Marines in his country, and branded him with a well known nazi symbol on his chest just to fuck with him.