Wearing a red baseball cap in public these days, REGARDLESS of any text, is like wandering around Berlin in 1933 wearing a red armband with some sort of black symbol in a white circle. Either you're a Fucking Nazi, or you're happy to be mistaken for a Fucking Nazi.
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@cstross My Israeli red hat says End the Fucking War.
@cstross poor Nats fans are screwed.
@cstross I just feel bad for the Linux software company Red Hat. Sure, their hat has always been a fedora, not a baseball cap, but I'm sure they can't help catching an occasional stray bullet.
It must be annoying to try to build a brand for a couple of decades only for some new thing to tarnish your reputation.
@merc Red Hat is a division of IBM these days.
@cstross In truth, I've had this issue with baseball caps for a long time.
Quite illogical, of course. Until recently.
Quite illogical, of course. Until recently.
@cstross
I have a bright red baseball cap with an image of “The Tick” on it, that I can no longer wear.
MAGA bastards. 😡
I have a bright red baseball cap with an image of “The Tick” on it, that I can no longer wear.
MAGA bastards. 😡
@cstross I’m a typical baseball cap wearing American guy, the cap i used to wear was for the team i support showing a curly white ‘W’ on a red cap
While I haven’t tossed those, they are no longer worn. Had to pick other options.
@cstross
I have a 2000AD t shirt with a picture of Torquemada and his classic slogan "Be Pure Be Vigilant Behave" which I love because it sums up the fascist bait and switch so well.
I wore it out once and suddenly realised that I was in the middle of our beautiful multicultural city wearing a T Shirt with an angry looking Ku Klux Klan guy on it and that zero people were going to get the irony.
It stays in the back of my airing cupboard now.
@cstross except baseball caps have a practical use and armbands don't. So it's entirely possible that someone throws on the hat they can find to keep the sun out of their eyes, while it's highly unlikely that a 1930's German just couldn't find a better strip of fabric to squeeze their bicep.
@Vincarsi You don't need a logo on your headgear to keep the sun out of your eyes. Indeed, most hats *don't* feature lettering.
@cstross
I'm not sure that calling nazi a Bloods member is a good idea
I'm not sure that calling nazi a Bloods member is a good idea
@Atropine What on earth are you talking about? What are "bloods"? (A blood and soil referencE?)
@cstross
I was amused to think that a member of the Bloods gang would be called a nazi nothing more (they are mainly identified with red clothes if you don't know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloods )
I was amused to think that a member of the Bloods gang would be called a nazi nothing more (they are mainly identified with red clothes if you don't know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloods )
@Atropine American street gangs are really *not* a thing here in Scotland. (MAGA sympathizers, however, sometimes are …)
@cstross I hope my grey EFF hat is OK.
@cstross
That's a completely rational point. Fuck, I have a few red caps to throw away.
@cstross
A Swastika used to be a good luck symbol before the Nazis started to kill millions of people …
@cstross BTW also: This is a Finnish plane (not allied with Germany) from WWII: https://www.reddit.com/r/WWIIplanes/comments/2d15pm/renovated_finnish_air_force_hawker_hurricane/
@cstross gotta be a red baseball cap though.. a red fedora is totally cool
@cstross red baseball caps which have been worn as clothing for decades with our without slogans and insignia of all sorts of organisations (and still are), have become suddenly fash and it's just like wearing an armband which has no purpose other than to identify an individual with a specific designation?
Is this your own rationale or merely a comment on what total idiots are saying?
@cstross As a Cincinnati Reds fan, I'm forced to wear black or white. I also hate that I can no longer use the word "trump" though I guess "trumped up charges still holds."
@cstross or you're a Phillies fan?
@lrt_writes Wha are "Phillies"? (Don't answer that, it's obviously some sportsball nonsense.)
@cstross @lrt_writes It must be a play in fillies and therefore involves young female horses or something appallingly sexist and a bit pervy… 😉
@cstross Ok that one is dumb. How do you thing the Buddhist was feeling after an idiot take some of there symbol and modified slightly to make one of the most hatred symbol ? A red cap is a red cap, sure is not smart to wear that in this day and age, but it’s also the responsibility of everybody to use there brain before drawing some stupid conclusion.
P.S : and yes I know that the swatiska was used in the Celtic/Teutonic culture as well and mr.H probably took it from there.
P.S : and yes I know that the swatiska was used in the Celtic/Teutonic culture as well and mr.H probably took it from there.
@cstross I have some red hats that I got as SWAG from the Linux company Red Hat that I really like. I stopped wearing them in 2015.
@cstross I fucking well like the color red and I am damned if those fuckeits will steal everything from the rest of us. I will wear red shirts and red hats and red jackets and I will make sure I am *nice* to everyone while I do it, while I pick up the trash on the side of the road or help clean up after the barbecue. Fuck that nonsense.
@cstross
I took this NorthFace Summit Jacket out of use after 40 years because the blue and red colour is now used by german Nazi party AFD. One might get mistaken as a supporter ...
@cstross seriouslly? and any dude with shaved hair is a nazi skinhead? any person with a suitcase on wheels in urban setting a airbnb gentrificator?
@cstross like a “no name” off brand knockoff Nazi is still a Nazi. Only doesn’t want to pay the full price.
@cstross as a Sydney Swans (Aussie Rules Football) I am incredibly conflicted about my red baseball cap. We left the US when Trump was elected first time, so I have retired the hat for now.
@cstross as someone who once had "rangers" shouted at them from a passing car while wearing a plain green hoodie, i endorse this message
@cstross I know but the Phillies (Philadelphia baseball team) had them first.
@cstross
I genuinely can't tell if this is satire. Liberals make up so many rules, it's hard to tell.
Red hats are extremely common, red arm bands are not - this is an important distinction that's been omitted. Most are not MAGA-related.
I'm not going to judge someone based on the color of their hat. Or any other reason, aside from what they say or do.
@cstross Yep, here in Georgia we play “Georgia Bulldog or Nazi?” quite a bit.
@cstross Regrettably, I've got about 10 RedHat caps that were quite comfy.
@cstross Yes. At our house, the Ohio State and red Red Sox caps are relics of a different past.
@cstross I was about to express sympathy for Fred Durst, then I looked at his wiki page. Turns out he's always been a bit of a dickhead. I don't know what he does for headgear these days and I don't really care.
@cstross I'm in the UK and had one in my van to help stop sunglare when driving...I've binned it and got a pale grey one now instead.
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