Right wing nuts thread (2 Viewers)

[DaveXA]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.

 

[Optimus Prime]

For what it’s worth
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The MyPillow company and its founder, Mike Lindell, a far-right influencer and acolyte of Donald Trump, are continuing to run a promotion despite criticism that it utilizes numerical symbols associated with neo-Nazism.

The company has been touting a promotion for a pillow with a sale price of $14.88 and it was still on offer on Friday morning.

Apart from being an odd price on its face, the Anti-Defamation League has noted that “1488” is a numeric hate symbol – “14” being a nod to the “14 Words” white supremacist slogan: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children” and “88” being a code for “Heil Hitler”, as H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.

A post from Seth Cotlar, a professor of history at Willamette University, on Bluesky said the promotion was a “disturbing wink at Nazis, wrapped in the seemingly innocuous, plausibly deniable form of an advertisement”.

“I doubt Lindell is behind this or would ever get the reference, but that doesn’t really matter,” Cotlar wrote.

Neo-Nazi groups have worn the “88” in public demonstrations, like one in September of last year in Orlando, Florida, where a group of neo-Nazi demonstrators wearing masks and red shirts and waving swastika flags were seen marching through an Orlando suburb……..

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell denies nod to neo-Nazis in new ad campaign

Trump booster’s company promotion offers pillows for $14.88, which some see as a reference to a white supremacist slogan

www.theguardian.com