• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    “Punish the Deserving” suggests an urge to inflict punishment, maybe even pain or death, on those you you personally deem deserving. “Judged by XII and Carried by VIII” is about how you would rather be Judged in court by 12 jurors for crimes than be dead and carried by 8 pallbearers. That’s not in itself an uncommon opinion, probably, but to get it tattooed explicitly suggests a fixation on the idea. It suggests that they value their life over upholding the law and will take whatever means necessary to preserve their life even to the point of deserving to be tried for their actions, which is not a great mindset in a person trusted to put themselves in danger and uphold the law. “Only evil need fear me. The shadow is mine and so is the valley.” Again this gives the impression of a fixation with dealing fear and retribution to those he judges as evil. “One day as a lion” is a part of a longer quote from Fascist dictator Mussolini, “better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep” and is about being a victimizer rather than a victim. That is all on top of the connection between the far right and Nordic tattoos mentioned by others.

    None of those sentiments in itself is incriminating or anything. But they do shed light on the general mindset and worldview of the officer in question that, paired with his actions (multiple instances of shooting people in the head), can suggest a criminal intent or liklihood to repeat his criminal actions.

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      Eagles were a symbol of the Roman Empire and every would-be successor. Mussolini’s entire deal boiled down to restoring Rome. Pigs in particular like to jerk off about how many different police forces they had, and the invention of law and order and such.

      His lower paunch is Thor’s hammer, not Celtic. Even besides the Nazi love of Germanic mythology, modern neopagan Asartu is riddled with fascists, like the maggoty corpse of a dead religion it is.

      You take either of these things in a vacuum and it’s probably fine. You put it all together and the portrait is far different.

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        I fucking hate how the far right is co-opting germanic and nordic mythological symbolism. They have some cool as shit imagery and now you look like a nazi if you display it.

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        I kinda hate how even today, German heraldry uses the eagle. I get that it descends from the “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation” and doesn’t strictly have anything to do with the fash, but I can’t look at it and not see all the things that were done under that sign. Not to mention that Rome itself wasn’t a squeaky clean bastion of morality and democracy either.