SS style lightning bolt "N⚡S" on an ICE agents helmet
SS style lightning bolt "N⚡S" on an ICE agents helmet
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Not ⚡️Smart
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Not ⚡️Sexy
Not ⚡️Seeing anyone
Not ⚡️Socially well-adjusted
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Not hitting the gym. Not skipping dessert.
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Nazi lives DO NOT MATTER.
Do with that what you will.
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Meanwhile Americans are holding peaceful protests that will change everything.... Just like the Pro Palestinian protests changed everything, just like the massive global protests stopped the second Gulf War... It's time people realise that while protesting peacefully does bring awareness, it changes nothing, especially when the administration is purposely working against the interests of the majority of the population.
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Yeah, Like the last generation was successful in advocating climate activism, the German RAF successfully sparked a revolution with their kidnapping and bombings, like the IRA successfully drove out the English from Northern Ireland or like Ghandi failed to free Britain and the East Germans tore down the wall with dynamite.
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NS clearly signifies "national socialism" , i.e. what Hitler's party called their ideology. Don't evne worry about the lightning shaped rune in the center.
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Assumed it stood for Norfolk-Southern. That's a domestic terrorism firm responsible for the horrifying Palestine bombing.
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Hugo Boss is looking forward to getting some new business with ICE.
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Related: Why TF is ICE wearing camo if they're law enforcement?
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there's actually a Wikipedia article about it here
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It's a LARP until it isn't, and we're really approaching the point where it isn't.
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Why are they wearing camo in a fucking city?
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They couldn't get solid olive drab with fantastic red arm flair
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Army surplus
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Intimidation factor. In addition to militarization of police.
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Here's the thing they are law enforcement in name only...
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everything is law enforcement if you can define the law arbitrarily ...
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I think it's more likely that dude saw it and went "oh man that's fuckin siiiiiiccccccckkkkkk" probably has skull stickers on his truck too
I want to note that this is exactly what that actual Nazis did when they stole symbolisms from various cultures including the rune ᛋ and of course the swastica. Both of which represent the sun.
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Related from my own defunct blog: Skulls in military symbolism are actually not particularly odd, as indicators of toughness and ferocity (and in Navy a nod to the Jolly Roger, which was partly an identifier of the pirate vessel, but also a call to surrender with the promise of quarter...)
Discussing the M&W Are We The Baddies skit and the preponderance of skulls in Waffen SS kitch.
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There's also a symbol they called the black Sun, they were into it for sure
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I'm starting to wonder if these "ICE" people aren't just kids who outgrew video games like Call of Duty, but didn't care to join the army.
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or couldn't pass basic
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Nah they didn't outgrow gaming, they just got tired of being torched by 8 year olds on chat, or picking a genre that was not online gaming. Those 8 year olds should go into comedy, provided they remember to punch up.
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Recruited from the Young Republican cesspool.
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The gothic letters are also a dead giveaway.
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it could be an homage, but it's not "nazi style" any more than a toxic chemical label is a Nazi style "Totenkoph"
it needs to have flat tops and bottoms to be "SS style"
Fuck ice, etc.
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I don't see what NS split by a lightning bolt would refer to other than National Socialist - eg literally claiming affiliation/support to the Nazi party.
It is possible its something else and just incredibly bad fortune and an incredibly ignorant person who wouldn't get that connection is wearing it - but given the context that it's ICE.. I'm leaning to it being a nazi dog whistle to other like-minded ICE officers.
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That’s pretty on the nose. I mean they’re not that bright, but still.
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What a weird hill to stand on. Hey, watcha think about this image I found on Facebook by searching Google for "Never Surrender".
What do you think these dudes will "never surrender" as they raid minority neighborhoods? Think they mean THE FATHERLAND or something?
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You need a bit of mental gymnastics to go "oh but the style is such and such, therefore it is not nazi sign".
I know fuck all about nazi styles and to me this looks like a nazi n⚡s, proclaiming that he is a national socialist.
He IS A FUCKING NAZI.
Edit: another point to add. If I was a dumb racist scum turned nazi, since I know fuck all about the 'original' nazi styles, most likely I would come up with some shit like this, that delivers the message but is not in the original style.
Remember, ICE agents are not smart or educated people that would know much about original nazi styles.
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You need a bit of mental gymnastics to go “oh but the style is such and such, therefore it is not nazi sign”.
"it could be an homage, but it’s not “nazi style” any more than a toxic chemical label is a Nazi style “Totenkoph”"
"Fuck ice, etc."
EDIT: Since these chucklefucks won't touch the word "socialist" with a barge pole, it's more likely his initials.
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I feel like you're playing exactly into their hands. Make it similar enough that everyone is in no doubt as to what they're saying, but different enough to give them plausible deniability if it ever got escalated.
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Then if they ever get called out on it: "It's just a joke, calm down. Can't take a joke?"
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That’s literally what a dogwhistle is.
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Im not playing defence on either side here, this is pure lamentation :
You mean we need to be careful with lightning bolts too now? I used to draw them all the time as a kid. How many more potentially cool things are they going to co-opt and ruin for me?
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Conservatives think Tylenol causes autism... Do you really think they have an eye for brand styles? Come on... Can we stop being intellectually dishonest?
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Oh and "NS" like in NSDAP is also a pure coincidence?
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The intention is clear
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The SS fucks had a flat top and bottom, this one appears pointed. Anyway, close enough and most their ranks are filled with neo-Nazi turds.
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told ya…
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ICE are all the raging assholes that constantly demanded violent responses to everything a minority or liberal did, or suggested nuking every foreign country for whatever perceived infraction, while safely behind a screen and keyboard. They refused to sign up for the military that would impose rules, expectations, and restrictions on them. Also, people shoot back at you if you get deployed. Can’t have that. Too scary. So they join ICE and get to beat up on those foreign people and piss off the libs while under State Protection, nobody gets to shoot back. They’re protected from consequences. Cowards and bullies.
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There must be towns all over America that are suddenly peaceful and pleasant because their local psychos all went and joined ice.
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These thugs don't even have any reason to hide their convictions anymore at this point... The US is in dire need of denazification and it should begin with ICE and it's fascist employees. Prosecute the fuck out of this administration, it's henchmen and the billionaires that endorsed it.
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I agree
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denazification
you say? I know of a certain European "neighbor" who specializes in those. It'll only take three days.
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Issue is, that European "neighbor" is also in dire need of denazification.
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Showing their true colors.
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You dont have to look back very far to determine how this started on a low level, this is just aggresive inaappropriate counter-culture , 4chan internet troll, basement dwelling shitheel behaivor from the 90s and 00s but carried over into adult life
Contrarians will always be contrary, so I guess being contrary to a boring "regime" that didnt particularly say or do anything except for ask for generic human rights for everyone, means cosplaying as the most offensive thing you can think of because it makes them mad, Cosplaying as Nazis and even doing the same thing the Nazis did with randomly and incorrectly co-opting norse iconography.
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They aren't Nazis just for contrarianisms sake, a large portion of the right wing in the US is inspired by and wants to emulate the Nazis and agree with their racist worldview. A lot of the people trolling and posting ironic racist stuff were just being edgy at some point, but many of them do agree with the things and just troll/joke as a cover.
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Trying to find specific context on this guy, here's what I got so far: The picture was taken 14. October 2025 "around 11 a.m." in Chicago, "near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood". The rest of the uniform indicates he's a member of a Special Response Team, whatever that is.
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Special Response Team? Sounds like SA (“Sturmabteilung”).
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National Socialist?
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A lot of people posting this, I'm guessing sarcastically because it doesn't make much sense.
I'm guessing it's "No survivors" because "ooooh, I'm such an edgy badass!"
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It could also be Nation & State of its homeland security
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Nazis wearing nazi shit :O
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Seeing SS symbols in everything related to lightning sign is a guaranteed way to have 0 people take you seriously.
We know already that ICE agents are bad, no need to bring in conspiracies.
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Is it hard to believe the nazis wear nazi symbols? Lmao? What the heck is this gaslighting?
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𝕹ᛋ𝕾
that's just a normal lightning sign, nothing to see here, move along, the 𝕹𝕾 stands for 𝕹ational 𝕾overeignty of course, a very normal, run-of-the-mill thing to print on your camo helmet while abducting immigrants, please do not be alarmed.
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what else could the lightning bolt mean? The lightning bolt has been a neo-nazi symbol for decades.
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Literally any sign of power or action.
Heck, I remember when Xiaomi had to change fast charging sign from two lightnings to an unreadable vertically stacked lightning because two lightnings in a row were seen as SS symbols by the chronically online. This was just a way to show that more power goes into the battery, Jesus Christ
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is this what cops splurge on after breaking the piggy bank? kids these days...
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Probably what they do after they hawk the items they stole from an apartment. They'd be too scared to break a piggy bank, it would probably freak them out and they'd point guns at random things.
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Or maybe what they splurge on with their generous gestapo signing bonus.
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The NS of course stands for Nice Succulents!
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You should see the Secretary of War's tattoos.
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If they're so shitty at being Nazis, can we call them "Notzis"?
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I would suggest Nonzis. This is because it is similar to the British insult of Nonce.
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Ah yes, "Nazi Sympathizer". Makes sense.
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National Socialist more likely. Literally referring to the Nationalsozialismus Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) - the Nazis.
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You're getting the German a bit wrong here though.
It is "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei"; it's the adjective here, as in "national socialist German workers party". "Nationalsozialismus" is the noun, meaning "national socialism"
But, yes, that's what those two letters plausibly refer to in this context and with this font and symbolism involved.
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What's the NS stand for though? Only thing that comes to mind to be labeled a nazi is "National Socialist"
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I spent too much time looking for what this patch might be and didn't find anything. The only patch I found with an NS on it was for Nova Scotia, which I have a feeling isn't what this is.
With that said though, it's hard to say what this is. The lightning bolt isn't the same shape as the SS, but it is the same shape as a lot of military groups use. Who knows though. It could be a Nazi thing. They did use similar lightning bolts too I believe, just the SS one is quite different. It could still even be a reference to that, but trying to be slightly less obvious.
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Will be unsurprising if they're accepting full-on MAGA and Kluxer fanatics.
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Accepting? That exactly the person they want. Someone who will follow orders no matter how heinous.
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ICE agent larping as a racist airsoft player.
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Except that they're not really larping, they are racist and they carry real guns.
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He could definitely be both!
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To be fair, it could be an AC⚡DC style lightning bolt
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How the fuck are you still giving proven and admitted Nazis the benefit of doubt?
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It's just a joke. Take a break from doom scrolling.
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It means No Sack.
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What is N 'S' S? Or NS?
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National Socialist, I'd guess.
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That font also looks suspiciously similar to fraktur
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Which Hitler hated and it was basically banned by the Nazis, they don't even do their homework on their idols
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Thats so funny actually lmao
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why are people still surprised by things like this?
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Who says anyone is surprised? It's still important to point it out.
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Nah, he's just a Harry Potter fan.
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Ah, yes Nashe Slovo
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There's the bullseye! That's my red line! START BLASTING!
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Is this really an SS style bolt? I'm genuinely asking. And I know a lot of bad faith dialogue starts with that. I'm mostly asking because I don't want to accidentally use something people view as an SS symbol. I hadn't seen anyone call this the SS bolt until a few weeks ago. I always associated the flattened tips with it more.
I mean it's verbatim a black version of the lightning bolt ⚡ emoji on Android - so it could just as easily be that. I'm no fan of ICE, but we've got plenty to be mad at and fight them about. When the arguments seem trivial, we lose face in public opinion.