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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,561 posts)
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 01:06 PM Jun 2025

Look at this racist tattoo that Trump's ICE thug fails to completely hide


WHY WOULD I.C.E. WEAR MASKS?
FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK!

1stBascombe (@1stbascombe.bsky.social) 2025-06-03T00:39:03.129Z


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Call your Senators
Call your Reps

Now!

Right now, someone somewhere is being picked up by masked thugs refusing to show IDs. We don’t know who they are or for whom they work.

This is NOT acceptable!

Call your reps & senators. Demand Dems hold hearings, sanctioned or not, on ICE.

#ProudBlue Right now, someone somewhere is being picked up by masked thugs refusing to show IDs. We don’t know who they are or for whom they work.

This is NOT acceptable!

Call your reps & senators. Demand Dems hold hearings, sanctioned or not, on ICE.

(@zensoul.bsky.social) 2025-06-02T20:23:46.049Z


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https://www.mvtimes.com/2025/05/30/federal-agents-tattoo-stokes-fear/

By Eunki Seonwoo - May 30, 2025

Federal agent’s tattoo stokes fear
ICE denies connections between the officer and white supremacy

(……..)
The Anti-Defamation League characterizes the valknot as an “old Norse symbol that often represented the afterlife in carvings and designs.” While not a racist illustration on its own, the League stated that the symbol had been appropriated as a racist symbol by “some white supremacists, particularly racist Odinists.”

“Often they use it as a sign that they are willing to give their life to Odin, generally in battle,” the League’s definition reads, referring to the Norse god Odin. “Non-racist pagans may also use this symbol, so one could carefully examine it in context rather than assume that a particular use of the symbol is racist.”
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Look at this racist tattoo that Trump's ICE thug fails to completely hide (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 OP
What does the tatoo stand for? doc03 Jun 2025 #1
Read the news link I added IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #3
It's called "The Valknut symbol." sop Jun 2025 #5
The tattoo is a VALKNUT some_of_us_are_sane Jun 2025 #6
DOXX all ICE agents. Moostache Jun 2025 #2
So their children k_buddy762 Jun 2025 #18
ICE needs to go the way of the Doo Doo bird. republianmushroom Jun 2025 #4
Kick dalton99a Jun 2025 #7
We seem to as as sure k_buddy762 Jun 2025 #8
That so-called knuckles tattoo was fake doctored photo by trump regime IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 #9
Other than the laughably photoshopped "MS13" on his knuckles, the symbols are just generic millennial tattoos. sop Jun 2025 #11
ok k_buddy762 Jun 2025 #12
Well, he could be a fan of the Book of Kells... haele Jun 2025 #13
Does this particular tattoo appear photoshopped to your eye? Torchlight Jun 2025 #21
no, and neither was the other one k_buddy762 Jun 2025 #22
It's the Valknut Deep State Witch Jun 2025 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author SSJVegeta Jun 2025 #14
I'm convinced those "Agents" are all Proud Boys and other J6 insurrectionists whom tRump pardoned. groundloop Jun 2025 #15
I've suspected as much nuxvomica Jun 2025 #16
There are those who know B.See Jun 2025 #17
... Celerity Jun 2025 #19
They wear masks because they're afraid PatSeg Jun 2025 #20

sop

(18,626 posts)
5. It's called "The Valknut symbol."
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 01:15 PM
Jun 2025


"The Valknut symbol is linked to Norse mythology and has three interlocked triangles. It stands for death, rebirth, and the journey to Valhalla. It shows bravery in life and a noble afterlife...Some white supremacists and racist groups have appropriated the Valknut as a symbol of their ideology."

"This appropriation is often associated with a racist variant of the Norse pagan religion known as Odinism. These groups use the Valknut to express their readiness to fight and potentially die for their cause, which is often linked to Nazism and white supremacy...The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other anti-hate organizations have noted the Valknut's use by hate groups."

some_of_us_are_sane

(3,188 posts)
6. The tattoo is a VALKNUT
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 01:22 PM
Jun 2025

Norwegian, a symbol of Odin, but adopted by white supremacists. It's now seen as a negative symbol.

Moostache

(11,179 posts)
2. DOXX all ICE agents.
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 01:11 PM
Jun 2025

Follow them home. Record their data and their names and those of their families.
Let these bastards know that they will NOT be burying the uniforms to escape justice, they WILL be held accountable.

They will have their day to stand tall before the man and answer for their crimes against humanity. And when the time comes to carry out their sentence, there will be crowds fighting to do the honors.

 

k_buddy762

(638 posts)
18. So their children
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 03:11 PM
Jun 2025

who have no control whatsoever over what their mom or dad do for a living, should be included in this plan of yours?

 

k_buddy762

(638 posts)
8. We seem to as as sure
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 01:35 PM
Jun 2025

that this is a white supremacy tattoo as the right was sure about the "ms13" symbology on the fingers of Abrego-Garcia.

sop

(18,626 posts)
11. Other than the laughably photoshopped "MS13" on his knuckles, the symbols are just generic millennial tattoos.
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 02:14 PM
Jun 2025

A marijuana leaf, a smiley face, a christian cross, a skull...a lot of people have these tattoos.

haele

(15,403 posts)
13. Well, he could be a fan of the Book of Kells...
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 02:54 PM
Jun 2025

But, yeah - that's been used by Asatru/Odinists as a symbol for their "warrior class". I used to run in Historical Recreationist and modern Pagan circles back in the 80's and 90's, met a lot of people who called themselves Asatru - " People of the Asaer"
Many were cool and really got into the history - such as is available - but a good number of them were "Volkists" - racist gits who never read actual history and just want to play Conan the Barbarian or Grim Woo-Viking.

Note to all the Volkists out there - "Vikings" went everywhere and allowed anyone from anywhere be a free (non-slave) member of their company and crew -including Celts, Tuvans/Lapps, Slavs, Goths, Middle Easterners, and North Africans. And anyone could get into Valhalla if they died bravely in battle. Odin didn't care what you looked like or where you hailed from.
On edit - since most Christian or Volkish Nationalists tend to be cowardly racists who bully soft or easy targets, Odin would turn his back on them. Just saying

Deep State Witch

(12,717 posts)
10. It's the Valknut
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 02:11 PM
Jun 2025

A symbol for Odin in Norse Paganism. Unfortunately, like so many other Norse symbols, it's been co-opted by the alt right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valknut

Response to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

groundloop

(13,851 posts)
15. I'm convinced those "Agents" are all Proud Boys and other J6 insurrectionists whom tRump pardoned.
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 02:59 PM
Jun 2025

It would make sense that they'd wear masks to hide their true identity.

nuxvomica

(14,092 posts)
16. I've suspected as much
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 03:08 PM
Jun 2025

The can't show official IDs because maybe they don't have them. In these circumstances, what's to stop ordinary kidnappers from pretending to be ICE? It's an immediate public safety threat.

B.See

(8,505 posts)
17. There are those who know
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 03:08 PM
Jun 2025

what these symbols mean and what these racists, fascists, and bigots are all about, many who DON'T know, and a few, I suspect, who don't WANT to know:

List of symbols designated by the Anti-Defamation League as hate symbols - Wikipedia

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
20. They wear masks because they're afraid
Tue Jun 3, 2025, 03:33 PM
Jun 2025

that people will retaliate against them and their families, but meantime they are terrorizing innocent people and often breaking the law. Maybe they should consider a different career choice. They know what they're doing is wrong, that is why they are afraid.

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