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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsyou know who used initials? the Nazis, that's who.
ever heard of the 'SS'? Well, they were big time Nazis and they didn't always take the time to write things out. Is that how you want to be? Like a Nazi?
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DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)lmao
Cirque du So-What
(25,938 posts)We're none too enamored of Roman numerals 'round here either.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)Diclotican
(5,095 posts)OregonBlue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel Is at least the original wording of the organisation
Diclotican
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)I know nothink!
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)H is the eight letter of the alphabet, so 88 = HH = Heil Hitler
I guess I should remove the emblems from the car so nobody gets the wrong idea.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Save the owners the trouble.
salib
(2,116 posts)My friends joked that it was an 88mm gun (common for the Germans in WWII). Seemed to just be emergency flashers.
Leme
(1,092 posts)MM,LL,KLG,BK,JB, EH,WG,BW, KK,BB,MJ,............
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Leme
(1,092 posts)that people with initials are Nazis....take it up with him/her.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)U4ikLefty
(4,012 posts)...or was that Gaddafi? I dunno, which one is "Hitler" these days?
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)What would Hitler Do?
WhiteTara
(29,715 posts)reduced all words to their least number of characters.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Then switching to GG when called on it.
While some have assuredly referred to him by his initials without malice, plenty of posters have not.
Some people write JA for Assange, but funny how it is not nearly as common as GG for Greenwald.
It's a cute game some are playing and plenty of people aren't falling for it.
AnalystInParadise
(1,832 posts)it's initials, not rampant homophobia
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)I spent plenty of time in threads after the Snowden revelations last summer and know exactly what many posters were up to. Not everyone, but many. When someone is using Gigi and then switches to GG in the same conversation after getting alerted, it would be silly not to recognize what was going on.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)or is he dead?
SEE! he was KILLED by the Acronym Monster.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)German words are long. The language is phonetic so it is actually easy to learn.
But think of all the misspelled words on the Teabaggers signs, and then you understand that a lot of conservatives are unable to spell. I think it has to do with their short attention spans. That may also explain why they want easy, slogan answers to questions about complex issues. It may also explain why Ayn Rand's extremely simplistic philosophy appeals to them. -- Short attention spans -- explains their ignorance.
treestar
(82,383 posts)and I was referred to as SS on DU, how much trouble would there be over calling me a Nazi?
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)That sounds very sinister.
RandySF
(58,823 posts)What about FDR, JFK and JBJ?
tandot
(6,671 posts)to "The Democratic Underground Lounge" ...
I am pretty sure they'll be very thankful that you made them aware that they are Nazis for not writing it out.
Oh wait ... darn it ... I wrote AtA instead of Ask the Administrators ... that would make me a Nazi, too
CrispyQ
(36,464 posts)Leme
(1,092 posts)Bob Seger ?
Rafale
(291 posts)Enough of this anti-German propaganda.
Your pal,
R
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)That the abbriavtion nazis are on patrol