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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Just say ACAB. Numbers as code look like racist dog whistling.

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nazis have been appropriating numbers like 88 to dogwhistle to their followers "Hey, I'm making a public apology for my stockholders, but fingers crossed for stringing up all the minorities once we have our guys in the Supreme Court, winkwink nudgenudge." Don't play dumb.

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I’m aware and fuck them for being nazis indeed

With that said IMHO the left can also use codes and numbers. Too many cops in the area? Did they figure out what ACAB means? 1312. Easy

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Everyone does that. It's not a nazi thing.

It just currently (and historically) behooves nazis to do it as much as possible because it helps them recruit to their counter-culture movement.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

fuck that. numbers are cool. we got 69, 420, 1312, 1312a, 8647, 58008, 5318008, e, we got all kinds of cool numbers

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

67 wasn't forgotten, it was excluded.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Googled it because I didn't know either, and 1312 is just a numerical coding of ACAB (a=1, b=2,c=3....)

No idea what the 'a' is in 1312a googling 1312a just gets me fancy speaker wire....

I made it the fuck up, senator

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago

Hating cops and being racist is not mutually exclusive though

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They already have Norse runes and the swastika don't fucking give them numbers too.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 10 points 3 days ago

You could just take it off them. Dilute the pool of numbers. Now the racists won't know if they're talking to a bigoted saddo racist like them or a sick anarchist who is ready to smash the fasch

[–] MyCatIsDumb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've thought about it and there's something to it. There's really no reason to be cryptic or vague about ACAB. Next time, I'll write it out.

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bold take in a computer science oriented environment.

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Lemmy's not that computer science oriented any more, much like Reddit.

This community specifically is a comics community, and this comic is about a very mainstream fiction series. Can't get much more normie than that.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

No, you see, the vast bootlicking contingent in... checks notes... Lemmy will violently persecute the author. The subterfuge is paramount.

[–] 5715@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago