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Old 11-18-2004, 12:13 PM
dasgupta dasgupta is offline
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What is this sticker seen in NYC?

Walking to lunch in Soho, I've seen a sticker around a few different places. It looks like the WWII era German (nazi) flag, red with a white circle, except instead of a swastika in the circle, there's a squared off dollar sign, tilted about 45 degrees to the left.... It kinda looks like this (except all the angles are 90 degrees):

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  /         \
 /  \ /      \
 |   x       |
 |  / \ /\   |
 |  \  x  \  |
 |   \/ \ /  |
 |       x   |
 \      / \  /
  \         /
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Old 11-18-2004, 12:31 PM
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This is the symbol for some group apparently calling themselves the Neoliberal Nazis. That's about all I've managed to dig up so far.
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Old 11-18-2004, 12:32 PM
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Donno. My guess would be some Republican nazi it's all about money thing.
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Old 11-18-2004, 12:33 PM
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Donno. My guess would be some Republican nazi it's all about money thing.
Someone against it, not the flag of some republicans that are into nazis and money.
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Old 11-18-2004, 12:36 PM
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This is the symbol for some group apparently calling themselves the Neoliberal Nazis. That's about all I've managed to dig up so far.
Yup, that's it. What search terms did you use to find that? I wasn't able to find anything - obviously searching nazi and swastika weren't too helpful.

Thanks!
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Old 11-18-2004, 12:45 PM
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Yup, that's it. What search terms did you use to find that? I wasn't able to find anything - obviously searching nazi and swastika weren't too helpful.

Thanks!
nazi "dollar sign" logo

You gotta' dig a bit, but as you see the first result is highly relevant.

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Old 11-18-2004, 12:47 PM
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Yup, that's it. What search terms did you use to find that?
I used swastika "dollar sign". The first hit is a message board where someone posted it.

Further searching leads me to believe it's just some Bush-hating group.
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Old 11-18-2004, 12:49 PM
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Further searching leads me to believe it's just some Bush-hating group.

You just described the Democratic Party
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Old 11-18-2004, 04:42 PM
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Further searching leads me to believe it's just some Bush-hating group.
Well, that narrows it down.
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Old 11-18-2004, 08:24 PM
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Donno. My guess would be some Republican nazi it's all about money thing.

You do realise that Nasi = national socialist, which would tend to be a leftist concept.
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Old 11-18-2004, 10:39 PM
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You do realise that Nasi = national socialist, which would tend to be a leftist concept.
??? What are they teaching kids in school these days? Since when are Nazis associated with the left?
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Old 11-18-2004, 10:41 PM
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You do realise that Nasi = national socialist, which would tend to be a leftist concept.
Hie thee to a library.
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Old 11-18-2004, 10:53 PM
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You do realise that Nasi = national socialist, which would tend to be a leftist concept.
Just like the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (a.k.a North Korea) is a democracy.
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