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[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are white supremacists obsessed with headwear because they are balding?

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Because they can hide their faces

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 23 points 1 year ago
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait I don't recognize some of those police uniforms.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

KKK, Confederate army, Gestapo, MAGA.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gestapo hat with the skull just screams "are we the baddies?" energy.

I wonder if they realized they were bad people.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn’t that the whole premise of the skit from where that phrase originated?

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Looks to be a Waffen SS officer's cap rather than Gestapo hat. Not that that makes it any better

[–] krull_krull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, i always thought the confederacy don't have standard uniform.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Not the same at all. 3 of them are American nazis, 1 of them is German nazi.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine how much better off we'd be if "My country is in a bit of a state right now, but I'm going to choose to look at my role within that rather than blaming a convenient minority" could fit on a hat.