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Do you really think their marketing team does everything in groups of 14s and 88s to keep up with neo-Nazi numerology?
by thesis 6y ago
Do you really think their marketing team does everything in groups of 14s and 88s to keep up with neo-Nazi numerology?
- amyjess 6y agoI think certain influential members of the administration, such as Stephen Miller, are absolutely familiar with them even if Trump himself isn't. And this isn't even particularly obscure knowledge, it's something that a large number of mass murderers in recent years have made an extensive use of in their messaging: https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1273653992514412544 https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1273653992514412544
- bbatsell 6y agoAnd this is exactly how this tactic works. The campaign can send dog whistles that neo-Nazis the world over will immediately recognize and appreciate, and useful idiots can come along and argue that all these blatantly obvious things are just coincidences.
- guerrilla 6y agoYes of course they do and comments like yours are exacltly why there continues to be an incentive to use dogwhistles like this. It's an inexhaustable source of plausible deniablity with a clear channel for singaling.
- happytoexplain 6y agoNot "everything". That's a convenient exaggeration that makes the claim seem silly. But of course they demonstrably do engage in this practice.
- AnimalMuppet 6y ago"Demonstrably"? Demonstrate it, then, by all means.
- SauciestGNU 6y agoRight here [0] Homeland Security uses a 14-word headline that even shares the "We must secure" phrasing with the Nazi version of the fourteen words. [0] https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/02/15/we-must-secure-border-and-build-wall-make-america-safe-again https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/02/15/we-must-secure-border-an...
- anigbrowl 6y agohttps://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/02/15/we-must-secure-border-and-build-wall-make-america-safe-again https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/02/15/we-must-secure-border-an...