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one of the most recent times I came back from overseas, after a few weeks of just existing, learning and working outside of Burgerland, I remember waiting at a gate for a connecting flight and there was a digital recruitment poster featuring the USMC scout sniper school, featuring the SS sig rune and a patch with the skull/totenkopf on it. certainly a jarring moment for me, to be reminded of where I was coming "home" to.

I had been traveling with a group of scientists, mostly older and more educated than me. white libs almost exclusively, and we had been in a socialist country where they felt compelled to look for any sign of militarism (there were literally none, hardly even a police presence).

I pointed out the poster to them and said, "well we're back in the states with all this normal death cult shit" and like nobody even blinked. they just shrugged like it was normal, if maybe slightly aggressive to feature literal Nazi symbolism on a military recruiting poster. one guy, who was a spouse (just along for the ride) and had credentials in social science nodded and laughed/agreed, but he and I were the group's weirdos who bother learning things in life that aren't profitable in the labor market.