so it seems fitting.

47 points

Do people go around looking for Swastikas in stuff? Even if I was a conspiracy theorist, an X is still an X. Especially when it’s not even a symmetrical X, you’re really pulling at strings I think.

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With the Slack logo, at least there was something tangible. Here there isn’t.

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Is there something tangible? Slack’s logo is a symbol that suggests clockwise rotation while the version of the swastika that the Nazis used is a symbol that suggests counterclockwise rotation.

Especially given that the Nazis appropriated one version of a symbol that had many other versions/uses/meanings in different cultures, do we really need to equate every symbol or logo that has remote similarities to the swastika with Nazism?

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Neither saying that Slack’s logo is a swastika nor that it’s a Nazi swastika. But there’s a certain similarity to a swastika which doesn’t exist with the X logo.

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Damn you’re right, never saw it before

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It’s a shower thought baconator, nothing more serious than that. I think the idea of a shower thought it to pull strings. You know, to avoid pulling something else. :)

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18 points

Sometimes an X is just an X.

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sometimes a shower thought should stay in the shower, but we have this sub. So.

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I think he’s just been super into X for decades starting with some /r/Ithinkthisisdeep mathematics symbolism he placed on it way back when he co-founded X.com before it was bought by PayPal. He puts it into literally everything. I don’t think there’s much more to it than an edgelord trying to brand himself around a cool sounding letter with quasi “I am very smart” mathematical symbolism. Highly doubt the dudes a Nazi. It’s genuinely far dumber than that.

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See, this is not a shower thought. This is a thought.

That said, when you’re in a place full of nazis, you’re in a nazi place. You might not be a nazi, but you’re in a place with them.

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Your personal hatred is blinding you, OP.

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You’re in a showerthoughts sub, Fred. A showerthoughts sub.

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9 points

Ya’ll are positively obsessed with Musk and this drama. It’s insane.

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That’s a reach if I ever seen one

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