I saw a spraypainted Swastika today

[faded glory]

[Dan Severn]

You're one to talk.

[Az]

I think we all have to salute Ecthelion for a fine threadjack .

[Shi Huangdi]

"That's nothing. I have seen idiotic local kids wearing tee shirts with the goddamn IJA flag. I want to kick their faces in. Repeatedly."

Why would Chinese kids wear a Japanese Flag?

[Az]

because they're idiotic ?

[Ecthy]

it's like German kids wearing SU flags...

[Az]

nonoNONONono.

you see, now you can be happy. I took the bait.

[Imran Siddiqui]

In New Jersey I never saw swastika. I haven't been in Georgia enough to see one yet.

[Solly]

I saw a spraypainted Swastika today

Oh no! That's awful!

I get such a sense of despair at human nature too, whenever I see the English translation on Welsh road signs crossed out.

[axi]

Athens is full of political graffiti.

Swasticas abound, but thankfully the hammer-and-sickles are much more numerous. The most common symbol however is the anarchist A-in-a-circle.

Also, wherever a fascist has made any graffiti, it is usually painted over by some antifascist, with deeply insulting words. A "Fascists, we are coming for you" or a "Fascists, you will die" is habituary.

Btw, when you see a swastika, take care to not confuse it with two antifacist symbols: 1, the reverse swastika, whose bars point counterclockwise and the swastika whick is broken apart by a fist.

Also, when you see a hammer-and-sickle, notice it's direction as well. Stalinists and generic communists will paint the regular one, with the sickle leaning to the right, while trotskyists will usually paint the reverse one, with the sickle leaning to the left. Sometimes the hammer in the trotskyist version is made to look like a 4, which means that the writer is affiliated to the 4rth international.

[Zoid]

Yay, go Spartakos

[Zoid]

That one leans to the right

[Saras]

This thread is surreal.

[Bereta_Eder]

the graffitti/the messages, that anarchists or what have you write on the walls are inspired BTW like... "Ethnostedon"

my experience coincides with Axi's. First thing you'll see are the famous "circled A" for anarchy and then the sickle and hammer.

joke that maybe Axi can try to translate:

Ãêñáößôé óå êåíôñéêü äñüìï ôçò ÁèÞíáò:

ÅÎÙ ÏÉ ÎÅÍÏÉ (ðñïöáíþò áðü ÷ñõóáõãÞôåò Þ ðáñüìïéïõò)

êáé Ýðåéôá áðü ôçí... åðÝìâáóç ôùí... ãíùóôþí áãíþóôùí


ÅÎÙ ÏÉ ÎÅÍÅÑÙÔÏÉ

[Bosh]

Think the best I've seen is some Hamas grafitti....

not nearly enough circled A's here in new england