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    5 hours ago

    He didn’t invent shit. He copied a rune and appropriated it diagonally. S, N, Z whatever, it’s the same damn thing. Sowilo.

    Ppl keep praising his ass here like he wrote the bible or some shit when all he did was take what was already there and twisted it.

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      5 hours ago

      he wrote the bible or some shit when all he did was take what was already there and twisted it

      I have really bad news if you think this wasn’t exactly what happened when they wrote the bible…

      Gog admitted they knew what the symbols represented when they chose not to send them to German subscribers. There’s legitimately no excuse for using Nazi symbols in this case, regardless of your ideas about where they may have originated.

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        I have really bad news if you think this wasn’t exactly what happened when they wrote the bible…

        If you’re agreeing he didn’t invent shit, I’d recommend amending your comment saying that he didn’t. No need to add legitimacy where there isn’t any. No pressure though.

        As for gog, the deed is done and out in the world. Whatever they do from here on out, it will be with this burden attached.

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          If you’re agreeing he didn’t invent shit

          Not even slightly, but I don’t particularly feel like going on about how no human creation is truly original, waxing interminable over the distinction between symbols and concepts or, you know, defending a nazi right now.

          it will be with this burden attached

          Probably this will be forgiven provided they don’t do anything more indicative of actually being Nazis. I’m not sure it should be given the spectacular process failures needed to knowingly email out a bunch nazi symbology, their history of trans/homophobic jokes, their insanely miserable work culture… but it probably will be, much as all those previous examples were. It’s depressing.