• aelwero@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Link wants me to download an app and that ain’t happening, is that Nazis, KKK, or something totally benign? What’s the context here?

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      8 months ago

      The Z is frequently used by Russia to indicate Nazis. As for what’s happening in the picture, not enough context.

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        8 months ago

        That’s not a valid assumption. It’s a link to a Telegram message, t.me is Telegram’s domain. I presume you have some filter that blocks Telegram links. It is not blocked for me, and my pihole runs a huge bunch of blocklists. I also scanned the link with urlscan, and there’s no indication that it’s malicious. You can view the result of the scan here, if anyone is interested:

        https://urlscan.io/result/410eb556-3991-4db9-8979-ffde02cc8b2e/

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          Ah okay. The other person said “an app”, and it was blocked for me, so I assumed it is malicious, since lots of malicious links are app download spam. Had they said “the Telegram app” I probably wouldn’t have made that assumption. Cheers for correcting me.

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      8 months ago

      Top image looks to be from Nazi Germany, bottom from the Putin crowd in modern Russia. I believe the point is that they’re rather similar.

      • aelwero@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        The symbol isn’t exclusive to Nazis, and the styling suggests it’s something else… Not saying it isn’t Nazis because I don’t know, but I feel it’s not a good assumption.

        It pretty clearly was intended to imply it though, based on the lower photo, which is far less ambiguous.

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          8 months ago

          I feel it’s not a good assumption.

          Well, hopefully you learned something about that.