{"id":200579,"date":"2021-02-27T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/27\/bad-stage-design-cpac-edition-i-did-nazi-see-this-coming\/"},"modified":"2021-02-27T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T00:01:00","slug":"bad-stage-design-cpac-edition-i-did-nazi-see-this-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/27\/bad-stage-design-cpac-edition-i-did-nazi-see-this-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Stage Design, CPAC Edition (I Did Nazi See This Coming)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Have you seen the stage desin for this year&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Conference&gt;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rather evocative, in an Adolph and Eva kind of way:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/aLLsE4V.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/aLLsE4V.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>That shape looks familiar \u2026\u2026\u2026 Oh, right, it&#8217;s the Odal Rune, with wings, (Serifs) which was specifically created for:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/O8O9CzB.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/O8O9CzB.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>Yes, it was worn on the lapels of some SS units in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> World War, and is different from the historical Odal rune (<b><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\">\u16df<\/span><\/b>), which has no wings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/RXGhpRR.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/RXGhpRR.png\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>Here it is as the flag of the Flag of the Volksdeutsche 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, according to Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/cs1IHT6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/cs1IHT6.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>In recent years, actual NeoNazis have replaced the swastika with the winged Odal Rune in an attempt to mainstream their symboliam.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I have some footage of the stage show at CPAC, and it&#8217;s a trip too:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/LdJpQ9o.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/LdJpQ9o.gif\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>My bad, that&#8217;s from the original 1968 version of the Mel Brooks film <i>The Producers<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is whole affair is a complete mind f%$#.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>On the bright side, it appears that at least the fascists are no longer denying who they are.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen the stage desin for this year&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Conference&gt; It&#8217;s rather evocative, in an Adolph and Eva kind of way: That shape looks familiar \u2026\u2026\u2026 Oh, right, it&#8217;s the Odal Rune, with wings, (Serifs) which was specifically created for: Yes, it was worn on the lapels of some SS units in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1282,1011,978,1024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fascism","category-history","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}