Well that's a headline I never thought I'll write. Several posts and comments on the GOG subreddit have noticed a promotional e-mail that contains some... interesting symbols, which I can confirm with my own e-mail. As can be seen from the screenshot below, an e-mail containing a discount code for the game The End of the Sun (nothing out of the ordinary so far) contains 4 symbols that resemble Nazi iconography.

Well that’s a headline I never thought I’ll write. Several posts and comments on the GOG subreddit have noticed a promotional e-mail that contains some… interesting symbols, which I can confirm with my own e-mail. As can be seen from the screenshot below, an e-mail containing a discount code for the game The End of the Sun (nothing out of the ordinary so far) contains 4 symbols that resemble Nazi iconography.

  • AlteredEgo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    518·
    6 hours ago

    “Slavic Adventure”

    Maybe support for Ukraine lol. Zelensky just honored Andrey Melnik, a twentieth-century Ukrainian fascist leader and Nazi collaborator who fought with the Nazi’s against the Red Army (NYTimes)

    EDIT: I do believe this could be connected. Here is recent article by a Ukrainian Scholar without pro-Russian slant that looks at the proliferation of Nazi symbolism in Ukraine’s military, in official channels, insignia, names and merchandise.

    The use of Nazi symbols in Ukraine’s military is not merely an aesthetic problem. It is moral, political, historical, and legal.

    First, it represents a form of historical revisionism and the gradual rehabilitation of Nazism itself — a direct challenge to the postwar Western consensus built on the memory of World War II. Within far-right military culture, Nazi imagery is often wrapped in romanticized narratives about anti-Soviet struggle. In practice this trivializes the sacrifice of the seven million Ukrainians who fought Nazism in the ranks of the Red Army alongside the Western allies (in contrast to the 300,000 who served in various military formations and police units on the side of Nazi Germany).

    This might actually explain how ignorant people might come to think this is acceptable or just a bit edgy. Partly because speaking about this gets you branded a traitor.This might actually explain how ignorant people might come to think this is acceptable or just a bit edgy. Because there is no pushback or scandal and it just gets swept under the rug it must be ok right? Unconditional support for Ukraine - but at what cost?

        • dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Given that they were nazi propaganda in 1938 and creating the October 7 mass rape narrative… it’s not that much of a stretch.

        • Senal@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          4 hours ago

          Utterly aside from the general content of this thread.

          I know nothing of the pieces printed or their leanings, nor is it relevant for the purposes of this response.

          That argument is the weakest of sauces, drizzled over a disappointing bad-faith steak.

          A single article doesn’t define a whole paper (nor was that claimed).

          A papers’ reputation doesn’t give them a free pass for printing something outside of their normal editorial quality control.

          Argue the actual claims, this bad faith deflection bullshit is fooling no-one.

          • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            3 hours ago

            Oh look an ml account repeating the Ukraine nazi Russian propaganda talking point. How surprising.

            When this is the claim being replied to, forgive me and anyone else from not giving it any graces. Especially when it is starting with as you say

            That argument is the weakest of sauces, drizzled over a disappointing bad-faith steak.

            Especially when a user is literally calling what the leader of Ukraine did last week Russian propaganda.

            • Senal@programming.devEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              They came in hot, you go at it, zero problems with that from me.

              All I meant is that you should go at it with actual arguments.

              Even if they are objectively incorrect, responding with deflection and fallacy makes your position look weak, like you don’t have an actual point.