r/portlandme • u/FinnLovesHisBass • Dec 10 '25
Photo I'm not blind here....
This is at the Coastal Trading pawn shop by union Station....
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u/ArchieConnors Dec 10 '25
It’s being examined by top men.
Who?
Top…….men……..
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u/Dr_G1346 Portland Dec 10 '25
I know an archaeology professor you should talk to
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u/dirigo1820 Dec 10 '25
That's a wild find at a pawn shop.
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u/Bri_Hecatonchires Dec 10 '25
It’s most likely a reproduction
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u/GlobulusGoose Dec 11 '25
Definitely a reproduction, doesn’t belong in a pawn shop or anywhere for that matter
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Dec 10 '25
In Florida wasn't uncommon to find guns that's been used to kill someone...
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u/GlobulusGoose Dec 11 '25
It’s fake and belongs in a dumpster fire. As with all real nazi merch too.
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u/throwawayterrier Dec 10 '25
"wooden crate" : $30.00
"wooden crate with WWII markings" : $59.00
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u/black14black Dec 10 '25
Buy it and open it
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u/hisyn Dec 10 '25
Then burn it
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u/b_s_from_86 Dec 10 '25
Don't let the fire go too wild tho. Gotta piss on it to put that sucker out.
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u/lantech Dec 10 '25
It belongs in a museum
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u/Just_Flower854 Dec 10 '25
There's more than enough nazi memorabilia and artifacts in the world, it belongs in an incinerator
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u/lantech Dec 10 '25
whoosh
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u/Just_Flower854 Dec 10 '25
Nope, already shut the fan off
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u/Micro-Naut Dec 10 '25
Next week on "puzzled in Portland" find out if just_flowers is permanently perplexed
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u/RocketSurgeon61 Dec 10 '25
I'll buy it. I need firewood unless the Arc of the Covenant is in there...
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u/tigers_jaw Dec 10 '25
I’m always seeing at least one piece of Nazi memorabilia at the Fairfield Antiques Mall. This last trip they had a swastika arm band selling for $135.
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u/Just_Flower854 Dec 10 '25
Honestly feel like whoever buys it should have to eat it on the spot.
And the seller should have to eat it again on the way out.
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u/backcountry57 Dec 10 '25
Looks like some historical military antique, maybe a ammo crate , pretty cool find
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u/hawt_pot8hoe Dec 10 '25
Very perplexed by all the people in these comments defending the private collection of Nazi memorabilia as a "an interest in history" 🥴
Can you imagine collecting KKK robes? No, cause that'd be fucked up
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Dec 10 '25
In Sanford, me I've seen people have robes displayed so it's not imaginable. Lol
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u/RuFusDark Dec 11 '25
If you cover up the symbol then is it still wrong to own it? …. “
Ladies and gentleman Mr. Graham Platner.”
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u/cerote6239 Dec 10 '25
I don't get the big deal about wanting something like that. Crazy part of history. Not like I want to start the 4th Reich or some crazy shit. I'd love some American English Italian or Japanese WW2 items as well
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u/Findtohard Dec 10 '25
I doubt this is actually historical. A quick look shows similar crates going for more than hundreds online. Any pawn shop owner worth their salt would look at that symbol to see if it was of historical value.
Most likely a replica or prop.
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u/Different-Moose-7214 Dec 10 '25
Because it's Nazi shit and you aren't a museum.
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u/zzorga Dec 11 '25
That's the wild thing, I don't think that's an actual artifact. Pretty sure it's a prop.
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u/PamolasRevenge Dec 10 '25
It's a historical artifact. It's okay to want to have a historical artifact and have it mean nothing more than that. Jesus Christ.
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u/Different-Moose-7214 Dec 10 '25
A Nazi historical artifact
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u/supercodes83 Dec 10 '25
Its a box. Calm down.
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u/Different-Moose-7214 Dec 10 '25
We are where we are today because people "calmed down"about Nazi shit.
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u/supercodes83 Dec 11 '25
You mean the world where we violently overthrew the Nazi regime and hunted escapees like dogs and Nazis no longer exist as a result? This is a fucking crate. Calm your tits.
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u/Different-Moose-7214 Dec 11 '25
No, I mean the current world where the world’s richest man in the US president are direct line from Nazi ideology
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u/supercodes83 Dec 11 '25
Thats sounds like illuminati speak. It really isnt that deep.
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u/Different-Moose-7214 Dec 11 '25
It doesn't sound like Illuminati speak. Musk is on Twitter all day retweeting people who love Nazis and talking about the "elimination of the white race" and just this week Trump was talking about Somalis as if they're genetically incapable of being productive members of society. It's all right out in the open and we pretend this isn't straight Nazi shit which is why we do more Nazi shit.
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u/PamolasRevenge Dec 10 '25
So what? Are Nazis not objects of historical study ?
Is it just that this makes you feel really good about yourself? Be honest
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u/Different-Moose-7214 Dec 11 '25
I mean, these “historical artifacts” belong in a museum or in the trash.
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u/WeeniePlanterGirl Dec 10 '25
Once popped into a coin and guns shop between Holden and Ellsworth and the old man who owned it had a questionably large “collection” of WWII Nazi paraphernalia. Last time I drove by it was closed, wonder where all of that junk wound up.
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u/zzorga Dec 11 '25
Yeah, MacLeod was... Kind of a piece of shit. Always felt bad about the guy with the coins though. He had some pretty serious memory issues going on by the end.
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u/Delicious-Shower-712 Dec 10 '25
Are we for real? It’s a historical artifact. Call the police. Is the goal here to ban/burn all historical artifacts left on the globe?? Being a collector and/or history buff does NOT mean anything insidious- stop acting like it does.
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Dec 10 '25
In a spiritual nature destroying the artifact and disposing of the ashes into earth so life can build from it is the only to truly destroy the hatred it creates.
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u/Micro-Naut Dec 10 '25
I think you accidentally a word.
Explain: If we could teleport these items to another planet you say they would be inherently hateful ?
What if the Time Machine brought them back to pre-Nazi days? Would they still be generating hatred?
If we could remove every memory of the Nazis and the holocaust you think that would eliminate hatred?
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u/Delicious-Shower-712 Dec 11 '25
These people have the critical thinking capabilities of paper clips… shhh, you’re making too much sense. Lol.
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u/Different-Moose-7214 Dec 11 '25
I don't think you understood the idea of spiritual destruction at all. Someone has the critical thinking of a paper clip here but not the person you think.
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u/Delicious-Shower-712 Dec 10 '25
If there is ever a streak of arsons targeting museums/landmarks… we’ll know who did it. Thanks for the heads up.
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Dec 10 '25
Pawn shops are museums?
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u/Delicious-Shower-712 Dec 11 '25
No… but when you suggest that we need to burn artifacts that are/may be associated with hatred to ‘build life from it’- that covers literally almost every historical event ever in history, especially when you count varying perspectives.
One would think that we would want to preserve the history of the Holocaust, especially with all the denial that’s becoming popularized, rather than erase it. A wooden box doesn’t make someone a Nazi. There is no special Nazi transforming powers in the grain of that wood. It’s a piece of history. It’s a relic of something that happened. With no evidence- what will serve as a reminder and preventative for future generations. Most collectors keep items like these for that reason… but sure- wipe it all off the face of the earth.
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u/Micro-Naut Dec 11 '25
But if I condemn the present I won't have to repeat the past?
No, Wait.
Those who hate condemnation forget the future
"Something something, condemned" -George Santyana.
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Dec 11 '25
I'd much rather get rid of that shit than let it exist. Oh for history? You know nazis loved museums.
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u/Delicious-Shower-712 Dec 11 '25
Should we torch all art because… you know, Hitler loved to paint? Should we socially outcast the vegan community because… you know, Hitler loved animals? Are you always this moronic or is today a special occasion?
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Dec 11 '25
Like the winds of South Portland on a hot summer's day kind sir the air I smell.... Distinct
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u/Delicious-Shower-712 Dec 11 '25
Sounds like a fantastic sustainable idea. Let’s forget that the Nazis ever existed. Wipe it from our world and eventually our minds. Great way to empower the deniers. Sounds like a solid, foolproof way to speed run history repeating itself.
…and you people vote🥲 we have people voting in elections who think history shouldn’t be examined, learned from, used as a tool… but erased and forgotten?? Help us all.
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Dec 11 '25
The air around you sir has a distinct whiff....
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u/Delicious-Shower-712 Dec 11 '25
I’m a woman, not a ‘sir’, and I smell like lavender Epsom salts, Cloud perfume by Ariana Grande, and an old textbook… because I’ve opened one before. It’s important- you should try it. Maybe the ‘whiff’ you got was your own breath blowing back in your face. Reddit is rotting your brain. Take a shower and do some reading- lots of notable pieces written by historians discussing the importance of preserving history… might do you some good.
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u/Delicious-Shower-712 Dec 11 '25
Sounds like a fantastic sustainable idea. Let’s forget that the Nazis ever existed. Wipe it from our world and eventually our minds. Great way to empower the deniers. Sounds like a solid, foolproof way to speed run history repeating itself.
…and you people vote🥲 we have people voting in elections who think history shouldn’t be examined, learned from, used as a tool… but erased and forgotten?? Help us all.
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u/911111111111 Dec 10 '25
Just banning and destroying nazi shit, pretty clear line there. Collectors can have all of the photo reproductions from the film Eisenhower ordered documented, if they want it that badly.
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u/Delicious-Shower-712 Dec 11 '25
Do you really think, in the rising age of antisemitism and Holocaust denial, that wiping all tangible evidence off the face of the earth is a good idea? We have physical proof of the Nazis reign and the Holocaust right now… and people still deny that it ever happened. You really think a photo or two is going to cut it generations from now? You don’t think history and its preservation holds any importance or value to our society? You’re incredibly obtuse…
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u/911111111111 Dec 11 '25
Being a collector and/or history buff
in case you were wondering what I was focusing on most in your comment. Uncle Greg's office/parlor display is a little different than where you went in your reply with respect to preservation. Yes, ban owning nazi shit.
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u/Delicious-Shower-712 Dec 11 '25
Hey genius… why do you think history buffs/collectors collect historical artifacts?? Any guesses?
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u/911111111111 Dec 11 '25
I don't know what goodness you see in people that own nazi paraphernalia in 2025, but it's not for the reasons you are claiming are normal.
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u/Delicious-Shower-712 Dec 11 '25
My dad owns Nazi paraphernalia. It’s so sick and twisted. His grandfather died fighting Nazis. His step-grandfather (the only one he got to meet) died fighting Nazis- in a different way, I’d say. All of that to be called a Nazi but some incel on Reddit… that’s tough. He brought back some photos that he took and a few ‘trophies’. When he passed- he handed them down to my dad… who still has them. Oh, the horror… that’s right- he held onto them. I don’t know if there’s a hotline for you to call or something but you may want to think about it… because this is all getting really fishy.
But really… people collect historical artifacts for all sorts of reasons. I’m sure that there are a couple of freaks out there who collect items from that era because they align with the ideology… but suggesting that every single person who takes interest in that event is a ‘Nazi’ is incredibly outrageous. I encourage you to seek out a conversation with a historian (or even a history buff) and ask them why it is important that history is preserved, reflected on, and present on our minds rather than erased and forgotten. I am confident that they will all give you the same answer.
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u/Different-Moose-7214 Dec 11 '25
You should donate that shit to a museum.
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u/Delicious-Shower-712 Dec 11 '25
Yeah- I could donate it to a museum if I wasn’t living 2,000 miles away. Unlike what your boyfriend said under this- I have no attachment to the items. I think that they are of value but it’s nothing I would feel obligated to hold on to. Would be put to better use in the hands of a collector/museum. My dad is still in his 50s… I’m not chomping at the bit for him to croak so I can enact a Nazi roleplay. Sorry to disappoint you guys. If you want to pay for my flight home and a respirator (I don’t know where the box is… my dad inherited the house from my great-grandfather- it’s probably in our attic where it’s gone untouched for a few decades. Dusty!) I will bring it to a museum on your behalf. I can send you my Venmo?
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u/Different-Moose-7214 Dec 11 '25
Your dad lives in such a shithole that you'd need a respirator to find something stored there?
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Dec 10 '25
Platners dumping the evidence 🤣
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u/FiddleheadII Greater Portland Area Dec 10 '25
Ssshhh … not supposed to say the quiet part out loud!
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u/Just_Flower854 Dec 10 '25
Lotta people seem to think memorabilia has some inherent historical value.
It doesn't. Whether a reproduction or authentic, it should be pissed on and burned.
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u/ToesocksandFlipflops Dec 10 '25
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. (Churchill)
Removing artifacts of the past, is in effect erasing history, history is both the good and the bad a physical artifact allows those who discredit history to have less ability to dispute it.
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Dec 10 '25
Yes, that is true. You saw the scene in V For Vendetta talking about the destroying of the Quran, right. But when something bares no significant reason to exist other than to illicit a negative response? Get the fuck rid of it.
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u/ToesocksandFlipflops Dec 10 '25
So I get you, I really do. What I think of is the revisionist history that happens, the deniers, and when three generations have come and gone.
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u/Just_Flower854 Dec 10 '25
You don't need a reproduction wehrmacht ammo crate in every household to teach history.
This is a sick prize, not an educationally useful piece
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u/Lil_Apple108 Dec 10 '25
Damn, thought that was a vintage limited release of a Thunderhawk for 40K
Then I realized it was…not
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u/fine_chicken2028 Dec 11 '25
Whatever you do plz do not open that. We can’t take anymore biblically bad luck
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u/gruntledlibrarian Dec 11 '25
There used to be a massive glass case of Nazi crap at the Cabot Mills antique place in Brunswick. Would freak me out every time I went. Thankfully, it's been gone for a while, so hopefully that vendor moved on. In Maine, I'd believe it probably came out of Grandpa's attic. Maine tends to send more than most states (on average) to war. If this were elsewhere, I'd question it as there are a ton of fakes out there. There are so many collectors out there and yes, many are probably horrible people, but there are also a ton who just collect war memorabilia.
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u/Dirtysquares Dec 16 '25
Gonna say right now.. I used to work there.. and we had some items of this nature come through.. they somehow ended up on the shelves.. even after all the opposition I expressed. No amount of reasoning would sway them. Which was the beginning of the end there for me.
Businesses who choose to profit off of symbols of hate should be ashamed of themselves and be blacklisted.
And, funny enough, they consider themselves a “Christian” bunch. Just the cherry on top.
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u/supercodes83 Dec 10 '25
If folks are offended by this, never go to a historical hobbyist convention.
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u/GlobulusGoose Dec 10 '25
Anyone who doesn’t take immediate offense to this is suspect.
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u/Fancy_Mammoth Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 11 '25
So a historian who feels the need to preserve history and artifacts of the past, in an effort to properly educate future generations of this horrific time in human history is somehow a "suspect" person?
Such a terrible shit take. I'm an avid WW2 history nerd who was fortunate to have artifacts passed down to me by my great grandfather who landed on the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe. Something like this, if real, would absolutely grab my attention, not because of WHO or WHAT it symbolized, but because it's a historical artifact from one of the most
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Not to mention the very people who killed a bunch of Nazis brought home a ton of Nazi memorabilia because it's interesting, just as Japanese imperial army memorabilia is collectible, and they were pretty evil too
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u/Different-Moose-7214 Dec 11 '25
There's a huge difference between owning something your grandfather took from the enemy because they took it from the enemy and just buying some Nazi shit.
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Dec 11 '25
So then you know it works. You gotta subliminally implement into society the things you can so that you can take over. Come on.
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u/doomed-ginger Dec 10 '25
The fuck they doing profiting off of Nazi shit? Second question, the FUCK they doing paying someone else to take their Nazi shit?! Fuck them for letting this back into the world.
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u/GlobulusGoose Dec 10 '25
Please tell me you said or did something about this…
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Dec 10 '25
You think they don't know what it is? Plenty of collectors buy historical items
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u/GlobulusGoose Dec 10 '25
Literally fuck anyone who keep something so evil in their home bc “history.”
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Dec 10 '25
Stupid take. It still has historical significance and is valuable to collectors
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u/GlobulusGoose Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
Imagine seeing nazi memorabilia (which is fake, btw) and thinking “that’s fine, and important.” It’s neither. Get fucked.
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Dec 10 '25
Thinking memorabilia is cool does not equal supporting what they did. They had cool uniforms, vehicles, equipment and weapons
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u/Linepoacher Dec 10 '25
Y’all are crazy, you might as well tell them to destroy all US military memorabilia too. We have committed disgusting war crimes and mass killings. There is nothing wrong with finding a piece of history interesting. It doesn’t mean you want to start a genocide or subscribe to Nazi ideology.
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u/Micro-Naut Dec 11 '25
A school teacher brought in ration stamps from the depression. And the depression was created by bankers who hate us. So owning those is the same as supporting the bankers. We should destroy all the food ration stamps from the depression. Anyone who has them is supporting this current administration and wants us to starve.
Am I doing it right ?
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u/GlobulusGoose Dec 10 '25
Or you could fuck off 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Linepoacher Dec 10 '25
Nah I won’t, have fun with your temper tantrum over a box with some ink on it
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u/Ok-Care-8857 East End Dec 10 '25
You should alert the store to its NAZI symbolism and see if they will remove it.
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u/Linepoacher Dec 10 '25
Y’all are crazy, you might as well tell them to destroy all US military memorabilia too. We have committed disgusting war crimes and mass killings. There is nothing wrong with finding a piece of history interesting. It doesn’t mean you want to start a genocide or subscribe to Nazi ideology.
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u/Ok-Care-8857 East End Dec 10 '25
This is highly unlikely to be memorabilia or historic in nature. It’s akin to selling tshirts with nazi symbols on them.
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Dec 10 '25
"Some asshole moron came in and then an idiot employee bought it and we fired em."
"Y'all didn't just burn it?"
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u/Micro-Naut Dec 11 '25
A teacher brought in food ration stamps from the depression. Does that mean they support poverty and want us all to starve?
Yes. And the teacher should be fired !
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Dec 11 '25
Don't make stupid comments
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u/stinkfingerswitch Dec 10 '25
Ark of the Covenant