Saw a guy with some shit on his forearm the other day, wondering the chances of him being a fan of a really shitty vegan painter.

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    Don’t hang out with the runes guy, but also unless there’s other context I wouldn’t come to any conclusions based on this.

    For example, I knew a guy who had some runes tattooed but it was actually just the owl symbol from Twin Peaks. He’s a communist. Granted, you could probably tell as much because he also had a hammer and sickle on the other forearm, but you know, you can never be sure.

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    Less often than you’d think. Also, there’s lots of symbols that like vaguely rune-like, but actually aren’t, like celtic symbols and such. They might just be Irish.

    Also, a lot of the Nazi runes aren’t real runes, they invented a bunch of runes in the 1930’s. Genuine Nordic runes might not have that same Nazi association.

    • Any resources if made up Nazi runes and how to spot them? I know different Nazi logos well enough to spot them - saw a guy at a local gun shop with those three intertwined triangles on his hand that were very distinct from similar Celtic symbols.

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        A pretty good indicator is if they also wear things like kilts or are big participants in Nordic Festivals. Some of the most ‘gender-fluidity and pansexuality are a part of our heritage’ people are Midwest Nordic enjoyers.

      • This is from memory via occult podcasts, but I believe Mme Blavatsky and the “mystic” she invented, Kothume, were “mystics” in the post ww-1 period. They popularized “theosophy” and “ariosophy” which was essentially stealing from various sects to create a mythos for the aryans and white supremacy. I believe it was this effort that subsumed many runes and other religious symbolism that we see white supremacist using still

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    Not as many as you think. Runes are cool looking. Thinking Vikings are aesthetically cool is by no means a Nazi phenomena. I wouldn’t worry about it unless there are some other indicators.

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      If someone has tons of tattoos and a couple of runes, I’ll guess they’re aesthetic until some other indication arises. If it’s mostly just runes (even if it’s like their only one), I’ve had like a 90% success rate in assuming they’re horrible. But to be fair, like 70% of everyone in every place I’ve lived was a POS lol

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    Rune tattoos are one of those things where it really depends on a few factors, like which rune it is, if they have other borderline tattoos, or anything else about them. In general if I see a dude with rune tats it’s enough to make me pay more attention to anything they say/do as other indicators.

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    I can’t speak to how many may be Nazis, but I personally would never get a rune tattoo because of the association. It wouldn’t be enough for me to assume they were a Nazi unless there were other yellow flags.

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    It’s usually going to be in an easy to hide place, if it’s a Nazi tattoo, unless a lot of non-Nazis have tattoos like that or most people are Nazi. So depends on the context.

    A lot of them also hate tattoos, so who do you think is gonna get labeled as “a-social” the moment the most militant of them, who are usually the ones covered in tattoos, are no longer needed. classic

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    80% an unknown portion of that 80 percent is like nazi in the way of the average American. Where they would be perfectly fine with nazis shit so long as it is called old fashioned american values.

    Unfortunately the actual nazi guys and the folk punk guys overlap a suprising ammount. So the guy offering you mushroom tea out of a deer skull probably has takes worse than you can imagine.

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    That depends on where the guy is from. If he’s from a Nordic country you can’t really conclude anything from a rune tattoo alone. Nazis love Viking shit but so does a lot of other people, it’s no more sus than a Greek guy being into columns.

    It becomes a lot more sus if the guy is not from the Nordics.

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    Rune tattoos are actually on my list…

    Tap for spoiler

    my favorite runewords from Diablo II: LoD, anyway