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Well, like most things with those idiot nazis, the swastika is a stolen symbol. Originally it was a holy symbol in some eastern religions .. a symbol of good. That meaning has been lost in time now, though. Funny how history can completely alter the meaning of something, huh ?

That kind of reminds me about the upside-down 5 pointed star. Now days, it is looked at as a pentagraham and looked as an evil symbol. Back in olden days, it was totally different. For example, Jerusalem used that symbol as part of their city's marking. There are more examples, but I don't have them in front of me.
10-28-2005 at 02:26 PM
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leroy00 wrote:
and an act of the congress of the United States renamed french fries into freemdom fries, and no one in the country found that ridiculous.
The only place that french fries were "officially" called "freedom fries" was in government cafeterias in Washington D.C.. I'm not even sure if all of them changed. I definitely never saw any restaurant change the name, and from what I saw most Americans found the name change pretty dumb and embarrassing. It wasn't put into law or anything. In fact, I think the congressman who put the idea forward in the first place is now in favor of pulling out of Iraq...so he did a bit of an about-face there.

And as for Cramp's question...I think both political parties use red, white, and blue as their colors. But in the newscasts delineating which states have been won by which candidate, Bush's were shown in red and Kerry's were shown in blue in the last election. There was a pretty obvious pattern in the map, and "red states" and "blue states" became a saying after that. (They were around in newscasts before, but didn't become popular until the last election, I think.)

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10-28-2005 at 04:00 PM
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A bit more specifically, only the news reports have a standard for the two parties, and it is quite recent, near as I can tell (2004 was fine, 2000 might have been, but previous elections were certainly a problem). Other... well, thingies, may use the other way around, following the "Left = Red" and "Right = Blue" standard.

My guess is that Democrats are blue because their party icon has a lot more blue than red (it doesn't have much red at all, and no white if memory serves), and the same goes for the Republicans' elephant (red is the dominant colour, especially with the blue already taken up).
10-28-2005 at 05:32 PM
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I'm glad somebody decided to make "right = red", or we'd be listening to thinks-they're-clever types calling Democratic-voting states the "commie red states". Of course, now people on the left can call Republican-voting states the "redneck states".

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10-28-2005 at 05:43 PM
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I've found 'delusional' goes well with both colours. I mean, seriously, name calling based on political views? There is basically no difference between the parties except when you get right out on the fringes, and any party in power can't spend all their time doing things just for their 'side' of politics if they want to stay in power.

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10-28-2005 at 08:05 PM
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ErikH2000 wrote:
trick wrote:
Yes! Me too! I've got one of those multispirals in a hold I've been tinkering with, actually. ...as long as it's rounded it shouldn't be a problem, right ?
Man, I am not going to write a swastika FAQ. :)

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10-29-2005 at 01:52 AM
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Q: How can I stop my geometric spiral pattern from looking like a swastika?

* Turn it so it's facing the other way.

This doesn't work. People call it swastika anyway.

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I was determined not to bring this topic up, but I found something interesting.

http://free.of.pl/s/swarzyca/ksiegi/swasta.htm

It helps if you understand polish, but I think it's quite self-explanatory. I don't mean to argue, just to broaden your view.

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