WATCH: Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star destroyed

Neither of those seem true, in any meaningful sense. The distinct terms for which direction it faces were only applied retroactively by Western scholars. Suawastika or swavastika still means the same thing, which is basically “auspicious emblem”.

Nazi flags were stitched through so that the emblem would be facing either direction depending upon one’s orientation to it. So these would be both swastikas and swavastikas. I have seen the same thing done on the tails of airplanes as well.

Neither Dharmic people nor Nazis use either version exclusively, so as a rule-of-thumb to discern between groups, I find it ineffective.

I do find the different uses in Dharmic disciplines interesting, but that gets esoteric rather quickly.

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The swastika (right-facing) did become the more common form for the Nazis apparently.

From Wikipedia (Swastika entry):

While the DAP and the NSDAP had used both right-facing and left-facing swastikas, the right-facing swastika was used consistently from 1920 onwards. Ralf Stelter notes that the swastika flag used on land had a right-facing swastika on both sides, while the ensign (naval flag) had it printed through so that a left-facing swastika would be seen when looking at the ensign with the flagpole to the right.[104] Nazi ensigns had a through and through image, so both versions were present, one on each side, but the Nazi flag on land was right-facing on both sides and at a 45° rotation.

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I’ve seen lots of “No matter how awful he is you don’t do this shit” responses.

I call shenanigans. Fuck this prick. Perhaps if someone can get through to him just how little people actually think of him he’ll cry himself to death. Smashing little bits of his ego with a sledgehammers seems like it might be effective.

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If I thought it would have any affect on him, I’d go all Machiavelli and agree.

But it won’t. So, you know, don’t become what you hate.

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I respectfully disagree. “Be the bigger person” doesn’t work when your opponent doesn’t give a fuck.

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That was stupid. Maybe someone a Drumpf supporter got the wrong star?

I am against Drumpf, but this was completely uncalled for. Nothing like giving Drumpf some legitimate complaints.

And by stooping to their level, what good are you doing other than the temporary release?

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I just happened to be at a conference at the Loews hotel in Hollywood right where this happened over the past few days. Hilarious!

That’s an adjective you’re using as if it were a verb, and the sense isn’t correct either.

Oh, those reactionaries, always hating to speak and write proper American English. It isn’t a smart reactionary move to accuse people who have been found not guilty of wrong doing of somehow being more corrupt than their own reactionary heroes who have been found guilty of wrong doing. Shoddy reactionary responses, without self awareness or cognition.

(That’s how we’re supposed to do it, right? Anything negative is emphasized by adding the adjective of the opposing political orientation?)

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http://newsthump.com/2016/10/27/destruction-of-walk-of-fame-star-leaves-donald-trump-down-to-his-last-six-horcruxes/

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That assumes that he didn’t sell his soul in the first place. That’s one of his first things in the Art Of The Deal, that you have to come out ahead in any bargain, and selling his soul at a young age would let him get rid of all of that annoying “care and consideration for others” baggage.

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How do you confuse a Drumpf supporter?

I) put him in a round room and tell him to sit in the corner
ii) present him with three shovels and tell him to take his pick

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It only goes to show that if you wear a hard hat and day-glo vest and/or carry a clipboard, you can get away with anything :grinning:

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If he had given it any thought, he could have replied that he was just replacing it or moving it to a better location or something.

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Does Rosie O’Donnell have one?

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That’s apparently Banksy’s M.O. for street art installations. Dress up like you work there, and if anyone asks you what you’re doing just respond by complaining about the pay.

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It was the single worthwhile lesson from Ghostbusters 2.

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Nor would what happened before the video justify the crime.

Kind of like when a cop commits a crime against a civilian. I don’t care what happened before that video, either.

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