Saw a nazi today

- how's this look
  
  I have absolutely no knowledge about any of this but just wanted to say that's well-written. Hope you get that pathetic POS.
  
  That boogie-board enthusiast, who happened to be born in 1988, is going to be pretty pissed if they try changing their license plate.
  
  You meant "DMV", right?
  
  some superheros sport email clients in their back pockets. 👍
  
  I thought this was about that Boogie guy who makes YouTube videos and has bad views. Thank you for explaining!
- It's Indiana, they'll probably retaliate.

Looks like someone who needs some break lights replacing, maybe two tires as well.
- This is light. We used to deal with Nazis much differently back in the day
  
  I've heard that curbs were involved.
  
  In which war you fought pal?
  
  That was you, was it?
- maybe they need to repaint their car because keys were somehow pressed and dragged against it.
  maybe some pigeon broke some windows idk, those damn animals.
  maybe the oil plug has came a bit loose and he loses the engine a bit ahead...
  nazis justify more creativity.

Proud American driving a Korean car!
- Driving a German car would be ridiculous!!

In a Korean car too which is funny.
What does the BODG stand for?
- It says BOOG, as in boogaloo, as in Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo
  
  You’ve got to be kidding? They’re appropriating Electric Boogaloo (a film about break dancing and the black community) as their slogan? That is wrong on so many levels.
  
  Oh, I didn't even think about that. Definitely makes sense.
  
  That's what they meant but I just read it as they were a self aware booger brained racist.

- "I hate Illinois Nazis."
  
  Illinoizis
- It just occurred to me how absolutely accurate it is that the cops are holding the line defending the small number of Nazis from the counter-protestors. They also have that cop who hates the Nazis just like everyone else, but he's still doing his job keeping everyone back, which is also pretty accurate.

These idiots are the most adolescent childish racists ever.
This is the equivalent of a 10th grader typing 80085 into the school calculator!
- Except walking around with a calculator that says 80085 isn't telling several parts of the population that you want them dead and aren't afraid to say it
  
  I mean I did preface by calling them idiots!
- 80081135

And drives a KIA lol.

I’m sitting behind a California plate that reads “88 RISE”. Is that…?
- Could be 88 Rising. The asian music production company that has some great Asian artists.
  
  I'm gonna go ahead and guess nobody got a vanity plate about an Asian music production company unless they own that company.
  
  Lol first thing I thought of as well.
- 88 is heil hitler
  
  88 also symbolizes fortune and good luck in Chinese culture, and is often used to sign off in Chinese language chats.
- Why are you surfing lemmy and driving? And don't gimme that "I'm a passenger " bullshit, eyes on the road Fam!
  
  I was parallel parked.

I wonder how Thomas Kia feels about the shout out.
- Well his number is right there, someone can give him a call...
  
  I would imagine he's busy.

Doesn't count unless it's on a Volkswagon, otherwise they're just pretending
- It's not Nazis unless it's on a Volkswagen, otherwise it's just sparkling fascism.

So, funny story, as a kid my favorite number was 8, had a few reasons that matched 8.
So I always used it in names and such. But, often it wasnt unique, so I used 88 instead. Emails, account names, even video game characters have 88 in them to this day.
... Am I accidentally a Nazi?
- Born in 1988? Lots of folks born that year decided to have those two digits in their first Internet usernames as well. A few of those will still be in use, no doubt, so you're not alone. (Me? No, I'm older.)
  In your shoes, I'd maybe think about changing things around, especially the easy ones, but you're not me, nor I you.
  
  The way it was explained to me is that H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, HH stands for Hile Hitler
- My wife’s pet name is Boog, and I’m determined not to let Nazis take it away.
  
  I had a cat growing up named Boog... named after John "Boog" Powell... the baseball player, not Nazis.
- No. 88 is just a number. It can be used as a dog whistle, but it can also be used, for instance, to describe a quantity equidistant between 87 and 89. Numbers and symbols don't make a Nazi, actions and rhetoric do.
  I love Norse symbology. I'm not going to stop loving it because some fuckbrains use it to spread hate. Fuck that.
  
  Based. Same goes for the boogaloo "movement" just because there are Nazis in it doesn't mean it's a primaryily Nazi community.
- Literally in the exact same position.... I've been using it for 20+ years and I'll be damned if I let them take that away from me though.
- Hamburg licence plates say HH.
  Don't worry about it.
- 88 is also a popular number in China as it looks like 囍 which is the symbol for double happiness.
  Just don't be a Nazi and keep using 88 for good.
- No. Use swastikas to mean peace and good luck, use the color red to mean communism, wealth, that you like the color red, whatever you like. Don't refuse to use a symbol because others have used it for bad. Co opt it back.
  
  👌
- Tell me about it… I got banned from asklemmy after leaving a completely innocuous comment, pretty sure because I have 88 in my username. I’ve been using this in various emails/usernames since before I even knew what fascists were.

I'm not saying you should fuck up their ride buuut, I'm not saying you shouldn't either.
Wink.

Maybe they just really like Boogey2988. In which case, yeah, report them.
- That's what I thought this was referring to at first. Interesting that Mr. "Centrist" has an 88 in his handle.
  
  I wouldn't read too much into his YouTube handle. He's a chode but I don't think he's a nazi simp. I wouldn't be surprised if it was auto-generated.

The best part is it also advertises how many of his own boogers he eats per week.
- Think of the life where you have 88 boogers a day... The torture.

So I grew up in Canada, on the west coast, basically Vancouver. So I'm well aware of the dog-whistles. I now live in Scotland. There was an event where I work recently, and the event contractors were 88 Events. And immediately I was like: FUCKIN NAZIS!
My wife seems to think that they're too...idk...girly? to be nazis, but where the fuck did 88 come from, they started up in 97, so couldn't be that. I feel like I'm being fuckin paranoid, but the fascy bastards are coming out the woodworks lately...shrugs
- Looks like they just had an unfortunate address where they started out:
  Many moons ago (1996 to be precise), Sheila Samuels decided to start an events company, working out of the bathroom in her home at no.88 Ayr Road
  https://www.88events.com/about-us/88-events-history/
  
  Well shit. I missed the history link in their about us page. Seems like that really is very unfortunate. Maybe I should email them and mention that 88 is a dog-whistle?
- There are two people I know who have racist relatives on FB. Their profile names are
  MOI NI GARR
  'sambo' jones
  apparently you can be racist as fuck with your username on that cess pool.
  what is it with white supremacists man... brain worms
  
  That's not a bug, it's a feature. Meta knows that things like white nationalism drives engagement, so they don't do anything about it.
- I live in Vancouver but didn't grow up here. I know of the 88->HH dog whistle, and um 14 words or something like that but are there any others I ought to keep my kids away from?
  
  The 14 words, usually seen with a swastika and in the form of 14/88.
  There's others, but they're usually a co-opt of something common or popular.
  A few Behind the Bastards episodes on the neo-nazi perpetuation machine:
  Behind the Bastards - How YouTube Became a Perpetual Nazi Machine
  And then a multi-part series on the way kids are indoctrinated into these things:
  Behind the Bastards - Part One: The Eternal Fascist 🅴
  Behind the Bastards Part Two: An American Fascist Faith 🅴
  Behind the Bastards - Part Three: The Apostle of Fascism 🅴
  Behind the Bastards - Part Four: How To Build An Army 🅴
  Behind the Bastards - Part Five: The Hidden Civil War 🅴
  Behind the Bastards - Part Six: The Perfect Soldier 🅴
  Behind the Bastards - Part Seven: The Digital Reich 🅴
  But don't take this as something to freak out about. Keep an open dialogue with your kids, the best way to make sure they don't turn into a racist, fascist or criminal...is to be as big a part of their life as you can without trying to control them. Talk to them about especially the history of racism in Canada, the concerted effort to wipe out First Nations identity and people, and bring them to as many different cultural events as you can. These movements thrive on the Us and Them mentality, if you can teach them that we're all just people, that our similarities outweigh our differences, and that we're culturally healthier with many different people... Well, that'll go a long way.
  Edit: formatting is hard early in the morning....
  
  I don't know if it's used in your Region but in Germany 444 is used by neonazis to represent "Deutschland den Deutschen" -> "Germany to the Germans". Maybe there are alliterations like that in your region?
  Also, there are certain clothing labels popular in these circles. Lonsdale for example can be worn to only show the "nsda" part as a reference to the NSDAP. There are other examples too.
- 88 stands for HH, which means Heil Hitler.
- H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.
  88 = HH HH = Heil Hitler
  
  Uhhh, yeah, I did (in the first few sentences of my comment) mention that I'm well aware of the dog-whistles.

The disambiguation page for Boogaloo is now a bunch of awesome shit like music and dance styles plus an extremist movement...
Fuck you, choose a different name for your whack ass antics.
- I refuse to stop adding "2: Electric Boogaloo" to the end of literally any and everything much to the chagrin of those around me.
  
  Jesus Christ, you 2?
  
  A classic, but I've had to move on to "___ 2: The Squeaquel"

I find it somewhat odd that there wouldn’t be at least one “infowarrior rides” bumper sticker. Guess they just wanna be a lowkey shithead with the vanity plate.
- yep, they call it "being crypto" or "hiding their power level"

Im trying, but i didnt take any saws with me :(

Driving a Korean car no less

The more attention you give these idiots, the more they thrive.. I mean hell..he's driving a Kia , what else do you need to know..
- That, for an American Nazi, they clearly understand that American cars kinda suck. /s?
  
  I'm not sure if you are asking me if I'm being sarcastic or if you're confused if you want to be sarcastic? Are you implying sarcastically that Kia's are better than American brands like Ford/Chevrolet/GM?

I wonder how that nazi will drive his car when all four tires don't have air in them?
- One can put a lentil under the valve cap. The tire will deflate itself.
  
  vegan af
- Always slash one less tire than the vehicle has so it can't be claimed as vandalism through insurance.
  Knowledge is power!
  
  No way, really?

Hold on, Doc, are you telling me these are not about flux capacitors? This is HHeavy!
- Back in the reddit days I was pretty active on the Back to the Future subreddits, and one day an excited young man posted his new BTTF tattoo; a big colorful depiction of the 88 from the time machine's famous digital speedometer, glowing orange numbers on a black background, in a very visible spot on his arm.
  I sent him a DM to the effect of "I get what you're doing as a BTTF fan, but you should be aware that if you're not a white supremacist there's a good chance that tattoo can be gravely misinterpreted by people who see it out in the world" and linked this page on the number's use as a hate symbol. He replied with an "OMG, I had no idea! Thanks for telling me!" message, deleted the tattoo post, and soon afterward deleted his whole reddit presence. I sometimes still wonder about that guy and how he's managed.
  
  Oof size: Great Scott.

Good ol’ Indiana

If the error was a randomly issued plate, the state should automatically reissue. I mean, no one is getting FCKPLC randomly. Either way, this plate and ref must be blacklisted.
- To be fair, usually they have a schema of, say, LNL-NLN or LLLLNN or something similar where Ls are letters and Ns are numbers. Every non-vanity (or special, like gov't, dealer, temp...) plate will follow the schema, so I doubt there's a chance FCKPLC could show up.
  The other unfortunate thing with dog whistles is, they're designed to be easily looked over, subtle enough to be plausible. Without other evidence this guy is a Nazi, the only right thing to do is to let them be. The consequences of taking action against an innocent person far outweigh the benefits of acting against a single Nazi.
  The presence of a dog whistle itself can't be a reason to attack someone (metaphorically, hopefully. Don't do random acts of violence against individuals period. There are better ways to get results.) but it is definitely enough to make one cautious and observant.

Is that a custom plate or did somebody get really unlucky with the plate they were given my the OMV/DMV?
- Apparently it is not the standard design for an Indiana plate, so it must be a custom. Plus, the chances of randomly getting BOOG88 have got to be pretty small.
  
  Plus, the chances of randomly getting BOOG88 have got to be pretty small.
  But not impossible.
  I'm just imagining the guy that randomly got that license plate with no idea of any possible meaning.
  He just can't understand why his car is always the victim of such vandalism. Every time he gets it fixed, he finds it keyed again, or the tires flat, lights smashed...
  
  Plus, the chances of randomly getting BOOG88 have got to be pretty small.
  The chances are exactly the same as getting any other random number (assuming the '4 letters, two numbers' pattern is allowed in the random pool at all).
  
  It's one of the standard plates. You can choose this plate instead of the one you posted without any additional fee. You have the option to pay $45 to personalize it but you don't have to.
  https://www.in.gov/bmv/registration-plates/license-plates-overview/indianas-standard-license-plates/

Run him off the road 🤭

Neo nazis = cringe

Ah, yes... the perfect example of "Everything I don't like is Hitler" and "If you type 666 you'll become Satan!".

Unless there are other things on the car that can support this, we can't simply draw any conclusion. 88 also means good fortune in Chinese culture. By OP's premise, there are lots of Nazis in my country.
- Her linked to the partyy explaining the "BOOG" portion as well.
  
  I missed that,.my bad.
- This car has Indiana plates. Last time I checked… Indiana is not in China.
  
  you don't have to check, I presume you you have some ~~from~~ form of primary education.
  anyway, Chinese=/= China.
- Your back must hurt from moving all those goalposts.
  
  That's... not what moving the goalposts means.
  
  sorry - your comment is not helping me to engage further. at least put some content in it.