Is My Avatar Being Censored?

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I have a pic of a Coca Cola watch fob that is an Indian swastika from 1925 that gets banned on a lot of boards. It's says 'Coca Cola 5 Cents' on it. lol

Yeah. The swastika shows up in a lot of Indian art and architecture predating the 20th century.

 

[DudleySmith]

Yeah. The swastika shows up in a lot of Indian art and architecture predating the 20th century.

My kids and their friends freaked out one time when we were watching an old movie, set in New York, and several of Larry Fay's taxi cabs were seen rolling around the streets; they had big swastikas on the doors. they immediately thought the Nazis were running a cab company in NYC. lol

They show in several movies from the 1920's-1930's. Incidently, Larry Fay was a big gangster in NYC then.

Larry Fay - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Larry Fay (1888 – January 1, 1933) was one of the early rumrunners of the Prohibition Era in New York City. He made a half a million dollars bringing whiskey into New York from Canada. With his profits he bought into a taxi cab company and later opened a nightclub, the El Fey, on West 47th Street in Manhattan in 1924, featuring Texas Guinan as the emcee and a floorshow produced by Nils Granlund.[1] In the 1920s, he married Evelyn Crowell, a Broadway showgirl. [2]

Fay, who had a record of forty-nine arrests but no felony convictions, was involved in several enterprises in the ensuing years, and was said to have amassed and lost a fortune. He was made a partner of the Casa Blanca Club, where he was fatally shot after a 1932 New Year's Eve celebration by the club's doorman Edward Maloney who had just learned his pay was being reduced by Fay to accommodate a new employee.[3] [4] After his murder his wife discovered he was broke.[5]

On December 15, 1960, The Untouchables (1959 TV series) during its second season did The Larry Fay Story. This episode (the 37th for the series) starring Sam Levene as milk racketeer Larry Fay, an associate of Al Capone, dealt with Larry Fay's activities in New York City milk price-fixing case.[6][7] Also, Fay's life served as the basis for James Cagney's character, Eddie Bartlett, in the 1939 gangster film, The Roaring Twenties.

 

[BULLDOG]

Show us.

No. You aren't authorized.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

No. You aren't authorized.

So, you can't.

Credibility, ZERO.

 

[BlackSand]

It might be a technical issue among smart phone users.

Folks using laptops or PCs can see your avatar just fine.

We get what you are talking about, but that screen capture does not apply to us. We all must remember, that we interact with the forum with different devices. Some with desktops, some with laptops, some with smartphones, some with ipads, etc.

This is a "desk top screenshot"

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. . . as you can see, it looks completely different.

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The image that you captured above is on your phone.
Your avatar here at USMB appears as you desire.

There is nothing that says your cellular provider isn't part of the issue.
Should that actually be the case, I would not be surprised.

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[Gracie]

The earliest known use of the swastika symbol—an equilateral cross with arms bent to the right at 90° angles—was discovered carved on a 15,000-year-old ivory figurine of a bird made from mammoth tusk. The ancient engraving is hypothesized to have been used for fertility and health purposes, the pattern similar to one that is found naturally occurring on the mammoth—an animal that has been regarded as a symbol of fertility.


From its earliest conception, the symbol is believed to have been positive and encouraging of life. The modern name for the icon, derived from the Sanskrit svastika, means “conducive to well-being.” It has been used by cultures around the world for myriad different purposes throughout history: as a symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism; as a stylized cross in Christianity; in ancient Asiatic culture as a pattern in art; in Greek currency; in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture; and on Iron Age artifacts. While the symbol has a long history of having a positive connotation, it was forever corrupted by its use in one cultural context: Nazi Germany.


In 1920 Adolf Hitler adopted the swastika as a German national symbol and as the central element in the party flag of the National Socialist Party, or Nazi Party, which rose to power in Germany the following decade. By 1945, the symbol had become associated with World War II, military brutality, fascism, and genocide—spurred by Nazi Germany’s attempted totalitarian conquest of Europe. The icon was chosen by the party to represent its goal of racial purification in Europe. Hitler and his Nazi Party believed that a line of pure Germanic ancestry originating in the Aryan race—a grouping used to describe Indo-European, Germanic, and Nordic peoples—was superior and that other, less-superior races should be ousted from Europe. Ancient Indian artifacts once owned by Aryan nomads were found to frequently feature the swastika, and the symbol was co-opted from its ambiguous historical context in the region to exert the dominance of so-called Aryan heritage.


Since World War II, the swastika has become stigmatized as a symbol of hatred and racial bias. It is used frequently by white-supremacy groups and modern iterations of the Nazi Party. Along with other symbolism employed by the party, the use of the icon has been outlawed in Germany.

How the Symbolism of the Swastika Was Ruined

The swastika went from being a positive symbol to a negative one.

www.britannica.com

 

[Gracie]

In other words...the swastika means diddly squat. This one does:

 

[Concerned American]

Only Mortimer understands what I was talking about. You're not looking at the screen capture I posted twice

Pardon me. I was just replying to your question. I saw your screenshot--looks like it only partially painted. However, I see your posts and your avatar is clearly and completely showing.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Just curious if it is a technical issue or if some offended leftie/Biden voter is responsible for my avatar being "whited out'

Look next to the envelope icon

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If if is, whoever is doing it doesn't have a sense of humour because they should have drawn a willy on your donkey.

 

[MisterBeale]

This guy is another Baldwin. Egomaniac. He wants to see his avie at all times because he thinks he is so speshul. I hope staff ignores his sorry ass. Pun intended.

DA's all right. .. . .

We all have our baggage.

Does he probably take the internets a little too seriously? Sure, but lots of folks on here that I really like can be accused of doing that at one time or another, right? Why don't you come to the FZ to joke around with us?

Honestly? If the last forum I was at hadn't pissed me off so much with their throttling of my ability to freely express my ideas? I wouldn't even be on this forum. SO? I can understand being paranoid about censorship. That is the one thing, that is pretty much a culture at this site. We all agree that throttling free speech and free expression, whether you are on the left, or the right, should have a really compelling forum interest for our little community.

 

[Michelle420]

Death Angel Mortimer basically addressed it . It's a glitch.

 

[EvMetro]

It really sucks that we have come to a point where it is not just easy to assume censorship, but a point where censorship is such commonplace. If I had seen a similar glitch, I would have immediately assumed censorship. I've become conditioned to assume censorship. Thanks Brandon, and all your comrades.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

It really sucks that we have come to a point where it is not just easy to assume censorship, but a point where censorship is such commonplace. If I had seen a similar glitch, I would have immediately assumed censorship. I've become conditioned to assume censorship. Thanks Brandon, and all your comrades.

It can't go on.

 

[MisterBeale]

It really sucks that we have come to a point where it is not just easy to assume censorship, but a point where censorship is such commonplace. If I had seen a similar glitch, I would have immediately assumed censorship. I've become conditioned to assume censorship. Thanks Brandon, and all your comrades.

Well, the problem is two-fold really.

First, the parties have become SO extreme, due to infiltration and manipulation by the Deep State.

This probably started around the late eighties, when they BOTH colluded to kick the public out of them, and embraced the billionaire elites instead. I remember when the League of Women Voters stopped hosting the televised presidential debates. Both parties were pissed that Ross Perot wanted to clean up the finances and the corruption in D.C.

SO? They both decided to start conspiring against the public to make sure none of the really important issues ever get addressed.

This has eventually affected the bureaucracy, the media, EVERYTHING in American society, to the point? Where it has come to folks feel the need to compare the parties to Nazi's in the first place, because they both act like fascists, as does the multinational corporations that control our lives, as does the global information companies that control our information. . . and now? They ALL want to control what folks say, and with the new PC, even the way you think and feel about society and the folks you inhabit it with.

So now we are left with thought control and speech control.

 

[AMart]

Awesome avatar BTW

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Death Angel Mortimer basically addressed it . It's a glitch.

 

[MisterBeale]

A glitch in the matrix. . .

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

I would agree with Mortimer: before assuming sabotage, see if you can change your avatar and fix it that way. A lot of avatars, I've found, don't really work with the site limits.

Yeah, I've had to resize a few of my avatar images, as well as some of the ones I use in my signature.

 

[DudleySmith]

Well, the problem is two-fold really.

First, the parties have become SO extreme, due to infiltration and manipulation by the Deep State.

This probably started around the late eighties, when they BOTH colluded to kick the public out of them, and embraced the billionaire elites instead. I remember when the League of Women Voters stopped hosting the televised presidential debates. Both parties were pissed that Ross Perot wanted to clean up the finances and the corruption in D.C.

SO? They both decided to start conspiring against the public to make sure none of the really important issues ever get addressed.

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This has eventually affected the bureaucracy, the media, EVERYTHING in American society, to the point? Where it has come to folks feel the need to compare the parties to Nazi's in the first place, because they both act like fascists, as does the multinational corporations that control our lives, as does the global information companies that control our information. . . and now? They ALL want to control what folks say, and with the new PC, even the way you think and feel about society and the folks you inhabit it with.

So now we are left with thought control and speech control.

Yes. They tired of uppity proles voting for candidates they disapproved of, especially pro-American ones. Democrats of course rewrote their Party rules and invented the 'Super-delegates' to make sure the rank and file had no say in who wins primaries. The GOP never had many proles to worry about, since their proles were people like Teamsters, who made such good money then they didn't associate with the poorer proles and eventually of course they cut their own throats, and now the middle class is whining no end. They were too stupid to realize they were next in line to be disposed of, but since they danced in the streets over the proles getting shafted nobody cares about their silly whining any more either, they cut their own throats as well.

And, now their is little residual wealth left in the bottom 90%, so now the top 1%ers have to plunder the the bottom 5% of the top 10% ers. lol Noam Chomsky was at least right about that cycle, and how the billionaires will soon be plundering each other, eating themselves; nobody else left to loot.

 

[MisterBeale]

Yes. They tired of uppity proles voting for candidates they disapproved of, especially pro-American ones. Democrats of course rewrote their Party rules and invented the 'Super-delegates' to make sure the rank and file had no say in who wins primaries. The GOP never had many proles to worry about, since their proles were people like Teamsters, who made such good money then they didn't associate with the poorer proles and eventually of course they cut their own throats, and now the middle class is whining no end. They were too stupid to realize they were next in line to be disposed of, but since they danced in the streets over the proles getting shafted nobody cares about their silly whining any more either, they cut their own throats as well.

And, now their is little residual wealth left in the bottom 90%, so now the top 1%ers have to plunder the the bottom 5% of the top 10% ers. lol Noam Chomsky was at least right about that cycle, and how the billionaires will soon be plundering each other, eating themselves; nobody else left to loot.

ahhhh. . . mostly agree with that.

Pretty sure that the corporate media was in the pocket of the corporate RNC in 2012. Of course the GOP had, and does have proles to worry about. . . THE ENLISTED MEN. The fact is, in poll after poll, Ron Paul swept the military in popularity. I am not really convinced that the nominating process in 2012 was completely fair or representative. If we want to be candid about that.

Talk radio, and your TEE VEE may give a representation of one thing, but the corporate party leaders write the rules for another way, and the truth maybe something else. The fact is, it is party leaders, and in the end, it ISN'T the voters of the GOP that decide on who the candidates will be, it is the Republican National Committee Inc.

(see who the chairwoman there is)

Ronna McDaniel - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

(see who her father was)

Romney family - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

(see who his father was)

George W. Romney - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

(I guess that makes this her uncle?)

Mitt Romney - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org