Please explain why your posting off-topic bs before I warn you?
If your post is just a rant and a rave without context to the thread then your in breech of the rules.
How is it off topic?
Did you not see the picture?
Also thank you for showing me that you are like all other mods. Using your powers to shut me up.
Some people are just begging to be shut up. Sorry but if you can't adhere to the topic at hand, feel the need to rant on an unrelated matter in an incoherent manner and go completely off-topic with spam after you've been warned twice already and then can't even justify your rant when prompted then go ahead but don't cry about the consequences since your smart enough to know that life isn't going to throw you a milk bottle every time you screw up.
After reading your edit your saying that we should ban people who post either swastikas or hammer and sickles. Well.. wish partially granted.
In any case it was an interesting discussion while it lasted.
I hope everyone has had their say and managed to express their opinions. As far as displaying National Socialist imagery; its not going to happen. This is as always not a place for people to express their political views whether Stalinist or National Socialist. While exceptions are made on occasion for imagery like hammer and sickle that represents communism, if political viewpoints are attached it will possibly come under rule 1 depending the offense.
Public display of National Socialist imagery is banned by law in several countries while the display of Communist imagery is not as heavily regulated. Go and change the law and then we'll talk about a shift in policy.
Additionally; National Socialism and its symbols, in particular the swastika, are characterized, whether anyone likes it or not, as anti-Semitic by nature and thus automatically falls under rule 1.
1. Derogatory or discriminatory remarks based on ethnicity, nationality, gender, religion or personal beliefs
Racism or hatred of any sort is not acceptable. If you make a post; keep in mind that this community contains people from all around the world. What you deem as normal or even funny does not necessarily mean that it will be funny for everyone else. Be polite and respectful. Racism is one of the worst things you can commit here, so it can easily get you permanently banned.
https://www.fsegames.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2713.0Usually characterised as a form of fascism that incorporates biological racism and antisemitism, Nazism originally developed from the influences of pan-Germanism, the Völkisch German nationalist movement and the anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture in post-First World War Germany, which many Germans felt had been left humiliated by the Treaty of Versailles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism
After Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, a right-facing 45° rotated swastika was incorporated into the flag of the Nazi Party, which was made the state flag of Germany during the Nazi era. Hence, the swastika has become strongly associated with Nazism and related concepts such as antisemitism, hatred, violence, death, and murder in many western countries, and is now largely stigmatized there due to the changed connotations of the symbol.[1] Notably, it has been outlawed in Germany and other countries if used as a symbol of Nazism in certain instances. Many modern white nationalist and Neo-Nazi groups such as the Russian National Unity use stylized swastikas or similar symbols.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
In contrast the hammer and sickle represent Communism:
The hammer and sickle (☭) are a part of communist symbolism and their usage indicates an association with communism, a communist party, or a communist state. This symbol features a hammer and a sickle overlapping each other. The two tools are symbols of the industrial proletariat and the peasantry; placing them together symbolizes the unity between industrial and agricultural workers. This emblem was conceived during the Russian Revolution. It is best known from having been incorporated into the red flag of the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party, along with the red star. It has also been used in other flags and emblems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle
While the Soviets did not overtly advertise ant-ethnic policies when their movement began:
The Council of People's Commissars adopted a 1918 decree condemning all antisemitism and calling on the workers and peasants to combat it. Information campaigns against antisemitism were conducted in the Red Army and in the workplaces, and a provision forbidding the incitement of propaganda against any ethnicity became part of Soviet law. State-sponsored institutions of secular Yiddish culture, such as the Moscow State Jewish Theater, were established in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union during this time, as were institutions for other minorities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Soviet_Union
The USSR later pursued anti-ethnic policies but this wasn't part of the Communist ideology by its founders who happened to be ethnic minorities themselves (Karl Marx and Lenin for example).
