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Bloody well should be.

What changed?

Everyone has the right to be insulted innit.

@hoops can put whatever he wants on his bike and antifascists can call him names. It's awesome.

I'm still wondering about a guy on here I rode with. He's Japanese and painted his bike like a Zero fighter plane, as used by kamikaze pilots. That's pretty much the same as putting swastica on a bike, right?

Sure.

I think you're talking about @DeathDrive? He's from HK, I think.

Bike looks amazing. Just failed to FB photo link it though.

Putting SS logo on your bike is def. a dick move.

Post modernity / freedom of expression and all, but using a symbol of the holocaust to make your 'army-style' bike look gnarly is a touch silly.

Even weirder then, Japan imposed rationing and ruled the people of Hong Kong with martial law during the war.

http://wtvr.com/2015/06/23/confederate-flag-removed-virginia-license-plates/
If I were you I'd be more creative and slap on pictures of aborted fetuses, cancerous lesions and such - under a quality clear coat of course, this is art.

Should've just put this on and have done with it:

LOLOLOLOL.
We should take this to Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 for discussion. Would be a right banger.

Isn't he PM now?

There is no moral equivalency between suicide bombing enemy combatants and killing 6000000 Jews.

But as stated by @miro_o nothing has changed. @hoops is free to paint what ever be wants on his bike, just as the rest of us are free to remind him that veneration of the holocaust even if he's doing for trololololz is fucked up and something he will embarrassed about after he is called out on it again and again. (Unless he is a pukka gen fascist in which case I am at a loss).

General Franco aint got shit on me.

Here is a pic of my beater/mtb, now in 1x7 -setup :) You can see the old setup by clicking the pic.

the Dutch still believe in freedom of expression

To a certain extend. For example, you can't (amongst other things) deny the Holocaust in The Netherlands:

Holocaust denial is explicitly or implicitly illegal in 16 countries: [...] Netherlands [...]

You also can't sell Mein Kampf in The Netherlands, although that might have more to do with copyright than with freedom of speech/press (I can only find this Dutch Wikipedia page about it being illegal to sell Mein Kampf).

Wait, this is a fixie forum innit?

do you genuinely not think it's slightly unpleasant to use a symbol of the holocaust to make your bike look 'edgey'?

yeah... im not down for no racist bikes

Oh putain ouiiiii

Your saddle does not hurt you? According to me, it needs a better fitting

Fuck everything related to fascism.

It may be a bit too nose up, but I think it looks worse in the pic than it really is. Felt quite comfy :)

radness

Not so much that I'd care about someone else doing it. I'd rather get angsty about rather more contemporary and pressing world concerns, than dredging up 70 year old iconography to get all upset over.

Father Ted: You don't have anything from the Allied side?
Father Fitzpatrick: No, no, that sort of thing wouldn't interest me at all I'm afraid.

lolz