it could be an homage, but it's not "nazi style" any more than a toxic chemical label is a Nazi style "Totenkoph"
it needs to have flat tops and bottoms to be "SS style"
Fuck ice, etc.
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it could be an homage, but it's not "nazi style" any more than a toxic chemical label is a Nazi style "Totenkoph"
it needs to have flat tops and bottoms to be "SS style"
Fuck ice, etc.
I don't see what NS split by a lightning bolt would refer to other than National Socialist - eg literally claiming affiliation/support to the Nazi party.
It is possible its something else and just incredibly bad fortune and an incredibly ignorant person who wouldn't get that connection is wearing it - but given the context that it's ICE.. I'm leaning to it being a nazi dog whistle to other like-minded ICE officers.
Regardless of how bad it is, the lightning bolt is clearly intended as nazi shit.
They're not good at making swastikas either, but no matter how deformed they still count as nazi shit.
I feel like you're playing exactly into their hands. Make it similar enough that everyone is in no doubt as to what they're saying, but different enough to give them plausible deniability if it ever got escalated.
You need a bit of mental gymnastics to go "oh but the style is such and such, therefore it is not nazi sign".
I know fuck all about nazi styles and to me this looks like a nazi n⚡s, proclaiming that he is a national socialist.
He IS A FUCKING NAZI.
Edit: another point to add. If I was a dumb racist scum turned nazi, since I know fuck all about the 'original' nazi styles, most likely I would come up with some shit like this, that delivers the message but is not in the original style.
Remember, ICE agents are not smart or educated people that would know much about original nazi styles.
Conservatives think Tylenol causes autism... Do you really think they have an eye for brand styles? Come on... Can we stop being intellectually dishonest?

These thugs don't even have any reason to hide their convictions anymore at this point... The US is in dire need of denazification and it should begin with ICE and it's fascist employees. Prosecute the fuck out of this administration, it's henchmen and the billionaires that endorsed it.
denazification
you say? I know of a certain European "neighbor" who specializes in those. It'll only take three days.
Issue is, that European "neighbor" is also in dire need of denazification.
I think it's more likely that dude saw it and went "oh man that's fuckin siiiiiiccccccckkkkkk" probably has skull stickers on his truck too
I want to note that this is exactly what that actual Nazis did when they stole symbolisms from various cultures including the rune ᛋ and of course the swastica. Both of which represent the sun.
Related: Why TF is ICE wearing camo if they're law enforcement?
Army surplus
I'm starting to wonder if these "ICE" people aren't just kids who outgrew video games like Call of Duty, but didn't care to join the army.
Trying to find specific context on this guy, here's what I got so far: The picture was taken 14. October 2025 "around 11 a.m." in Chicago, "near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood". The rest of the uniform indicates he's a member of a Special Response Team, whatever that is.
ICE are all the raging assholes that constantly demanded violent responses to everything a minority or liberal did, or suggested nuking every foreign country for whatever perceived infraction, while safely behind a screen and keyboard. They refused to sign up for the military that would impose rules, expectations, and restrictions on them. Also, people shoot back at you if you get deployed. Can’t have that. Too scary. So they join ICE and get to beat up on those foreign people and piss off the libs while under State Protection, nobody gets to shoot back. They’re protected from consequences. Cowards and bullies.
Ah yes, "Nazi Sympathizer". Makes sense.
National Socialist more likely. Literally referring to the Nationalsozialismus Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) - the Nazis.
You're getting the German a bit wrong here though.
It is "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei"; it's the adjective here, as in "national socialist German workers party". "Nationalsozialismus" is the noun, meaning "national socialism"
But, yes, that's what those two letters plausibly refer to in this context and with this font and symbolism involved.
What's the NS stand for though? Only thing that comes to mind to be labeled a nazi is "National Socialist"
National Socialist?
A lot of people posting this, I'm guessing sarcastically because it doesn't make much sense.
I'm guessing it's "No survivors" because "ooooh, I'm such an edgy badass!"
is this what cops splurge on after breaking the piggy bank? kids these days...
Probably what they do after they hawk the items they stole from an apartment. They'd be too scared to break a piggy bank, it would probably freak them out and they'd point guns at random things.
You dont have to look back very far to determine how this started on a low level, this is just aggresive inaappropriate counter-culture , 4chan internet troll, basement dwelling shitheel behaivor from the 90s and 00s but carried over into adult life
Contrarians will always be contrary, so I guess being contrary to a boring "regime" that didnt particularly say or do anything except for ask for generic human rights for everyone, means cosplaying as the most offensive thing you can think of because it makes them mad, Cosplaying as Nazis and even doing the same thing the Nazis did with randomly and incorrectly co-opting norse iconography.
Nazis wearing nazi shit :O
The SS fucks had a flat top and bottom, this one appears pointed. Anyway, close enough and most their ranks are filled with neo-Nazi turds.
NS clearly signifies "national socialism" , i.e. what Hitler's party called their ideology. Don't evne worry about the lightning shaped rune in the center.
Assumed it stood for Norfolk-Southern. That's a domestic terrorism firm responsible for the horrifying Palestine bombing.
ICE agent larping as a racist airsoft player.
Except that they're not really larping, they are racist and they carry real guns.
"ICE agent ~~larping as~~ a racist ~~airsoft player~~."
What is N 'S' S? Or NS?
National Socialist, I'd guess.
Gonna be real, I don't think that's got anything to do with Nazism at all and isn't nazi style.... Probably a relationship he has or something or a different affiliation.
It's just a normal lightning bolt. Too pointy.
for the trained eye from germany this certainly refers to NS -- National Socialism. also, there are s few ways to depict a lightning bolt with a few simple lines. this variant would be the last choice b/c of its ambiguity.