The Navy has promised to alter the design of one of the buildings on site, which from above clearly resembles a Nazi swastika pitched at the correct 45-degree angle the Nazis used. A report by SFGATE suggests that top officials in the Navy knew what the design of the building would look like prior to the installation.[8][9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Base_San_Diego

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Is it really a surprise?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/09/us-military-marines-nazi-ss-flag-photo
https://www.vice.com/en/article/marines-neo-nazis-military/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/14/us-military-extremism-the-base

And I've only looked for 30 seconds.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

no, it isn't. after all hitler was inspired by US racism. leave it to a fucking hack of an artist to find inspiration in the worst things

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

It's still the same in 2025

They used $14 millon to renove the Bathrooms-