Russian President Vladimir Putin has seemingly invited conservatives chafing under "neoliberal ideals" in their home countries to move to Russia, where he claimed "traditional values reign supreme," and Alex Jones suggested he might take him up on the offer.The Russian president signed a decree offe...
  • FuzzyRedPanda@lemm.eeEnglish
    27·
    3 months ago

    “Good, if those still wishing to make satanic hand gestures and hidden eye symbols keep doing it and don’t stop Alex Jones I might just do that,” [added] X user Robin Cope.

    What are these satanic hand gestures that I am missing out on? Sounds cool.

        • eronth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          3 months ago

          It likely is. There’s a long present conspiracy theory that the “rock on” symbol is actually a demonic hand symbol that cultists use to signal one another. It’s not a particularly prominent theory (any more) but it’s lasted literal decades.

          • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            3 months ago

            Here is my understanding of that tiny grain of truth to that “conspiracy theory”:

            The earliest known use of the Sign of the horns (and the source of that name) is the “occult rock” band Coven, and specifically lead singer Jinx Dawson. There is at least one photograph of her dated from 1967 displaying the Sign of the horns.

            A lot of rock and heavy metal bands went with satanic or occult aesthetics but made it clear it was performance art, especially during the various moral panics. Coven didn’t. I’m not going to definitively say the members are or were Satan worshippers, but I would say they walked the walk more convincingly than the KISSes and Black Sabbaths of the world. Their first album titled Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls included a poster showing the band’s members performing a “satanic ritual” throwing up the horns around Jinx lying naked on an altar.

            So that’s where the bible thumpers probably got the idea from.

        • WldFyre@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          🤘 with the thumb over the middle fingers (instead of 🤟, the Spider-Man gesture) is called the devil horns, or the sign of the devil.

            • WldFyre@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              Rock and metal artists called it that, too, though mainly just to trigger/rebel against the Christian cultural norms

              Edit: genuinely confused why I’m being downvoted for actual facts, did people think I was agreeing with the dumbass Christians on this?