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Deuxcents

(25,753 posts)
1. So..the fox is gonna guard the henhouse kinda thing..I'm sure they'll do the right thing 🙃
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 08:02 PM
9 hrs ago

rampartd

(4,009 posts)
4. the airborne troops at d day used the symbol
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 12:02 AM
5 hrs ago

but this is more similar to a calling card left by some army troops in viet nam

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/vietnam-war/ace-of-spades-origins.html

i think in this case the card is being played as a "trump"

LudwigPastorius

(14,314 posts)
5. Hire a bunch of sick fucks, give them guns, and tell them they have legal immunity, and this is what you get.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 12:55 AM
4 hrs ago

Background:

https://charliecompany.org/2018/08/31/ace-of-spades/

...during the Vietnam War, American GIs began a tradition of placing the ace on a dead body, or leaving it in a village. Thus ideas like “being aced” were linked to death and dying. GIs would even sometimes wear the Ace of Spades in their helmets as a sign that death was coming with them as a fear tactic....

U.S. troops got a kick out of them and loved the idea of leaving them on bodies. Like wolves, it was a way to mark their territory. It proclaimed them the biggest and “baddest” varmints in the valley of death.
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