My closest guess is that it's a tankie viewpoint. But I think the real answer is that it was just made as a joke. The gay/trans flags being on opposite sides and the UK being on both sides seems pretty on the nose.
Jesus and Satan are natural enemies, like trangender and British people, or Californians and British people, or British people and other British people. Damn Brits! They ruined Britain!
This overall picture is def deliberate trolling, but there's a concerning amount of LGBTQ+ who would be willing to throw their trans siblings under the bus, and have even proposed removing T from LGBT. So like very much possible.
Usually the play on these is to pick the opposite side to Israel but this one's tough bc Israel's on both sides.
I'm picking the left side bc China had brain-meltingly bad foreign policy during this era and there's also Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa on the right.
Across history, it's probably had enough time to be on both sides of most conflicts at one time or another. As well as arming both sides, and drawing the lines on the maps that created a few of the problems.
Also Mississippi. Honestly I expected to see both Mississippi flags on there when I noticed the one (they recently changed from having the confederate flag on theirs to one with a flower they're particularly fond of)
Usually id agree but this is clearly chaotic for the sake of being chaotic. Even if nothing else gave it away, Israel and Palestine are on the same side.
Edit: also, a tankie would've never put south Korea on the 'good' side.
Also going to point out that the flag of the Vatican or Papal States is on its just that it blends in with the white of Jesus's clothes. Also I just noticed what I think is the aboriginal Australian flag. Pretty sure this is just a shit post meme meant to confuse folks who are into vexillology.
I cannot fucking decipher what the stance behind it could be
Maybe that's the message. It's impossible to tell which is the good side. What has precedence, the flags or the image?
Overall, the left side could be the countries that are controlled by the US, which includes Cuba because of the embargo. LGBTQ is on that side because the logo was abused by the corporations whereas trans is alien to the US establishment.
So basically, everyone allied with China/Russia (the usual dictators, and shitty ideologies, along with a few unfortunate victims such as palestine), vs all th- nwm, it puts trans vs gay. This makes no fucking sense.
EDIT: The only pattern I notice is that the left side is all "vanilla" and "boring", while the right is cray cray.
This reflects many lemmy users yes it is quite accurate in that sense... It has to be made by a lemmy-typical type intelligence It's kinda shocking as a kinda new lemmy user you aren't just drawing your own version. I think you aren't implying shit is more complex then black and white, I think you are implying the binary map was drawn wrong.
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Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 152 pts · 305d
My closest guess is that it's a tankie viewpoint. But I think the real answer is that it was just made as a joke. The gay/trans flags being on opposite sides and the UK being on both sides seems pretty on the nose.
sunoc@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 305d
That’s my guess as well, but I feel too many flags on the right don’t match the core tankie bs. Biden ? Vatican ?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 304d
Putting Cuba and Venezuela opposed to China tells us its not a ml perspective.
Kanda@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 304d
UK on both sides, US and Israel opposite (???)
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 305d
UK fighting against a situation it created seems honestly correct
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 304d
Chaos is a ladder
kazerniel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 305d
Tbh the idea of tankies idolising freedom and Jesus seems pretty wild.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 304d
There are quite a lot of gay people who are anti trans.
Which is incomprehensible to me, but it is a thing.
Tonava@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 304d
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 304d
Which is funny, because basically all the cis lesbians I know irl are pretty staunchly against terfs.
blicky_blank@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 304d
Colloquially known as "pick me gays"
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 304d
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 304d
Like I said, I don't think that's the real answer, I think it was made as a joke.
I'm also not really passing judgement on tankies by saying that, it's just the closest match I can make between that meme and a coherent ideology.
I don't see much point of beefing with tankies in general.
Johandea@feddit.nu · 71 pts · 305d
The UK playing both sides. Nice 👍
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 25 pts · 305d
Yet somehow never comes out on top.
LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 305d
And increasingly no-one wants us to bottom either
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 305d
I'm normally a bottom, but I'll top a scot. I gotta know if they moan in an accent
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 304d
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 304d
Honestly, you have no idea how turned on I would be
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 305d
...except for those 200 years or so...
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 304d
Tends to hover around 5-7th out of ~200.
0ops@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 305d
You can thank the Scotts for that
Sv443@sh.itjust.works · 63 pts · 305d
All I could gather is North Korean Jesus loves transgender people
midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 38 pts · 305d
Unless they're also gay
Klear@quokk.au · 20 pts · 305d
Or wrong British.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 305d
Ugh. The wrong British are the worst
KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol · 19 pts · 305d
Jesus and Satan are natural enemies, like trangender and British people, or Californians and British people, or British people and other British people. Damn Brits! They ruined Britain!
Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 305d
lmao
voodooattack@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 305d
Hey! Hey! Stop fuckin around with Korean Jesus. He busy. With Korean shit.
JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org · 47 pts · 305d
Israel and Palestine on the same side
DivineDev@piefed.social · 26 pts · 305d
LGBT and trans flags on opposing sides, this must be deliberate trolling
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 304d
This overall picture is def deliberate trolling, but there's a concerning amount of LGBTQ+ who would be willing to throw their trans siblings under the bus, and have even proposed removing T from LGBT. So like very much possible.
tomiant@piefed.social · 7 pts · 304d
This is what happens when you abandon humanism and instead focus only on the rights of whatever clique you happen to belong to in particular.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 305d
On the side of Jesus.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 305d
Is that the Marlboro logo?
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 12 pts · 305d
It's a proud nation.
victorz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 304d
And the Olympic games lol
_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 31 pts · 304d
reminds me of this
XiELEd@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 304d
What war was that?
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 304d
I guess the Nigerian civil war, but Wikipedia doesn't have that 'supported by' table
b000rg@midwest.social · 2 pts · 304d
Right? I have to know what it means by "Vatican Ciry (Alleged)"
Objection@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 304d
Usually the play on these is to pick the opposite side to Israel but this one's tough bc Israel's on both sides.
I'm picking the left side bc China had brain-meltingly bad foreign policy during this era and there's also Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa on the right.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 304d
BilboBargains@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 304d
Son of a bitch, the Brits are spread betting
bampop@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 304d
It's the only way we can be sure of losing
BilboBargains@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 303d
It's the British way
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 304d
UK plays both sides.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 304d
Nah. England vs.
(Shirts n skins)
kazerniel@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 305d
UK is both? Alright...
gmtom@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 304d
The UK:
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 305d
I like how they worked in a Biden/Harris flag opposite the American flag
Ajen@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 304d
But the same side as the gadsden flag... Maybe someone's ideas of the horseshoe theory?
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 304d
Across history, it's probably had enough time to be on both sides of most conflicts at one time or another. As well as arming both sides, and drawing the lines on the maps that created a few of the problems.
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 305d
So is the us
kurwa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 305d
The sun never sets on the empire...
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social · 16 pts · 305d
This could easily be the allies of two of the 20 sides in the Libyan or Syrian civil wars.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 305d
I was going to point out that several flags are on both sides but then like yeah... fair point.
tourist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 305d
My rebel faction in the conflict was armed by both the Olympics committee and the Biden Harris campaign
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 305d
Israel and palestine on the same side.
And north/south korea.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 305d
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Verdorrterpunkt@feddit.org · 11 pts · 304d
I appreciate correct flag ratios :)
multifariace@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 304d
What is the correct flag ratio of the top center of a marlboro label?
foggianism@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 304d
Iran and Israel on the same side
87Six@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 304d
2 eras of israel on opposing sides lol
thewitchslayer@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 304d
North and South Korea as well
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 304d
And Palestine
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 304d
There is some secret organization power-struggle going on and this person knows much
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 304d
Love the Easter egg of the Event Horizon version of the Australian flag.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 305d
Big fan of how the U.S is bad, but
canadaCalifornia specifically is fine.Ajen@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 304d
US bad, California good. UK bad, UK also good. Biden good, also thin blue line and gadsden flag good. Isreal good, also Palestine good.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 305d
Also Mississippi. Honestly I expected to see both Mississippi flags on there when I noticed the one (they recently changed from having the confederate flag on theirs to one with a flower they're particularly fond of)
omega_x3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 304d
A flower from a tree that just cums on everything and leaves stupid large leaves all over the place.
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 304d
That's the New California Republic from Fallout. There are not enough pixels to prove me definitely wrong, therefore I believe this is true.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 304d
I wouldn't really say so.
rustyfish@piefed.world · 8 pts · 305d
The devil has the EU and Germany. According to my calculations, that makes two Germanys.
Jesus is fucked.
Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com · 7 pts · 305d
Fuckin gym class dodgeball lineup...
biotin7@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 304d
Apolitical ?? Try chaotic
devolution@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 304d
I'm sorry but stating China and Russia as freedom bastions is some tankie apologist bullshit.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 304d
Usually id agree but this is clearly chaotic for the sake of being chaotic. Even if nothing else gave it away, Israel and Palestine are on the same side.
Edit: also, a tankie would've never put south Korea on the 'good' side.
EddoWagt@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 304d
Somehow the UK is on both sides
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 304d
Sure but I feel that is offset by the NATO/Ukraine flag, also the fuck is Mississippi doing there.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 304d
And Biden, which was definitely opposed by China and Russia if only because they explicitly endorsed Trump over the Ukraine and TikTok policies.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 304d
Also going to point out that the flag of the Vatican or Papal States is on its just that it blends in with the white of Jesus's clothes. Also I just noticed what I think is the aboriginal Australian flag. Pretty sure this is just a shit post meme meant to confuse folks who are into vexillology.
reptar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 304d
Dude you have up to soon. The fun is continuing down each side because the "team ups" are confusing
plyth@feddit.org · 5 pts · 304d
Maybe that's the message. It's impossible to tell which is the good side. What has precedence, the flags or the image?
Overall, the left side could be the countries that are controlled by the US, which includes Cuba because of the embargo. LGBTQ is on that side because the logo was abused by the corporations whereas trans is alien to the US establishment.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 304d
Damn. Shitposting has reached a new epoch.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 304d
So basically, everyone allied with China/Russia (the usual dictators, and shitty ideologies, along with a few unfortunate victims such as palestine), vs all th- nwm, it puts trans vs gay. This makes no fucking sense.
EDIT: The only pattern I notice is that the left side is all "vanilla" and "boring", while the right is cray cray.
tyler@programming.dev · 11 pts · 304d
this just in: lgbtq, japan, the united states, and olympics are vanilla and boring while palestine, switzerland, france, and biden are cray cray.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 304d
Lgbtq is boring. It's been around forever.
We need lgbtq 2.0
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 304d
New Zealand's on the right. What did we do?
Manticore@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 304d
China's our biggest trade partner iirc. Maybe it's about that
tyler@programming.dev · 1 pts · 304d
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 303d
the more you look at it the weirder it gets
pyre@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 304d
pretty sure this is a parody
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 304d
This is easy. US and EU and Ukraine and Taiwan on Satan's side. UK playing both sides. France, DPRK, ROK, Palestine, Israel all on Jesus side.
Answer is choose China. From Brother where are't thou... They are the only ones remaining unaffiliated.
omega_x3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 304d
Ugh why is the state of Mississippi on the Jesus side?
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 304d
And also the blue lives matter crew.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 305d
The fact that it’s Jesus ensures it’s not neutral.
Also, given how white Jesus is, it hints at a certain direction.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 304d
Is there an upper limit to how white they can male Jesus?
altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 305d
Wow, Mexico is on the evil side? I thought they were neutral always.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 304d
Except on slavery. Outlawed that shit early, much to the US' bemusement.
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 304d
This reflects many lemmy users yes it is quite accurate in that sense... It has to be made by a lemmy-typical type intelligence It's kinda shocking as a kinda new lemmy user you aren't just drawing your own version. I think you aren't implying shit is more complex then black and white, I think you are implying the binary map was drawn wrong.