I want to scream

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Hegar@fedia.io · 29 pts · 76d (3 replies)

Anyone know what stars the top left corner of the nato compass star represent?

Top right is EU, bottom right is aus/nz, bottom left korea, taiwan and i presume japan? Extra chevrons are for ukraine and hongkong.

Incidentally the southern cross, used here to represent the white bastions in asia is often used as a nationalist icon in australia. It's popularity as a tattoo for the far right have earned it the nickname: the aussie swazi (ozi swozi) since it's like an australian swastika.

GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 76d

Duly noted, thanks for saying so. I didn't know that.

davetortoise@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 74d (1 reply)

Anyone know what stars the top left corner of the nato compass star represent?

I'd imagine they're just american flag stars?

Hegar@fedia.io · 1 pts · 74d

But one of them is smaller and has a little tail.

rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 76d

This needs to be salted, burnt, and desecrated

Sunshine@piefed.ca · 19 pts · 76d (11 replies)

American stripes is a major stain on this.

gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 76d (9 replies)

Could be Cuba, USA are not the only one with those stripes

Sunshine@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 76d (8 replies)

Cuba has blue stripes on theirs.

OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 75d (2 replies)

Could be Ohio

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 75d (1 reply)

That's not better.

gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 75d (4 replies)

Well can't be USA, only 9 stripes, USA has 15

Hegar@fedia.io · 3 pts · 75d

No flag that i can remember or find has 5 red/4 white.

That's clearly meant to be USA stripes (malaysia, liberia less likely in context) just they didn't check how many stripes.

Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 75d (2 replies)

15?

gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 75d (1 reply)

Wait, was it 13? I only remember the stripes represent the first founding states and the 50 represents all of the states

I dunno, I ain't American

Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 75d

yeah. 13. i thought this was a reference i didn't understand haha. it's one stripe for each colony of the original articles of confederation

MajorSauce@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 74d

Could be clown stripes?

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 76d (1 reply)

Ideally, scrutinizing a flag to make sure it's free of symbolism you object to shouldn't take longer than pledging allegiance to it.

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 76d

Ideally you would never fucking do that because the smartest flag I ever saw could barely run DOOM

rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 10 pts · 76d

If you show this flag to a russian child they will be traumatized for life

libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 74d (2 replies)

global north flag

Cort@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 74d (1 reply)

Well except the southern cross constellation in the 4 o'clock position from the NATO star. That's definitely southern hemisphere.

libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 74d

When Im saying global north, Im not speaking of the geographic north, but a political north.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South?wprov=sfla1

libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 76d

I'm more like this.

joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 75d

I think the best flag would be all the flags made into a photo mosaic of a big smiley face

massi1008@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 76d (8 replies)

Based 🫡

meowcar42O@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 75d (7 replies)

How is pledging allegiance to any flag based? Especially not this one

Hegar@fedia.io · 12 pts · 75d (6 replies)

Yeah it's literally rainbow-washed US imperialism and that's enough for people to be like, "oh sweet, nationalism!"

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 75d

Am I not supposed to blindly follow a group that exists for the sole purpose of exploitation on behalf of like a dozen billionaires a single trillionaire and their toadies?

massi1008@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 75d (4 replies)

How the hell are EU, Taiwan, Australia, Hongkong, Ukraine "US Imperialism"?

🇹🇼 🇺🇦 🇭🇰 are the prime example of antiimperialism. That alone is enough to look at this and go "hell yeah fuck them empires, based!"

novibe@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 75d (1 reply)

How are “American military base 1”, “American military base 2”, “American military base 3”, “American military base 4” and “American military base 5” “US Imperialism”? Seriously?

massi1008@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 74d

Lmfao

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 74d

NATO aided in the invasion of libya.

ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 75d
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Draegur@lemmy.zip · -4 pts · 76d (3 replies)

cringe.

the only people who make an ideology this much their personality are conservatoids with their trump brand socks and underwear and steaks and watches and phone and framed holographic print of a signed portrait of Trump hanging higher on their wall than the cross they pretend to carry.

Hegar@fedia.io · 15 pts · 76d (1 reply)

Yeah i presume that posting a flag for liberal bootlickers in an anarchist shitposting community was meant to highlight the cringe.

Pledging allegiance to any flag is total bootlicker behaviour. And while this flag centers queer and minority representation, it also includes all the nations that comprise the american empire.

Zombie@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 76d

Pledging allegiance to any flag is total bootlicker behaviour.

There's an exception, this flag:

GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 76d

It sounds like you already made trump a bigger part of your personality than trump voters do.