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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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 8 points 3 months ago

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

[–] davetortoise@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 points 3 months ago

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

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 4 months ago

This needs to be salted, burnt, and desecrated

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

American stripes is a major stain on this.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Cuba has blue stripes on theirs.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

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 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 points 3 months ago

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 points 3 months ago

Could be clown stripes?

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

is that the Pepsi logo orbiting the NATO star? 🤣

EDIT: I have been informed it is part of the South Korean flag.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and the red circle is for Coca-Cola

(Actually it's for South Korea)

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 3 points 3 months ago

my edit beat you by like two seconds 😅

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Morally equivalent and tastier.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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 points 3 months ago

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

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 10 points 3 months ago

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

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 points 3 months ago

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 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What is this flag? I'm not familiar?

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I made it to show what grounds my political thinking.

https://slrpnk.net/post/38095992

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] massi1008@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] meowcar42O@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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 points 3 months ago

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 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 points 3 months ago
[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

NATO aided in the invasion of libya.

EU and Australia host major US military bases outside of the North American continent. Ukraine and Taiwan are closely allied with the US.

They are all arms of the US empire along with others. You cannot be an underling of the world's foremost imperialist power and be "the prime example of anti-imperialism". That's absurdity.

[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 points 3 months ago

Pledging allegiance to any flag is total bootlicker behaviour.

There's an exception, this flag:

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works -5 points 3 months ago

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