• FundMECFS
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    134 days ago

    What does 🔺🔻 emoji mean?

    I’d say about 50% of people I see with that emoji in their profile are tankies, while the other 50% are old school anti-authoritarian marxists.

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      104 days ago

      It’s a sign used by Hamas to mark military targets; some online use it as an expression of solidarity with Hamas.

      • FundMECFS
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        84 days ago

        Of fuck really. I thought it was some sort of socialist symbol. That’s awful.

        • @[email protected]
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          54 days ago

          i don’t know the modern discourse. i thought it’s (pointing down) the symbol the nazis used to mark political prisoners (i. e. usually communists) in concentration camps, like the pink triangle for who they deemed to be “homosexuals”.

          • FundMECFS
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            23 days ago

            Honestly I think that makes more sense. Because I’ve seen some people with that emoji in their profile who have decently nuanced takes, I doubt they would outright support a far-right war crime committing organisation such as hamas.