I saw a convoy of about 30 cars on the highway back in October. I looked it up and found nothing. Then I see a Reddit post in /r/vexillollogy with the same flag and no useful answers.

It’s so weird that people bought like 100 of these flags and there is no info on them at all!

I flipped the picture to make the flag the right way.

  • @[email protected]
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    574 months ago

    Please let it not be horrible, please let it not be horrible, please let it not be horrible…

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1004 months ago

      With the trucker convoy sticker and the anti-trans save our children sticker, I’d say the ods are is horrible.

      • polonius-rex
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        74 months ago

        crazy that “#saveourchildren” is somehow anti-trans to these people

        • @[email protected]
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          234 months ago

          Being trans, gay, understanding of the world, or empathetic is what they’re trying to “save the children” from, in that order of priorities.

        • stankmut
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          74 months ago

          Save the children from what?

          • @[email protected]
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            134 months ago

            I think it’s to save them from sexual orientation education in schools? Some people think teaching our kids about gender fluidity and acceptance will somehow make them gay.

            • stankmut
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              104 months ago

              Yeah that’s my point. It seems like the person is saying that it’s crazy to believe that the #savethechildren bumper sticker is anti-trans. It’s a really common right-wing ‘trick’. You make up a phrase implying gay or trans people are after kids and then go “it doesn’t say anything about that on the sticker, I guess that says something about trans people if that’s where your mind went” when called out on it.

                • stankmut
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                  64 months ago

                  Sorry, I’ve just seen nearly that exact wording from anti-trans people.

                • @bbuez
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                  He’s got it right, took me a second to parse but in a vacuum “save our children” doesn’t have connotations with transgender individuals, but in our nonvacuum it lends plausible deniability as to what the true message is

                  Edit: and I replied to the wrong comment lol, we’re all in agreement regardless

          • Swordgeek
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            64 months ago

            Specifically, it’s to save their children (who are absolutely all straight and cis-gendered) from any exposure to others; except to ostracize, harm, and eliminate those others.

            Here in Alberta, “Take Back Alberta” is a group of fear-mongering hate-based transphobic assholes who organized the “Save The Children” and other protests, and now are pulling the strings in our government. The leader is a contemptible home-schooled evangelical minister.

    • @[email protected]
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      54 months ago

      Any weird flags you don’t recognize that don’t involve rainbows are either sexual orientation flags (biaexuals have the best by far!) or some weird right wing shit.

  • Drusas
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    314 months ago

    No, but I’d bet it has to do with being a participant of some particular group or another which has been doing the far right the trucker convoys.

  • @[email protected]
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    274 months ago

    It’s really hard to tell without more signage from that particular “protest”, but October seemed to be a month where the “Save the Children Convoy” was harassing the city of Ottawa. They’re a group of loonies who believe that queer folks are pedophiles, actual pedophiles are sacrosanct community leaders, and that flouride and 5g are mind control, and that everything fascists want to ban is child abuse.

    So… Could be related to that.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      The cut off orange sticker starts with #SaveTheChildren so it seems you’re on the right track.

  • Riskable
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    214 months ago

    It’s all the places in Canada where you can find maple leaves.

      • Riskable
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        14 months ago

        Who said anything about whole trees? If a car is there I guarantee there’s some maple leaves stuck to it somewhere. Look in that space between the windshield and under the hood 😁

        • @[email protected]
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          14 months ago

          You may not be familiar with Canada, it’s large and diverse. There are people who go their whole lives without seeing a tree, let alone a deciduous one.

  • @hasnt_seen_goonies
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    134 months ago

    It seems like it is 2 stock images put together by the person. So it could mean anything.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      124 months ago

      There were at least 50 of these flags across 30 or so cars that I saw. But yeah, those aren’t HUGE numbers so if they organized offline and distributed the flags among themselves it could be about anything.

      • @hasnt_seen_goonies
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        44 months ago

        That’s really interesting, sounds like it is made to identify a group.

  • @fuzz00713
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    104 months ago

    Beats me. Never seen it. Just deep dived for an hour trying to find it but no luck. Wonder if it isn’t some new splinter Green group. Or a local Green Party’s flag. Where was this?

      • @fuzz00713
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        14 months ago

        The Quebec plate I missed before. That and the trucker convoy sticker along with the green color suggest some sort of Quebecoise right winger.

  • @beebers
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    64 months ago

    It looks like the map has removed the border between Ontario and Quebec?

  • veee
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    64 months ago

    I have to applaud these mental gymnasts. It must be exhausting to shift your identity from cult to cult.

  • @Death_Equity
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    54 months ago

    Gemini didn’t know and Copilot was absolutely incompetent.

  • Echo Dot
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    34 months ago

    I think they’re from the mirror universe Canada where they drive on the left.