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[–] [email protected] 85 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I am saving it to my political images folder. This design is a perfect encapsulation of the shittier aspects of society.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Looks blurry compared to OPs image which appears to be vector graphics. Just saying. Image compression perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I love this, so I took a moment and recreated it as a vector image. Here it is if anyone wants it for printing or whatever. I squared the edges so it's more versatile, too. (Sorry for the google links, I know it's ironic and not ideal. The previews look weird, but the files will download fine.)

Capitalism_Flag.eps

Capitalism_Flag.svg

Capitalism_Flag.ai

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What other stuff you got in there?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Question for graphic designers:

I get why red would be too obvious, but why is yellow significant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Remember the No step on snek posters ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Ketchup and mustard

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

Gold/Black == Ancap (derogatory)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I just modified it, and it has become even more on the nose. 🤮

[–] BalderSion 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

There's something kind of clever about heraldic implications of the original (intentional or not) that this misses.

Supposedly, the first rule of heraldry is " the rule of tincture: metal should not be placed upon metal, nor color upon color". White represents sliver and yellow represents gold, so they should not touch (metal upon metal). There are many exceptions in heraldry, but the rule still kicks around. Vatican City's flag explicitly breaks this rule to demonstrate that "Vatican follows God’s rules and not man’s."

I find it clever that a flag of capitalism would have a field of gold and a giant roundel of silver (called a plate when silver, silver plates are also associated with wealth), and they touch to demonstrate that capitalism doesn't care about the rules.

In heraldry red often stands for courage, and that's not a virtue I associate with capitalism. Also a red roundel is called a tart, and tarts are delicious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

For me, the red stands for two things: "blood" and "Nazi". I consider fascism to be the next stage of malignant capitalism.

[–] BalderSion 5 points 4 hours ago

For some reason being a nerd about heraldry scratches an itch for me. Traditionally the "stain" Sanguine represents blood.

Red is the most common color in national flags. I wouldn't want to cede the color to Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Fascism isn’t a stage of capitalism necessarily. It’s more of a tool that capitalists bring out whenever labor threatens to take back what’s ours. It’s always there, loitering in the background, silently threatening us to stay in line.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Nice. I was thinking it might look best with both green and gold. It would be symbolic, to symbolize... green and gold.

[edit] on further thinking silver & gold would also be good. it would symbolize -you know.