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Lefty Memes

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

It looks like intersecting swastikas than a dollar sign. Which is kinda fitting...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 39 minutes ago

“Heil the Oligarchs”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

maybe havin two lines would make it more obvious that its supposed to be merican moni symbol... i feel that the reference would still be easily recognizable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

The international dollar (int'l dollar or intl dollar, symbols Int'l$., Intl$., Int$), also known as Geary–Khamis dollar (symbols G–K$ or GK$), is a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power parity that the U.S. dollar had in the United States at a given point in time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_dollar

$ is also used in many fictional settings as a currency symbol, often in video games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

also known as Geary–Khamis dollar

Lol those two dudes really got to attach their name to this idea? The idea that we can use '$' to symbolize a hypothetical currency equivalent to USD?

Really??? Good for them I guess...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 hours ago

Is this the new official flag of the USA?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 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] 3 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 26 minutes ago

What other stuff you got in there?

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

Question for graphic designers:

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

Ketchup and mustard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Gold/Black == Ancap (derogatory)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 hours ago

c/designporn

[–] [email protected] 93 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Money, a Swastica and a Cross. beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Swastikas technically already include the kind of cross the Romans would have actually used

[–] [email protected] 84 points 11 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Also a 5 and an I or l

[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

For those who didn't notice, there's a swastika hidden in the $

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

talking to the empty set are we?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It might have been obvious to you but it took me a minute to notice.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

did you not notice that the entire flag is just an edit of the nazi flag?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, took me a hot minute.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's almost as subtle as fascism hidden in capitalism.

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

Capitalists hide behind liberalism and fascism - not the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 hours ago
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