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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 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] 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Is this the new official flag of the USA?

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 19 hours ago (18 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 20 hours ago

c/designporn

[–] [email protected] 119 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Money, a Swastica and a Cross. beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

talking to the empty set are we?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, took me a hot minute.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

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

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

Looks like an angry duck 🦆

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

It took me a few tries to see that

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Instead of yellow, black, and white it should be red, black, and white. This way, everyone can see where capitalism is heading to.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago

its already pretty obvious from the logo i feel... no need to over-epmhasize it..

[–] [email protected] 42 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

the yellow-orange colour represents gold, an obsession with material goods. I think it makes sense personally.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

Also, most fast food colors are yellow and orange to make you hungry, so yeah it works from multiple angles

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[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It certainly covers all the bases.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 day ago

I know, right? It's perfect.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I do like the idea of capitalisms colour being yellow.

This is far too orange to be appropriate however.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

"Gold" (that orange-y yellow), as well as regular yellow, is historically the color associated with liberalism (as in capitalism).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

Libertarians do often wear gold colored ties to visually indicate their political leanings.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago

The orange version actually matches pretty nicely with the world's current political dumpsterfire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Why yellow over red or green?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

It's the favorite color of ancaps

[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago

Red is already taken, and green implies environmentalism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

Cause it's piss

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

Agreed. Orange is more of a fascism kind of color.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yellow is also in some contexts the color of cowardice, which seems appropriate

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It's funny you mention piss. I think yellow-meaning-coward comes from yellowbelly, an insult from the US Revolutionary War, probably started earlier with Napoleonic war. If a soldier made it through a stand and fire volleys style battle with a relatively clean uniform, they were often seen as honorable and brave. The soldiers covered in battlefield muck (plenty of it human and horse piss) had cowered down in the face of enemy fire, giving them a "yellow" belly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Positive research papers on trickle down economics are always printed on yellow paper for this very reason.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's gold-like, which seems congruent to me. Yellow by itself doesn't say too much about capitalism, maybe anarcho-capitalism, but not capitalism as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's where my mind was at but didn't want to directly reference actual propaganda. anarchy and capitalism are mutually exclusive.

@[email protected] got the right idea. yellow = cowardice.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What I think is that the symbol has to be credible, it has to make you think "Yes, this could definitely be the symbol of capitalism if they didn't feel the slightest hint of shame".

That's why I think this is perfect as it is. I see it clearly being posted on 4chan by an anon presenting it as a symbol of the capital of kekistan or some shit like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

I think a credible concept would be far more Roman fascism than lol Nazis, it does feel like a 4chan meme it that regard.

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