Ah yes, the hammer and sickle; a symbol known throughout the world for championing gay rights.
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It's almost like they added some other symbol in there to alter the meaning for a new generation.
What other symbol did they add?
Bro... Just count the things with symbolic value in the bottom image
Sending mixed signals here
How so?
Kneeling for the US flag is kneeling for an imperialist bourgeois state, which is incompatible with communism at the most fundamental level. This meme looks like a patriotic socialist 
It depends on what you interpret kneeling to mean. In the US, kneeling for the flag or kneeling for the national anthem is a form of protest when tradition dictates that you should stand with your hand over your heart. In recent years, the act has made news due to NFL players (starting with Colin Kaepernick) kneeling in protest of police brutality and racial inequality in the US. It is not an act of reverence as if you were kneeling before a ruler or deity.
Kneeling for the US flag and supporting communism/socialism and LGBTQ rights are all very leftist concepts.
If would be a good meme if it actually made reference to Kaepernick. Kneeling for a symbol is historically honorary, so without Kaepernick the meme is ambiguous. It wasn’t so much that Kaepernick was kneeling, it was that he was not standing for the flag with everyone else.
If you're unfamiliar with America and it's traditions, I can see your point. Americans don't need the extra visual aid. "Kneeling for the flag" only means one thing.
I'm American and I didn't get the reference.
Fair. I can only speak about my lived experience. It may have faded from the public eye, but when I was living in the states, just saying the word "kneel" would have gotten half the population frothing at their mouth.
Yeah, I think I would've have gotten it in 2019, but kneeling definitely isn't at the top of my mind as a form of protest. And even at the time it seemed odd to me because kneeling is almost always interpreted as a show of respect.
I don't understand the meme. It doesn't even make sense ironically. I assume it's agenda of the insane, a troll, or misclicking off shitposts—though I imagine it wouldn't even make sense there.
I'll just land on the assumption that OP is nonsensical and "memes" are their outlet of instability.
I made it to made fun of this: 
Maybe it's just me but it seems a bit convoluted...
These political propaganda memes are getting out of control.
its election season in the us, and climate change season in the rest of the world.
the memes are probably gonna reflect that
Check OP's profile, it's filled to the brim with "meme" propaganda.
OP is a Communist and posts to leftist-aligned meme subs, correct.
It just sounds like you don't particularly subscribe to his political positioning.
My dude, I have downloaded a lot of his memes and liked most of them. That doesn't mean it isn't propaganda.
thats kinda what i said, i think you replied to the wrong guy?
Y'all should probably look up the origins of Lemmy or FOSS in general.
