cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31446248
Donald Trump’s administration on Saturday was accused of promoting the Russian flag, on Flag Day.
The Department of Defense over the weekend wished social media a “Happy Flag Day!”
“Let us honor the emblem of our nation and the stars and stripes that unite us all. As we display our nations flag and reflect on the values it represents, let’s celebrate the freedom, courage and resilience that makes our country great,” the department stated Saturday.
The image attached to the post included two small images that appear to represent the Russian flag.
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I think there are more serious things to write about the trump administration than a graphic design gaff
That’s clearly not intentional, but it is funny.
The question I’m constantly asking myself, is this incompetence or Russian influence?
The answer I usually come up with is “probably both”.
I see the design choice since the background is blue. But the answer is you change the background or separate the flag colors from it. You don’t go transparent because the background is the color you want. It’s a separate thing and it’s always red-white-blue. This is like wearing a green tie if you’re a weather person, except they’re usually competent and do it on purpose.
I’d throw the “porque no los dos” meme up here, but it was deported last week.
Even so, it is still pretty funny
It’s not a gaff though.
This color combo and layout has been used by the us military for badges and medals for a very long time.
It’s quite rare to not have red touch white
http://www.militarywives.com/index.php/chart-of-us-medals
To me this looks as much as a gaff as Elon Musk his Nazi salutes. This “gaff” is yet another obvious dog whistle by USA republicans.
Absurd comparison. I won’t be arguing with you about it.
If it wasn’t deniable by pundits like you, then it wouldn’t be a dog whistle.
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A dog whistle in this context is saying or implying something that could be easily denied, but was intended for a certain specific audience to understand, like how a dog hears the whistle but the owner can’t.
So I could say “at around 14:00 I helped an 88 year old man at the protests, we should all start doing the same”
That alone is just a statement about an old man at the protests, the dog whistle is “I was counter protesting with my Nazi friends and we need more of us involved”. Since 14 and 88 are Nazi codes, they’re put in as unnecessary details that wouldn’t normally stand out or really be mentioned in a normal conversation.
This represents any other country with a similar color scheme. Like france, iceland, chile, costa rica, north korea and others. This is honesty a bunch of nothingness, but the left likes to rage over clickbait just as bad as everyone else.
No lie. No matter the order of the stripes, you’re going to come out with someone’s flag.
Its classic design used by russia and russia alone. Thin stripes of russian flag colors. If you live with your head under the sand far from russia you wouldn’t know about it.