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.
Such a fucking stupid ass dog whistle, honestly the only thing maga does actually anymore is troll and hate
Yeah, actual Russian collusion aside, anyone who thinks the horizontal stripes in that stylistic divider are supposed to be Russian flags is probably a prime target for ragebait like this.
And if this describes you, consider how the divider is reminiscent of the ribbon used to adorn many official medals. Has the US been secretly promoting the modern Russian flag for hundreds of years? Probably not.
Official ribbons are red/white/blue I thought, not white/blue/red.
You’re right, but I wouldn’t guess the intern they tasked with graphics design has ever looked too closely.
Or the designer knew exactly what they were doing and pulled one over on leadership.
I haven’t seen someone suggest the designer knew this looked like the Russian flag and left it in there as a tongue in cheek criticism/metacommentary, but that’s what I would do.
Lol you’re not alone. I think someone commented something similar last night. And you’d have plausible deniability too, since the blue is “accidentally” allowed to show between the white and red stripes.
I don’t do a lot of design anymore, but I still wind up working on data visualizations a fair amount.
It’s both subversive and satisfying how well the various LGBTQ+ flag color combinations work when creating stacked area charts.Great idea! Many of them offer a nice color palette too. I’ll try it.
With how incompetent, drunk, and high the cabinet is, I’m sure the prerequisite for underlings is being dumber than the people on top.
Oh c’mon! I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but I can’t really see that as anything but an honest mistake.
There isn’t even a blue bar in the middle, it’s just transparency XD
Its in the wrong order. Red and white are always supposed to touch. Blue separating them is in the wrong spot. Whether intentional or because they’re all idiots? Who can say.
red and white together would just look like a red bar and a white bar offset. it needs the blue between them to make visual sense. or i guess they could have used a different blue instead of a negative space
I wasn’t talking about aesthetics, but the US Flag Code.
Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is available for these purposes. The blue stripe of the bunting should be on the top.
If you cannot display the union stars, then the color order should be (starting from the top): Blue, Red, White.
Red and White should always be next to each other. Putting the blue in the middle isn’t an aesthetic thing, it’s the wrong way to display the American flag colors without the union stars.
I think Hanlon’s razor applies in this case
There at people on Reddit right now defending this decision as if it isn’t a huge red flag.
I can’t wait for social media to burn.
Your comment contains the flag of China!
The implications are: they are dipshits and don’t understand what they did or they did it intentionally.
Both are bad, take your pick.
Every time I see something mild but stupid (like this) that’s done by administration, all I can think of is that OSS sabotage manual that was like “make mistakes”, lol.
Hey, it’s red, white, and blue, what more do you want? /s
🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
Ain’t nothin’ more American than the good ol’ White Blue and Red!
This would have made more sense because at least the stripes are in order: 🇳🇱 ✨ 🇳🇱
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GEKOLONISEERD
That’s toothpaste and you know it.
If your toothpaste is red, you may want to see a dentist! 😁
If you’re bleeding before you even brush, go to the doctor 😬
one of my fave bits when someone mentions the “red white and blue” is to go “…North korea?”
Wtf is flag day? I knew you guys were really into your flags, but that seems a bit much.
Flag day was created as a propaganda tool to weed out socialist during the 40s. It has roots back to the Civil war in the 1850s. No one really celebrates it, I dont even think we get a day off for it.
80% of American celebrations are propaganda tools
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I’m so tired of ragebait working.
I hate trump as much as any reasonable person, but that’s just stretching it.
I would Rather be RUSSIAN then AMERICAN!
-Patriots who LIVE in the USA!
Very funny if someone did it as a troll
There is plenty to condemn this administration over, but this isn’t one of them. To say that it glorifies the Russian Flag when they are clearly graphic design marks, with the actual flag right next to it, taking up about 1/3 of the image, is dumb.
Complaining about this is stupid. There are serious issues to focus on.
They probably planned this to distract people.
Literal clickbait
I read your reply as liberal clockbait, still applicable 100%
There’s so much to legit be mad at and folks have to post this stupid shit?
How would this bait the clocks?
Right on time
Very carefully.
