Had a hard time seeing the rainbow flag because I had never noticed that the Azov patch also has the black sun in the backdrop.
yeah they do all that BS for the western press, saying "Oh it's an 'I' over an 'N' meaning "Idea of the Nation", trust me bro!" as if we don't see the black sun in the background lol
In before Latvia justifies all those swastikas as 4 Ls which represent "Live Love Laugh Latvia".
It actually is an I over an N, it's just that the meaning is Incredibly Nazi.
it's totally just a wolfsangel which was used by nazi units in WW2 and the "idea of a nation" thing is just BS they use to cover it. the ukrainian for "Idea of a Nation" is Ідея Нації, so why would they use two latin letters instead? If they overlayed "І" and "Н" instead which is how it looks in Ukrainian, they'd get something like a trident, which is also important to them, but instead they go for this obviously German-derived wolfsangel thing.
Ідея
Idk why but Slavic words that sound like English words always crack me up.. My favorite Russian one is документ. It sounds like a Hollywood version of a Soviet villain speaking broken English.
They did a 'rebrand' a few years ago and supposedly 'retired' that old patch.
Because that fixes everything.
Not a few years ago, May 2022. And only because Russian propaganda was "exploiting" the old logo.
Oh right, I'm sure I read somewhere it was longer than that. Probably mixed it up with something else equally facile and abhorrent.
Breaking: Azov has controversial new drinking game where loser has to wear rainbow patch for next western photo op, experts fear this may be exploited by Russian propaganda.
If they win, these nazi facks will be ripping those rainbows off and laughing about how easy it was to fool the libs as soon as western media moves on to the next big story. Then we'll see the full Nazification of Ukraine, similar to the rise of the far-right taliban/isis groups after the US helped them drive out the communists.
And if they loose, we will see the full Nazification of novorossiya. Shits fucked.
I thought the whole thing about Islamism was that it was a third axis disconnected from left/right politics.
Islamists are super into charity and providing for the poor, something that the right doesn't give a shit about.
Think of Taliban/Isis like your conservative evangelicals in America that call themselves Christians but support the GOP cutting funding for the poor. They're more interested in the control aspect of religion than the charity aspect.
they're really providing the socially reactionary Russian govt the propaganda to paint LGBTQ+ people as Nazis
They have been doing that for ages really, and things like that don't really matter, even if they're hilarious
I have another theory regarding the meaning of this flag:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
I’m pretty sure this guy lost a bet.
I hope this person dies by a very painful rocket dismemberment wound
