Even with upscaling it still looks kinda crusty…
Here’s a better version of the same image:
Here’s a different flag from the same comic book:
lmao good one
probably would only be good for baiting or annoying chuds because of it’s similarity to the current flag
pmc dsa karens can’t imagine a flag without 13 kkkolonies white people will literally become communists before they stop being colonizers smh
The image is clipped from a deranged papist anticommunist tract from the height of the cold war
EDIT: Specifically, this deranged papist anticommunist tract from 1961.
Lol, a working class family is forced to work to not lose their home, oh that communism!
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/09/cdc-eviction-ban-housing-crisis/619960/
In October 2008, responding to a dramatic increase in such evictions since 2006, Tom Dart, the elected Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, decided to take a stand on the issue. He criticized mortgage companies for failing to fulfill their obligation to identify renters in foreclosed properties, and announced that he was suspending all foreclosure evictions immediately. The Illinois Banker’s Association accused Dart of engaging in “vigilantism”.[32]
The comic is also telling on how so many Americans (boomers at least) think communism is primarily about enforcing atheism and persecuting the religious.
If communists are not anti American, why do some of them say “death to America”? I’m genuinely curious, I’ve been trying to understand alternate perspectives but it is confusing reading some of the communist interactions on lemmy. Are they trying to be ironic, or are those just foreign propaganda trolls, or do some communists actually want to see a whole country burn, innocent children and all? Is it an inside joke that I just won’t get because I’m a “stupid lib”?
We are anti-america, they’re pointing out the irony of using the 13 stripes, referring to the original colonies, in a communist America fantasy.
Also, it’s death to America, not death to Americans, i.e the military-industrial complex, exploitation of the global south, and related culture that masquerades as a country. Most people would rather that didn’t mean reducing the country to ash, but revolution and dissolution of the current state.
no, we’re definitely anti-amerikkkan, death to amerikkka, they’re saying that if we created a new flag it wouldn’t include any bourgeois atavisms such as the 13 settler colonial stripes. lol, is this a bit? no communist wants to see “a whole country burn, innocent children and all”, that’s what amerikkka does, in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc., we want to see whole class of the bourgeoisie burn and their class collaborators to liberate the working class.
“Death to America” doesn’t refer to killing every person in America, it refers to the death of a nation-state and the ideology it’s built upon.
Leftists use this term to advocate for the abolition of things like: fascist police death squads that kill disproportionately lower income and black/brown people indiscriminately and with impunity, the ending of American imperialism that immiserates the entire world while poisoning our planet, the end of neoliberal institutions (which we created) that enforce structural inequality across the entire world (like the IMF), ending nuclear holocaust and weapons proliferation, the evisceration of the bourgeois class that has plundered and profiteered off the natural resources we need to survive, etc; all of which are hallmarks of American structure.
Of course, too - to make an omelet, first you have to crack a few eggs.
