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Is this the new official flag of the USA?
No, just the flag of the Gulf of America.
I haven’t been this thrilled about a design since Tui’s logo.
fair, tui is pretti gud too <3
It looks like intersecting swastikas than a dollar sign. Which is kinda fitting…
I am not sure why the down vote, that is the literal intention of the design.
I didn’t downvote but kinda groaned when I read the above comment.
Explaining a joke (especially when it’s pretty self-explanatory) can be irksome…. especially when explained in a tone like they’re having some revelation about some deep hidden meaning…
Fair
Me neither. When I checked the status of my comment I was wondering why also. I mean it is a dollar sign, yes, but it also very clearly has a swastika in the design.
Which is the entire point of the design, so your comment pointing this out becomes a bit weird.
(I haven’t downvoted you though. I’ll die holding the belief that downvotes should only be seen as an indicator of a malicious or off topic comment, not as a simple ‘disagree’ button)
Well i will attribute it to my autistic mind speaking outloud (then my fingers typing it here).
“Heil the Oligarchs”
That dude is spot on!
I think it would look better if it was Dollar green.
Gold has a broader meaning.
I feel like watching Disturbed’s cover of Land of Confusion again.
Goddamn that music video is something else.
Yeah sadly now it’s the 6 o’clock news.
I know what you mean. The original has been ringing in my ears since mid-February.
The original at least had some levity.
Perfection
maybe havin two lines would make it more obvious that its supposed to be merican moni symbol… i feel that the reference would still be easily recognizable.
The international dollar (int’l dollar or intl dollar, symbols Int’l$., Intl$., Int$), also known as Geary–Khamis dollar (symbols G–K$ or GK$), is a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power parity that the U.S. dollar had in the United States at a given point in time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_dollar
$ is also used in many fictional settings as a currency symbol, often in video games.
also known as Geary–Khamis dollar
Lol those two dudes really got to attach their name to this idea? The idea that we can use ‘$’ to symbolize a hypothetical currency equivalent to USD?
Really??? Good for them I guess…
It certainly covers all the bases.
I know, right? It’s perfect.
Money, a Swastica and a Cross. beautiful.
I also see an Odal Rune very appropriate and quite popular with the far right.
The SS used a slightly different version, but I’ve seen this one more frequently.
Also an U, an S and an A
Good spot
Also two amogus
What’s an amogus?
ඞ
Also a 5 and an I or l
And +,-,±,×,÷,>,<,=,≠ and all 8 trigrams of the I Ching
Swastikas technically already include the kind of cross the Romans would have actually used
I am saving it to my political images folder. This design is a perfect encapsulation of the shittier aspects of society.
What other stuff you got in there?
Here ya go.
Looks blurry compared to OPs image which appears to be vector graphics. Just saying. Image compression perhaps?
Thanks!
I love this, so I took a moment and recreated it as a vector image. Here it is if anyone wants it for printing or whatever. I squared the edges so it’s more versatile, too. (Sorry for the google links, I know it’s ironic and not ideal. The preview looks weird, but the file will download fine.)
Nice!
Question for graphic designers:
I get why red would be too obvious, but why is yellow significant.
Gold/Black == Ancap (derogatory)
is gold*
I just modified it, and it has become even more on the nose. 🤮
There’s something kind of clever about heraldic implications of the original (intentional or not) that this misses.
Supposedly, the first rule of heraldry is " the rule of tincture: metal should not be placed upon metal, nor color upon color". White represents sliver and yellow represents gold, so they should not touch (metal upon metal). There are many exceptions in heraldry, but the rule still kicks around. Vatican City’s flag explicitly breaks this rule to demonstrate that “Vatican follows God’s rules and not man’s.”
I find it clever that a flag of capitalism would have a field of gold and a giant roundel of silver (called a plate when silver, silver plates are also associated with wealth), and they touch to demonstrate that capitalism doesn’t care about the rules.
In heraldry red often stands for courage, and that’s not a virtue I associate with capitalism. Also a red roundel is called a tart, and tarts are delicious.
For me, the red stands for two things: “blood” and “Nazi”. I consider fascism to be the next stage of malignant capitalism.
For some reason being a nerd about heraldry scratches an itch for me. Traditionally the “stain” Sanguine represents blood.
Red is the most common color in national flags. I wouldn’t want to cede the color to Nazis.
Fascism isn’t a stage of capitalism necessarily. It’s more of a tool that capitalists bring out whenever labor threatens to take back what’s ours. It’s always there, loitering in the background, silently threatening us to stay in line.
Nice. I was thinking it might look best with both green and gold. It would be symbolic, to symbolize… green and gold.
[edit] on further thinking silver & gold would also be good. it would symbolize -you know.
99.9% of graphic designers wouldn’t have a clue why.
Ketchup and mustard
I do like the idea of capitalisms colour being yellow.
This is far too orange to be appropriate however.
“Gold” (that orange-y yellow), as well as regular yellow, is historically the color associated with liberalism (as in capitalism).
And, missing the bed of shit it sits on — like a throne & birthplace in one.
I think it should be purple. Historically, that was the color of the royalty and the wealthy
True, but Feudalism hasn’t been a powerhouse of global politics as of late.
It’s gold-like, which seems congruent to me. Yellow by itself doesn’t say too much about capitalism, maybe anarcho-capitalism, but not capitalism as a whole.
That’s where my mind was at but didn’t want to directly reference actual propaganda. anarchy and capitalism are mutually exclusive.
@jjjalljs@ttrpg.network got the right idea. yellow = cowardice.
What I think is that the symbol has to be credible, it has to make you think “Yes, this could definitely be the symbol of capitalism if they didn’t feel the slightest hint of shame”.
That’s why I think this is perfect as it is. I see it clearly being posted on 4chan by an anon presenting it as a symbol of the capital of kekistan or some shit like that.
I think a credible concept would be far more Roman fascism than lol Nazis, it does feel like a 4chan meme it that regard.
Yellow is also in some contexts the color of cowardice, which seems appropriate
The orange version actually matches pretty nicely with the world’s current political dumpsterfire.
Libertarians do often wear gold colored ties to visually indicate their political leanings.
Agreed. Orange is more of a fascism kind of color.
Why yellow over red or green?
Red is already taken, and green implies environmentalism.
Cause it’s piss
It’s the favorite color of ancaps
