kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

Right-militant symbolism encountered in the last two months playing the Battlefield franchise of online shooters:

• One Nazi flag profile image, all colors and proportions on-model
• A wide variety of South American users and private servers with 4-letter clan tags and logos (frequently in quartered unit patch format with skulls and lightning bolts as prominent elements) that map to local paramilitaries
• A few Rising Sun flags and uyoku dantai slogans
  
• (just now) one profile tag consisting of a large silver police shield bearing an image of a modern rifle above the large numbers “88″ in blue

Left-militant symbolism:

• One profile image of a red flag with yellow hammer and sickle flapping in the wind
  

Since then (11/10/16):

• A Kek flag
• Several Pepe variants
• The usual Nazi flags
• A swastika made of right-facing handgun stamps that was actually the most novel take on the subject I’ve seen in a while
• A LOT of Blue Lives Matter iconography - the American flag (often subdued color) with one blue stripe, the Punisher skull, often with “first responder” subculture signifiers like the numbers 5.11, etc.

Today alone:

• A member of clan WYTE with a Klan hood profile picture
• An American flag for a member of clan RWDS (“Right Wing Death Squad”)

And a rare leftist sighting:

• The East German flag

Yo lately I’ve seen multiple icons of like a gold T-square crossed with an L on a red field

And I have no idea what it’s about but the fact it’s EXACTLY halfway between Soviet hammer/sickle and Nazi swastika flags is suggestive

(no, I didn’t report it, but that’s the best way to get a clean shot. The fact that there’s technically a “report” function but it requires you to remember which player, then during a match open an obscure menu and wait through like a 20 second delay is a great fake solution)