{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Right-militant symbolism encountered in the last two months playing the Battlefield franchise of online shooters:\n \n One Nazi...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/170642556493/", "html": "<p><a href=\"/post/160613245423/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"/post/160566019618/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"/post/153015733618/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Right-militant symbolism encountered in the last two months playing the Battlefield franchise of online shooters:</b></p>\n<ul>\n<li>One Nazi flag profile image, all colors and proportions on-model</li>\n<li>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</li>\n<li>A few Rising Sun flags and uyoku dantai slogans<br/>\n</li>\n<li>(just now) one profile tag consisting of a large silver police shield bearing an image of a modern rifle above the large numbers \u201c88\u2033 in blue</li>\n</ul>\n<p><b>Left-militant symbolism:</b></p>\n<ul><li>One profile image of a red flag with yellow hammer and sickle flapping in the wind<br/>\n</li></ul>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Since then (11/10/16):</p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Kek-Flag-MemeWerks-Republic/dp/B06XNLFGNK\" target=\"_blank\">Kek flag</a>\n</li>\n<li>Several Pepe variants</li>\n<li>The usual Nazi flags</li>\n<li>A swastika made of right-facing handgun stamps that was actually the most novel take on the subject I\u2019ve seen in a while</li>\n<li>A LOT of Blue Lives Matter <a href=\"/post/160043065383/\" target=\"_blank\">iconography</a> - the American flag (often <a href=\"/post/157686725378/\" target=\"_blank\">subdued color</a>) with one blue stripe, the Punisher skull, often with \u201cfirst responder\u201d subculture signifiers like the numbers <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5.11_Tactical\" target=\"_blank\">5.11</a>, etc.</li>\n</ul>\n</blockquote>\n\nToday alone:<ul>\n<li>A member of clan WYTE with a Klan hood profile picture\n</li>\n<li>An American flag for a member of clan RWDS (\u201c<a href=\"/post/157312719598/\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Death Squad</a>\u201d)\n</li>\n</ul>\nAnd a rare leftist sighting:\n<ul><li>The East German flag </li></ul>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Yo lately I\u2019ve seen multiple icons of like a gold T-square crossed with an L on a red field</p><figure data-orig-width=\"960\" data-orig-height=\"1280\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_p3tqjlXnfy1qdlop9_500_253b063f3b54.jpg\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"960\" data-orig-height=\"1280\"/></figure><p><br/></p><p>And I have no idea what it\u2019s about but the fact it\u2019s EXACTLY halfway between Soviet hammer/sickle and Nazi swastika flags is suggestive</p><p>(no, I didn\u2019t report it, but that\u2019s the best way to get a clean shot. The fact that there\u2019s technically a \u201creport\u201d 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)<br/></p>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_inline_p3tqjlXnfy1qdlop9_500_253b063f3b54.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 500, "thumbnail_height": 667}