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In your second link it does appear associated with antifa -- or am I missing something?
by jeffdavis 6y ago
In your second link it does appear associated with antifa -- or am I missing something?
- ceejayoz 6y agoWhere are you seeing a downwards pointing triangle in that second link's screenshot?
- jeffdavis 6y agoPerhaps I am failing to follow a twitter thread properly, but I saw a downward red triangle with "antifa" written over it. I also saw a similar symbol that looked like an emoji. My question is in earnest to understand the context.
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- Izkata 6y agoIn one of the direct replies: https://mobile.twitter.com/4StarPattonII1/status/1273692116733001731 https://mobile.twitter.com/4StarPattonII1/status/12736921167...
- ceejayoz 6y agoSo, to be clear: You think the White House Googled up "antifa logo" or "antifa image" or "antifa icon" and somehow wound up with an emoji that appears to be in use by a handful of Spanish speaking accounts instead of the antifa flag in widespread international use that comes up as virtually every result? And that the Secretary General of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podemos_(Spanish_political_party) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podemos_(Spanish_political_par..., the second largest party in Spain, is somehow using it to indicate his membership in antifa?
- Izkata 6y agoI wouldn't know any of that, I was just answering your question. The banner image on the upper-left Twitter user seems pretty clear though.
- Kye 6y agoI'm surrounded by self-described antifa who cover themselves in anti-fascist symbology. I have never seen this outside a list of symbols Nazis used to label people.
- anigbrowl 6y agoyou seem to be missing the fact the claim of usage is coming from 'Trump War Room' and is being refuted by the MMFA account.
- AlexandrB 6y agoOk, suppose for a minute this is true. Imagine you're in charge of making campaign ads for the Trump. You google image search "antifa logo" and see a sea of stuff that looks like two flags in a circle. ...but instead you choose some obscure symbol that's not in the first page of results?? I mean that really strains credulity. Like, it's definitely possible, but Occam's razor is working hard against you.
- jeffdavis 6y agoI was just trying to follow the evidence presented to see if it supported the argument made, and I was unsuccessful. I am not saying the argument is false, I am just trying to follow the logical chain and I had a question about it. Aside: am I the only one who thinks web links to twitter are hard to follow? Even the basics of who is saying what, about what, to whom? Usually I can't even tell what side of the argument someone is on when they are saying something, or whether an image or quote is something they are replying to or using as evidence to support their new claims.
- at_a_remove 6y agoFunny, I had always associated the three arrows pointing at a downward slant with them.
- anigbrowl 6y agoThat is the logo of the 'iron front' and is quite popular among Antifa supporters in the US, though not in Europe so much.
- mercer 6y agoI also found the whole 14 words, 88 ads to be somewhat suspicious. I try to be careful about my pattern matching, so when it comes to that I'm open to the idea that it wasn't intentional. But taken together it does seem rather too coincidental.