Does anyone know what this flag means? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by Hacksaw@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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I saw a convoy of about 30 cars on the highway back in October. I looked it up and found nothing. Then I see a Reddit post in /r/vexillollogy with the same flag and no useful answers.

It's so weird that people bought like 100 of these flags and there is no info on them at all!

I flipped the picture to make the flag the right way.

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[-] Gork@lemm.ee 110 points 2 years ago

Submerge America under the ocean and terraform Greenland to be the shape of a maple leaf.

[-] RandomStickman@kbin.run 45 points 2 years ago

I support this movement

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 20 points 2 years ago

As an American, me too. We're a virus infecting the rest of the world.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Mostly corporations and lobbyists. It seems to me that they hold american people hostage.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Also, continue to deny the existence of mythical New Zealand.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Another map that doesn't show New Zealand!

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[-] potate@lemmy.ca 59 points 2 years ago

Please let it not be horrible, please let it not be horrible, please let it not be horrible....

[-] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 106 points 2 years ago

With the trucker convoy sticker and the anti-trans save our children sticker, I'd say the ods are is horrible.

[-] potate@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 years ago

Ahhhh nuts... I didn't notice the stickers...

[-] polonius-rex@kbin.run 7 points 2 years ago

crazy that "#saveourchildren" is somehow anti-trans to these people

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago

Being trans, gay, understanding of the world, or empathetic is what they're trying to "save the children" from, in that order of priorities.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Save the children from what?

[-] Policeshootout@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

I think it's to save them from sexual orientation education in schools? Some people think teaching our kids about gender fluidity and acceptance will somehow make them gay.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah that's my point. It seems like the person is saying that it's crazy to believe that the #savethechildren bumper sticker is anti-trans. It's a really common right-wing 'trick'. You make up a phrase implying gay or trans people are after kids and then go "it doesn't say anything about that on the sticker, I guess that says something about trans people if that's where your mind went" when called out on it.

[-] polonius-rex@kbin.run 1 points 2 years ago

cool ur jets buddy you have it backwards

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Sorry, I've just seen nearly that exact wording from anti-trans people.

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[-] bbuez@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He's got it right, took me a second to parse but in a vacuum "save our children" doesn't have connotations with transgender individuals, but in our nonvacuum it lends plausible deniability as to what the true message is

Edit: and I replied to the wrong comment lol, we're all in agreement regardless

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

Specifically, it's to save their children (who are absolutely all straight and cis-gendered) from any exposure to others; except to ostracize, harm, and eliminate those others.

Here in Alberta, "Take Back Alberta" is a group of fear-mongering hate-based transphobic assholes who organized the "Save The Children" and other protests, and now are pulling the strings in our government. The leader is a contemptible home-schooled evangelical minister.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Any weird flags you don't recognize that don't involve rainbows are either sexual orientation flags (biaexuals have the best by far!) or some weird right wing shit.

[-] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Sheldon would like a word

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[-] Drusas@kbin.run 31 points 2 years ago

No, but I'd bet it has to do with being a participant of some particular group or another which has been doing the far right the trucker convoys.

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago

Especially as it's being flown from a giant oversized pickup truck.

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

And they have some shit sticker with a transport truck and the word merci which is thanks in french.

100% some traitorous prick

[-] i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

From the color... the greens???

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Switch to coal and uproot GE trees kind of greens?

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

The trucker sticker on the rear window is a clue though it's too blurry to read other than "merci."

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

It says #SaveTheChildren, safe to say these are bigoted and pro-convoy stickers

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 years ago

It's really hard to tell without more signage from that particular "protest", but October seemed to be a month where the "Save the Children Convoy" was harassing the city of Ottawa. They're a group of loonies who believe that queer folks are pedophiles, actual pedophiles are sacrosanct community leaders, and that flouride and 5g are mind control, and that everything fascists want to ban is child abuse.

So.... Could be related to that.

[-] ratofkryll@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

The cut off orange sticker starts with #SaveTheChildren so it seems you're on the right track.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 24 points 2 years ago

It's all the places in Canada where you can find maple leaves.

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

trees don't grow up north

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

Not yet, but Edmonton is helping make that happen.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Who said anything about whole trees? If a car is there I guarantee there's some maple leaves stuck to it somewhere. Look in that space between the windshield and under the hood 😁

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

You may not be familiar with Canada, it's large and diverse. There are people who go their whole lives without seeing a tree, let alone a deciduous one.

[-] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago

Just be happy you don't know... because it's undoubtedly dumb shit, and move along. :)

[-] hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

It seems like it is 2 stock images put together by the person. So it could mean anything.

[-] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

There were at least 50 of these flags across 30 or so cars that I saw. But yeah, those aren't HUGE numbers so if they organized offline and distributed the flags among themselves it could be about anything.

[-] hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

That's really interesting, sounds like it is made to identify a group.

[-] fuzz00713@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Beats me. Never seen it. Just deep dived for an hour trying to find it but no luck. Wonder if it isn't some new splinter Green group. Or a local Green Party's flag. Where was this?