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      Would have been funny without the red hat. Not all us mid-western’s are MAGAs.

      You know, red hats existed before MAGA. See: https://www.redhat.com/
      You associating the hat in the comic with MAGA is a you problem.
      Nothing in the comic is political - there’s no reason to bring politics into every conversation.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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        You know, the swastika existed long before Nazis; see https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/卍#Translingual . You associating it with Nazis is a you problem.

        The issue, of course, is that appropriation is a real thing and change common and popular perception is symbolism. Red baseball caps have been appropriated by MAGA, and aggressively used to symbolize support for a particular cult.

        We’re humans, dude. Everything we do in communication is symbolism, with subtext, connotations, and implications. Red baseball caps symbolize MAGA now to most people in the USA, whether you like it or not.

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          Coming from Canada. Fuck that. Not everything has to do with the USA.

          It’s MAGA lettering, not the the red hat.

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            As an European, it’s a comic strip about the east coast, west coast and Midwest. The Midwestern is white and has a red hat, and midwestern white Americans are predominantly republican.

            Not everything is about America but it’s a pretty obvious extrapolation my dude.

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              As stated, a red arm band means nothing unless it has. Swastika on it. A red hat without maga labeling, means jack shit.

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                You’re not being targeted with this comic specifically.

                They are however very obviously making a joke I think makes you uncomfortable

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            Hey fellow Canadian, if we see a Canadian flag being flown by a regular citizen we now have to wonder if they’re some convoy-supporting dipshit McFuckface.

            Red hats weren’t all that common before and with MAGA lettering they aren’t all that common now. Choosing to use a red hat while knowing what they symbolize, especially as that country rapidly descends into collapse because of everything that stupid thing sybolizes, is gunna be taken as meaning something specific whether you want it to or not. Especially when it’s the only bright colour in the comic and placed on the character who looks like a stereotype of the person who would wear it.

            You’re not being clever, you’re being deliberately obtuse.

          • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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            Oh, I think you’ll find the US can cause plenty of problems for Canada. You even developed your own MAGA there for a moment, and your government is fighting it’s own struggle with far-right conservatives. You think you didn’t catch that disease from us?

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              Okay?

              You realize red arm bands are still used? It’s only when it’s a swastika that it becomes political.

              Same for a red hat.

              I don’t know what any of that has to do with the conversation. But no fuck off, a red hat symbolizes nothing, just like a red arm band signifies nothing.

              Requires the political message, but bloviate about, whatever that garbage was.

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          Difference is that you can wear a non-maga red hat without being considered a trumpet, but you can’t be rocking a swastika without people assuming you’re a nazi

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      But isn’t that the joke? East side guy and west side guy are stereotyping Midwest guy and then he brings up Motown.

      Or maybe I don’t get the joke.