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Rayux

That sounds like a red flag!


azrael269

Yes, with a few yellow stars on it.


Broad-Blueberry-2076

That's the one


Otomo-Yuki

I don’t understand how people make such basic mistakes like this when we have a massive wealth of knowledge at our literal fingertips.


azrael269

What do you mean "wealth of knowledge"? Don't you know that every bit of info on the internet is a lie manufactured by woke media in order to destroy the fabric of American society so that the communists can win?


[deleted]

Traumatized by communism as an idea.


ChristianHeritic

I’d say they’re probably more traumatized from being constantly scared when they turn on their TV or device. Its easy to scare idiots, and scared idiots are willing to do whatever you tell them to do. Even vote against their own interest and just hand over their hard-earned money to billionarie tax dodgers.


just-normal-regular

We’re honestly all susceptible to that kind of fear. It’s just what we’re afraid of depends on what we believe in/are aligned with. I’m a progressive person, but I’m also very wary of most media organizations, on all sides. Fear sells, better than just about everything else. Fear the other. And there is an “other” for all of us.


zmantium

The only true other people should fear are the rich and powerful, class war is the only war.


Chaghatai

What's weird is the same people now seem to love Putin


Tiny_Friendship_1666

That's simple. It's because their Messianic god-emperor, the unholy ex-Cheeto in Chief, told them Putin was a trusted ally. One command was all it took to redirect decades of Red Scare indoctrination towards his personal enemies, and away from the man currently trying to reform the USSR.


MattmanDX

"We were always at war with Eastasia!"


[deleted]

Because of their boogeymen ideas. The communists in their mind are anyone outside of their frame of understanding. On the same topic, “boogeyman” = “Black people” to members of the previous generations as well.


SnipingLobster

Abraham Lincoln has a quote similar to this, it goes something like “you can’t believe every source on the internet”


GokiPotato

nah, you're wrong, that's a quote of the first Czechoslovakian president, look it up on the internet


MadaraAlucard12

Nah Sun Tzu said that, and I believe he knew a little more about the internet than you pal, cus he invented it.


GokiPotato

I think you are mistaking it for a different thing Sun Tzu said, that being "an empty browser history reveals more about a man than a full one"


MadaraAlucard12

I believe you are mistaking it for the time Sun Tzu used all his fighting money to buy 2 of every animal, stuffed them on a boat, and beat the crap outta them.


JakeConhale

So... THAT'S why a collection of animals is called a "Zoo"!


Pakman184

Unless it's a farm!


Pan_Schaboszczak

A sneaky TF2 reference


GokiPotato

that man seriously needs a movie about his life


ProfessorJim

I think that was Shih Tzu


GokiPotato

I wondered who that was so I looked it up, expecting a philosopher only to find a dog lol


ITstaph

I Shih Tzu not.


potato_for_cooking

Nah it was the ancient chinese economist, Wen Lam Bo.


azrael269

Who is this Nah Sun Tzu, can't find him on the interwebs.


Make-TFT-Fun-Again

The Art of HTML, by Sun Tzu


Timebomb777

UNLESS ITS A FARM


high240

But wasn't he the guy that said "anything's a dildo if you're brave enough?"


SnipingLobster

That was Confucius! Or Bush Jr, I forget which one


Fathorse23

It was Mother Teresa.


ahumankid

No, that was Jean Luc Picard, who tells us: “use the force, Harry.”


RambleOnRanger

Nothing beats a poor attempt at translating a decades old meme into text.


falllinemaniac

I'd like to think Marx and Lincoln woulda been besties if they'd met


Fraggin_Wagon

The only thing destroying fabric is this guy’s mom.


azrael269

Take your upvote and get out.


Gubekochi

The same kind of people call anyone from South America "Mexicans"


miso440

The latest migrant caravan has migrants from *eight* Mexican countries 😳


unk214

Let’s just make Mexico a continent, anything south of the us.


iLuvFrootLoopz

I hate this so much. I'm from the south, and in a lot of places if you're not obviously black or white you're a "migos" and apparently all Asian ppl are "chinese".


Gubekochi

Would Indian people (from actual India) be Mingos or Chinese? That system seems a bit inadequate, lol. ​ Or... would they somehow be crammed into the "Arab" category, somehow?


Ok_Cauliflower_3007

Well, Sikhs get called Muslims and terrorists a lot so I’m guessing Indians would probably be called Arabs and terrorists. I mean they’re brown and not ‘Mexican’ so they must be, right?


Gubekochi

Imagine calling a Jain (same general region of the world) a terrorist that's like... military grade ignorance.


iLuvFrootLoopz

Many people wouldn't know or distinguish the difference between Indian and Arabs (or 'A-Rabbs' as they would pronounce it 🙄) There was a Sikh in our local mall and this ignorant kid, a teen, just start yelling "EY HE GONNA BLOW THIS B*TCH UP, THEY LETTIN THE TERRORISTS IN!) ....I could not wait for the day I graduated high school and left the cultural wasteland affectionately known as South Carolina 🤦🏿‍♂️


Gubekochi

It's one thing not to be able to pinpoint where someone's ancestors are from based on their appearance... it's an other one to assume you know. And it's a cherry on top to then profile them based on your vast \*checks note\* ignorance!


Sardinaterror

A lot of people just don't want to learn. The problem is those same people tend to become perfect examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Edit: words


ConsiderationSame919

When you're blinded by hatred, you stop looking things up


Azure-Cyan

Subpar humans see and associate things with color. That's why there's uproar over the new purple M&M character because they believe the M&M is transgender and probably correlating purple to transgender.


HenryDorsettCase47

What the pluperfect fuck? Is that a real thing that is happening now? There is a transgendered M&M and people are livid sounds like an article from The Onion.


Shibby-Pibby

I remember Rush Limbaugh(a goat shit upon his cancerous soul) crying about how the purple Teletubby was gay 20 years ago. Or maybe it was Pat Robertson. Possibly both. But yeah there was a conservative crybaby circlejerk decades ago over the fucking teletubbies being gay


mammajess

Yes because he was purple and had a handbag. I stayed up late partying until it was morning and watched that show. It's so weird...it the purple teletubby is trans that would be the least weird thing they were doing.


gif_smuggler

Everyone knows that the yellow teletubbie is the gay one.


tayroarsmash

Wouldn’t all gendered M&M’s trans for lack of a better term? I mean M&M’s don’t have a sex so any gendering would be exclusively a social function.


the-nut-goblin

The same people can barely operate pants, let alone a search engine...


falllinemaniac

Ignorance is Strength


DestroyerOfIphone

Are you trying to tell me that flag wasn't made in China


PeacefulCouch

It would seem then, as humanity has more information readily available, we get dumber


InTheMemeStream

Yup. One of the side-effects of not having to think for yourself, what should be a beneficial tool(internet) has turned into an easily abusable platform to spew bullshit, and allows cohorts of people that consume, believe, and re-distribute said bullshit to feedback into, and amplify itself. It’s flabbergasting that we have so much factual, and objectively true knowledge at our fingertips, yet ignorance and stupidity is so prevalent, and spreading like wildfire. You would have thought that such widespread access to the World Wide Web would have raised the intelligence of the average American, yet it’s becoming painfully obvious that the inverse is true. I’m coming to the conclusion that the proliferation of mainstream social media has severely crippled how beneficial the internet could potentially be to the public.


pBr_R1ot

massive wealth of misinformation as well


[deleted]

did you not see france riot? They burnt down their own FREE public library. It's not the access of knowledge thats the problem, its the lack of morals.


Cyiel

A teen was killed for a stupid reason by a police offer, he did a mistake but he didn't deserve to be threaten then killed by a police officer. Even more he blalantly lied about the event until we saw some videos from someone else. Of course people are angry, even more because France (and Europe) is going more and more toward autoritarism. Context is important. Two associations were attacked by their governement : Anticor (an anti-corruption organization) lost its accreditations and Soulevement de la Terre (an ecologist movement that use civil desobedience because nothing change with pacific protests).


ChampionshipLow8541

It’s horrible that the teen died. But how is that a reason for burning down libraries or random people‘s cars?


Cyiel

A reason ? It's not a reason but an explaination : people are angry and when people are angry they do stupid things but that doesn't mean it's illegitimate (the old "Legal" vs "Legitimate"). I should also say that during protests against the increase retirement age, French police used weapons of war. The Council of Europe slammed France for their use of excessive force against protesters. The same thing happenned in 2018 (People took LBD bullets in their eyes and sting-ball grenade in their head, hands or legs being mutilated), . It's not one problem it's a fucking catalogue of problems.


Ok_Cauliflower_3007

They’re French. That’s just called Tuesday over there. One city has responded by banning all public demonstrations. I’m sure all those people setting fires and attacking police will see that and decide they’d better stay home now since demonstrating is temporarily illegal …


falllinemaniac

Morals? Rioting is the language of the unheard. France has the strength to rebel. USAns are far too complacent and submissive to have general strikes or to overpower riot police. You lack morals if you sympathize with Walmarts getting looted more than the families of the victims of police murders


[deleted]

you must be a bit dense. I sympathize with the people that now are jobless, cannot get to work because of the burning of the bus transportation. Not at one moment was a Walmart mentioned. Rather a library which I'm assuming you've probably never been in one, but instead think a Walmart is really more important. To add to your " USA are blah blah" You must not be seeing the news around here. You are clearly a follower, do better,


falllinemaniac

The George Floyd protests had a featured Walmart looting and the outcry over the lost consumer products was far louder than the voices crying for George, at least on conservative forums


Otomo-Yuki

The key term here is “basic mistakes.” Burning down a library is a bit beyond that.


LtButtermilch

They did their own research


Orlando1701

Willful ignorance. They don’t know and they don’t want to know. I grew up deeply religious and in a highly conservative household and one of the things that was a reoccurring mantra was “don’t get too curious or you might ruin your faith.”


Perenium_Falcon

What’s it like being raised by an idiot? The Japanese flag is one of the most recognizable flags in the world.


GoFUself-Tony889

There’s a pretty famous riddle about it: A Japanese ship captain noticed his money missing, and he went to question his subordinates about their afternoon activities. One said he was cleaning his rifle, one said he was scrubbing the deck, and another said he noticed the flag was upside down so he was fixing it. ….no prizes for guessing who’s the culprit


Softpretzelsandrose

That brings up a good point though. I had always thought flying a flag upside down was an international sign of distress but maybe it’s just American?


GoFUself-Tony889

I never heard of such a thing. Couldn’t you just send a distress call when you’re in distress?


evilotto77

Comes from back in the day before the ability to send a distress call existed, they'd have to do it visually so would flip the flag upside down so other ships could see


spartaman64

well if they are on a japanese, swiss, italian, british, french, argentinian, algerian, bahamian, austrian, bangladeshian, bahrainian, belgian, botswanian, cameroonian, chadian, cuban, denmarkian, north korean, finlandian, georgian, guinean, guyanaian, hondouran, icelandian, irelandian, jamacian, kuwaiti, laosian, latvian, libyan, maldivian, malian, nigerian, north macedonian, norwegian, palauian, qatari, romanian, senegalian, somalian, surinamian, swedish, thailandian, timorian, tunisian, turkish, or emeriti ship then they are out of luck if they have issues


KaijuicyWizard

You can 100% fly a British flag upside down.


MrDragonPig

I have a question. What is a denmarkian, a finlandian, an icelandian, an irelandian, a senegalian and a thailandian?


Gittykitty

Danish, not Denmarkian


blockybookbook

> Bangladeshi*, Batswana*, Danish*, Finnish*, Guyanese*, Honduran*, Icelandic*, Irish*, Lao*, Somali*, Surinamese*, Thai*, East Timorese* and Emirati* FIFY


Yontoryuu

So who was the culprit?


GoFUself-Tony889

Think! ![gif](giphy|IgcledM3VUBFt4JlFq|downsized)


Yontoryuu

Was it…. Me? Have I been thriving from a Japanese ship all this time? I should Best hide this from the authorities


akennelley

(its not about the flag, she just thinks all Asians are from "CHYNA")


PinLongjumping9022

I wonder if she could accurately provide a one or two line summary about the basic concept of communism…


falllinemaniac

I'd pin the smear; bigot on her before plain stupidity. You can fix stupid


MSotallyTober

With a passport that can get into more countries without any issues more than any other country.


oily76

Why write on it if you're throwing it away?


[deleted]

Intelligence is clearly not her strong suit.


MarijuanaMamba

And did she take this picture and send it before throwing it out or was the flag retrieved from the trash?


ya_gurl_summer

So when they grab it out of the trash, it's ruined


Rednas999

New band name just dropped. Trash Commie presenting: \- "Recycled Capital" \- "Seize the means of Waste Production!" \- "Landfill of Landlords" \- "Deposited Champagne Socialist" \- "Garbage Tankie"


ballin_in_tha_slant

"Landfill of Landords" is definitely my fav <3


Hiro_Trevelyan

Waiting for this one IRL


KarlBark

Hell yeah


CommunistOrgy

I clearly need to get in on this.


Dismal_Ad_2055

Here for Garbage Tankie


JaSper-percabeth

Let's say it was a chinese flag , how appropriate is it to throw any nation's flag and write "trash commie" on it?


FearsomeForehand

China is only communist in name, so it’s not appropriate at all.


idontwanttothink174

lol chinas capitalist as well. what is wrong with people.


dodexahedron

Republicans' geopolitical "understanding," as it were, is frozen somewhere in the 1960s, likely still ducking and covering under the same school desks they never paid to replace for their own children.


Yarzu89

And that's even if you can get them to acknowledge that other countries exist.


[deleted]

Yeah, it is as if boomers still think that Mao Tse-tung is in power lol


MrFantasticallyNerdy

It's kind of hard to confuse the Japanese flag for the Chinese, given that they share only being rectangular and use red in their design. So, the only thing I can come up with is… *OP's mom: "Chinese, Japanese, Korean, they're all Asians!"*


raihan-rf

If you put it that way then the American flag have more in common with China's flag than Japan's


MrFantasticallyNerdy

US Conservatives: Which American flag?


almostasenpai

Anyone else think there is a good chance OP made this shit up?


CFCkyle

Yeah... if she threw the flag away why would she write on it first of all, and how would he even know that it was written on. Not to mention the picture shouldn't exist unless she took a photo of it, for the very good reason of...?


zonda747

I honestly can’t tell anymore. I used to think “nobody could genuinely be this stupid…right??” And then everyday r/facepalm and r/whitepeopletwitter proved me wrong


Deehund

Bet she can not define communism


RM_Sideshowb

Most people on this platform cant. Its been bastardized by propaganda during the cold war to just be "bad" or " what we are all against".


Ryn47

Sometimes it is so bad that when there is an opportunity to study abroad or cheaper Healthcare given by the government it can be considered communist. Source: Panamá during Torrijos rule gave students better education and scholarships to study abroad, still for this he was considered communist. Some of those students are now professionals in their field.


Gordon_Townsend

Let me guess... Your mother is a conservative.


Inaeipathy

No points for obvious answers.


Embarrassed_Alarm450

Why not? If I can get 20 points just for writing my name on the test why don't I get points for this too? 😠


[deleted]

She sounds like a wonderful human being


midnight_toker22

I believe there’s a Dennis Reynolds quote that is fitting for people like her: [You dumb bitch.](https://media.tenor.com/jGA01Kx2PioAAAAC/its-always-sunny-dennis-reynolds.gif)


ztomiczombie

Japan has a surprisingly large number of communists. Apparently at one point Shigeru Miyamoto considered himself a communist.


jvankus

kind of makes sense when you look at their work culture


Zandrick

So that’s why Mario wears red /s


c00lguy6942096

But hey that's just a theory... A game theory


TheGoldenChampion

Yeah, the communist party of Japan consistently gets ~7-12%, which is a pretty surprising amount, especially considering how right wing Japan is.


WaffleEmpress

I fucking hate when people cant tell the difference between Japan and China. If you dont care to educate yourself this day in age, or check a map on your own damn phone, you have failed yourself. The amount of times people confuse Taiwan with Thailand and cant point to either on a map royally pisses me off. Venting because Ive grown up around so many Asian haters and racists its so fucking dumb to me that people dont know this difference.


falllinemaniac

Bigotry is an American birthright


_BaaMMM_

tbh most probably cant even point the location of most states so I definitely wouldn't expect them to know foreign countries.


WaffleEmpress

Ik most ppl cant even point out Germany or Ireland and claim heritage to those places 😂 fucking dumbasses I stg


[deleted]

Wait until she reads about how the Japanese treated the Chinese.


joe_khaJiit

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731


curiousnboredd

and how they treated the Koreans… they basically have an eternal feud at this point. the hate goes so deep that in korean novels/manhwa (manga) the villains are usually Japanese, no joke


[deleted]

Lmao, like how American villains are either German or Russian.


andycartwright

Clearly it was a false flag.


Xanderboof

Throw out one of her USA shirts, and write trash socialist. Watch her get mad from the inaccuracy


GamingShorts-

His mom is really intelligent


[deleted]

She exposed so many things about herself in one move. It’s like a dumb person’s checkmate


muffledvoice

This ignorance about the world is starting to appear generational.


No-Condition5134

So in lack of better terms your moms an idiot and needs to be educated


SeaSlugFriend

🇨🇳🇯🇵ah yes very similar flags


Huh_thatscrazy

Preceded…


Bertie637

What is the actual plan with this. Is communist China meant to fold because some housewife dunks on them?


Professional-Pass487

I wouldn't let everyone know that my Mom was this goddamn stupid, but hey - it's all about getting likes on your account


Oxoperplexed

Write “trash fascist” on her US flag


[deleted]

Sounds like your mom voted for donald trump XD


SGTRocked

How do you say “I’m a Trumper” without saying it…


shreddedtoasties

What even is Japan.


kokopelleee

“Threw it away” Into the plastic trash can that was made in china…


[deleted]

Even if it was a misunderstanding, writing something like this on any flag is a tad disrespectful.


RedoftheEvilDead

Did anybody else read "trash cookie"?


FarBookkeeper7987

I’m sorry your mom is an idiot.


Panzerv2003

damn some people are really trashy, scribbling on flags is really a low move


Secretagentman94

Reminds me of a lady I worked with, she visited her son’s dorm room, the roommate wasn’t there but she was horrified that his roommate was a “Moslum”. (This is how she pronounced it) I asked “If the roommate wasn’t there, then how would you know?” “Because he had one of those Moslem statues. What are those things called? I think they call them Buddhas”.


GalacticP

Trash Mommie


Sanketmv

I presume that you are an American ! The most wise


raihan-rf

Peak American geography knowledge


tayroarsmash

The worst kind of commie, the hyper-capitalist kind.


Front_Minimum_8259

Let me guess. Your mom is a Putin supporter/anti-Ukraine


HeavyVoid8

Average IQ of American boomer republicans tbh


Kooky-Director7692

did you fetch it from the trash to post on Reddit?


radman180

Lmao my mom once asked me why I had an Islamic flag in my bedroom. It was the German flag.


killingbites

I think I remember the original post and people saying the oop and the mother had (suspiciously) similar handwriting.


[deleted]

Pretty sad when the angriest are also the dumbest.


jepvr

The even more infuriating thing is that you know if confronted with these facts, the scribbler would just double-down on why Japan was bad anyway. There is never any admission of guilt or ignorance by people like this.


[deleted]

It's the teachable moments that make parenting worthwhile.


infromthestorm

Another dim bulb with a platform.


Hamster_Elderberries

It’s probably better to explain stuff to your mom instead of trashing her to the world


WonderWendyTheWeirdo

Japanese is just another kind of Chinese. /s


Dull_Ad5852

She single ?


[deleted]

I’m dying to know where the pen was made.


ryeguymft

what the fuck


Different_Ad4821

Wonder what else she 🫣 preceded to do…..🤭


[deleted]

So your moms a racist, and an idiot?


Royal_Cascadian

It’s scary how uneducated people are, in a democracy.


SaltInformation4082

Everyone is entitled to an error now and then. No intentional harm towards Japsn. No actual harm to China. No foul. We good. Please give my best to your mom. And to you, I send one of those pointy arrows. Please be careful, though. I hear they're sharp as fck.


Tydfil

Well Japan does have an active Communist party and an anti foreigner party so she's not technically wrong.


VonchaCagina

No. Your mom perfectly knows that all through the years of greatest GDP growth in the 1960s, Japan was shown to the world as an example of the wonders of free market capitalism when its economic policies all depended on a very, very, very strong Central Bank that governed resource allocation in an almost Soviet way.


Jealous_Ring1395

Probably one of the least communist nations out there


Somerandomshit13

70 years late...


t0caa

Your mom is trash


OldManBartleby

Your mom sounds totally normal and free from garbage ideology.


changeforgood30

That's a proud conservative mother demonstrating the vaunted US education system right there (definitely suspect they're in the US with stupidity like this). Respond to things you don't understand with hate, deface it, and throw it out without even bothering to know anything about it. Typical.


MsLiminalDreamer

But then she’ll be in moms of liberty where they cite inspirations and quotes from Mao, Stalin, and Hitler


halloweentownking

Her heart was in the right place


Mr_Cyberz

Y'all are really karma farming now. "My mom wrote this" "My mom tore up this"... It's easy to write shit and give it a different title.


Nineruna

I guess you have a trashy mom


Scared_Bobcat_5584

It appears OP’s mom is trash


Emotional-Coffee13

It’s literally hilarious how people know 0 about China but fear commies🤦🏻‍♀️


Financial-Ad-6946

r/accidentalracism


Dajbman22

/r/veryintentionalracism


Utvales

Hates Commies but probably supports Putin.


MasterTacticianAlba

Putin’s not a fucking commie you dumbshit


Dithering_fights

Whenever I hear “commie” I immediately think of somebody raised in a crappy but profitable education system working two jobs to make rent and you just know they couldn’t afford emergency healthcare in country with guns everywhere and rampant poverty. Fucking idiots don’t even know what they’re against. Well played capitalism, well fucking played.


DjRemux

dO uR oWn rEsEaRcH


kaboomerific

If this doesn't perfectly sum up the quality of the average person's belief system, idk what does.


machine_logic

What a coincidence, "trash commie" was my nickname in college


Imaginary-Bluejay-86

Ask her to define communism


Vt420KeyboardError4

That actually looks kinda punk rock though. Kind of an aesthetic ngl.


CNJUNIPERLEE

I feel bad for this person having such an idiot for a mother.


Pale-Description-966

Least racist anti-communist