People still shop at WalMart?
- Yelling and triple exclaiming like a deranged boomer like that’s persuasive to anyone.
- Providing zero context for these flags for those who aren’t chronically investigating far-right symbolism.
- Failing to point out the likeliest explanation is that this flew under Walmart’s radar through their website’s third-party supplier program.
- Missing obvious, concrete reasons to boycott Walmart like the way they parasitize cities, abuse workers, etc.
Yeah it’s just a mirror of popular posts, I think our comments here also just disappear into the void.
If I’m seeing the whole post (two flags), there’s no chronic investigation needed to recognise at least the first one with just middle or high school history education.
I don’t recognize it, and I grew up in the south.
From a northern state and have never seen either.
Implying people in the American south get adequate middle school level history education
I’m from Europe. I don’t get them.
Fuck, really? The Spanish one might not have been so popular in textbooks, but the fasces was everywhere if you went through WWII and the Italian fascism.
Providing zero context for these flags for those who aren’t chronically investigating far-right symbolism.
Or maybe just basic understanding of history? Like, you know that this exact symbol is all over our the US Capitol building, right? Maybe you should know what it means…
Kind of a self-report.
There is no need to be hostile toward someone who is clearly on our side. If they weren’t they wouldn’t mention the other abuses Walmart commits.
What is it with people on the internet and slagging people off rather than explaining simple concepts?
I am not from the US or Europe, and have no familial links to any world war. The last time I took a history lesson was 20ish years ago. So you’ll have to forgive me if two obscure flags don’t immediately trigger understanding in me.
Could I Google it? Sure. Am I going to? Probably not. Does shutting down conversation and shitting on people for not having your life experience kill online communities? I guess we’ll see.
I have never seen this symbol and have no idea what it means
The axe and bundle of sticks is called a fasces. It is an ancient Roman symbol of absolute power of the law displayed by magistrates to indicate they had the authority to kill you. It evolved in meaning over time and generally became a symbol of the power of the state.
The word fascism is derived from fasces and the symbol was used by the Italian fascists in the 1930s and 1940s. It is also prominent in US iconography predating the rise of fascism in Italy in the 30s and can be found inside the Congress building, the pediment of the Supreme Court building, and was once featured on coinage, specifically the Mercury Dime.
The other flag is the is the Flag of Falange. The Falange, like the fasces, is an old symbol of power; however unique to Spain. The yoke and arrows symbol date back to the 15th century and were created when Isabella and Ferdinand married.
The Falange was the symbol used by the Nationalists, specifically the Falangists, during the Spanish Civil war in the 1930s. The Franco dictatorship that emerged was a brutal autocratic regime (and the Falangists are part of the European rise of fascism in the 1930s).
The yoke and arrows, like the fasces can be found on flags, documents, and statues prior to the rise of fascism. But, like the swastika, there’s no going back once associated with a fascist movement. These are nationalist, fascist, and authoritarian symbols.
The top one is the fasces that the name fascism is derived from in Italian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
The bottom one is the sonnenrad
Actually the bottom one is the flag for the “Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS” the fascist party during the spaniard dictatorship.
Ahh righto, I sit corrected
Just looked at the pictures again, yeah sorry utter brain fade they’re not even similar - lol - sorry.
You can edit comments you know.
I don’t know if I’m seeing the whole post, but what I see at the bottom is the Spanish Falange flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falange_Española_de_las_JONS
I’ll go ahead and change absolutely nothing about my life, boycott accomplished. Seriously, were you still shopping there??
