▲ 51 ▼ Why did Trump really win? It's simple, actually. (www.motherjones.com) submitted 2 years ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 32 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) They tag some of their military assets with 'Z' for battlefield identification permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) Because the Russians liked the movie world war z or what? Also I'm still confused why people on Lemmy would adopt that spelling regardless permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Z was being used in ruZZia as a symbol to show support for the invasion. IIRC Z was used by a certain command in that area on tanks and trucks. People started spelling "Russia" as "ruZZia" to relate it to the Nazi SS and using Z to do so to show distane for the war. I write it with lower case r out of disrespect 🤷 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Thank you for being the first to actually explain this! permalink fedilink source parent [–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago They needed a symbol to spray paint on their tanks to easily differentiate them. Z is simple and it's not a a Cyrillic letter. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) Because the Russians liked the movie world war z or what? Also I'm still confused why people on Lemmy would adopt that spelling regardless permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Z was being used in ruZZia as a symbol to show support for the invasion. IIRC Z was used by a certain command in that area on tanks and trucks. People started spelling "Russia" as "ruZZia" to relate it to the Nazi SS and using Z to do so to show distane for the war. I write it with lower case r out of disrespect 🤷 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Thank you for being the first to actually explain this! permalink fedilink source parent [–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago They needed a symbol to spray paint on their tanks to easily differentiate them. Z is simple and it's not a a Cyrillic letter. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Z was being used in ruZZia as a symbol to show support for the invasion. IIRC Z was used by a certain command in that area on tanks and trucks. People started spelling "Russia" as "ruZZia" to relate it to the Nazi SS and using Z to do so to show distane for the war. I write it with lower case r out of disrespect 🤷 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Thank you for being the first to actually explain this! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Thank you for being the first to actually explain this! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago They needed a symbol to spray paint on their tanks to easily differentiate them. Z is simple and it's not a a Cyrillic letter. permalink fedilink source parent