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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Another map that doesn't show New Zealand!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been to Atlantis, El Dorado, and Camelot however there is no way this place called New Zealand is real.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure the movie industry made it up to dodge taxes.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be surprised at all.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Save the children from what?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sheldon would like a word

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

100% some traitorous prick

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

From the color... the greens???

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Not yet, but Edmonton is helping make that happen.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I saw it on the 417 between Ottawa and Montreal. This picture is in Ottawa.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We sure have a lot of interesting people in Ottawa don't we?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Quebec plate I missed before. That and the trucker convoy sticker along with the green color suggest some sort of Quebecoise right winger.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I have to applaud these mental gymnasts. It must be exhausting to shift your identity from cult to cult.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It looks like the map has removed the border between Ontario and Quebec?

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Gemini didn't know and Copilot was absolutely incompetent.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think they're from the mirror universe Canada where they drive on the left.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Adanac strikes again!

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