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[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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

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

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You’re not being targeted with this comic specifically.

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

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not about being clever or obtuse, it's about being stubborn

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

That's more or less what being deliberately obtuse means