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This is the tweet: https://x.com/DeptofDefense/status/1933947548965781863
Yeah, actual Russian collusion aside, anyone who thinks the horizontal stripes in that stylistic divider are supposed to be Russian flags is probably a prime target for ragebait like this.
And if this describes you, consider how the divider is reminiscent of the ribbon used to adorn many official medals. Has the US been secretly promoting the modern Russian flag for hundreds of years? Probably not.
Official ribbons are red/white/blue I thought, not white/blue/red.
You’re right, but I wouldn’t guess the intern they tasked with graphics design has ever looked too closely.
Or the designer knew exactly what they were doing and pulled one over on leadership.
I haven’t seen someone suggest the designer knew this looked like the Russian flag and left it in there as a tongue in cheek criticism/metacommentary, but that’s what I would do.
Lol you’re not alone. I think someone commented something similar last night. And you’d have plausible deniability too, since the blue is “accidentally” allowed to show between the white and red stripes.
I don’t do a lot of design anymore, but I still wind up working on data visualizations a fair amount.
It’s both subversive and satisfying how well the various LGBTQ+ flag color combinations work when creating stacked area charts.
Great idea! Many of them offer a nice color palette too. I’ll try it.
With how incompetent, drunk, and high the cabinet is, I'm sure the prerequisite for underlings is being dumber than the people on top.
Oh c'mon! I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but I can't really see that as anything but an honest mistake.
There isn't even a blue bar in the middle, it's just transparency XD
Its in the wrong order. Red and white are always supposed to touch. Blue separating them is in the wrong spot. Whether intentional or because they're all idiots? Who can say.
red and white together would just look like a red bar and a white bar offset. it needs the blue between them to make visual sense. or i guess they could have used a different blue instead of a negative space
I wasn't talking about aesthetics, but the US Flag Code.
If you cannot display the union stars, then the color order should be (starting from the top): Blue, Red, White.
Red and White should always be next to each other. Putting the blue in the middle isn't an aesthetic thing, it's the wrong way to display the American flag colors without the union stars.
I think Hanlon's razor applies in this case
There at people on Reddit right now defending this decision as if it isn't a huge red flag.
I can't wait for social media to burn.
Your comment contains the flag of China!
The implications are: they are dipshits and don't understand what they did or they did it intentionally.
Both are bad, take your pick.