apparently z means βruzziaβ π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£
at first i thought zionism RIP
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Did everyone already forget the "Z" symbols on Russia's vehicles at the beginning of the invasion? Wtf
They were just honoring Zelensky
Isnβt it basically holocaust denial to compare modern Russia to the Nazis?
Far less offensive than comparing the Soviet Union to the Nazis.
Yeah, this isn't some made up lib stuff, Russian armed forces were literally marking themselves with a Z. The tweet is of course dumb still.
Seriously. This is some worrying historical illiteracy being displayed here.
Sometimes I wonder if it is people just being willfully obtuse. Like, a random twitter user not getting it I understand, but given the absolute shitton of posts about the war on here you'd think people would recognize it.
It would be like discussing the Vietnam war and calling people nerds for knowing who "Charlie" is or something.
Ah, but you are assuming that most people are engaging with the discussion to add something or to learn. The majority of the time people are just flapping their lips to sound knowledgeable and authoritative about it and thus feed their ego. It doesn't matter if they actually are, only that they think they are and come across to other ignoramuses that they are.
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do that but we try our best to deliberately call out that behavior when we see it
This is the first I've ever heard of Zs being used on Russian vehicles. I've never spent long enough examining any of the war footage in detail to go like "oh there's a little letter Z painted on that tank", at most I might think "the tank is painted with some markings to identify it" and move on to whatever the actual focus of the picture was.
What? The whole half year of the invasion was spend with ruzzia and omg z is the new swastika (it isnt)
I don't not believe this is a thing, I'm mainly bewildered at how I managed to never hear of this at all until now. Apparently I don't hang out in the right parts of the internet to have seen this, from my recollection the first 6 months of the war was mainly people adding the Ukraine flag to their usernames and spamming it everywhere, plus some grainy footage on r/CrazyFuckingVideos etc.
Then either you've been living under a rock, are very young, or the algorithm of the platforms you use has not been showing you that, because it's been openly used as a marking on their military vehicles since day 1 of the Ukraine invasion, and has become a symbol for both sides of propaganda.
Or when you spent "long enough researching in detail" you somehow missed the Wikipedia page for it (first result in Kagi and third in DDG for "Z symbol" - link doesn't render properly on some clients because it has parentheses)
It wasn't just used on the vehicles that you could see in grainy war footage. It has been widely used in both pro and anti russian demonstrations for the last 3 years as a symbol for the war. How about instead of instantly assuming that someone you disagree with is inherently wrong about everything and trying to clown on them you look it up?
At worst this is just an example of the "oh, you think posting about milk is racist"
shit. It isn't really a subtle symbol at all, it is at about the same level as using watermelons for Palestine.