apparently z means “ruzzia” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
at first i thought zionism RIP
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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.
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.
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.