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Let's take this really bad thing and say "it's been reappropriated". Now it's ok.
Sorry, I'm not digging this one. Like, at all.
There are always other options (off the top of my head, would a horseshoe and hammer be better?)
appropriated to represent an inclusive, leftist, and decolonized Manifest Destiny
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Woke Andrew Jackson kicking off the trail of tears with a land acknowledgement.
it may be very deranged, but does the American left deserve better?
You could make it a broken wheel as a sign to break with that unavoidable part of American history and with other cycles of oppression. Also makes it look more like :hammer-sickle:
Dorks will think the broken wheel is a GoT reference, this will tell you who to shove into a locker.
I think that the attempt to subvert the wagon wheel would probably fail, unfortunately. The people that would like it would also be people that wouldn't be ready to be anti-colonialism yet, would probably take away a nationalist message, and celebrate American history / lore / power.
Though I bet you could get em with some racing stripes or flames or a gun.
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For every Male Indian Enemy above Twelve Years Old who shall be taken Prisoner and deliver’d at any Forts garrisoned by the Troops in the Pay of this Province, or at any of the County Towns to the Keepers of the common Jails there, the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty Spanish Dollars or Pieces of Eight;
For the Scalp of every Male Indian Enemy above the age of Twelve Years, produced as Evidence of their being killed, the Sum of One Hundred and Thirty Pieces of Eight;
For every Female Indian taken Prisoner and brought in as aforesaid, and for every male Indian prisoner under the Age of Twelve Years taken and brought in as aforesaid, One Hundred and Thirty pieces of Eight;
For the Scalp of every Indian Woman, produced as Evidence of their being killed, the sum of Fifty Pieces of Eight;
— Robert H Morris, Governor of Pennsylvania in the Declaration of WAR on the peoples of Delaware, April 14 1756
Manifest destiny can’t really be decolonized. It’s the ideology of a war of annihilation against the first peoples of the Americas, and everything it has ever stood for has stemmed from that. The land settlers rode those wheels too was only ever made available by the horrible murder of millions upon millions of Native Americans, and I’m going West they became the foot soldiers in that war. Manifest Destiny is American Lebensraum. You can’t “decolonize” it any more than you could Nazism and, for similar reasons, it’s a really really really bad idea to try.
maybe there's something there but the phrase "decolonized Manifest Destiny" is making me break out in a rash
A better communist symbol for the united states is a smoldering ruin
The hammer and the sickle best represent the working class of America. Anything else is dabbling in American exceptionalism.
The wheel is to busy and and needs one more detial otherwise it would make a good flag.
