Why are they all done with the rose? Are the moving further left or something or is this just aesthetics?
Sorta both? Has to do with the heavy recuperation of it by radlibs that want to cosplay as radicals. The emoji has sort of become useless as any sort of signifier
I legit don't even see many actual higher profile DSA members using it anymore. I know some regular members still do, but the people that are actually putting in a lot of work dropped it awhile ago, and it getting appropriated like that is very likely why. Never asked them but it would make sense
is this just aesthetics?
Anything happening on Twitter is nothing more than aesthetics.
Why are they all done with the rose?
Basically, you know how libs found out about the word "tankie" and absolutely ruined it? Well they also found out about the rose too. For people who think social justice will take more than retweeting AOC videos, it is time to move on. I'd like to see the libs try to appropriate ☭ (thank god this got slipped into Unicode in 1993, because it would never happen today).
idk but I've seen a lot of people start to bully people with the rose and it works lol
Can't you just use the hammer and sickle symbol ? ☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭
Sure, they would just call you a lib who hates America regardless of their class
like Stalin and gulag. normies think ussr was just as bad as nazis. you might want to hide your power level if you hope to change anyone's mind
Pretty sure the replacement is to be a communist and use ☭ because that really can't be co-opted by anyone other than anarcho-loserists. Or maybe one of 🛠⛏⚒.
I've been thinking about this. Maybe the left just needs a cool look
I use the cat version of regular emojis because I guess I'm a femboy furry comrade?
I misread this at first and though that 🐬 was gonna be the emoji for post-left Twitter
