Edit: Turns out the caption I’d found attached to this image was probably imperialist bullshit, so I updated it.

From @CommunistFFWhen :

iirc, those symbols were used by US soldiers who wanted to signal their intention to surrender/lay down arm or sth and NV soldiers knew not to shoot them Source

Original title of post: A North Vietnamese Army officer laughs at the peace symbol necklace of a captured American soldier, 1973

> be me
> be patriotic socialist
> use sinophobia and american exceptionalism to fuel support for my “patriotic socialist” org
> write manifesto called “my struggle”
> org starts receiving a lot of money mysteriously
> membership skyrockets
> start going by “PatSocs”
> get cool uniforms and armbands
> start patrolling neighborhoods
> a lot of those neighborhoods are minority communities
> idpol is an op though so we don’t care
> gain support in the suburbs
> now backed by the country’s most powerful unions
> it’s the police union and prison guard union, but whatever, they’re workers too, right?
> now being called “Patzis” for short
> mfw the actual people’s revolution comes and we’re the baddies
> smdh as I’m lined up against the wall for being a fucking nazi

:hst-gun: :pit: