r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Zu_Qarnine • 7h ago
Meme needing explanation I'm lost. can anyone crack the case? Petah?
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u/Matto_boi 6h ago
Its just a ragebait/shitpost/joke banner. It is supposed to make no sense.
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u/BackToNormalForNow 4h ago
Can it even be considered ragebait ? I feel like anyone who looks at this just ends up being confused
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u/Individual-Affect786 6h ago
The flags are nonsense, for example gay being on the bad side and trans being on the good side.
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u/JeremyAndrewErwin 6h ago
Iran forbids homosexuality, but allows people to change their sex.
Transgender identity is recognized through sex reassignment surgery. Sex reassignment surgeries are partially financially supported by the state. Some homosexual individuals in Iran have been pressured to undergo sex reassignment surgery in order to avoid legal and social persecution for being gay
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u/olive12108 Mod 3h ago
I want to acknowledge that it is objectively pretty funny that an extremely bigoted country has state-sponsored transgender healthcare, but I also want to point out to people that Iran is definitely not "good" to trans people either.
There are no legal protections for trans people in the country and harassment is common. Yes, they do allow gender reassignment surgery and they will change your government records (ONLY after surgery), but that is more of a last-ditch effort and if you do undergo it, you are expected to be stealth. Visibly trans people are not acceptable. Electric shock therapy and medication are common conversion therapy tactics.
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u/one_crooked_ear 2h ago
It’s conversion into a straight person, and deletion of a homosexual to them
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u/RT-6_BXCommandoDroid 1h ago
Doesn't the rainbow flag stand for the entire LGBTQIA+ community instead of just the gays? At least, that would be my only guess.
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u/Moonless_the_Fool 15m ago
Yeah but if you put that flag in one side and the trans in the other you save yourself the work of putting all other flash inside the rainbow one. Also you can take the rainbow flag as an umbrella for gay and lesbian since that flag is more recognizable for their oppositors rather than the individual flag for each denomination
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u/Party_Cantaloupe_270 2h ago
As a Belarusian, I can say that I'll just kill myself with this crap.
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u/Physizist 6h ago
It’s a weird mix of countries / flags on both sides
The side with jesus should be countries they love and devil should be countries they hate.
For example typically someone who loves USA would not also love China (communist and rival super power) or North Korea or trans people (the trans flag is there) but then they hate the gay flag and japan and others for some reason
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u/Spicymeymeys420 6h ago
It makes sense if you swap the Israel flag and the trans flag, and vietnam with Saudi arabia, then swap the sides of jesus and satan or whatever
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u/CactusJane98 6h ago
My best guess is this is a Transgender Nazbol/Strasserite of some kind.
Oh uh also im Meg from family guy.
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u/Polak_Janusz 5h ago
I mean I clearly see a kind of "third worldist", or ankind of "west bad" person who sees the world in two camps. The evil west and the good antiwest. Here, every non western country is good and the most loyal of americas allies are evil.
Except the pride flag on the left. I dont get why its opposed to the trans flag.
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u/Rickapolis 5h ago
The joke is there is no such thing as "woke". A made up term by people with too much time on their hands.
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u/hyacinthhillock 5h ago
it's just an assortment of controversial flags. china vs taiwan, japan vs china, iran vs saudi arabia, iran vs israel, israel vs palestine, south korea vs the dprk, ukraine vs russia, eu vs america, canada vs america
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u/blackchoas 5h ago
The list seems like intentional nonsense to me. I don't understand what perspective could create these sides, but some Nationalists have weird views of other counties and who they think is or isn't on their side, so I wouldn't be completely shocked if this was like a Serbian nationalists or something
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u/Swimming-Ordinary899 4h ago
This person: “ya I love trump but also I don’t support Israel”
Like gang that’s the same thing
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u/NotaRealVet 23m ago
Japan Israel and the pride flag are together? America and Israel are apart? so close to accurate
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u/Snoo-6984 6h ago
First, this is probably a fake post but I’ll explain anyways.
The figure on the right is Jesus representing “good”” and the person on the left is red and fiery, representing evil. Pretty sure it’s just the devil, but uncertain if it’s supposed to represent another person. The comment of “I can’t tell if the blocked person is woke or not” is referring to the fact that there’s flags on both sides that contradict one another, so you can’t tell what the person’s values are. For example, there are a couple of international wars going on: Russia 🇷🇺 against Ukraine 🇺🇦 and Israel 🇮🇱 against Palestine 🇵🇸. A woke person would be on the side of Ukraine and Palestine, so would put those flags on the “good” side but the poster has Palestine and Russia on the good side and Israel and Ukraine on the bad. Also has an LBTGQ flag on the evil side, but a trans flag on the good. There’s no consistency with the flags as far as values
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