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That looks like an arrow? I must be in a parallel dimension.

Sure. Another commenter pointed out it's literally "emoji 🔻" which, you can see for yourself, is identical to the ad on Windows: https://emojipedia.org/red-triangle-pointed-down/

I don't understand how the existence of a downward red triangle as an emoji serves as evidence that they wanted to use it only as an arrow. All this says to me is that they wanted to use a downward red triangle, which is the entire point.

Edit: Also, we know already that it has a deeper meaning, since the White House has told us that.

I get where you're coming from. But I mean, it's a downward red triangle. I could see myself accidentally using it like this. Googling "red down emoji arrow" gives that red triangle as the first result.

If you used it in a UI as a "volume down" button, no one would bat an eye.

> The ads targeted the far left group Antifa, calling on Trump supporters to back the President's calls to designate the group a terrorist organization.

Context matters.

At some point, there was a whole panic about people using the OK hand symbol and how it was a secret Nazi symbol.. and even ADL had to say to slow down and look at context [^1].

Context matters. Yes, the Nazi's used a red triangle. So does the emoji standard. It's also the symbol for family planning [^2]. It's.. a pretty generic symbol as symbols go. If you're going to make the claim this is a secret Nazi power move... well, you're gonna have to provide the evidence because you're making a spectacular kind of claim.

[^1]: https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/okay-h...

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Triangle_(family_planning)

It’s pretty easy to get a sense that the things these people do - even if they don’t result in any harm - are bad. They kind of set off that moral “bad smell” scent that hints at us that something’s wrong. It seems kind of hard to understand why these things are bad without looking at the consequences, and yet it’s possible to condemn manipulation regardless the outcome.

We call this manipulative behavior treating people as “means”. The manipulator isn’t concerned with what people want, but perceives people as tools to achieve the manipulator’s goals. In the same way that a hammer is simply a means to drive nails, the manipulator sees victims as a tool to achieve goals.

It’s that interaction which allows us to condemn the manipulator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge#...

> Red triangle – political prisoners: social democrats,communists and anarchists; rescuers of Jews; trade unionists; and Freemasons.

This really doesn't need a lot of work to tie "social democrats" and "anarchists" to Trump's political enemies.

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