How the letter "Z" became Russia's pro-war symbol

[kentuck]

[Sneederbunk]

1. A good time to watch the movie "Z" on HBO Max.

[Warpy]

8. Or maybe that appalling Zorro movie

It's catchy marketing, too bad they're selling misery and death.

I've wondered if it wasn't badly drawn lightning. Blitzkrieg seemed to be Putin's strategy. Oopsie.

The regular lighning symbol would have been too small on a tank turret.

[xocetaceans]

11. Maybe it's a reference to World War Z...and some super stupid related analogy to Blitzkrieg...?

The zombies were fast in the film.

Your theory about lightning is interesting. It could be. Lightning bolts might look like half of the SS symbol, though, if they aren't drawn like Zs.

[Warpy]

12. Yeah, who the hell knows

but a bunch of Russian soldiers who are too dead to do much talking about it.

Unfortunately, it seems to be catching on as a spiffy marketing symbol for a war of conquest.

[keithbvadu2]

2. Are there editorial cartoons of Trump, Carlson, RoJo, Moscow Mitch, NRA, Fox with the Z?

Are there editorial cartoons of Trump, Carlson, RoJo, Moscow Mitch, NRA, Fox with the Z?

[kentuck]

3. And all wearing the Red Hat...

the MAGA symbol = Z

[Salviati]

4. It's to counter the criticism that putin was getting

"I am not nazi, I have many Z. You, you have no Z, you are real nazi!"

[geardaddy]

5. Those flags on the parading cars at the end of the video

look suspiciously like Trump flags. Either Putin is co-opting the MAGA shit or TFG got the idea from Pootie-poot.

[mitch96]

6. They will rue the day when they find out the "Z" is a target... da? ...nt

[NQAS]

7. Okay, in 3...2...1...

We'll start seeing the Z on MAGA hats.

I'll throw a possible start date out there -- March 16.

[kentuck]

13. I would not be surprised.

Sort of like, "Let's go Brandon!"

[IronLionZion]

9. Z for Zelensky or Zombies or Zoo

[mitch96]

10. "Z for Zelensky". I think it would be a pisser if every russian tank or truck destroyed had

ELENSKYY spray painted after the "Z" They have been Zelenskyy-ed.
Like in the movie Red Dawn...WOLVERINES!! spray painted on all the destroyed vehicles...
I think if putin viewed this he would not be very happy....
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[Rhiannon12866]

14. Harks back to WWII which also used a mark as a way of identification

Only this is a mark of hostility.