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[โ€“] MudMan@fedia.io 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

To be clear, these are the two emojis in question:

๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฉ

I mean, when you're running for president you should probably double check, but... you know, he's done far worse today.

[โ€“] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So uh.. without alt text I can't honestly tell the difference. I wonder if it's cause my blue light filter is on, or they are just that similar?

[โ€“] MudMan@fedia.io 17 points 1 month ago

Nope, they're nearly identical. The yellow and blue are ever so slightly different, but... yeah, the bad part about that tweet wasn't the flags.

The flags were the funny part, though.

[โ€“] pewpew@feddit.it 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He actually used both in the title

[โ€“] MudMan@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago

I don't think so, that'd be Moldova ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฉ, about which he seems to have... eh... interesting ideas.

It's a popular set of colors. And that's before you get into ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช.