So many communities use little subtle symbols and stickers and such to help identify each other in public.

For instance, those of us in the BDSM/kink community can pretty easily recognize the triskelion (looks kinda like a yin/yang except has three droplet shapes inside the circle instead of two, is also usually black and white) if we see a sticker like that on a laptop. Most normies would have no idea what that means though.

Are there ways we can sort of identify each other in public that is subtle and not very obvious? A hammer and sickle sticker or Soviet/Chinese flag (or really any red flag with gold stars that looks remotely Communist) on our laptop would draw a lot of unwanted attention if we are just trying to chill in a cafe or some shit.

It’d be nice to know occasionally if I had allies in the same room every now and then, shit’s lonely.

    • @bleepingblorpOP
      19•2 years ago

      I see your point. I guess I am just split between my paranoid side that has go bags and learned Spanish with intent and the loneliness of living in a conservative area with no active parties and orgs, lemmy being my only outlet.

      Loneliness won this post I suppose.

    • @TeezyZeezy
      9•2 years ago

      Ehh. I feel like most people on here are legit.

      Regardless, openly identifying as a communist doesn’t seem like such a dangerous thing to me.

      I could be wrong though. What do you think? I love the idea of being able to identify others.

      • @Psychotronics
        8•2 years ago

        That depends on where you are. I, for example, live in Brazil. Right now, going around with a hammer and sickle isn’t a great idea.

      • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭A
        6•2 years ago

        It varies greatly depending on where you live and other material conditions – personally, if my posts here were connected to my identity, I would very likely lose my job, and that’s mild compared to some other countries. Living in the imperial core, I have very little confidence that my country won’t stoop to criminalizing communism

      • @lemat_87
        1•11 months ago

        You can always encounter some dumb ass nationalist or fascist who can attack you (in a group, I suppose, since they are cowards).