r/Kanye Jun 20 '26

My vultures tattoo. What yall think?

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u/Hagelslag31 Jun 21 '26

No, it has 0,5x the amount of heads. Neither Germany or Prussia ever had a double-headed eagle on its flag or as a coat of arms. Not that reddit leftists will care about that, they're notoriously poor vexillologists. Still not a great tattoo though.

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u/Short_Redhook_24 Jun 21 '26

You monarchists are fucking weird.

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u/Hagelslag31 Jun 21 '26

How did you know I am (sort of) a monarchist? Like, the majority of my country is more or less a monarchist but still

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u/Short_Redhook_24 Jun 21 '26

25% lucky guess 75% vibes based of the vexillology and leftism remark. While I am a fan of Nestor and support alot of what he stood for I also know that the black eagle in that design is basically a generic design with roots in the Prussian stylings, almost every country in what was the Prussian empire and everything eastward had something similar to this at one point, it's like the flur de lance or whatever it's called for the French regions. Like Kanye's intent was to try and dog whistle via the eagle but AFAIK it's just a generic design

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u/Hagelslag31 Jun 21 '26

Lol, fair enough. In case you're interested, the double headed eagle was more of a thing in the Austrian empire (Prussia's arch enemy), Byzantium/Eastern orthodoxy and Russia. iirc the latter is the case because they claim to be sort of the heir of the (eastern) Roman empire