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On social media, especially Twitter, many users use emoji to denote some aspect of their political affiliations. These affiliations range from support of specific presidential campaigns to entire ideologies.

Ideological Emoji

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Emoji Description Denotation
🌐 Globe Neoliberalism, Globalism[1]
🌹 Red Rose Various degrees of socialism[2]
🥀 Wilted Flower (shown as a rose) Opposes Bernie Sanders' movement/Red Rose users[3]
🧦 Socks Social Democrat[4][circular reporting?][5][better source needed]
🔧 Wrench Ordoliberal[4][circular reporting?]
☭,🚩 Hammer and Sickle, Red Flag Communist[6]
Ⓐ, 🏴 A in Circle, Black Flag Anarchism
🗽 Statue of Liberty Libertarianism, Immigration
🦅 Eagle Neoconservatism, hawkism/pro-military intervention
🕊️ Dove Pacifism, Doveism/anti-military intervention
🏛️ Classical Building Pro-institutions
🧢 Blue Cap Universal basic income supporter
↙↙↙ Three Arrows, facing down and to the left Opposes Nazism, Communism, and Monarchy (based on the Three Arrows symbol)
🔰 Japanese "Amateur" Chevron Georgism[7] & Land Value Tax
🚄,🚍 Train, Bus (any kind) Public Transportation
🏙,🌆 City (any) Urbanism
🥑 Avocado YIMBY[8][7][9]
🐣 Chick in Egg Generation Z
🇻🇦 Flag of Vatican City Catholicism, often Traditionalist Catholicism
🚁 Helicopter Anti-communism
🚀 Rocket Accelerationism
🌽 Corn Free Trade (reference to the Corn Laws)
🥪 (Bacon) Sandwich Soft left
👑 Crown Longism
🚰 Potable water (faucet) Sewer socialism[10], left-urbanism

United States Presidential Candidate & other electoral Emoji

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Emoji Description Denotation
🍑 Peach Favors impeachment of the President[11]
🌊 Wave "Blue Wave", or a Democratic Party Congressional sweep
🧢 Blue Cap Andrew Yang supporter[12]
🥁,💎,🐊 Drum, Diamond, Crocodile Joe Biden supporter[13]
🌺 Hibiscus Tulsi Gabbard supporter
🍩 Donut Similar to Wilted Rose; support of Hillary Clinton and DNC, and opposition to Bernie Sanders[3]
❌❌ Red Xs (appear before & after name) Donald Trump supporter[14]
🐝 Bee Pete Buttigieg supporters
🗽,🩸&🦷 Statue of Liberty, "Blood and Teeth" Warren 2020 supporters[4][circular reporting?]
👢,🦷,🐴 Boot, Tooth, Horse Vermin Supreme supporter
🌻 Sunflower Green Party supporters
⚖️ Scale Kamala Harris 2020 presidential campaign supporter
⛄️ Snow man Amy Klobuchar 2020 presidential campaign supporter

Mixed-Use Emoji

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These emoji appear in multiple tables.

Emoji Description Denotation
🌹 Red Rose Various degrees of socialism. In United States, typically indicates a supporter of Bernie Sanders
🗽 Statue of Liberty Libertarianism, Immigration, or Warren 2020
🧢 Blue Cap Andrew Yang supporter, Universal basic income supporter

Other Identifying Emoji

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Other emoji may be used to represent politically-adjacent parts of a user's identity, such as their gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, or country of origin. Additionally, supporters of Hong Kong, Israel, Palestine, or other governments and states might display the relevant emojis as well.

References

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  1. ^ Lekach, Sasha. "The real meaning of all those emoji in Twitter handles". Mashable. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  2. ^ Speedy, Sam. "The movement behind the rose emoji that you probably don't know about". Mashable. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Kelly, Tiffany (August 17, 2017). "Corncob, donut, and wilted flower: Translating liberal Twitter's dumb emoji war". The Daily Dot.
  4. ^ a b c Zach (May 8, 2020). "Field Guide To Political Emojis". Know Your Meme. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  5. ^ u/Milskidasith. "What is the deal with Rose Twitter (🌹), Globe Twitter (🌐) and Sock Twitter (🧦)?". r/outoftheloop on Reddit.
  6. ^ "☭ Communist emoji (communist hammer and sickle symbol of Soviet)". fsymbols.com. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  7. ^ a b Zuegel, Devon [@housing_wiki] (April 9, 2018). "note, avocado as YIMBY symbol is deprecated among some YIMBYs because it is particularly a Millennial symbol, which #NotAllYimbys are or want to define movement around" (Tweet). Retrieved May 17, 2020 – via Twitter.
  8. ^ Lin, Margaret (May 15, 2018). "The avocado toast homeownership meme, explained". Curbed. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  9. ^ "Avocado symbol". YIMBYwiki. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  10. ^ @drooliet (May 10, 2021). (Tweet) https://x.com/drooliet/status/1391980669568434178. Retrieved May 19, 2021 – via Twitter. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ^ Schwedel, Heather (September 26, 2019). "Does the Peach Emoji Still Mean Butt, or Is It a Rallying Cry for Democracy?". Slate. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  12. ^ Yuan, Jada. "The surprising, enduring relevance of Andrew Yang and his ideas". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  13. ^ "r/JoeBiden - What is 💎🐊?". reddit. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  14. ^ "What Does ❌ - Cross Mark Emoji Mean?". Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 17, 2020.