• @[email protected]
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    1472 months ago

    If anyone has both of those flags hanging at the same time, they don’t understand what the top one means.

    • @[email protected]
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      872 months ago

      And the amount of Maga fucks that have both in my state is to high. That and the blue lives matter Punisher sticker. They show just how stupid they are.

      • @Kecessa
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        The State ALLOWS YOU to have a license plate identifying you as someone who’s AGAINST THE FUCKING STATE!

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago
      1. they care for reptiles who are basically just ribcage and know how riding them over even with a bicycle will fatally wound them

      2. they are a fan of the British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      I’d argue they don’t understand what the bottom one means, but I’m ready to meet you in the middle and say that they don’t understand any of the two

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      Top flag: “don’t tread on me”

      Bottom flag: “when there are perfectly good minorities you should be treading on right there!”

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      that if the 13 colonies unite against british tyranny, they’ll be as untreadable as a rattlesnake? especially with the rattlesnake only being native to the americas….

      • @[email protected]
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        312 months ago

        The message is step on me and get bit. Traditionally it’s an anarchist symbol encouraging unity and brotherhood among the colonies in defiance of the crown.
        But just like many other things it has been misinterpreted and misused by fascists.

        • @[email protected]
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          122 months ago

          that picture is actually part ii to this one
          but, yeah… i agree…
          we should just use a red and black one and let them have yellow and black (:

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            Firstly, that’s how you become identified as an anarcho-capitalist. Secondly, I’m a libertarian Minarchist. Aka Classical Liberal. Not a confused Republican

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              32 months ago

              although anarcho capitalists are larping, they already use black and yellow so i don’t think there would be much confusion….
              secondly, ewww libertarians

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                Yellow and black equals Libertarian Black and red equals Anarchy capitalism or at least that’s how it used to work back on Reddit

                Oh don’t get me wrong. My party has a shit reputation because it’s been infiltrated on purpose and turned into a mockery of itself.

                Classical liberalism is a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics and civil liberties under the rule of law, with special emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom and freedom of speech. Classical liberalism, contrary to liberal branches like social liberalism, looks more negatively on social policies, taxation and the state involvement in the lives of individuals, and it advocates deregulation.

                Mind you I’m not saying the government is useless. I’m just saying there are some things that shouldn’t be regulated that are excessively stupidly regulated. There are other things that need more regulation. It’s a balancing act.

        • CO5MO ✨
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          Maybe it is time we reclaim the flag from those fascist fucks 🤔🐍 ideas, anyone ?

        • @TheRealLinga
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          I wonder if Metallica understood the real meaning or they were promoting fascism with their song

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Yeah I was thinking that those two flags are completely incompatible. I kind of respect the one that isn’t a gang symbol. Her reaction was still appropriate.

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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    852 months ago

    Once, years ago, went out to a restaurant with some friends and had a couple drinks. Wasn’t paying close enough attention to my intake, and ended up a little too tipsy to drive (not, like, belligerent drunk or anything, just not safe to drive). Hung out sitting on the hood of my car watching videos on my phone for a while with a friend until he had to leave. Before he left, this super cute guy started talking to us. We hit it off, and dude and I started getting flirty. Went back to his place because it was walking distance, did the deed, and when we were done I went to get some water from his kitchen.

    Wherein I see not one, not two, but no less than a dozen coffee mugs, posters, fucking rugs, and all manner of paraphernalia with right wing nonsense. We’re talking he had a fucking swastika area rug. I begin the heavy breathing of a scared little gay boy (6’3 and nearly 300lbs/190cm 135kg), and he notices my discomfort. He acts like this is nothing unusual and says he’s just a collector of WWII shit.

    Yeah, bro, maybe you are. But that doesn’t explain the don’t tread on me poster, the trump 2016 merch, and fucking birth of a nation movie poster!

    I got the fuck outta there before his lawyers had a chance to try out a gay panic defense.

    • @[email protected]
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      602 months ago

      …says he’s just a collector of WWII shit.

      Isn’t is funny how nobody collects the stuff from the Allies?

      • @[email protected]
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        242 months ago

        Only my grandparents stuff from when they kicked Nazi ass. They’d be horrified at todays bullshit.

      • @[email protected]
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        122 months ago

        I have WWII stuff from the allies, but it isn’t even from the European parts of the war. From my grandfather. His father earned US citizenship by fighting in WWI.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 months ago

        There actually is a pretty large WW2 Allied collector and reenactor community. I know a guy with a Jeep with a mounted quad MG.

        Just don’t ask too many questions about the other team.

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        62 months ago

        To be fair, it is more intriguing to collect the stuff of the objectively bad guy. A lot of it is like, it feels almost unbelievable, so nazi memorabilia helps ground that reality that, yes, it actually happened (and how it might have happened)

        Of course there is nuance to this, though

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        Probably just Axis being the driver of history at the moment.

        It started there, and what Allies did is they put this down.

        People tend to be more interested in what started the fire and what has let it burn; what has left a dent in history. Doesn’t mean they lean to Nazi ideology.

        (Disclaimer: I collect neither and am not interested in war history, or war in general)

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        I don’t want to nitpick but plenty of historical gun owners love both sides weaponry and display both. Personally, I know a friend that owns a STG 44 and a ppsh and a tommy.

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          182 months ago

          Collecting multiple kinds of guns is a bit different than collecting all of the other things that are clearly nazi branded propaganda. Having one or two guns isn’t really collecting in the same way as having a bunch of nazi branded everyday use items with the red black and white swastika flag.

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            I’m not disagreeing that was my point. However the people who are in that hobby normally get other kit than just guns. What matters is how it’s displayed.

            • @brbposting
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              Nazi rug in the bathroom is OK with me

              Long as it’s in the toilet (and the bathtub has a big drain)

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                Anyone displaying a swatstika anything that’s a reproduction or new production item needs to get their head checked IMHO. I’m only ok with actual historic pieces from the era.

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      I begin the heavy breathing of a scared little gay boy (6’3 and nearly 300lbs/190cm 135kg)

      Holy shit I died

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      112 months ago

      Wait, are you a gay man or a female? This story’s context changes drastically with your answer.

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      52 months ago

      Ugh, gay guy here, totally relate. Hate it when the cute gay guy is a fascist. Has happened multiple times for me.

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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        42 months ago

        Seriously? Because out of 20 years of homoing professionally this is my sole example. I hope to God I don’t run into it again lol

        • @[email protected]
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          Sadly yeah, flirting with guys online, lots of them turn out to be far-right. Luckily, I’m no longer single, so I don’t have to deal with it anymore. But at least 3 guys I’ve been kinda interested in turned out that way. Found out before sleeping with any of them, thankfully

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            22 months ago

            That sucks! My only other kinda close example is a dude I used to blow back in my “falling for straight guys” phase ended up going ancap, but that was a while after we were hooking up.

    • I Cast Fist
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      122 months ago

      If they’re against the state, it’s not theft, because the state is what grants the right to property 😀

    • dactylothecaOP
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      I was wondering what the glasses were referring to. I guess you mean Max Stirner?

      German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism and individualist anarchism

      I’m a bad leftist, I’m terrible with theory and history.

      • @rambling_lunatic
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        Yes, they’re talking about the woman wearing glasses akin to those worn by Stirner in Engels’s sketches.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 months ago

    Thin blue line is so fucking cringe. You’re in the US eating doughnuts and beating on black people, you’re not some hero defending society.

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    Wait…? Is it a lesbian couple or not?

  • [email protected]
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    Why change the sex of the person fleeing the apartment?

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      Because the odds of a woman having flags hanging in her bedroom at all, let alone those flags, is very small

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      Why complain about it being changed?

      Edit: I am, in fact, a silly billy

      • [email protected]
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        It’s an odd thing to take the time to change and I’m curious why they’d do it. Conflating curiosity with complaints is for silly billies.

        • @[email protected]
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          232 months ago

          In America men tend to fall into these camps much more often than women do. It’s also generally more common for women to lose interest in a man due to conservative ideologies that may not sit well with them for obvious reasons.

          • @[email protected]
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            32 months ago

            Run girls run! Do yourselves the favor and leave your oppressors. Don’t let them control your bodies.

        • dactylothecaOP
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          42 months ago

          Ah, sorry, I was too quick on the draw; so used to… certain kinds of people getting Very Upset when genders are changed in media

          • [email protected]
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            All good! I fully recognize the times that we live in and the zealousness necessary to keep sea lions from breeding, so to speak.