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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

A similar shitty Gadsden flag parody was in a protest flyer I saw recently -

[–] [email protected] 117 points 6 months ago (6 children)

No, that's not the best Gadsden flag parody. Far from it. Here's some better ones:

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, those are great too! 😁

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

"No flying for me" is one I haven't seen before but it's definitely a classic

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (3 children)

There is no masquerading. Libertarians are just cons/repubs without the religion who smoke weed

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The opposite of conservative is progressive, not liberal.

Liberals want to "liberate" the market from regulation, which frankly, snuggles nicely with fascists who want slaves back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is that why the fascists threw the liberals into prisons or murdered them?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Libertarians are just republicans with a better working knowledge of local age of consent laws.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Politics have been irreparably poisoned by that political compass bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I love this!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Fuck, the cat grabbing the snake is just perfect!

[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Mongoose! Even better!

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

What's clear is that the Right-wing's whole thing doesn't exactly attract (good) artists. They tend to borrow and steal most of their iconography rather than make something new^1^. Strangely, the whole movement also seems to be both unable to execute parody nor see the humor in self-parody, which I assert is a faculty needed to pull off good political art.

So that puts some serious creative power in league with everyone else. Should be interesting.

^1^ - MAGA is a great example of this. The slogan itself is lifted from Reagan's 1980 campaign, so it's nothing new. The current slogan marketing "design" is nothing more than a white serif font on a red field, which in highly-technical graphic design terms is called: "lazy as fuck."

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The slogan itself is lifted from Reagan’s 1980 campaign, so it’s nothing new

...Which in turn lifted it from the National Front's "Make Britain Great Again," which is the last time it was actually clever wordplay.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Reagan stole it from an American as well but the theme that everything was somehow better 40 years ago predates this country as a whole by like I dunno the history of the world presumably.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

The joke is Britain's full name is Great Britain.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

r/libertarian was mildly pro-Biden 4 years ago. I guess the astroturfing and corpofication of reddit have taken their toll.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a typo. The original "Don't tread on me" Flag is called the "Gadsden Flag".

Maybe you were joking, I didn't know this and I think it's pretty funny how well the typo fits!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I wasn't joking. I always assumed it was just a joke on mispronouncing Katze in a funny way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As a liberal, and individualist, this is cursed.

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