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    129 months ago

    It’s interesting that conservatives would try to masquerade as libertarians, considering that conservatives are the one that want to and have tread all over our rights. Hopefully nobody is falling for it. They are essentially the antithesis of liberty and freedom; see voting, abortion, lgbtq rights, and on and on and on…

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      I was really confused about libertarians when I was younger because the way it was described to me was being for freedom. So I thought it was pro-lgtbq, prochoice, for religious freedom, anti-hoa kind of stuff right?

      Turns out it was vehemently antitax, anti universal healthcare, religiously driven, gun worshipping zealotry. Basically “freedum 4 peepol like me and no one else!”

      That was really disheartening to learn. There’s a libertarian militia cult near the town I grew up in. Cut off from everyone else, had shootout in the 60’s with the police. They’re still there in the same compound in the woods. They don’t bother anyone these days, but still. It’s kinda disturbing to know there’s some very angry people armed to the teeth living out there.

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    79 months ago

    Here’s a parody by me, made when I was much more naive and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid just came out.

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    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 new1. 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.”

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      349 months ago

      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.

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        79 months ago

        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.

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        Oh wow. So it’s double-poached from an actually witty slogan? These cretins really are the worst.

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      What’s clear is that the Right-wing’s whole thing doesn’t exactly attract (good) artists.

      Not a fan of their views, but the likes of StoneToss, Tom MacDonald and Seamus Coughlin aren’t exactly bad at what they do.

      They tend to borrow and steal most of their iconography rather than make something new

      The counter argument would be that having a visual language of common symbols and representations allows you to convey a lot with a little. One of the running bits from TheLeftCantMeme crowd is that left wing memes and comics tend to rely on walls of text to express anything, which is an exaggeration but it’s not entirely wrong.

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    519 months ago

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

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      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.

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          Yeah, it seems like the redefinition of words is in full swing… like social democracy suddenly became communism. I won’t study american syntax to post on a international forum…

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          The problem is that liberalism is a pseudo-scientific, hegemonic/capitalist ideology concocted by slavers from hundreds of years ago.

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          Did that liberals actually call themselves “liberals”? What historic event to you refer to? Or is this just another trick of fascists in disguise to just switch the definition over to “liberal” for unwanted opinion? How is progressive not the opposite of conservative?

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