This is unfair to snakes. They're fascinating creatures and (aside from some invasive species) have a role in the ecosystem. Fascists are so vastly worse.
Yeah I understand what the poster is getting at, I just wish they'd use something other than a snake which is already a much maligned animal. Bedbugs on the other hand....
Only if by “freedom”, you mean “Freedom to force everyone into living the way I choose”. We wouldn’t be here if the snakes MO was “Let me do what I want to do, and I’ll let you do what you want to do”
Nah, they're just a Kool-Aid drinker who never had the gumption to actually read people like Rothbard and Mises, or question why all these freedom lovers loved slavery so much in general.
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Deconceptualist@lemm.ee · 39 pts · 1y
This is unfair to snakes. They're fascinating creatures and (aside from some invasive species) have a role in the ecosystem. Fascists are so vastly worse.
Foreigner@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Yeah I understand what the poster is getting at, I just wish they'd use something other than a snake which is already a much maligned animal. Bedbugs on the other hand....
hohoho@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
America has bedbugs!
irreticent@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 1y
hohoho@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Thanks, I hate it
fnrir@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
You can blame Abrahamic (and possibly more) religions for this.
MITM0@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
This is a great counter to the No Step on Snek meme by RightWing turds & Libertarians
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org · 30 pts · 1y
step on snek
AngryRobot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Only k e thing to do woth an aggressive snake. Cut of its head.
ChillPenguin@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
Unless you're american. Then you pet the snake, and give it the highest political position in the land.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 5 pts · 1y
Or invite it over, as long as it's an engineer that didn't shoot any Jewish slaves themselves.
That anyone can prove.
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
I can't believe the snake bit my face
SassyRamen@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
What's the origins of this poster? It's exactly what we need in this world right now.
Isoprenoid@programming.dev · 9 pts · 1y
I did some sleuthing. It has been adapted from a poster about fighting against tuberculosis.
https://www.loc.gov/item/99613643/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_strangling_of_a_poisonous_snake,_representing_the_crushi_Wellcome_L0029946.jpg
Nougat@fedia.io · 8 pts · 1y
Based on the existence of the swastika, I'm going to say some time in the early 1940s.
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
there's a "16" under the signature. that's typically a date signifier. I'm gonna guess this is modern from 2016.
hobovision@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
From another reply it seems it's a modification of a poster from 1918, so in the original under the signature is actually an 18.
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
interesting, i figured it couldn't be 1918 because the swastika wasn't associated with facism yet, but the swastika was just added later i guess.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
Always make sure to target fascism in its nest when its still underdeveloped if possible.
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I.e. do the opposite of what happens in MURICA.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
This would make an awesome tattoo
atro_city@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y
What's it gotta do with a snake on a record player?
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
I realize the record player was a joke, but considering who most commonly flies the Gadsen flag these days I think the imagery works.
Manmoth@lemmy.ml · -12 pts · 1y
ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol · 6 pts · 1y
Is it dehumanizing if the party leader and higher ups fit the historical definition of what makes someone a fascist?
intensely_human@lemm.ee · -20 pts · 1y
I see you’ve taken the snake whose only demand is freedom and recast it as a fascist.
Any reprehensible behavior — for example “no mercy” — is justified as long as there’s a fascist around right?
You guys worship violence and power. You use art to frame your crusade as moral, to authorize yourself for the enacting of evil.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Only if by “freedom”, you mean “Freedom to force everyone into living the way I choose”. We wouldn’t be here if the snakes MO was “Let me do what I want to do, and I’ll let you do what you want to do”
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
/s?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
Nah, they're just a Kool-Aid drinker who never had the gumption to actually read people like Rothbard and Mises, or question why all these freedom lovers loved slavery so much in general.
Crank_it@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yes