New era my dude. The baddy is now Cletus, or Stephen. As a German, I would have preferred if the US had learned from our mistakes, but at least they are the assholes now and we can finally get some rest.
Oh AfD 100% baddies. That's not a question. I'm talking about the country, because the AfD is not in government at the moment and even if, they wouldn't be able to govern alone, our system doesn't accept that, at least as long as they aren't in a spectacular majority. The US failed spectacularly at implementing checks and balances. AfD beyond baddies. USA as well.
That's fine. We don't have to. And I bet it's not true for some Republicans. But the hardliners are a bunch of crazy assholes. And I would place them way right.
And they are running the government. Even if the German AfD would gain the same results the Republicans did, they wouldn't be able to govern the country alone.
The American system is fucked, and the last months have proved that
A society requires its health, access to leisure, and the time to pursue their betterment in order to visit museums and internalize the lessons of history. The United States has reserved realization of these essential human needs for the upper class.
We require such leisure to discover the capacity and motivation to better understand ourselves, those around us, and our collective material circumstances. Without that freedom museums become mere mausoleums until their intended visitors regain the humanity we were contractually coerced to forfeit.
My Dad didn't notice the orange face paint until I pointed it out to him about a month ago. They see him in the light he's presented in by right wing media.
makes sense if you know the context. this is from the sketch comedy series The Mitchell and Webb Look, which was aired on BBC Two at the time, and later with higher quality on BBC HD.. anyway the man pictured is David Mitchell and his mouth is the organ he most often uses to talk.
While Webb, by contrast, presumably talks more often out of his ass? Or was there some other organ which you were implying was from whence the subtitles should be flowing?
nah I just tried a bait and switch. thought it would be funny to start the comment with info about the show like it was going to be something about the show or something, then end it with the most obvious "yeah so the subtitles come out of his mouth because that's where he speaks from" which makes the entire first half also irrelevant and stupid.
i say "i thought it would be funny" like it didn't turn out to be so but i still think it's hilarious; kinda proud of the comment to be honest.
Buddy fucked up lil "challenge coin" trinkets have been a depressingly common part of military/law enforcement since forever, the burden of proof here is light as a feather. There are galleries of em ranging from relatively banal tough guy "devil dog" marines stuff with their absolutely ripped fursona to unquotable "n-word lynchers" shit with nooses etc from southern police/sheriff departments. This is a weird one to call out
Decades from now, after their parents pass, kids will be sorting through the parents stuff and find one of these or some other trump crap. They will react the same way my generation did when sorting through our parents stuff and finding nazi shit. "Oh God I hope they weren't really into this shit!" My dad had a medal of some sort with a swastika on it. It was probably something his father collected in the war. It went into the garbage where it belonged. Garbage dumps of the future will be filled with trump shit.
Another thing I hate about gen images other than how they look, is that unlike with art there's no indicator that someone sat down and sweat over this image. This could have been something they shit out over three prompts in between meetings.
And yet they're responsible for bringing into the world one of the most hideous images I've seen. They didn't even need to sit over it and think about it.
I've been calling it symbolic degeneration in my head. While the fascists of the 20s, 30s, and 40s generally had a tendency to disrespecting and abusing symbolism for political gain these people barely know what symbolism is. They know that certain imagery and symbols have meaning but are too stupid and gaudy to really understand it, they treat it like a child learning poetry, they know certain words have imagery and ideas attached but have no clue how any of it works in theory so they just photo copy it until it loses all coherence.
I invoke certain bits of imagery on purpose with subtle differences from the real thing for shits and giggles to fuck with people so this is something I keyed into awhile back.
Fuckin' Gravy Seals... Mofos think that anyone nonwhite is a potential "terrorist" with more guns in their house than the Taliban, and they're chomping at the bit to be let loose and go raid with all guns blazing then drop death ace cards on the corpses and call it a beer day.
There do exist Etsy shops churning out MAGAt merch, and won't be surprised those coins are also being sold as custom made.
'just like the totenkopf' except not at all. They're nazis because of the nazi shit they do not because somebody made a challenge coin with an extremely basic toughguy badass tacticool motif.
Skulls have been common imagery for literally centuries, I do not understand this weird trend in the last few years where some people have decided that they're exclusively a fascist symbol.
*Also the absurdity here of pointing at the brownshirts and going 'umm, that imagery is a bit problematic.'
Are you seriously looking at this slop and thinking anybody was giving it a deeper consideration than 'haha fuck yeah, badass'. I refuse to believe they're thinking any more about the symbolism of the skull with the glowing eyes than they're thinking about the symbolism of the explosion.
The only fascist part of the imagery is the border team names on the chests. Or just generally the celebration of their mission. The skull is possibly the least fascist thing on the coin.
It doesn't have to be an exclusively fascist symbol to be a bad idea. Government agents should not be wearing or glorifying the universal symbol of death.
I do see what you are getting at. The whole thing is a bit like complaining about smelling someone's fart as a tornado approaches.
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meco03211@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 120d
Hans, are we the baddies?
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 30 pts · 120d
New era my dude. The baddy is now Cletus, or Stephen. As a German, I would have preferred if the US had learned from our mistakes, but at least they are the assholes now and we can finally get some rest.
ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 119d
In case you don't know, this is a line from a Mitchell and Webb skit about
a rat's anusskulls: https://youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oYSeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 2 pts · 119d
I know I, but times have changed.
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 119d
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · -2 pts · 119d
USA: fascist regime, raging war and taking lives around the world and in their own country.
Germany: party left of the
GDPGOP gains some traction.This dude: AH-HA! THEY'RE THE BADDIES!
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 119d
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 4 pts · 119d
Oh AfD 100% baddies. That's not a question. I'm talking about the country, because the AfD is not in government at the moment and even if, they wouldn't be able to govern alone, our system doesn't accept that, at least as long as they aren't in a spectacular majority. The US failed spectacularly at implementing checks and balances. AfD beyond baddies. USA as well.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 4 pts · 119d
A party left of the gross domestic product....?
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 2 pts · 119d
autocorrect... GOP
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 3 pts · 119d
Ah. Okay, I don't know if I agree that the AfD is left of US-Republicans.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 2 pts · 119d
That's fine. We don't have to. And I bet it's not true for some Republicans. But the hardliners are a bunch of crazy assholes. And I would place them way right.
And they are running the government. Even if the German AfD would gain the same results the Republicans did, they wouldn't be able to govern the country alone.
The American system is fucked, and the last months have proved that
echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 119d
Yes I was also going to comment the same as above but didn't because I was concerned that people wouldn't get the reference.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca · 60 pts · 120d
Babe, wake up, the new Nazi memorabilia just dropped!
... this is going to age like unpasteurized milk in an outhouse. I hope most of them end up in landfill where they belong.
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 120d
It might be better to commit them to a museum. To make sure that it is never forgotten.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 120d
Sure, but it doesn't seem to have helped. We have plenty of genocide and WWII museums, but we have plenty of genocide and fascism happening just fine.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 120d
The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. We need more good Nazis.
derek@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 119d
A society requires its health, access to leisure, and the time to pursue their betterment in order to visit museums and internalize the lessons of history. The United States has reserved realization of these essential human needs for the upper class.
We require such leisure to discover the capacity and motivation to better understand ourselves, those around us, and our collective material circumstances. Without that freedom museums become mere mausoleums until their intended visitors regain the humanity we were contractually coerced to forfeit.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 120d
The coins or the people sending / receiving them?
(Yes is the correct answer)
yesman@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 120d
Hey, remember that time ICE was under attack with artillery or other explosives? No doubt led by Field Marshall Walz. Buy War Bonds!
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 32 pts · 120d
Do his supporters really think he looks like that? Has he ever looked like that?
silence7@slrpnk.net · 19 pts · 120d
Probably in the Fox Cinematic Universe
fox2263@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 120d
Looks like the AI has made him almost look like Nathan Fillion.
Also, BORSTAR
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 120d
What about BORSTAR?
fox2263@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d
What does it mean
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d
Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue.
fox2263@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d
Ah. Thought they were all slop
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 119d
"""rescue"""
SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 119d
It's ridiculous, it literally looks like an AI was asked to Chad-ify Trump.
Edit: Spelling
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 118d
My Dad didn't notice the orange face paint until I pointed it out to him about a month ago. They see him in the light he's presented in by right wing media.
Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 119d
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 119d
The subtitles are coming out of his mouth...
pyre@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 119d
makes sense if you know the context. this is from the sketch comedy series The Mitchell and Webb Look, which was aired on BBC Two at the time, and later with higher quality on BBC HD.. anyway the man pictured is David Mitchell and his mouth is the organ he most often uses to talk.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 119d
While Webb, by contrast, presumably talks more often out of his ass? Or was there some other organ which you were implying was from whence the subtitles should be flowing?
pyre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d
nah I just tried a bait and switch. thought it would be funny to start the comment with info about the show like it was going to be something about the show or something, then end it with the most obvious "yeah so the subtitles come out of his mouth because that's where he speaks from" which makes the entire first half also irrelevant and stupid.
i say "i thought it would be funny" like it didn't turn out to be so but i still think it's hilarious; kinda proud of the comment to be honest.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 119d
All good! I still appreciated it, but I felt like I was missing some level of implied depth.
pyre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d
nah i was going for a confused chuckle
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 120d
These people are way too far up their own asses.
rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 11 pts · 120d
You can tell they don't have any artists working for them.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 119d
They have AI which is indistinguishable from actual art to them, because they don't know anything about art
NutWrench@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 118d
This is the sort of striving, adolescent bullshit I would expect from a child, not from a grown man.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 118d
It even looks like Ai slop, too. I wouldn't be friggin surprised.
Also what's with these tags? WTF is "FPS" and "BORSTAR"...are these cringeAF gamertag names?
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 118d
Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue is BORSTAR
BORTAC is Border Patrol Tactical Unit.
HSI SRT = Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Response Team (SRT)
FPS = Federal Protective Service
I had the same thought as you, so I looked up the acronyms.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 118d
Lol thanks for adding the context. I was in a rush at work so the best I could do it post my first guess hahaha.
aquovie@lemmy.cafe · 9 pts · 119d
I think I'm gonna need more proof on this one. Not just one guy that works in an office who attached an image in an email.
It's kinda got all the classic markers. Superbly outlandish yet just believable enough. Confirms everyone's preexisting beliefs.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 119d
Buddy fucked up lil "challenge coin" trinkets have been a depressingly common part of military/law enforcement since forever, the burden of proof here is light as a feather. There are galleries of em ranging from relatively banal tough guy "devil dog" marines stuff with their absolutely ripped fursona to unquotable "n-word lynchers" shit with nooses etc from southern police/sheriff departments. This is a weird one to call out
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 118d
Oh, you can't just casually drop "absolutely ripped fusona" around these parts without dropping a link to the image.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 118d
Here's a ww2, Vietnam, and modern interpretation to get you started. I wanted to include the original, but turns out he's just a regular dog lol
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 118d
Never the last one. But I used to know a dude who had that second one on his backpack.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 120d
FPS- first person shitheads? Felons per station? Fucking pedo supporters?
LazyCat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 118d
Decades from now, after their parents pass, kids will be sorting through the parents stuff and find one of these or some other trump crap. They will react the same way my generation did when sorting through our parents stuff and finding nazi shit. "Oh God I hope they weren't really into this shit!" My dad had a medal of some sort with a swastika on it. It was probably something his father collected in the war. It went into the garbage where it belonged. Garbage dumps of the future will be filled with trump shit.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 118d
Most likely worthless. But some medals, especially with providence can have value.
Less so if it was a war souvenir.
Short docu on war souvenir medals looted from Berlin 1945. https://youtu.be/2tUhKEdNgEE?is=3-nt-tGcq7_rC9rf
echodot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 119d
What if Nazi, but also low budget tat? A question no one wanted an answer to, but nonetheless the US is providing.
Saprophyte@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 119d
Why are all those proud boy rejects lined up like they're going to Piper Perri that dog?
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 119d
Another thing I hate about gen images other than how they look, is that unlike with art there's no indicator that someone sat down and sweat over this image. This could have been something they shit out over three prompts in between meetings.
And yet they're responsible for bringing into the world one of the most hideous images I've seen. They didn't even need to sit over it and think about it.
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 119d
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 119d
I've been calling it symbolic degeneration in my head. While the fascists of the 20s, 30s, and 40s generally had a tendency to disrespecting and abusing symbolism for political gain these people barely know what symbolism is. They know that certain imagery and symbols have meaning but are too stupid and gaudy to really understand it, they treat it like a child learning poetry, they know certain words have imagery and ideas attached but have no clue how any of it works in theory so they just photo copy it until it loses all coherence.
I invoke certain bits of imagery on purpose with subtle differences from the real thing for shits and giggles to fuck with people so this is something I keyed into awhile back.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 119d
This has the same credibility as opening a battle pack in Battlefield 6 and getting a new picture for your player profile background.
VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 119d
This is just fucking insane. Absolutely bonkers.
spacesatan@leminal.space · 0 pts · 118d
Yeah imagine giving a shit something this inconsequential. Oh no some chuds made a challenge coin in bog standard tacticool aesthetic.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 118d
Fuckin' Gravy Seals... Mofos think that anyone nonwhite is a potential "terrorist" with more guns in their house than the Taliban, and they're chomping at the bit to be let loose and go raid with all guns blazing then drop death ace cards on the corpses and call it a beer day.
There do exist Etsy shops churning out MAGAt merch, and won't be surprised those coins are also being sold as custom made.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 118d
I don't get it. These "challenge coins" aren't even round.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 118d
A lot of them aren't. They're just decorative, they don't need to be shaped like an actual coin.
apftwb@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 118d
This looks like a T-shirt I could buy at the state fair.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 118d
FPS looks like has cat ears on his bump helmet lmao
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 118d
Happens when ai slop
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 119d
Terrorism
FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 118d
CoD emblem ahh coin
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 118d
Made in China for the US neo-Nazis.
spacesatan@leminal.space · 0 pts · 118d
'just like the totenkopf' except not at all. They're nazis because of the nazi shit they do not because somebody made a challenge coin with an extremely basic toughguy badass tacticool motif.
Skulls have been common imagery for literally centuries, I do not understand this weird trend in the last few years where some people have decided that they're exclusively a fascist symbol.
*Also the absurdity here of pointing at the brownshirts and going 'umm, that imagery is a bit problematic.'
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 118d
Come on, man. It's an image but also the meaning behind it.
spacesatan@leminal.space · 0 pts · 118d
Are you seriously looking at this slop and thinking anybody was giving it a deeper consideration than 'haha fuck yeah, badass'. I refuse to believe they're thinking any more about the symbolism of the skull with the glowing eyes than they're thinking about the symbolism of the explosion.
The only fascist part of the imagery is the border team names on the chests. Or just generally the celebration of their mission. The skull is possibly the least fascist thing on the coin.
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 118d
It doesn't have to be an exclusively fascist symbol to be a bad idea. Government agents should not be wearing or glorifying the universal symbol of death.
I do see what you are getting at. The whole thing is a bit like complaining about smelling someone's fart as a tornado approaches.