Agean90 posted:

my friend rage is my adderal. from it comes the fuel for political action

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

What's twitter rose mean

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

What's twitter rose mean

paranoid randroid posted:

thats some stiff coal, man

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

What's twitter rose mean

Shear Modulus posted:

dems forgot that they need to campaign because obama did all of it for them for the past decade

Owen Hatherley posted:

The hammer and sickle is the symbol of communism, but didn't exist in Marx's time. It was gradually adopted after the Russian revolution, first on demonstrations and by the Red Army, and was adopted as the official symbol of the Soviet Union in 1922. Its symbolism is extremely simple – a hammer, to represent the industrial workers; a sickle, to represent the peasantry.

The alleged ruling classes in the "workers and peasants republic" could see the main tool of their labour as the insignia of their country and their movement. It may have represented a lie, but a lie to which the symbol served as a constant reproach. And as a symbol it was clearly a smart choice – memorable and easily scrawled on walls, as any visitor to Naples or Athens can still attest. It also serves as a useful reproach to the idea that communism and nazism were fundamentally identical. The swastika, the Nazis' own version, dates from the same time, and was used first in 1919 by the Freikorps, the far-right mercenaries that the German Social Democrats used to suppress their communist opponents. The swastika literally represents very little. Hinduism maybe, to esoterics like Himmler; an image of sexual sublimation for Wilhelm Reich, who saw intertwined legs as its hidden meaning. But about nazism and its political programme, the swastika said nothing. But the hammer and sickle said, unambiguously, that workers and peasants should rule.

It was also perhaps the first truly international political symbol since the tricolour and its permutations, or maybe more pertinently, since the Christian cross. Communist parties from Maerdy to Moldova to Kerala all use the hammer and sickle, as if to declare their adherence to a creed that aimed to abolish nations altogether. Some measure of its success can be garnered by the way that organisations to the right of it used similar symbols – until the 1980s, Labour used an oddly familiar symbol that featured a crossed quill and spade, with "LIBERTY" behind it to quash any doubts. So why would anyone want to abandon such a powerful and self-explanatory symbol?

Why indeed. For many, and entirely unsurprisingly, the hammer and sickle represents one thing – the one-party states that ruled several countries from 1917 to 1991, and that still rule a few – including, of course, the second-largest economy in the world. So, the PCF's reformers might well think, why should communists in the 21st century want to march under the banner used by the regime that starved and shot millions in the 1930s USSR, who declared Year Zero in Phnom Penh, or who declare that "to get rich is glorious" in contemporary Beijing? That's if communists today are even allowed to use the symbol – it is sometimes banned outright. This applies even in countries where communism still has an electoral appeal – the Czech Communist party, which came second in last year's regional elections, is forced to use a bunch of red cherries, as limp an image as Labour's red rose.

The defenders of the hammer and sickle, however, have a case. The POUM, the unorthodox communists who were ruthlessly crushed by the NKVD in the Spanish civil war, fought Stalinism under the hammer and sickle. The youth who spray the symbol today in Italy or Greece are not doing so to evoke the show trials, but to evoke class conflict and egalitarianism, and to do so as simply and quickly as possible.

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

What's dsa

GalacticAcid posted:

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/877965285340438528

Gene Hackman Fan posted:

https://twitter.com/facepaulmrevere/status/878013992790142977

https://twitter.com/girlziplocked/status/878003731660451840

Willa Rogers posted:

his expertise in intelligence must have been scrubbing all existing online proof of who he is.

The Muppets On PCP posted:

more congressional peckers are gonna get shot off before this is through and i can't say i feel the least bit sorry

SirPhoebos posted:

I said I would do Drakengard/Nier weapon stories for Bad Dems, but got distracted by MMOs. Thankfully, work is dumb and I have nothing else to do, so put on your Emil heads


In his youth, this Ohioan went to see the King along with other noble families.
While there, the Slay Kween spied the boy's unquestioning face.
"That one" she said, "He has no personality-exactly what our country needs!"
So enamored by the attention, the youth pledge his loyalty to the Slay Kween.

Years past, and kingdom was invaded by demonic orangutans.
The Slay Kween remembered the unimpressive youth, and summoned him to her palace
"Go to the Cheese Lands," she commanded, "and slay the sweating beast that resides there!"
Now a full grown pillow-face, the noble promised to bring a much needed victory."

When he entered the Cheese Lands, he was approached by a blacksmith.
"Hold friend," he said. "You mean well, but you do not know this land.
"Come with me, I am gathering together countrymen to bring down the beast you seek
"I have crafted an iron mostache, and it will be the means to overcome him."

The noble scoffed. "Begone, peasent, this fight is beyond your crude means!
"The blessed Slay Kween has gifted me with the arms and strategems to bring the monster down."
Brimming with confidence, the noble rode into the heart of the sweating beast's lair,
Where he was swiftly beaten to death with a wet rolled-up towel.

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

what a "slam."

the healthcare bill is as "mean" as Dangerous Donald.

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

a bunch of nothing-to-lose people are going to play sniper elite irl or hotline miami irl as a result of Reagan Holocaust II

and my response will simply be "lol"

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

Join the 50 Blessings to fight the Russian menace

Office Pig posted:

'Of course ossof lost its no big deal'

'we were so close, we'll get 'em next time'

'gently caress you commie losers we'll lose harder because of you'

Oh Snapple! posted:

Went into a mostly random thread:

lol

comedyblissoption posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--hoskx8tC8

Zhulik posted:

I think the big problem with most D&D posters is that they weren't bullied enough as kids

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/NuclearTakes/status/877735670554402817

Dairy Days posted:

[cosmic brain] we lose because we're so smart!!

etalian posted:

Smart enough to not order lots of yard sign Waaagh banners

Vox Nihili posted:

If anyone knows how to find an archive or plain text of this page i would be very thankful

https://www.upwork.com/mobile/amp/freelancers/~013e54672618ab68e6

GalacticAcid posted:

Hahah holy poo poo wasn't he in the navy for like a week before getting booted for having a dumb rear end foot

That's the entirety of his career as a spook?

The Muppets On PCP posted:

check out my sick new yard sign concept do not steal

Vox Nihili posted:

It's hard to say, he's scrubbed things pretty well. That one year (or less) is all you can find evidence of at this point.