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CROWS EVERYWHERE
Dec 17, 2012

CAW CAW CAW

Dinosaur Gum
Oh! To be the skull situated right under Trotsky's bumhole

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 20 days!)

TrilliontonNixon posted:

What's up with everyone drawing Trotsky as a giant naked demon?

They're based on real photos.

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Pardon the racism, replace with Amazon:







It seems like this is propaganda but it actually isn't (or are ALL ADS propaganda?!?)



Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


These suck post more communism

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?




Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Crazycryodude posted:

These suck post more communism

~*be the change you want to see in the world*~

drat, beaten

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye









Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



metropolis is very much pro socialist propaganda

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 20 days!)

Frog Act posted:

metropolis is very much pro socialist propaganda

It's not. Metropolis does have a certain Marxist-informed view of industrial capitalism, but the solution at the end is the unity of labor & capital under a new deal instead of the overthrow of capital by labor. It's a reactionary sentiment that could just as easily be interpreted as fascist. The contradictions between labor and capital aren't resolved, they're just sort of sublimated to a new unifying will. It's the way liberals think capitalism's problems could be resolved if we just had good capitalists that were nice to the workers.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's not. Metropolis does have a certain Marxist-informed view of industrial capitalism, but the solution at the end is the unity of labor & capital under a new deal instead of the overthrow of capital by labor. It's a reactionary sentiment that could just as easily be interpreted as fascist. The contradictions between labor and capital aren't resolved, they're just sort of sublimated to a new unifying will. It's the way liberals think capitalism's problems could be resolved if we just had good capitalists that were nice to the workers.

Tellingly, the Nazis loved and Fritz Lang came to hate it later in life.

It's still a great movie though.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Helsing posted:

The Guardian based its Anti-Putin comic on a Nazi anti-Bolshevik poster.




i guess you dont "get" steve bell

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



drat now i want a grilled cheese and coke

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 20 days!)

MonsieurChoc posted:

Tellingly, the Nazis loved and Fritz Lang came to hate it later in life.

It's still a great movie though.

Oh it's a Good Art that's fer drat sure.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Oh it's a Good Art that's fer drat sure.

I love the Moroder version unironically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C8MtzRK2ZY

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

drat now i want a grilled cheese and coke

propaganda works

hackbunny
Jul 22, 2007

I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av
The color of that :airquote:cheese:airquote: doesn't look healthy

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

hackbunny posted:

The color of that :airquote:cheese:airquote: doesn't look healthy

dont sign your posts

Skyscraper
Oct 1, 2004

Hurry Up, We're Dreaming



hackbunny posted:

The color of that :airquote:cheese:airquote: doesn't look healthy

The cheese is government cheese, that's why it's a poster about socialism

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

I'm looking at that glass of coke and wonder if they actually used a real glass, or if the whole thing isn't a clever sculpture of some kind, with every bead of condensation a fast-drying plastic applied by hand

hackbunny
Jul 22, 2007

I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

Nebakenezzer posted:

I'm looking at that glass of coke and wonder if they actually used a real glass, or if the whole thing isn't a clever sculpture of some kind, with every bead of condensation a fast-drying plastic applied by hand

Glycerin, probably. A photography set is very hot because of all the strong lights, and you can only give that look of "freshness" with tricks (for example: plastic ice cubes)

If it can make you feel better, I read that advertising laws mandate that the food product being advertised must be the real product, so the liquid in the glass is almost certainly Coke. However, advertisers are free to apply "make up" to the advertised food to make it look better: for example, you can't add filling to a sandwich or burger to make it look bigger, but you can move all the filling that there is to the front. Or you could undercook the burger patty so it doesn't shrivel up, and then "correct" the color with shoe polish

Non-products shown in the ad, like the grilled cheese here, don't have to actually be the food they look like (for example: mashed potatoes with food coloring instead of ice cream), or even food at all (engine oil instead of maple syrup)

hackbunny has issued a correction as of 17:48 on Apr 12, 2018

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Tried to find more satanic Trotsky, just ended up finding pro-socialist propaganda



"the alt right gorilla mentality"



I think the guy in the center is "the great golden idol of war"



More Polish anti-communism



While looking, also found this. Amazon assures me they are often bought together!





Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

So Union Carbide in the 1950s had the slogan "a hand in things to come". This lead to a striking and occasionally insane ad campaign:



Basically because the hand seems like a supervillian in action:

"Listen to it scream! And it is helpless to resist in our hands!"



"Biological life is NO MATCH FOR US"





"I can improve you"



"Someday, even the moon will bow to us!"



"The very stones of the earth howl at my touch!"



"SEE my awesome, benevolent hand at work in one of the poorest places on earth!"



"I can change this planet's stability at will!"



"The cosmos itself is mine to tinker with, once I find the anti-life equation"

Soup du Jour
Sep 8, 2011

I always knew I'd die with a headache.

Science helps build a new India*

*Bhopal not included

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008


oh my god

Ansar Santa
Jul 12, 2012

Megacaust would be a good name for a metal band

The_Politics_Man
Aug 25, 2015

Nebakenezzer posted:


"SEE my awesome, benevolent hand at work in one of the poorest places on earth!"



That ad didn't age well.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

https://twitter.com/DemonTito/status/987055599673397249

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye


The amount of socialist iconography and Obama photoshops is in retrospect hilarious

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

Nebakenezzer posted:

Pardon the racism, replace with Amazon:







It seems like this is propaganda but it actually isn't (or are ALL ADS propaganda?!?)





aren't you the dude that used to poo poo up the old dnd pics thread with entire life magazine advertisement pages

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006


man obama purges would have been lit

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 20 days!)

Nebakenezzer posted:

While looking, also found this. Amazon assures me they are often bought together!







Recognizing British and American megadeaths in equal measure to communist states is more intellectually honest than 99.9% of all Red Terror/GLF literature.

Retromancer
Aug 21, 2007

Every time I see Goatse, I think of Maureen. That's the last thing I saw. Before I blacked out. The sight of that man's anus.

When Trump starts rounding up muslims and hispanics we can call it the MAGAcaust.

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Recognizing British and American megadeaths in equal measure to communist states is more intellectually honest than 99.9% of all Red Terror/GLF literature.

p sure this guy's a Nazi apologist, dude

If you doubt, please buy these books and make a thread

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 20 days!)

Nebakenezzer posted:

p sure this guy's a Nazi apologist, dude

If you doubt, please buy these books and make a thread

Oh no, he's definitely a Nazi apologist. Reich and Wrong is about how great interwar Nazi Germany was, and how the mean old allies provoked them into invading Poland.

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

:bernpop:

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
toot toot

hackbunny
Jul 22, 2007

I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av
Oh boy oh boy I just remembered the greatest thing. In 1992, Italian cartoonist Romano Scarpa made an anti-Communist Mickey Mouse story (as a parody of Ninotchka), managed to get it published officially and everything, although until last year it was never reprinted



Look at those wacky equalists, peddling Carl Barks' Der Cent. Look at the good king with his cute dog!

hackbunny has issued a correction as of 12:47 on Apr 27, 2018

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

owns

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Goon Danton
May 24, 2012

Don't forget to show my shitposts to the people. They're well worth seeing.

Looks like this genre might be getting a Renaissance.

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