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We require alternative text (from now referred to as "alt text") to be added to all posts/comments containing media, such as images, animated GIFs, videos, audio files, and custom emojis.
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[–] Forester@yiffit.net 151 points 8 months ago (22 children)

If anyone has both of those flags hanging at the same time, they don't understand what the top one means.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 88 points 8 months ago

And the amount of Maga fucks that have both in my state is to high. That and the blue lives matter Punisher sticker. They show just how stupid they are.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

In Kansas you can get the yellow snake as your license plate.

I have seen three so far. All three of them had thin blue line bumper or window stickers.

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[–] wieson@feddit.org 9 points 8 months ago
  1. they care for reptiles who are basically just ribcage and know how riding them over even with a bicycle will fatally wound them

  2. they are a fan of the British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

I'd argue they don't understand what the bottom one means, but I'm ready to meet you in the middle and say that they don't understand any of the two

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Top flag: "don't tread on me"

Bottom flag: "when there are perfectly good minorities you should be treading on right there!"

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[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 90 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Once, years ago, went out to a restaurant with some friends and had a couple drinks. Wasn't paying close enough attention to my intake, and ended up a little too tipsy to drive (not, like, belligerent drunk or anything, just not safe to drive). Hung out sitting on the hood of my car watching videos on my phone for a while with a friend until he had to leave. Before he left, this super cute guy started talking to us. We hit it off, and dude and I started getting flirty. Went back to his place because it was walking distance, did the deed, and when we were done I went to get some water from his kitchen.

Wherein I see not one, not two, but no less than a dozen coffee mugs, posters, fucking rugs, and all manner of paraphernalia with right wing nonsense. We're talking he had a fucking swastika area rug. I begin the heavy breathing of a scared little gay boy (6'3 and nearly 300lbs/190cm 135kg), and he notices my discomfort. He acts like this is nothing unusual and says he's just a collector of WWII shit.

Yeah, bro, maybe you are. But that doesn't explain the don't tread on me poster, the trump 2016 merch, and fucking birth of a nation movie poster!

I got the fuck outta there before his lawyers had a chance to try out a gay panic defense.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 65 points 8 months ago (7 children)

...says he’s just a collector of WWII shit.

Isn't is funny how nobody collects the stuff from the Allies?

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

Only my grandparents stuff from when they kicked Nazi ass. They’d be horrified at todays bullshit.

[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have WWII stuff from the allies, but it isn't even from the European parts of the war. From my grandfather. His father earned US citizenship by fighting in WWI.

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 8 months ago

There actually is a pretty large WW2 Allied collector and reenactor community. I know a guy with a Jeep with a mounted quad MG.

Just don't ask too many questions about the other team.

[–] Forester@yiffit.net 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I don't want to nitpick but plenty of historical gun owners love both sides weaponry and display both. Personally, I know a friend that owns a STG 44 and a ppsh and a tommy.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Collecting multiple kinds of guns is a bit different than collecting all of the other things that are clearly nazi branded propaganda. Having one or two guns isn't really collecting in the same way as having a bunch of nazi branded everyday use items with the red black and white swastika flag.

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[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 months ago

To be fair, it is more intriguing to collect the stuff of the objectively bad guy. A lot of it is like, it feels almost unbelievable, so nazi memorabilia helps ground that reality that, yes, it actually happened (and how it might have happened)

Of course there is nuance to this, though

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I begin the heavy breathing of a scared little gay boy (6'3 and nearly 300lbs/190cm 135kg)

Holy shit I died

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 months ago

Thank you, I'll be here for the foreseeable future... As I can't afford to leave

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait, are you a gay man or a female? This story's context changes drastically with your answer.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Nice. I feel bad for these fundies that have to pretend to be conservative but are actually pretty liberal sexually.

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[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago
[–] swab148@lemm.ee 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If they're against the state, it's not theft, because the state is what grants the right to property 😀

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's why Marxists only drink herbal tea

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Stirner glasses are a nice touch.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was wondering what the glasses were referring to. I guess you mean Max Stirner?

German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism and individualist anarchism

I'm a bad leftist, I'm terrible with theory and history.

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Finally some egoist content

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why change the sex of the person fleeing the apartment?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because the odds of a woman having flags hanging in her bedroom at all, let alone those flags, is very small

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[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

~~Why complain about it being changed?~~

Edit: I am, in fact, a silly billy

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It’s an odd thing to take the time to change and I’m curious why they’d do it. Conflating curiosity with complaints is for silly billies.

[–] zalgo@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In America men tend to fall into these camps much more often than women do. It's also generally more common for women to lose interest in a man due to conservative ideologies that may not sit well with them for obvious reasons.

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[–] snooggums@midwest.social 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Putting on glasses doesn't change someone's sex.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 9 points 8 months ago

Nobody ever suspected Clara Kent of being Superman.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Thin blue line is so fucking cringe. You're in the US eating doughnuts and beating on black people, you're not some hero defending society.

[–] Eol@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wait...? Is it a lesbian couple or not?

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Dark hair one looks like a guy to me. Artist uses discernible breasts to convey the light hair one is a woman.

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because when a man has light hair it's spelled blond

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

You’re both right.

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does it change the meaning of the post if they are? (Hint: no it doesn’t)

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