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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.
Ugh, gay guy here, totally relate. Hate it when the cute gay guy is a fascist. Has happened multiple times for me.
Seriously? Because out of 20 years of homoing professionally this is my sole example. I hope to God I don’t run into it again lol
Sadly yeah, flirting with guys online, lots of them turn out to be far-right. Luckily, I’m no longer single, so I don’t have to deal with it anymore. But at least 3 guys I’ve been kinda interested in turned out that way. Found out before sleeping with any of them, thankfully
That sucks! My only other kinda close example is a dude I used to blow back in my “falling for straight guys” phase ended up going ancap, but that was a while after we were hooking up.
I begin the heavy breathing of a scared little gay boy (6’3 and nearly 300lbs/190cm 135kg)
Holy shit I died
Thank you, I’ll be here for the foreseeable future… As I can’t afford to leave
Wait, are you a gay man or a female? This story’s context changes drastically with your answer.
Gay man
Nice. I feel bad for these fundies that have to pretend to be conservative but are actually pretty liberal sexually.
…says he’s just a collector of WWII shit.
Isn’t is funny how nobody collects the stuff from the Allies?
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.
You have inherited stuff, but do you collect and display it?
Everyone loves an unterhund?
Only my grandparents stuff from when they kicked Nazi ass. They’d be horrified at todays bullshit.
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
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.
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.
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.
I’m not disagreeing that was my point. However the people who are in that hobby normally get other kit than just guns. What matters is how it’s displayed.
Nazi rug in the bathroom is OK with me
Long as it’s in the toilet (and the bathtub has a big drain)
Anyone displaying a swatstika anything that’s a reproduction or new production item needs to get their head checked IMHO. I’m only ok with actual historic pieces from the era.
Probably just Axis being the driver of history at the moment.
It started there, and what Allies did is they put this down.
People tend to be more interested in what started the fire and what has let it burn; what has left a dent in history. Doesn’t mean they lean to Nazi ideology.
(Disclaimer: I collect neither and am not interested in war history, or war in general)
Why change the sex of the person fleeing the apartment?
Because the odds of a woman having flags hanging in her bedroom at all, let alone those flags, is very small
Thank you for an actual answer, much appreciated!
Putting on glasses doesn’t change someone’s sex.
Nobody ever suspected Clara Kent of being Superman.
Why complain about it being changed?Edit: I am, in fact, a silly billy
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.
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.
Run girls run! Do yourselves the favor and leave your oppressors. Don’t let them control your bodies.
Thank you, that makes complete sense!
Ah, sorry, I was too quick on the draw; so used to… certain kinds of people getting Very Upset when genders are changed in media
All good! I fully recognize the times that we live in and the zealousness necessary to keep sea lions from breeding, so to speak.
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.
Wait…? Is it a lesbian couple or not?
Does it change the meaning of the post if they are? (Hint: no it doesn’t)
Oh that’s what you thought I meant?
Dark hair one looks like a guy to me. Artist uses discernible breasts to convey the light hair one is a woman.
discernible breasts
Now there’s a username waiting to be taken
The art isn’t great, but there also appears to be a bulge.
Only women are blonde
How dare you say that on Lemmy!
Because when a man has light hair it’s spelled blond
You’re both right.
Also, the dark haired one looks like they have a boner
Yeah. A lady boner.
Finally some egoist content
If anyone has both of those flags hanging at the same time, they don’t understand what the top one means.
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
Yeah I was thinking that those two flags are completely incompatible. I kind of respect the one that isn’t a gang symbol. Her reaction was still appropriate.
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.
Top flag: “don’t tread on me”
Bottom flag: “when there are perfectly good minorities you should be treading on right there!”
that if the 13 colonies unite against british tyranny, they’ll be as untreadable as a rattlesnake? especially with the rattlesnake only being native to the americas….
The message is step on me and get bit. Traditionally it’s an anarchist symbol encouraging unity and brotherhood among the colonies in defiance of the crown.
But just like many other things it has been misinterpreted and misused by fascists.The one on a rainbow field still does the job for now.
that picture is actually part ii to
but, yeah… i agree…
we should just use a red and black one and let them have yellow and black (:Firstly, that’s how you become identified as an anarcho-capitalist. Secondly, I’m a libertarian Minarchist. Aka Classical Liberal. Not a confused Republican
although anarcho capitalists are larping, they already use black and yellow so i don’t think there would be much confusion….
secondly, ewww libertariansYellow and black equals Libertarian Black and red equals Anarchy capitalism or at least that’s how it used to work back on Reddit
Oh don’t get me wrong. My party has a shit reputation because it’s been infiltrated on purpose and turned into a mockery of itself.
Classical liberalism is a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics and civil liberties under the rule of law, with special emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom and freedom of speech. Classical liberalism, contrary to liberal branches like social liberalism, looks more negatively on social policies, taxation and the state involvement in the lives of individuals, and it advocates deregulation.
Mind you I’m not saying the government is useless. I’m just saying there are some things that shouldn’t be regulated that are excessively stupidly regulated. There are other things that need more regulation. It’s a balancing act.
I find Nozick’s minimal state interesting. He seems to want to entrust violence to a state. How would such a system prevent the minimal state from forming monopolies or cartels by which the ruled give up economic and political freedom?
black and red never meant that
I wonder if Metallica understood the real meaning or they were promoting fascism with their song
Maybe it is time we reclaim the flag from those fascist fucks 🤔🐍 ideas, anyone ?
A belly up cat
I like these two:
I had no idea this existed! TY 4 sharing!
Put some boots on the snake and have it pulling itself up!
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.
I’ve seen a few without it. None that made me think they weren’t steppers tho.
The State ALLOWS YOU to have a license plate identifying you as someone who’s AGAINST THE FUCKING STATE!
Libertarians didn’t create the Gadsden flag, nor do they own it
So?
Self identification, pretty smart of the state tbh.
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they care for reptiles who are basically just ribcage and know how riding them over even with a bicycle will fatally wound them
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they are a fan of the British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson
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I’d steal the TV too
If they’re against the state, it’s not theft, because the state is what grants the right to property 😀
It’s why Marxists only drink herbal tea
that’s fucking hilarious
The Stirner glasses are a nice touch.
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.
Yes, they’re talking about the woman wearing glasses akin to those worn by Stirner in Engels’s sketches.
I read those flags as such:
“Don’t tread on me”
“Ok tread on me”
Typical Switch.
Looks to be. But I don’t get this one?
Never noticed the silhouette in the window.
