• PolandIsAStateOfMind
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    11 months ago

    Hahahaha those libertarians are literally like this 1924 poster

    And then they will complain about being called liberals.

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      11 months ago

      Damn, depicting yourself as the chad and your opponents as the soyjack is so much older than the internet.

      There’s probably like, some ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs where Ramses depicts himself as the chad Pharaoh and like…the Nubians or whoever as virgins and soyjacks.

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        Nearly every single one in fact, one of the staple techniques was to depict important people as bigger, nonimportant as smaller and enemies a wretched and cowering. For example, famous stela of Narmer, the very first pharaoh living over 5000 years ago:

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          11 months ago

          Damn, I came to make a joke, now I’m learning some cool things!

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        11 months ago

        A lot of fascists call themselves “classical liberals” nowadays when the F word isn’t as acceptable.

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        11 months ago

        I’ve found it way more entertaining to call them conservatives. After they get pissy about that I call them liberal.

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        No idea about american libertarians (though considering the meaning of the word “liberal” in USA ther they will probably protest) but if you call polish libertarian “liberal” they will either get mad for comparing them to those “socialists” from PO or you will hear a long word salad about true libertarianism etc.

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            11 months ago

            Polish libertarianism overlaps with monarchism and nazism much and for most of them libertarianism is just “something i like” while “everything i don’t like” is socialism.

    • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [they/she]OP
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      11 months ago

      I think they were intending to mean if the US was somehow actually attacked like the War of 1812 again, but maybe that’s giving too much credit

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    11 months ago

    Took me way too long to understand this - libertarians positioning themselves as centrists with their “positions” on the yellow background

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      11 months ago

      I didn’t get it until I read your comment

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    8 months ago

    deleted by creator

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    11 months ago

    “peace and diplomacy” AND “national defense”? they do know that maintaining and “defending” american hegemony requires constant violence right?

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    11 months ago

    Can we get a “number of false dichotomies in political spectrum infographics” record going?