Comics @lemmy.ml Abolish Amerikkka @lemmygrad.ml 8 mo. ago

Cool Kids Have Class Consciousness

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3939791

Cool Kids Have Class Consciousness

Comics @lemmygrad.ml Abolish Amerikkka @lemmygrad.ml 8 mo. ago

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The new cuphead looks based as fuck
- Cuphead 2: Cup head
Hey I'm down with guillotine but Molotov cocktails just pollute the environment......
- Molotov cocktails just pollute the environment
  
  Not as much as the capitalists they'll be getting rid of
  
  Hey guillotines are just as effective as Molotov cocktails.
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You'd probably get more people on side if you didn't use a logo that everyone associates with mass-murder and oppression. This is like having "cool kids have the right to freedom" slapped on a big USA flag, or "cool kids bring civilisation to the needy" on a sigil of the Roman Empire.
- What
  
  The only people associating the hammer and sickle with negativity are the propagandized populations of imperial core countries lol, and their opinions don't really matter for global emancipation
  
  I thought they were talking about the guillotine lmao
  
  Sure they are comrade, I'm sure the millions that starved or were executed under Stalin don't really matter either. Or was that all propaganda and everyone actually had a lovely time?
  
  Basically all people living in countries that were part of USSR do. We hate russia and hammer and siclke and other communist symbols like a red star for a good reason.
- What you are saying is to use the expression(s) as the currently active propaganda dictates and not explaining what they actually mean, and especially why they mean what they do in you local propaganda (which is just another name for the loudest mouth around).
  
  Adding new symbols for established and widely known concepts can backfire, as the counterparty can easily muddy the new symbol by calling it the old symbol.
  
  Im not saying, that those meanings are not true, you are right ofc, it's just that education goes a long (or actually all) the way. Like, you basically can't imagine western world without a swastika being a Nazi thing, yet that could have been the case.
  
  Its always the victors that fud people (duh), eg its not like the French revolution was always seen as a good thing (or not just as killing and pillaging), it took years, decades even to become synonymous with freedoms(the non-™ kind).
  
  If the revolution failed, the eg guillotine (or whatever) could have been commonly as hated as nazi swastika, not a thing little goth girls with loving parents play with.
- I associate guillotines with revolution

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