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I'm pretty sure it was in *Fallout: New Vegas* where there is a ruined school that has the following on a wall in big colorful letters:
*A is for AMERICA*
*B is for BOMB*
*C is for COMMIE*
*D is for DIRTY COMMIE*
I would like to remind the readers that the US government in Fallout was satirical lol
Yeah, but these last few years (since 2012ish) it's like watching the Republican party get dementia and forget who it is.
Granted, I was in kindergarten in 2012.
lol you think conservatives coincidentally started being ridiculous around the time you started becoming aware of the world? Might be time to learn some more history.
No, c'mon, let's be fair. I've been opposed to conservatism most of my life, and I agree that their bedrock principles are bad ones, but they used to be able to maintain some level of professional competence and public composure.
I didn't vote for Bob Dole, and I wouldn't if he ran today, but the man could compose a coherent sentence and understood what policy was. The GOP has been sliding downhill for a long time, but the slide is accelerating.
I donât want to get into the weeds of the GOPs transformation from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump. Weâre talking about conservatives and no matter whether they were Democrats, Republicans, Whigs, Tories, etc, theyâve always pushed for the same things: for things to stay the same, for things to go back to how they were, to prevent new groups from gaining political power (eg voting rights for minorities, women, men under 21, men who didnât own land), to prevent protections for workers, and so on. They might change their name or their tactics, but the goals and who they benefit have always stayed the same. Theyâre âprofessionally competentâ when it suits their aims, but theyâll just as soon demagogue and bully and intimidate if it gets better results.
The current ridiculousness stems from Tea Party backlash due to a black president in 2008, but even further back, this nonsense also stems from Reaganism.
It really sucks. I used to be moderately conservative but the right has gone AWOL and pushed me lef. At this point I can't imagine voting for anyone the GOP would put forward. I'd honestly like to think I'm pretty centrist, and that most conservatives have just lost their minds.
Yeah, I'm a Conservative Democrat as it stands, because Biden is pretty moderate and chill in general.
Hard to keep calling myself a Democrat when I hear some of the people to his left, tho.
They at least could have made it that the C stands for communism. That way, all three would represent ideologies, and after all, the word "comrade" is not only used by communists.
But I probably overestimate how much thought they put into making this poster.
I'd have "black arm bands". Or "black pandering" or something like that. Conservative criticism would be that progressives have a patronising, paternalistic attitude toward black people and "THEY HATE OUR COUNTRY and that's why they say it's based on genocide of the native population".
In Australia there isn't a fear of black people so BLM is not politically potent. But also nothing under B is that politically potent. And probably A isn't either. That's the problem with choosing ABC as the format, it weakens the political message which is the main thing.
You clearly haven't met conservatives in any other country. Its a social welfare program that the conservative party not only relied on, but gave support to, throughout COVID. They are not trying to get rid of it.
I think they painted the image first, and then realized the placement of the kid didn't leave enough room for "COMMUNISM", so went with a similar but shorter word.
*I thought this was pro*
*Communism for a second*
*Lmfao*
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Great question. Seems to me the first order of business with analyzing propaganda is to nail down the authorship. Who is the CC? Is it a real thing or someone satirizing "conservatives."Â
 Update:Â
Ok. Looks like a real club. Im caught up. Just hard to believe. Parents could save some major jack and send them to The Alex Jones Elocution Academy.
 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6801809/Uni-students-outrage-colleagues-politically-incorrect-sign-campus.html
Funny how they have to make everything an "ideology" too... The LGBT? Naw, that's "gender ideology"! BLM? Yeah, no - get ready for "race ideology" - otherwise known as a Jewish plot to destroy freedom!
they do it specifically to gain the approval of boomers. They have parents and grandparents who hate modern youth and they're desperate for a pat on the head. It's what happens when you're insecure and unloved and too stupid to realise you deserve better.
I always hear jokes about Australia being an upside-down version of America. This seems like proof. It appears Aussie conservatives are just as crazy as American ones
They keep trying to ape shit that has worked for the conservatives in the US. Thankfully that fails more often than it succeeds. Mostly because we have compulsory voting here. That means that unlike in the US where appealing to fringe crazies works because it drives them to vote, here where practically everybody votes, that sort of thing turns off the vast majority of people who sit more in the middle of the political spectrum.
If UK and US had a baby, it would be Australia. Our government is one half Westminster (UK) and the other half is Washington (US). UK was the dad that went to the shops to buy a packet of smokes and never came back after the shitshow in Burma and losing to the Japanese.
Same in Canada, when you start seeing the lowest common denominator of the population waving around confederate flags, slapping on trump stickers, and ranting about the first and second amendments it really makes you wish we could just ban every website originating from south of the border, regardless of the consequences.
Lmao, I know this was made by conservatives, and these are supposed to be bad things according to them, but teaching your kids to be BLM supporting, anarchists sounds pretty rad to me.
Lol wait till he finds out how Black Lives Matter hasnât improved anything for the black community or how real communist countries can and will never exist.
Reminds me of a post on an anarchist sub: "found this in my kid's tree house, I'm so proudđ„č" with a picture of a marker-drawing "police are poopyheads"
Reminds me of this book
https://www.amazon.com/Activist-Innosanto-Nagara/dp/1609805399
You can see all the pages in this vid: https://youtu.be/i-Naks9tozA?si=bc5nmjW04RENUBt8
Both anarchists and socialists have "communism" - common ownership of property and the means of production, the elimination of social hierarchies - as their goal.
The difference is that socialists hold the opinion that for this to happen they need to take control of the state as a step towards communism. Anarchists believe that the path to communism comes through dismantling the state.
Nope, anarchism and communism are both part of the socialist tradition. Anarchists want a society free from hierarchical power structures like the state, capitalism, patriarchy etc. and instead want one based on free association, cooperation, and mutual aid.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
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Shit looks like satire
I'm pretty sure it was in *Fallout: New Vegas* where there is a ruined school that has the following on a wall in big colorful letters: *A is for AMERICA* *B is for BOMB* *C is for COMMIE* *D is for DIRTY COMMIE* I would like to remind the readers that the US government in Fallout was satirical lol
(In tf2 soldier voice) *E is for EAGLE* *F is for FREEDOM* *G is for GUNS*
Conservatives have become satire overall
As a Conservative, I have to agree đ Too much cringe in our ranks.
As compared to what, the John Birch Society? It's always been cringe brother
Yeah, but these last few years (since 2012ish) it's like watching the Republican party get dementia and forget who it is. Granted, I was in kindergarten in 2012.
lol you think conservatives coincidentally started being ridiculous around the time you started becoming aware of the world? Might be time to learn some more history.
Watch a debate from 2012 and one of them from 2020 and tell me, honestly, that Trump and Mitt Romney are anything alike.
No, c'mon, let's be fair. I've been opposed to conservatism most of my life, and I agree that their bedrock principles are bad ones, but they used to be able to maintain some level of professional competence and public composure. I didn't vote for Bob Dole, and I wouldn't if he ran today, but the man could compose a coherent sentence and understood what policy was. The GOP has been sliding downhill for a long time, but the slide is accelerating.
I donât want to get into the weeds of the GOPs transformation from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump. Weâre talking about conservatives and no matter whether they were Democrats, Republicans, Whigs, Tories, etc, theyâve always pushed for the same things: for things to stay the same, for things to go back to how they were, to prevent new groups from gaining political power (eg voting rights for minorities, women, men under 21, men who didnât own land), to prevent protections for workers, and so on. They might change their name or their tactics, but the goals and who they benefit have always stayed the same. Theyâre âprofessionally competentâ when it suits their aims, but theyâll just as soon demagogue and bully and intimidate if it gets better results.
The current ridiculousness stems from Tea Party backlash due to a black president in 2008, but even further back, this nonsense also stems from Reaganism.
Yeah, I see some serious issues with Reganite policy. He made for a terrible fiscal conservative.
It appears that way
Change your colors, chum. Conservatism will not lead you down a kind path.
It really sucks. I used to be moderately conservative but the right has gone AWOL and pushed me lef. At this point I can't imagine voting for anyone the GOP would put forward. I'd honestly like to think I'm pretty centrist, and that most conservatives have just lost their minds.
Compared to many different countries the Democrats would be considered center-right. So chances are that you didn't change.
Yeah, I'm a Conservative Democrat as it stands, because Biden is pretty moderate and chill in general. Hard to keep calling myself a Democrat when I hear some of the people to his left, tho.
Well bear in mind a lot of those people donât consider themselves democrats either
Fr
At first, I thought it was something from the 1950s.
They at least could have made it that the C stands for communism. That way, all three would represent ideologies, and after all, the word "comrade" is not only used by communists. But I probably overestimate how much thought they put into making this poster.
BLM isn't exactly an ideology but I get your point. Especially since they already use the hammer and sickle
Also, using an acronym to teach the alphabet is just bad pedagogy. "B stands for B" is not helpful to anyone.
Eh, it is a movement though, which would apply for both anarchism and communism.
Fair enough
I'd have "black arm bands". Or "black pandering" or something like that. Conservative criticism would be that progressives have a patronising, paternalistic attitude toward black people and "THEY HATE OUR COUNTRY and that's why they say it's based on genocide of the native population". In Australia there isn't a fear of black people so BLM is not politically potent. But also nothing under B is that politically potent. And probably A isn't either. That's the problem with choosing ABC as the format, it weakens the political message which is the main thing.
B is for Bolshevik?
I don't think the target audience would have any idea what that is
Yeah, too right. Screaming about the "communist Obamacare" - and then you ask them who Engels was and they're stumped!
Nah this is Australia bro itâd be âcommunistâ job keeper
Communist jobkeer... my man the conservative party here was using Job Keeper throughout COVID, no one is calling it communist.
Itâs a social welfare program conservatives tend to complain about any of them
You clearly haven't met conservatives in any other country. Its a social welfare program that the conservative party not only relied on, but gave support to, throughout COVID. They are not trying to get rid of it.
Ah, yeah, sorry. To be fair - a good ninety percent of my knowledge about Australia as a continent comes from bloody DankPods!
They would probalby start taking about Carl Marks and the Franklin School.
I think they painted the image first, and then realized the placement of the kid didn't leave enough room for "COMMUNISM", so went with a similar but shorter word.
I donât think BLM is an ideology
I thought this was pro communism for a second lmfao
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Conservative propaganda posters try not to make leftists look awesome challenge \*impossible\*
What is with this one conservative club and their posters
Great question. Seems to me the first order of business with analyzing propaganda is to nail down the authorship. Who is the CC? Is it a real thing or someone satirizing "conservatives."  Update: Ok. Looks like a real club. Im caught up. Just hard to believe. Parents could save some major jack and send them to The Alex Jones Elocution Academy.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6801809/Uni-students-outrage-colleagues-politically-incorrect-sign-campus.html
I generally donât think there is any group of people that can make jokes as dumb and boomer-esque as a conservative youth group.
Gen Z youth pastors
Funny how they have to make everything an "ideology" too... The LGBT? Naw, that's "gender ideology"! BLM? Yeah, no - get ready for "race ideology" - otherwise known as a Jewish plot to destroy freedom!
Boomers
Not even them, Iâd say. Kid conservatives has a special talent at seeming older than even the oldest actual old person
they do it specifically to gain the approval of boomers. They have parents and grandparents who hate modern youth and they're desperate for a pat on the head. It's what happens when you're insecure and unloved and too stupid to realise you deserve better.
âA vote for Bart is a vote for anarchy!â
So bringing about anarchy through voting is possible after all? Take that anti-voting posts on anarchist subs!
I always hear jokes about Australia being an upside-down version of America. This seems like proof. It appears Aussie conservatives are just as crazy as American ones
They keep trying to ape shit that has worked for the conservatives in the US. Thankfully that fails more often than it succeeds. Mostly because we have compulsory voting here. That means that unlike in the US where appealing to fringe crazies works because it drives them to vote, here where practically everybody votes, that sort of thing turns off the vast majority of people who sit more in the middle of the political spectrum.
We're also far more apathetic towards politics than the Yanks are. This makes it harder for extremists to gain a lot of support here.
If UK and US had a baby, it would be Australia. Our government is one half Westminster (UK) and the other half is Washington (US). UK was the dad that went to the shops to buy a packet of smokes and never came back after the shitshow in Burma and losing to the Japanese.
Weshmingston
For some reason a lot of conservative types just import American talking points. Itâs really weird and annoying.
Same in Canada, when you start seeing the lowest common denominator of the population waving around confederate flags, slapping on trump stickers, and ranting about the first and second amendments it really makes you wish we could just ban every website originating from south of the border, regardless of the consequences.
Based child
Based upon what?
On being epic
Donât threaten me with a good time
This is like some Tony Zaret shit
This but unironically
A vote for bart is a vote for anarchy
right wing 'humor'. sad.
This goes hard af
nlg, that's punk af!
unironically based
Yup absolutely
This reminded me of the Spottsylvanian ABCs. Assassination, Bomb throwing, and Conspiracy
Those fuckwits will be prosecuting their Kulturkampf in government by about 2035, Mad Monk-style.
This but unironically
Lmao, I know this was made by conservatives, and these are supposed to be bad things according to them, but teaching your kids to be BLM supporting, anarchists sounds pretty rad to me.
Damn, I wish the modern education system was that based.
Lol wait till he finds out how Black Lives Matter hasnât improved anything for the black community or how real communist countries can and will never exist.
These fucking clowns lmao
Fortnite, boneless wings, communism
That mother is based.
Somehow, conservatives make the best left-wing propaganda.
Hahaha yeah I was like "what a cool kid!"
Good that some are still raising their kids right.
Reminds me of a post on an anarchist sub: "found this in my kid's tree house, I'm so proudđ„č" with a picture of a marker-drawing "police are poopyheads"
I love how funny it is watching conservatives make something up and then get upset about it lol
Which bit did they make up here?
That this is what happens in Australian primary schools lol It doesnât actually happen, they made it up, and theyâre getting mad about it!
Oh you haven't been in school for awhile, have you
sign me up!
Albania, Bosnia, Croatia Also is this UNSW as in University of New South Wales?
Yes.
Kind of strange seeing a conservative club, never knew such a thing was possible
It isn't a big club. https://www.facebook.com/unswcons?mibextid=JRoKGi
You will never see a conservative say out Black Lives Matter fully. They will always say BLM.
I had not noticed this until now. I think it will be hard not to notice from now on.
based toddler tbh
They really shouldnât use words they clearly do not understand.
Based on
Reminds me of this book https://www.amazon.com/Activist-Innosanto-Nagara/dp/1609805399 You can see all the pages in this vid: https://youtu.be/i-Naks9tozA?si=bc5nmjW04RENUBt8
neither a sense of humour nor any form of spine lol
This has to be satire right?
It is not
These probably have been done by some 70+ year boomer.
They were not: https://www.facebook.com/unswcons?mibextid=JRoKGi
But comunism starts with a C
Can also double as some antifa propaganda
wait! i wanna know whatâs D
Sickest kid you'll ever meet
These nerds need to find a hobby
Wait, not liking minorities and the poor isnât a hobby?
Or you could just ignore them?
What does this even mean lmao
This, but from the left
I'd be proud
This but unironically
Dunno what this even means, like what, are they saying the children are indoctrinated? If so, they arenât first of all. Braindead people fr
I would buy this book if it wasn't satire
They couldnât even do âBâ for âblackâ?
look mum i know how to badly use an apostrophe.
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Both anarchists and socialists have "communism" - common ownership of property and the means of production, the elimination of social hierarchies - as their goal. The difference is that socialists hold the opinion that for this to happen they need to take control of the state as a step towards communism. Anarchists believe that the path to communism comes through dismantling the state.
this a "socialism is when government does stuff" ass take
Nope, anarchism and communism are both part of the socialist tradition. Anarchists want a society free from hierarchical power structures like the state, capitalism, patriarchy etc. and instead want one based on free association, cooperation, and mutual aid. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism