Special thanks to WTYP for letting me know this exists.

  • Optimismbias [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    This is a tribal identity device commonly used in the military, but I guess Disney security qualifies. The idea of a challenge coin is that any other member of the tribe can come up to you and challenge you to produce your coin. If you can't, there is some penalty, usually having to buy drinks or dinner. See, it's a useless thing that you have to keep track of, it's jingling in your pocket all the time, so it's an annoying dongle. Which is the whole idea - only a tribe member would expend the effort for something worthless in any other context.

    • Puggo [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Nobody aside from maybe boomer vets does any of that shit. Those challenge coins are useless desk decor and that's pretty much it.

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    The fact that I genuinely can't tell if this is real or not is breaking my brain. After learning about the Portland Police's riot gear wearing Baby Yoda pin I just can't tell anymore.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Undoubtedly inspiring ten thousand articles about the Baby Yoda pin, while the police crack heads without a media news article about it.

    • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I mean, that tracks; Jedi were incredibly lib brained (religious adherence to order, aversion to change, etc)

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I haven't seen the show but I've been told that baby Yoda isn't Yoda as a baby but a baby that's the same kind of animal as whatever Yoda is

        • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          This is true, but the baby is Force sensitive

          spoiler

          and is taken by Luke at the end to be trained as a Jedi, presumably

            • OgdenTO [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              If you ignore all of the star wars mumbo jumbo, and what's her name's bigotry, it's actually pretty engaging and funny at times

            • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
              hexagon
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              3 years ago

              Minus the Star Wars Pastiche, it's basically a series of old Samurai movies and Westerns.

              Mandalorian redoing The Hidden Fortress which was, itself, the inspiration for the original SW movie, was amusing to say the least.

    • Optimismbias [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      It's a tribal identity signifier, likely awarded to people who have passed the tribe's initiation rituals. It's called a challenge coin because when another member of the tribe challenges you, you must show it or pay a penalty.

      Think of it like a class ring.

  • soufatlantasanta [any]
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    3 years ago

    Frank Castle would absolutely demolish all the goons who use his skull logo to defend hierarchy and authority lol

  • LangdonAlger [any]
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    3 years ago

    i can't wait to buy this shit at garage sales in like 20 years when these pathetic fucks die and their kids want nothing to do with all their worthless fucking souvenirs and trinkets