• AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    goth gf pepe with blood on her hands is a problematic idea for a halloween costume, but i must admit i'm tempted now

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      9 months ago

      Costume idea: slutty 4chan meme

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      I thought it was pepe at first but that doesn't make sense, because they self-identify as pepes, it's probably lizard people which could be a euphemism for literally anything, no way to know what that's suppose to mean to them.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        9 months ago

        I think they mostly just wanted to have the hand be Palestinian colors, although the implication there that they must therefore always naturally be bloodstained is real cringe

  • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    This flat out looks like Nazi shit.

    Edit: for more context, here's why the green hand is significant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_in_Islam

    • GreatWhiteNope [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      Thanks for explaining that. I was trying to figure out if it was some weird reference to Wicked.

      Is there any racist symbology behind the hand being feminine with black nail polish?

      • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        I don't think so but I've seen the "Jewish hand" trope and it's usually a fuxked-up crone's hand type thing. Just some more dehumanization.

        Edit: found an example:

        Show

      • pillow
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        7 months ago

        deleted by creator

    • LeZero [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      This is just white supremacism, it's appealing to christian nationalists who want to secure, you know the type of fash

  • Ildsaye [they/them]
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    9 months ago

    How The Grinch Stole The Rules-Based International Order

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Israel is the thin blue line between Italian statehood and total anarchy.

  • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    I love too that they literally just, correctly identified the imperial hierarchy*. Like yeah, that's the order they're gonna have to be taken out in. They know their Empire perfectly.

    (*plus Italy for some reason??)

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      They even put fucking Italy there instead of Japan

      data-laughing

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      Realistically Taiwan is far more closely linked to China culturally and economically than the west, as a matter of fact they're extremely dependent on trading with the mainland.

      • Fishroot [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        wait for a year when the US department will try to bake shit on how taiwan is actually a synthesis of the best of Asia and the West.

        As a matter of fact, there is a taiwanese talk show had a dude talking about how the democratization of Taiwan showing that Taiwan is superior contrary to the barbaric rule of law in the mainland (mainly referring to Hu jintao and covid)

        The dude quoted Steven pinker for his thesis

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    In a certain respect, I think this can be correct, but why the fuck is Italy part of the chain? Greece would make more sense.

    That said, I generally view the fall of vassal states as a consequence of the failing imperial core rather than a cause. Israel, Taiwan, SK, all I think are going to hang on until the imperial world order crumbles for other reasons.

    I think France falling before Germany and the US falling last among the core is potentially accurate, but the UK is basically a US vassal like Australia and Canada are, so again I think it would slightly outlive the US, all the more likely for being Anglo (whereas the ones previously mentioned other than Israel have a little more reason to oppose white supremacy).

    • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]B
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      9 months ago

      Italy has the second largest heavy industry behind germany, it hosts a lot of very significant NATO military bases, it has an large fleet, it is very active in meddling in Africa. Just because they pissy on the Germans during 2008, doesn't mean its without claws or bite.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      They may not be a military powerhouse or anything, but Italy is pretty influential in the Medierranean. One of the main GLADIO countries

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Fair point. Besides the US, I was mostly thinking of economics (hence France, which is more reliant on colonies, falling before domestic manufacturing giant Germany) and how Italy is kind of imploding anyway with their farce Mussolini.

    • DrCrustacean [any]
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      9 months ago

      In a certain respect, I think this can be correct, but why the fuck is Italy part of the chain?

      They cook-a the pasta anti-italian-action

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    9 months ago

    But the UK is crippled and self-destructing already, why is it second to last?

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    https://nitter.net/jbytej/status/1715299915901849891

    lol, they just keep posting good stuff and saying it's bad.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      9 months ago

      I hope Greta starts a guerrilla force

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FF8353HfXcAAxEcg.jpg

      At least the digital graffiti (digiffiti, if you will) makes it clear that Gaza is fighting the US.

      • culpritus [any]
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        9 months ago

        This made me laugh way too hard. I think it's something about the combo of Greta's expression with the low effort edit.

  • PortugueseDragon [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    I was incredibly confused about why they were using a 19th century flag of Andorra here between France and the UK.