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Kinkservative
(lemmy.world)
Personally, I like the MST3K version.
tread harder daddy
A pro-authoritarian statement.
Gasden Flag during Obama presidency: Don’t Tread On Me
Gadsden Flag during Trump presidency: Tread On Me Harder, Daddy
Gadsden Flag during Biden Presidency: Please don’t be mean to our daddy Putin.
This is a sick and disgusting use of that 🦅conservative®🦅 flag.
What is that in the snake's mouth?
...where do people even buy those??
Step on snek, mommy
A pro-authoritarian statement.
Did you not see the ball gag in the mouth?
~~You want authoritarianism...?~~
EDIT: From what I can see, your post history suggests otherwise. Still, though, I'm growing rather tired of the misappropriation of the Gadsden flag -- it is not a conservative symbol.
The joke is improperly founded, imo. The post's title "Kinkservative" more or less proves that the joke is founded on the presumption that the Gadsden flag is some auth-right symbol, which it is quite far from being. All this post does is push a narrative that the Gadsden flag is something that it is not. I don't want to see it be twisted into something opposite of what it fundamentally represents.
A symbol is only as good as what it represents. Symbols mean different things to different people, but the zeitgeist determines what the Gadsden Flag means in the here and now, and in the here and now the Gadsden Flag is the flag of auth-right fascists pretending to be Libertarian only so far as it means their own freedoms and nobody else’s.
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Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too late
I personally don't believe so, and even if you are right, it would be a sincere loss, and not something that should be encouraged.
"Misappropriation" lololol
The Gadsden flag is fundamentally not a conservative symbol, so I don't know why it's being used, and treated as such. This post, and meme is presuming that the Gadsden flag is fundamentally represents those in the alt-right, auth-right, conservative, etc. circles. I have no idea why it's popped up in groups like the "proud boys"; they're idiots if they think it aligns with them in any shape or form.
My dude, I am as angry as anyone that the Trumpers and such have taken the Gadsen flag from us. But just like the pain of accepting Pluto's demotion, you need to accept that they have successfully done so. That ship has sailed. It will not be a suitable symbol for groups at the opposite end of the spectrum (or by anyone who isn't a raging fascist) during the remainder of our natural lifetimes.
There's no path to reclaiming it in the near term.
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Flags always eventually get misappropriated. Its part of the core nature of them.
The only way to prevent that from happening is for people to stand up for their true meaning, and to consistently, and publically denounce their misuse. The best way to cure bad speech is to use better speech.
You're right. Ima start rocking a swastika to fight against its appropriation from Zoroastrinism, I'm sure everyone will understand and do it too.
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Shouldn't that say "mommy' or "daddy" at the end?
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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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