The faces look like something you'd see if someone turned Ayn Rand's books into a graphic novel.
Very similar to Soviet "Heroic" art of the post war period, which they borrowed from the German Fascists.
I was gonna say that. I think I have seen very similar faces on CCCP poster.
I was going to say, looks like it was ripped off of an old propaganda poster. Looks like it was just cropped, cut and pasted.
Looks like faces of "Kolhoznitca i rabichiy" (Колхозница и рабочий) monument in Moscow.
Nah, that's just Socialist Realism, they've been doing that from the word go.
Yup. The nazi party adopted the socialist name and aesthetic to appeal to the public, not the other way around. Socialism was popular at the time.
Exactly, thank you. The people in the pictures are fascist. Clearly. Their little masks are the same ones seemingly always worn by a certain US fash group.
The horseshoe theory believing people here are ridiculous. The Nazis, and fascists in general, adopted some socialist-like symbols and even sometimes vague phrasing from socialists/ communists.
While still being virulently anticommunist, of course.
It makes perfect sense when you understand fascism and why it came about. It came about as a way to try to save capitalism. Acting like you're anti-establishment, when really you're the exact opposite. (The Nazis were funded by capitalists, and they were big friends of big private business. Mussolini was on MI5's [British intelligence] payroll, and him and his blackshirts were paid by the bourgeoisie to break strikes and demonstrations, attack leftists, etc. Both the fascists in Italy and Germany were straight up handed power by the existing bourgeois government. I could go on -).
There's a reason fascism is summed up as "capitalism in decay."
People being like "USSR stuff!" - No.
Fash love to steal things to try to appeal to people. This is a long known truth.
Comment ended up longer than I anticipated, but oh well.
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Isn't there a Russian sculpture about the uprising against the USSR somewhere exactly with these faces?
ETA:
Worker And Kolkhoz Woman, Sculpture By Vera Mukhina, Moscow
The one on the right looks like Col Sanders without the facial hair.
What’s up with the Ayn Rand books? One of our insane right wing patients brought one in for our hygienist to read. I’ve never read any of them but wonder if they speak to the conspiracy theorist heart or something. Just curious
Her novels have become like the Bible for Libertarians. The nutters are always trying to get people to read them.
I’ve read a few of them and the only one I kind of enjoyed was the one when she detailed what happened during and after the Bolshevik Revolution.
From what I've heard, her early work seems to be readable. She just later went off the AnCap deep end.
Oh they're readable, they're just not enjoyable; and the concepts she espouses appear attractive on the outside, but if you dig deeper you see problems. For example, one of the concepts is that government should get out of the way of man's ability to do business. Sounds good in theory, but when you start considering things like employee health and safety, product quality, etc it runs into difficulties.
Listening to Atlas Shrugged right now out of curiosity and to be able to speak to people who like the works / make it the base of their philosophy. Anyhow, so far I see a lot of contrived and incapable government actions to regulate the market that even I would be mad about if implemented. What is described is simple bafoonery and easily the worst strawman one could come up with if you want to make an argument against market regulations. Yet on the other hand some of the monologues of the great industrialists portrayed in the book could just as well be used against the capitalists of today’s day and age. I’d say it isn’t terrible writing per se to the point where it’s boring or off putting. It’s cartoonish sometimes in its portrayal of economic philosophy, which I think is not necessarily surprising from an author who fled the mess that was Soviet Russia and its economic planning and inherent corruption. Halfway through the book, I’m curious about its conclusion.
Who is John Galt?
About the only thing I remember from that book except everyone kinda sucking
Yes, but later on she kept that attitude AND wrote horrible doorstoppers full of mary sues and monologues.
I love watching Sam Seder trying to talk sense to libertarians.
To paraphrase a quote: Never argue with stupid people; they'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Yeah but sometimes it’s fun to watch em scramble on how roads work.
Sounds good in theory, but when you start considering things like...
...environmental impacts, "tragedy of the commons" issues...
Didn't she end up on welfare to pay for her medical expenses? But taxes are bad
I believe so yes.
Bottom line, what she espouses is essentially a Wild Wild West Mad Max society and unless you are amongst those at the top, you will be forever be shat on and subject to the capriciousness of “your betters” and that just breeds a cycle of revolution.
High schoolers read her, skip college, then write turgid prog rock lyrics.
When I asked my mom about what she thought of atlas shrugged, she basically threatened to disown me if I ever wasted my time reading it.
I learned later what she stood for, the irony in her ideology, objectivism, the hilarious way that probing objectivists/libertarians ALWAYS ends up with them creating some form of government and taxation.(whether it’s with examples like fishing on an island, creating private insurance firms/courts with private militias with “dues” to enforce things like home ownership, or the hilarity that is the non aggression principle) Their apparent aversion for socialist-adjacent policies - until, like ayn Rand, they stand to benefit from said policies, so they do and lie about it or twist themselves into weird, hilarious angles with crazy qualifiers
Honestly, I LOVE libertarians. Because they’re so confidently wrong about what they think they stand for, they inevitably undermine it in trying to explain it.
There is a podcast host named Sam Seder who has made it a running gag to invite libertarians on to his show and then pokes at them until they kind of implode and end up undermining everything they think they stand for and creating government.
One of the best aspects is that so many of them claim to be better than the last libertarian guest ‘true libertarians, that have it figured out, the real deal, can explain and defend the ideology and principles of great minds like ayn Rand ’ that that aspect of them has become kind of a meme.
If you’re ever looking for a laugh at the expense of self proclaimed pundits and people who work in the realm of politics, check it out. I think I can safely say both the left and right find libertarians hilarious.
She grew up in communism and thus was very against some of the experiences of that world. So her books glorified the concept of individualism above all. Basically her protagonists were brilliant people who were torn down by society requiring that they be blunted to blend in with the majority. So basically hard right fever dream stuff.
her philosophy has always appealed to alt-right agendas
Ayn Rand wrote books whose protagonists were based on real-life psychopathic murderers. She was fascinated by the ability of a psychopath to do what they wanted without being moored to a conscious. She admired sociopathic behavior and created book themes that mirror that fucked up belief system cloaked in self-sufficiency. This is why the Libertarians and conservatives eat that shit up. All the while taking/stealing handouts from the tax collective, they swear they want to dismantle.
Here is the most fucked up killer she loved. (See link below. I dont know how to hyperlick on my mobile.) The fact this guy cut off the eyelids of a child, and tricked the kidnapped child's father into thinking she was alive just for the thrill of it should tell you everything you need to know about Ayn Rand's beliefs. It gets much much much worse, but that is the one thing that stands out for me, when I hear/read Ayn Rand's name. I think of that poor father. Anyone who admires Rand is an extension of that mindset. Admiration for complete apathy, sociopathy, and psychopathic behavior. Aka MAGA. Truly evil shit.
Now, the Ayn Rand fans will call foul, and even her website tries to disprove her own freaking handwritten notes about her fascination of being unmoored to your conscious, and not being bound by guilt, or obligations to mankind. But the fact of the matter remains that the people who love her shit on the conservative side are the same assholes who believe in bootstrap/trickle-down economics, supply side Jesus, and corporate socialism. They are identifying and siding with sociopathy, wishing they too could rid themselves of that pesky conscious.
https://time.com/3951166/ayn-rand-ideal-fountainhead/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marion_Parker
She preaches the "virture" of selfishness. Her books are an imature libertarian's wet dream....pure garbage.
And ironically everyone who's really into that shit couldn't look further from these pure people. Just globs of pus and disappointment
This!!! My first though was an Ayn Rand book
Yes they evoke a sort of world war era propaganda art, I expect to see it with art deco
Straight up looks like the cover of we the living.
Ayn Rand and Gary Cooper?
Huh. My first look was at the couple on the banner, and I'm thinking, "They didn't really pick out an iconic Nazi Germany image, did they? Please no."
Then I realized I'd missed why you made the post.
Enlighten us please!
Lost of posters in this style. It rings a bell forme to, as 30'es propaganda, but can't remember the specific poster
Perfect.
Take my upvote.
That's literally how XX century (and XIX century) academical European art looks. No matter the country. Basically, this style is based on strictly following textbook instructions mainly calculated by ancient greeks and XVI century Italians. Moreover, art students have been using approximately the same set of Greek and Italian statue copies as models for centuries. The people in art academias have been learning this by this day, so if you ask a traditional European academical artist to draw a somewhat nice face without any additional references, you get exactly this. In Russia, and in Germany, the artists were both professionally educated, and encouraged to draw textbook academical realism. That's why.
looks like post ww2 soviet comic like style to me
https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Antikbar/45/761845/H20672-L357483970.jpg
It looks like the Soviet poster for that famous statue of both man and women carrying both hammer and scythe.
both the ussr and the axis liked to use propergander posters in a style called heroic realisum it is the most loved style of authoriterium assholes.
I heard they struck a huge vein of raw authoriterium ore in Texas….
Propergander, realisum, authoriterium ? AI or talk to text making up words again? Lol
I would love to get a proper gander at those posters but the links won’t work.
That's what i was thinking
At first, I thought it was American Gothic. But then it does remind me of the Nazi propaganda posters.
That's what it is, that's where they got it
They’re so obsessed with the Nazi ideology that they accidentally show it in their “protests”.
Sounds about right
It's "The Americans" tv series lol
Hope these boys aren't in North Carolina. They just passed a law against masks in public.
Fuck that state, I have no regrets moving
I don’t understand why its politics are so Republican. Isn’t it nearly a swing state, close to Virginia, with massive growing Blue areas like Asheville, Charlotte, and the Research Triangle? It confuses me.
So wait, if you are immunocompromised and need a mask you aren't allowed to wear it unless you throw a swastika on it?
As long as you aren't committing a crime, it's fine, but if you do commit a crime, you'll want to throw on a symbol
Because it's gerrymandered to hell, is why. Our elections average a slight edge for Republicans and we typically elect Democratic governors, but the Republicans engineered themselves permanent General Assembly and Congressional supermajorities when they took both houses after Mike Easley's corruption scandal.
This is definitely the reason. That’s why Jeff Jackson is running for AG, instead of continuing with his house seat, due to aggressive Republican gerrymandering. The current congressional delegation is split 7-7, but the new map draws 10 districts that are safe GOP seats, three that are safe Democratic districts and one that is competitive.
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/26/jeff-jackson-north-carolina-attorney-general-00123751
Smallest Jeff Jackson W. I respect him, mainly for his transparency in his policies. I wish we had more of that here in UT (won't happen - LDS Church lobbies the fuck out of state and local government)
exclude hate groups from this new law,
No, they tried making it so health reasons were allowed to wear masks but hate groups were not. Republicans shot that down.
"Religious exemptions"..../s
It’s okay because they’re spreading hate /s
Its only illegal if youre not a white guy /s
In in RDU airport right now. I've seen a dozen masks wearers. Including some TSA employees.
It's not law yet, the Governor will veto it, but the NC legislature has the numbers to override a governor veto, so only a matter of time.
*for health reasons.
You can still wear masks for racist reasons in North Carolina and much of the South.
Some points
-it’s not passed and in affect, it’s still proposed as of Friday
-it’s not an outright mask ban, but additional charges for wearing a mask while committing a crime
I’m sure the criminals will all take off their masks before committing crimes now. /s
Yeah on its own it seems silly, it just gives DAs more ammo to use. There’s lots of similar laws out there for other things
Must be tough being a white person in Montana. I mean really, they must be exhausted with how many black and brown folks who are invading the cold, desolate mountains. Totally. /s
As a white person in Montana, fuck these asshats.
Masks and tan cargo pants, you know exactly who these people are.
I thought they were against masking up in public though 😁
There’s a cowardice exception.
And now I can’t wear my damn cargo pants, f these morons!
I feel like if you drop the mask and all the nazi stuff, the pants themselves should be fine lol.
Well, thankfully I don’t wear masks (unless medically necessary) and don’t own any Nazi crap, so I just kinda resemble an asshole on a day off. 🤣
Let's say it together: Fascists
So much pride, yet they cover their faces.
But not during a pandemic because that would be anti-free-speech
Thanks to assholes like this so many people I know have covid brain fog and leaky throats 4 years later because of long covid, me included. Thanks fascist scum! They're the best at damaging everything around them
I have a friend who never fully recovered from Covid due to having developed cardiac issues and often uses a wheelchair or walker. Very young, early 30s, totally healthy beforehand. People who claimed that mask mandates violated their fReEdOmS should have to live as a disabled person for even one day.
I think much longer than one day.
Same people who were against masks saying the couldn’t breathe
Yeah duh, haven’t you heard these days it’s illegal to be white ?
the fact that they’re doing this in front of a panda express is both funny and sad.
and likely not an accident
And now, all of a sudden, they seem to be fine with masks.
Its a famous propaganda comic from nazis 3rd Reich and if im not mistaken "Blut und Erde" Propaganda branch that wanted more aryian babies.
can't tell if they are white. take off your damn mask so we can see you for sure.
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you are too merciful.
I love how these cowards cry and scream about wearing a mask, yet turn around and…wear a mask to conceal their identity when doing shit like this.
They actually used a Nazi poster as their flag, lol
"White lives matter." No shit. I was under the impression that no other race ever said or did anything to them in the past couple of centuries that implied they didn't matter.
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If white lives matter so much to these guys why the fuck are they hiding their faces like cowards?
The Fourth Reich definitely didn't inherit The Third's fashion sense.
Is that a soviet era workers couple artwork?
It could be. The Nazi propaganda and Soviet realist styles are extremely similar, particularly in their depiction of the "ideal citizen" (farmer, factory worker, or soldier). The Soviet realist posters tend to have women and men as equals in the same poster more often (the Nazis were pushing hard on the trad wife thing), so it's more likely this was ripped from a Soviet rather than Nazi poster.
What makes them difficult to distinguish is that the Soviet realist style reflects the (subconscious?) cultural white supremacy in pre- and post-revolution Russia/USSR. It is extremely rare to find artwork which even acknowledges the existence of non-European Soviet citizens. Further, the depiction of the idealized soviet citizen is almost always that of a blond with high cheekbones... And not someone of Georgian appearance (as Stalin was)...
Cowards
NOW they'll wear masks....because they KNOW their asses are FIRED if they do it openly.
Oh, da po leetle white boyz feel persecuted?
I must have a hankie somewhere, - I made a bunch from an old clansmen robe.
I love how right wingers will whine about how everyone else has a 'victimhood complex'... then do this.
Ask them what persecution they are facing, and they have all kinds of made up nonsense ("Great replacement" antisemetic conspiracy theory, imagined persecution that they never challenge in court because they know it is imagined, etc)
I thought they were against wearing masks.
Why do these cowards cover their faces.
They are afraid, and they realize their ideology is worthless trash, but they still want to have a little public tantrum.
So does North Carolina's new mask ban mean that white nationalists won't be able to hide their faces?
I love how they hide faces while the claim "white pride" 🤣
Great now they wear a mask
Looks like something out of the Man in the High Castle.
“White” dude here. “White lives matter” flags should burn.
Faces covered. Cowards
And yet during an actual pandemic you couldn't get them to wear masks and now they do? What have they to fear eh?
I mean p sure they’re just like Soviet-era propaganda pieces from the look of it
Looking like a Kraftwerk album
that's the Whites. a family from that town
Good chance nobody in that picture has a jawline like that lol
Not original bone in their body 🤣
Awww look at these poor oppressed whites…. Obviously they were late for the opportunity train.
Well you will find them in nazi propaganda. Interesting because of the top leadership, only Speer looked like the ideal.
Homosexual nazis from the land of incel.
The used faces on the flag remember me very strongly at the Nazi propaganda 1930+.
The female looks like a stylised (and mirrored) version of this poster.
Probably pulled from some old WW II German joint.
Imagine feeling racially oppressed as a white man in north dakota
Cowards.
Be a man. Don’t wear your mask when you are supporting racist shit.
Looks like an old Nazi propaganda poster
Ah yes straight white men, the most oppressed group in the world
They’re right, white lives do matter. Fortunately for us white people, no one important is acting like that’s not the case. Unarmed white people aren’t getting killed by the police just for being white, and when they do get killed by the police no one wonders what crimes the white person committed to end up in that situation
Notice that they all ware masks because they know how bad what they are saying is.
If you're too ashamed to protest without showing your face, you may want to think about why that is
I do.... They are drawn in the Nazi time in Germany and Portrait the ideal race/ ideal couple. Can't find the original poster, but it was from a propaganda poster.
White lives matter? What about white trans folks? What about literally anyone else?
funny how they hide their faces, i thought they were proud of what they are doing...
I love how these people are so proud and sure of themselves and their cause, that they have to cover their faces.
They Look like from some sort of communist propaganda poster
I swear I've seen that logo before
These people want participation trophies.. ironically they are also the same people who complain about participation trophies 🤦🤷
Generic white supremacists.
Pretty sure I've seen the original which is a nazi propaganda poster. Could also be a couple of posters combined, not sure.
Scream “Pandemic! Mask up!” and they’ll whip those masks off real quick.
The right one looks like rudolf hess.
Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van in Superman The Movie (1978)???
Why are their white faces hidden.
New white hood: face towel and hat.
That's Mister and Misses White. They own a small grocery store that they inherited from their grandparents. They smile when you come in, but they say stuff like "let me help you find what you need" and then shadow you while you shop, then talk about how you smell bad when you leave.
Why they scared 🤣😀
Generic Arian couple depiction?
Aren't those the main characters for the "perfect Aryan couple" in that racist Turner novel? 🤔 Any LPOTL fans can help me out here?
Yeah, they look real proud of their heritage.
If they matter so much show your faces you goddam cowards
Trump is one Putin other
I am guessing they aren't in North Carolina where they are trying to outlaw facemasks in public.
German Facsist WWII propaganda faces.
Privilege is when equality feels like oppression
Black lives matter is a thing because people like the ones pictured constantly bring that fact into question.
I am privileged to be able to say that my life matters and not have it brought into question over the color of my skin.
What these people are trying to do is somehow say and validate the statement "I'm a racist bigot" without negative connotations and consequences.
They want racism to continue to be normal (perhaps moreso now).
Please consider this, anti-BLM onlookers.
Translation: “Only white lives matter.”
Kinda reminds me of the one book written by that white nationalist that every one of them quote.
Ah i found it, the Turner Diaries.
How much you wanna bet the law change in N.C won’t be enforced on people like this when it happens there.
I assume there will be a bunch of Conservatives stopping and telling them that “All lives matter”.
😂it kinda looks like Nichole Kidman and a young Marlin Brando.
Cries on how "white lives matter". Wears a mask because he's scared to be outed as racist.
“White lives matter”
Who the fuck is systematically killing white people!?
Well. White people, of course 😂
Awww, look at the little racists who suddenly like public health style masks. Whooda thunk it?
You don’t recognize the faces because all us white people look the same lol
Reminds me of soviet brutalist art
This is in Montana. Helena, specifically.
Edit: not so sure now that that is Helena, actually
They all look alike to me
Show your faces, fucking cowards. Now they’ll wear a mask.
Mona Lisa and Max Headroom?
Illustration from the Aryan Bible
how about “every live matters”
I bet these people legitimately feel so tough and think they're spreading a good message.
Just because BLM exists, these fuckturds exist for spite. They're like the Westboro Baptist Church only they're too shared to show their faces.
Looks like WW2 German propaganda posters
But why are they covering their faces? It's as if what they are doing is shameful and ignorant or something.
oh NOW they wanna wear masks 😒
These cowards have a humiliation fetish.
"White Lives Matter" is like saying "Save the red tomatoes!"
They’re those cold war era poster people from all those propaganda shit
Stay classy Helena
They saw the "all lives matter" signs and were like "nah, I disagree"
Funny how they are always masked.
Probably right from the Ayran nations play book, pure blood!
No really, I am sure I have seen those faces on a WWII-era Nazi propaganda poster.
This is saying the quiet part through a blaring megaphone.
Isn’t everything matter?
My question has always been when has their lives ever NOT mattered?
Hey! That's Frasier and Niles!
My favorite part is that these asshats were the one pitching about masks during COVID, only to wear them to shit out this.
I'm sure the "All Lives Matter" crowd will be just as outraged by this as they were about BLM. After all their true belief is that by saying Black Lives Matter it by default means you think non-black lives don't. Same rule applies here for them I'm sure.
I’m starting to think that white fragility is a thing.
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