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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

In Seattle last year, in Capitol Hill, the gayest and only actual leftist region of the city, some idiot Magatards decided to get into an argument with a rastafarian man.

I was having a smoke, saw the pushing and shoving, Maga guys disappear, Rasta man is pissed, wanders across the street.

He says something like 'Can you believe these shitheads?' and produces one of their hats.

I happened to have on me the lighter fluid for my zippo. I show Rastaman, he says 'you know what to do'.

Soaked the thing in fluid, on a dirt patch where a sidewalk tree once was. Burned it.

I did my part rofl!

Ah, Seattle nightlife can be magical if it doesn't literally kill you.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can we get this on a T-Shirt

Side note: Disney could make a killing if they sold shirts with this tagline and the old comic book art of Captain America socking Hitler in the jaw.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

From the thumbnail I can only see a swastika sooooo…not sure if this is a great design for a shirt that’s likely to be viewed at a distance…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Circle with a red line through it to make it more obvious at a distance maybe? I'm no designer maybe there's a better option

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Oh shit good point, maybe focus on the punching facists in the face part then

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"A fascist trained today. Did you?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Swoletariat

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Nice but why are rocks falling out of him from being kicked?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Cuz hes a dirty piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Kidney stones. She’s got all her planted weight and rotation right behind the toe on a perfectly placed kidney shot, that Nazi is going to make a sound like a scared pig singing a soprano aria

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

I am not saying we should kill all of them BUT I think we should make them be scared of killing them all. I want them to be afraid to openly be a nazi.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No violence! Both sides are good.
Let's compromise and only have a little genocide, as a treat.

/s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Note: fully aware of the irony of this gif, not to mention the wild contrast between the book and film. That being said, the movie is better.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Just for the record the movie was definitely not the same as the book- Heinlein himself was libertarian, though I wouldn’t say it comes across in the book.

(The book setting is definitely fascist, or at the least authoritarian;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Heinlein himself was ~~libertarian~~ fascist.

FTFY.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Let me rephrase- heinlein identified himself as libertarian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Fair enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't the movie being a satire of the book a conscious choice of verhoeven's?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The movie was satire, but they bought the naming rights after establishing most of the movie script to avoid an copyright/IP infringement battle.

It was extremely similar, but it’s more accurate to say it was an entirely separate work than not.

Verhoeven meant it as a commentary on the US militarism rather than on heinlein.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Heinlein himself was libertarian

didn't he change his views a couple times during his life?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I dunno, but his dirty old man era was wild

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

At best the movie seems too Poe's law for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, I like most of what you said, but I can't in good conscience upvote someone who thinks the movie was better than the book. It's a fun movie, but, come on...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't know which book/movie this is, so I'll just talk about Jurassic Park instead.

Timmy didn't do his part to help Dr Grant and Ellie Sattler hold the door from the raptor as Lex fiddled with "a unix system! I know this!"

Timmy just danced like he had to pee.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

It's Starship Troopers. A sci-fi novel that was later adapted into a movie series. Notably the first movie is a parody of the hyper-militaristic, borderline fascist undertones of American style democracy. The book, on the other hand, was popular in the 1960s.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Starship troopers

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nazi's are the biggest losers in history.

They were all like "our people are the best people in the world, no other race comes even close to comparing. And our army is the strongest army in the world with the best equipment imaginable".

Then they only fought in a single war, and lost. Meaning they are losers by definition.

Want to know the even funnier part?

They were beaten by a combination of diverse countries working together, who let anyone join.

Nazis were literally beaten by diversity and inclusivity. lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The genocide paradox has a lot in common with the tolerance paradox.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Paradox shmaradox. All I want is peace and prosperity. Whatever it takes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

My great grandfather shot nazis FOR KING AND COUNTRY 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 GOD SAVE THE KING 👑🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm sure a lot of Trump's voters dad's and grandfather's shot Nazis too.

Say "La Vee".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's actually "c'est la vie", it's a french expression meaning "that's life".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Well or they just wanted you to say "La Vee"

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

ASIS

Not sure if typo, or too old to understand the joke.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Axis, a bastardization of "asses". Germany was part of the "Axis powers" of WWII

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