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No mercy for fascism

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This is unfair to snakes. They're fascinating creatures and (aside from some invasive species) have a role in the ecosystem. Fascists are so vastly worse.
- Yeah I understand what the poster is getting at, I just wish they'd use something other than a snake which is already a much maligned animal. Bedbugs on the other hand....
  
  America has bedbugs!
  
  Bedbugs you say?
- You can blame Abrahamic (and possibly more) religions for this.
step on snek
- Only k e thing to do woth an aggressive snake. Cut of its head.
Unless you're american. Then you pet the snake, and give it the highest political position in the land.
- Or invite it over, as long as it's an engineer that didn't shoot any Jewish slaves themselves.
  
  That anyone can prove.
- I can't believe the snake bit my face
What's the origins of this poster? It's exactly what we need in this world right now.
- I did some sleuthing. It has been adapted from a poster about fighting against tuberculosis.
  
  https://www.loc.gov/item/99613643/
  
  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_strangling_of_a_poisonous_snake,_representing_the_crushi_Wellcome_L0029946.jpg
- Based on the existence of the swastika, I'm going to say some time in the early 1940s.
  
  there's a "16" under the signature. that's typically a date signifier. I'm gonna guess this is modern from 2016.
Always make sure to target fascism in its nest when its still underdeveloped if possible.
- I.e. do the opposite of what happens in MURICA.
This would make an awesome tattoo
What's it gotta do with a snake on a record player?
- I realize the record player was a joke, but considering who most commonly flies the Gadsen flag these days I think the imagery works.
Dehumanize political enemies by calling them fascists

Marginalize normal people

Lose an election by historic margins

"We're losing our democracy!"
- Is it dehumanizing if the party leader and higher ups fit the historical definition of what makes someone a fascist?
I see you’ve taken the snake whose only demand is freedom and recast it as a fascist.

Any reprehensible behavior — for example “no mercy” — is justified as long as there’s a fascist around right?

You guys worship violence and power. You use art to frame your crusade as moral, to authorize yourself for the enacting of evil.
- Only if by “freedom”, you mean “Freedom to force everyone into living the way I choose”. We wouldn’t be here if the snakes MO was “Let me do what I want to do, and I’ll let you do what you want to do”
- /s?
  
  Nah, they're just a Kool-Aid drinker who never had the gumption to actually read people like Rothbard and Mises, or question why all these freedom lovers loved slavery so much in general.
- Any reprehensible behavior — for example “no mercy” — is justified as long as there’s a fascist around right?
  
  Yes

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