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Once, years ago, went out to a restaurant with some friends and had a couple drinks. Wasn’t paying close enough attention to my intake, and ended up a little too tipsy to drive (not, like, belligerent drunk or anything, just not safe to drive). Hung out sitting on the hood of my car watching videos on my phone for a while with a friend until he had to leave. Before he left, this super cute guy started talking to us. We hit it off, and dude and I started getting flirty. Went back to his place because it was walking distance, did the deed, and when we were done I went to get some water from his kitchen.
Wherein I see not one, not two, but no less than a dozen coffee mugs, posters, fucking rugs, and all manner of paraphernalia with right wing nonsense. We’re talking he had a fucking swastika area rug. I begin the heavy breathing of a scared little gay boy (6’3 and nearly 300lbs/190cm 135kg), and he notices my discomfort. He acts like this is nothing unusual and says he’s just a collector of WWII shit.
Yeah, bro, maybe you are. But that doesn’t explain the don’t tread on me poster, the trump 2016 merch, and fucking birth of a nation movie poster!
I got the fuck outta there before his lawyers had a chance to try out a gay panic defense.
…says he’s just a collector of WWII shit.
Isn’t is funny how nobody collects the stuff from the Allies?
Only my grandparents stuff from when they kicked Nazi ass. They’d be horrified at todays bullshit.
I have WWII stuff from the allies, but it isn’t even from the European parts of the war. From my grandfather. His father earned US citizenship by fighting in WWI.
You have inherited stuff, but do you collect and display it?
There actually is a pretty large WW2 Allied collector and reenactor community. I know a guy with a Jeep with a mounted quad MG.
Just don’t ask too many questions about the other team.
To be fair, it is more intriguing to collect the stuff of the objectively bad guy. A lot of it is like, it feels almost unbelievable, so nazi memorabilia helps ground that reality that, yes, it actually happened (and how it might have happened)
Of course there is nuance to this, though
Everyone loves an unterhund?
Probably just Axis being the driver of history at the moment.
It started there, and what Allies did is they put this down.
People tend to be more interested in what started the fire and what has let it burn; what has left a dent in history. Doesn’t mean they lean to Nazi ideology.
(Disclaimer: I collect neither and am not interested in war history, or war in general)
I begin the heavy breathing of a scared little gay boy (6’3 and nearly 300lbs/190cm 135kg)
Holy shit I died
Thank you, I’ll be here for the foreseeable future… As I can’t afford to leave
Wait, are you a gay man or a female? This story’s context changes drastically with your answer.
Gay man
Nice. I feel bad for these fundies that have to pretend to be conservative but are actually pretty liberal sexually.
Ugh, gay guy here, totally relate. Hate it when the cute gay guy is a fascist. Has happened multiple times for me.
Seriously? Because out of 20 years of homoing professionally this is my sole example. I hope to God I don’t run into it again lol
Sadly yeah, flirting with guys online, lots of them turn out to be far-right. Luckily, I’m no longer single, so I don’t have to deal with it anymore. But at least 3 guys I’ve been kinda interested in turned out that way. Found out before sleeping with any of them, thankfully
That sucks! My only other kinda close example is a dude I used to blow back in my “falling for straight guys” phase ended up going ancap, but that was a while after we were hooking up.
Never noticed the silhouette in the window.
Looks to be. But I don’t get this one?
I read those flags as such:
“Don’t tread on me”
“Ok tread on me”
Typical Switch.
I’d steal the TV too
If they’re against the state, it’s not theft, because the state is what grants the right to property 😀
It’s why Marxists only drink herbal tea
that’s fucking hilarious
The Stirner glasses are a nice touch.
I was wondering what the glasses were referring to. I guess you mean Max Stirner?
German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism and individualist anarchism
I’m a bad leftist, I’m terrible with theory and history.
Yes, they’re talking about the woman wearing glasses akin to those worn by Stirner in Engels’s sketches.
Finally some egoist content
Thin blue line is so fucking cringe. You’re in the US eating doughnuts and beating on black people, you’re not some hero defending society.
Wait…? Is it a lesbian couple or not?
Dark hair one looks like a guy to me. Artist uses discernible breasts to convey the light hair one is a woman.
Only women are blonde
Because when a man has light hair it’s spelled blond
You’re both right.
How dare you say that on Lemmy!
The art isn’t great, but there also appears to be a bulge.
Also, the dark haired one looks like they have a boner
Yeah. A lady boner.
discernible breasts
Now there’s a username waiting to be taken
Does it change the meaning of the post if they are? (Hint: no it doesn’t)
Oh that’s what you thought I meant?
Why change the sex of the person fleeing the apartment?
Because the odds of a woman having flags hanging in her bedroom at all, let alone those flags, is very small
Thank you for an actual answer, much appreciated!
Why complain about it being changed?Edit: I am, in fact, a silly billy
It’s an odd thing to take the time to change and I’m curious why they’d do it. Conflating curiosity with complaints is for silly billies.
In America men tend to fall into these camps much more often than women do. It’s also generally more common for women to lose interest in a man due to conservative ideologies that may not sit well with them for obvious reasons.
Run girls run! Do yourselves the favor and leave your oppressors. Don’t let them control your bodies.
Thank you, that makes complete sense!
Ah, sorry, I was too quick on the draw; so used to… certain kinds of people getting Very Upset when genders are changed in media
All good! I fully recognize the times that we live in and the zealousness necessary to keep sea lions from breeding, so to speak.
Putting on glasses doesn’t change someone’s sex.
Nobody ever suspected Clara Kent of being Superman.
