Spyke
anarchist.nexus

Ooh, I have a dukes of hazzard model ive had for years because I didnt want to throw away a perfectly good model, and I also didnt want to make a racist shitbox. This is a solid option.

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hansoloreply
lemmy.today

Oh hell yes, please do this. There's a lot of options for subtle changes if you search images of "general grant car."

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anarchist.nexus

I kind of want to name it "Northern Aggression", and find some good small pride stickers and rainbow pinstripe....and maybe an antifascist action sticker for the hood?

Well I'm going to end up going down an ADHD rabbit hole of indecision on this for a while....

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hansoloreply
lemmy.today

Yoooooo

There is room in this world an alternate universe Fast and Furious franchise where it's nothing but buck fucking wild meme muscle cars driven by a montle crew of drag queens and furries, doing lefty adventure shit.

And it would demand a mighty stable of queer as fuck muscle cars, going from the subtle and prim and not quite proper, to rainbow pinstripe Trans-Ams that lives drives into the backend of a rolling base modeled after Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

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_stranger_reply
lemmy.world

make a windshield sticker across the top that reads "THE ROAR OF NORTHERN AGGRESSION"

Rear window might be better.

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I would suggest that referring to "Northern Aggression" is supporting into the traitors' version of the story. It wasn't northern aggression.

I'm not sure what you could use instead. Maybe reference the "terrible swift sword" from the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

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I made a rainbow flag for the roof of an orange Charger in the racing game I used to frequent.

Also had a 69 on the door for good measure.

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ultranautreply
lemmy.world

I was recently watching a few episodes of Dukes of Hazzard and them Duke boys is woke. Despite the flag issue, they were very against bigotry of any kind.

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anarchist.nexus

They were! But the car is still a racist shitbox.

I've got some solid ideas thanks to a few other folks in here, so maybe I'll be able to have some fun getting it done soon

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I forget what MTV car makeover show this was, but it had a version of that car with the confederate flag on the roof and all ... except the flag used the colors of the Jamaican flag.

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Optionalreply
lemmy.world

Love it, though the blue could be a shade more midnight for me.

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hansoloreply
lemmy.today

Yeah, the variations online range from a sparkling denim blue to navy, but agreed, should be a deep navy with a subtle sparkle like the tears of ten thousand slave owners.

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subtle sparkle like the tears of ten thousand slave owners.

GLITTER. RAINBOW. PINSTRIPE.

Well now at least thats settled in my head.

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His interactions with native Americans is at least up there.

I agree that they should have let him destroy more of the slavery infrastructure, though.

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midwest.social

Which parts? The slash and burn to the sea part? Not saying it was right but would we be here now if he carried it out?

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We would not. Those slaver dynasties needed to end. Their culture–the culture of slavery–needed to be genocided.

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midwest.social

Needs to be, I'm afraid we're slipping into it again with the penal system currently in place in the US

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It's no longer just a matter of ending a couple hundred rich asshole families who we already beat in war. That was the ounce of prevention. It's so much messier now.

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The parts after the war. I got my timeline backward. He was a big advocate of the ethnic cleansing of the Sioux, and other tribes, in which he participated to a limited extent.

No debate about destroying the infrastructure that was upholding slavery. If anything, I think the slaves should have gotten all the assets of their former masters and the US should have gone through with reconstruction.

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lemmy.world

It’s offensive to our lord and savior Charlie Kirk who died for our right to die from gun violence

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Revan343reply
lemmy.ca

I'm pretty sure the civil war was about the northern states' right to not capture and return escaped slaves

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AxExRxreply
lemmy.world

Funny story. Back in the day, Massachusetts found a loophole- there was a case in my town, where a couple slave catchers showed up, and grabbed the wrong guy- the son of a buisness owner and prominent black family.

They were immediately besset upon by a mob, and got thrown in jail. There were riots, and people threatening to burn down the jail ( a 1room shack with just the 2 slavers in it)

When they were brought in for arraignment, judge decided on a summary judgment, claiming it was too dangerous for them, to either be released or held in custody for a trial.

He opted to impress them I to service, on a whaling ship, which was a 90% black crew.

Yep, he litterally made them slaves ri a black man. They were both 'lost at sea' within 2 months.

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This is like "it's turtles all the way down" except it's fucked-up legal situations all the way down.

Legal slavery 👉 Legal slave-hunting 👉 Caught the wrong guy 👉 Threat of mob justice 👉 No trial 👉 Impressed to service 👉 Legal whale hunting 👉 Almost certainly murdered at sea

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lemmy.world

"In trouble" how? "You can't wear that because you didn't bring enough to share." At least give everyone a RedBubble link!

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Wilcoreply
lemmy.zip

Got to be careful wearing a shirt like that. The idiot criminal president just declared being against fascism is actually being a terrorist.

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muusemuusereply
sh.itjust.works

At a certain point, the word “terrorist” becomes less threatening. We are currently at the stage where my niece refusing to pick up her toys makes her a terrorist.

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lemmy.world

"Oh who the fuck am I offending!? The Nazis??"

Just reminded me of that quote from the Hellsing abridged series. Extrajudicial murder is still not good.

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Doktor: "It looks like our forces are getting slaughtered."

Major: " Aw, who gives a shit? They're Nazis."

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lemmy.world

I’m not saying this is the only place and I’m DEFINITELY not promoting it because t-shirt scams based on memes are well established. But it is interesting to look at.

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Optionalreply
lemmy.world

Hey it’s a small business. You give $45 to morons all the time. This at least goes back to Americans who aren’t billionaires.

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muusemuusereply
sh.itjust.works

No. There are plenty of small business that don’t overcharge. It’s kind of the entire point of a small business.

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BCsvenreply
lemmy.ca

If its a hand applied silkscreen to a quality shirt then costs are high, you have gotten used to cheap Chinese shirts and slave wages making shirts cheap.

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Yeah, a cheap printing shirt from like Gildan can be found at Michael's STARTING at 20 dollars. 20 dollars (less maybe, if they can get wholesale prices) and you're already eating well into any profit from a 42 dollar shirt after printing and shipping.

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Is that USD? They’re significantly cheaper on their website, I only see $20 for odd sizes like 3XL. But yeah, the price of the shirt itself and printing is just one factor, because breaking even is basically doing it for free. Artists gotta eat too.

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Then don’t buy it. If you just want something to cover up, go to a thrift store. If you want a shirt with specific art on it you either pay what the artist asks, make it yourself, or go without.

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lemmy.world

Where is this dude wearing this? Pretty sure he’d risk getting shot where I live.

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Find somewhere where I can make as much money and have as high of living standard.

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BigFigreply
lemmy.world

Several results showing that the back says in giant bold letters KILL THE KLAN so just Google that

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Found one on eBay. Just search, "Kill the klan." There are a bunch of sellers and options.

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lemmy.world

I am offended because there is something that looks like a swiss flag. It probably has another symbolism, but I don't like my country being associated to the KKK

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Well, that is the KKK symbol on wikipedia. You should probably direct your grievances to the racist fucks at the KKK.

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you think that's annoying? Spain is tired of telling everyone that those aren't klan hoods and they had them from before the US even started considering racism.

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lemmy.org

I mean i think it's pretty rad and i would wear it. But because he said he's in trouble, i assume he's still in school. And it is a shirt of a dead guy hanging...

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Yeah I came to the same conclusion, either a student or at a workplace, either way depicting someone getting hung isn't gonna fly even if it were Hitler himself. Cool shirt though.

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I want to work on HR to call them in, then high five then and let them hang out instead of having to work, bring drinks too. then ask them to look sad when they leave my office

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lemmy.ca

I.... Kind of see what they're getting at. And it's not that their argument is without merit, it's just.... That argument makes you seem like a racist asshole.

Ignoring the hate crime context of it all, the image depicts someone who has been executed, at it's basic level.

The idea of having someone walk around with a depiction of an execution on their apparel... I kind of get.

However, given the context of the image, being who has been executed, it's hard to make the argument that walking around showing the execution of a person depicted as one of the most notorious hate groups ever, is bad because it's a depiction of an execution, without also implying that you don't want kkk members to be hanged, and you're therefore sympathetic to them.

That's a whole "yikes" from me. I certainly wouldn't stop anyone from wearing this, and hell, if someone links it, I may just buy one myself and wear that around. My "yikes" is for anyone wanting to walk the line that they somehow are not sympathetic to the kkk, while still taking issue with this shirt.

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I want to buy this shirt. I also want one of a Nazi.

Along what your saying I remember shirts of Muammar Gaddafi when he was killed and also remember Saddam Hussein shirts in not very flattering depictios. People who dislike this shirt I wonder how they felt/feel about the ones I mention?

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tetris11reply
feddit.uk

without also implying that you don’t want kkk members to be hanged, and you’re therefore sympathetic to them.

no?

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wiesonreply
feddit.org

It's hard to make the argument that the shirt is bad, without implying oneself to be sympathetic to the KKK.

So whoever doesn't like the shirt implies themselves with the KKK.

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Oh right, I thought you were impying the t-shirt wearer liked the KKK or something. So what if some fascists get offended though? Offense is their whole schtick

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lemmy.world

I’m pretty sure that the problem with lynching was that it was extrajudicial murder and not that the wrong people were getting lynched.

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It's not clear It's a lynching and not the result of a guilty conscience. Evidently hangings in MS are more often suicide instead of murder /s

  • at least according to the law enforcement speaking to the local news
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Catoblepasreply
piefed.blahaj.zone

I mean, the lynching of innocent people as part of an ongoing terror campaign against a racial minority was definitely a big problem with it. There’s a reason people don’t care as much about outlaws getting hung or shot in the old west with a bare bones trial.

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Unlike in the old west, with their trials followed by a hanging, typically people who are lynched are not given a trial. That’s why it is called extrajudicial.

Being okay with extrajudicial murder as long as it happens to the right people is immoral.

It’s immoral when the KKK does it to minorities just like it is immoral when anyone decides that their enemies don’t deserve due process before being murdered.

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The law is not an authority on morality. While slavery was legal it was still immoral. To use the law as your guide for what is right and what is wrong will have you doing/saying awful things. Things should be illegal because they're bad, they shouldn't be bad because they're illegal. The moral problem with killing a Klansman (if there is one) is not that it's done extra judicially.

"With or without [the law], good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes [the law]." - Steven Weinberg. He was talking about religion, but it's really religious law that causes good people to do evil.

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