A Reddit post called the picture "red fash". I admit that it is controversial, since one may read it as mocking peaceful people who are not muscular, but on the other hand I think it is worthwhile to promote physical strength equally with mental strength and class consciousness. I bet that Specnaz, the special forces of USSR, were not formed from physically weak people. Maybe the picture is seen as a struggle between ideas of the "new left" and AES. What are your thoughts?

  • porcupine@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    Using idealized pictures of masculine physical strength to implicitly mock the "weakness" of ordinary women and queer people for existing is chauvinistic and reactionary.

    The image bears no relation to the question you pose. There is no reasonable interpretation of that image as an abstract promotion of physical health rather than as a condemnation of non-hetero masculinity.