• Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    Xi looks annoyed that he's reading another letter from hexbear asking him to abolish the commodity form.

        • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          Everyone knows the communism button is a Rube Goldberg style machine that, when pressed, releases a slice of Swiss cheese in front of a rodent on a hamster wheel, whose spinning motion unravels a string holding back a marble that rolls down a tube to knock over a domino, which knocks over several more dominoes that ends up activating a model train set, which runs over the power button of a laser pointer, which makes a nearby housecat to swipe at the on/off switch of a fan, which blows a ping pong ball into a otherwise balanced scale, which holds a pair of scissors which rises to cut a string holding a bucket of water directly above the seat in the oval office, drenching [insert sitting US President] with water thus creating Communism

          Have you even read Marx?

        • huf [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          mmm yes, a new wave of leftist infighting on the nature of the communism lever/button. and if it's a button, is it a flimsy rubber dome construction or a proper mechanical switch?

          • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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            11 months ago

            It's a lever and button arcade setup. Xi is busy practicing his wombo combo cancel into full communism super

          • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
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            11 months ago

            While the range of motion in the lever encapsulates the great ebb and flow of our Circadian Rhythms, its mechanical song a dedication to the proletariat spirit, a mighty phallus swinging as the electromagetic poles shift to signal a new aeon, nothing can compare to the frictionless immediacy and punctual sex appeal of a big red button. If I were Dr. Frankenstein, I could delegate a lever pull to a subordinate and still enjoy myself, but if I were a USian president, I would slam my fist on the ALL NUKES LAUNCH button before I even read the label.

        • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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          11 months ago

          Eric Clapton: "My dream, is to have a tiny man living inside Xi's ass, and controlling Communism with Chinese Characteristics with a bunch of levers and wires."

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Back in my day, 1 cup would suffice for 2 whole girls. Does Xi's greed know no limits?

    • Sinistar
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      11 months ago

      berdly-smug The so-called "communists" actually PAY for their tea, proving that their system is just state capitalism!

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Mildly related but I was a grown ass man when I learned the striped shirt boy isn't meant to be Jughead from Archie, but the crown was an actual fashion trend during the 30's.

      • Lorraine [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        It was?? Where'd it even spawn from? It seems that childrens' fashion usually reflects grown-ups' fashion but with less uniformity, are the crowns perhaps inspired by some kind of entertainment figure?

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          11 months ago

          They're called whoopee caps and the story I was always told was they were made from fedoras that had their brims cut into the crown pattern. My grandpa had one from when he was a kid.

          They were also associated with mechanics.

          • Lorraine [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Ah, that explains why they have that look. It's always interesting to see how people manage to turn a thing (fedora) into something new by just modifying it slighty. You don't see hats around as much nowadays anymore too, crazy to think of how common they were before cars took over.

            • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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              11 months ago

              I think at first it was practicality. Everyone wore a fedora all the time, but people in mechanical trades would invert them then cut off the brim so it didn't get caught in machinery. Then kids started imitating the types of hats their dads were wearing.