EvolveFISH Bumper Sticker Contest

[6_bleen_7]

I just found out last night that EvolveFISH is holding a design contest for T-shirts, bumper stickers and posters. Well, I've dabbled in making left-wing bumper stickers for some time now; I couldn't possibly resist sending in some of my stuff. The trick is to figure out what might be well received by the general (liberal) populace

Comments

[chillyrodent]

I'm embarassed to admit I'm unclear on the second. Is it a Klan robe we're seeing, or does it refer to something else?

[samwibatt]

Looks like Abu Ghraib man to me.

[chillyrodent]

Okay, so a victim of torture there?

That's one problem with having no TV. My retinas aren't seared by pop images that I should know to be good at Trivial Pursuit. And now, I'll be stopping motorists to ask them about their bumperstickers.

[samwibatt]

Heh.

I never actually saw that picture or any of the rest of the cache on TV, just on the 'net. I'm a pure escapist as far as TV viewing goes. I'd put our viewing at about half animation, half sci-fi, half comedy.

To keep the bad-with-fractions theme going that I saw floating around here on the LJ scene and here in the title bar.

[chillyrodent]

Ha! I also like:

The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.

[6_bleen_7]

Have you gotten to the point that you have to rotate your icons yet?

[chillyrodent]

Yes. There are also some that I never use, but I like them so they stay.

[6_bleen_7]

Wow, even I instantly recognize the Abu Ghraib silhouette, and I thought I was just about as isolated from mainstream culture as anyone could be. Have you seen this LJ icon?

[chillyrodent]

The image is foggily familiar, but not connected to anything inside my head. But, considering that I'm a bad Average American, it's a good sticker.

[6_bleen_7]

Thanks; I was worried that the meaning might not be obvious to a lot of people, who aren't familiar with bumper-sticker lore. It contains a basic message, "Don't forget the atrocities that the Bush régime has committed," and a meta-message, twisting the trite 9/11 slogan back on the dittoheads who have built their entire lives around a thirst for revenge against those evil Ay-rabs.

[6_bleen_7]

I've heard it there too. I'll bet you that the vast majority of Americans today primarily associate "Never Forget" with 9/11 and not the Holocaust. I think the phrase is much better attached to the Holocaust, what with the idiotic Holocaust deniers raving at full steam, and a death toll of six million compared to three thousand; I hardly think we'll forget 9/11 anytime soon, what with all the right-wing propaganda being shoved down our throats day and night.

This wingnut blog decided to celebrate the fourth anniversary of 9/11 with a particularly ironic quote from Rumsfeld:
The people who committed these acts are clearly determined to try to force the United States of America and our values to withdraw from the world. Or to respond by curtailing our freedoms. If we do that, the terrorists will have won. And we have no intention of doing so.
Can you say "Patriot Act"? Can you say "illegal wiretapping?" How much freedom do we need to curtail before we concede defeat

[6_bleen_7]

If you're going to include all the concentration-camp victims (Wikipedia claims ten million died overall in Nazi camps, but that sounds just a little high to me), you might as well count in several million Soviet soldiers who died of mistreatment (mostly of exposure and starvation) in German POW camps. Hate to say this, but Russians probably aren't all that impressed with the death toll due to the Holocaust: some twenty million Soviets died before World War II as a result of Stalin's rule (due to purges, imprisonment in labor camps, famines, etc.; some sources estimate as many as sixty million died at Stalin's hands), and in World War II, the Soviet Union suffered some fourteen million military and seven million civilian deaths (again, the Wikipedia article cites larger numbers).