Saw this at the supermarket right next to a $24 magazine called “ChatGPT: Start your own business!”

Things are getting bleak. Hopefully in the future the only time we see shit like this is in history books showing propaganda during the fall of capitalism

  • Aradino [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    3 days ago

    Thankfully transphobia hasn’t taken off here the same way it has elsewhere. People have tried to campaign on it and only gotten resounding “meh” from the public.

    I hope it stays that way but also I don’t know how much faith I have in the average australian

    • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      17·
      3 days ago

      Dutton arguably lost the election over it. I’m not saying the Australian public have no heart for cruelty, but generally saying it out loud in public doesn’t get much traction. Not because of the content but because you look like a Try-hard.

      • Aradino [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        It’s the one benefit of the average australian “not caring about politics” I think.

        No one seems to like diversion from a very basic centrism. Maybe it’s more of that tall poppy syndrome

        • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          I’ve always thought Tall Poppy was a false diagnosis. We fucking love success. What we don’t like is the appearance of trying to be successful. Our grifter heroes tend to grift the rich, not become rich through grifting.

          I’d say what we want is the appearance of being successful without effort but Sprezzatura is an awfully wanky concept to load the Australian cultural psyche with.

  • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    This raises so many questions. Why is there a solar panel on the one guy’s helmet? Why is there a jellyfish warning sign? Is it just not a real beach in Australia until there’s some kind of deadly wildlife involved? Is the guy on the right Hamas? Why is the gun flaccid but also drawn by someone who has never seen a gun in their entire life? Why are there two ships in the background with very specific slightly different silhouettes?

    I need some Ben Garrison level labeling on this.

    • KuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      3 days ago

      From left to right:

      • PM Anthony Albanese is ‘weak’ on defense so his gundick is drooping. His nose is long because ohno pinnochio liar (could also be penile envy on behalf of the artist)
      • Energy Minister Chris Bowen is all in on solar power (not ‘baseload gas’ supposedly or nuclear but lmao go ahead and frack beetaloo basin and bomb the bight that’s ‘green’) so he has a solar panel on his head
      • Defence Minister Richard (Dick???) Marles visited Hawaii or something? When something else was happening? But it was to meet with USA and Japan, this is probably trying to get back at Labor for painting former PM Scott Morrison as negligent for having a beach holiday while we had a catastrophic bushfire season
      • Foreign Minister Penny Wong is apparently Hamas now despite only putting forward ‘both sidesing’ rhetoric at best, so she has a kuffiyah

      The ‘warning jellyfish’ is because Labor is ‘spineless’ (the joke is that the jellyfish are on the sand not in the water)

      The ships on the horizon are Chinese ships that travelled down the East coast of Australia earlier this year and got everyone in a tizzy

      The starfish on the sand are arseholes

    • lapis [fae/faer, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      Why is the gun flaccid but also drawn by someone who has never seen a gun in their entire life?

      this actually gets more wild the longer I look at it, I’d say it looks like a water gun or laser tag gun or something except it has no trigger and his hand appears to be inside the stock

      • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        3 days ago

        it’s a bullpup of some kind which is mildly sensible, i think they used the steyer AUG for a while. some guns do have a full hand thing instead of a regular trigger guard but that’s more common in cold places because you can fit a glove in there or in places where you’re going to hit people with the thing because you’re a fascist piece of shit.

              • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
                1·
                3 days ago

                even shitty art is art and is thus up to interpretation by the viewer.

                i’m prepared to argue about this. if it’s meant to be a specific gun then one of the three of us (including the artist) is simply wrong.

                • lapis [fae/faer, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  2·
                  3 days ago

                  including an example of a rails-less AUG for comparison.

                  I can sort of see an aug if I squint, but the caricature art style really makes it look like the handguard flows directly into the stock, and there’s not enough room for a mag in there. Also the barrel is just absurdly long for a bullpup, which I think is the main thing that’s throwing me. this looks to me like if you asked a version of midjourney which had never seen an AR or an AK to draw an assault rifle.

  • Mindfury [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    literal IPA/other cuck think-tank rag that spun off from the UK version ran by Andrew Neil

    cannot believe it is actually printed