Rauglothgor
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Brones
they lure you in with semi-rational quotes and sentiments, then once elected they bring out the heavy crazy
Iforgetmyusernameeasily
There's some signs here that where taken from WW1 and probably WW2 Propaganda posters, like "What will you tell them." smell the nationalism
orwra
I'd like to know how they expect to support military & veterans without taxes, seeing how that's an unbelievably huge chunk of our spending.
teahouseoftheaugustmoon
It's like we live in two different countries.
Chefreign
Some of these are pretty spot on. Others pretty far off.
spottedick
Some of them seem like jokes, are they jokes?
FredGarvinMaleProstitute
"I regret that I have but one upvote to give for @OP's post." - said Nathan Hale (probably)
RacecarIsRacecarBackwards
Quoting George Orwell seems a bit odd considering he fought for the communists during the Spanish Civil War...
Monebasher
I remember seeing some of these signs around that area before I moved down to NC. OP is not joking, they're literally everywhere.
doriath
That slavery sign is rich coming from a group that names itself after a guy who actually owned people.
Glumerlink
problem with the tea party is they actually do want the government to interfere just only with things they want, they're hypocrites
Cuthbertrideson
Isn't this the party that labels me a sin and a disgrace for being gay?
Dayrest
The whole Republican Party says that. The tea party is the right wing of the right wing.
Artric
I'm sure you'd be a disgrace if you weren't gay too.
Cuthbertrideson
Aww thanks that hit right in the feels.
Ihavewaytoomanyfavoritestosort
I only have a vague idea of what the Tea Party wants to do, but now they just seem like assholes.
FreedomPanda
Tea Party has some REAL crazy characters in it, but a fair few of these signs seem almost reasonable
mcshady
Welcome to America. Where all reasonable ideas attract extremely unreasonable people who are very loud and annoying.
Dayrest
True, but some of the signs are also batshit stupid.
aeonicentity
Or maybe, just maybe, they're not crazy like the media pretends they are.
fauxglove
Mmm...no, not crazy. Ignorant, easily manipulated by fear, lacking in critical thinking and empathy, definitely. But not crazy.
FreedomPanda
Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin were crazy
Dayrest
Romney wasn't crazy. He was a huge elitist douche, but he wasn't crazy.
woozle
whenever I see Tea Party, I always think of t-bag and t-bagging. It makes it funnier.
collinhead
How many times did you drive past the sign and do nothing for your country?
GenitalMantis
5/7 times
Rauglothgor
I'm a Marine Corps veteran, I was hoping I could just skate by on that.
collinhead
You're Alright then
playactionjesus
I have to say I love the Capitalism sign. "Capitalism: The right to invest time, harvest your efforts and keep the rewards."
MagnusExcogitatoris
Capitalism is God's way of determining who is smart and who is poor. -that one guy of that one show
Forclaz
Capitalism: harvest the work of other to your benefit.
andyonetime
Much more descriptive of predatory American corporate capitalism
doriath
Especially considering Patrick Henry used slave labour to work his plantations
MrDressup
The NAZI Party never put up a sign that said "kill six million jews" . They put up signs that "seemed almost reasonable" and "ain't wrong".
Cuthbertrideson
Fear is all too often the biggest motivator of humanity. Hitler played on the German people's fears now the tea party does too.
tatterofmime
Godwin's law.
MrDressup
Godwin was wrong - there are valid reasons for comparing present day events to the signature failure of humanity
tatterofmime
The problem is, it's too easy to disagree with the other side's propaganda, and call them Nazis. If the signs are isolationist, say so. 1/2
tatterofmime
Point out the bad things about the signs, and make a point. Saying "Nazis" is lazy and just as problematic.
OlderWiser
Nothing is going to change our plunge into socialism until a huge economic crisis hits. When we can no longer print money we will change.
fauxglove
It's far more likely we're going to continue allowing corporations and invasive government to roll over us until something breaks. 1
Dayrest
Right. 2008 crisi saw a huge swing away from socialism. We capitalismed so hard we literally just gave money to banks by the billions.
OlderWiser
That's kind of bastardized capitalism but it is tying to save itself the only way it knows how thereby hastening it's own demise.
andyonetime
No but we should make less rule for them! Clearly its the oversight that's the problem!
fauxglove
Using Socialist as a slur is evidence we're not ready to accept the notion society as a whole is responsible for caring for its members. 2
andyonetime
I like you.
OlderWiser
Really, a slur. That's interesting. I consider Socialism an inevitability.
andyonetime
Yeah god forbid we should end up like any of those "socialist" European countries with higher standard of living and median income.
BluestedSRT
they ain't wrong.
andyonetime
They aren't wrong if you know nothing about government or how it works
PhenoTypeCollection
#8 Looks impossibly wrong to me.
steadyrockin
True, its just a prediction. Could be better or worse than predicted
PhenoTypeCollection
Yeah I really doubt it would ever go down like that.
steadyrockin
People doubted a lot of things being possible in the past. But look at us now
PhenoTypeCollection
So every government agency would be gone except for social services? I'm pretty sure the government would collapse long before that.
fauxglove
So...were these legally posted, and what's the penalty for creatively dismantling them?
fauxglove
I mean, yeah, some of them sound like they make sense, but do you trust someone who only sounds sane an average of 1 time in 10? I don't.
tatterofmime
While you're at it, burn them with books you don't like. Maybe add in some religious people you blame for the current state of the country.
fauxglove
Great idea! We can use the books for kindling, and while I've nothing against the religious, I've a few bankers and pundits in mind.
tatterofmime
In all seriousness, "I won't allow others to publicly express politics I don't agree with" is the worst kind of partisanship.
fauxglove
Even if those opinions are seriously, demonstrably stupid? You're really taking the fun out of being an armchair arson, you know. 1
fauxglove
I mean, "We have a statue of liberty, not a statue of equality, fairness or redistribution"? Come on. What kind of message is that? 2
tatterofmime
Equal opportunity, not equal outcome. It's poorly worded, but free speech means even stupid people get to talk. After all, there is no 1/2
tatterofmime
incorruptible way to let only intelligent people make political arguments and decisions. 2/2