Not really.
It’s “Don’t tread on ME” after all. Pigs don’t hurt them, they get let of with warnings. They don’t care if other people are tread on.
Also known as fascism.
Don't
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I find it amazing how this flag became associated with bootlickers. It supposed to symbolize standing up to the king.
It supposed to be waved by everyone who is willing to stand up against authoritarianism and supports democracy.
Eldritch@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Authoritarianism. It has no strong preference for left or right. Wherever there’s a strong man. You will have the people that think the strong man protects them and serves them. Even as he serves himself. And the people who are being tread on.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The concept of “authoritarianism” is gibberish, that’s why it can be applied to the left and right. All states are authoritarian.
Unless you’re an anarchist, you’re an authoritarian too. You just think your authority is legitimate and fair and righteous.
Clasm@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
EonNShadow@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Of all the art that was definitely made by a furry
This was definitely made by a furry
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Nah, BDSM kink, not necessarily furry.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Source?
Clasm@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can’t seem to find the original source, sorry. This one has been sitting in my memes folder for about 5 years, but reverse image search has it bouncing over reddit since then.
adjectivenoun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Please tread on everyone but me, daddy!”
NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
100% this.
“Don’t infringe on what I determine to be my rights; but abduct/kill anyone I determine to be an enemy”
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The freedoms they don’t want treaded on: being an unrepentant racist homophobic asshole.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Enemy in this case being determined as being anyone with brown skin, women, arbitrary list of people they don’t particularly like, political adversaries, and anyone with an IQ greater than that of a sea pickle.
wylinka@szmer.info 2 weeks ago
I knew an “anarcho-capitalist” who believed that cops should be the only service the state provides, to guarantee fair and free market competition or some bs like that.
Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Ancaps are hilarious.
sunnyjim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You can inform them that what they’re arguing for is a ‘minarchist’ or ‘nightwatchman state’.
It’s still nonsense but at least they’ll call themselves by the right label.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It’s always fun to ask these types difficult questions that they haven’t thought about.
So if somebody burns your house down in an arson attack and is subsequently arrested by the police, that’s a job done is it, you are not requiring any additional support, compensation, or assistance. The fact that the miscreant has been arrested is good enough for you is it?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Libertarian view would be the private versions of those things exist.
Communist view is that everyone will help take care of you because it’s the right thing to do.
girlnamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 weeks ago
Also notice how the “government” is on top of the snake
luksustuoli@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
So… Could someone explain to us non-americans?
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The top flag is the ‘thin blue line’ flag, which promotes the idea that police are the only thing standing between civilization and a murder-happy anarchist dystopia. You’ll generally see this flag and ideology attached to right wing authoritarians.
The lower flag is the Gadsden flag, which features a defensively positioned rattlesnake and the words, “Don’t tread on me.” It was originally a symbol of the colonial independence movement, but the Confederacy used it extensively during the civil war, causing association with the South. It eventually became associated with small government libertarian and anti-authoritarian types in later years, but never lost its association with the Confederacy. More recently, the Republican party started associating themselves with the Gadsden flag both due to their pro-deregulation stance, which they have tried to advertise as them being the party of small government, and as part of The Southern Strategy, an attempt to lure disenfranchised racist voters in the South. As the Republican party as moved further and further to the right, the Gadsden flag has sometimes been used as a neo-fascist symbol. There have been attempts to reappropriate it by anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist groups, however.
ErevanDB@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The rattlesnake flag is, in my opinion, a flag that had amazing symbolism for what it represented. A defensive rattlesnake gives plenty of warning, and when push comes to shove, will defend itself and its territory. Then, it got picked up by a group of people who act though and Brave, constantly threaten people, then run away or panic at the first sign of push back.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m tired of repeating myself, but Stockholm syndrome is pure Copaganda bullshit.
ACAB
athatet@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
True. It was made up by Swedish cops as an excuse for not doing their jobs.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
straight up gaslighting the victims because they commented on how bad the police handled the situation.
Sibshops@feddit.cl 3 weeks ago
This feels very Pennsylvania for some reason.
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
No step on snake!
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
no snek on snek
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To have cognitive dissonance there has to be some semblance of cognition. They can follow all these conflicting beliefs because there has been zero thought put in to it, literally zero. Nobody has forced them to engage their brain so it’s an atrophied reactionary toddler level turd living between their ears.
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
As someone who knows quite a few people like this, they are every bit as dumb as you think they are.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
It’s only cognitive dissonance until you remember that police obeys whoever has money, just the way libertarians and ancaps love
Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That mf def doesn’t have enough money to have that stance mean anything to him though
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Shh, don’t tell him that, you’ll break his fantasy of the big bad gubmint being the only thing between him and being the next melon musk
BewareOfIdiot@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
Someone explain pls?
nummy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Non-nuanced explanation: Top flag - pro-cop. Bottom flag - libertarian, “anti-government”. You can’t be both.
Vreyan31@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
…You can but only in a really shitty way.
Which likely largely applies to the guy flying these flags.
Blue Line flag: “Authority should tread on THEM” Gasden flag: “Authority should respect ME”
I think Lindsay Ellis has a video that catalogs a lot of video of drunk conservatives who have behaved badly and are getting arrested, and their shock and horror that they do not get a free pass for being from the right “team”.
There absolutely is a large segment of our society that implicitly believes that they deserve rights and that others are ‘too dangerous’ and deserve harsh oppression.
I think a lot of us further on the left forget that the concept of equal rights is fairly new to our species, and that humans will readily absorb ‘rules for thee but not for me’ - especially when it’s encouraged by 24/7 propaganda outlets that we can’t stand to watch.
percent@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Sure, I suppose I can make an attempt…
In modern internet culture, it’s an overwhelmingly common[^1] practice to mentally classify things with as few labels as possible (ideally just one label), ignoring the possibility of misclassification or nuance.
Applying that practice to the flags in the photo, the meme author
likely[^4] mentally classified each flag like this:- Thin Blue Line flag = Pro-authority
- Gadsden flag = Anti-authority
Because the possibilities of misclassification and nuance are ignored, we can assume that these labels are correct.
Because the labels are correct, we can assume that it is actually the owner of the flags who is confused – not the meme author, nor us beholders/doomscrollers with whom the meme resonates.
Thanks to the logic of our “chain of assumptions”[^2] being correct, we can feel validated because our team wins again, and their team loses again[^3]. We are drawn to this feeling. We are more likely to upvote things that make us feel this.
This sort of mindset is not only socially acceptable, it is strongly encouraged[^1].
Footnotes
[^1]: Example: This post has 640 upvotes and 5 downvotes. (By the way: Those 5 down-voters are alt-right, Trump-supporting, boot-licking, racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, fascist nazis[^4][^3].) [^2]: There might be an actual name for this. I’m just making this name up without bothering to research because I assume that most readers won’t care. [^3]: Warning: If you are wondering, “How?”: Stop. It is socially unacceptable to ask this. It can only mean that you disagree[^4], and you risk being shunned and classified/labeled accordingly. [^4]: This is considered correct because the possibilities of misclassification or nuance are safely ignored.[^3]
moakley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I downvoted it because I don’t like when people misuse or overuse the phrase “cognitive dissonance”.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“I’m white, male, and Christian! Surely the police state isn’t for me!”
And don’t call me “Shirley.”
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
dektep@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That almost feels like one of my neighbors, barren trees of winter, but it’s probably Michigan or something. There’s so many like this, it’s disgusting.
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s the gubment that’s evil, and police protect us from the leftists.
SalamiDommie@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
ITT - a lot of people making things up. The flag combo is funny and nationalist pilled.
Contradictions to be found.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Capitalist libertarians have always truly been fascists. Their entire ideology is rooted in Social Darwinism.
fonix232@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
If there was a god or higher being, especially karma or universal reciprocity, the first people to die because of social Darwinism would be the ones propagating social Darwinism.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I think the new-world screwworm presents a strong case that any omniscient, omnipotent creator god is malevolent.
jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
true
in the horse shoe theory they populate the gap. all on their own between the commies and that nazi believing whatever toxic shit they like. ready to kill anyone that comes near them