Half-hatched Messages

[flw]

I recall a bumpersticker I saw a while ago. It read, "Capitalism: Making lazy people whine since 1776." Now, I know the point of this bumpersticker is that the message transmitter, the car owner, was announcing, "I'm not lazy, unlike all you pieces of shit who I have to WORK for and support. You shiftless Liberal scum." Something like that. And the

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[sanpaku]

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[sanpaku]

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[sanpaku]

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[alsoname]

Not really on topic, but you just reminded me of a bumper sticker I saw a month ago or so. I wanted to tell you about it but promptly forgot.

Someone had a Bernie sticker on their car. Then there was a (possibly homemade) sticker underneath it, which said something like, "OK, fine, Hillary then."

[footnotefetish]

Didn't you once tell me about a bumper sticker with some message about joining a war while most Americans are at the shopping mall? We couldn't tell if it was meant to lionize veterans (for actually caring about 'Murica while other 'Muricans are just buying junk) or somehow be anti-war (in the sense that if Americans would wake up and stop bowing to the gods of all things material, they'd realize what horrors are being inflicted on the world). The only thing that seemed somewhat clear was that it was anti-consumerist.

[alsoname]

Hmm! Not saying it didn't happen, but I have zero memory of that. Maybe flw remembers.