• @SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    06 months ago

    So the woman is berating the “I Like America” guy, and is frightened when a crowd rolls up and threatens her. The woman has a rainbow on her shirt, and clearly represents the “woke” crowd. The buff, red shirt guy is how the MAGA people want to see themselves. Those characters, I get. But, what’s with the crowd of his buddies that’s about to beat her down? This part doesn’t make sense. Why are they carrying a bunch of random protest signs? Are they really admitting to infiltrating protests as agents provocateurs?

    • @null@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      36 months ago

      The crowd is supposed to represent other people also chanting down the MAGA guy. She’s horrified to see the company she is among.

      • @SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        16 months ago

        Aye, thanks. I did get that after reading other comments. This is a good example of the concept of “different movies on the same screen” depending on one’s worldview. I saw lines in the first panel implying motion behind the woman, the MAGA dude exchanging knowing glances with the crowd the showed up—clearly a MAGA crowd based on the Soviet emblem—and the flop sweat in the last panel.

        • @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          26 months ago

          This is a “right wing people can’t meme” server. The very well established culture war has conditioned right wing people to see all people left of center as delusional hypocrites who hate Jews. Ironically, all of the anti-semitic rhetoric from Americans generally and has always reliably come from the political right. Now that it’s Jews vs Brown people, the political right has chosen their allegiance and everyone else is just stupid obviously.

          • @Sagifurius@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            06 months ago

            Don’t know many hardcore socialists do you? Antisemitism and marxism go together like peanut butter and jam, what better boogeyman for anti capitalists than every jewish sterotype ever?