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no idea where this came from, but in light of recent events it's just chefs-kiss

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I like how everyone is mad except Marxopus and Squinin

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

A M A Z I N G ! ! !

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly octopus was just the way political cartoonist portrayed influence neteworks lol. Yes it sometimes portrayed antisemitic conspiracies, but it seems like all popitical cartoonists used the same lazy way of portraying influence.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

There's an NRO mission patch that depicts the NRO itself as an octopus.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Lots of racist commie octopus pics.

[–] PolPotPie@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

when muckraking 20th century journalist Frank Norris wrote "The Octopus" about the rise of the Standard Oil corporation, he was actually doing an antisemitism against John Rockefeller's northern baptist beliefs

[–] regul@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's a common political cartoon comparison, saying it is strictly anti-semitic is a blatant lie, but they know that

if you're explaining, you're losing

https://neverwasmag.com/2017/08/the-octopus-in-political-cartoons/

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ya, even the antisemitic cartoon being used in the smear is more anti-Zionist in reality since it features Churchill

conflating anti-Zionism as antisemitic is a very old tradition it seems

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That one was made by fascists, it is explicitly anti-Semitic. It depicts Churchill as being controlled by Jewish people.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shit. OK. Didn't know those specifics. Thanks for the detail.

[–] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

does this mean Illithids are anti-Semitic?

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

mindflayer doing a bit: "these brains taste terrible, and there's so little of them!"

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Octobear when?

Also, top tier projection there. Replace communist with fascist and Moscow with D.C. and you have a fine description of operation Gladio

[–] President_Obama@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

in light of recent events

Wha happen?

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Greta posted something with one of the little ND feelings expression octupus plushes, and some Zionist dug up a Nazi propaganda poster depicting Jewish people as an octopus spreading it's tentacles across the globe and used it as a pretense to call her an anti-Semite. People have been riffing on it since, as one does.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Uphold Thunberg-Cephalopod thought

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

lol there's a 'great courses' video that also features similar images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRXB2YBIUHU

Red Octopus: The Communist International - The Real History of Secret Societies

[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

The octopus looks more cute than menacing

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Commissar Thunbergskyy

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago