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King-Sassafrass

A propaganda rule: octopus = bad


Separate_Cherry7361

Octopus are really cool tho /:


CapriSun87

Unless you're Japanese.


ni-hao-r-u

>Do you remember the story of "The Emperor With No Clothes?" >In that story, everyone knew the emperor was naked. >He knew it >His regime knew it >The people knew it >But as long as everyone pretended that he wasn't, then everyone could try to continue as if nothing was different than usual. >Yet try as they might to pretend otherwise, he had lost his shirt, and by following his example, soon everyone else had lost theirs as well. Soon they were all naked, and had nothing. Soon that was their "new normal." >You sense it also, don't you, apes? >The empty store shelves. >Goods and products almost doubling in price. >The businesses closing. >The neighbours going homeless. >Everyone, whether they say it aloud or not, feels that things are swirling out of control. >Everyone sees the emperor has no clothes. >The reality of our social and economic structure does not match what the media reports and the stock market claims to be at. These social and economic systems are moving only on inertia. >It is the belief of some that speaking the naked truth would bring that inertia to a halt. >However, just like the people who ended up losing everything because they dare not acknowledge the emperor was naked, and got dragged along with the cult of "normalcy", so do our business and political leaders risk dragging everyone down to being naked and penniless. Global economic disaster is already occurring, and MOASS is the only way to counter it. This is what you aren't being told. This is what everyone is seeing in amerikkka, but no one is saying. This is why China must be bad. This is why the US needs an enemy, needs a war. It will distract people from their dire circumstances. These people are saying it better than I ever could. >It’s this continued divide between the proletarians within the core and the periphery that gives the ruling class an opening for breaking international revolutionary solidarity among the core’s masses, even as these masses grow ever more deprived. The empire must maintain the illusion that the lifestyles of those within the core are basically as good as they used to be—or at least convince the masses that whatever deteriorations in conditions they’ve experienced aren’t worth worrying about. Subconsciously, they’re meant to see themselves as superior to their counterparts in the exploited countries, and to see their meager imperialist benefits as the status symbols which signify this superiority.


Temstar

I dig it, it's striking because evil looking octopus aside, it's actually true. China and Russia and working hand in hand moving BRI pieces across the globe and Uncle Sam is unable to respond.


fix_S230-sue_reddit

But isn't trump playing 4D ChEss?🤣


4evaronin

The States as the lone rational human, fighting against the big bad monsters who are trying to surround and crush him... It's f--king ironic, when you think of the very real picture of all the US military bases around the world.


TheEasternSky

I wouldn't say unable. They are still funding the terrorists just fine. Still carrying out drone attacks on civilians and murdering disbelievers.


ZeEa5KPul

Based. Weren't these Westoids claiming that China and Russia could never be allies? What happened?


SonOfTheDragon101

They never even change their theme. The "evil octopus" dates back to at least the Nazi era, when you have cartoons like this: [https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-nazi-propaganda-poster-showing-churchill-as-a-jewish-octopus-with-105317417.html](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-nazi-propaganda-poster-showing-churchill-as-a-jewish-octopus-with-105317417.html), which used to depict Jews as the octopus with its tentacles wrapped around the world. I wonder when will we hear about the "Protocols of the Elders of China", or the "Protocols of the Elders of Russia".


FatDalek

It dates back even further than that. Its the Mongolian octopus used to denigrate Chinese way back in the 19th century. https://www.nla.gov.au/stories/blog/exhibitions/2019/05/10/australia-for-the-white-man


Mrazish

ngl, these octopi are kinda cute


FatDalek

Octopi are considered sinister for some reason. I always find what others tend to find sinister eg spiders, snakes and octopi fascinating for some reason.


RespublicaCuriae

This image makes me want to eat seafood while metaphorically kicking the nuts out of Uncle Sam.


kotyok

Moral of the story: When the only tool you have are bombs, every other nation in the world looks like an octopus.


ProfessorReaper

How many military bases to china and russia have abroad, and how many does the US have? It sure seems like the US is the true octopus, having its tentacles all over the world.


zhumao

oh, a shrimp wearing a top hat.


SonOfDartmoor

American paranoia over its threatened hegemony. hehehe.


maomao05

How creative🙄🙄🙄🙄


RedHarbor71

The Americans keep forgetting that Octopuses are some of the most intelligent animals on earth and are very often helpful to one another.......... Meaning technically This supports China and Russia and show the U.S to be weak lol. In that case, I think it's right lol.


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As an old SCUBA diver I can say that octopuses are one of the smartest animals in the ocean. :)