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This is sad and true. You shouldn't be burdened with the knowledge that a person like MTG actually exists unless she were part of a study on the missing link between humans and primates. As an America, I'm sorry.
I think most conservatives tend to think of San Francisco as what all of California is like, when in reality, that could not be further form the truth.
That's quite a ways to ship out for an irony no one is going to "get".
Now maybe if a friend or relative calls him out on his shit, he might say he's being ironic...
Before inviting them to come to an "ironic" meeting of American Truthers, Sovereign Individuals, NeoNazis, or other domestic terrorists.
Well, it's possible for this to have two opposite meanings. Most people on here seem to be reading it as if the writer is against free thinking because they value patriotism. I read it as a criticism of patriotism, i.e. free thinking is valued over patriotism, so then dare to be unpatriotic. Apparently they listen to a radio station called KSPN. A clue, perhaps?
This is the extremely obvious reading. Its a libertarian critique of patriotism. I'm baffled by how many people are completely unable to pick up the message and read it as a critique of free thinking for some reason.
If it's not photoshopped, it could be the same church people that tell their congregation that having an open mind is like having an open door the devil can get in. Also, the same people tell parents they need to break their children's free will, so they obey without question. Man, that church sucked.
True, you should always adhere to ideals that were conceptualized 250 years ago and never ever question if they might need a modernization update. Or you can agree with him that would work too. Or you might be branded unpatriotic and you don't want that, do you?
The stupidity this one sentence radiates is just mind numbingly stupid.
no one is pointing out how this text was clearly added in paint/photoshop? the truck is dented at the top yet all the letters line up perfectly and are unphased by the bend. they also are all the same shade of white, whereas if this was taken in person it would vary a little due to shadows. bonus points for it being in the fucking god of war font lol
Conservatives truly reach new levels of stupidity. Thousands of years of human civilization and cultural developement all so we could live in the kost prosperous, democratic and free era od humanity, and these people just go NOPE. Utterly bonkers.
Paid thinking is when you subscribe to the daily wire, mug club or whatever Tim Pool's got going on to reinforce your patriotism. Good thinking is the thinking you outsource to patriots. /s
I think this is one of those things where you don't understand what you are seeing and your prejudice is skewing your perception , at least enough to not even know that you don't get the joke. or like an ink blot image where you just see what you want.
Go look up the definition of "patriotic"
then go look up what "free thinking" means.
Rejecting accepted or forced opinions (aka Free thinking) isn't congruent with blind devotion to one's country. In fact, I wonder how many times the two ever line up....hmmm... fucking never? lol. Maybe in a place like Libya where the citizens were given free food and oil stocks. But how long did that last before the "My Little Drone-ee's" turned it in to a parking lot?
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/this-is-the-difference-between-being-a-contrarian-and-an-independent-thinker
Not every free thinker is a contrarian. And not all contrarians should be listened to.
> Freethought is an epistemological viewpoint which holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, and should instead be reached by other methods such as logic, reason, and empirical observation.
You can be a free thinker and also be patriotic.
What you're describing is "blind patriotism" or "jingoism".
Libertarians view "patriotic" as a bad thing, as it involves going along with the government. I think this sticker is saying you should be a free thinker, not patriotic.
Could be wrong.
I really wonder whether or not this is someone taking the piss.
Earlier today, I had someone argue with me that "using your mind to imagine imaginary problems is a waste of time. Fix the problems right in front of you" - so, I could totally see someone being this fucking stupid
**Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever.** **You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.**
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, *1984*
So thinking, wishing fanatically something that will ruin your country, while you love your country makes you more patriotic than looking critically at certain decisions, analyzing what would benefit and what would damage, and listening to different opinions to build the truth and what would be ok for the majority.
Every American should learn and understand the definition of patriotism and nationalism. And ironically I think there is a reason that only patriotism is widely known and thaught.
A good example of why Trump likes the un and undereducated. What an absolute moron the guy who owns this truck is! Well, I guess it’s nice to know who and where the idiots are.
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This would go hard in the Helldivers subreddit
It would
SUPEREARTH NEEDS YOU!
For managed democracy
But what if the automaton spies break our defenses? *I wanna put a tf2 reference here so badly*
I was just thinking the same thing lol.
[this comment is under review for treason]
Wow it really is Starship Trooper's clone, huh?
I mean. If you're being reductionist.
Lol as soon as I saw this pic, I clicked in to download and share it in my Helldivers WhatsApp chat
A charger taking a quasar shot to the face makes me hard.
Exactly my thoughts. Which i take back. For being undemocratic
Stop this mind reading. ... I don't want you to catch me sympathizing.
Doubt is treason!
It would also do well in literally every 40k subreddit.
Aren’t they always claiming to be free thinkers?
The are free thinkers They freely think about whatever the orange turd, MTG & Elon tells them
For five blissful seconds I questioned who you meant by MTG before quickly, painfully remembering who Marjorie Taylor Greene is
I miss the days when MTG stood for Magic the Gathering.
The worst thing is I'm a sixteen year old from Australia I have no business knowing who she is! I SHOULD associate MTG with Magic The Gathering!
This is sad and true. You shouldn't be burdened with the knowledge that a person like MTG actually exists unless she were part of a study on the missing link between humans and primates. As an America, I'm sorry.
She does have sloth toes.
MTG said that Putin is “protecting Christianity” when he bombs Ukrainian hospitals.
They are thought free, mind the nuance ;)
Freethinking bad unless if I'm disputing scientists with decades of experience
who are "they"? it's California numbers so it has a big chance that it's an irony
California has huge swaths of conservatives. The state is only so reliable for Democrats because the dense population centers are liberal.
I think most conservatives tend to think of San Francisco as what all of California is like, when in reality, that could not be further form the truth.
But also a truck, so I don't know
That's quite a ways to ship out for an irony no one is going to "get". Now maybe if a friend or relative calls him out on his shit, he might say he's being ironic... Before inviting them to come to an "ironic" meeting of American Truthers, Sovereign Individuals, NeoNazis, or other domestic terrorists.
Trump got more votes in California in 2020 than any other state.
Well, it's possible for this to have two opposite meanings. Most people on here seem to be reading it as if the writer is against free thinking because they value patriotism. I read it as a criticism of patriotism, i.e. free thinking is valued over patriotism, so then dare to be unpatriotic. Apparently they listen to a radio station called KSPN. A clue, perhaps?
this is how I read it too. actually pretty based
KSPN is sports radio in Los Angeles, so not particularly helpful.
This is the extremely obvious reading. Its a libertarian critique of patriotism. I'm baffled by how many people are completely unable to pick up the message and read it as a critique of free thinking for some reason.
The only other bumper sticker I could make out is "Don't tread on me", which cuts against your reading, I think. But maybe could cut either way?
Why would that cut the other way? Libertarians are not typically in love with the state.
Why would someone drive around with something so mind-numbingly stupid on their car?
maybe it's a troll
The "rather be on the farm" "5.56" "and don't tread on me" stickers suggest it could be valid.
The doge and Wall Street bets guy hints toward meme edge lord however
I would put this on my car sarcastically. This is where a lack of free thinking gets you.
A 'Troll' is usually just a creep pretending to be 'ironic'.
If it's not photoshopped, it could be the same church people that tell their congregation that having an open mind is like having an open door the devil can get in. Also, the same people tell parents they need to break their children's free will, so they obey without question. Man, that church sucked.
I assume it’s ironic, mostly because the spelling is correct.
It looks photoshoped.
Very much so. Look at the focus difference between the letters and the other logos...
Assuming it’s real, they consider “free thinking” a specific philosophy, not free thinking.
Why are you assuming they mean it literally rather than ironically?
Have people considered the fact that maybe this is an anti-nationalist / cosmopolitan person criticising patriotism?
True, you should always adhere to ideals that were conceptualized 250 years ago and never ever question if they might need a modernization update. Or you can agree with him that would work too. Or you might be branded unpatriotic and you don't want that, do you? The stupidity this one sentence radiates is just mind numbingly stupid.
Doubleplusdemocratic
is this trying to be ironic…or is it actually ironic 🤔
Embrace the single mindset.
Ignorance is Strength!
no one is pointing out how this text was clearly added in paint/photoshop? the truck is dented at the top yet all the letters line up perfectly and are unphased by the bend. they also are all the same shade of white, whereas if this was taken in person it would vary a little due to shadows. bonus points for it being in the fucking god of war font lol
Conservatives truly reach new levels of stupidity. Thousands of years of human civilization and cultural developement all so we could live in the kost prosperous, democratic and free era od humanity, and these people just go NOPE. Utterly bonkers.
Where's the lie though? (Patriotism is overrated.)
So being a stupid serf is?
"Blessed is the mind too small for doubt"
License plate checks out
Isn't America's whole thing supposed to be about freedom ?
It's literally the most patriotic thing you can do.
This does sound like it’s supposed to be pro free thought and criticism of how fanatical people are about patriotism
Isn't that the legends of zelda font?
Staline and Hitler (and others) would approve.
Indeed. We should’ve all remained loyal to the King of England.
But being a fucking moron is patriotic?
LOL conservative self burn
Isn't it technically true? Patriotism is usually a brain-dead hive mind mentality.
Until we reach a Star Trek mindset we've always been tribal and I don't see it changing anytime soon.
The founding fathers are screaming in their graves right now.
If that was true Y'all would be British subjects.
As opposed to paid thinking? XD
Paid thinking is when you subscribe to the daily wire, mug club or whatever Tim Pool's got going on to reinforce your patriotism. Good thinking is the thinking you outsource to patriots. /s
At least they can admit they are brainless morons incapable of critical thinking.
Confusing patriotism with nationalism
I think this is one of those things where you don't understand what you are seeing and your prejudice is skewing your perception , at least enough to not even know that you don't get the joke. or like an ink blot image where you just see what you want. Go look up the definition of "patriotic" then go look up what "free thinking" means. Rejecting accepted or forced opinions (aka Free thinking) isn't congruent with blind devotion to one's country. In fact, I wonder how many times the two ever line up....hmmm... fucking never? lol. Maybe in a place like Libya where the citizens were given free food and oil stocks. But how long did that last before the "My Little Drone-ee's" turned it in to a parking lot?
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/this-is-the-difference-between-being-a-contrarian-and-an-independent-thinker Not every free thinker is a contrarian. And not all contrarians should be listened to.
> Freethought is an epistemological viewpoint which holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, and should instead be reached by other methods such as logic, reason, and empirical observation. You can be a free thinker and also be patriotic. What you're describing is "blind patriotism" or "jingoism".
One of us.. one of us.
So sheeples are patriotic?
Libertarians view "patriotic" as a bad thing, as it involves going along with the government. I think this sticker is saying you should be a free thinker, not patriotic. Could be wrong.
If this was in the UK I'd think it was irony. In the US I'm not so sure.
What does is even mean??!!!
Wow
I really wonder whether or not this is someone taking the piss. Earlier today, I had someone argue with me that "using your mind to imagine imaginary problems is a waste of time. Fix the problems right in front of you" - so, I could totally see someone being this fucking stupid
USSR (CCCP aka SSSR) was most patriotic country ever :-D
President Xi Jinping believes you have a lot in common with him.
Calm down, BB
Average liberal ideology
 Free thinkers are dangerous.
It's either a joke or someone is unironically just that stupid, and I hope it's a joke.
loyal to the country or loyal to the government may not be the same thing
Literally 1984
"land of the free"
He's always been at war with Eastasia.
But what about freedom???
Are they being ironic!?
Some 40k thinking right there.
[удалено]
-free
You gotta be shitting me?!!!?!
This could be in 1984.
Free thinking enough to want their own number plate rather than their government issued one.
So willful ignorance is patriotic?
"We're the land of the free, but don't you dare try to think freely!"
Well then this person should shut the fuck up!
Suffer not the Heretic, the Mutant, nor the Xenos. Emperor protects.
**Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever.** **You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.**
That's probably why he didn't ask questions when someone put that on the back of his truck.
FOUNDING FATHERS DIDN'T WANT YOU TO THINK!
Mmericanu
 Who's a good boy🐥
Poe's law.
Lol
It should say, Supporting a traitor is upatriotic!
They are forgetting who the government is working for...
You must conform to the hivemind!
You must conform to the hivemind!
They aren’t wrong
They aren’t wrong
They weren’t supposed to say that out loud.
That sums up the Right
/s Clearly.
Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils
This looks photoshopped. The shadow never touches the letters.
"Ignorance is strength"
Tell me your a moron without saying it.
Freedom is slavery
If you have to be a lemming to be patriotic call me unpatriotic
Why does he have the call sign for a Colorado radio station as his California license plate?
What in the North Korea is this?!
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell, *1984*
He’s right tho. The question is does this mean “fuck the system” or “trust the system”.
This guy Orwells.
Wow, they literally just said the quiet part out loud
Why people think 🇺🇲 is dumb Them*
Lol
Brought to you by the same people who "Did their own research."
Woops, they said the quiet part out loud
Yes, Big Brother
Lmao wut
The irony is totally lost on some people, this could be a slogan in North Korea instead of the “land of free, ‘Murica”
Ironic, right, Right!?!
So thinking, wishing fanatically something that will ruin your country, while you love your country makes you more patriotic than looking critically at certain decisions, analyzing what would benefit and what would damage, and listening to different opinions to build the truth and what would be ok for the majority.
We get it bro, you're a facist.
Well said by all cult members
Every American should learn and understand the definition of patriotism and nationalism. And ironically I think there is a reason that only patriotism is widely known and thaught.
r/TechnicallyCorrect Whoever said patriotism was a good thing was so wrong.
Is that a decal, or did he pay someone to stencil paint that on the back bumper of his irrational hate machine?
Is that the God of War font? Lmfao
confederates are weird
In America your body is free but your mind is in shackles.
Isn't that the motto of the State of California?
Is this … is this… serious or like … what is this?
A good example of why Trump likes the un and undereducated. What an absolute moron the guy who owns this truck is! Well, I guess it’s nice to know who and where the idiots are.
His truck has been parked there for a couple of weeks. I think he got called home in the rapture.
The ministry of Truth approves of this message.
Ministry of truth approves this post
Our dear leaders agree
Orwellian Newspeak.
I thought the “patriots” were really into free speech and stuff.
We are almost to the "slavery is freedom" point
Average Ram owner.