Something like this doesn’t exist in Poland, well not in the shape or form it’s in the US. At most if someone has the ability to, you will see officially printed banners from a party being hanged on someone’s fence.
Here’s an example how this even looks like, straight from a banner printing service: https://www.taniebanery.com.pl/
Of course they are an eyesore, a waste of materials, and are littered fucking everywhere during election season.
Okay, sometimes there's exceptions
But they aren’t novelty items that are stylized to look like straight out of Barbie.
So again. Why the fuck is America such a weird and wild country? Why the fuck would anyone promote a politician out of their own pocket in a “quirky” and “cutesy” or “relatable” way???
Jesus I hate the US. Yes this is a bit of a vent post, cry about it :3
It’s what happens when the team sports mindset around politics meets Marvel-movie brained adults
I feel like this also has some Disney-adult energy sprinkled into it.
This election season has been absolute kino honestly
A big character from the last 8 seasons has had to step away due to health issues, and they were able to swap him out for a new redesigned character with all the same plot lines while keeping the same villain. Amazing writing.
Why the fuck is America such a weird and wild country? Why the fuck would anyone promote a politician out of their own pocket in a “quirky” and “cutesy” or “relatable” way???
In the US politics is like sports or entertainment. I call it Team Democrat vs Team Republican. For example the average MSNBC viewer watches an insane amount of that crap every day. I think it’s ~7 hours. The average viewer is also a retiree at ~70 years old. This is what they choose to do in their retirement. And - of course - the average Fox News viewer is the other side of that.
When an American uses a word like “sacred” in regards to voting - they are nearly certainly unaware of how insane that sounds to people from other countries and leftists in general. The fetishization and conflation of the flag, voting, the Constitution etc are American civil religion and American exceptionalism. Some Americans fly the flag 365 days a year. One of my neighbors has a flag out every day. I can see it through the window when I’m at my computer desk.
American exceptionalism is very weird to me. If we are so great - why don’t we compare ourselves to other countries to prove it? But Americans want to live in their bubble. American exceptionalism is a tautology based on the fantastic level of wealth of our country and our military.
Political tribalism was added to the mix. There was some in the pre 9/11 but that event caused different insanity - war-brained insanity and political sectarianism was pushed aside for a while. Of course - it came roaring back when Obama was president and it carried through to today. So people will be proud of being an American and being a Democrat or Republican.
American civil religion is a sociological theory that a nonsectarian religious faith exists within the United States with sacred symbols drawn from national history. Scholars have portrayed it as a common set of values that foster social and cultural integration. The ritualistic elements of ceremonial deism found in American ceremonies and presidential invocations of God can be seen as expressions of the American civil religion.
The concept goes back to the 19th century, but the current form of this theory was developed by sociologist Robert Bellah in 1967 in the article, “Civil Religion in America”. According to Bellah, Americans embrace a common civil religion with certain fundamental beliefs, values, holidays, and rituals in parallel to, or independent of, their chosen religion.
Bellah’s article soon became the major focus at religious sociology conferences and numerous articles and books were written on the subject. Interest in the topic reached its peak with the American Bicentennial celebration in 1976.
Flag shagging is ridiculed here, rightly so. It’s an embarrassing thing that should be kept in check because of the types of people it creates when it’s out of hand.
Anti-nationalism should be one of the biggest parts of a leftist america movement. There’s a reason the feds are signal boosting patsocs, they’ve already identified it’s a critical component that communists should be targeting and with a growing left the intel agencies are getting ahead of the game.
Idk I have literally never seen anything like that as a US native. I have only seen what appear to be official, standard political yard signs. That said, I have definitely seen a variety of stupid fash flags/stickers/shirts, etc - like trump flags, confederate flags (pro slavery/apartheid, basically), “lets go brandon”, white lives matter, thin blue line (pro cop), various pro gun slogans like “come and take it” (which could be based but mainly far right/fascists use these). Some people have flag poles in their yards, and a minority of those will display flags like these. More will wear clothing or have stickers on their cars.
Saw one that said “presidents come and go. Wu Tang is forever.”
I for one lament how close we were to having a Harry Ballz ticket.
Harry William Baals (/bɔːlz/ BAWLZ; November 16, 1886 – May 9, 1954) was an American politician who was the Republican mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 1934 to 1947, and from 1951 until his death in 1954.
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Harry Baals Drive was named in his honor. It extends east from Parnell Avenue, north and west of the St. Joseph River in Johnny Appleseed Park. In recent years, the double entendre arising from Baals’s name has led Fort Wayne officials to shy away from naming streets and buildings after him. The aforementioned street has been renamed “H. W. Baals Drive” due to persistent theft of the street sign.
I just say Blump/Kance and Harry/Balz when i pass by lawn signs. Bro i saw multiple Blumpkin (Trumpkin like a drawing of his hair piece on a pumpkin) signs this year i was so happy when I saw that.
Are bumper stickers a thing in Europe? Because that’s where you’ll find the real unhinged parts of Americana.
I’ve never seen one that’s for a political party or something, but plenty for football clubs, “Polska Walcząca” with a child soldier drawing (yes we glorify those, look up Orlęta Lwowskie), maybe regional stickers, Calvin pissing, Apple stickers, Safe-Edgy type stuff.
Oh okay now I remember “***** ***” which stands for “Jebać PiS” (fuck PiS), but that’s about it. Never seen something that would yell “Najsilniejszy wyborca Tuska” or similar to that.
AFD chuds do like bumper stickers. Some „hippie“ boomers do use political stickers as well.
It’s not super common. Generally, americans see yard signs as an eyesore
But there are also a lot of freaks with too much disposable income
That’s nice to know, but it’s still weird that freaks with too much disposable income seem like a purely American phenomenon to me. At it least in the political regard.
Our sportsball games are vessels to serve ads and our politics are treated likes sportsball. It’s ridiculous. It’s always been bad but it became this level of stupid during the run up for 2016 because of the evanelical terrorists finally getting their foot in the door to turn the US into a Christo-fascist state.
Lol, are you too young for the Bush Jr. years?
I was in high school during Dubya and wasn’t really into politics yet
I do remember the rabid patriotism though.
W was heavily supported by Evangelicals, largely of the Dominionist type. They became such a powerful force pushing creationism and other anti-science rhetoric that the backlash to them basically gave rise the insufferable new atheists and Richard Dawkins’ popularity. No nice things ever.
I read Jesus and John Wayne like 2 years ago and it does cover the Bush era evengelicalism. I personally don’t recall any outright vitriol towards anyone left-leaning or anything. Can’t say as much about the openly racist rhetoric against Muslims though. I was in my teens during that time and I ly really cared about Dragon Ball Z and Final Fantasy lol.
Oh geez, back then being a communist or socialist was a considered a slur. “Liberals” was nowhere near as bad, but still pretty much spoken with hate by the right. Especially folks that were political and kept up with Limbaugh. There was a good year or two after 911 that you could find yourself in a fight if you were a lib in the wrong place and the wrong time. Yeah, and even moreso if you were muslim or brown enough to be confused as one.
I did know a guy in middle/high school that claimed to be a communist during this time but like no one wanted to kill him or anything over it. Since kids are taught that both fascism and communism are equally horrible, it’s what we knew. It was just weird that a high schooler was pro-Stalin to us. I sometimes wonder what his politics are now. I got back in touch with him like a decade ago on Facebook but he wasn’t ever openly political on there then. I wouldn’t be surprised if he turned out to be a chud though.
Kid sounds based, but yeah, wonder if it was just contrarionism or if they did the reading.
Limiting debate to vigorous disagreement between two nearly identical options.
This is how they feel like they’re doing something.
because we dont have any actual politics in this country, the reality tv show entitled Elections is very popular here and is essentially sports for nerds
Death to America
I saw someone who HAND-PAINTED a Harris/Walz banner telling people to vote on election day. There’s also massive banners about choosing democracy over dictorship, and, of course, the “Harris/Walz”, obviously signs.
People say that Trump fans are bad, but I’ve seen a similar amount of both around, tbh.
i live in the south and only ever see trump signs. not that i like liberals but i would rather see harris/walz signs for sure. i know for a fact someone with a bunch of trump shit on their yard is a racist, bigoted freak. someone with a harris/walz sign at least has a chance of being a normal ass person
Very true, I’ll always be more willing to talk with the “I’m with her” people over the MAGA people, at least for the average conversation.
It’s because politics is just sports for the worst nerds you know.
My favorite sign I’ve seen tho just reads:
“Kamala high prices, Trump low prices”
That’s it, that was the whole sign…
Really showing the illiterate nature of the voter base.
edit: spelling/grammar
There’s a bunch around me that just “cats for kamala”, or “dogs for walz”. They have nothing and they’re just banking cutsy bullshit.
Absolute fucking freaks…
I already assign fake personalities to my pets. Assigning them fake political ideologies would be abusive.
I understand that elections are a thing, but I hate how busy and ad-looking most political banners are now. It cheapens it in my eyes, although I guess cheap appearances for the cheap politics of neoliberalism is fitting. What I’m saying is, retvrn to the days when a banner was a long lush piece of cloth with just the symbol of your ideology on it, and you could hang 4 to 6 of those suckers in a good-sized room. I know most people think of that description and think of nazi banners, but fuck them, they stole that from us like everything else even remotely stylish they have.
I’m a fan of elegant simplicity in banners
~40% of the absurdities associated with US elections is the drive for profiteering. Gotta sell merch gotta sell swag BUY your politics before you cast a vote. Buy swag to say you did that too
logistically though, this is facilitated by two things: there is no real election window, media does political coverage all the time & political ads are a constant presence. these shops therefore have time to set up and dedicate production (well in the US generally procurement) instead of normal printers seasonally catering to political customers then going back to normal stuff. additionally there’s absolutely no regulations on it, I haven’t even heard of individual towns banning the election circus even though its well within their legal power
It’s such an odd thing for someone who comes from a country where your vote has been constructed as such a private matter that often members of the same family don’t disclose their vote to others. I also found this to be very odd growing up, but came to understand it through the heightened stakes of class and a class war that isn’t that far back in history that has over time been co-opted by the bourge “civilizing” mission of neutrality and being apolitical in your everyday life.
The vote then has become something protected that was dangerous to reveal in the past, that has lived on to this day, turning this into this unwritten social norm. It isn’t proper to ask anyone who they voted for, much the same way salaries can’t be discussed.
As a result nobody here would put signs like this anywhere where they could be associated with them. I’m not at all sure if this is better in any way from the US lawn signs, but it sure is different.
I live in in a deep red rural-suburban area, and I drive to people’s houses for service. The sparse but common of Trump flags/signs are annoying (and they’re always in the most annoying in-your-face spots with the hostile tone they have), but more disheartening is the amount of anti-abortion signs that are everywhere. It’s on the ballet, and there are literally hundreds of signs everywhere saying to “Protect women and children” by voting against protections of reproductive healthcare. I’ve only seen one sign in favor, and that was in the city.
Not extremely relevant, but it’s been on my mind lately.
