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I'm posting it here because IB doesn't allow group profiles...or at least if it does I'm too lazy to maintain any more profiles than I already do here...which is to say - exactly one. I hope people don't mind, and again don't worry if this isn't your thing this week's upload is coming in like four hours.
I'm uploading this here for an additional reason that there are so many propaganda pieces defending the rise of authoritarianism and hatred and violence on here, I figured this could be a good ice-pick to that wall of frosty unanimity and give a voice to people that might not agree with the victimization of those that wish to do us harm.
Copy-paste from my submission on my FA group 'neo-enlightenmentfurs':
"We finally have a definitive upload to call our own. Our previous one caused a bit of controversy with folks, hopefully it is not too much to wish that this one can be more universally accepted - and not to mention demonstrate visually our opposition to tyranny and hate.
We have a symbol for fascism, a faces, being held by an Eagle. The faces is commonly considered a universal symbol of fascism, at least in the west and near east.
Then we have the swastika, a symbol for Nazism - a form of fascism - which is also meant to symbolize all nazi and neo-nazi movements that latch onto the symbol.
Next we have Orwell's contribution to media, the emblem of ingsoc from his famous novel 1984. We struggled to find a catch-all symbol for Authoritarian communism (and were originally going to go with just the symbol of National Bolshevism, or neo-stalinism) but seeing as how Orwell's novels were meant as a critique of authoritarian communism - we figured it would work perfectly!
And finally we have the double headed eagle of Empire and Reaction. This symbol is used outside of those contexts too, but it is very closely married to the NRx movement and neo-colonialism, as well as a catch-all for monarchism and absolutism.
We also have our group's new mascot in the middle! Styled pose-wise after a rather famous work of art 'Liberty Enlightening the World' or commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. We styled her more after the Enlightenment rather than ancient Greece to put our own twist on it, as well as to avoid confusion.
Religious symbols were planned - to show opposition to religious extremism - but we figured it would be best to save something like that for another time, since it might detract from the more political side of things.
Anyhow, we hope this is something people enjoy and can get behind!
Until next time
Sapere Aude "