this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I was concerned about why he’s wearing capitalist advertisements. But also I don’t know who this is, if that matters.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that was Dale Earnhardt (think that's how it's spelled). He was a famous NASCAR racer

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I had a Dale Earnhardt Bic lighter in 1998. That’s about as much as I know other than that he suffered an untimely early demise and was well loved by fans.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop but why do I see this guy (nascar driver?) in meme lastly?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's Comrade Earnhardt!

Serious: Dale Earnhardt is/was a cultural hero for rural conservatives, as he was one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time, so it's been fun for Lemmy meme artists to use his likeness for aggressively left-wing memes. It's a little bit "Ha ha funny NASCAR man makes memes about communism" and a little bit "conservatives will believe anything delivered to them in meme form so let's capitalize on that".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know why he's associated with socialism and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

that's Yofeff Stalin, read a book

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m right there with you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

hell yeah brother, raise hell praise Dale, unionize the pit crews 😎

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have we finally found the first good right wing meme 😮

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Listen, if I walk into a restaurant, and there's a table with nine, there's nine people in the restaurant, and they're... the people, there's nine people and they're... nine of them are Nazis, and I sit at the table, then I'm one of the nine. There's a ten Nazi table in the restaurant. In every restaurant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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