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Check out the Mission's latest batch of simple but ineffective political poster art. Vile, controversial, and scary rich folks are, again, the target this time. Eeps!
All of the ads are part of some series called "People I'm Really Hating These Days" - which has no site as far as we can tell. Boo.
What's missing: fetishistic Spanish translations. Please, Spanish-speaking readers, help us out in the comments.
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What's missing: Newsom.
Could they be more juvenile? And Milton Friedman? A more accurate headline would have been: Proud Father of a global system that enabled me to print these posters so cheaply and not have to sell a kidney to my neighbor just so I could afford one sheet of this paper.
What, no race bating posters this time around to divide us further?
Repeated viewing of these posters may induce a coma
Zzzzzzzz
Señor Capitalista: Padre orgulloso de la miseria global!
Señor Gap: Ricos sucios del trabajo auxiliar del niño!
Madame Transmisor de la Casa: Criminales de la guerra que ayudan y cooperación!
I'm hating Donald Fisher right now too -- this track jacket is making my gut look big.
Grathias, Generic.
Probably brought to you by Krissy Keefer fans.
Where's the one for Dianne Feinstein? No one war profiteers like she does.
I'd have preferred Nancy Pelosi's pic reference her shameful behavior toward American Samoa, because basically everyone in Congress is aiding and abetting, but whatever.
mindblowingly appropriative
Senador FiDi: Ella ama el dinero de la guerra!
Milty? Dunno. But the other two hit the nail right on the head. Sadly, Pelosi is not alone in her capitulation to the Bush administration. BTW, Krissy Keefer ROCKS!!! Long live Krissy Keefer!!!
Ah, there's a phrase to describe the people that make these prints in Spanish, revolucionario de cafetin. Exhibit A, the characters hanging outside Cafe Boheme on 24th St. Exhibit B, the people at Ritual Roasters, goddamn commies.
I got no love for friedman, a man who did everything he could to reverse the social gains of the 30's, but he died two years ago, what happened to not speaking ill of the dead? Couldn't you come up with three living people that you hate?
You must read the Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. Milton Friedman has to be first on the list. He's the global king of pain. No doubt about.
He didn't care about how many people died under General Pinochet or anywhere else his ruthless ideas were put into practice . Recently dead or not, I don't think we can wait any longer to denounce what the guy stood for. He's pretty much the root of all evil.
If the dead don't want ill spoken of them, they shouldn't behave like assholes while they're alive.
I never bought that whole "don't speak ill of the dead" malarky.
The posters seem pretty effective to me. They're HUGE, and the images and text are clear and easy to digest from a distance as you're walking by. People are looking at them and thinking about them and commenting on them on SFist. A bunch of people are probably googling Milton Friedman today wondering who the hell he is.
The posters brings attention to Pelosi (who is facing a symbolic challenge from Cindy Sheehan) and Fisher (who is trying to build a butt-ugly museum in the Presido). They cover up some Fernet ads. And they give SFisters fresh material to be cynical and snarky about.
Everybody wins.
I don't think anyone puts up wheat-pastes thinking they're going to change the world. It's just a fun way to communicate with your neighborhood.
Right! Don't speak ill of Hitler because he's dead.
"Milton Friedman: father of ideas which brought hundreds of millions of souls from an existence of near starvation"
Maybe I will pass out my flier next to those fresh white kids at the BART station passing out their socialist worker newsletter
except I am to busy working to bother
zig, do you have a shred of evidence to back up your claim?
by the way, you weren't "to" busy to sit on your ass and make comments on sfist : )
everywhere in the world in the last several decades where friedman's "free market reforms" have been forced upon the people -- starvation, homelessness, joblessness, and misery have grown significantly.
zig, name ONE single imf/world bank success story. one.
PTFW on another "fuck the man" rant.
yeah CW, or maybe just stating the truth.
just because you're jaded and take progressive views for granted doesn't mean you should hate on simple, straightforward messages. this style was meant to be appropriated, that's the point of propaganda.
Hmm just about the entire world free market liberalism has led high standards of living
Vietnam
South Korea
India
China
Chile
Much of Eastern Europe
all come to mind
Are you disputing that these places aren't? that maybe a hundred million chinese haven't been brought out of wretched poverty these last few decades alone?
I am not a libertarian but come on, the evidence is overwhellming
zig, milton friedman promoted a specific model of the "free market" that has left countless displaced, impoverished, and dead people in it's wake.
chile is the perfect example. that country was on the rise as a democracy with a sensible mixed economy until milty's friend augusto pinochet staged a US-supported coup, overthrew a democratically elected leader, and commenced a reign of terror killing thousands upon thousands of innocent people and implementing polices that caused widespread suffering.
the countries of asia and europe that you mentioned have mixed economies, something friedman hated and spent his life trying to abolish. whenever his pure market economy "reforms" have been forced on countries- and they're always forced --by the IMF and World Bank, it has always resulted in massive national debt, decimation of public services, widespread unemployment, vastly increased disparity of income, etc.
there isn't a single Friedman-IMF-World Bank success story. unless you consider the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, a success.
Believe me, you wouldn't want to live in any state milton friedman might have created unless you happen to own an oil company.
Be sure to mop up after yourselves when you're done, boys.
i'm curious what counts as "effective" political poster art. looking at these is waaaaay better than being attacked by ads.
meaning that if said posters were in different neighborhoods or other cities with more conservative views, then they would be effective, not twee.
PTFW, your summary is exactly right. Chile is an excellent example. There are few people who have wreaked as much havoc upon the world as Milton Friedman.
And as bluecanary said, the whole idea of not speaking ill of the dead is stupid. Dead people who did stupid things, or caused countless tales of misery, need not be spoken of highly.