#slogans

[archiveofaffinities]

Jenny Holzer, Selection from Truisms, Painted Billboard, Installation, Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987

[antifainternational]

I recently covered a bunch of hate symbols in my neighborhood with black paint. They have been repainted, but in one case instead of "1488" someone resprayed "GLNS". I can't find the meaning of this, is it some known hate symbol or just someone's initials or something? It's in Poland. Thanks for any info.

First off, good job on getting out there and removing fascist propaganda around your neighbourhood! Keep up the good work!

About your question, I think it's supposed to be "GNLS", instead of GLNS. It stands for "Good Night Left Side". I assume some nazi just fucked the order of the letters up when he was writing it, they are not the most literate people, to say the least.

If this sounds awfully familliar thats because the nazis just copied the leftist slogan/logo Good Night White Pride. It is one of the many examples of fascists being unable to think of anything original, and just straight up copying leftist slogans, logos and other identifiers, cause fascists as a whole are intellectually and creatively bankrupt.

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

If you put the word “ethnostate” in my inbox, you’re getting deleted because I do not take you seriously.

[eretzyisrael]

[arise-children-angel-is-here]

If each turtle had a slogan, what would theirs be?

Raph: Like a boss!

Leo: Oh-ho-ho yeah! (Or something like that)

Mikey: Cowabunga!

Donnie: Fibonacci!

[necarion]

The US Space Force has a new mission statement:

“Secure our nation's interests in, from, and to space” — was crowdsourced from across the ranks of the Space Force.

That's a terrible mission statement, which tries to be super pithy and ends up just sounding like a bad slogan. (Could have gone with "in space, from space, and to space". "Secure our nation's interests to space" doesn't actually make a lot of sense, though.) It was apparently crowdsourced from within the ranks of the Space Force, which can't yet include a whole lot of folks who enlisted specifically for that. But it fits with the rest of the US military.

Air Force: To fly, fight, and win…airpower anytime, anywhere.

(Another lousy slogan-like statement. Improved by adding a couple extra tos "To fly, to fight, and to win")

Navy: "The U.S. Navy will be ready to conduct prompt and sustained combat incident to operations at sea. Our Navy will protect America from attack and preserve America's strategic influence in key regions of the world. U.S. naval forces and operations - from the floor to space, from deep water to the littorals, and the information domain - will deter aggression and enable peaceful resolution of crises on terms acceptable to the United States and our allies and partners. If deterrence fails, the Navy will conduct decisive combat operations to defeat any enemy."

Overly long, but at least a very clear mission statement. "To keep the seas open and free" is a decent shorthand.

Army: "To deploy, fight and win our nation’s wars by providing ready, prompt and sustained land dominance by Army forces across the full spectrum of conflict as part of the joint force."

(This one ends up forgoing pithy, and ends up having something that sounds like an actual mission statement and not a lousy slogan.)

Marines: "To fight through anything—with everything. With honor, with each other, and without fail."

And then there's the marines, who actually spent some time on this. Although "with everything" sounds like "with all the cool toys" which I think they don't get (and clashes with the "without"). Would have been better to leave that bit out and go with "To fight through anything—with honor, with each other, and without fail."

In summary: why does the Space Force keep being really bad at this? They could have gone with naval ranks, like all the scifi ever (excluding Stargate, but that was because it was the air force running things), their uniforms kind of look like a bad scifi knockoff (also, they wear boring camo most of the time), they call themselves "guardians" (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Guardians?) when they could have claimed "Spacemen", and now they've added this new slogan.

[muskming]

Giallo Slogans / 鉛黃語錄 digital painting collage, 50×60cm, 2022 © Musk Ming

[tvneon]

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #275:

The forefront of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom is the responsibility to host on behalf of Ukraine. As a testament to this and the unique circumstances of this year's competition, the UK and Ukraine have announced that the theme of the show will be "United by Music."

The theme is reflective of the partnership between the two nations to produce a show despite the conditions in Ukraine currently. It also draws from Eurovision's origins of being a contest to unite and bring joy to Europe after WWII (World War Two). However, the theme of unity and unification is fairly common-place for a Eurovision Slogan.

The colors of the logo are a mix between the flag colors of the United Kingdom and Ukraine, and the logo itself is described as an electrocardiogram of repeating hearts.

For the stage design, representatives from the UK say that it is supposed to be "a wide hug...opening its arms to Ukraine."

[Sources]

‘United By Music’: Liverpool 2023 theme revealed, Eurovision.tv.

'What is Eurovision? A Guide for Confused Americans,' thewrap.com.

'Eurovision: Liverpool stage inspired by a wide hug, BBC says,' BBC.com.

Eurovision Fact #217.

[seobot]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing. Where it is not true, it will generally be found that the writer is some kind of rebel, expressing his private opinions and not a ‘party line’. Orthodoxy, of whatever colour, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style. The political dialects to be found in pamphlets, leading articles, manifestos, White papers and the speeches of undersecretaries do, of course, vary from party to party, but they are all alike in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid, homemade turn of speech.

When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases [..] one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker's spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful.

A speaker who uses that kind of phraseology has gone some distance toward turning himself into a machine. The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved, as it would be if he were choosing his words for himself. If the speech he is making is one that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the responses in church."

-- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

Beware of robots.

There are many people concerned about the development of artificial intelligence and its ascension towards sentience. However, perhaps we should be more concerned about the decline of humanity into slogan-spouting, mantra-reciting artificial intelligence.

[adtothebone]

America’s Dairy Farmers had a kick-ass multimedia campaign in the late 1990s built around “Behold the power of Cheese.” Later, for whatever reason, they wimped out and changed it to “Ahh, the power of Cheese.” Still good, but not nearly as great. Sad.

[dchan87]

"From the river to the sea/palestine will be free" is a legitimately terrible slogan. I've seen its defenders try to explain, but it just means they've lost the narrative surrounding the slogan. Not only does it advocate killing every Jew in the Levant, its defenders have to explain "No, it's not antisemitic!" If you're explaining your slogan, you're losing. Your slogan sucks.

[chalkskyline]

Do As You Please, Swindon, U.K., December 2023

[interwebdenizen]

[muskming]

Blue Slogans / 鈷藍語錄 digital painting collage, 50×60cm, 2022 © Musk Ming