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Lucifers Angel
King For A Couple Of Days
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Posts: 4751 | March 19th, 2006 at 11:56am Bloodraine:colo(u)r me stupid:who?
It would surely not kill you to click the link I provided above.
Or go to Google and search. Or go to Wikipedia.
See, if there's something I don't understand, I research before posting in a thread. Which makes me seem a lot less ignorant. 
well i did and i made my mind up on the guy, or its partially made up anyway. |
wish_you_were_here
Shoot Me, I'm A Newbie
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Posts: 54 | March 23rd, 2006 at 09:07pm Bloodraine:TheFaggot:Che ♥
It's SO sad that the CAPITALISTS, like Hot Topic, makes LOADS of money on him. I mean, he deserves better than that!
Someone else who understands the irony of Guevara's image being sold through the capitalist free market which he was so against.
I expect many people on here to have no idea of the man behind the montage. I expect some 'supporters' who think they have an idea. I expect very few die-hard Che fans. I expect a strong proportion of people here to have a strong hatred for Guevara. We shall see.
Capitalists always do the same thing...they turn icons and ideologies into fashion... |
PEBBLES.ROCK
Geek
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Posts: 100 | March 25th, 2006 at 01:54pm  i kinda have a che guevara shirt well its not him but well here's the pic:
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Matt Smith
Admin
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  | March 25th, 2006 at 01:58pm Nah, that's just a parody. Nothing to be embarrased about. It's quite humorous. |
She123
Shoot Me, I'm A Newbie
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Posts: 65 | March 25th, 2006 at 03:40pm Well I can't say that I know a lot about him. But from what I know, I can see how some people see him as such a hero and idolize him. Although I for one don't but whatever. The fact that in today's youth that so many people wear shirts, and other things with his face on him without even knowing his name pisses me off. Its that blind following that really annoys me, and then when you ask them why they are wearing it they say "because he's cool" with nothing to back up that comment.
Oh and please don't get mad if I'm totally wrong about this... but didn't he want to blow up North America? I heard that somewhere before.  |
Matt Smith
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| March 25th, 2006 at 03:44pm She123:Well I can't say that I know a lot about him. But from what I know, I can see how some people see him as such a hero and idolize him. Although I for one don't but whatever. The fact that in today's youth that so many people wear shirts, and other things with his face on him without even knowing his name pisses me off. Its that blind following that really annoys me, and then when you ask them why they are wearing it they say "because he's cool" with nothing to back up that comment.
Oh and please don't get mad if I'm totally wrong about this... but didn't he want to blow up North America? I heard that somewhere before.
I don't believe he did.
Where did you hear that? |
She123
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Posts: 65 | March 25th, 2006 at 04:28pm Bloodraine:She123:Well I can't say that I know a lot about him. But from what I know, I can see how some people see him as such a hero and idolize him. Although I for one don't but whatever. The fact that in today's youth that so many people wear shirts, and other things with his face on him without even knowing his name pisses me off. Its that blind following that really annoys me, and then when you ask them why they are wearing it they say "because he's cool" with nothing to back up that comment.
Oh and please don't get mad if I'm totally wrong about this... but didn't he want to blow up North America? I heard that somewhere before.
I don't believe he did.
Where did you hear that?
Yeahh sorry about that, that is not totally true. It was my brother who I thought I heard saying that. But then I just asked him about it and he said that Che Guevara had said that if he would have been in charge of the nukes placed in Cuba in 1962, that he would have launched them at the United States. |
Matt Smith
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| March 25th, 2006 at 04:35pm She123:Yeahh sorry about that, that is not totally true. It was my brother who I thought I heard saying that. But then I just asked him about it and he said that Che Guevara had said that if he would have been in charge of the nukes placed in Cuba in 1962, that he would have launched them at the United States.
That is a mis quotation.
Guevara had no power over the missiles; indeed, they were not under Cuban control. Neither he; nor Cuba had the power to launch them. Although I have read that he stated if the missiles had been under the thumb of the Cubans, Cuba would have fired them. |
She123
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Posts: 65 | March 25th, 2006 at 04:49pm Bloodraine:
Guevara had no power over the missiles; indeed, they were not under Cuban control. Neither he; nor Cuba had the power to launch them. Although I have read that he stated if the missiles had been under the thumb of the Cubans, Cuba would have fired them.
Yeah, so there is always the "if" factor in it. And well thankfully they weren't then I guess. |
Biffy Clyro
Basket Case
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Posts: 16018 | March 28th, 2006 at 12:14pm i do know some things about him. but not much. i heard a radio programe about him. it was a comedy, but informative nonetheless. i completely agree that the image is used as just a picture of rebellion, while many of these people havent got a clue about the man or what he did. |
Anji
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| December 29th, 2006 at 12:52pm Che Guavera is no longer a hero or a villan. He is a pop culture icon, immortalized by the 60's.
By the way, did anyone catch the Che Guavera pop art exhibition in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London this summer? Absolutely fab. Worth all, like three pounds. It really was an amazing exhibition. I left speechless. |
lyrical_mess
Falling In Love With The Board
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| December 29th, 2006 at 01:35pm Yeah...I don't know who he is but I've heard he's a communist of some sort. The very first time I heard anything about him or saw him was not through the pictures but through maddox.xmission.com
Look at the picture up in the corner. It's a picture of the author of the website, Maddox aka George Ozini-something photshopped by him to look like Mistah Che. In his FAQ there is this:
HEY MADCOX ARE YOU A SOCIALIST? WHAT'S WITH THE CHE PICTURE?
No, I'm not a socialist/marxist/communist. I'm using the Che picture because I think it's a good parody of a recognizable icon (even though most people who read this site don't realize the parody, don't ask questions and don't know who he was), and because most people consider him "Che the revolutionary," not "Che the pinko."
K, I'm off to Wikipedia. |
Micro Sheep
Falling In Love With The Board
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Posts: 7584 | December 29th, 2006 at 02:39pm pft.
I'm tired of people who transform political figures in brands.
Che Guevara is now like Bush(except bush is still living ...) everyone has shirts,badgers and all that but no one of these people really knows what he has done in Cuba and all that. |
Anji
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| December 29th, 2006 at 02:44pm Ego Box:pft.
I'm tired of people who transform political figures in brands.
Che Guevara is now like Bush(except bush is still living ...) everyone has shirts,badgers and all that but no one of these people really knows what he has done in Cuba and all that. That's mainly to due with the fact that he was outside of our generation. I mean, the 50's swingers knew about him, the difference is, they iconosized the particular photo taken by I forget his name. Nowadays, people know about Bush, which is why they wear shirt and slogans for or against him as a fashion statement. |
worn-out astronaut.
Had A Life Before GSB
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| December 29th, 2006 at 03:28pm One of the girls in school fell in love with him and wanted his t-shirt badly so I asked her why does she want it, like is she impressed by him or something and she said that he was hot. And I was like, well you are stupid , you dont know what he did [and even if she did I know she wouldnt be impressed by it] you just like him for some stupid reason. I hate when people do that, I hate what they with the icon of Che Guevara. I dont have his t-shirt cause I dont know that much about him and if I will tend to like him I will by myself one.
And Meg, thanks for the link. |
lyrical_mess
Falling In Love With The Board
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| December 29th, 2006 at 03:33pm I'm still reading through the Wiki stuff. So...he worked with Senor Castro, for a while right? How was he allowed to leave? I'm really politcally ignorant, but my friend told me that when he first took over, if you tried to leave Castro after getting a job with him, he shot you... |
Daarn
Shoot Me, I'm A Newbie
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Posts: 57 | January 1st, 2007 at 07:01pm Is that the guy who's looking up and he's wearing a hat and he has a moustache? |
Daarn
Shoot Me, I'm A Newbie
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Posts: 57 | January 1st, 2007 at 07:05pm Oh it is..
Mmk i'll read what wikipedia says then have an opinion..
Is he hitlar-ing? =/ |
Matt Smith
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| January 1st, 2007 at 08:18pm JizzYouFreak:Oh it is..
Mmk i'll read what wikipedia says then have an opinion..
Is he hitlar-ing? =/
Unless I'm very much mistaken, Che is on the left and Fidel is the one "hitlering" (or he could have just been waving... one picture doesn't really tell the full story, y'know?) |
Mycophobia
Basket Case
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| January 19th, 2007 at 11:58pm my dad just got a shirt like that 
i think its funny, i dont think its a bad thing i mean they do that with communsts alot
but the question is if he really wanted to replace the old dictador with a new one or if he wanted to have a good goverment for cuba, i mean we dont know if we wanted castro to be in charge beacuase he was killed |
