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meegbear

(25,438 posts) Mon Dec 16, 2013, 12:36 PM Dec 2013

Tea Party Facebook Group Posts BioShock Image Satirizing Tea Party [View all]

The National Liberty Foundation is a Florida-based group of radical conservatives associated with the right-wing group that calls themselves the Tea Party. They use their Facebook to post lots of right-wing meme images and racist links.

Yesterday, they posted the above image, which looks a whole lot like an anti-immigrant cartoon. Well, it is an anti-immigrant cartoon—it's just from the video game BioShock Infinite, where it's used as propaganda for the Founders, a jingoistic, xenophobic group that runs the floating city of Columbia. They're the video game equivalent of the Tea Party, and they're portrayed as a nasty group of racist white men.

In other words, this Tea Party group just Facebooked an image meant to satirize the Tea Party.

http://kotaku.com/tea-party-facebook-group-posts-bioshock-image-satirizin-1483821325

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Tea Party Facebook Group Posts BioShock Image Satirizing Tea Party [View all] meegbear Dec 2013 OP

HAHAHAHAA zappaman Dec 2013 #1

if only we had a crack investigative journalist who could get to the bottom of this farce... dionysus Dec 2013 #26

LOL... politichew Dec 2013 #2

And the entire plot of the first Bioshock game... Bjorn Against Dec 2013 #3

Oops. Beat me to it! Hong Kong Cavalier Dec 2013 #12

Well, to be honest... MrScorpio Dec 2013 #4

Priceless! Wait Wut Dec 2013 #5

It's an awesome game. NutmegYankee Dec 2013 #6

You'll love it, it's seriously subversive in it's own way. Katashi_itto Dec 2013 #7

Good news: you can pick up the gun and use it on other robots (and people). sakabatou Dec 2013 #21

Fallout has some hilariously over the top shit too. Like LIBERTY PRIME.... AtheistCrusader Dec 2013 #22

Conservatives don't get satire. Baitball Blogger Dec 2013 #8

Indeed, they barely even get humor. arcane1 Dec 2013 #11

I remember when Colbert awoke_in_2003 Dec 2013 #13

*facepalm* Dash87 Dec 2013 #9

There's idiots who think that the original Bioshock is some homage to Ayn Rand. Hong Kong Cavalier Dec 2013 #10

This is why satire and parody are some of the best tools against the far right ck4829 Dec 2013 #14

I don't get that it's satire.... Chakaconcarne Dec 2013 #15

If you played the game DonCoquixote Dec 2013 #18

In Bioshock Infinite DonCoquixote Dec 2013 #16

OMG that's funny! NastyRiffraff Dec 2013 #17

I guess this might be one issue that differentiates between libertarians and objectivists or teabagg AtheistCrusader Dec 2013 #19

XD sakabatou Dec 2013 #20

The game's creator, Ken Levine, finds it all hilarious PennyK Dec 2013 #23

Some people get the joke, and some are the joke. eom R Merm Dec 2013 #24

It's also Sarah Palin's Christmas Card for 2013...nt joeybee12 Dec 2013 #25

They just completely lack the gene for perceiving irony. Ganja Ninja Dec 2013 #27

I am sorely tempted to post this on my face book page. stage left Dec 2013 #28