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Had to make this one because of some really bad replies Stop Resisting got in several places where I shared it.

I guess stickmen will be back whenever I don't have enough time / willpower to draw a proper drawing.

If you're in this comment section feeling like you are wasting your time with some petty drama from another platform, have a look at how clean my art has been getting lately instead of letting the drama get to you. In case you've been wondering why I've switched my art style, it's because I need practice: been working hard on my art lately so that I can illustrate a card game I'm working on, and I'm very proud of the results! Have a nice and smug day 😘

It's a specific type of leftist we have in my country, french communists are a… special breed, let's say.

In the 1980s our communist party bulldozed a migrant worker dormitory because they hated migrants that much. Red MAGA or something. The party recovered from that era, but french communists are still chauvinistic, xenophobic, and strangely not that much into anti-imperialism (which is meant to be the redeeming quality of tankies). They do however share with tankies the traits of applying "class first" logic to a lot of conversations, which makes them deathly allergic to intersectionality, and being terminally online and way into infighting. Thus they usually end up booted from actual activist groups, since they tend to hold us back and prevent us from actually getting shit done in the streets.

Hence me calling them pseudo-tankies because it's hard to label them. We just call them tankies here: they're members of a party that supported the crushing of the hungarian uprising with soviet tanks, and is ambiguous about tienanmen (no denying it happened but very alt-history about it), so pro-tanks they are.

I have an easier time getting along with the average online american tankie than with our local communist party's members.

It's the factory preset look for these pseudo-tankies that show up in my local activism group every now and then.

Always the big earring, unkempt beard, this specific shape of glasses, and the cheap aliexpress t-shirt with a political message on it.

Not my fault Vaush stole the look!

I have to learn/practice/improve my drawing skills for personal reasons (working on a project that needs me to be better at it fast), so I'm drawing smuggies more seriously these days, but it's still the same as it's always been, as described in the sidebar: Counter signal memes aka poorly drawn comics that carry some message by portraying your point of view as the based smug chad and the opposing point of view as the tiny crying virgin.

In this case the people infighting are portrayed in a satirical strawmanny way, which is smug enough to have annoyed quite a bunch of people if you look at the reactions in the other places where I posted it on Lemmy and Reddit.

PS: Other people are free to participate! Smuggies can be crudely drawn stickmen, you don't need any drawing skills to make one. There's been a couple third party smuggies around the start but now it seems I'm the only one making them.

Hell yea I would love to vote for the people I actually want to vote for

Lore accurate explanation I'll use if anyone else asks, thanks!

I'm not from the USA and I'm tired of US politics 🥺

The current rise of the far right in my country started two decades ago, in part because of leftist infighting. I'm not going to point any fingers, I was guilty of infighting on that day too. It was so unexpected, nobody thought the far right could beat any of the leftist candidates… many lessons were learned that day.

TFW you worked so hard on little details but didn't take into account the big details…

whoops☹️

You caught me: I spent a lot of time working on getting that bit juuuust right because because I'm going to get it printed on a mug and gift it to a couple people who'll love it. Glad you liked it, it means I did it right!

Making t-shirts and merch is my sidequest when drawing smuggies. I don't sell them, it's just for self-wear, I've got an entire wardrobe of them by now. The one I'm wearing today :

Thanks a lot! 💝

Pft, sounds to me like you've never looked at the underside of the one and only and very real leftism iceberg