Unclear On The Concept Of The Election Thing

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Scott Jennings| 11 Comments

As we go into ELECTORAL FRENZY here in Texas (not that I would tell you who to vote for or anything) I noticed this election poster on another blog:

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I’m not sure what’s worse, the fact that the candidate (Gennady Zyuganov, last of the Commies) looks painfully like he’d rather be somewhere else, or the text: translated from Russian, it reads ‘BUY YOUR FOOD FOR THE LAST TIME’. Well, that certainly can’t be taken the wrong way.

Russian posters tend to be unintentionally (maybe intentionally) scary as hell. DAOC team veterans can attest that I had this one above my desk for the longest time:

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I’m pretty sure it didn’t really do a very good job of motivating people to run out and join the army.

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  • R

    You can go to one of his rallies and swoon! It’s trendy.

  • Marlowe

    Or you can go to one of hers and take your chances. Roll the die and experience one of the following random acts: unseemly sarcasm; revolting smugness; vile, coded racist messaging; hackish retreaded fear mongering from a 1984 campaign ad; gag-inducing crocodile tears; or incineration by a collective hot flash.

  • Merkwurdigliebe

    I think the most appropriate poster of any campaign in the US would be one with ANY candidate alongside the phrase “Shut up and your taxes!”

  • Todd Ogrin

    That first one looks like the box art for “Max Payne 3: Gettin’ Old.”

  • Njal

    Heh I have that one (the one you had over your desk) in a frame on the wall in my basement.

  • Anti-Bunny

    Never buy your food again? Oh boy! Bread-lines 4evar! <3

  • Michael Pearson

    Everything I know about Russia I learned from S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Half Life 2, and a scary ex girlfriend.

    These posters would fit right in, I think.

  • =j

    I thought HL2 was set in Bulgaria…

  • Viz

    Does it really matter where exactly in Eastern Europe they are? The residents of City 17 are a racially heterogenous group of people who all speak American English anyway.

  • tannenburg

    Oooh! I have a campaign slogan for them. “Vote Zyuganov: for a morose, somber future!”

  • http://www.penny-arcade.com Jonas Salk

    @Michael Pearson: Stalker was based in Ukraine, not Russia.

    @Lum: Thanks for doing your part to elect a man who has no idea what he’s doing.