The People's Cube - Political Satire

**8/31/2019, 6:13 pm**

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This Friday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made a surprise announcement of the arrival of the Glorious World of Next Tuesday, which we all know is scheduled to arrive Tuesday and not Friday.

She did this in a series of tweets, starting with these two Depression-Era-styled posters.

Surprise! I am thrilled to announce the launch of our #GreenNewDeal art series with custom Bronx & Queens GND posters.

The Bronx edition poster will be given for free as a limited release to the public at our Pelham Bay Nature Day & Backpack Giveaway in the Bronx tomorrow.

These posters push us to imagine our future with a Green New Deal in two of our beloved NY-14 parks: Pelham Bay & Flushing Meadows.

All our #GND posters are made in the US, union-printed & will be available for purchase soon, but available at organizing events now.

Our #GreenNewDeal posters are inspired by the original New Deal, updated for our future.

During the New Deal, FDR launched Federal One, a US project that employed 5,300 artists that created & taught art to envision America's future.

This is glorious. I have questions, though.

Where are the posters of happy Ameri-peasants rejoicing in the beet fields of the Central Park Kollektive Farm and singing praises to the beloved Party and to Mother America?

Where are the depictions of greedy kulaks and their parasitic families who are being handcuffed and packed into boxcars all over the East Side and the West Side, which surround the Central Park Kollektive Farm?

We see a train, but is it a gravy train for the loyal non-working comrades, or is it taking the Trumpist wreckers, climate deniers, and other enemies of the people to the Gulag, where they would redeem themselves by working for the Common Good™?

The stylistic and thematic similarities with Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are uncanny. Is the artist a secret Ayn Rand fan, blowing up AOC's project before it began? Whatever the case, he/she/it must preemptively face the merciless justice of the revolutionary tribunal. Better safe than sorry.

And, finally, a call to create more posters? Hasn't this work been done already by generations of Soviet visual agitation artists, of which I was one? This does bring back memories though, agitating me the way the sound of a horn agitates an old war horse.

I am tempted to try. And so should you.

**8/31/2019, 6:34 pm**

Here you go, from the previous Five Year Plan:

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What can I do? AOC loves trains. It's in her own posters, too.

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Let's try something more modern, like from the 1980s.

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And even more modern...

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And totally timeless... Or should I say evergreen?

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**8/31/2019, 7:58 pm**

Almost forgot this one.

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**8/31/2019, 8:36 pm**

Most equal, Comrade Direktor. An extra ration of beet vodka is in order for the boys in the art department, we've been saving Putout's unclaimed rations, we can probably redistribute some and water down the rest to fill the container...

**8/31/2019, 10:05 pm**

Here's my first #NGD submission to AOC's project in visual agitation and propaganda.

I hope it's accepted and I become one of the 5,300 artists that will "create and teach art to envision America's future."

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**8/31/2019, 10:19 pm**

Red Square wrote:Here's my first #NGD submission to AOC's project in visual agitation and propaganda.

I hope it's accepted and I become one of the 5,300 artists that will "create and teach art to envision America's future."

Red Square, Is this poster from AOC's campaign to only eat leftovers?

If we only eat leftovers, then we won't need to waste resources on farming and raising cattle.

**8/31/2019, 10:46 pm**

Fourier's Anti-Manatee wrote:If we only eat leftovers, then we won't need to waste resources on farming and raising cattle.

If we only eat leftovers, and leftovers of leftovers, and then leftovers of that, we might be able to stave off the end of the world in 12 years.

As long as there are no rightovers involved.

**9/1/2019, 8:00 am**

Red Square wrote:Here's my first #NGD submission to AOC's project in visual agitation and propaganda.

I hope it's accepted and I become one of the 5,300 artists that will "create and teach art to envision America's future."

Dear Red Square,

That aspect of the Green New Deal reminds me of Solyndra Green:

Recycling Old Agitprop is now an accepted form of Recycling. Do we get Recycling Credits? Perhaps Red Square should set up an offshore-account to sell Recycling-Agitprop Credits for the Green New Deal. He could soon amass even more wealth than the wealth amassed by Al Gore selling Carbon Credits.

--KOOK

**9/1/2019, 9:26 am**

Fourier's Anti-Manatee wrote:
Red Square wrote:Here's my first #NGD submission to AOC's project in visual agitation and propaganda.

I hope it's accepted and I become one of the 5,300 artists that will "create and teach art to envision America's future."
Red Square, Is this poster from AOC's campaign to only eat leftovers?

If we only eat leftovers, then we won't need to waste resources on farming and raising cattle.

Not so fast there my Fourier's Anti-Manatee. New Green Deal Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at Stockholm University research reports:

The main cause of the mass plant extinction is the destruction of habitats by human activities, such as cutting down forests and converting the land into fields for farming, the study said.

Sweden is the for obvious reasons the vanguard of the New Green Deal - the home of both GretaCarbo AND Aelys M Humphreys, assistant professor at the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at Stockholm University. Learn to cry when you see giant combines filling truck beds with farmed food. Such harvest events will be the death of us all.

'pelipsky

**9/1/2019, 9:34 am**

Red Square wrote:Here's my first #NGD submission to AOC's project in visual agitation and propaganda.

I hope it's accepted and I become one of the 5,300 artists that will "create and teach art to envision America's future."

Wow, 'pelipsky is hopin' you are selected. No one is better at creating teaching art to envision American's future than Red Square. A cush government grant job like this could be a real step up the success ladder for you.

**9/1/2019, 12:25 pm**

I am completely confused. Why do we need a Green New Deal when the world will cease to exist in 11 years and a few months as per AOC?

**9/2/2019, 9:41 am**

Comrade Andelino, I'm surprised. You've been a member of the Cube since 2012, and yet you sound today as if you are attempting to think through the political issues of the day.

Might I recommend you make a visit to your nearest Jiffy-Lobo? Ask for the Kristallnächt special...it will do wonders, then hurry back, it's monday and the beet quotas need to be met.

**9/2/2019, 12:56 pm**

Solyndra Green:

Looks delicious. May I have the recipe?

**9/2/2019, 1:22 pm**

A submission from the thought criminal Earl of Taint...

**9/2/2019, 6:13 pm**

How many Arboreal-Americans were cut down in the prime of their lives and mercilessly "processed" to make those posters?

**9/2/2019, 10:47 pm**

Komissar al-Blogunov wrote:
How many Arboreal-Americans were cut down in the prime of their lives and mercilessly "processed" to make those posters?

Arboreal-Americans? Komrade Komissar you owe me a new keyboard, or rather need to replace the Kollective's keyboard that had been issued to me. You have to issues trigger warnings for those sipping their beet-wodka ration while reading your post!

- SK

**9/2/2019, 10:52 pm**

Red Square wrote:Here's my first #NGD submission to AOC's project in visual agitation and propaganda.

Comrade Square - We think you have been laboring for the peoples' good too hard lately and are starting to flash back to a previous life before you even existed. NGD? We suspect you meant "GND" but instead were reverting to your former conditioning from the NKVD.

Comrade Minitrue can help you with your re-conditioning in Minilove.

- SK

**9/3/2019, 12:44 am**

Sheldon Whitehouse, the Cortez of the Senate

**9/3/2019, 7:27 am**

**9/3/2019, 8:22 am**

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote:Comrade Andelino, I'm surprised. You've been a member of the Cube since 2012, and yet you sound today as if you are attempting to think through the political issues of the day.

Might I recommend you make a visit to your nearest Jiffy-Lobo? Ask for the Kristallnächt special...it will do wonders, then hurry back, it's monday and the beet quotas need to be met.

Ambassador Stakhanovets, should Texazistan Beet Collectives be sending beet toilers to Daytona Staging Area for massive beet survival harvest threatened by Dorian which we all know Trump's weapon of destruction sent to restrict your distillery cut. !!! Issue memo retroactively and we can have a force at Daytona Staging Area yesterday.

That Trump..putting in to peril the Texazistan Beet Harvest complete with your Ambassador Distillery Cut...that Trump threatens to wipe out the entire Florida Beet Harvest, too. Just adding to the list of contentions you have to contend with...Ambassador Distillery beets quota must be maintained if there is to be strict enforcement of Honor and Respect in this Cube Collective.

'pelipsky's mythical hare-brained mind can see a massive troop deployment as beet toilers of Texazistan head East toward the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge to assist bringing in the Florida Beet Collective Herd and save the Distillery from Trump created catastrophe. !!!

forelock tug salute
Jackalopelipsky
#BR 549
Ambassador to Texazistan Honor Guard

**9/3/2019, 12:21 pm**

Chief Designer wrote:
Komissar al-Blogunov wrote:
How many Arboreal-Americans were cut down in the prime of their lives and mercilessly "processed" to make those posters?

Arboreal-Americans? Komrade Komissar you owe me a new keyboard, or rather need to replace the Kollective's keyboard that had been issued to me. You have to issues trigger warnings for those sipping their beet-wodka ration while reading your post!

- SK

Извините! I have ordered a new keyboard based on cutting edge Soviet technology. Please accept this gift as compensation for the beet vodka damage to the previous keyboard. The new Soviet keyboard is...

vodka resistant
able to type in extreme temperatures
nuclear powered
perfectly safe to use

Enjoy!

**9/3/2019, 3:48 pm**

Chief Designer wrote:
Red Square wrote:Here's my first #NGD submission to AOC's project in visual agitation and propaganda.

Comrade Square - We think you have been laboring for the peoples' good too hard lately and are starting to flash back to a previous life before you even existed. NGD? We suspect you meant "GND" but instead were reverting to your former conditioning from the NKVD.

Comrade Minitrue can help you with your re-conditioning in Minilove.

- SK

Indeed, I got #GND and #NKVD somehow mixed up. You can't have one without the other. Rooting out the counter-revolutionary enemy should be much like rooting out the weeds on @AOC's indigenous yukka patch - mercilessly and with a sense of deep satisfaction. Lots of jobs for young graduates with diplomas in #SJW and an enormous #CollegeDebt.

**9/4/2019, 7:24 pm**

Comrade Red Square:

Lots of jobs for young graduates with diplomas in #SJW and an enormous #CollegeDebt.

DA! These operatives will make GREAT policemen in the Workers' Paradise of New America!

However, once all of the capitalist criminals (ptui, ptui) have been identified and routed to our ReEducation Camps, these little squealers brave policemen will be searching for their next posting. While they will ALL expect to be named Commissars or Commissarkas, we EXISTING Commissars will all be demanding some "training period" for them. Typically my our "commissar trainees" start out as "Laborer, Class C" in our heroic beet fields, and advance according to the number of denunciations that they make against their fellow beet field laborers. (But they never advance quite enough to endanger Apparatchik Kindly Uncle Unkulturny's position...)

**9/8/2019, 4:37 pm**

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Mystery item No. 1

A Kubist's eagle eye instantly recognizes that birdie - Reichsadler!
The German Eagle, Third Reich style.
As seen e.g. here:

i.e. at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne aka the Paris World's Fair of 1937:

Mini-story behind:

Soviet Russia, in its 20th year of Communism (and Stalinist purges at their (1937!) apex), still (widely) adored in the West as the New Hope, to spawn the New Man plus G.W.O.N.T.

Hitlerite Germany, in its 4th year of Nazism, hugely successful in leading the country out of the Great Depression (yet ever further sinking in dirigiste economy and totalitarianism), for now (1937!) still (widely) respected in the West and admired for "strong and decisive progress".

So, Paris' Expo-organizers placed the pavilions of those two hopefuls at the very center, and frontally opposing each other.

Now, architects:
- Soviet pavilion: highly talented Boris Iofan (yeah, that Iofan!).
- German pavilion: equally talented Albert Speer (yeah, that Speer).

The main feature of Speer's design was the towering, well, tower. At night, it (illuminated from inside) resembled, say, an elegant flame. At day, it was a prime example of "sober classicism", emerging then in architecture. "Sober": like classicism, yet sans its (disciplined, harmonizing) decorative charm. Thusly exuding kinda cold monumentality, discarding the "human scale" rules, and tending to subliminally monstrous aura. A style tailor-made for authoritarian/totalitarian gusto.

Sample: D.C.'s Eccles Building (= Federal Reserve Board Building) of - surprise, surprise! - 1937.

And here the point:
Soviets planned (and kept it secret) to put on top of their pavilion the... Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa alias Worker and she-Kolkhoznik, 80-feet-tall. (indeed, it was to be the "world premiere" of that statue.)
Speer got wind of that (while the "Tyrant Slayers" reference inherent in that sculpture* didn't escape his attention), and so he put the Reichsadler (wreath, swastika and all) on top of the tower, as an adversary. And there the last-minute-Adler squats, somewhat out of place, kinda imbalanced.

* see here, search "this post-modern sweetie" (and then "Tyrant Slayers").

With enthusiasto-optimistic One(Progressing)World graphic agitprop-1937 language, glorious sunbeams included:

... are we back to AOC's GND-GWONT aesthetics, hip, hip, hooray!
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Hide it back (Turn mouse upside down and click. If that doesn't work, try standing on your head)

**9/8/2019, 4:43 pm**

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Mystery item No. 2

**9/11/2019, 9:05 am**

Comrades! Sweden, once again leads the Planet.

Sweden: Home of Greta Carbo and University Research Alarm that FARMING is catastrophic to Plants, as well as the nation Trump abused his power in order to free A$AP Rocky, now addresses food shortages caused by catastrophic agriculture and Climate Change.

Swedish Researcher Advocates Eating Human Flesh to Combat Climate Change Food Shortages

**9/11/2019, 9:15 am**

GD,

Shouldn't there be an electric slot car track fueling automobiles traveling the Reichsautobahnen?

'pelipsky
#BR 549

**9/12/2019, 10:35 pm**

DID YOU KNOW? The best remedy to calm your nerves is chamomile tea sipped from the skull of your fallen enemy.

**9/13/2019, 4:58 am**

jackalopelipsky wrote:... Shouldn't there be an electric slot car track fueling automobiles traveling the Reichsautobahnen?

No, no, no.
Under GND, it's much much simpler (and that's one of the innumerable charms of GND!).

Here the steps:

Tell the Chinmans "Dig up your rare earths, hop, hop! For ze Planet and ze Children' Future!".
Whatever Chinman digs up, grab it. "Need 'em earths for EV-batteries. Klimkatastrophia, ja?".
Crank out batteries. Cute, clean, carbon-free. Shout "Vee make Chermany ze Weltmeister of EV-battery!".
(hear now Xi Jinpingpong giggle? yell "Long live ze Cherman EcoSoc!")
See fast growing heap of new batteries. Clap forehead "Himmelherrgot, vee not haf enough electricity!".
Build even more wind turbines. Every 300 feet, a turbine. Long live ze Cherman EcoSoc!
See fast growing heap of new E-cars. Clap forehead "Jejsus Marija, vee not haf charging stations!".
Build charging stations. Every 10 feet, a charging station. Shout "Chermany ze Weltmeister of EV-car!".
(hear Xi Jinpingpong & Chinmans laughing like mad? yell "Long live ze Cherman EcoSoc!")

**9/13/2019, 8:08 am**

Genosse Dummkopf wrote:
jackalopelipsky wrote:... Shouldn't there be an electric slot car track fueling automobiles traveling the Reichsautobahnen?
No, no, no.
Under GND, it's much much simpler (and that's one of the innumerable charms of GND!).

Here the steps:

Tell the Chinmans "Dig up your rare earths, hop, hop! For ze Planet and ze Children' Future!".

Whatever Chinman digs up, grab it. "Need 'em earths for EV-batteries. Klimkatastrophia, ja?".

Crank out batteries. Cute, clean, carbon-free. Shout "Vee make Chermany ze Weltmeister of EV-battery!".

(hear now Xi Jinpingpong giggle? yell "Long live ze Cherman EcoSoc!")

See fast growing heap of new batteries. Clap forehead "Himmelherrgot, vee not haf enough electricity!".

Build even more wind turbines. Every 300 feet, a turbine. Long live ze Cherman EcoSoc!

See fast growing heap of new E-cars. Clap forehead "Jejsus Marija, vee not haf charging stations!".

Build charging stations. Every 10 feet, a charging station. Shout "Chermany ze Weltmeister of EV-car!".

(hear Xi Jinpingpong & Chinmans laughing like mad? yell "Long live ze Cherman EcoSoc!")

Will there be sufficient room left for the litter boxes?

**9/13/2019, 6:23 pm**

If you were to identify as "male" the entire world could be your litterbox. Just avoid bare wires. And flat rocks.

You're welcome, Comrade.

**9/14/2019, 10:46 am**

Going back to visual agitation and propaganda, this is the best monument to socialism I could ever imagine. Lenin and Trotsky used to promise the same things the Democrats are promising now, but then something went wrong. Cue Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On..."

**9/14/2019, 1:14 pm**

Red Square wrote:Going back to visual agitation and propaganda, this is the best monument to socialism I could ever imagine. Lenin and Trotsky used to promise the same things the Democrats are promising now, but then something went wrong. Cue Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On..."

Lenin_Trotsky_Titanic.jpg

"That was the last time capitalism saw daylight..."

And why, as I look at Trotsky, do I think of Joe Biden?

**9/14/2019, 2:49 pm**

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:
Red Square wrote:Going back to visual agitation and propaganda, this is the best monument to socialism I could ever imagine. Lenin and Trotsky used to promise the same things the Democrats are promising now, but then something went wrong. Cue Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On..."

Lenin_Trotsky_Titanic.jpg
"That was the last time capitalism saw daylight..."

And why, as I look at Trotsky, do I think of Joe Biden?

Dearest Pinkie, may I offer this:

Stalinism is the perfect theory for glueing up the brain:

https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog ... 17518.html

**9/14/2019, 11:47 pm**

Commissarka Pinkie wrote: And why, as I look at Trotsky, do I think of Joe Biden?

Wishful thinking?
Admiration of the party efficiency in selection of qualified leaders, no doubt.

**9/15/2019, 7:22 am**

Political Climate Change Iceberg on Horizon

**9/15/2019, 7:53 am**

Thanks, Jackalopelipsky!

"That was the last time any country under Communism saw ANY kind of light..."

**9/15/2019, 8:56 pm**

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Thanks, Jackalopelipsky!

"That was the last time any country under Communism saw ANY kind of light..."

mournful sigh, 'pelipsky knows, Commissarka Pinkie...but maybe what we thought was light...was just a corn pop...mournful sigh.

Guessin's we'll just go whimpering into the darkness having each other over for dinner...mournful sigh.

Jackalopelipsky
#BR 549

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