Red and blue should *not* be political!

[nancylebov]

Richard Stallman ordered a button from me-- the top half had blue writing on white which said BLUE LIES MATTER*, the bottom half had black writing on yellow "Prosecute Perjury", and the whole thing had a red ring around the edge to make it more eye-catching.

What could possibly go wrong?

He wore it to Boskone, and several people saw it as being about lies from Democrats.

I considered redoing it with "Prosecute Police Perjury". However, most police lies aren't in court and therefore aren't committing perjury.

Please discuss this at DW/LJ, not on Facebook.


*read it carefully, there's a gotcha

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[commodorified]

I desire to draw your attention to a thing:

http://openmov.museumofvancouver.ca/object/h20024935/%5Bfield_acquisition_object_name-raw%5D

This has been an ongoing theme/joke/morale booster in Canadian progression politics: you could get a button with "_______" against Vander Zalm, then Harris, then Harper.

That's the only pic I can find offhand; they were/are ephemera.

The fun was in being ludicrously specific: I had Bisexual Carpenters against Harris and a friend had Vegetarian Lefthanded Goths against Harris.

There was never any one owner of the idea; if you could make buttons, you could make these buttons.

I pass the idea on for what it's worth.

[thnidu]

The museum seems to attribute far greater antiquity to this object than is plausible. I've just written to them"

See http://openmov.museumofvancouver.ca/object/h20024935/%5Bfield_acquisition_object_name-raw%5D

The period shown for this artifact, "c. 1886-1991", was quite baffling till I realized that it should be 1986, not 1886:

H2002.49.35 - Actors Against Vander Zalm Button c. 1886-1991