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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anyone know the story behind this RW image?
Like who is this woman and what the hell is she doing with an automatic belt fed machine gun with her fleece pullover and sunglasses trying to look like some third world badass? Is she some sort of well-known activist or nobody? And does anyone know what type of gun that is? I suppose it might be funny if they photoshopped a Ukrainian rebel onto the American flag, or a drug queen. Just curious.
It shows up in freeptown all the time. They use it for their fundraising.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)First it's an auto with quite a kick. It is usually on some type of tripod or is mounted to a surface like a humvee, or helicopter... It would also get real damn hot real damn fast and burn her left hand (even though there is a heat shield on it).
It's just more gun porn from the nuts
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)countryjake
(8,554 posts)it was originally from some RKBA site, some guy who believed that owning guns was a human right and I believe that was the name of the webpage and url, a human right. I would guess that the gal in that pic would have been somebody he knew (she was in a number of his gun pictures) or maybe someone who responded to his request for anyone who lived in his area with any interesting firearms to get in touch with him, so that they could be featured in his graphics.
It's an old one, for sure. I think that she's a nobody, but that gun is serious business.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)I am not sure it was the exact same graphic... but if it was not, it was similar. I recognized it as right wing nuttery (involving guns) then and I recognize it as that now.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)and those funky sunglasses which supposedly were to make her look oh-so-cool.
That guy's graphics used to show up a lot on here, back in the early days, and that was one of the tamer ones he created (the woman was fully clothed).
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)He does a lot of commercial work for firearms manufacturers, gun magazines, etc., as well as posters promoting gun rights. There was an old DU2 thread about him:
Oleg Volk's gun propaganda, and discussion thereof
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x165622
countryjake
(8,554 posts)But wow, look at iverglas handling that thread..."pig-ignorant exploitation of women as objects in the service of somebody's pig-ignorant cause"...she certainly knew how to hit her point home. Thanks for the link and the nostalgia.
I finally found the post where I'd remembered seeing that old graphic. See reply #84:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x43605
Rex
(65,616 posts)can never be fired like that! Such fake people and their pretend war...pathetic trash.
spanone
(135,816 posts)IronLionZion
(45,411 posts)I figured the RWers couldn't find a real badass so they make up bullshit gun porn and hope no one notices. All to get some more $$$ of course!
On a related note, Domino Harvey was a genuine badass bail enforcement agent. I wonder why they don't use her pics?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_Harvey
billh58
(6,635 posts)will need a right-wing woman with a Browning automatic to protect the entire country from the tyranny of a dark-skinned president. It pays to be vigilant, and somewhat ignorant, when guns are your go-to solution for political and social problems.