Can you imagine a worse T-shirt than this one?

I’m guessing that this wasn’t exactly the intended message; but there is arguably nontrivial value to a shirt that says “remember when we had troops gunning down unarmed students for having the temerity to dislike Nixon’s plans for Cambodia? Because I sure do.”

People have a habit of eliding the off-message bits of history if you don’t vigorously shove it in their faces pretty frequently.

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yah. I did a quick couple of searches for ideas, and found some so horrid that I didn’t want to be associated with propagating them. That’s one rabbit hole that I NOPED out of right quick.

For a winner, I vote Nagurski for the Redskins entry. All of the appalling but still satirical.

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I think I’d actually wear that one. :upside_down:

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Go for it! And if you plan to wear it while surfing, don’t forget to do your holy stretches first!

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That one may be the most suicidal to wear, but as for disgusting my vote go to the Israeli sniper group that created T-shirts with a picture of a pregnant arabic woman with crosshairs over her belly and the text “1 shot 2 kills”.

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Wow… Makes sense I suppose, from a group that regularly refers to their human prey as “cockroaches.” Reminds me also of the admissions by Israeli soldiers, which Bernie Sanders recently referenced, that they shoot at Palestinian citizens to alleviate boredom.

Do you know what the one on the right says?

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The one on the right says "the smaller it is, the harder it is.” That could mean that it is hard for your conscience to shoot even an armed kid, but given the other T-shirt I suspect they just meant it’s a smaller target.

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Bing! Bing! Bing! I think we’re have a winner!

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Okay wait, this us what I was wondering – DIYing a Kent State spatter shirt is one thing if you have a black sense of humour, but are those things mass produced?

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Hmm, not sure…They apologized, but they also claimed it was an accident:

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Thank you for the link! Not buying the “it was an accident” part though.

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Wonder what inspired this tweet?

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I don’t know if it’s still available for purchase through Urban Outfitters, but there is an image of it linked with an UO order form (that’s where I got the image). So, at one point, a “buyer” for UO thought, “Let’s sell these.”

Kent State is still a university and sells sweatshirts. And yes, I agree that a private citizen should be able to buy their own sweatshirt from Kent State and do whatever floats their boat. However, UO has a very bizarre and crass business model that never ceases to surprise me.

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Thanks for posting that.

eta: See? Even stores just don’t get the internet (or Internet :wink:) and how once something is online, it’s online forever.

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Shaped charges ꬼ add a woman improve a shirt ꬼ Attack On Titan ꬼ wildcrafted dandelion salad advocacy ꬼ scissors a UA tank, never miss a Vera Wang turn. Shimapan tuck. WHAT? IR watermark on back. IR lawn service company name on front. 6 pairs of sunglasses tabbed to the collar.

It’s gonna get vents, don’t leave out the vents.

A little Cormac McCarthy Sans on the tag? c.f. ‘Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.’ {Thanks wikiquote. We mawky hellbent tabernacle yeah.}

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Wow, credit where credit is due much? (I guess not. :expressionless: )

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So racism by cultural appropriation is worse then…? oh, never mind.

Ha, if you google “Nickelback shirt” that particular shirt is the first one that comes up. . . except I cropped it a little, and he’s using my cropped photo.

But it’s an easy joke to make, I may not be the first one, and I’m just “some guy” anyway. The internet is full of people borrowing from and riffing on each other, so fair enough.

I’ll admit, that one is horrible, but I chucked a little inside. I’m a terrible person.