What is with the sudden popularity of the T-shirts with the famous picture of his face? Now kids at my school are wearing the t-shirt and have absolutely no idea what this man even stood for and believed in…
When I tell them that he was a main leader in the Cuban Revolution and that he attempted to spread socialism around the world they look at me with with a blank look on their face.
What prompted me to write this is that lately I have seen numerous people at the gym wearing these.
Do people now choose their political leanings based on the current trend???
Yeah, the Che shirts have been around forever. Most people have no idea who the fuck he even was, they just know some rapper or punk rocker wore one and they imitate them to “stick it to the man”. You see, being a rebel starts with your t-shirt.
Yeah I noticed this trend myself last year in NYC. Che Guevara T-shirts all over the place worn by loser hipsters with no idea of what he stood for. It has diminished since then though. Trends come and go pretty quickly here in NYC but I’ve noticed they then spread to the outer boroughs and then out towards middle America onceit’s considered passe in the city.
Crazy coincidence though. This new temp started working in my office and her name is Eliana Guevara. I asked her jokingly if she was related to Che Guevara and to my surprise she said, “Yeah, my father was related to him somehow.” She was serious too! In any case I don’t care because she is SMOKIN’!! God I love watching her walk away…
[quote]FFB4Life wrote:
Yeah I noticed this trend myself last year in NYC. Che Guevara T-shirts all over the place worn by loser hipsters with no idea of what he stood for. It has diminished since then though. Trends come and go pretty quickly here in NYC but I’ve noticed they then spread to the outer boroughs and then out towards middle America onceit’s considered passe in the city.
Crazy coincidence though. This new temp started working in my office and her name is Eliana Guevara. I asked her jokingly if she was related to Che Guevara and to my surprise she said, “Yeah, my father was related to him somehow.” She was serious too! In any case I don’t care because she is SMOKIN’!! God I love watching her walk away…
[quote]TurboSSR wrote:
He was a doctor who traveled with a buddy across South America on a motorcycle and noticed what a big income gap there was.[/quote]
That’s why I recommend the chauffered limo for South American travel. Saves you from seeing all that unpleasantness.
As much as I despise the Che shirts and the numbskulls who wear them without realizing what murderous scum Che really was - what warms my heart is that someone, somewhere printing these shirts is making a ton of cash off of this stupidity, which is the richest bit of irony and biggest slap in the face to the pathetic legacy of Che Guevara.
I truly believe in a universe that dispenses karmic justice when somewhere in the depths of Hell, Che Guavara must see a capitalist making profits on his image. Nice.
[quote]FFB4Life wrote:
Yeah I noticed this trend myself last year in NYC. Che Guevara T-shirts all over the place worn by loser hipsters with no idea of what he stood for. It has diminished since then though. Trends come and go pretty quickly here in NYC but I’ve noticed they then spread to the outer boroughs and then out towards middle America onceit’s considered passe in the city.
Crazy coincidence though. This new temp started working in my office and her name is Eliana Guevara. I asked her jokingly if she was related to Che Guevara and to my surprise she said, “Yeah, my father was related to him somehow.” She was serious too! In any case I don’t care because she is SMOKIN’!! God I love watching her walk away…
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if she is not from Argentina or Cuba I call BS, but who cares anyhow, SHE’s HOT
[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
As much as I despise the Che shirts and the numbskulls who wear them without realizing what murderous scum Che really was - what warms my heart is that someone, somewhere printing these shirts is making a ton of cash off of this stupidity, which is the richest bit of irony and biggest slap in the face to the pathetic legacy of Che Guevara.
I truly believe in a universe that dispenses karmic justice when somewhere in the depths of Hell, Che Guavara must see a capitalist making profits on his image. Nice.[/quote]
Just curious: since you find Che to be “murderous scum”, how do you classify Batista?
[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
As much as I despise the Che shirts and the numbskulls who wear them without realizing what murderous scum Che really was - what warms my heart is that someone, somewhere printing these shirts is making a ton of cash off of this stupidity, which is the richest bit of irony and biggest slap in the face to the pathetic legacy of Che Guevara.
I truly believe in a universe that dispenses karmic justice when somewhere in the depths of Hell, Che Guavara must see a capitalist making profits on his image. Nice.[/quote]
Oh stop. He was no more murderous and kniving then our own CIA was (or is). Those were bad times, and both sides have blood on their hands.
I think his philosophies were misguided, but I admire any man that gives up everything to fight for a cause.
Oh stop. He was no more murderous and kniving then our own CIA was (or is). Those were bad times, and both sides have blood on their hands.
I think his philosophies were misguided, but I admire any man that gives up everything to fight for a cause. [/quote]
I half-expected a relativistic apologist to step forward and claim Che was not as bad as advertised, despite the atrocities committed by him and him alone.
What next - Hitler not that bad because the trains ran on time under him and he was kind to animals?
No, Che is surrounded by the romantic Left who can - miraculously - lionize his self-sacrifice to pursue his goals of murder, mayhem, and totalitarianism. How that makes him a hero I’ll never understand, but then, naive Leftists are not world renowned for making sense.
It is no thing to cheer that Che saw something bad and replaced it with something far worse.
Irish, Che was a butcher, an enemy to humanism, an oppressor of civil liberties, and ultimately a coward, asking for the kind of mercy he denied his victims - and none of that would change, even if he rescued orphans from a burning orphanage at some point in his life.
