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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

The Labor Dept is using AI-generated recruitment posters for its "Blue Collar Boom" ad campaign, glorifying white, macho Christian males, similar to the propaganda posters used by the Third Reich. "At first glance, the campaign might appear to be a harmless throwback to World War II recruitment posters. But its messaging is anything but neutral. The aesthetic centers white masculinity as the symbol of national strength, evoking imagery used by Nazi Germany to elevate Aryan men while erasing women and minorities from public life. In the 1930s, Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda popularized posters of blond, muscular men as the "ideal German worker." Women appeared only as mothers, while Jews, Roma, and others were erased altogether. The Trumpf junta's posters, Nehemiah D. Frank writes, follow a chillingly similar script: White men as the emblem of loyalty, patriotism, and progress." You can more of the posters in the link or at www.apprenticeship.gov.

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... "The American Dream belongs to the American People," says the Labor Department's latest propaganda poster, put up on Instagram two days ago, which shows a retro image of a clean-cut young (white) man set against a pastoral hill with a church and an American flag. Another poster from five days ago, featuring a Sunday-clad church family (White? You bet!) sitting in a pew, advertises "A dream worth fighting for!"

And then there is poster after poster, since at least August, showing variations of the same Aryan-American worker type, with slogans such as, "Your Nation Needs You!" "Make America Skilled Again!" and perhaps the most fascist of them all, "Build Your Homeland's Future." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-28 10:55 PM | Reply

@1 ... "The American Dream belongs to the American People," ...

Those posters and their accompanying rhetoric seems to define who Republicans think are the "American People."


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-28 10:56 PM | Reply

This is targeted more at a Nick Fuentes audience member than a Charlie Kirk audience member.

Which of course makes sense after a Nick Fuentes audience member murdered Charlie Kirk.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-28 10:59 PM | Reply

"The American Dream belongs to the American People"

Claiming ownership of a dream
is just the sort of petty selfishness
that exemplifies The Banality Of Evil.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-28 11:01 PM | Reply

@#41 ... Claiming ownership of a dream
is just the sort of petty selfishness
that exemplifies The Banality Of Evil. ...

I had not thought about that point of view.

But I do agree with it.

Claiming ownership of a dream means an intent to control the thoughts and aspirations of people.

Control of the dream is wrong.

Inspiring people to dream of the future and how the future can be better is correct.

Which President had the inspirational Hope posters?

Oh yeah, fmr Pres Obama.


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-28 11:10 PM | Reply

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