Ironical political slogans for a t-shirt line
All copyright @ William Heidbreder 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
Communal identity
kills kids
Do you
Kill for what is
dead in you?
Not for our
selves alone
Jewish fascists:
fuck off!
Got a problem with that?
Think again.
That’s what matters.
Precarity is not a sickness.
Got violent freedom?
Struggle like Jacob.
”Flowers in your face!”
(For Julia K. and her nature photography)
Our homes matter.
Our health matters,
Our lives matter.
Justice is a drunken frat boy.
What’s a body to do?
(On Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination).
”These people are not fighting for the American empire;
they are fighting for their lives.”
Trauma is the new normal.
Sensitive souls like us
use our emotional intelligence
as the weapon it is.
1970: “The whole world’s watching!”
2020: The whole world’s joining!
Feed your head:
Read in your bed.
I cringe, so battered am I,
when you raise your voice like that.
Evil is that in others that I don’t understand.
Why do I say that?
Hm, let’s see, how about this….?
Why can’t you see that words do not reveal truths,
Unless you are the boss or a celebrity?
They are tools, and they mean what they really mean
in the dictionary of the sayable.
Rhetoric is the coinage and gentility of functionaries,
whose principal means is the sanctification of words.
No heroes, only workers;
No leaders, only thinkers.
Fuck you? Shit.
Flush you.
I have no creator,
I was born (mama told me).
The lives of persons have no instruction manual.
Lovers would be whores if they knew entirely what they wanted.
You cannot love the stranger
unless you are a stranger.
Check your image at the door
to the forest of signs and meanings.
If equality of the sexes meant sameness,
we’d all be assholes.
“Just do it!” said the tyrant’s advisor.
(Following suit, he, having brought matters to a head, was of it then dispatched).
Everyone should do what they ought to do!
Normal people follow the norms!
“The psychotic thinks that 2+2=5;
the neurotic knows that 2+2=4, and he can’t stand it.”
(quote from Chantal Akerman, Histoires d’Amerique)
How dare you disagree with me?
I’m a person, too.
I just do my job, and what I say is part of it,
”True” meaning that I am supposed to say it.
How dare you complain about this!
What do you want to buy?
Unhappiness is hereby abolished,
It’s impolite,
and makes us uncomfortable.
Consumerism: No means yes.
Policing: Yes means no.
Know your rites:
Don’t sign the Santa clause!
(On the occasion of the latest Supreme Court debacle):
Sticks and stones will break your bones,
but words can topple tyrants.
Who says women can’t choose not to have babies?
Those who say they can’t choose not to be fucked by them?
Justice is a drunken frat boy.
Justice is a drunken frat boy,
doing to you what he pleases,
and you can’t even scream.
”What matter is your terror,
in the face of my rage?”
She couldn’t scream then,
But now we can.
He wouldn’t let her scream.
He can’t stop us now.
“Boys may be boys,” but
crimes will still be crimes.
The stupor of justice
produces unwanted bastards.
II. Propositions for the general will
”God” is one,
the world is one,
its people are one.
The One is said of the Many.
We must have controlled pleasure:
Pleasure for the rich, control for the poor.
Who needs identity,
when you can have personality?
Who needs thinking?
I only want success.
I think I understand what you are saying.
Let me now repeat it, given my professional role as manager,
of meaning and the sayable.
You can’t say no to
The Passion.
“Help, I need a Politics!” he yelled.
”Politics or police?”
What arrogance,
to say anything is true!
I'm not sick, I'm sick of this.
I am waiting for permission to exist.
Sometimes I think I know how to think about something.
Have you no decency? Where is your mask?
You violated my feelings with your feelings,
and I know this through my feelings.
What makes you think you can ignore,
my unsaid true meaning behind what I say?
Can't you set aside your language and perception,
in order to see me as I am?
Look out; I have infallible affective attennae.
Malediction is not malady.
it is the ill-said; and I say it of this situation now.
Just because things suck, doesn’t mean you must.
That’s just your opinion;
but this is my truth!
When you raise your voice at me,
I cringe as it is hard like a hammer.
My best friends went to the revolution,
and all I got was a guillotine.
How dare you twist my literal meaning,
like a metaphor?
Be prudent always:
Avoid saying anything, to anyone, about anything;
you will be taking your life into your hands.
Are you getting in my face just to say that,
or saying it just to get in my face?
I want you to know that I understand how you must feel,
and that I will my best to help you with this problem,
mainly by making empty declarations of amity like this one.
A wild ass of a person in a social network,
whose words are against everyone, and everyone's against him.
Why am I such a failure, when I work so hard,
to succeed at trying to succeed at success?
Who do you think you are,
asking me to think?
Sorry, we have logged our quota in thoughtful thoughts for the month.
I am here to remind you that if you don't do as we ask,
you will be making more trouble for yourself;
Watch what happens, and don't blame me, I'm doing my job.
Of course you have the right to refuse an order we give you,
but you must do this now.
You can file a complaint or lawsuit later if you want;
that's not our business.
All citizens are equal:
All must obey or be killed.
We're waiting for you to rebel,
so we can use our violent repression.
Invoking the name of your people
is the answer to all oppression.
They cannot fail to honor it.
If there is no truth,
everything is permitted.
Hey, guys, listen to this:
The asshole says we're harassing him. Ha ha ha.
Are you actually reading that agreement? I told you to sign it.
Do you think you are a property-owning citizen?
Never trust anyone who is never unhappy.
Enraged is outraged!
What if your feeling is about something real,
and not just itself and you?
Injustice, not crime;
struggle, not treatment.
Shit is the problem;
socialism is the cure.
Which side are you on?
Me too.
Yes, I’m a crazy New Yorker;
how much do I owe you?
Why work for the after-life,
with no pensions or paid vocations?
Pursue your passion, make money, and die.
My oppression is bigger than your oppression.
I’ll call your slavery,
and raise you a holocaust!
The strong survive, the stronger win, everyone dies.
Shit happens;
Just ask assholes.
How many Oppression Points
are in your Symbolic Capital?
We win the argument,
for more of us have suffered and died.
No tolerance,
for intolerance..
of intolerance…
of….
I love the Biblical profits.
Get your ideological salvation;
put money in your purse.
Sorry, I’m a reader, not a leader.
I'm a writer, not a fighter.
Get a man to fight:
It's every man's duty, and all are expendable.
Get a woman to fight:
Kill her sons, blame the enemy,
and get the hell out of her way.
Do you believe in the Belief?
Everything sorts itself out in the end;
those who bury you will understand.
I treat everything people say to me,
as meaningful, about me.
So there is a God and I cannot be shaken.
I needed to see you again,
because I felt unfinished about our being together.
From birth to death,
nothing happens at the right time.
Are you ok?
Because if you’re not, that may be a problem.
I’m not religious,
but I know someone or something must be out there.
I love my neighbor
when he is like myself.
If God is so amazing,
why aren’t houses of worship more like cinemas?
Why did we shoot you?
We trust our feelings, and a force is with us.
Vote for me; I have the DNA of the Oppressed.
I tried every way of hinting by gesture, expression, tone, and manner;
what must I do, spell it out in words?
How dare you say I’m wrong;
you think there are truths,
and you pretend to know them?
Stop looking at me, you jerk!
I'm not pretty, I'm a feminist.
I don't hate you people,
but it surely makes me angry how you hate us.
I have a gender and a sex,
thank you very much,
and they don't concern you.
I'm not an sexy icon,
but an angry iconoclast.
I believed in the same god as you,
until I saw what you have done with him.
I will keep hating you,
until you stop looking and go away.
I only mistreat you,
because I don't know what the fuck you want.
If you are stealing a glance,
I want it back.
Ask me about my orientation:
Forward, with or without you.
My sexual orientation?
I prefer human beings.
“I’m environmentally correct,” said the liberal.
”Then you must be good to eat,” replied the skeptic.
Why jump off the Brooklyn Bridge?
I’m not buying it;
I can walk across it.
Don't tell me you need to read this,
to understand that you are my oppressor.
Join me, and we'll be liberated together.
If you had solved your problem,
you would not still be thinking.
Your speech convicts you;
the wise do nothing, want nothing, say nothing.
All thought is crime,
says the Buddha of shit.
Are you looking at me?
You must be because you are the only one
there where you are.
How can I be involved in injustice,
when I’m such a nice person,
who only wants to be liked?
When you suffocate me,
I will call my lawyer,
to claim my animal right to breathe.
If you love your neighbor as yourself,
I don’t find that very promising.
Revolution means turn around,
and use repression by any means necessary.
How can you not be a lacking loser,
when you are sitting there in front of me?
Come back tomorrow, I’ll blame you again.
If you don’t want pity,
will you settle for contempt?
Why care about the things that matter?
Do they care about me?
Be kind to strangers,
until they get in your familiar way.
Always do what must be done,
Unless you don’t want to.
Tyranny: We prick you, but we don’t bleed.
Bureaucracy: Someone bleeds, we make a statement.
Our violence was necessary,
to do what is necessary.
If we didn’t do this cruelty,
we might fall through our bottom line,
or look down and find nothing there.
Don’t you believe in the higher authority?
he demanded, while straightening up and raising his stick.
I only want to tell you,
that I have nothing to say to you.
There is a black hole
at the center of my universe.
The ultimate question is,
what is the ultimate question?