Tea Party Facebook Group Posts BioShock Image Satirizing Tea Party

[meegbear]

The National Liberty Foundation is a Florida-based group of radical conservatives associated with the right-wing group that calls themselves the Tea Party. They use their Facebook to post lots of right-wing meme images and racist links.

Yesterday, they posted the above image, which looks a whole lot like an anti-immigrant cartoon. Well, it is an anti-immigrant cartoon—it's just from the video game BioShock Infinite, where it's used as propaganda for the Founders, a jingoistic, xenophobic group that runs the floating city of Columbia. They're the video game equivalent of the Tea Party, and they're portrayed as a nasty group of racist white men.

In other words, this Tea Party group just Facebooked an image meant to satirize the Tea Party.

http://kotaku.com/tea-party-facebook-group-posts-bioshock-image-satirizin-1483821325

[zappaman]

1. HAHAHAHAA

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
-Frank Zappa

[dionysus]

26. if only we had a crack investigative journalist who could get to the bottom of this farce...

[politichew]

2. LOL...

This idolatry of our founding fathers seems pretty sinful.

[Bjorn Against]

3. And the entire plot of the first Bioshock game...

Revolved around a society that attempted to live by the ideals of Ayn Rand and it lead to absolute disaster. It is pretty clear the writers of that series are no fans of Teabaggers ideology.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

12. Oops. Beat me to it!

[MrScorpio]

4. Well, to be honest...

No one who could tell shit from shinola has ever accused the Teabaggerati of being particularly smart.

A move like this should be all too obvious.

[Wait Wut]

5. Priceless!

I just finished Bioshock II and have Bioshock Infinite on my wish list. Now I want it even more!

[NutmegYankee]

6. It's an awesome game.

[Katashi_itto]

7. You'll love it, it's seriously subversive in it's own way.

Nothing more terrifiying than a giantantic roboting George Washington Bristling flags and blazing away at you with gattling guns all to patriotic music.

[sakabatou]

21. Good news: you can pick up the gun and use it on other robots (and people).

[AtheistCrusader]

22. Fallout has some hilariously over the top shit too. Like LIBERTY PRIME....

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Conservatives don't get satire.

I'm surprised they haven't made Stephen Colbert their leader.

[arcane1]

11. Indeed, they barely even get humor.

[awoke_in_2003]

13. I remember when Colbert

was invited to speak at one of Bush's press functions. They don't get it at all.

[Dash87]

9. *facepalm*

The stupid literally burns with this one

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

10. There's idiots who think that the original Bioshock is some homage to Ayn Rand.

It's Ayn Rand's philosophy run to its logical conclusion. That's why Rapture is a mess.

[ck4829]

14. This is why satire and parody are some of the best tools against the far right

Perfect. K&R.

[Chakaconcarne]

15. I don't get that it's satire....

I don't play the game or know anything about it. If I were a tea party ideologue, I might be saying "right on". How are they supposed to know whether it's satire or not? Furthermore, how do WE know it's satire? If I were the developer, I could conceivably call it satire or not depending who asked. Just sayin'.

[DonCoquixote]

18. If you played the game

It becoems very clear they are the bad guys, as you wind up having to stop or clean up the atrocities they do. No spoilers about the ending, but the sacrficie that is done at the end to stop Columbia left even jaded gamers crying for weeks, myself most certainly included. The game has a very nasty, very pitiless eye towards the villains, and deservedly so.

[DonCoquixote]

16. In Bioshock Infinite

You find this city called "Columbia" which is a huge fraud founded by a person that lied about his miltary heroism, and the fact he had mixed heritage himself. He is not only a racist, but is a tool of bankers and robber barons. The robber Baron in that game (Jeremiah Fink, who spouts his own Ayn Rand Gibber over loudspeakers) MOCKS the piety and patriotism of the founder. Add to the fact he kills his wife, imprisons, tortures and brainwashes his daughter, and you have the sort of person that could easily make Fox News nightime cast.

Of course, the Fox people would play this game and omit the fact the foudners were the BAD GUYS, despiter the fact one of the first scenes is a scene where they try to kill the main character and an interracial couple at a county fair.

[NastyRiffraff]

17. OMG that's funny!

I know absolutely nothing about BioShock but it was immediately obvious to me that this was satire.

As many people have said, Teabaggers just don't get satire, parody or humor in general.

[AtheistCrusader]

19. I guess this might be one issue that differentiates between libertarians and objectivists or teabagg

ers.

Big-L libertarians seem to like open borders, where teabaggers are xenophobic isolationists that would re-create the berlin wall on our southern border in like 10 minutes, given half a chance. (and ask for federal funds to pay for it...)

[sakabatou]

20. XD

[PennyK]

23. The game's creator, Ken Levine, finds it all hilarious

I played the game and loved what he did with the politics of America back in that jingoistic time. And although the rebel uprising does turn out poorly, there are elements of the Occupy movement incorporated.
On another note, go look up "songs in Bioshock" on Youtube and see what they did with modern pop tunes...rearranged in various styles of the time of the game. Brilliant! The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" performed by a barbershop quartet and others equally wonderous.

[R Merm]

24. Some people get the joke, and some are the joke. eom

[joeybee12]

25. It's also Sarah Palin's Christmas Card for 2013...nt

[Ganja Ninja]

27. They just completely lack the gene for perceiving irony.

It bounces off of them like bullets off Superman.

[stage left]

28. I am sorely tempted to post this on my face book page.

It might be fun to see how many likes it gets from my overwhelmingly right wing acquaintance. Even better would be my sister's face book page. She lives in Pickens. If you know upstate SC, you know what that means. By comparison Greenville County is a Mecca of liberal thought.