Early in the current USPS skirmish, some clever wag got the brilliant idea of slapping one of @crimethinc's THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS stickers on a USPS blue mailbox.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/ia9gvh/steely_guthrie/

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It's a tribute to the slogan Woody Guthrie scrawled on his guitar, itself a tribute to the slogan on stickers once distributed to WWII defense plant workers to put on guns and tanks and the like

http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/the-powerful-messages-inscribed-on-woody-guthrie-pete-seegers-guitar-banjo.html

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The image was so striking that it inspired illustrators to create stylized versions of it, like Mike Shine's gorgeous woodcut-style image.

https://twitter.com/cgerrish/status/1289420531066781697

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Now, @NakatomiTim has entered the fray with another striking image, available as an art-print or stickers (both ship with books of stamps).

https://store.nakatomiinc.com/thismachinekillsfascists2stickersetstamps.aspx

https://store.nakatomiinc.com/thismachinekillsfascistsartprintstamps.aspx

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