r/PropagandaPosters • • Jul 30 '26

Discussion [Meta thread] Political Cartoons: Relevant? Worthwhile? Thoughts?

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I got a mod message complaining political cartoons are dominating the sub. It's policy that /r/PropagandaPosters isn't just for posters. I even prefer posts of different mediums like radio broadcasts and leaflets and songs and videos and paintings etc.

This subreddit archives many incredible pieces but if you look at the top posts it's a lot of cartoons. I don't particularly like political cartoons, but the subreddit tolerates them for the sake of consistency and pragmatism. The exception being Carlos Latuff and Ben Garrison which are done to death and I will autoremove under rule 7) memes.

IMO political cartoons are often stale and shallow and obvious and unfunny, but because they're memeable and quick and easy to digest they get disproportionate upvotes. I'm open to a rule change but I encourage you to downvote political cartoons unless they hold significant cultural or artistic merit. Otherwise, I refer to you /r/PoliticalHumor or /r/newspapercomics or /r/editorialcartoons.

I'm curious about the subreddit's thoughts.

Edit: Thanks for the feedback, all. We're doing an experimental test of no 2010+ cartoons/comics. I appreciate some might want a more aggressive cutoff but let's start with that and observe.


r/PropagandaPosters • • 8h ago

United States of America 2017 anti-5G and anti-WiFi artwork by David Dees.

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 3h ago

Russia Anti-Soviet Gulag paintings by Igor Obrosov, 2003.

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 8h ago

Germany "Ernst Thälmann would vote for the AfD! - Vote for the AfD on September 24th!" - Daniel Schneider, Saxony-Anhalt "Alternative for Germany" state list, 2017 federal election, Germany

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285 Upvotes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany

TLDR: German far-right party member using communist Ernst Thälmann in election campaign in former GDR area.


r/PropagandaPosters • • 14h ago

Russia "9 rules of a female warrior", Women's Legion of Death, Russian Republic, 1917.

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233 Upvotes

1) Honor, liberty, and the good of the homeland are at the front.

2) Iron discipline

3) Unwavering strength of the spirit and the will

4) Bravery and courage

5) Punctuality, accuracy, and swift execution of orders

6) Perfect honesty and serious attitude to the cause

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8) Respecting of others' opinions, full mutual trust, and noble behaviour

9) Fights and personal bickering are unacceptable as degrading of the human dignity.


r/PropagandaPosters • • 11h ago

U.S.S.R. / Soviet Union (1922-1991) "After destroying capitalism, the proletariat will destroy prostitution.""Prostitution is the great misfortune of humanity". "Male worker, take care of the female worker!" - Soviet anti-prostitution poster (1923)

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157 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 50m ago

United States of America "I'm a FIGHTIN' MAN too! WATCH MY SMOKE!", US poster intended to boost armaments production and mobilize factory workers by highlighting their contribution to the war effort; made by Harry S. Bressler (1893-1962), 1942

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 19h ago

Brazil "Lula Governador n°3" Campaign poster of Lula da Silva in 1982, when he ran for governor of the state of São Paulo.

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410 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 55m ago

United States of America "More toolie you crackie, more happy Jappie", US poster intended to remind factory workers to take proper care of their tools to keep the wartime production going and support the war effort, c. 1942

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 21h ago

Russia "You can't escape AIDS" Russian public service ad against AIDS, date unknown

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 40m ago

Poland "We demand colonies for Poland", Polish poster issued by the Maritime and Colonial League for the Colonial Days in April 1938, intended to rally the public and raise funds to support Poland's overseas ambitions

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 6h ago

South Africa Len Sak's cartoons on the fall of Apartheid in South Africa: Part 4 (1993)

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 2h ago

Canada 1965 Social Credit federal election poster (produced by the British Columbia Social Party)

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7 Upvotes

“Are You Satisfied With Your Present Government? Increasing Burden of Taxation, Insecurity and Regimentation or with the Empty Promise of Socialism or do you want! Prosperity, Security and Freedom WITH SOCIAL CREDIT WE WANT TO HELP YOU! DO YOU WANT TO HELP YOURSELF?”


r/PropagandaPosters • • 25m ago

United States of America "Don't be Hitler's Stooge - SHUT UP!!!", US poster intended to warn citizens against careless talk and rumor-mongering by framing such behavior as an unwitting service to the enemy; made by Arthur Crouch (1898-1974), 1942

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 20h ago

United Kingdom 'There are two Germanies' — A panel produced for a British anti-Nazi exhibition in 1944. The panel contrasts the Germany that 'has given great music, science, philosophy, literature, and art to the world' with the one 'that seeks world domination’.

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179 Upvotes

The exhibition was titled 'Germany - The Evidence' and held in London, the bulk of it dedicated to examining Nazi ideology and demonstrating how Germany was responsible for the war. The full text in the central panel reads:

‘There are two Germanies. One has given great music, science, philosophy, literature, and art to the world. This Exhibition tells of the other Germany. The Germany that seeks world domination. The Germany that has brought repression, sorrow, starvation, and death to Europe.’

The figures on the left side are: Holbein, Bach, Beethoven, Goethe, Ehrlich and Einstein. The figures on right are: Frederick the Great, Bismarck, Ludendorff, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Hitler and Göring.

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 1d ago

United States of America "Or I Might Wear This One" by Herblock, 1983

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822 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 12h ago

Austria "NOW or NEVER", "Everyone Speaks for Jörg". A Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) poster for the 1989 Carinthian Landtag election showing FPÖ leader Jörg Haider as candidate for governor.

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23 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 9m ago

United Kingdom "Britain Needs You at Once", British poster issued by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, invoking the nation's patron Saint George to encourage men to volunteer for military service, 1915

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 1d ago

United States of America "WEAR YOUR GOGGLES or choose your glass eyes while you can SEE THEM!", US poster issued as part of the Navy Department Safety Bulletin to promote workplace safety in wartime, 1944

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246 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 1d ago

Italy 'Italy brandishes the sword of Ancient Rome' — Italian postcard from the Italo-Turkish War (1911-12) showing an Italian sailor taking up the sword of a long-dead Roman soldier in Libya.

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114 Upvotes

The Italo-Turkish War began in September 1911 with the Italian invasion of Libya, then a province of the Ottoman Empire, and ended with the Italian annexation of Ottoman territories in North Africa, which became the Italian colonies of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. Italy also occupied the then-Ottoman Dodecanese Islands.

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 16m ago

Norway "NORWEGIAN FRONT against the country's enemies!", poster issued by the Norwegian far-right, pro-Nazi Nasjonal Samling party, portraying it as heroically defending Norway from sabotage, murder, terror and communist influence; made by Harald Damsleth (1906-1971), 1945

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 1d ago

United States of America "Hypocrisy is not good for the Jews" (Jules Feiffer, 1982)

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85 Upvotes

r/PropagandaPosters • • 8h ago

United Kingdom 1808 caricature of Napoleon and the Spanish Royal Family by Thomas Rowlandson.

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r/PropagandaPosters • • 1d ago

EASTERN EUROPE Iššlavimas - the sweeping out of poles out of Lithuania 1920

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111 Upvotes