Wow, it's that serious?

creepyredditloaner · 1 month

WWII had some serious rationing going on.

TGPZarquon · 1 month

I don't know how old you are - I don't mean to be patronizing. It's hard to understand now, because there is so much (sadly deserved) mistrust currently against our (the U.S.) government and it's military. But once we were mobilized against Germany, there was very little question that Hitler was an evil fuck who had to be stopped. People were proud to be patriotic. Stuff like this wasn't thought of as propaganda, it was accepted as truth. There was no "I support our troops but I'm against the war." Many people considered WW2 to be the last "just" war the US was involved with. Unfortunately, that patriotism and nation-wide support of our military became a "trust capital" that the US Government has abused ever since.

Nwsamurai · 1 month

I was during Wold War II.

Gas and oil was needed on the front, so propaganda like this was created so people would do their part by conserving whenever possible.

ElectricSh33p · 1 month

Why is ghost Hitler so sad?

davemj · 1 month

i have the book " if you ride alone you ride with bin laden" same cover except it has bin laden and the author. I bought it for shits and giggles.

RX_queen · 1 month

It's to encourage carpooling so they'd waste less gas.

sugarywalrus · 1 month

I had to interpret that in my 7th grade English class. I was so confused. We were learning about poetry, then BAM!: Anti-Hitler carpooling ads!

Fupa_Penetrator · 1 month

I love wwII propaganda posters

UsernameCensored · 1 month

Learn some history.

moneyonfire · 1 month

where did you find this?

Midnight_Skye · 1 month

If you're riding with someone because you're riding alone, then that would mean this poster doesn't have cake.

Hamsterdam · 1 month

Car sharing? Why, that sounds like socialism to me.

SovereignGFC · 1 month

Search "World war 2 posters" on Google. There are a huge number of these.

Tulee · 1 month

Ride alone. Crash and kill Hitler. End war. Be a hero.

Polymathic · 1 month

If you really want to see some wild examples of this, go to archive.org and look for a film called "Scrap happy Daffy." Daffy Duck (a classic cartoon character) has the job of "scrap warden" during World War II. These were neighborhood volunteers who coordinated the collection of all kinds of metals which were used to build things vital to the war effort as well as rubber for jeep tires, etc.

I warn you that the film portrays some stereotypes. The swastika-wearing enemy goat constantly trying to steal/eat Daffy's stockpile isn't so bad but I think there were some very unattractive portrayals of certain Japanese officers.

It does give an interesting glimpse into the lengths to which the government and media were willing to go to encourage people to save, recycle and recover certain critical materials.

HookedOnBathsalts · 1 month

There was one of these in my History classroom my freshman year.............

SkateboardG · 1 month

My roommate has this exact poster. I didn't get it at first either.

seen1tb4 · 1 month

It makes me feel so old when we have to explain WW2 propaganda.

Amune · 1 month

I like to drive in mein car tho

NoelEpigamic · 1 month

Repost.

shitjustaintcray · 1 month

Yes.

ALLTEHTHINGS2 · 1 month

Chiz252 · 1 month

You can't blame them for using a great slogan. Come on, who wants to ride with Hitler.

Sharkictus · 1 month

Bring that back, gas prices will drop dramatically!

pilgore223 · 1 month

it says if you're riding alone you're riding with hitler. but if hitler is with you then you're not alone. But if you're not alone then you're not with hitler... does not compute!>!>11100101110011010100011!!!^%$

Error-404 · 1 month

I learned about this last year in 7th grade WWII History Class.

I had to do tons of projects on this.

America, at the time, was all about rationing-in this case, rationing gas. That was for the military to use, so that they could have more gas to use for themselves. Thus, using unnecessary gas by riding a car by yourself when you could ride with other people to save gas, Germany would have the upper hand with gas.

The propaganda during WWII times was not uncommon-in fact, it was used a lot. There were multiple posters that were actually made by the U.S. during that time, and I had to write a paragraph on each picture (20 in the packet) on what the symbols in the picture mean and what the overall message is, and how it persuaded Americans to do what the government wanted.

It was quite an interesting unit of the class.

Ringopornostar · 1 month

Repost x5

mylowe · 1 month

Shit man. I have seen that everyday for the past 5 years and I thought about posting it. Glad someone did.

23fuck · 1 month

Ride alone
Crash and kill Hitler!
End war
????????
Profit

TysonTesla · 1 month

I'm pretty sure this is a screen cap of a poster that hangs on a few walls around Carnate Island, in the game The Suffering. The game may have reproduced an actual poster, but I'm pretty sure its just a generalization of the propaganda at the time.

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