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Tom wrote
AMERICA!!!

Political Scientist wrote
Yay, college dropouts and basement dwellers talking about politics. This must be what it's like for football coaches who hear what all the armchair experts have to say when they lose a game. Lack of qualification never stopped people from having stupid opinions.

Nice shirt, though.

God is love... wrote
I like the other side.

Gurthang wrote
Make in Desert Tan. Will wear under plate carrier.

CoffeeStrong wrote
@Mouler:

Nice try, smart guy. Before its "invention" by an anti-nuke graphic artist the so-called peace symbol was the unit marking for the 3rd Panzer Division. As in WWII. As in Nazis.

LOL wrote
\"9/11 was an inside job. I saw the zeitgeist movie.\" HAHAHA zeitgeist is nothing but a load of convincing crap. There are way too many lies in it and they are all presented as fact.

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fiveaxis wrote
this tee should be available in the "sand" color

Curtis wrote
This shirt is awesome. I cant wait to wear this on base! HOOYAH U.S. NAVY AIR TRAFFIC CONTOLLERS! (in training :p)

TROLOLOLO wrote
That's a B-52

The Mad Klingon wrote
Peace though superior firepower.

Kherova wrote
The shirt made me think of “Si vis pacem, para bellum,” "If you wish for peace, prepare for war.” I agree that war sucks, but I also know that those who have resources who don’t plan for the eventuality that someone might take them, usually get trod upon. I know it’s true because the US does a fair bit of stepping of its own.

Mouler wrote
What no one seems to know is where the "peace sign" comes from. It was designed in 1957 by a graphic artist (Eric Coulder) in England as a symbol for CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) and is nothing more than 2 semaphore code letters (you know, signalling with flags like the Beatles on the cover of their HELP album) superimposed over one another and surrounded by a circle. It is only the N and the C and the circle suppossedly represents the world and safety. So, the symbol has been consistently used out of its context and has not achieved its purpose of nuclear disarmament- Since 1957 more nations than could have been imagined now possess nuclear weapons. Most governments support their possessing them by claiming that the only answer to a nuclear weapon against them is to threaten one against their enemy. This argument fails in the face of terrorism.

crimsonghost wrote
@ Andy -
How many lives is that exactly? 7? 283? Because the history classes I took, basically told me, that we A.) we killed more of our own "americans" i.e. "british transplants" than hardly anyone else in the world pre- (and during) our civil war, and that B.) we continued to send out more "americans" to die post- civil war - To countries, that undoubtedly would have just continued to kill their own people without our interference, or insistence of something as useless as a "democracy" in which a "vote" is for the most part meaningless to the electoral college that actually has the vote, and by no means is held responsible for "representing" those americans whose lives were saved...
:p

TheJ wrote
I have this shirt. It does stir up as much conversation as you'd think if not more. I once gave a speech on nuclear weapons in my speech class while wearing it for irony.

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Masoob wrote
Can we just agree that the B-52 peace sign is a play on the duality of mankind? like joker in full metal jacket.

hapnincat wrote
I wish Old Drab/Vintage Green was a color option for this shirt!

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." ~ "Deep Thoughts" by: Jack Handy

airplane wrote
Above the influence
=o awnsome

BigJ wrote
As an idealistic, liberal teenager I believed the secret to peace was everyone just setting aside machismo and getting along. As a pragmatic, conservative man, I understand that when idealism fails, you must back up your belief in peace with a 9mm "piece." The world is filled with those who will take advantage of, and see idealistic people as ignorant and weak easy targets. Peace through wisdom AND strength... they are equally important. However, if you believe we would have peace in the US without the most powerful military on the planet, you need to study the history of civilization a bit more carefully.

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Idiots.. wrote
I would like to say this shirt has something to do with the B-36 Peacemaker Bomber (Look it up if you don't know what it was.) but it looks too much like a B-52. I would totally wear this.

jaykil wrote
its a obey graphism !!!! bastard

Argumentor wrote
Oooh, in-depth political discussions on 6dollarshirts.com. NEATO!

Can someone let me know if wearing this t-shirt out and about also stirs up interesting social debate with strangers?

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Peace.

Nickles wrote
I agree with Bassler, 9/11 was an inside job. I saw the zeitgeist movie.

Craig wrote
Peace man

Andy wrote
Stupid hippies think war is only for revenge. They don't realize how many american lives wars have saved.

Anthony Alarcon (hiredshogun@gmail.com) wrote
This shirt is a paradox, intentionally.

Not dumb as hell wrote
Im so sick of reading all these backwater rejects talk about how theyre so much more \"American\" than the dirty peacnik hippies. A few points:
1) War is not an exclusively American tradition. If you support killing people, France actually has a pretty impressive war record. Or China, South Africa, every single country on the face of the planet, etc.
2) If you really look for reasons to pick fights, than you are a waste of the carbon that was required to make you.
3) I fail to see how working towards making a better world by actually, you know, making a stand instead of being some limp-dicked sheep who blames the people around him for his actions is being a pussy. \"ooh, all these other people are being assholes, lets be assholes too!\" You know whats way harder than lashing out and hitting people who piss you off? Not doing it.

Anyway, cool shirt. I give it a 8/10.

El Jefe wrote
Exactly, it's an allusion to the origins of the peace sign, which was originally an anti-nuclear sign. It's modeled after the profile of the B-52 bomber, which was the method for delivering atomic weapons to their targets before the invention of ICBMs. It is also the semaphore signal (i.e. that flag waving thingy people use to communicate visually at a distance) for the letters N and D (nuclear disarmament) superimposed over each other with a circle drawn around it. Later, the symbol was appropriated to the peace movement in general.

God Damn It wrote
This might be a nod to the original meaning of the design. It was the logo for the campaign for nuclear disarmament. The aircraft shown there is a strategic bomber. I think its either a B-47 Stratojet or a Tupolev Tu-16.

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