Explain Your Avatar

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Can you please explain your avatar?

I am always fascinated by some of the strange avatars people have.

My avatar is basically a weird picture I found on the internet of the three creators of my ideology, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin. I could have picked a picture of Stalin or even Hoxha, two people that I admire greatly, but I prefer to pay my main respects to the original trio before I pay my respects to their successors. I might change my avatar though to a picture of all five of these great men.

So, as I said in the beginning, please explain your avatar. Thank you!

[Igor]

Manny Calavera, the protagonist from the video game Grim Fandango.

[ColonelCossack]

It's a Red Star*

So yeah I'm interested in astrophysics and my avatar's a star which is red, just like the famous socialist imagery of the red Star. Not a bad pun... Or is it... I don't have much of a sense of humour unfortunately. :D

*=Well not really technically it's some kind of planetary nebula/supernova remnant (I can't remember which). It's not the star that's red, it's the gas/dust. But I'm not even sure if that's red it might be an infrared image that's had colour edited in I dunno. :laugh:

[Prometeo liberado]

Didn't we just have this thread? Sandy Koufax, biatches!!!!!!!!!!!

[Drosophila]

It's a Red Star*

So yeah I'm interested in astrophysics and my avatar's a star which is red, just like the famous socialist imagery of the red Star. Not a bad pun... Or is it... I don't have much of a sense of humour unfortunately. :D

*=Well not really technically it's some kind of planetary nebula/supernova remnant (I can't remember which). It's not the star that's red, it's the gas/dust. But I'm not even sure if that's red it might be an infrared image that's had colour edited in I dunno. :laugh:

It is a star, actually - http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/stars-gallery/light-echo.html


And mine is Zach Galifianakis

[NewLeft]

I don't have one :(

[Nox]

If you need me to explain my avatar, you shouldn't be here.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

If you need me to explain my avatar, you shouldn't be here.

If you are an anarchist, then why do you have a quote in your signature supporting a Marxist-Leninist state?

[Bronco]

Just a cool pic of Malatesta, used to just have the fist on a red/black star but got bored of that

[sithsaber]

If you are an anarchist, then why do you have a quote in your signature supporting a Marxist-Leninist state?

He's an anarchosyndicalist fyi maybe he confused it with the 26th of july flag

[¿Que?]

It's a yearbook picture of some guy that the internets thought would be funny to put Peter Griffin as the name. His name is not Peter Griffin, but it exemplifies the ultimate loser looking person (sorry if you look like my avatar, no offense). It symbolizes how I feel on the inside, though I look nothing like that on the outside. Plus, I like the show family guy, although I often find it reactionary, racist, sexist, homophobic.

[ColonelCossack]

It is a star, actually - http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/stars-gallery/light-echo.html


And mine is Zach Galifianakis

Oooh I never knew. Cheers for the link. i suppose the star would be red because it's a red giant that's been losing its outer layers in a series of novae ets.

[Nox]

If you are an anarchist, then why do you have a quote in your signature supporting a Marxist-Leninist state?

It's not about how East Germany was great, but it's more about the reason why capitalism sucks and material wealth is overrated. At least that's how I interpret it.

[Comrade Samuel]

It's a Red Star*

So yeah I'm interested in astrophysics and my avatar's a star which is red, just like the famous socialist imagery of the red Star. Not a bad pun... Or is it... I don't have much of a sense of humour unfortunately. :D

*=Well not really technically it's some kind of planetary nebula/supernova remnant (I can't remember which). It's not the star that's red, it's the gas/dust. But I'm not even sure if that's red it might be an infrared image that's had colour edited in I dunno. :laugh:

I always wondered exectly what yours was.

As for me I couldent think of anything good so I just made it match my username, sadly this also sends the message my politics are based on cod but I still think some people will still see the irony in it.

[Left Leanings]

It doesn't require any explanation. But I never lose an opportunity to say it anyway: FUCK OFF NAZI SCUM! :D

[Omsk]

It's a statue representing the working class.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

What I look like when I read a lot of Revleft's threads.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I always wondered exectly what yours was.

As for me I couldent think of anything good so I just made it match my username, sadly this also sends the message my politics are based on cod but I still think some people will still see the irony in it.

Why is the word "whore" under your name?

[hatzel]

Top Cat is the best. I'm particularly inspired by the way he always manages to get the better of Officer Dibble. I think maybe he's an illegalist or something, actually. Something like that. Pretty much he's cool. But it's fun to censor his eyes because then it's like you're not supposed to know who it is but you still know anyway because it's obvious. Deeppp.

[Drosophila]

What I look like when I read a lot of Revleft's threads.

I liked your old one better

[Comrade Samuel]

Why is the word "whore" under your name?

This is another just another cod reference, the irony in my name is that many people often accuse MLs of being nationalists and the character "Vladmir makarov" is supposed to be a radical Russian nationalist.

Your avatar is awsome by the way but can I ask what is a commistar anyway?

[Agent Ducky]

It's a secret agent duck. Pretty self-explanatory. I drew it myself. It lead to a lot of other duck spinoffs being created... I should change it to one of those.

[sithsaber]

Its a revolutionary robot from a game i've never played. It's bad ass so i picked it

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

This is another just another cod reference, the irony in my name is that many people often accuse MLs of being nationalists and the character "Vladmir makarov" is supposed to be a radical Russian nationalist.

Your avatar is awsome by the way but can I ask what is a commistar anyway?

Commistar is a play on the words "commissar" and "star." I made it up all by myself and I'm very proud of it :)

And if I ever become a leader, my title will be Commistar of the Socialist Republic and I will send kittens to gulags:laugh:. lol jk

[Ostrinski]

I change my avatar a lot, I like to switch between different good albums

[NoOneIsIllegal]

I liked your old one better
I always slide back to that one eventually. Give it a week.
Hankgasm is the best picture on the internet.

[Caj]

Alexandra Kollontai

[heyjoe]

New York City Anarchists from 1914 including Alexander Berkman who had walked up from Manhattan to Tarrytown in a free speech fight.

[Искра]

My girlfriend.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

it's a great movie

[Agent Ducky]

My girlfriend.
You wish.

[Искра]

You wish.
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[Deicide]

Top Cat is the best. I'm particularly inspired by the way he always manages to get the better of Officer Dibble. I think maybe he's an illegalist or something, actually. Something like that. Pretty much he's cool. But it's fun to censor his eyes because then it's like you're not supposed to know who it is but you still know anyway because it's obvious. Deeppp.

You're an eccentric chap.

[Bostana]

I think Mine is obvious.....
...Tom Cruise

[Bostana]

This is another just another cod reference, the irony in my name is that many people often accuse MLs of being nationalists and the character "Vladmir makarov" is supposed to be a radical Russian nationalist.

Ultra-Nationalist to be correct.

He believes that Russia is the dominant country and that they should be the world's superpower. However there is only one thing in his way, The West. When Makarov is able to access the Russian Nuclear bombs system he will be able to claim all of Europe as Russia....
..Even if it's on a pile of ashes

[Ele'ill]

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I think Mine is obvious.....
...Tom Cruise

I do not get it.

[Princess Luna]

Mine is Mitt Romney on a rather bad hair day, and taken from a very unflattering angle

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Mine is Mitt Romney on a rather bad hair day

It makes him look about as interesting as a sidewalk, which is 100% more interesting than he usually is.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

It's a Van Gogh painting that I think looked bad ass. It's of a skeleton that's smoking a cigarette. I don't know, it might be some anti-smoking painting but I thought it looked so bad ass I had to put it as my avatar.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

My new avatar, since I have decided that socialist realist art that centers around the proletariat is more important than pictures of heroes, is a statue of a worker that you can find in Memento Park, Hungary.

[Bostana]

My new avatar, since I have decided that socialist realist art that centers around the proletariat is more important than pictures of heroes, is a statue of a worker that you can find in Memento Park, Hungary.

Comrade Commistar you're right,
Instead of using pictures of leaders of the revolution. We should use the true heroes, the Proletariat.

So I ma using a Propaganda poster now.
:lol:

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Comrade Commistar you're right,
Instead of using pictures of leaders of the revolution. We should use the true heroes, the Proletariat.

So I ma using a Propaganda poster now.
:lol:
You still have not explained Bostana to me.

[roy]

Flakey Foont hashing out his existential nausea with Mr. Natural, who is being characteristically unhelpful. Oh, Flakey, when will you learn? :rolleyes:

[Landsharks eat metal]

Never mind. Changing it back.

[Bostana]

Alright this is a cultural Revolution poster used during the cultural revolution in China
The poster is depicting a model worker in the new China, actually driving a tractor rather than using oxen to plow his field and holding aloft a copy of Chairman Mao's quotations. The other main images in the background are factories also of the new China.

The text urges all to, "Provide Great Support to Agriculture".

Here you can see a larger view of it:
http://www.revleft.com/vb/picture.php?albumid=999&pictureid=9083

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I was talking about your name. Here, I found it:
http://www.bostana.com/1/

[Bostana]

You still have not explained Bostana to me.

Bostana I made up at the top of my head, I did a Google search on it turns out it's a town in Georgia, the country