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Our Blessed Homeland / Their Barbarous Wastes

Updated Apr 27, 2022 at 03:59PM EDT by Zach.

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Our Blessed Homeland / Their Barbarous Wastes refers to a political cartoon created by Tom Gauld that later turned into an exploitable object-labeling meme used to satirize the way one community looks down on another despite the clear similarities between the communities.

Origin

On March 1st, 2015, cartoonist Tom Gauld posted a political cartoon he'd crafted for The Guardian.[1] The cartoon depicts two nearly identical kingdoms, with one kingdom labeled "Our Blessed Homeland" and the other "Their Barbarous Wastes." The cartoon illustrates how one country feels patriotic about its attributes while denigrating the same attributes of the opposing country (shown below).


OUR BLESSED HOMELAND THEIR BARBAROUS WASTES OUR GLORIOUS LEADER THEIR WICKED DESPOT OUR GREAT RELIGION THEIR PRIMITIVE SUPERSTITION OUR NOBLE POPULACE THEIR BACKWARD SAVAGES OUR HEROIC ADVENTURERS THEIR BRUTISH INVADERS ath TOM GAULD

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The cartoon began seeing use as an exploitable meme primarily on Tumblr starting in the early 2020s. One of the earliest known variations appeared on October 22nd, 2020, on the Tumblr account rtrixie,[2] which made a similar point as the original cartoon and gained over 120 notes (shown below).


Our Open Society Their repressive regime -Their deep Our impartial state civil service Their shadowy Our philanthropists of civil society oligarchs Our expert Their regime media fact-checkers Their pro- Our community government organizers thugs ath

On March 21st, 2021, Tumblr user sirnekomeowinton[3] posted one of the first humorous examples of the meme, labeling the sides "Tumblr" and "Twitter" (shown below, left) In a May 23rd follow-up post, Tumblr user flakmaniak[4] altered all the characteristics in the original comic to have them apply to Tumblr and Twitter (shown below, right). The post gained over 224,000 notes in roughly one month.


OUR BLESSED TUMBLR THEIR BARBAROUSTWITTER OUR GLORIOUS THEIR WICKED bluechecks interesting bloggers OUR GREAT THEIR PRIMITIVE memes OUR NOBLE posters discourse THEIR BACKWARD clout-chasers THEIR BRUTISH harassers OUR HEROIC debaters lll TOM GAULD

On April 26th, 2022, Redditor rene_gader posted a Super Smash Brothers variation on the meme to /r/SmashBrosUltimate,[5] gaining over 4,900 points in one day (shown below).



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OUR BLESSED t THEIR BARBAROUS OUR GLORIOUS tumblr funnymen THEIR WICKED tiktok stars/influencers OUR GREAT out of touch thursday THEIR PRIMITIVE pop music trends OUR NOBLE milf jokes THEIR BACKWARD mommy jokes OUR HEROIC THEIR BRUTISH ill tumblrinas tik tockers allh TOM GAULD Our blessed United Colonies Their barbarous Freestar Collective Our glorious triumvirate Their wicked Our great scientists tyrant Their primitive technology Their backward Our noble citizens savages Our heroic explorers Their brutish rangers 1/100 TOM GAULD OUR BLESSED L1 THEIR BARBAROUS S----chain QUR GLORIOUS blockchain THEIR WICKED ghost chain OUR GREAT secure solutions THEIR PRIMITIVE insecure solutions OUR NOBLE L2s THEIR BACKWARD sidechains OUR HERQIC community THEIR BRUTISH shills

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External References

[1] Twitter – Tom Gauld

[2] Tumblr – rtrixie

[3] Tumblr – sirnekomeowinton

[4] Tumblr – flakmaniak

[5] Reddit – /r/SmashBrosUltimate

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There's a good point here and I think it's usually true, but it's also pretty close to whataboutism. A certain large eastern european country that has recently exposed it's incompetence and corruption to the entire world loves to pull out the "the other side does these bad things too" to justify atrocities, even if them saying so is a lie, but it's not often questioned because it appeals to peoples' cynicism.

There's no law of nature that ensures that all nations are on equal moral or ethical footing. Sometimes the "other side" really IS worse than yours, but just remember that nothing is preventing the opposite from being true except keeping people in power accountable.

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