Political Memes

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is so badass, where did you find it?

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[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

It's part of this animation

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[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

It was saved in my folder that Lemmy images default download to but I can't remember the comm I saw it on.

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[–] stephen@lazysoci.al 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Could we do the other solstice and both of the equinoxes too? Or maybe every day?

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

If we could make it so that each day the wealthiest person in the world dies, it would not even be statistically significant, yet would fix the world in like, a year.

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[–] stephen@lazysoci.al 5 points 3 months ago

Are you in my brain right now? I’ll get behind this cultural tradition.

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[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Who was this summers' fate sacrifice?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/billionaire-dies-after-swallowing-a-bee-during-polo-match/

[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works [S] 3 points 3 months ago*

A bee killed a billionaire, the billionaire swallowed a bee, the bee killed the billionaire

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (6 children)

December is summer now, got it.

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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Nobody tell them about the southern hemisphere

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Remind me which of these occurred in the southern hemisphere.

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[–] Dialectical_Specialist 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Only after you remind us why that matters lol

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Because it wouldn't have been summer there.

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[–] Dialectical_Specialist 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

Which means it was still summer elsewhere. Any real reason or nahh?

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

So all these events happened where it was locally summer.

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[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

What is the orca about, did I miss something? Please let it be sinking a boat with all of the tech bro billionaires on it..

[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works [S] 2 points 3 months ago

Yes

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[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

When is the summer of Ellison (pretty please)?

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 5 points 3 months ago

I kinda wanna see his financial ruin from how leveraged he is betting on OpenAI actually being able to pay. Plenty of others to go in the meantime.

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[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I don't mean to be difficult, dear OP, but any chance you can include a picture of a bee in that beautiful collection? Maybe for a subsequent posting? I feel we should see this kind of content regularly so that we may recall tradition.

Many thanks!

https://www.vice.com/en/article/billionaire-dies-after-swallowing-a-bee-during-polo-match/ (Depressing how he treated his ex-wife - was a total jerk, but you're hardly surprised.)

[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works [S] 1 point 3 months ago

I’ll try,

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[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago

Well, every fifth year we’re due for a major economic collapse. So if we’re lucky, we get the total collapse of the AI bubble, and the ensuing guillotining of all involved CEOs.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I ain't gay but God knows I hope Luigi is and I get to meet him.

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[–] brillotti@lemmy.world 83 points 3 months ago (12 children)

What's up with the orcas? Am I missing something?

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 127 points 3 months ago (8 children)

A specific pod of them was attacking yachts in the north Atlantic and training others to do the same last summer IIRC

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[–] cavitationfetishist2 74 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Heroes. How do I support their work?

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[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

Never stop believing

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[–] Onyxonblack@piefed.social 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You could read "Orca's Song" by David Zindell. He covers this from the Orca's perspective!

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[–] cavitationfetishist2 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

No I don't mean like awareness bullshit. I like their work and would like to do things that enable them to continue/expand. These are real (cetacean) people doing real work.

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[–] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Www.saviororcas.com

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[–] turdas@suppo.fi 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

They're not attacking billionaire yachts though, instead it's small sailing boats. Some of those are probably owned by fairly rich people, but probably not that rich.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

Still cool.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Goddamn that's so cool.

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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I assume a reference to orca attacking yachts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_orca_attacks

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Orcas understand praxis.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I'm too dumb to actually understand this, but I can tell it's funny from how it sounds.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Seriously, we have multiple economists saying the only way out of this fine mess (and to save the world) is to massively redistribute the wealth at the top to the rest of the population.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (9 children)

I'm an economist (I have a degree and everything. It's in underwater basket weaving but it's still a degree) and I say this. My cool brother has a degree in linguistics and yells at people that he has a degree in economics and says the same thing too

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 3 months ago (7 children)

To be fair, when I took Economics 101: Macroeconomics in 1985, there was a big point about how important it was to maintain a fairly even wealth distribution, with a discussion of how it is a very bad thing™ for all the wealth to consolidate at the top. (In the meantime, Reagan was gutting all the policies that were used to keep wealth distributed and preserve a strong middle class.) So this is something that anyone who took a basic college course should know.

In time, I got confused that presidents and legislators kept pushing supply side (trickle-down) economics and kept passing laws that allowed the upper class to keep more of their money, while leaving the lower and middle classes to languish, when I was certain these officials were educated (or had experts who were) and should know better. Then I worked out that they are just captured and corrupt AF.

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Piñata Economics 101:

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[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Based pinãta economics pilled

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This and anti-cyclical spending avoiding depressions are the only two real¹ predictions from the guy that basically invented macroeconomics.

No politician cares about either of them.

1 - Meaning about things people actually need, not money.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

which dude who invented marco? because we have like three real schools of marco and then the austrians sitting around with they thumbs up they butts

because they scared of numbers

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Keynes did it.

Not exactly in a cave... But in a military prison cell in China.

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[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

We need another FDR and A new deal 2.0 at this point

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Money (power) corrupts and people with lots of money rarely want to part with it. Also, money protects money, so the rich often deal in the shadows to protect themselves from us.

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[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, as someone studying economics, I agree

Having a small group of people hoarding the money is bad actually

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[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah, as someone studying economics, I agree

Having a small group of people hoarding the money is bad actually

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 78 points 3 months ago* (9 children)

Luigi didn't do anything though.

And that poor sub tried its best.

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[–] BitchPeas@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The live cam did nothing wrong. Its an objective observer.

The Orcas are simply accepting our terms of war.

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[+] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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[–] BitchPeas@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

.... what.... what are you proposing? Porpoising.

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[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Moreover, the acoustic failure detection sensors seemed to have worked, but the process failed since they didn't know what to look for since they didn't do any testing.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

No it didn't. Its best would have been to collapse above water

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No, it's best would have been to crush more rich people.

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[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Stockton crush was such a failure, there was space for another 6-7 billionaires in that sub I reckon

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

W why we could have built such a submarine, we could crush six or seven BILLION billionaires

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[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago

I agree with you on this lol

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[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

Times are bad. More sacrifices are needed.

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 3 months ago

This looks like something I've seen before, but I'm at a Loss

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Hoping for a top 3 billionaire this year 😬

[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

no one should be worth 1 trillion

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

What’s with the orcas?

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

they flipped a yacht

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[–] No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

Several, but more. Importantly, they developed a "game" where teenage teach other teenage Orcas they can sink them. Is about their solidarity against these money pits.

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

And a CEO drowned?

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[–] mosspiglet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

No CEOs died as far as I know. The orcas were unfortunately targeting smallish sailboats, not CEO yachts.

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[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Ill take 50 fates please

[–] webp@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

God demands sacrifice

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 12 points 3 months ago

I prefer my billionaires to be sacrificed to The One Who Stirs Under the Mountain. We must keep the The One Who Stirs Under the Mountain content.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

It’s a really hot summer, does that mean it might be one of the big CEOs?

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Luigi was in Nov/Dec though

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

4 December 2024. I remember because right after reading about it, I took my wife to her chemo appointment that had been repeatedly pushed back due to health insurance fuckery.

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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

It's always summer somewhere

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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I'll cheer for fate when it starts pumping those numbers up. One a year? What rookie bullshit is this?

[+] Maroon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Fair. My only reason for not doing more is that not enough people would join me to make it anything but a fancy way to commit suicide. Someone let me know when the vanguard starts to assemble!

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[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

orcas.enjoying.yachts

[–] ash@piefed.ca 5 points 3 months ago (16 children)

Who is the shirtless guy?

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[–] modus@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Luigi Mangione.

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[–] No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

He will go free as he didn't do it, additionally the chain of custody was missing for the "proof" and was taken into custody with lots of circumstantional evidence, absolute police knee bent operation to please the Epstein elite.

Hell be free, then run for office and I'll campaign the hell out of that, vote Luigi for senate, then president of the. US.

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[–] FunStuffIsFun@eviltoast.org 13 points 3 months ago

It couldn't have been him, he was kicking my ass in Smash Bros when it happened.

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[–] Thalion@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

Even if he didn't do it, he is not going free. You think anyone is going to admit that they have the wrong guy? Not a chance.

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[–] modus@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

I thought they said the evidence could be used, no?

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[+] abc@suppo.fi -56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

A not-yet-convicted murderer. But because he's handsome and killed an executive, we like him without any hint of moral irony. Even when he's himself old money.

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[–] stephan262@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

People were happy about the killing of Brian Thompson the moment that news of his death spread. A health insurance CEO. A man who systematically denied healthcare to thousands of people, almost certainly leading to some of them dying.

You can say that murder is wrong, and be correct in that. But then surely being instrumental in running a system of denying and delaying people's access to medical treatment leading to their death is so much worse that directly killing one person.

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[–] CyberTheProtogen@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Precisely

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[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

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[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I still believe he's a look-alike scapegoat because they never found the actual guy who did it, but yeah go off I guess. Not like the CEO was responsible for millions of deaths himself but because it's a 'business' he gets to be called an entrepreneur instead :)

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[–] CyberTheProtogen@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 months ago

I hope so. That means our morally good assassin is still out there