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[–] 57 points 1 month ago

LEGO being soft power is actually pretty awesome.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    I think that for most grown adults, if you have them hold a box of Legos, feel its weight and hear the sound it makes when they shake it, it unlocks distant happy memories they forgot they had.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Distant? I'm almost forty and the last Lego set I built was on Saturday. And I can't wait till I get to build another one.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yeah the nice sets are pretty cool.

    I'm working on the Hubble set right now that my wife got me for my birthday.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    *Half a pyramid

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    are the instructions in alien language?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The cost of LEGO is surely unsustainable based on the price of LEGO.

    Either that, or LEGO is made from the people that create LEGO.

    ThIs MeSsAgE wAs BrOuGhT tO yOu By ThE oThEr UgLiEsT & dUmBeSt ThInG tO cOlLeCt, FuNkO pOp!

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    [–] 135 points 1 month ago (15 children)

    Smart idea, look how happy he is.

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  • [–] 107 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    What do you get the dictator who already has an evil glowing orb?

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  • [–] 46 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    yes. I don't think the egypt foreign minister is the one in the Trump photo though

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    That's his boss. General Sisi was Mubarak's second. He led a coup against the first democratically elected President and murdered him in jail. Egypt receives almost as much military aid as Israel, all to suppress their own people as an extension of the Israel occupation.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    A good glowing orb. And then a neutral glowing orb.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Ah, the found Woody Allen's orgasmatron device, what fun

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    Solid Epstein connection.

    That's actually the Express of King Salman shitting himself, not cumming. They should have read the manual.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    What a nice breath of fresh air. Goes to show that this is possible and preferable. Fuck trump and his gestapo regime.

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  • [+] -53 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Sweet summer child. Does the propaganda make you feel all cozy and warm?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    It's a Lego kit dude. I'd be excited too. Its no different to if someone invited you to stay at theirs, you would get them a gift. And, this is a very normal one

    if it was Trump, he'd probably gift them a picture of himself, or expect the other party to give him a gold trophy or some bs like that.

    Trump would expect the lego bricks to be pure gold.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Trump would expect the kit to be already put together for him, and then he'd claim he built it all by himself. He'd then go on to say he designed the kit, and actually Lego itself was his idea in the first place.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This is a man who likes to play with his grandchildren.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago

    Great vibes from this picture.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Dude can't wait to get it home and build it up

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Won't he have to contact the aliens to do it for him?

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  • [–] 83 points 1 month ago (17 children)

    This would be funnier if Egypt was a democracy and not a horrifying dictatorship

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  • [–] 51 points 1 month ago* (14 children)

    Wait, when'd they become a dictatorship??

    Edit: 2013?? How am I so far behind the times on this one?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    Mubarak had been dominating the county since the 1980s. The 2011 to 2013 period was a brief period of not-dictatorship

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago* (12 children)

    I'm an Egyptian, and 2011-13 was 110% a dictatorship. We've always been under one, just different people in different ways

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    So were Trumpp, Putin and Erdogan, no?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Morsi never had a chance to a peaceful transfer of power before the military staged their coup.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Military didnt stage shit, the citizens fought almost day and night, dont speak down of all the lives of thoss young adults that died fighting for their freedom of walking the streets without being killed, having basic human rights, but saying oh the military launched an attack, yes they did, it was the right thing, doesnt mean a country being under military dictatorship is what we wanted either, just transfered from one shitty guy to another

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Morsi won office in a popular election, lasted barely two years, and then was couped and imprisoned.

    I wouldn't call that interm period a dictatorship, if for no other reason than it stood in stark contrast to the periods immediately before and after. There was no well-defined national leader. Bureaucrats were still shuffling around and rebuilding a power base, before settling on el-Sisi.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    No no, sisi was also elected and wanted very much so by everyone, two things can be true at once. Yes, we did elect morsi, yes, we did elect sisi (first time atleast). No, both were and are fucking horrible in their own ways. One caused major major MAJOR unsafety, Egypt was a fucking warzone somtimes, the amount of citizens that died was insane due to islamic extremists, we're a muslim majority country yet get along perfectly with christians and have done so for so long, Morsi, well the man pulling the strings behind the scenes wasnt him.. morsi was just a facade of who the leader is, were a bunch of religious extremists that did what 95% of shitty people do, promise so much. Sisi has done the same, Egypt has always been under dictatorship and will remain so until people stop being so ignorant and desperate.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    sisi was also elected

    With 97 percent of the vote.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (3 children)

    Yes? Whats your point? Both Morsi and Sisi were picked by the people, both times they were promised so much, both lied in their own ways.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 month ago

    Later that night he sat on the floor, in a onezy in front of his fireplace while his family, glowed in the enjoyment there young president had putting it together, until he fell asleep and his son carried him to bed.

    But seriously love this

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago

    Not when it's a despotic regime.

    The elected President was murdered in jail by this stooge's boss.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    What a tight fukkin gift!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    my dude, my sister has the biggest lego collection of anyone i've ever met. she collected most of it as an adult.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    yeah boiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    "I'm gonna make SO many slaves build this!"

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  • [–] 52 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Pyramids weren't built by slaves

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  • [+] -7 points 1 month ago* (5 children)

    They didn’t have much other option, so what do you call that other than justified slavery?

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  • [–] 44 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    They were paid, and rather well. It was a work program, like Roosevelt's New Deal.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    So… they were free to move elsewhere and use that money for luxuries? They could go get another job?

    Because being paid doesn’t mean you’re free. Or is the only type of legitimate slave the typical American kind? It’s not black and white, there’s nuances here. If the black slaves in America were paid, it wouldn’t have been slavery….? Because that’s the logic that’s being used.

    It really just sounds like you’re trying to justify not calling people who aren’t free slaves when they still were by every other metric.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    It sounds like you don't know very much about how the pyramids were built, and aren't interested in learning the truth. The workers who built the Pyramids engaged in some of the first labor actions in recorded history--they went on strike, multiple times, and were successful in securing higher pay and better working conditions. Many of the workers who worked on the tombs of kings were highly respected craftsmen in their own right, who often were given permission to build their own tombs nearby; in many cases, only a little bit less grand than the tombs built for the pharoahs themselves.

    The Ancient Egyptians definitely practiced slavery, and also, they didn't use slaves to build the pyramids. The slaves were doing things like growing food for the people who built the pyramids.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    People need a kit to make a pyramid out of Lego?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Men never outgrow Legos.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Lego is becoming the Disney of Europe. All cozy-looking while perpetuating and supporting evil.

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