Political Memes

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Big fan of Trump still having on suit pants and black shoes under the robes.

And he hulked out so hard he grew a belt.

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[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 months ago

It would be nice touch if Trumps shoes would have flown off.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 70 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I’m just happy we have finally found such a productive use of AI.

All the job loss was really worth it for this.

[–] Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago (1 child)

And the destruction of our environment and water supply too

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[–] desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 months ago

And the spike in RAM, SSD, HDD and GPU prices

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[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

can you imagine being a historian having to study, characterize, and teach these clips to students.

like instead of WW2 tanks videos, and WW1 trench videos, we will teach these, and the context

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

They'll probably omit this to make it boring on purpose. There was a ton of hilarious and awesome stuff in newspapers in the early 20th century.

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[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago

Like what?

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[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 147 points 6 months ago (22 children)

So… Trump praises Allah and the Iranians defend Jesus. Definitely did not have that on my 2026 bingo card.

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[–] itslola@lemmy.world 81 points 6 months ago (5 children)

You're aware that Jesus features in the Quran as well as the Bible, right...? Highly respected figure in Islam, not at all surprising that Iran would be defending him.

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[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Yes, I’m quite aware that the background is that after being visited by the archangel Gabriel and explained that basically the Christians did not understood Jesus message, Muhammad created Islam, hence being known as “the true prophet”. I’m also aware that as a figure, Jesus has been “whitened” to the image of Zeus to please Europeans of that time. That doesn’t prevent him of bring the symbol of the Catholic religion.

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 months ago*

I mean if anything it would be to please the Romans, but anyway the "whiteness" of Jesus wasn't a thing that occurred all at once. It was slow and over hundreds of years. Not that strange to think illiterate medieval peasants that never traveled more than 20km from their birthplace weren't nuanced in all the "races" of the world or had a good understanding of geography. Of course they would imagine that this religious figure looked like them

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago

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[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

he's been whitened to the image of a Germanic man during the Christianisation of central Europe

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago

Was Zeus white? I thought that was also the invention of the Europeans at the time.

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[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Allah is God. Why do so many people not know that?

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Because according to people who don't understand the religion they claim to follow, Allah is a different god.

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social -4 points 6 months ago (6 children)

You're not incorrect, but I think there's no reason why a Christian should think Allah is the same god that Christians worship. That belief that it's the same god is a belief of Islam, which is not the religion that Christians follow.

The fact that Allah literally translates as "god" is irrelevant, as well. Poseidon is also called a "god", but that doesn't mean he's the same god.

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

All the Abrahamic religions share the same God.

It is a shame some people don't understand their own religion.

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[–] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

Kind of curious but how do Abrahamic religions feel about religions with a pantheon? Are all the Gods the same guy in different costumes or is there only one true God amongst a bunch of impostors?

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago

Abrahamic religions generally believe other gods exist but that they are false gods. Christians mostly believe in the triunity, meaning that three separate gods (Jesus, God, Holy Ghost) are actually the same god.

I am no biblical scholar, but I have spent over a decade studying religions out of self-interest. I know just enough to get myself in trouble, so I don't claim any authority.

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you actually empathize with a person who has different beliefs, for example, you'd realize that when somebody takes one religion, and changes it drastically, that the people with the earlier religion would not consider themselves to be worshipping the same god as the later religion.

If Jews really thought Christians were worshipping the same god, they'd become Christians. If Jews or Christians really thought that Muslims were worshipping the same god, they'd all become Muslims. Islam came last, so of course they'd have the most up-to-date religion, right? Why would anybody keep the old ways if they actually thought Muslims worshipped their same god? They wouldn't. It makes no sense.

Especially because the god in Islam seems quite different to the Christian god. Islam's religious text instructs the faithful to lie about their religion when it suits their needs, for example. Jesus described himself as the truth. Catholics, for example, believe that Jesus is god. Islam says that Jesus is only a prophet. That is a fundamental difference in who they believe is god.

Their main religious figures couldn't be more different, either. The Jesus described in the Christian Bible was an educated Jewish holy man. Mohammed was an illiterate pedophile warlord. If a Christian thinks that their god is the same as Allah, then they just haven't thought about it. That is a belief of Islam, not Christianity.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

You make a lot of good logical points, but religion isn't logical.

You can read up on Abrahamic Religions below

The gist is that all these religions have a common ancestor with some slight differences. Jews are still waiting for their savior, they recognize Jesus along with the Muslims as a prophet, but not their savior. Muslims recognize Mohammed as the final prophet, but not a savior in the sense Jesus is to the Christians.

Trust me, they have thought about it and all agree they worship the same god even if they have different key prophets (Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed). It is weird and confusing for sure.

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 1 point 6 months ago

Trust me, they have thought about it and all agree they worship the same god even if they have different key prophets (Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed).

Trust me, they can say "we all worship the same god", but it's meaningless because they actually don't. Their gods have fundamental irreconcilable differences, and if they say otherwise, they're just trying to avoid a fight.

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[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 6 points 6 months ago

Yeah if I understand correctly Allah is just a contraction of "Al Illah" which means "the god".

I love the history of the emergence of monotheism, it was very gradual and often the one god had to cohabit with lesser deities for centuries before they fully took over. Interestingly, Yahweh was in competition for some time with other warrior storm gods, including Belial and Baal which were ultimately demonized to the highest degree to prevent them coming back.

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

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[–] SethW@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago*

That's a naive interpretation of the lore , then allah is also the same god of the mormons who is one of many in their pantheon. just because an atheist can step back and analyze the lore and draw relationships between fictional characters doesnt mean you can do the same through a lens of absolute truth in a haunted universe with real ghosts

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This isn't defending Jesus. Jesus violently punching Trump is also blasphemy.

Hilarious blasphemy, though.

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[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Idk, he flipped tables and chased/threw people out in a church, from my limited understanding.

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

With a whip!

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

crazy how that other doctor comes out of nowhere and hits doctor trump

[–] mtpender@piefed.social 24 points 6 months ago (1 child)

"JESUS FROM THE TOP ROPE! BY GAWD HE HAD A FAMILY!"

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Good. Do his family next.

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[+] halfapage@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (1 child)

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[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I think that was Orodruin.

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago (1 child)

The true AI wars have begun.

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

I love how anticlimatic the content of the word is in that case X)

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[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 6 months ago

The one where the guy on the table is jeffery epstein is better.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

So is part of the rapture fantasy that you have to deify an evil lunatic to lure Jesus out of his hidey hole to flip tables and take names?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

It's actually that Jesus will come at an appointed time that no one can know or decide, and when he does he'll smite the followers of the evil lunatic to hell. So no, trumpees don't even know their own religion...

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[–] SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Jesus would propably not hate this

[–] stinely_yours@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 months ago

Notorious table flipper, he

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[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Even Iran uses white Jesus? C'mon.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 months ago

They're making these for a western audience, so yes.

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago*

Jesus? I thought that was David Harbour.

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[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

... Have you seen middle eastern people?

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[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I have. Not a chance they are that caucasian white. Remember we are talking about 2k years ago, without all the intermixing of races and with people spending a lot of time under the sun.

According to the bible Jesus did spend plenty time under the sun either working or preaching. No way he was that white.

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[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

To be fair, this fictional character could be purple and it would still be fine with me.

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[–] Akh@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Just stop, jewish people included Hellenic greeks and many other “white” people to the point we have no clue. It is just so immaterial

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[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Mostly I doing Iran has a special AI that can successfully create a non-white Jesus...

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[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

I don't think that they are unable to write "non-white ethnically correct Jesus" in their prompt...

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago

Iran was probably where caucasians originated from.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 6 months ago

That's actually based af. The only thing it's missing is changing the patient to be Epstein

[–] SourGumGum@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

wtf I love Iran now.

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Lol

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

It's interesting to think that, if anyone was to be smited, my blaspheming rear would be far down the list.

[–] null@lemmy.org 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I want to get off Mr Bones' Wild Ride.

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

Mr Bones says, "The ride never ends!"

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[–] Ron@zegheteens.nl 5 points 6 months ago

What did Jon Stewart do to Trump?

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (10 children)

And people claim there is no good use case for AI...

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[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I’m still not convinced that either of these are good uses….

What scares me is that we once had to read political platforms to elect someone and to look to the newspapers or evening news to help us stay informed. And as technology progressed, we have found dumber and dumber reasons to form opinions about global events - we don’t like someone’s voice, or they wore the wrong outfit, or the building looks shabby. And now we enter a world where we are going to judge people and events based on fabricated material, which I find terrifying.

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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

People were always this dumb. There are just more of us.

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 9 points 6 months ago

Yeah, before the internet every little town had a few lunatics and mentally challenged people, but they were alone. The net has connected them and gave them a voice, and by god, is it loud and obnoxious.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

TLDR; please summarize in the form of AI video

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

And now we enter a world where we are going to judge people and events based on fabricated material, which I find terrifying.

If it's something they choose to share themselves, directly linked to their name, I think it's fair to judge them on that.

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[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 1 point 6 months ago

I agree that we can judge the creator, at least initially. However, this is like Pandora’s box where you can’t put the contents back in. If falsified content is released that tarnishes the reputation of someone else, that will spread beyond the original creator and stay in the public domain for years.

It’s not inconceivable that we enter a world of faked videos depicting speeches, war crimes, sexual affairs, etc that may very well be fakes, and they will get harder and harder to distinguish from reality

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[–] SourGumGum@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago

What scares me is that we once had to read political platforms to elect someone and to look to the newspapers or evening news to help us stay informed.

Both highly biased sources, I'm glad they're not our only options these days.