[–] 27 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Winne the pooh is racist now? Dude - the whole reason it became a meme is because someone made a cute comparison of how Xi looks like Pooh (which he objectively does) and the whiny little bitch threw a hissy fit and created his own personal Streisand effect. It has nothing to do with the Chinese people and everything to do with a thin-skinned dictator.

Remove your head from your ass before you speak. You'll sound a lot smarter.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 week ago (38 children)

    It's not. The commentator above is just using Israeli style conflation to attempt to dismiss any critique of the Chinese government as racist against Chinese.

    Side note: For the record, I'm not racist. I hate everyone equally.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Harris doing her best Neville Chamberlin impression...

    But I agree. Impeachment won't work, and it simply isn't a solution in a corrupt regime. It's just theater designed to distract you from rioting.

    The only solution to a fully corrupted government is revolution.

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  • [–] 112 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

    Ok kids. Let me take you back in time to the olden days of yore, or as we like to call it, Wednesday morning.

    Back then, a little-known user, @dgdft@lemmy.world, posted an innocuous shitpost regarding early Mr. Universe winner, Bruce Randall:

    https://kbin.earth/m/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world/t/3329134/In-the-late-1950s-early-Mr-Universe-winner-Bruce-Randall#comments

    Bruce bulked up by putting powdered milk in his milk. This grabbed Lemmy's attention by the beans and resulted in the memegasm of powdered milk we see today. Last time I checked, it had blown all the way up to Ten Forward:

    https://kbin.earth/m/tenforward@lemmy.world/t/3330101/This-substance-is-inefficient#comments

    ...where apparently resistance to powdered milk is futile.

    These days (Wednesday evening), the powdered milk memegasm has mostly run its course. Metamemes are popping up, blending beans and milk, with dire consequences for Lemmings' digestive systems and anyone standing downwind of them.

    In essence, powdered milk is a prime example of the meme lifecycle - arising from a shitpost, wafting high on its own cringe into the collective consciousness to be flung between hairless apes until it splatters over everything, marking everything with its scent before finally descending back into the shitpost from whence it came.

    Side note: This would make a perfect subject for a documentary on memes narrated by David Attenborough.

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