• @Curiousfur@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    IIRC Pushback against “Unsafe at any speed” was the literal origin of the conservative think tank as a political movement. I think Behind the Bastards did an episode on it or maybe Stuff you missed in history class?

    Meant to post this as a response to my picture

      • ObliviousEnlightenment
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        46 months ago

        If you had told me ten years ago that one day “°I will report you to doge” would be a valid sentence and a real threat, I wouldve died

      • @lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        56 months ago

        I don’t know bout y’all but my rarest pepe was forged in the physical world with a pencil and a sheet of paper. It was so rare and powerful that I had to split it into 7 pieces and scatter them across the land.

        I’m not sure where the pieces are now exactly. Last I heard, there were two competing search teams hunting for them, one being a ragtag team of inexperienced heart-of-gold types and the other being some sort of evil empire.

        I figured it’d be best not to get involved.

  • Gamma
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    286 months ago

    This is way better mirrored

    also oof

    • алсааас [she/they]
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      To me the mirrored version just looks wrong

      like you don’t mirror or otherwise mutilate well-established meme templates

      it’s like an unspoken rule of the internet

      • Gamma
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        176 months ago

        I like that it reads left to right! Yes, it’s also pretty uncanny haha

        • RandomStickman
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          166 months ago

          Personally the original also reads left to right, the punch line being the starting domino being something that’s seeming unrelated to the big final domino but both works, really

      • @theneverfox@pawb.social
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        25 months ago

        Have you ever noticed how they often shake left hands in a lot of shows and movies? It’s probably something about shot composition or something but…

        You ever wonder if everything that comes out of Hollywood is mirrored?

  • @Mothra@mander.xyz
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    Sorry I’m OOTL. I presume this is the much wow shiba in memes but I didn’t know this caused anything to america? Can someone fill me in about some of the dominos in-between please?

    • Maven (famous)OP
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      376 months ago

      Musk and his love of memes just got appointed to a new government position at the Department Of Government Efficiency or D.O.G.E. for short.

  • @t_chalco@lemmy.world
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    It’s probably turtles all the way down, but I think “A[n] British animators’s email segment co-star mispronounces misspells 90s greeting” might be an even smaller domino.

    Edited to replace failing memory.

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    6 months ago

    My personal one

    IIRC Pushback against “Unsafe at any speed” was the literal origin of the conservative think tank as a political movement. I think Behind the Bastards did an episode on it or maybe Stuff you missed in history class?

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      It was always Ralph Nader’s fault.

      (To the down voter: Ralph Nader fought to bring regulations for mandatory seat belts, among other life saving consumer safety issues he had a hand in. Man’s a hero. Also, this is a joke. Ffs)

        • masterofn001
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          That was Chad’s fault.

          (And roger stone, and john Bolton, and the supreme court. And Pat Buchannon who was another 3rd party spoiler whom many ballots were accidentally cast. 20% of his votes came from that single county. Nothing strange at all.)

      • caseyweederman
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        Which part’s a joke? I can’t tell which of you think you’re being funny.

          • caseyweederman
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            I think you overestimate your ability to communicate irony in text-only media.

        • Zagorath
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          16 months ago

          Sorry I still don’t really understand. What does “unsafe at any speed” mean?

            • Zagorath
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              Oh damn. I didn’t realise just how ahead of his time (by Anglosphere standards) Nader was. We’re 50 years on and just now are the evils of motornormativity starting to be more widely understood.