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An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the "ML" influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The proportion of wealth was a little off; this is a little closer to reality.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah but if the proportion of wealth was accurately reflected, we wouldn't be able to read the speech bubble because the cookies would obstruct it. That is why the artist wisely chose to ensmallen the wealth of the wealthy in this portrayal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

a little closer to reality

Imagining the rest of the enormous pillar of cookies is left to the viewer, I suppose. Hard to show a tower to Mars all in one frame. seethes quietly at wealth hoarders

[–] [email protected] 92 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I prefer the original version with the Rupert Murdoch allusion.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

I thought that wanker looked familiar :p

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why did someone even change the text to just remove "mate"?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because "mate" is an Australian thing. They were probably trying to localize it for a non Australian audience. While still valid, the meme hits differently if the rich person is also a foreigner.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The reference is to Rupert Murdoch; a man who hasn’t been Australian since 1985 when he gave up his Australian Citizenship to become naturalised as an American. He created NewsCorp which became the Fox Corporation; one of the most politically viable and mainstream news sources of the 20th and 21st centuries in the US media landscape.

The revocation of the word ‘mate’ just honestly shows that Americans are so very alien to the concept of immigrants that even an Anglophonic immigrant who’s been a US citizen for almost 40 years still isn’t somehow ‘American’ if their slang hasn’t been fully naturalised as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Original source: https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2656977204337311

Denis Lushch - ‘The Bullshit Weaver’

It bugs me that this image has been altered and reproduced so many times without crediting the artist. It’s a wonderful political cartoon and very pointedly aimed at Rupert Murdoch and NewsCorp.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is highly unrealistic. The working man has a cookie? A whole one? It's not believable. A fourth of a cookie, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I was thinking the same, the worker would have crumb you'd need a microscope to see and the capitalist would be sitting on a mountain of cookies so big you couldn't even see him from the ground ...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Old guy needs a larger pile of cookies and to be setting that guy's house aflame to make more.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Reform UK summed up

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

That's accurate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Wow, that’s what it’s all about right now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I'm laughing at this because in my state, a bunch of second generation latino construction workers are upset that Mexican construction workers are doing their jobs. And their solution was to vote for Trump, who would lock them all up in cages.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

More like: Oh, you want workers rights and a living wage? Meet the scab who is replacing you. He works for less and takes more abuse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why don't the workers get all the cookies? Are they stupid?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Careful cookie! The foreigner wants you.