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[–] [email protected] 122 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If you just graze hard enough and don't defend your fellow gazelles, one day you too can become a lion.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago

Just gotta pull yourself up by your hooves.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 11 months ago (1 children)

More honest than claiming it'll "trickle down."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

But it will!!!!

Joke aside, money would trickle down when workers ensure that key markets like housing and healthcare are competitive and not take whatever wage increase there is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate more on the second bit? I'm having trouble piecing it together grammatically to understand the sentence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Housing is a sellers market where buyers compete. There needs to be a surplus of housing so that buyers can choose. Then prices fall to construction costs plus cost of management.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Money would trickle down if workers ensured that key markets like housing and healthcare were competitive, and not systems that take whatever wage increase they can get.

is my read of it

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago

“One day if I work really hard, maybe they’ll let me bite a gazelle!” — The Gazelle

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

is this sopossed to be a metaphor for something or am i just stupid

[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago

The title of the comic is "Tax Deductions" so I can assume Oglaf is satirizing working class people who worship capitalists.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Is this anti-CRT? I fully accept if I'm reaching too far.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You can tell it's not some right-wing boomer cartoon because there's diversity.

For example, the group of lions is (almost) evenly split between male and female lions.

And there is one antelope which is left-handed, while all others are right-handed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Uhhhh... I... Huh. Holy shit. You're right... Wtf. That's so weirdly cool. I never would have noticed

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

It's about capitalism

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What makes you think it's anti-CRT?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The panel where the cycle is shown, followed by the gazelle being thankful for being eaten, looks like the rhetoric of anti-CRT.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

CRT is when we teach sheeple to be sheep?

I read it as more pro-critical history than anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If you go by conspiracy theorists' rhetoric, yes CRT is when sheeple are taught to be sheep.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

i don't remember this episode of Beastars 🤔

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It's a Lion King spinoff where the gazelle idolizes the lion.

It's the Lion Kink, It have gore, sex and everything

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You've done it now, now I'm catching up on Oglaf!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

He's as good as ever, go ahead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Reminds me of Theo Lion from Between the Lions.