Perhaps, but when a big part of the meme is to literally buy two tickets and watch both films that just seems way too consumerist to come around naturally. Like wow, the main theme of it just so happens to be getting you to act just how the studio executives would want you to, go figure. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but box office ticket sales since the pandemic are still recovering, so I would not at all be surprised if these sort of tactics were being used to drive sales. And its not entirely free advertising for Nolan’s film, since the whole point of the “Joke” is the absurdity of watching both films despite their vastly different subject matter. It just seems to me like the prefect opportunity to piggyback off each other’s popularity.

A little bit uncomfortable with using the Swine to portray Israel tbh, especially since every other animal head is supposed to represent the emblematic animal of each country.

You can’t convince me that the meme surrounding these films wasn’t a corporate guerilla marketing tactic. It came out of nowhere and doesn’t seem at all funny enough to be as big of a meme as its become.

Theres a lot I disagree with in there but I’ll point out the one that is most fundamentally wrong. Nobody said Russia is anti-capitalist, not the person you responded to, not the original comment, not even the post, nor does anyone on this site. Anti-Imperialism is the primary reason we support Russia, they pose a legitimate opposition to US hegemony and any nation that pivots away from the US/Western imperialist bloc towards Russia is a net positive in the struggle against imperialism.

Official ban reasoning says it was because of comments he made in the matrix server. His recent post appeared to spark a discussion about the CPUSA which didn’t go down very well, I assume it had something to do with that.

In light of Makan CPUSA finally getting banned, I’ve come to realize that his posts would on average gain the most traction out of anyone here.

Particularly the ones about videogames.

Are we all just secretly gamers? Terrifying prospect.

Lula’s worker’s party in Brazil, they’ve done incredible work helping the most impoverished people of the country, and are the most progressive in South America in my book.

Article 22(2)(a) of the 1991 ILC Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind, states that “collective punishment” is an exceptionally serious war crime and a serious violation of the principles and rules of international law applicable in armed conflict.

Remind libs of this whenever you see shit like this happening.

Woah, haven’t seen you around in a while, glad you’re still with us

Maybe a tad forceful in the rhetoric but I agree with your assessment of the issue. I don’t think we should bully people but rather give them a clearer picture as to the reality of what most impoverished people have to live with on the day to day. Most users here for example are from the US or Europe, where mosquitos and the diseases they carry aren’t anywhere near as prevalent, and I get that impression from reading many of the comments here. Maybe they had bad experiences on occasion, an unpleasant vacation, or a particularly bad summer. But most of them will never see the reality of how in many African nations, Malaria is the leading cause of death. We shouldn’t blame them for their lack of understanding, but rather help educate them.

I get the feeling that the only people who think mosquitos shouldn’t be eradicated are those who didn’t have to suffer through several terrible summers dealing with them. Take any one of these lucky people and make them spend a week in sub-Saharan Africa in July, I’d expect their tune to change.

Anyone who’s from the Global South will want them extinct, me included.

As for the pollinator thing, if we’re going through the effort to eradicate all mosquitos, we can put the same effort towards breeding and releasing replacements that don’t spread malaria, dengue and all the other horrible ailments that these things spread. They are the number one killer of humans besides humans, this alone seals it for me.

The Kalashnikov

I also wouldn’t put it past one of us to go out there and troll the hell out libs

I’m convinced that this is actually just a meme account, although I am sure there are legit real people out there who think like this.

this is satire, lmao, they used the same picture

Thing must have been crushed in half a second under that kind of pressure, people inside probably literally didn’t know what hit them, one moment you’re alive, and the other you’re not. Likely happened hours after they submerged, that glass porthole was definitely not going to withstand that kind of pressure for very long.

What counts as Nato if not literal member states? Is it not an international military alliance??? By your logic the Axis didn’t invade Europe, just individual Axis members.

Children? No. Man-children? To a disturbing degree.

You wouldn’t happen to be the same Rafael Luisi we had around a year ago would you?