awful.systems
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
@Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

Dont be fooled by cable news

lemmy.world

message-square
99
fedilink
1.07K

Dont be fooled by cable news

lemmy.world

@Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago
message-square
99
fedilink
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • @Da_wud@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    130•1 year ago

    This is literally the point of The Boys. What if normal greedy people held the power, what would that look like if they were superpowered.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
      link
      fedilink
      56•1 year ago

      Even in The Boys, the real evil came from their corporate overlords.

      • @Alsephina@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        15•1 year ago

        More specifically capitalism. Pretty good show.

        • @gobills@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          1•1 year ago

          deleted by creator

    • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      20•1 year ago

      They do hold the power tho

  • @Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    61•1 year ago

    Europe: “Why do Americans hate natives and black people?” after raping Africa for its resources.

    • Rozaŭtuno
      link
      fedilink
      19•
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Unlike Americans, Europeans would never create systematic forms of oppression… except with migrants, and Arabs, and Romas, and Samis, and other Europeans.

      • @Jordan_U@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        6•1 year ago

        Roma.

        G* has always been a slur.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
      link
      fedilink
      17•1 year ago

      England doesn’t really have any room to talk.

      • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        15•1 year ago

        That was the joke

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
          link
          fedilink
          3•1 year ago

          I didn’t notice that the last sentence is outside of the quotes.

    • @Klear@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      14•1 year ago

      They never got Ethiopia…

      • @Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        9•1 year ago

        They never got Thailand…

        • Annoyed_🦀
          link
          fedilink
          8•1 year ago

          Unexpected Bill Wurtz

    • @ferralcat@monyet.cc
      link
      fedilink
      11•1 year ago

      Americans: “Stop with the what-aboutism arguments when they apply to us. Others? Sure, I’m fine with that.”

  • FunkyMonk
    link
    fedilink
    50•1 year ago

    Didn’t USA come up with both characters? One in the 1930s and one now? More of a sign of the times I say.

    • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      70•
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Yeah. The Boys is literally a hot take on current America. And it’s awesome. People that think this meme is clever have never seen the show. It’s basically the entire point of the show.

      • @pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        12•1 year ago

        This being the entire point of the show is the reason this meme works at all ?!

    • @usernamefactory@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      13•1 year ago

      To be pedantic, Supermen was created by a pair of Canucks and The Boys is the brainchild of an Irishman.

      • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        12•1 year ago

        Joe Shuster (Superman’s original artist) was Canadian, but Jerry Siegel (the original writer) was from Cleveland.

        • @usernamefactory@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          3•1 year ago

          Ah, I stand corrected.

    • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      13•1 year ago

      Because we were still fucking great back then.

      • @Nudding@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        35•1 year ago

        You never were. Genocide of native Americans directly to 300 years of African slavery.

        • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          23•1 year ago

          I meant to say so fucking great. I understand why I’m getting down voted. That was the point I’m making. This country has always been a worthless fucking shit hole since day one.

          • @amotio@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            15•1 year ago

            I have a feeling that your original comment would benefit from /s

            • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              13•1 year ago

              Oh well I give two shits if people are downvoting me lol

        • @DagonPie@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          4•1 year ago

          Actin like the US isnt the only country to kill natives and have slaves. Every country is bad. We just have to try and be less bad as time goes on. But that seems almost impossible with who runs countries.

          • @Nudding@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            2•1 year ago

            You weren’t the only ones, but you sure did it the most.

      • @Holyginz@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        26•1 year ago

        We were never that great. We got to where we are through exploiting the natives land and through slavery. Also rampant sexism and homophobia to name a few. But if you don’t give a shit about any people in those categories, i.e. only care about white people and even that mainly just white men then sure I guess we were great back then.

        • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          12•1 year ago

          Meh, we were great at many things, and horrible at many things. Life is grey, not black and white.

          Every nation on the planet has sins. I’m not minimizing America’s; they are grave. But across the world, throughout history every parcel of land was taken, and every nation has at one point exploited it’s people. It’s childish to imagine any nation/culture/people is clean.

          Certainly not agreeing with the “back in the good old days” rhetoric. As you point out, “the good old days” weren’t so good if your skin was the wrong color, or had polio, or didn’t want to serve in a war, or many other reasons.

    • @Bondrewd@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      3•1 year ago

      USA participating in WW2 is one of the greatest net goods in history at the cost of millions of lives. Cant argue it was citizens sent into involuntary massacre. Neither can you argue how the most evil and horrible empires got dismantled then or eventually.

  • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    39•
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Now do your country.

    Edit: so far GB and Canada have a sense of humour

    • TheMongoose
      link
      fedilink
      72•1 year ago

      https://imgflip.com/i/7v216d

      • TWeaK
        link
        fedilink
        English
        10•1 year ago

        I’m just waiting for the Swiss Army Man version of Britain.

      • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        7•1 year ago

        Lol love it

      • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        1•1 year ago

        Well played.

    • @EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      22•1 year ago

      Canada to Canadians:

      A Mountie standing between all the world’s major conflicts blocking the worst of it, in the background there’s a stack of Olympic hockey medals.

      Canada to the rest of the world:

      Aren’t you guys like, a part of the US? Anyway I put sugar in your tea for you because that’s how the Americans like it.

      • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        21•1 year ago

        Canada to indigenous peoples: Homelander.

        • @EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website
          link
          fedilink
          9•1 year ago

          I think this is our official statement on indigenous genocide:

          https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4

          • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
            link
            fedilink
            English
            1•1 year ago

            Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

            https://m.piped.video/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4

            Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

            I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

            • @EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website
              link
              fedilink
              1•1 year ago

              Thanks pipeo

      • @kariboka@bolha.forum
        link
        fedilink
        7•1 year ago

        Canada in Brasil: lets fucking destroy the amazon.

      • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        4•1 year ago

        Canada to the rest of the world:

        Krombopulous Michaels: “oh boy, here I go killing again!”

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        3•1 year ago

        We like it as tea flavored simple syrup actually. Idk about Canadians though, probably the same right? They’re basically Minnesotans with funny accents

        • @EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website
          link
          fedilink
          3•
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          I should add when I went to Europe all the cafes kept explaining that I wouldn’t like their tea or just adding sugar because I sounded American to them.

          It was weirdly insulting. Like the kind of thing that’s not really an insult, but feels like one.

        • @AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          2•1 year ago

          I know a fair number of Minnesotans who say they’re Canadian when traveling to Europe. The accent and culture is similar enough and generally people have more positive stereotypes about Canadians, lol.

          The tea thing is weird though. I’m originally from Florida, where iced tea is sweet tea, I was dismayed the first time I ordered iced tea in Minnesota and it was unsweet, and the barista pointed me at sugar packets- no, the sugar won’t dissolve properly in cold tea!

          • @LoamImprovement@ttrpg.network
            link
            fedilink
            4•1 year ago

            Every time I go south I wonder how people down there are still alive. Between the sweet tea, biscuits and gravy, pork cracklings, boudin, and kolaches, I feel like I have to take a nap whenever I eat a meal.

          • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            3•1 year ago

            Yeah I’m actually a northerner and you don’t think there’s too much of a difference between Ohio and Kentucky culturally until you order iced tea. I like it unsweetened, but even the sweet tea up here is less sweet.

        • @EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website
          link
          fedilink
          2•1 year ago

          Brisk or Arazona iced tea are fairly popular, but I mostly set prior just having iced tea without sugar.

      • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        2•1 year ago

        Holding shields of maple leaves and bacon

        • @EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website
          link
          fedilink
          2•1 year ago

          Peameal bacon

    • @pocketman_stuck@lemmy.eco.br
      link
      fedilink
      11•1 year ago

      u mad?

      • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        15•1 year ago

        Lol no. Are you upset cuz I want to see memes about other countries too?

    • davel [he/him]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      10•1 year ago

      Already trying to both-sides the narrative before even knowing who the other side is, because all you’re interested in is deflection.

      • KptnAutismus
        link
        fedilink
        14•1 year ago

        lemmings need to calm the fuck down, not everything is an attack.

      • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        9•1 year ago

        Dude. You need to get out of your basement.

      • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        5•1 year ago

        🥱

    • @Obi@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      3•1 year ago

      It doesn’t work when the citizens hate the country more than anyone else does already (France).

  • @Alsephina@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    38•
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    “If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.” - Nelson Mandela

    • @rbhfd@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      14•1 year ago

      Yes, but why would you listen to what Hamas has to say?!?!

      • @Alsephina@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        18•1 year ago

        We are all Hamas on this blessed day

        • @rbhfd@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          18•1 year ago

          Speak for yourself

          • @Alsephina@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            English
            16•
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            Lmao I thought your reply was a joke on Israel calling everything Hamas. You were serious? Lol

            • @LwL@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              7•1 year ago

              Can’t attest to their intentions but “speak for yourself” would be the continuation of the ken m “we are all x on this blessed day” meme, whether or not that’s what you were going for.

              • @rbhfd@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                12•1 year ago

                Oh, absolutely. Was hoping for a “I am all Hamas on this blessed day”.

                For the ones not in the know:

                Source of the Ken M meme

                • @Alsephina@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  2•1 year ago

                  Damn I didn’t know the original meme 😔

                • @creamed_eels@toast.ooo
                  link
                  fedilink
                  2•1 year ago

                  Oh Ken M, will you ever learn?

          • Exocrinous
            link
            fedilink
            English
            4•1 year ago

            I am all Hamas on this blessed day

    • @S_204@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      7•
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      That’s rich coming from a fucking terrorist himself. Dude blew up civilians too. Guess he knows what he’s talking about.

      • Exocrinous
        link
        fedilink
        English
        3•1 year ago

        This is why kids these days think terrorism is based

        • @S_204@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          1•1 year ago

          Ya, the whole ’ oppressor’ v ’ oppressed’ narrative has caused some younger people to lose their understanding and morality. Mother fuckers are cheering for bin Laden and the Houthis right now, let alone Hamas. It’s completely fucked up. Those are the bad guys, there’s no way to argue otherwise reasonably.

          • Exocrinous
            link
            fedilink
            English
            8•1 year ago

            No, kids think terrorism is based because you boomers keep calling good people terrorists.

            PS: Israel and Hamas are on the same side. They both want a war. Every anti-Israel person is anti-Hamas, and every pro-Israel person is pro-Hamas. If Israel gave equal rights to Palestinians, nobody would give Hamas good press anymore. No new recruits. People would leave. Hamas’ existence is a choice Israel continues to make every day.

            • @S_204@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              1•1 year ago

              So bin Laden, the Houthis and Hamas are good people?

              That’s who these people are cheering for. The Houthi flag is the call of the good guys?

              That you think Hamas wouldn’t exist if Israel provided equal rights, shows you are not familiar with the players involved here. Their charter says clearly otherwise, so do their actions. So does the entire history of the region. The goal is the removal of the Jewish people, same as it’s been for centuries. They’re not shy about sharing that either. You should listen to them.

              • Exocrinous
                link
                fedilink
                English
                2•1 year ago

                So bin Laden, the Houthis and Hamas are good people?

                You boomers have really bad reading comprehension.

  • @hakunawazo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    27•1 year ago

    Or like this:

    https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Superman_Vol_1_221

    • kase
      link
      fedilink
      3•1 year ago

      Wtf, I can’t believe this is real.

      Also- 1969, nice.

  • @EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    22•
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    deleted by creator

    • @Alsephina@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      7•1 year ago

      And not even improving the lives of its own citizens. Literally just causing as much death and destruction all over the world as possible just to profit a couple of military and oil corporations and their owners.

    • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      1•1 year ago

      Thank you for your service o7

  • @MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    18•1 year ago

    Wait, if homelander is 'murica does that make this part 9/11?

    • Rolivers
      link
      fedilink
      English
      6•1 year ago

      Fuckin diabolical.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
    link
    fedilink
    18•1 year ago

    Eh… Most of us see our country as somewhere in-between now a days.

    • @OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      3•1 year ago

      Yeah, this meme is fine, but it also goes the other way. Media runs off negative news and fear, and what the rest of the world is seeing is our media.

  • @LesserAbe@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    16•1 year ago

    Would probably be more impactful if I had seen that show

    • The1Ali
      link
      fedilink
      18•1 year ago

      You should, it’s a great show if you are not against a realistic version of the injustice league.

      • DreamButt
        link
        fedilink
        English
        7•1 year ago

        “realistic” eh

        Think it’s more a blunt commentary on celebrity culture than anything else

    • @LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      7•1 year ago

      It’s actually pretty great

  • @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
    link
    fedilink
    10•1 year ago

    The best part of this is that’s the worst version of Superman who was definitely going to turn evil.

  • defunct_punk
    link
    fedilink
    6•
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    removed by mod

    • @explodicle@local106.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3•1 year ago

      The bottom guy is Homelander from The Boys

  • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    6•
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    At most this one

  • @pifox@pawb.social
    link
    fedilink
    4•1 year ago

    Kind of a shitty mix of both.

  • ekZepp
    link
    fedilink
    English
    4•
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    More like him (with the Nuke guy watching his back).

Memes@lemmy.ml

!memes@lemmy.ml

remote_follow_modal_title

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !memes@lemmy.ml

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
  • 884 users / day
  • 3.37K users / week
  • 8.37K users / month
  • 21.2K users / 6 months
  • 50.3K subscribers
  • 12.4K Posts
  • 238K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • ghost_laptop
  • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
  • Cyclohexane
  • Arthur Besse
  • BE: 0.19.3
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org