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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 21 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

As usual we've found an engaging distraction to play whack-a-mole with for a while. When we get bored with bashing Elon Musk we'll find another one, never addressing the core problem of how to take down the oligarchy. Because that will take methodical work and a huge amount of diligent research and objective thinking - assuming anybody ever gets around to doing it at all. Most of us just entertain ourselves with angry memes, created by the few people with enough motivation to do even that much. This is why aristocracy systems can keep perpetuating themselves - they rely on human inertia - most people prioritize entertainment over doing anything substantial. Bottom line, that's the real reason things are the way they are.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

thank you

edit: actually the main page is pretty much dead links R us.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 day ago

Things you can do when you have fuck-you money to burn: buy a billboard.

I thought about buying / renting a billboard in a small town in Texas where a shitty family mistreated my partner's nephew when he did a cultural-exchange program (her family is Thai). It would be essentially this but about that family. I didn't go through with it because they got kicked out of the program via other avenues.

I did buy a discounted ad on a podcast to rail about how much I hate ads. That was fun. I think I paid like $175 or something. I don't have fuck-you money, but I do have low level fuck-around money.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 129 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I think I figured out one reason Trump is going after Greenland. It looks huge on a Mercator Projection map even though it isn’t that large.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

pretty sure I’ve seen this joke like 6 times lol but I guess with Trump the dumbest answer is unfortunately often the correct one

[–] grue@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago

That is genuinely stupid enough to be plausible.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is one and only one reason Trump/US wants Greenland. With US out of NATO, it is a point closer to Europe to threaten Europe. Every other explanation is a disgusting lie, and of zero value to US.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (15 children)

It wouldn't be very strategically important to the US on its own, but it currently is strategically important to NATO and harmful to Russia.

Getting NATO out of Greenland is Putin's order.

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Look at it, it's almost as bit as Africa! We haven't found who is the president of Africa, so we had to make do with Greenland though.

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 day ago

Oh wow, this actually makes sense now

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[–] Kalladblog@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm out of the loop and also not American. Can somebody elaborate please?

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

People sometimes come up with things they think are clever, but don't have the time, money, or energy to present them in a meaningful way, so they instead make a shitty AI image of a billboard to get more attention than their words would otherwise.

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Trump wants to buy Greenland and Canada, rename the gulf of Mexico to the gulf of America, and take control of the Panama canal

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Who even gets the money when you buy a country? Does it go to the people? If it does then that money is coming right back through taxes.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Historically, the king / emperor gets it. I'm guessing that most of the time it's probably used to pay down war debts.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago

He has no interest in buying either Canada or Greenland. He hasn't ruled out using force though.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump wants to invade Greenland and Panama. He wants to extort Canada into having no other choice than to submit to statehood.

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 3 points 21 hours ago

Apologies, I don't follow Trump crap too closely since I'm in the EU and I don't want to turn into a doomer so I based it off the pic

But yeah all in all fuck Trump

[–] CuffsOffWilly@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Donald Trump has offered to purchase Greenland. He wants to take the Panama Canal by brute force and keeps suggesting that Canada should become a State in order to avoid his oncoming tariffs. Meanwhile, Musk 'donated' about 250,000,000 USD to Trumps election campaign helping ensure he won and now we are all watching the US become an oligarchy. (Effectively Trump is owned by Musk).

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Donald Trump has offered to purchase Greenland.

No, Trump has been saying, in a threatening way, that Greenland is going to be part of the United States. He hasn't suggested buying it, but he hasn't ruled out taking it with military force.

Effectively Trump is owned by Musk

No. Musk bought a little influence and so far hasn't pissed Trump off enough that he's been cut off. But, it's just a matter of time.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

He has asked to buy it several times, not sure where you have been.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/trump-greenland-denmark

Nice to see that Mush bought influence with Drump. I personally am not going to play the game of talking about them not getting along. These two clowns trying to play good cop bad cop when they are both heels is pretty stupid.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

It's both. He keeps asking how much for Greenland while suggestively saying it's necessary for security. So threat and purchase offer. Like a true criminal.

[–] mannycalavera 18 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Elon Musk is the resident Nazi at the heart of the US government and is widely believed to have bought his influence with Trump. Oh and also Trump is President again after being a convicted criminal. No this isn't a joke.

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, because the US has a history of just accepting no for an answer and absolutely does not use coercion and violence to get the desired outcome.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] lemon@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To the extent that the billboard never existed while the image implies it did – sure.

I love the term ‘slop’. It’s one of my favorite new words along with ‘nontent’.

But this, to me, isn’t that. I think of slop as ‘unrequested, unconvincing, lazy, and lifeless’. In short, ineffective and unwelcome.

I feel like this meme gets the message across. It’s not great, but it’s not terrible. The AI tells are subtle enough: the multi lane pileup in the background and some poor small size text rendering.

Not sure why I felt the need to write this. Guess I’m of the opinion that just because something is AI-generated doesn’t mean it should be discounted immediately, unless it really feels like zero effort went into it. Have a nice day!

[–] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I feel like there isn't much of a difference between taking an existing picture and editing the text into it or using AI to generate a picture and editing the text into it.

Because I think the text looks way too good to be done by AI.

[–] dkt@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago

I'm fairly certain the text is AI generated too, just because of the questionable "creative" decisions that I don't think a human would make (why does some of the text have overlines? why is only the Canada line red? why are all the lines jarringly different font sizes?)

plus, now that I zoom in, one of the colons has different sizes for the top and bottom dots. I guess GANs can just do text now

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With Tump back in the office, soon enough they’ll be auctioning off federal lands and the postal service. Privatization is back on the menu.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I'm more worried if Germany is for sale

[–] daveoss@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago

Boy in a candy store mentality, although surprised he knew how to zoom out on google maps.

[–] zante@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

I feel like I’ve read snappier slogans.

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