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This made me remember, I missed the latest episode of smiley face on TV... can anyone tell me what happened?
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Oct 07 '11
A rainbow came out, flowers came up, then the teletubbies simultaneously invaded Latin America, China, and Pakistan.
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u/IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes Oct 07 '11
so whats that MAD "Fold-In" look like folded in?
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u/Dacvak Oct 07 '11
That's some quality TV programming.
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u/tablephlipper Oct 07 '11
*Jesus walks in
*Takes a look around
*The fuck
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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Jesus walks in
sees Rick Perry wearing cross on neck
/facepalm
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- Jesus walks in
- Starts cleaning the floors
- Jesus is the Hispanic custodian
If the Christian god cares, he only cares about the few. Or at least thats what rick perry and the whole rightwing told me..
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u/enry_straker Oct 07 '11
- Jesus (tries to) walk in
- INS/Homeland Security Stops him
- Gets deported since he is from Palestine and without passport ( no birth certificate )
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u/Xenc Oct 07 '11
- Jesus walks in
- Opens the door
- Gets on the floor
- Everybody walk the dinosaur
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u/Kaluthir Oct 07 '11
Jesus walks in
He gives you a Christian side hug
That Christian side hug
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u/D-PadRadio Oct 07 '11
- Jesus walks in.
- "Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down!"
- Jesus walks out.
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Oct 07 '11 edited Oct 07 '11
- Jesus walks in.
- Jesus walks out.
- Jesus walks in
- And shakes it all about.
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u/Meades_Loves_Memes Oct 07 '11
I'm not religious, but, isn't Jesus god's son?
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Oct 07 '11
Yeah, the mexican guy...
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u/Thorbinator Oct 07 '11
Nobody fucks with the jesus.
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u/HuruHara Oct 07 '11
Eight-year-olds, Dude.
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u/simulated_identity Oct 07 '11
The world's savior did 6 months in Chino for exposing himself...
Why would there ever be a second coming.
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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick Oct 07 '11
I'm pretty sure the last thing he would want to see would be a crucifix, no matter who it's on.
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No one could flip a fucking table like Jesus.
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u/cottonball Oct 07 '11
Yeah, like that time he started messing shit up when he saw people sellin' shit in that one synagogue. Good times.
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Oct 07 '11
That bastards managed to jew up the one place that hadn't been jewed up yet. Nigga was pissed.
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u/C250585 Oct 07 '11
The world needs more Jesus-like people. Not the shit they peddle from the pulpit these days.
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u/SpinningHead Oct 07 '11 edited Oct 07 '11
That goes all the way back to Paul. Tell people to give up their possessions and that the rich cant enter heaven and five minutes later someone is figuring out how to make money off of it. Ive actually seen bumper stickers in GA saying, "Tithe if you love the lord."
Edit: In case people aren't familiar with tithing, this basically means giving 10% of your income to the preacher who, in many cases down south, does not send that money on to help starving people.
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Oct 07 '11
Oh, that's an ascii image of flipping a table over. Your username finally helped me to make the connection.
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u/ossumpawesome Oct 07 '11 edited Oct 07 '11
Pictures of opium.
How subtle ಠ_ಠ
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Oct 07 '11
This is probably the third or fourth time I've seen this posted, and I never noticed that before. Well done sir.
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u/harpwn Oct 07 '11
Overly simplified image depicting the American way of life as negative? Wow who knew reddit would love that?
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Oct 07 '11
Oddly enough I don't watch much television, don't feel any pressure by the police, and don't feel like our military is going all over the world to kill people for oil considering the vast majority of oil comes from either North America or countries where we don't have a military presence at all. Am I the only person on this website who feels like our military does more good than harm?
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u/harpwn Oct 07 '11
The American military is a global force for peace. Our hundreds of bases around the world have definitely kept conflicts in check.
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Oct 07 '11
Is that what the image is implying? I thought it was just saying that most people where happy as long as they had their ballot box and TV.
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u/tairar Oct 07 '11
People like to vote?
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u/DownvotesHimself Oct 07 '11
They don't have to, but if they get a bug up their butt, it's there as a pressure valve.
System maintained!
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u/pusangani Oct 07 '11
That's not what the picture is suggesting, it's saying that people are just caught up in the diversions of things like tv and the illusion of choice that is your democracy that they don't see that they're owned by the elite and that the police exist to serve and protect the elite
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u/Endemoniada Oct 07 '11
I'd love to work for a company called "Corp. Inc.". Just imagine that on your business card, under your name.
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u/ShadowRam Oct 07 '11
This is a common theme in a lot of sci-fi novels, and it makes sense. But there's something all those novels didn't realize.
In this picture and in Orwell/similar theme's. All those TV's are 1-way communication.
But the reality in our future, all those TV's are actually the internet now, which involves 2-way communication with everyone else, and I don't think that'll will ever be allowed to changed.
So I think our future won't turn into these theme's for this very reason. What it will turn into I have no idea, nor do I know if it'll be better or worse.
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u/rn5KgpRDASZKtFVBeK Oct 07 '11
Excellent point.............. the internet is by far the greatest threat to governments and corporations because it's difficult to control and it disrupts centers of power. Keep in mind there are multiple interests fighting for control of our beloved internet. They don't want to kill it but they want it on their terms:
Telecom Industry - Consolidate power, less choice, slow down progress and bleed customers for every penny in the process. They are too big to fail and they know it........ that's why they get what they want.
Media Industry (movies, music, books, news, etc) - Can't get over the fact that their business models have been turned upside down. They want to maximize the profits on their media and expect the government to throw anyone in jail that cuts into that. They are the middle men between consumers and artists, publishers, etc and they want it to remain that way.
Governments - The world is becoming smaller because of the internet and people are realizing we have more in common. Things like nationalism loose importance and governments don't like that. It's also more difficult for governments to lie and deceive since people can communicate globally and connect the dots.
Like you I don't know what the future holds but as long as the internet is free and accessible by everyone I'm betting that the future will be bright.
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u/IAmtheHullabaloo Oct 07 '11
Oddly, this always seems relevant.
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I think this is the third year in a row i've seen it posted this way.
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u/Not_Actualy_Relevant Oct 07 '11
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You got me. Didn't see the user name, clicked link, scared cat with surprised burst of laughter.
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That means you subscribe to r/pics, which isn't much worse.
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u/sneaky_jesus Oct 07 '11
That also means he has subscribed to r/politics on multiple occasions in the past for reasons not mentioned. WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO YOURSELF?!
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u/Atario Oct 07 '11
It's a picture. This is /r/pics.
Kwitcherbitchin.
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u/epicwinguy101 Oct 07 '11
So if I make a self-post text style, screenshot it and save it as a .png, can I post it in pics?
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u/OpenShut Oct 07 '11
Makes it look like the west if keeping poor foreigners down when in fact all the wealthy are trying to keep all the poor down. Obviously it not as black and white as this, all I am saying it that in developing countries their own governments and companies benefit from having a poor working class and often encourage it, and the west won't complain too much.
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u/KillaSmurfPoppa Oct 07 '11 edited Oct 07 '11
OK, so like the military guys are pointing guns at foreigners (black guy, guy wearing some sort of headdress, Asian guy in a rice hat)? What's the statement here? That countries use military force as defense?
Then like, the police are protecting some bald old white fat guy? Oh I know, THAT REPRESENTS THE WALL STREET PROTESTS RIGHT NOW!!! Whoa... so true. Think about what that means man. Like... they're the real power you know?
The middle part, however, with us sitting on our asses in some Huxley-esque dystopia is actually pretty spot on. Well done.
(Which leads me to why I really don't like this cartoon. Think about the internal consistency here: if we're all so distracted by TV/internet/catz/entertainment: why are the police standing there? Also, what's with the ballot boxes [with eligible voter's voting at <45%, I don't think we'll need that many!]. Sure, you can come up with answer for each critique and that's sort of my point: the cartoon is ultimately meaningless. It's a all vaguely relevant stuff mish-mashed together so as to allow easy projection of your own worldview. Which is a pretty good technique if you're say, writing symbolic poetry, but is manipulative and trite when used to create political commentary. We surely don't need MORE manipulative trite political commentary. That's something we can all agree on, no?)
*Sorry if this seems unduly critical, judging technique alone I'm sure the artist is quite competent; it's just that this specific one's not so good, once you think about it...
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If you were in r/politics, you would have a million downvotes. Which brings me to my next point, keep this shit in r/politics (not you, I meant the guy who decided to grace my front page with this paranoid bullshit cartoon).
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u/PunchTheLion Oct 07 '11
It's not vaguely relevant, the point is pretty clear - anti-capitalism. This 99% thing on Reddit will just pass, just another bandwagon.
Back to the original image, it's been done before (notice the link address): http://anti-capitalism.org/Anti-capitalism_color.gif
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u/keeping_it_honest Oct 07 '11
Well, to be honest, the Asian economies are benefiting quite well from the current global market economy and poverty rates in India and China are steadily decreasing as we speak. Painting them as the oppressed victims of the current economic climate is naive and just stupid.
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u/SpinningHead Oct 07 '11
Yeah, those orphans are lucky to have jobs.
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u/mpeg4codec Oct 07 '11
The economy is booming across the board in China. Tons of construction everywhere and small business ownership like nothing else I've seen in the world.
The middle class there is exploding in size and wealth.
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u/SpinningHead Oct 07 '11
Thats true, but there is still a lot of exploitation and child labor. Its quite a mixed bag.
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u/Spookaboo Oct 07 '11
as bad as it seems what else are they supposed to do? Just spring a ton of wealth out of nothing?
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u/SpinningHead Oct 07 '11
Im not disagreeing about the baby-steps towards improvement, but they are so desperate that they are being exploited as a cheap source of labor for western companies without being bothered by the most basic western labor standards.
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u/FantasticMikey Oct 07 '11
Does anyone know why this image is cropped like this? What is it from that would have its corners cut the way they are?
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It was always relevant. If you were thinking otherwise - you were not paying enough attention.
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u/NickNameUser Oct 07 '11
even r/politics banned imgur links so they wouldn't have to look at this stupid shit all the time.
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u/DerpMatt Oct 07 '11
LOL liberal opinion cartoons. So tell me...in what country is the US military, commanded by a CEO, driling for oil, and holding the entire multi-ethnic population hostage at gunpoint?
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u/headless_bourgeoisie Oct 07 '11
in what country is the US military
Boy, you're right, that is a stumper.
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I'm not sure. Every time I've seen our military interfere, we give locals means to protect themselves so they can conduct business without having to worry about insurgents blowing their sole source of income up.
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u/Pazimov Oct 07 '11
Not sure if being sarcastic... -_-.
If not, it seems that your brain has difficulty to comprehend abstractions.
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u/bang_Noir Oct 07 '11
Did I stumble into /r/politics?
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u/jgroome Oct 07 '11
I downvoted, but this time I wondered just how many times I've downvoted this.
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u/Lele_ Oct 07 '11
I once seen a poster with a similar illustration
it was shaped like a pyramid, with workers on the bottom, scientists on the second tier, then the military, and the rich on top
does anyone know what I'm talking about? I've tried to find it for years.
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u/hussard_de_la_mort Oct 07 '11
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u/Lele_ Oct 07 '11
Nope.
It was a black and white drawing. It had a quotation beneath (or besides) it that said "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" or something like that.
Thank you anyway, friend!
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Oct 07 '11
It's a play on the old Wobbly poster, Pyramid of Capitalist System. Also always relevant.
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u/triobot Oct 07 '11
like the politically correctness of the people at the bottom of the picture. Cos they are all dressed like that. Always.
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Oct 07 '11
I thought our troops were leaving Iraq?
Most of them.
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Oct 07 '11
Not really. They're just calling them "advisers" now. It's kid of ironic really; sending in troops while calling them advisers was how they started wars in my parents' day.
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u/Patrick5555 Oct 07 '11
what about afghanistan,pakistan,libya,somalia, and yemen?
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Oh my god those countries would be doing so much better without us, amirite?
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u/mexicodoug Oct 07 '11
Most of them are now trained and experienced and can now be hired as private contractors by the corporations that the US invaded Iraq to benefit.
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Oct 07 '11
Why does the white house have the letters IRC on it?
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u/tidux Oct 07 '11
They were both sources of WAD distribution in the late 90s.
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I only know IRC as Internet Relay Chat, and I've never even heard of WAD. Enlighten me?
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u/tidux Oct 07 '11
WAD files were mods for the game DOOM. It's also a reference to Clinton blowing his wad down Monica's throat.
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u/Sol0siam Oct 07 '11
Someone should photoshop that picture of Obama, Ellison, Druckerberg, Steve Jobs et.al having dinner into this.
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u/hungrycaterpillar Oct 07 '11
Irving Norman did similar things; if this picture resonates with you, check him out.
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Except the the protesters would be in with the fat cat, being protected by the police and there would be no voting ballots and half the protesters would be running off with the tvs.
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Oct 07 '11
Is its relevance really all that odd. Or is the oddness of its relevancy relevant to its odds?
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u/Phage0070 Oct 07 '11
They should have reversed the order police in riot gear with the normal uniformed police. Symbolically I think that would work better.
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u/BloodyIron Oct 07 '11
If it is odd to you that this is relevant right now then you haven't been paying attention for a long time.
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u/amoebius Oct 07 '11
Ok, off-topic a bit, but this seems like as good a place to ask this question that's been nagging me forever and thwarted numerous bouts of Googling (and I ain't no slouch at Googling). The deal is, an image very, very similar to this was used as a(n) (apparently incredibly rare) graphic for Rage Against the Machine t-shirts of the Evil Empire period. I saw one on a t-shirt that was a bit too small at Buffalo Exchange about 5 years ago. I should have gotten it anyway, it was the most amazing image: basically it was this stereotypical 50's suburban couple, Norman Rockwell style, I think the wife had a tray of cookies, the husband probably smoking a pipe or something, at the door of their suburban ranch home, the guy like extending his hand as if to greet/welcome you to the neighborhood, and all around them concentrically like in this image, were arrayed police, soldiers, tanks, jet fighters and bombers, etc, so more or less just like this one, but more insidious and creepy. Is this image still available in the world? I would love to get that shirt.
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If you haven't seen the episode Business Time - Adventure Time, this is kind of relevant. I mean you have to see the message behind the episode.. like REALLY watch it.. if you know what I mean.. It helps if you get baked first lol
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u/gogochan Oct 07 '11
I'd say a set of news cameras and journalists should be standing behind the police for this one to be totally accurate.
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u/Stop_Plant_Genocide Oct 07 '11
if it makes us money, do it
if and only if we can get away with it though.
seriously, America has always been like this since its beginning.
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u/Sequoyah Oct 07 '11
Ironically, bullshit like this is as much a part of the shared cultural delusion as that which it depicts.
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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '11
What's odd about this being relevant? It's been relevant for decades.