Ah BabylonBee, The Onion for conservatards
Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy
Submitted 1 day ago by Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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zenitsu@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
No joke, I got dog piled off this site for using that last word you used. We’re so busy purity testing ourselves instead of just attacking the right in an organized fashion.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I just memes by the content of their image not the color of their watermark.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Lol @ the people propping up the system with “passive income” making accusations
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
No idea what that means
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
It means that between communism and capitalism there’s exactly one option that says being paid for labor someone else did is fine and one that doesn’t
sexy_peach@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Good, physical labor is the worst
P1k1e@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s certainly worse if you work non union
lbfgs@programming.dev 3 hours ago
Heh, lot of good that did you in the USSR/Mao era China
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I have and still do. Still prefer it to an office job filling out TPS reports.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 4 hours ago
I’m genuinely happy for you
AlJones@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Depends on the physical labor. Pushing boxes out of trucks in an air conditioned building is fine. Hauling steel out in the hot sun sucks.
Objection@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
I’ve worked back to back 60’s at Amazon, what the hell do you think made me a communist?
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Sounds like you just dont want to work. You know when I was your age…
Godric@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Nowhere else have I felt more like the “Resource” part of “Human Resources”
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Propaganda
Objection@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
No, that’s what had made me a liberal before lol.
canniest_tod@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Is this meant to suggest that reactionaries aren’t work-shy as hell? That would be a lie. They all want some bullshit media career as much as any liberal.
mech@feddit.org 1 day ago
Young Capitalist Trying To Prove He Isn’t Above Physical Labor Gets Ghosted In 250 Job Applications
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
You claim you’re not a capitalist, and yet you use upper-case letters at the start of every sentence.
4am@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Pro tip: Speak As Through Everything You Have To Say Is HEADLINE NEWS
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 22 hours ago
“You need 2 years of experience for this entry-level ditch digging job”
Mirshe@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
“Also we’re just doing this to make HR happy, we’re already gonna hire my nephew.”
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Gang shit
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
Imagine living in a world where your value as a person isn’t tied to how physically exploitable you are.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Hey now! Under capitalism, your value as a person is tied to how aggressively you exploit others.
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
That has not been my experience. Nobody is demanding that of me.
papalonian@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Luckily for me I get exploited physically and mentally. I strive to one day only be exploited mentally.
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Living the dream!
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 15 hours ago
Right now, I’d pick physical labour over IT. I’m sick of being attached to a desk 12h a day looking at a screen and making some predatorial company richer.
I’d rather be cleaning up my neighborhood, planting flowers in the park, or working at an animal shelter or the local soup kitchen. Actually making a fucking difference in society.
EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
fellow IT worker here …
The sickle and hammer are not representative of planting some flowers in a garden.
If you’ve never done any real farming, I recommend you try it even for a day to learn a whole new appreciation for our modern way of life. It is brutal backbreaking work … and so were most industrial jobs from the era of soviet communism.
Thank god for modernization, but I also agree on the despair of being a slave for an ultra rich asshole. I’m dealing with it by starting a corp with a couple of buddies that is owned by us and doing some work on the side … hopefully this can eventually free us from the chains.
Riverside@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
It is brutal backbreaking work … and so were most industrial jobs from the era of soviet communism
Those jobs still exist, you just outsource them to Pakistan and India.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
It’s supposed to represent labor in general, whatever the means of which you provide it. People are needed in all roles in a communal society.
Godric@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
As much as everyone would rather do meaningful things with their time, communist societies need ditchdiggers too!
Construction and manufacturing takes all types, no experience needed, but I found factory work to be a great motivator to get into IT. Grass is always greener, I suppose
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 10 hours ago
I think the big issue is lack of variance in your work. Human brains need different stimuli. S o if you do only one type of work all the time, you want something different after a while and yearn for another extreme.
communist societies need ditchdiggers too!
I gladly dig ditches, if it’s not the only thing I do.
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 7 hours ago
I wouldn’t have an issue with my field if it wasn’t grossly dominated by companies in the banking and commerce sector.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah some people think that in a communist society that they will suddenly do other jobs like working in an animal shelter. Nope if you work in IT now you’d still be in IT under communism. The commune still needs their IT infrastructure running and the people with IT skills get assigned to do that.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
That’s the problem with all politics. People don’t like the status quo and so vote for “not this” without considering the ill effects of what they’re voting for, or historical precedent. It’s how we ended up with Trump twice, it’s how we ended up with Brexit, and it’s not going away any time soon.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
What’s stopping you? Plenty of places are looking for volunteers.
DirtSona@feddit.org 6 hours ago
“what’s stopping you from quitting your work that you need to survive?”
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Volunteering doesn’t put food on the table sadly.
Gotta work to live so I can then donate time to other things. If there was a way to live sustainably off improving the local area that would be fantastic. But there just isn’t in any real sense.
KatakiY@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I volunteer and work. One of them pays and the other doesn’t.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Physical labor as in laboring. There are plenty of jobs go ahead wreck your body if you want. Nobody is forcing you to work in IT
UndergroundParking@lemmy.cafe 12 hours ago
You can just do it.
ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 1 day ago
straight from facebook, what a post.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thank you
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I’m a communist and don’t want to break my back using a sickle to harvest crops, but also no one does except people watching trad content and romanticizing it. This is why we’ve automated most of the hard manual labor in developed countries.
We really need to update the symbol, besides all the baggage with the USSR it’s just out of date. Maybe on 1920s Russia most people were working with a hammer and sickle, and a lot of people still do to this day in less developed countries, but the meme is right, you ask your average Gen z in the developed world what the symbol means they’ll shrug and say idk.
Nautalax@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 14 hours ago
So Mozambique is a rapper? Represented by hoes and automatic weapons?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That’s part of why I like the symbol of the DDR. Sure hammers and compasses are outdated, but they’re easy symbols for labor still vital, and instead of a sickle there’s sheaths of wheat
4am@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
You’re right, a Combine Harvester and a Floppy Disk
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
Funny you should choose the sickle over the hammer. In industrialized nations commodity crops like wheat, soy, corn, and rice are predominantly mechanically harvested. But tree fruit, berries, and a lot of veggies remain hand-picked or have a mixed manual/mechanical harvesting method that’s much more labor intensive than a combine mowing down endless acres of wheat.
The hammer however has seen a massive decline in full time use across construction sites in developed nations. It’s still a useful tool and most workers carry one, but pneumatic nail guns dominate new construction in developed countries that use wood as their base material.
I’d also push back on your claim that hard manual labor in developed nations is automated. Mechanically assisted to varying levels, like a pneumatic nail gun instead of a hammer, or a haybaler instead of a sickle and building a stack, but it’s still got humans putting hours of physical effort into using those machines to achieve the finished product. There’s people behind home construction or remodels, strawberry picking, road construction, and wildland fire fighting to name a few.
myrrh@ttrpg.network 14 hours ago
…i used a framing hammer to build a wood fence last weekend; it felt good but also surprisingly old-fashioned by comparison to the nail gun the builder used for the original construction…
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Critical support for your demons
Noodle07@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The feels when some countries do forced labor to hand pick cotton for the higher quality
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Make it a tractor
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Guys, they are Communists, not Amish.
timestatic@feddit.org 21 hours ago
What an unexpected post on lemmy even for a shitpost community
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I like to keep everyone on their toes
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
What other meaning would they have?
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
I mean, they represent physical labor, in the sense that one physically uses a hammer and a sickle as tools. But the reason communists pair those symbols together is because they represent the class alliance of industrial workers, and rural peasants.
This is a repost of bad conservative Onion ripoff, The Babylon Bee, though. So I expect only the most shallow, baby-brained, “jokes” your average chud could muster
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
I also like the sextant the GDR added to represent knowledge workers.
This is a repost of bad conservative Onion ripoff, The Babylon Bee, though. So I expect only the most shallow, baby-brained, “jokes” your average chud could muster
Context matters. Could have been funny, if it were a self-deprecating joke. But now I think “ah, they don’t know what they’re talking about”.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Are you trying to hurt my feelings?
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Isn’t Babylon Bee like The Onion?
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Capitalist not funny. News at 11.
homes@piefed.world 20 hours ago
I thought this community was getting a bit too friendly lately
fedikitty@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Ik, why not the amazon box? They were do out of touch in the 1800’s.
percent@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
It has always blown my mind how some people can get through childhood having almost no knowledge of basic tools.
Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip 20 hours ago
Oops, I accidentally upvoted it. Didn’t see the source.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 57 minutes ago
Boomer slop.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 57 minutes ago
Thanks babe