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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

"Hurr durr socialism is when no food"

Capitalism is when you're arrested for giving food to people with no food.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Socialism is when the government does stuff”. Bad meme.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read it as socialism is when you have public services for addressing common needs, and capitalism is when you try to extract profits from needs.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, it is easy to misread.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it does work as a conversation starter, which is good :)

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Yep, I agree! Just wanted to say it could have been clearer.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Easy to understand the shittier of the two to be fair too though.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Yep, absolutely!

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What makes you think this is ai? I dont see any of the telltale artefacts

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing in that picture makes sense from a firefighting perspective especially how many hoses there are

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doing a reverse image search, i cant find an original source, but it was first posted on Tumblr in late 2020. Could be AI, but i doubt it since it would have been from months before Dalle was released.

[–] Imnebuddy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It seems to be real: https://www.fireengineering.com/firefighting/in-firefighters-contain-house-fire/

It seems the photo above is just a really crusty jpeg: