[in a well equipped sports room, a character rants] Someone has to say it… Some athletes have an advantage over others and it's ruining sports!
[in a soccer field, a smug character points and replies] Damn right buddy, that's why we should ban privileged kids from competitive sports: their wealth gives them access to better equipment, coaching, sparring partners, free time. it's just unfair to the rest!
[yellow sitting, at a presidential desk] I've been thinking… if we tax the rich more fairly, they might just leave the country!
[blue, angsty, sitting in a chair next to the desk] Mr. President… I'm afraid you're right, we can't take that risk, we need them
[a rich character smoking a cigar next to a "0% LOANS" luggage] I hate spending and my wealth is unrealized gains, I contribute nothing to the economy
[another rich character is lounging in a deck chair on a beach, cocktail in hand, luggage on the sand] I've already left the country a long time ago
[another rich character leans against a stack of cash with a smug grin] My money is all in holdings, I barely pay any taxes
[Totally not an oldschool rage comic]
[An IMPORTANT FORM contains a few fields including but not limited to First name, Last name, and Date of Birth]
[A character seems content as they start writing text in the form]
[We now see, the character struggling to fill in the form, as the lines are too short, and having to write their first name in full didn't leave enough space to write their date of birth]
[The character proceeds to rage]
Right, only juche sources will be tolerated when discussing the juche. Glory to our dear leader and his socialist utopia.
Have fun with your public self-humiliation ritual, I'm not into it.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/05/human-rights-north-korea
Surely it's not controversial to say North Korea is a totalitarian state ruled by an absolute leader that outlawed and violently represses any and all forms of political opposition, including those to his left, right?
I'm the first to shit on peoples' inability to see past cold war propaganda, as evidenced by a lot of my post history in this subreddit or one of my related comics or another one, there's plenty. Speaking as a non-reactionary, the DPRK is one of the worst examples to use in your comparison. It is not a country you should be stanning for, or using as a tool in a stupid game of "source for human rights abuse???". It does get a very unfair treatment and representation in western media and diplomacy, sure, but it doesn't make it a good comparison when the other one is a country where you can publicly denounce the propaganda without making yourself a target.
Where are all the DPRK Lemmy users? Oh yes, right, probably too busy smoking the "works cited" bong to participate.
Tourism thing that conveniently happens to be the biggest land owner and tax evader in the country.
One of those two countries threatens your life and your families life if you don't comply with the monarch worship propaganda.
[a foot race is setup in a stadium, in which a confused green character has to start 100m away from the finish line, while a smug orange character starts 10m away from the finish line]
[orange easily finishes first, and smugly proclaims] Another easy win! I am better than everyone!
[green, on all fours, visibly tired and sweating] Well that was unfair…
[orange, covered in medals and holding a trophy, points at green angrily and scolds them] Get a grip What a sore loser You just hate success!
[yellow watches the race on TV, and rants about it from their sofa] If green wanted to win, he should have worked harder Some people are just allergic to effort Entitled… (?) (?)… millenials Always looking for excuses People need to be taught discipline Immigr… (?) Typical green behavior Should seize opportunities Bootstraps Quitter behavior Green people want to be poor
I shed zero tears for the kulaks and the tsarist oligarchy, but Stalin also killed the revolutionary dream on his way to consolidating totalitarian power, so maybe there's a reason I'm like that.
I'm not criticizing people who struggle to navigate exploitative systems.
Rather satirizing some bad faith individuals who use the excuse as a blank check to justify obviously unethical choices.
This wasn't intended as criticism of "no ethical consumption", but rather as satire of people who misunderstand the concept and think "no ethical consumption" is a moral shield that acts as a permission slip to completely stop caring about ethics and indulge in the vilest, least ethical consumption possible. Who cares if it was made with slave labor, everything is made with slave labor amirite?
[orange character is smiling smugly, doing a finger gun, in front of the "1860 WEEKLY SLAVE MARKET" in which a crowd of people are browsing slaves, while some slaves ask "please help…"]
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism bro, everything is equally bad
I won't stop buying slaves until the state compels me not to, until then to each their own and let's agree to disagree and I'll have you know my family needs their labor
It's great that you can live without slaves though, keep being an anti-slavery activist it's awesome!
You're the best!
Thanks for including the source links, appreciated 🥰
[green, an arm missing, leaving a trail of blood, is desperately calling for help in a hospital corridor] Please help me, I've lost my arm and I'm bleeding to death
[orange, arms crossed, replies angrily at green] Stop being such an ungrateful idiot, there are people out there who have lost both arms
https://thebad.website/comic/have_you_tried_suffering_quietly
[an exponential graph is shown] GLOBAL CRINGE DISTRIBUTION Differences in the perception of cringe between countries are taken into account Cringe levels are adjusted and expressed in international cringe units The average cringe levels are barely enough to make it in a high cringe country 50% of the world's population lives with very little daily cringe
[a professor explains] As you can see on the graph above, we live in a society™ in which the distribution of cringe is very unequal
[the professor keeps going] The closer you get to the top, the more cringe is concentrated in the hands of a small elite
[the professor concludes] And at the very top is Elon Musk, who has reached maximum cringe levels
[orange, wielding a gun, shoots at green] DIE!
[green is pouring blood from the chest, falling to the floor] Gasp! You shot me!
[blue, shrugging] As a neutral onlooker, I saw green insult orange before orange shot green, so I guess they're both equally at fault here
[green, laying in a pool of their own blood, is extremely confused]
[a hooded anarcho-communist character, looking demonic, unleashing spiders towards us while screaming]
GO FORTH MY MINIONS! SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION
[green] So what's your ideology? Me, I'm a socialist
[red, in a hood, looking mean] I'm an arachno-communist
[green, happy] Oh, that's pretty cool, both our ideologies are
[zoom on green's face, looking worried] …wait, you said you're a what?
[red, looking demonic, unleashes spiders towards us while screaming] GO FORTH MY MINIONS! SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION
[2025]
[green, happy] Finally! They released the Epstein files!
[blue, angry] Don't let them distract you from the real topic… the Epstein files
[2026]
[green, happy] Finally! The Epstein files!
[blue, angry] Don't let them distract you from the Epstein files
[2027]
[green, happy] Finally! The files!
[blue, angry] No! The files!
[2040]
[green, happy] F!
[blue, angry] N!
[3000]
[green, mutated, with three eyes, happy] Gazoorp! Proogla woog Epstein!
[blue, mutated with two heads, angry] Gool barahla vyyb zuugbge… gala wolo Epstein!
FYI one can clearly see why 67 caught on.
That doot doot six seven song -> NBA stars saying it on tiktok -> Everyone else trying to catch clout by saying it too -> It's now a meme
No different than how other trends caught on, as you pointed out.