Ugh this BS marketing ploy is unfortunately clever.

Matt berry’s a perfect choice, you summon him with the shout: Eye Kee Ah, there’s an alan wrench sword and a meatball helm. The ikea/sweden/viking/nord connection is there, and so is the encumberance/home clutter connection.

Yeah i was in high school in perth in the 90s so i remember poles disappearing.

Perth has expanded massively in the last 10-15 years, i’m not surprised initial estimates were way off. Or even less surprised than normal since i believe every single infrastructure project in history has been late and overbudget.

This is the biggest photo i got, sorry for the glare and not snapping the name of the artists/work.

Just south of the glare is nixon and zhou enlai meeting, above it is the redguard bugging confucius. The top right has the GDP slot machine, the zombie next to it is Empress Dowager Cixi as her grave is looted by a warlord named Sun Dianying.

The characters from journey to the west are there, tank man, mao’s 4 pests campaign, the AIDS bloodbath and heaps of references i don’t get.

In australia buried lines are fairly common. It’s more expense and harder to do maintainence, but it’s also way better and safer.

She’s a russian asset, for sure, but she’s kinda also a victim of, and probably a participant in, the trump-epstein sex trafficking ring.

Rather than being deported, she should probably be either arrested or put into protection. Both i guess? Life gets weird.

40 wall st was the address of the building being referenced, but i’m not super familiar with the layout of nyc.

The whole thing was done in that style.

Up in machuria there was a gaunt little cartoon POW being tortured by a cartoon unit 731 doctor, little cartoon redguard telling little cartoon confucius “that’s a load of useless farts”, two little cartoon mushroom clouds over hiroshima and nagasaki, etc.

He didn’t say NY, he said tallest building in downtown manhatten.

That sounds more likely to be factually correct, but of course he’s still a psychopathic narcissist who’s clinincally incapable of understanding that other people feel pain.

That is one of the funniest catpics i’ve seen, thanks!

Is there anything more american the embarassingly losing an unneccesary war with a much smaller opponent?

‘Fake email job’ is great! I’d not heard that before.

Where i work, all the bosses get the day off and those of us who actually work still have to work.

How the hell is that supposed to work?

It’s not. Even he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

He’s just a senile old man giving voice to passing thoughts.

I love doing nothing but i don’t need three corporate logos to do so.

secretly filmed Mr. Orr and another aide, Dan Jukes, discussing how political donations from a man they appeared to think was American could be secretly funneled to benefit the party without disclosure. British law requires all donations to be disclosed and prohibits political contributions from foreign individuals. … The footage showed Mr. Orr discussing payments with an undercover reporter posing as a British donor and claiming to have a wealthy American father. According to the broadcaster, Mr. Orr suggested that the American parent could finance opinion polling favorable to Reform. “The reality is we could easily get away with it,”

One of the weaknesses of the ascendant far right is they are all funded by a small cabal of plutocrats, esp. russians and their US agents.

In countries with a functioning legal system, that open illegality can be a problem.

Yep, definitely what i said! 😀

I think it’s just ai, right? The MJ card says “The world deung op al” and the Home Alone one says it’s from John “MLON…”

Except we all warned them it was a scam

I wish it worked that way, but that’s just not how the human organism is. Mostly we don’t accept information coming from outside our identity group, especially when it undermines our worldview. Almost everyone is like that.

Showing people that they could be accepted by a different identity group is a vital precursor to them changing how they see themselves. Shedding the old identity is necessary before a change of beliefs and ideas about the world.

If you show people they have no chance for community outside of trump supporters, they’ll continue to support fascism. Show them there is an out, and our numbers will swell as the reality of fascism undermines the lies their community believes.

Disapointing to see a simple truth downvoted.

A certain % of people are vulnerable to the grift of fascism. Scorning them is like laughing at someone who lost their retirement funds to a crypto-scam. Those of us lucky enough to be able to see it for what it is should welcome all the victims of fascism.

Trump-voting victims of trump and their stories are powerful weapons we can use against this regime and its wealthy collaborators.

Linking the agricultural cycle of planting, growing, harvest with the human lifecycle is a very common metaphor.

We see this in the myth of persephone, where going into the underworld and returning (ie death and rebirth) is a metaphor for the harvest cycle. Greek mystery cults were all over this too and it’s likely a pre-greek remnant from the Early European Farmers who inhabited the area before steppe-descended greek speakers began moving in.

So the association of death and harvesting probably starts fairly early.

frustration in my personal experience

That makes so much more sense than what others have said, thank you for clearing that up.