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[–] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 105 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

My personal one

IIRC Pushback against "Unsafe at any speed" was the literal origin of the conservative think tank as a political movement. I think Behind the Bastards did an episode on it or maybe Stuff you missed in history class?

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

It was always Ralph Nader's fault.

(To the down voter: Ralph Nader fought to bring regulations for mandatory seat belts, among other life saving consumer safety issues he had a hand in. Man's a hero. Also, this is a joke. Ffs)

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The joke worked for me.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He might have blown the 2000 election for Gore and doomed the planet to runaway global heating.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

That was Chad's fault.

(And roger stone, and john Bolton, and the supreme court. And Pat Buchannon who was another 3rd party spoiler whom many ballots were accidentally cast. 20% of his votes came from that single county. Nothing strange at all.)

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Which part's a joke? I can't tell which of you think you're being funny.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seat belts> Ralph Nader, ah fuckit, you're boring and humorless.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 months ago

I think you overestimate your ability to communicate irony in text-only media.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I added a brief explanation

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sorry I still don't really understand. What does "unsafe at any speed" mean?

[–] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a book by Ralph Nader calling out unsafe vehicle design in the 70's.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Oh damn. I didn't realise just how ahead of his time (by Anglosphere standards) Nader was. We're 50 years on and just now are the evils of motornormativity starting to be more widely understood.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Now you have to explain how they relate.

[–] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I added a brief explanation

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 72 points 3 months ago

At least there's a Jamaican bobsled team somewhere in the middle

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is way better mirrored

also oof

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

To me the mirrored version just looks wrong

like you don't mirror or otherwise mutilate well-established meme templates

it's like an unspoken rule of the internet

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like that it reads left to right! Yes, it’s also pretty uncanny haha

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Personally the original also reads left to right, the punch line being the starting domino being something that's seeming unrelated to the big final domino but both works, really

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago

Fair point!

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago

Have you ever noticed how they often shake left hands in a lot of shows and movies? It's probably something about shot composition or something but...

You ever wonder if everything that comes out of Hollywood is mirrored?

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] felykiosa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

which one of those dominoes is my collection of rare pepes

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They just lost all value. Post your rarest pepe or I'll report you to DOGE.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

I don't know bout y'all but my rarest pepe was forged in the physical world with a pencil and a sheet of paper. It was so rare and powerful that I had to split it into 7 pieces and scatter them across the land.

I'm not sure where the pieces are now exactly. Last I heard, there were two competing search teams hunting for them, one being a ragtag team of inexperienced heart-of-gold types and the other being some sort of evil empire.

I figured it'd be best not to get involved.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you had told me ten years ago that one day "°I will report you to doge" would be a valid sentence and a real threat, I wouldve died

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Upvote comments you reply to or I'll report you to DOGE!

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sorry I'm OOTL. I presume this is the much wow shiba in memes but I didn't know this caused anything to america? Can someone fill me in about some of the dominos in-between please?

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 37 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Musk and his love of memes just got appointed to a new government position at the Department Of Government Efficiency or D.O.G.E. for short.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well… not yet. But it’s part of the circus Trump is planning

[–] herrwoland@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

And I was wondering why is doge coin trending so hard.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It should be said this is a newly created Department and its authorities are nebulous. Could have power over everything, nothing, or in between.

[–] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

~~IIRC Pushback against "Unsafe at any speed" was the literal origin of the conservative think tank as a political movement. I think Behind the Bastards did an episode on it or maybe Stuff you missed in history class?~~

Meant to post this as a response to my picture

[–] t_chalco@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's probably turtles all the way down, but I think "A[n] ~~British~~ animators's email segment co-star ~~mispronounces~~ misspells 90s greeting" might be an even smaller domino.

Edited to replace failing memory.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's the story? I think I never heard of that

[–] t_chalco@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Well, I misremembered half of it, but Homestar Runner was one of the many flash animations of the flash-craze heyday. Occasionally, they were puppets. From nearly 25 years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSgRzCAtXA

[–] M33 4 points 3 months ago

The second brick is 17% SHIB coin increase