• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
    108·
    2 months ago

    Never occurred to me that Ned Flanders would have sheltered Anne Frank, but it tracks.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
    25·
    2 months ago

    Kind of dark but idk why, the last column with Ned did it for me.

    Cause at the end of the day, those people would still exist even in an insane world.

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
    17·
    2 months ago

    I never realized until now why they use the “45” so much. Just move one of the black bars and it’s a fucking swastika… And Haitians are really a stand-in for black people.

    The real problem is that we allowed the plutocrats to control both the news and social media and the government. Basically the US doesn’t have a free press any more but a quasi-government controlled oligarch media. As long as these neoliberal policies continue the degradation of institutions and politics continues.

    Something drastic would need to happen to purge this incredibly power imbalance from the captured state. A kind of reformation or practically a coup.

    • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      Even the ancient Greeks has visions how democracy collapses in to a fascist Oligarchy when money and politics are intertwined.

      It’s a bit sad that we are globally making that happen word for word.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 months ago
      • Yep, but not the gov, from right-wing extremist groups funded by billionaires
      • Yes
      • It does work, but it shows how fragile it is to a few rotten apples
      • The internet? No. Circa 2005 it was a wonderful place for nerds to exchange ideas and foster small communities and groups. Social media gameified this, turned quiet discussion into a public stage where the aim is to win an argument by votes, and not to foment ideas through the freeform exchange of discussion. Polarisation was a metric they maximised because it kept engagement high for ad revenue.