LemmyExpert

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[–] LemmyExpert@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would have been worth $400, but the spider only has 7 legs.

[–] LemmyExpert@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Strategic use of a cordless drill can ensure it's a useless hole.

[–] LemmyExpert@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

"Why aren't the wage slaves breeding?? 🥺 We need more or our standard of living is really going to take a huge hit."

[–] LemmyExpert@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Don't forget trough!

[–] LemmyExpert@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it's Ollie's, they're all about corny, sarcastic, & ironic signage.

[–] LemmyExpert@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's hear about the well options, please 🙂

[–] LemmyExpert@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Here's your downvote

[–] LemmyExpert@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a confused American (didn't really see the spoon part very well), I Googled, I saw this same meme being discussed on r*ddit. Ripped the comment explaining minus a video link.

Not my words, I didn't even read it all tbh, just thought this guy seems to know what he's talking about. ¯\(°_o)/¯

[–] LemmyExpert@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Public speaking isn't easy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I think I would briefly explain the concept for the benefit of anyone unfamiliar, and I would remove the "I guess" part from the front. My area didn't have an Aldi's until...idk. I want to say 2009. So it's old enough news to me, but maybe there's some people that have a Kroger/Walmart/everything else.

[–] LemmyExpert@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So as others have said, the basic joke is "only a spoonful" & Stalin pulls out a ridiculously large spoon & takes everything.

I guess there is a "large spoon" meme along these lines.

I ripped this comment off r*ddit:

it’s a joke about the narrative that Stalin deliberately and single-handedly caused the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine (aka the Holodomor). in reality there were many factors that led to it, such as drought, sabotage by the land-owning kulak class, limitations on the Soviet economy, and just general mismanagement. The fact of the matter is that, while a terrible tragedy, most modern historians agree that there is no evidence that the famine was intentional, especially considering that it affected the wider Soviet Union and that aid was sent to affected areas (though unfortunately not enough).

The guys have talked about this phenomenon before, but when a famine happens under capitalism it was just an accident (even in cases like Bengal and Ireland, where it could definitely be argued to be intentional/the cause of capitalism). When a famine happens under socialism, it becomes yet another anti-communist talking point, hence the exaggerated “Stalin ate all the grain and told the clouds to stop raining.”

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