400x not 400%

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      25·
      9 months ago

      It’s NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt

      The inspiration for these memes was simple: Nazis don’t deserve Saint Dale.

      “The idea for the page came about back in early 2017 when the alt-right were trying to make anything they could into a racist meme, including cow’s milk,” said the person behind The Ghost of Ol Dale Earnhardt, who asked to remain anonymous. “I was pretty heavily involved in the Weird Appalachia Facebook group, where Sid Hatfield and Dolly Parton are patron saints of Cornbread Communism, and a huge fan of the Old Stone Cold page. Everything sorta clicked so I decided to combine all these influences and claim Dale as a meme for the rural southern Left, which at the time was mostly either ignored or laughed at.”

      Full article from Slate

    • Bizarroland@kbin.social
      14·
      9 months ago

      I also wonder why Dale Earnhardt senior has suddenly been resurrected as the face of this anti corporate sponsorship meme stream when his entire career was entirely corporate sponsored

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      9 months ago

      NASCAR was originally about bootleggers telling the ATF to go fuck themselves. It used to be a counterculture before, like country music, it got appropriated.

      And Dale didn’t give a fuck about sucking up to rich people.

    • Grayox@lemmy.mlOP
      56·
      9 months ago

      Facts dont care about your feelings meme /mēm/ noun 1. an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations. “celebrity gossip and memes often originate on the site” 2. an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means.

  • Harpsist@lemmy.world
    11·
    9 months ago

    CEOs are the most leeching of scum the human race has ever made

    At least when a king or empire extracted money - they’d invest it back into the kingdom in some way shape or form.

    CEOs have zero reason to invest back into the labour pool.

    • Syldon@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      At least when a king or empire extracted money

      They really did not. You may have had one or two that wanted more for the country. Most were just greedy shithouses who could not care at all. Unless they needed bodies for a war OFC, then the dynamic changes.

  • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
    103·
    9 months ago

    This isn’t really a meme, it just says how capitalism works. I guess it could be making fun if the stereotypical lefty meme though.

  • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    It frustrates me how much workers have forgotten that they can gain immense power through unionization. Labor regularly votes down having more say in their own workplace. It baffles the mind.

  • dafo@lemmy.world
    1315·
    9 months ago

    “How do we make Lemmy more popular?”

    Let’s just shoe horn politics EVERYWHERE

    • Grayox@lemmy.mlOP
      203·
      9 months ago

      Politic are already everywhere and being used to make our planet unlivable. Sorry not sorry.

      • papalonian@kbin.social
        1·
        9 months ago

        And so you’re here to save us by posting politics based picture-of-text posts in a meme community, where we come to laugh at stuff.

    • mrpants@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      If we make it less popular with people concern trolling “politics” then we’re fine with it.

      Every single time we get new nerdy platforms they’re cool for a couple years and then the normies come in with whiny nonsense. I do hope the majority of you stay away for many years to come.