Jesus Christ what do reform voters think is happening in London?

Oh, actually… Can reform voters even think, the stupid, easily-led, insecure, weak, bigoted little losers? I doubt it.

Honestly the US can butt the fuck out of anything to do with other countries at the moment I think

There’s a lot of whinging and fussing and very online behaviour on Lemmy. I mostly find that when I start getting annoyed by that stuff, it’s time to do something else.

Oh weirdly enough I think I saw somebody replying to your comment! Was it quite recent? The impression they had was that you were banned for ban evasion I think, i.e. that you’d been banned before, then had come back on a new account to call the mods snowflakes.

Not sure tho, don’t quote me, and I don’t honestly care all that much - just saying that might be a reason, rather than what you actually said.

Your baguettes and enchiladas are cool posts

I can’t believe they have so many communities. It’d be one thing if it was different media, like how normal people might have a “painting” and a “photography” community, but it’s not. It’s all one big pile of generated images, and they’ve sorted it by subject… How weird is that!

Anyway, yeah glad it’s not clogging up your feed anymore. I think that mod went into powertrippingbastards a few weeks ago and commented some nonsense bragging about how they block and ban anyone who downvotes their spam so hopefully we can all get conveniently added to the banlist.

I love that you capitalise “THIS” in all of your titles. It’s like a bot programmed to create 2012-style clickbait headlines for spam articles or YouTube videos, but I don’t think you’re a bot. It makes me smile every time I see you do it.

The Borderlands, on the other hand, is a pretty good found footage horror that I’d definitely recommend

…cool, dude.

Interesting. Thanks for explaining a bit more! Have you always done numerology?

It sounds like some of those ciphers have big overlap, like the reduction ciphers. Do you factor that in when you’re using them? I think another commenter mentioned that using multiple reduction and exception ciphers that exclude letters not used in the phrase you’re analysing will obviously give you the same results, which seems like a good point to me

Oh, duh lol I didn’t even think of that. Yeah, it’s double-sided, with writing on both sides, so it’s probably not a 1:1 mapping.

I think we’re talking interpretation and opinion here, and without digesting much of what you’re saying I wouldn’t be doing your time justice by responding to much of what you’re saying.

However, I want to pick up on this, which you’ve picked up on at least twice in these comments:

seriously who is Hitler and who is Stalin in this formula

I think the artist of this piece was referencing either this photo:

Or this photo:

So, if this was a direct 1:1 mapping of leaders (which I’m not convinced it is), it would follow that Putin is Stalin, and Trump is Hitler.

Wait, who’s the “people like that” in your middle paragraph? Is it “people who masquerade as Hitler online”, or “people who ask why”?

Re the meme: We don’t have to thank Paul for anything; it was Anthony Joshua who delivered what has to be a very short happiness to a lot of people on the internet.

I say it has to be very short, because we have to make it very short. Paul doesn’t care about getting beaten up, he cares about money. He monetises being disliked, because he’s untalented, uncreative, and lazy. For those reasons, we must starve him of attention.

Judging by your other answer to the other commenter, which is pretty in depth and shows that you definitely have a clear understanding of what this illustrates and which outlines specific issues you have with this piece of art, I’d say I’m probably not gonna be able to teach you much of anything if that’s what you’re even looking for mate.

To my mind, there’s probably not one specific meeting or moment that this piece is analogising as the modern Trump/Putin version of the Molotov-Ribbentrop, but the continued “peace talks” wherein Trump and Putin seem to collaborate to sell Ukraine down the river.

As I don’t believe there’s a “modern” pact, I can’t answer your second question or third question directly, but can say that there were various territories which seemingly had agency removed from them in the aftermath of the historical MR pact, like Poland, being invaded by Germany and USSR.

I think that dovetails a little with how it feels Ukraine is being treated at the moment by Trump and Putin.

I think there’s certainly enough here to warrant this metaphor working, even if it’s not a direct 1:1 mapping.

Yeah, you’re right. That would take it from a kid being a shithead, into something a lot more sinister.

So yes, you missed the clue that might’ve led to you googling and finding that it refers to the Molotov Ribbentrop, and are now being very defensive 😂 Merry Christmas bud ✌️

Did your eyes totally glaze over the obviously non-English word “Pakt” in the middle of that quote? 😂😂

What’s up with that weird answer? These creeps never give a straight answer when you ask them direct questions. If that person just wants to be edgy and thinks it’s funny… Well, maybe they’re a dumb, poorly socialised teenager. Cos it’s not funny. It’s not even a joke, really, is it? What’s the joke? That they’re not actually Hitler?

The halo and angel wings on the pfp take this to another level imo.