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[-] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 106 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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 38 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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 4 days ago

The joke worked for me.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

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

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days 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 1 points 5 days ago

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

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

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

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

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

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 12 points 6 days ago
[-] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I added a brief explanation

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

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

[-] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

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

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days 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 5 days ago

Now you have to explain how they relate.

[-] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I added a brief explanation

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Ah yes, classic blaming someone else for your problems, seatbelts aren’t even an American invention lol.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 25 points 6 days ago
[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

I even felt the wind from that one.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Since everyone else is being mean and just in case you didn't figure out where you went wrong here: You are replying to a comment that is stating that the GOP/modern right wing party in the US had its origins as a movement to protest against mandatory seat belts being made into a law in the US.

[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 71 points 6 days ago

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

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 29 points 6 days ago

This is way better mirrored

also oof

[-] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 3 days 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?

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 17 points 6 days ago

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

[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 16 points 6 days ago

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 3 points 5 days ago

Fair point!

[-] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago
[-] felykiosa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[-] t_chalco@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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 4 days ago

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

[-] t_chalco@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days 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

[-] lolola 17 points 6 days ago

which one of those dominoes is my collection of rare pepes

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

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

[-] lolola 5 points 4 days 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 4 days ago

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 4 days ago

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

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 5 days ago

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 5 days ago

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 5 days ago
[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[-] herrwoland@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

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

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days 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.

[-] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days ago

The second brick is 17% SHIB coin increase

[-] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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

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