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[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 135 points 2 weeks ago

Ah yes, the weird American fascination with prison rape as a form of punishment.

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

How is that implied? Did I miss some text? Most people seem to agree that this is what the meme is about.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

Because he's a big cell mate, and she wants something bad to happen to Trump.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why would a person want a cell mate of someone they don’t like to be anything? (besides annoying or have a good memory (for remembering additional confessions) or something?)

Big: able to overpower

Beautiful: kinda gets to a place of romantic or sexual

Bill: definitely a dude


Edit - there’s a non-zero chance the protestor didn’t have sexual assault in mind, blinded by the pun. We can hope they were pun obsessed.

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

Edit - there’s a non-zero chance the protestor didn’t have sexual assault in mind, blinded by the pun. We can hope they were pun obsessed.

Highly, HIGHLY unlikely

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[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

"It's okay if bad things happen to other people"

-USA in a nutshell

Remember when their military industrial complex was ravaging through Asia and middle east and people back home were like "Thank you for your service"?

People there are spineless cowards who cling to their made up "superiority" on backs of genocide, slavery, and exploitation all while marketing themselves as land of "freedom".

But now the fascism is using the same military industrial complex against them, best they can do is do some dorky dance in costumes and an organized protest every few months.

It's like they're oblivious to problems they create elsewhere can also affect them in the long run. But will they learn?

Of course not.

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[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 109 points 2 weeks ago

Americans really have just normalised and relish terrible things happening to people in prison huh? Social programming is one hell of a drug

The "If Criminal, then Bad Person" and the "If Bad Person, then any Bad Thing OK" combo are pervasive in America, across the political spectrum, and have been for a while. At least since the War on Drugs started, and almost certainly well before that. It is frightening to have a conversation with a seemingly well-meaning, moral person and have them casually joke about prisoners being tortured, raped, or killed. I don't think it's an attitude unique to America but I think the private prison industry has had a lot to do with how incredibly common the attitude is that, if someone is in prison, they must have done something wrong, and if they did something wrong, any bad thing that happens to them (forced labor, starvation, sexual assault, death) is deserved punishment. It's ghastly.

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[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 57 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck this. No. This is so much of what's wrong with this fucking country.

No. Let's not reinforce prisons as torture camps. For fuck's sake.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

It doesn't have to mean anything beyond him having a cellmate named bill.

Please fuck all the way off with this sniveling, hand-wringy "We just really can't know for sure" plausible deniability crock of shit you scraped off of Milo Yiannopoulos's jackboot. There is no other context in which this sign makes sense other than as a joke, and prison rape is the punchline.

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[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 5 points 2 weeks ago
[-] liuther9@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Because there are many wrongfully imprisoned? Maybe we need better laws and no corruption instead?

This is apparently a hot take with this crowd but I think you are entitled to basic human rights even if you've committed a crime.

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[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago

Sexual assault is funny, and rape is ok when it's happening to prisoners, clearly.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

Not ok, but less bad if the victim is a petulant rapist.

[-] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No it's not. It is unacceptable in all cases. I don't understand how otherwise principled "all humans are humans and deserve rights" people are suddenly a-OK with rape or torture if it's someone they've decided is a "bad person" without realizing they're doing the exact same thing fascists do to justify human rights violations, but it's a pathological problem. If you think it's ok for you (or anyone) to decide who is allowed to have human rights and who isn't, you're an authoritarian in denial and you will fall victim to the next authoritarian leader who agrees with you about who we're allowed to torture.

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[-] girlthing 41 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This actually made me sick to my stomach. I'm used to prison rape (and men being raped in general) being treated as a joke, but to see it in an ostensibly "progressive" movement was just too much for me. Especially since these are the same people who rushed to condemn violence after Kirk got shot. Where is your morality now?

Realise that the revenge you're praying for can only happen if the institution of prison rape, which predominantly victimizes queer people in men's prisons, continues to exist. If you find that tolerable even for a second... I just don't know how to reach you.

[-] Aeao@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Email your representatives.

If it makes you feel better (assuming you meant any of that)

I think reform is coming. We saw it with Hollywood. For the longest time that was also a joke “you wanna be a star don’cha?”.

Humor is pain. You won’t find a single joke that isn’t based entirely around pain of some kind. It’s one of the ways we process emotions and it’s one of the easier ways to talk about difficult subjects. It can and always has been a doorway to the eventual discussion.

So hopefully that helps.

Some examples:

  1. Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side. The humor is “it was an easy and obvious answer you fool!”

  2. the other night as I lied in bed looking up at the stars and the infinite cosmos I couldn’t help but wonder… what the fuck happened to my ceiling. The humor is the thing you thought was coming didn’t happen and now you are shocked and briefly confused.

  3. my mother never breast fed me. She said she always considered me more of a friend. The humor is Rodney dangerfields mother didn’t love him.

[-] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I thought they were talking about locking Bill Clinton up with him, I didn't even realize the actual joke :(

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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

I like it because it's clever. It's still kinda boomer humor about prison rape but No Kings isn't about getting angry about something like that when we have a common enemy.

Plus who knows, Big Beautiful Bill might just be a lovely, swell fellow.

[-] nul42@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

Big Beautiful Bill was wrongly imprisoned like many in America. He is a great guy who looks out for other inmates. He is sex positive and knows that consent is mandatory. After falling in love with Bill, Trump is fully reformed and joins the antifascist cause leaving hate behind and embracing peace love and justice for all.

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[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 weeks ago

Futurama Fry meme

Not sure if prison rape joke or ok

[-] carotte 24 points 2 weeks ago

its a tough one cause it is a prison rape joke, those are obviously bad and that doesn’t change here

but i won’t lie, i kinda feel like serial rapists like trump deserve to feel what it’s like to be on the other end, for once

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People need to stop making prison rape jokes. It's not OK to joke about women getting raped, so why is it OK when its a man? I fucking wish more people cared about male rape.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Plot twist, BBBill is actually a decent human being who gets trump to see the error of his ways.

(Yeah, BIG fantasy. I’d win the lottery before the odds of both those things happening)

[-] notabot@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

Can you imaging the psycological trauma? He is jail and so old he can hear Death sharpening his scythe in the next room, and someone makes him see, and understand, the evil he's spent his life on. I know it's a fantasy, but that sort of realization would tear apart any normal person's psyche.

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[-] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

Odd way of nicknaming Clinton, but who am I to judge?

[-] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So basically a rape joke. Remember when people had a meltdown when rape jokes were used against women ?

Where's the outrage ??? This is sick & disgusting.

Honestly Hope America rots in hell. What a sick society. Trump is seriously the best thing to happen to Americans. Revealed their true depraved nature.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Where's the outrage ???

I see a ton of comments from people upset by this. Yes, it is viewed differently, but in my experience, most people will realize why this isn't okay if you explain it to them.

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[-] oh_@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t know why people think Trump will spend 1 second in any sort of prison.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 14 points 2 weeks ago

They're praying for it to happen, not saying it's a legitimate outcome.

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[-] BonkTheAnnoyed 11 points 2 weeks ago

Prison rape is never funny. It’s traumatic, violent, and life destroying.

Sea-lioning replies justifying rape will be blocked.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t wanna be his cellmate?!?

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Join the fight club, go from big beautiful bill to big brawny bill

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Joke about rape as a form of punishment

Several comments explicitly calling for it

Reminder that liberals are more authoritarian than "tankies" could dream of being.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'd settle for a stroke at this point

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