LemmyExpert

Sounds like a Louis Rossmann rant. 😂

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

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

Don't forget trough!

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

Let's hear about the well options, please 🙂

Here's your downvote

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)/¯

This is a gross oversimplification......laws can be passed just to grab money, power, resources. Or just on a whim. 2 examples come to mind: the Boston Tea Party & the United States Library of Congress making cell phone unlocking illegal. The Americans weren't begging for a tea tax (and they sure as hell didn't vote to bring about change). And idk if you're aware of this obscure little blip in history: James Hadley Billington, Librarian of Congress in 2012, decided to make cell phone unlocking illegal. I was fresh out of college....and an 83 year old man unilaterally passed a law telling me what I can & cannot do with my smartphone. Nobody asked for this, to borrow your terminology, it was unpopular. There were petitions I signed. Do you have any idea how infuriating that is?? The LoC JHB was so old, he's dead now. Obama said the law couldn't be repealed (???????) 🙄 Eventually 2 years later it was, but it was a wild wtf type moment.

To be fair to Mr. JHB, you look at his record & it seems like he/his team accomplished a lot of good things during his service. He just really, really fucked up in 2012.

I don't know how productive further discussions will be; we appear to take very different positions on law, authorities, government, right & wrong. ¯\(°_o)/¯ Have a good night

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.”