Hey, remember when Friday was meme-day here at We Hunted the Mammoth? We’ve missed a couple, mostly because of horrible things happening in the world, but we’re back!
Today, some of the weirdestĀ pro-Trump and anti-Hillary memes I’ve run across lately. Most of these are from Reddit — in particular, from r/The_Donald and r/HillaryForPrison. Enjoy, I guess.
Now this last meme — which I’ve censored a little — isn’t really all that weird. It’s just kind of revealing, at least about the sort of people whoĀ sit aroundĀ making anti-Hillary memes.
Yikes.
*love not move.
Gert, if you are still reading this, I’d like you to be my ally in a fight that’s important to me, and therefore very important.
Virgin Mary keeps mis-naming Rupert. She spells it Murdock, when everybody knows the correct spelling is Morlock. I think she does it on purpose as a slight to him.There might even be a word for that.
Also, people keep talking about jousting, and nobody is thinking of the horses!!! Won’t somebody please think of the horses!!!1!!
I am in no way appeased by the fact that hambeast and Alan have in fact discussed the horses. This crowd claims to be pro-pony, I expect better from them and you when I mount my own high horse.
[Goes off to riffle through music collection for that Jethro Tull album]
@PI:
Well, from what I’ve seen Trevor’s personality is that of a wooden board, so Chris Pine might not be the worst choice… XD
And yeah, there is a lot of unfortunate squickiness in WW’s backstory just in general.
@Axe “Danger” Calibur:
Fair point. Especially Damian Wayne; I was actually having a discussion the other week about Iron Teen and used all of the various Flashes and Robins and Ant Men as examples of legacy characters who get cycled out without too much hubbub, and the common factor between them is that they’re all white. Damian unfortunately falls into the same category, even though he’s explicitly not supposed to be just white. (Though I wouldn’t pin that primarily on the fact that he mostly speaks English; plenty of people speak perfect English even if their parents don’t, and plenty don’t actually have strong fluency in their heritage language even if their parents do.)
I would note that Peter Parker is still a Spider-Man, Tony Stark hasn’t been announced to actually be retiring or anything (unless new info that I haven’t heard yet has come out), and Steve Rogers got de-aged because comics. And even with all of that, the film versions are still far more well-known, and they’re… well… currently a bunch of white dudes and Major Kusanagi.
Also there is going to be a Doctor Doom Iron-man and if your so sexist and racist that you hate the back girl Iron-man despite getting a Doctor Doom comic in exchange then I have even less time for you than I normally would.
Though I guess the racists who’ve actually read Dooms origin would be no less pissed in general.
@dslucia
Totally! But, if he’s gonna be a fair skinned, blue eyed Robin lookalike, what does he have to distinguish him as mixed? It’s just, Marvel makes Kamala, and they’re like ‘look, a brown, teenage superhero’, but where was DC going ‘look, Damian. From 9 years ago. Do catch up’? Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory…
We know it’s not the end of the world (it wouldn’t be regardless, but you know what I mean). To the internet, anti SJW, rage brigade, Spidey, Cap, etc are white dudes, period. Needing to qualify that statement is [insert pretentious buzzword here]. Ho hum…
Oh, and don’t forget Odinson in the list of guys who’re still around after being succeeded. He’s even got a sexy ass axe now! ?
@Croquembouche
Heavy horses turn the land under me…
If you like that one, take a
Last Trip Home with the great clydesdales.
@ croquembouche
Nicely done. š
You are of course quite right about the horses. I was going to mention that as it tied in with the general discussion about consenting to dangerous activities. The horses of course cannot explicitly express their consent.
Our relationships with non human people is a tricky area. Are we exploiting them? Are we treating them like companions? I could ramble on about this all day, with everything from the Grand National to New York carriages. Ultimately the test I apply (and it may be an inadequate one) is, if I was the animal, would I enjoy this?
If I thought that jousting horses were at any significant risk or in discomfort then I certainly would object. They do seem to enjoy it though and if there’s one thing horses seem to love, it’s humans falling off them.
I don’t see there’s any of course off a horse about it!
A couple of threads ago, someone mentioned that they saw 200+ comments and immediately thought: “Oh good, a troll.” I have to say I thought the same now. Interestingly, in both cases it was Bert who “spurred on the discussion” to put it mildly.
One good thing is coming from this though, I successfully expanded my vocabulary by one word: flounce. So thanks, everyone! My vocabulary appreciates it.
@alan
I used to work in the betting industry, and I always felt very sick at the way horses were treated. Thousands of horses die every month for people’s entertainment. The industry likes to cover this fact from the everyday customers, who like all the pomp and circumstance but none of the blood. Dogs are treated even worse.
Of course, the other problem I have with the betting industry is how it preys on the poorest members of society. In our shop we had several regulars who were on disability for mental health problems or were on pensions and used to come in with their benefit money and fritter it all away on the races. It made me very sad.
Speaking of Iron Man: this is for Alan. Reading that article, I wondered whether I was still asleep and dreaming.
Virgin Mary, have you read this piece about the dangerous staffing practices in high street bookies, and the rise of FOBTs? Would be interesting to know how you feel about that.
@ moggie
Wow, I’ll definitlely be going to see that!
It all explains a friend’s rather mysterious Facebook post “Waiting for the man engine”. š
Betting industry, payday loan, and prostitutions all have the same problem that the individual service seem reasonable, but for some reason the mass industry of it is among the worse possible industry ever.
(I hope to not have insulted any prostitute here)
@ Virgin Mary
Yeah, it is horrible how horses are treated in racing, both in terms of the risk of injury and what happens when they do get injured. And it’s all economics. There are treatments available but they’re not ‘cost effective’. Why spend tens of thousands on a horse that will never race again?
The irony of course is that Red Rum was bought really cheaply because he had a supposedly irreparable injury, but they took the time to nurse him back to health and see how that turned out!
And of course greyhounds are treated as disposable commodities.
I love the thread drifts here. I learn so much cool stuff. And whoever gave the advice on how to easily open a tight jam jar lid has my eternal thankyouse!
In fact, that article about betting shop feel extremely surreal to a french, because there isn’t official betting shop everywhere like that, it’s forbidden*. It’s strange trying to imagine Paris with thoses shop on every street, with poor people trying to forget their life in it instead of hammering themselve with cheap wine like God intended.
* betting shop I mean. Lottery and co are authorized.
Speaking of horses, I found out recently that Mr Ed’s real name was Bamboo Harvester. How cool is that?! That might have to be my new pseudonym.
Alan Robertshaw: Middle Name Bamboo Harvester
Wouldn’t a bamboo harvester be a panda?
@ axe
Heh, I would do that but I’m so lazy it’s bad enough just typing my existing name out in full.
It feels wrong that France doesn’t allow betting shops, because that air of louche, seedy coolness seems perfect for Paris. In my mind’s eye, I see Serge Gainsbourg (in black and white) looking hangdog, Gitanes drooping, as his pony comes in last. He tears his betting slip into pieces, and shoulders his way out past Lemmy Caution. Don’t tell me this is not the real Paris.
@ dslucia
You’ll get no arguments from me about things regressing. I absolutely love comics and superheroes but haven’t been able to stay interested since the 90s. I was reading trade paperback collections of a few DC titlea before the New 52 thing but elected to stop at the reboot.
The annoying thing for me is that DCAU was a great substitute, all the joy and wonder and not so much garbage, until now I guess.
@ moggie
The Man Engine has arrived!
That’s the border into Cornwall; and my friend about to be run over.
http://i.imgur.com/YwkdMPI.jpg
It transforms into a truck? It’s like a Cornish Optimus Prime! Your friend looks like she’s casting some kind of magic spell on it.
Seedy bar *is* a fixture of Paris :p. A lot give the impression they are barely concealed mafia gathering, being very closed and seemingly hostile to the onlooker. Only the fact there can’t be that many mafia in Paris make me doubt they are gangsters.
As well as extremely seedy hotels, but thoses usually are concealed “maison de passe” (brothel)
I see Gainsbarre much more at bars and hotels than gambling, which may be a cultural thing ; he was dead when I started making memories.