Context from the original OP, u/jackt-up on reddit:
Historical accounts of incendiary pigs or flaming pigs were recorded by the Greek military writer Polyaenus and by Aelianus Tacticus. Both writers reported that Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas' siege of Megara in 266 BC was broken when the Megarians doused some pigs with combustible pitch, crude oil or resin, set them alight, and drove them towards the massed Macedonian war elephants. The elephants bolted in terror from the flaming, squealing pigs, often killing great numbers of Macedonian soldiers by trampling them to death. According to an account, Gonatas later made his mahouts keep a swine among elephants to accustom the animals to pigs and this practice was immortalized by a Roman bronze coin dating back to his time, which showed an elephant on one side and a pig on the other.
You're saying the people who own and manage Netflix have no care for whether or not people pay for Netflix subscriptions? Bold assertion.
Sure, voting with your streaming dollars isn't going to overthrow the government, but that's not what anyone was talking about. We're talking about voting with your streaming dollars for a better streaming service.
Context from the original OP u/jackt-up on reddit:
Context: In the Bible we have this really crazy episode in Kings, where Hezekiah, the king of Judah, prays for God to aid him, as Jerusalem is under siege by the Assyrians. Not only does God deliver him, he sends one singular Angel to deal with 185,000 Assyrian troops. All of them are killed.
“The prophet Isaiah sent word to Hezekiah that, because of Sennacherib’s blasphemous taunts about the God of Israel, the Lord Himself would fight for them and destroy Sennacherib and his armies. Sennacherib was not just defying Israel; he was defying the Living God. That night, the angel of the Lord slew 185,000 in the Assyrian camp. When Sennacherib saw the carnage, he abandoned his conquest of Jerusalem and fled to Nineveh. He never stepped foot inside Jerusalem, just as Isaiah had said.”
In reality, something must’ve happened—maybe a setback for Assyria, or perhaps a diplomatic concord—because when describing their enemies of the time, the Assyrians always mention how they crushed them. But with Judah, they simply say, basically, “they’re chill; all good with them.”
In the original comic, Nolan spoke first and Debbie responded. Whoever made the meme didn't add the speech bubbles, they just replaced the text and made it so Palestine spoke first and the perfidious British and French responded.
Context: the philosopher Plato defined a human as "a featherless biped," and the philosopher Diogenes showed him how stupid that definition was by holding up a plucked chicken. BEHOLD! A MAN!
Also, I think "Groyper" is a reference to followers of Nick Fuentes, a far-right white nationalist influencer/livestreamer who just happens to have a Hispanic surname.
Whenever I see a Grumpus_Maximus post and don't understand the context, I just Google reddit historymemes "[post title]." They're all just scraped directly from reddit.
Frank "The Blonde Devil" Marshall Jiménez was a Costa Rican liquor smuggler, deputy, anti-communist paramilitant, general, member of the Hitler Youth and leader, and founder, of the first and only fascist movement in Costa Rica's history
“Because the process produces a concentrated, espresso-strength coffee, it can be used directly to manufacture ready-to-drink products, or shipped as a concentrate and later diluted into a range of drinks, including cold brew and milk-based coffee drinks.”
Okay, that makes sense. A more energy-efficient way to mass-produce cold drinks and concentrates.
There's no way the average coffee drinker would be happy with a room-temperature shot of espresso. Yuck!
Okay, so to be clear then, you're not talking about the same entity that was forced to forgive the back rent. "He should have arrested him instead" implies "He should have arrested him instead of forcing him to forgive the back rent," when in fact the back rent was incurred under one company that went bankrupt and then forgiven by a different company that subsequently purchased the properties and has fixed 3,500 of the 12,500 known code violations in a short span of time.
Now, how do you determine the persons responsible for the state those buildings are in? Is it the maintenance staff, the property managers, the C-suite, the equity holders? Responsibility is shared by many people and it flows in multiple directions. I would love for there to be a proper investigation and I hope one is underway, but it's not as simple as "Zohran Mamdani, you should have personally arrested that man!"
So why does this matter to you?
It matters because it chafes me to see a complex issue reduced to pointing fingers at an imaginary slumlord with a twirly black moustache. We're talking about a large company on which many people depended for their livelihood and even more people depended for safe, well-maintained housing - and that company became financially insolvent. There are so many potential failure points to be investigated.
These recent events are a major win for the Union of Pinnacle Tenants, but without even reading the article, you decided that the mayor should have personally arrested "him/them" instead of providing relief to the people affected. Not even "arrested him too," but "arrested him instead."
I'm not sure I get the implication - tax evaders got massacred by the millions as punishment? Or the census had no record of millions who didn't register with the government during times of turmoil, leading to an overestimate of the casualties after major wars because it looked like the population decreased more drastically than it actually did?
Which specific employees and/or officers of Pinnacle Group and/or Summit Properties should be summarily executed by the mayor of the city, in your opinion?
Should he execute the CEOs? The entire C-Suites? The Boards of Directors? The property managers? The maintenance staff? Anyone who has any stock or any other form of equity in either company since they're technically the ones paying everyone from the CEO down to the most junior employee to do this? Just how much of a bloodbath do you think Zohran Mamdani should personally carry out? How much carnage do you need an elected official to unilaterally enact before you feel "uplifted?"
Or did you expect the Slumlord to be a single individual with a twirly black moustache and a villainous laugh?
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