trek32

Penguin Defiance

https://lemmy.world/post/38430796

Nov 6 at 8:59pmWeb
Show threadPugJesusNov 6
Penguin Allies 🤝
Show threadSoapboxNov 6

Because US citizens are the ones paying the tariffs.

Also because the GDP of Antarctica is pathetic. Penguins really need to get their act together. Maybe start some hedge funds or something.

Show threaddual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️Nov 6
I’m cranking out 3D printed knives as fast as I can, but maybe my problem is that I’m doing it for free? I don’t know what to tell you guys.
Show threadSoapboxNov 6
Arming penguins with 3D printed knives for free? They can’t even hold them without opposable thumbs… or fingers. What you really need to start 3d printing are penguin rocket backpacks. Maybe with a jaunty candy stripe paint job?
Show threadgivesomefucksNov 6

Yeah, no one in any other country is paying trumps tarrifs…

But your GDP claims?

Bro, penguins move massive amounts of precious stones, which they value incredibly highly. I tried to trade a penguin $20 mil in Bitcoin for a single pebble, and that fucker turned me down, wouldn’t even negotiate.

Using capitalist math, that means every shiny pebble is worth more than $20million each, and they’re exchanging possibly thousands annually! That puts them at least 20 trillion annual GDP.

Now, I’ve secured my own pile of 10 shiny stones, and have secured loans against for a paltry $20 million, interest rates are super low because of all the capital I own. So I bought your student loan debt and can turn a profit even after my loan’s interest by doing absolutely nothing.

See how fun the investor capitalist system is?

Show threadSoapboxNov 6
So the penguins are doing a De Beers, shiny stones, market manipulation and all.
Show threadgivesomefucksNov 6

Nah, Penguins really do value shiny pebbles and they trade them, especially males wooing females.

De Beers would be like if I destroyed the artic and enslaved the penguins to find the pebbles and gave them to me.

Then I only sold 10k a year so people thought they were rare when really any pebble is shinny if you shine it.

Like, De Beers is one of the most evil fucking companies, I’d have to be chopping flippers off all over the place to make that analogy work

Show threadYakfolkNov 7
My current favorite and relevant shirt
Show threadSoapboxNov 7
That shirt is indeed fantastic.
Show threadceenoteNov 6
Kowalski! Run the numbers on a trade embargo with the US!
Show threadToiletFlushShowerScreamNov 6
JFK everyone, AMERICANS pay for Trump Tariffs. This just parrots misinformation.
Show threadCaptDustNov 6
Power to the Penguins!
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Nov 6
They froze all the assets!
Show threadDiplomjodlerNov 6
Time to send a carrier group.
Show threadlenneeNov 7
flightless but fly as hell
Show threadM137Nov 7
I imagine an image of penguins as a mob, holding up one of their wings with a closed fist in a show of resistance. I refuse to use AI for it (or at all) and my creative skills are not up to the task. Still felt I needed to share this mental image. Go penguins!