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[–] arifinhiding@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago

Doctoral candidates still have around 1% chance of success in my country. Academia is more often a way of expressing niche knowledge, and it represents a different can of worms. Things like grade inflation, ivy league nepotism aren't even addressing the problematic areas of higher education. But anyway, the areas of specialization are too narrow to be broadly celebrated as leadership qualities. Given the unreformed state of islam, It is more than likely that religious bodies in Iran selected their negotiation team for their work ethic, since most of their government officers are easily distributed along similar religious and political lines. The PhDs in Iran's team do not contribute to their own specialization because doctorate work requires ultimate devotion, unless they're willing to fail and join the 99% of candidates.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

an author describing how he was "gay" but his grandma said dont say such things. JD owes his current existence by being plucked from obscurity by PETER THIEL, who has intention of using him to run for office.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 3 points 21 hours ago

the only person whom i know their name is the couch fucker. no clue who any of the others are.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago

Trumps son in law getting work from him is outrageous. Utterly indefensible

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're not sending their best.

Actually they are 😅

[–] excral@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago

When the US sends its people, we’re not sending our best. We’re not sending you. We’re not sending you. We’re sending people that have lots of problems, and we’re bringing those problems with us. We’re bringing drugs. We’re bringing crime. We’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Original Trump quote:

When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Seems fitting here

[–] dualphasesaber@piefed.social 175 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Look, nobody's perfect. I'm sure once Hegseth finds out he'll quickly rectify his mistake and kick him out in favor of a less qualified sycophant.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Sadly I think this is their best.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 88 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Your spelling almost blew a vein in my forehead

Well played!

[–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"You're spelling almost blue a vane in my fourhead"

FTFY

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago
[–] islandcoda42@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you don’t know the difference between their, there, and they’re, your dumb……😜

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Trump did say he likes his team to be made up of losers

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago
[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On the way over, Vance compared this negotiation to the time he told Usha she was not allowed to go skydiving.

That did not give me confidence in the outcome.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No. JD Vance told her not to do it, so she didn't.

This is how negotiations are supposed to work.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, that's how agreements work. Negotiations come before that.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Why use word when me have bigger stick?

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I hope she is right now

[–] Nils@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

A long while ago, I was considering taking an MBA, until I talked to my friend's dad of Iranian ancestry.

I did not bring it up, in the middle of an unrelated conversation he just dropped that he was disappointed that his kid(bordering 40s) was not a PhD, and how MBAs are ruining the world.

Every single people of Persian ancestry I met in my life takes education very seriously, maybe not so much the younger ones as they only aim for a master's degree and hurt their parents feelings. :P

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

thats asian upbringing to, they expect you to be MD/ Law which is a doctorate, or a scientist, or one that has a high income. any other jobs they will constantly compare and keep complaining every single time.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

The OP also included zero information on what these guys have their PhDs in. Iran is a theocracy, so at least some of them are likely to have doctorates in Islamic theology or Sharia law.

I don’t know about Iran, but India also loves academic titles. They are very easy to get and often just mean you have to pay for them. I have Indians with multiple masters degrees, that knew less than someone with a bachelors degree from a European university.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

High level education is a form of social reproduction, the world over. We have moved away from strictly family-oriented hereditary management and adopted a broader ideological basis for transferring political authority and private ownership.

Case in point, Kushner, graduated with a JD/MBA dual degree program at the New York University School of Law and New York University Stern School of Business in 2007. He interned at Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau's office, and with the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He's a New York Business Deals Guy, which is why he ran in Trump's circle and ultimately married his daughter.

Similarly, Vance earned his JD from Yale in 2013, then spent his early career working for perennial Texas Senator John Cornyn and chief justice of the Eastern District of Kentucky circuit court system. To say he's uneducated would be absurd. He is in a direct pedigree with a long line of far-right apparatchiks.

All these Iranian diplomats went through a similar matriculation in their younger days. They've been promoted as much due to their loyalty to the project of Iranian independence as their raw educational background and attainment of certification.

What do people think someone with a PhD did to earn the degree? What do people think someone promoted to a C-level position at a major corporation or partnership at a ranking law firm did to earn the post? You might be surprised to discover the degree of overlap. Much of it boils down to standing up in front of a board of your professional peers and proving you're able to discourse with them at an equivalent level.

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Business degree is worse than nothing imo. All the debt, all the indoctrination, very little exposure to anything potentially educational or enlightening. Come out of a program like that as a certified yes-man with bills to pay, the shame it brings to your family is just the tip of the iceberg

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Business degree is worse than nothing imo. All the debt, all the indoctrination, very little exposure to anything potentially educational or enlightening.

The indoctrination is the enlightenment. You're gaining the ability to recognize what your senior peers in business consider valuable and reflect those values back to them.

What do you think the PhD board is screening for in Iran? You are as much learning the cultural touchstones and taboos as the specifics of the field. Academic institutions all have their own orthodoxy, their own dogma, and their own heresy. Some of this is the product of accrued trial and error. Some of it is purely ideological - a matter of personal persuasion handed down from master to student, which must be adhered to if one wishes to be recognized as a full member of the institution.

Come out of a program like that as a certified yes-man with bills to pay

It isn't that simple. Yes-Manning works if you can find a billionaire (or an Ayatollah) with an ass that needs licking. But eventually people have to actually do shit.

What Trump's team has mastered is the art of the grift. They aren't merely yes-men, they're confidence men. They've all become exceedingly wealthy based off their ability to rook their peers.

What the Guardian Council of Iran's team has mastered is navigating the space between religious orthodoxy and practical politics as an upstart surrounded by wealthier rival states. They have been dancing through a mine-field for 47 years and now they can't dance any further.

So it is still very much an open question of who comes out ahead, even if the US has proven disastrously inept at getting the short-term high-profile domestic media wins that the current president demands.

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I took a few MBA graduate level courses because a job was paying for them. The professors really didn't like it when you trash the entire premise they are trying to teach.

Now the economics professor was fun. He had a better understanding of statistics and the inherent data integrity issues, biases, and heavy reliance on correlation that plagues the field.

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

MBA programs aren't about the classes or any kind of academic rigor. They're almost entirely networking plays: go get an MBA from a high ranking program, where you will drink with new friends you've made at different events, and then learn socially how to fit in with these MBA types, and then everyone gets their first post-MBA jobs at a big 3 consulting firm where they'll do a bunch of stuff with executives of Fortune 500 companies, get to know execs who will vouch for them when the next VP position opens up. Then, 20 years after getting their degree, they still have an address book and text message threads with a lot of people who just happen to be the who's who of senior management in different industries. All made possible by the MBA program, none of it coming from the coursework itself.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

Knowing how to network and how to leverage a network are key skills to running any business.

[–] Loce@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only real "DEI" hire we should be worried about.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Jared Kushner reminds me of a fencepost.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 6 points 1 day ago

Just another ~~swampbaby~~ nepobaby:

Netanyahu has long been a friend of the Kushners, and particularly Jared’s dad, Charles Kushner, a major donor to pro-Israel and Jewish causes. One time, Kantor reports – she doesn’t specify when – Jared gave up his bed and moved to the basement so Netanyahu could spend the night at their home in Livingston, New Jersey.

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 16 points 2 days ago

He's a thrift store mannequin, complete with a little bulge where his junk should be.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A fencepost is actually useful.

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[–] DarkDecay@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Lol unfortunately that is their best

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 16 points 2 days ago

Selected for loyalty, not for their performance.

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's not just a failed author, he's also a couch fucker extraordinare. Give the man some credit!

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How does one become a failed author? Is that even possible?

[–] davad@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Right a book that no one reads?

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

That better be a purposefully ironic spelling mistake.

[–] davad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Happy typo 😁

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago

If I were the Centcom Commander in this picture I would have done a retake.

He doesn't look nearly bloodthirsty or alcoholic enough to properly represent the US military.

[–] sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Happy to see so many women in top positions.

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