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OSAMA (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 hours ago by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

So that's why they never showed the world proof of his death. Trust us, they said.

[–] Chick0nPlayz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

They're too many for flashy acronyms.

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Amazon is out, Apple is out, who else?

[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

I just realized the Meta logo should depict a M, I never noticed before. What a great logo design.

[–] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 29 points 9 hours ago

Ugh. THANKS OSAMA.

[–] LytiaNP@lemmy.today 61 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

[–] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Gayman (Aah-aah-aah) Fighter of the straight man (Aah-aah-aah)

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world -4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

He's a homophobe who sees "gay" as a synonym for "bad" and is making fun of how awful and bad these companies are by calling them a gay man.

He's fighter of the gay men.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world -4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Another fantastic person. I wonder if he's trying to say all these evil companies (and Y-combinator?) are gay because he loves gay people?

Or are they gayman because he thinks gay is bad?

Oh look. It's that second one.

I guess Lemmy is alright with homophobia, Islamophobia, and racism?

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Fuck abhinav

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago

If use the softwares for managing online auctions, would it be Osama Bid Logging?

[+] Abyssian@lemmy.world -13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (4 children)

The Osama post is from a racist on Twitter, the Gayman image is from a homophobe on Twitter.

This is what you're giggling at and amplifying.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Normalize separating the art from the artist.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

You mean like JK Rowling?

[–] Sibshops@feddit.cl 16 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Most people don't recognize Osama outside of Bin Laden.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 3 points 4 hours ago

I have a cousin called Usama and after 9/11, the kids in his class started calling him Usama bin London, which sucked for him, but it still makes me chuckle.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure lots of Adolfs and Hitlers were bummed out after WW2 started (definitely after it ended), but such is the way of the world.

[+] Abyssian@lemmy.world -7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So when Trump says “Barack Hussein Obama!” we can recognize that he's stressing the middle name due to racism and/or Islamophobia, but when a meme does the same thing with evil corporations spelling out "Osama" then the racism and Islamophobia just vanishes in a poof of magic because you want to giggle about this one?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Context is critical: The phrase is not being used in a racist way here - osama is the name of a specific and notoriously vile person - and invoking it doesn't automatically make something racist. The assertion is that a particular individual is a bad person, but it says nothing about the group that person is a part of. Trump's goal is to imply an association with a particular race/nationality that racists are biased against, and by extension that obama must be bad because of that association. It's asserting that a specific person is a member of a group, and therefore that person must be bad.

[+] Abyssian@lemmy.world -7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Again, this is more from the same poster.

There is no difference in the context. This guy is invoking the name Osama to bring to mind the mental picture of scary evil Muslim bad people in his racist followers, the exact same way Trump stresses Hussein to bring to mind that exact same mental image to his racist followers.

Maybe you don't remember this, but Hussein is also the name of a specific and notoriously vile person.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

That screenshot is of an ironic subversion of a common and heavily criticized sentiment, "I'm not racist, my best friend is black!". It takes it to a satirical extreme by implying that he would consider the association between himself and a literal black object to be the same as between himself and a black human, calling out the absurdity of the trend of "tokenizing" black acquaintances to get a "pass" on behavior. It is not an example of the poster being racist.

Anyways: That you have to assert their motivations conform to your opinion, instead of being able to show how this in any way makes a generalized statement, is pretty conclusive. This implies that the association the poster made is not clear enough for you, an intelligent person, to be able to demonstrate it through their words or framing alone.

If you want to be specific about the comparison between Saddam/Obama, it still isn't the same - Trump is trying to compare Obama to that one person to imply negative characteristics. The example in the meme makes no comparison except arguably between a notorious anti-western leader and several of the companies poised to collapse the western economy. It doesn't seem like an unfair comparison there - Osama Bin Laden rather famously predicted this exact situation, and as he was a very intelligent person with a prestigious education in both western culture and economics, it's not unreasonable to think he would find the irony in this juxtaposition. It is, after all, damn near the perfect example of the culmination of his work.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

How is this racist @TrumpRapesKids?

[+] Abyssian@lemmy.world -15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

What do you think the motivation behind them choosing the name Osama is?

Where is the name Osama most common? What things do those folks mainly have in common?

This seems so similar to Trump whining "Barack Hussein Obama!"

Also, this is more recent fun from the same person who posted this meme.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Bro, I’m pretty sure this is just someone rearranging letters in a humorous manner and because things like FAANG sound too cool for shit corpos. I think you’re reading WAY too much into it.

[+] Abyssian@lemmy.world -10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Deciding to use the name Osama to refer to a group of evil corporations isn't an accident.

[–] logos@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If it was Adolf, would that be Germanophobia?

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Well of course it’s not an accident. That’s sort of the joke in rearranging the monikers.

However thinking this has anything to do with the racist way MAGA presents candidates with names like Obama, or really any candidate of color with a non traditional name, I don’t think they equate as they’re intended to suggest they aren’t native Americans, and somehow have ties to foreign powers or interests.

And these are just corporations.

Again thinking you’re reading way to into it

[+] Abyssian@lemmy.world -6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Do you want a few dozen news articles describing the way they stress those names as clear racist and Islamophobic dog whistles? They're all over the place. It has nothing to do with not being born in America. They stress "scary" sounding names to rile their base up about Muslims and terrorists.

The same exact thing this meme is doing. If Trump didn't have huge ties to all the big evil corporations and wanted to make them look bad it's the sort of thing he'd probably post himself.

Check out the guy who posted it. Does he seem like a great person to you?

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You realize my last comment was on how MAGA sounds dog whistles over anyone with a foreign sounding name yeah? No shit. We’re on the same page regarding that bit.

This meme isn’t doing the same thing because this has nothing to do with Islam, foreign companies, or anything of the sort.

This joke is over giving these companies an undesirable acronym related to a guy who bombed the WTC. These companies lack a race or religion to tie to the moniker.

Do you think jokes about Trump hiding in a food cart depicted like Sadam in a cave are racist as well in this regard?

[+] Abyssian@lemmy.world -7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Obama is a black man. They try to stress his middle name to raise Islamophobic fear. Literally the same thing this is doing with Osama.

Do you think jokes about Trump hiding in a food cart depicted like Sadam in a cave are racist as well in this regard?

No, how would that be stoking Islamophobia?

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I missed where race or religion were being highlighted in this meme. Can you point to the black or Muslim company in this picture please?

[+] Abyssian@lemmy.world -7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

When Trump says "Barack Hussein Obama" he's not mentioning race or religion either. He doesn't need to. Most people in his base tie the name Hussein to Saddam so stressing it is all he needs to do to get them thinking of spooky scary Muslim terrorist monster dictator bad evil people.

Note that the guy who posted this meme also has a black joke on his page from like 2 days ago.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

When Trump says that it’s because he’s referring to a black man with a foreign name. How do you not get that?

Corporations are not people. Corporations don’t have color. Corporations don’t have religion.

You are equating irrelevancies.