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[–] BehindetheClouds@reddthat.com 2 points 16 hours ago

I think you have to fix shit first before you earn yourself a meme post. Cunts

[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 1 points 15 hours ago

How come he never got citizenship then?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Best case for shutting down the internet, imo. Bunch of people with internet poisoned brains in positions of power who would rather talk about an ape that died a decade ago than any problem facing a living human being today.

[–] vapordays@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago

The internet is over, for now. Boomers and businesses killed it, until the next phase in human history.

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

I usually try to read the article…and I’m left wondering what in the ever loving fuck I just read.

CIA looking for alien blood lines on 23 and me….I can’t tell real life from tabloid shit any more

As for Harambe, he was not a patriot. He was a beautiful animal that was shot despite being a gentle soul who did not hurt a fallen child. He did not care about human politics or Trumpian bullshit. Lovely being, yes. Martyr, maybe. Patriot, no.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

In this case "dicks out" refers to the mid term elections

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I prefer a meme-free white house, is that communism?

We're killing people overseas RIGHT NOW. We're arming other countries doing the same thing RIGHT NOW. These aren't joking matters. I won't even get into the various financial problems we're facing, whilst building a goddamn Octagon on WH the front lawn. If you don't have something important to say, shut the fuck up white house.

revolting brevity, Harambe would instinctively attack and dismember any of these clowns on sight.

[–] vapordays@leminal.space 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everything that can possibly be ruined, they will leave no stone unturned

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago

On this day, Harambe stopped being funny. The memes, though dead, will live on forever in our hearts.

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

Considering it's a popular meme to trace the horrors of our current timeline to the demise of Harambe, it makes sense that this White House would honour his death. Without it they never would be where they are, doing what they're doing.

First it was the suicidal penguin and now Harambe?

With all the money they're pissing away, you would think they could at least hire somebody to design a better propaganda campaign aimed at convincing their base to lay down their lives for the dictator... Or did AI take that job too?

[–] kayohtie@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Flashbacks to his first presidential win. X.x

In the 2016 US presidential election aftermath, a false but repeated claim stated Harambe received over 15,000 write-in votes.

While there's a super small possibility this is thanking those 'voters' (when has fact checking ever mattered there), it's probably just working off the same meme idea that powered that rumor to begin with.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 181 points 2 days ago
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So tired of having a White House that shit posts like a boomer trying to sound cool to 14 year olds

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 31 points 2 days ago

WTF even is this timeline?

This post makes sense, though. None of these clowns would be on the White House if Harambe were still alive. Basic gratitude post.

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

"... land of the apes ... and the home of the stupid ...". Are you free enough? Are you brave already?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When's national Dicks Out Day?

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

November 3, 2026

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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 64 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Being a Veteran Of The Internet, I know to take screengrabs with a pinch of salt. I'll do my due diligence, thank you!

And, well, I wish I hadn't. Because now I know this is real and oh my fucking god

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Jesus christ ... whichever 4chan incels were hired to run the U.S. web pages didn't even blink twice at turning a meme into a governmental announcement.

This is what it's about - completely outrageous displays of circusry to distract from it becoming an absolutely, pants-shittingly embarrassing mockery of its former glory.

The U.S is getting robbed blind and made to look like a buffoon simultaneously.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

FYI, this is far from the first time they've done this since January 2025. This has been the new reality for like a year and a half now

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

I'm never on xitter but i checked the official White House page i believe three or four times last year: it was a wild experience each time.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

correction mate. The US is being robbed openly not blind.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 112 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Every time I think we hit rock bottom of the dumbest timeline. The universe goes, “Hold my beer. “

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Every show about alternate timelines had the characters visiting the weirdest timeline. Turns out WE are the weird timeline! Maybe we should all have goatees, ahah.

  • looks on the mirror *

Shit

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

beginning to wonder if I've been in a coma since 2015.... and the madness is all just my brain shutting down more and more... because that's the only way this shit makes any sense

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 82 points 2 days ago (4 children)

An AI eulogy posted by fascists. Some honor.

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[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Jesus, the entire administration is full of fucking morons. Even the aids that post on social media.

[–] Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Before reading this article and hearing the name "Harambe"?

Before

After reading this article?

After

[–] davetortoise@reddthat.com 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They're really just throwing stuff at the wall at this point

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Harambe memes were popular with 4chan neonazis and the like, they are shouting out to their base.

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

how is the onion even able to keep going at this point?

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Apparently the US embassy in India is paying random people to put stickers of Trump's face on their vehicles. You literally cannot make this shit up

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[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 days ago

I love how this post inadvertently shits on/ makes fun of 9/11 with the "we all remember what we were doing when it happened" line

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Why do they want to ruin everything lol

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Explains why some of them couldn't keep their dick in their pants at least.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Internet trolls and memes in the white house, I hate what they've done to this fucking country.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I wish Trump had been put in cage with Harambe 11 years ago or so.

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[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

These idiots will deify anything, won't they?

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For a fraction of a second my brain went to some other less awful universe and I read this sentence as a totally normal thing of like "oh yeah of course, harambe must've been an important person and it's totally normal for rational governments to honour important people".

I want to stay there.

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 36 points 2 days ago (5 children)

AmeriKKKa is truly the most ignorant and least serious culture in all of history.

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Of course they're honoring him, his death sealed the current future where Trump get elected twice.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With this character's death, the thread of prophecy has been severed. Reload to restore the weave of fate, or persist in this doomed world you have created.

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[–] derAbsender@piefed.social 16 points 2 days ago

Fitting.

The new heraldic animal for the bananan republic.

Shit hole country.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

And now, show me Epstein files.

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