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Ika Makimaki
@pezmico@mastodon.nz  ·  activity timestamp last month

There's an old Soviet #joke, which thanks to neoliberalism, applies in several countries now :

A man goes to a newspaper stand every day, buys a copy of Pravda, glances at the front cover, curses, and throws it away.

After a few weeks of this the seller just has to ask what's going on: "why do you always look at the cover but never inside?"

"I'm looking for an obituary."

"An obituary? But those are in the back!"

"Oh no, the obituary I'm looking for will be on the front page."

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evin
@yujiri@freeradical.zone replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@pezmico i don't get the joke
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Ika Makimaki
@pezmico@mastodon.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@yujiri I think it is about finding roundabout 'safe' ways of saying you want powerful people dead without actually saying it, in a repressive society where such things cannot safely be expressed.
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John Robinson
@johnelalamo@mcr.wtf replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@pezmico So Russian!
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Der Haken
@der_haken@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@pezmico seen today

https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115117228245682867

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Shootout.
@Shootout@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@pezmico
neoliberalism? Are you a full blown NAZ!
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