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An old Russian joke: A guy keeps going to the newsagent: he scans the headlines and then leaves. The newsagent sees him do this a few days in a row and finds
by qubex 1y ago
An old Russian joke:
A guy keeps going to the newsagent: he scans the headlines and then leaves.
The newsagent sees him do this a few days in a row and finds it to be strange behaviour, so one day he asks him:
“Comrade, what are you doing? Can I help you?”
“Thank you comrade, but I’m only interested in the obituaries.”
“But comrade, the obituaries are at the back!”
“Not the ones I am looking for, comrade!”
- pavlov 1y agoThis joke has its origins in the days when Soviet leadership was a series of men in their seventies who kept dying on the job. It has acquired a certain acuity in today’s America where the leaders are a series of unpopular men approaching their eighties. There is a widespread “Is He Dead Yet?” meme that’s the contemporary direct equivalent of the Soviet joke.
- piyh 1y agoAll I ask for are leaders born in the 1950s
- jfengel 1y agoWe just had a chance at one born in the 1960s. People decided that they wanted someone born in the 1940s.
- dredmorbius 1y agoIt refers specifically to Stalin. And a time when the Chairmanship was not a revolving door, though it became more of one immediately afterward.
- Applejinx 1y agoAnd Russia! Let's not forget the same holds there, for very good reasons. Particularly as they managed to be the leaders of the unpopular men leading America, and they're squandering what wealth Russia has in mad imperialism for purely ego reasons while also seeking to crash the US no matter what that does to the world economy. Pure table-flipping. It's called the Swan Lake moment: Swan Lake on loop on the state media TV. That's what happens when everything is turmoil and nobody knows what will come next.
- maximilianburke 1y agoWhat's old is new again.
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