Osama bin lobbyin?
Big fan of medium sized, family owned businesses. Can’t offshore, can’t AI. They treat employees better
It used to be FAGMAN but now there’s no Facebook anymore.
Lol who’s the Y? Yahoo?
It’s Y Combinator
I’dve guessed Yandex.
Gayman (Aah-aah-aah) Fighter of the straight man (Aah-aah-aah)
Champion of the dumb (aah-aah-aah)
He’s a master of surveillance and AI for everyone.
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.
Maybe he doesn’t personally see “gay” as meaning “bad,” but he knows that the mainstream of society including most billionaire oligarchs see it that way, and so is doing it because he knows it would get under their skin.
Which, you know, I see gay people doing all the time. So it can’t really be that offensive…
Edit: I don’t know anything about him personally so you could be right but I generally don’t jump to those kind of conclusions from seeing offhand comments
You’re saying you know nothing about him and making up a fantasy scenario in which you would feel his image is alright instead of just… looking at his profile. Search for the word “gay” and see how he uses it.
It’s not a fantasy scenario, it’s just how I interpreted it when I saw it initially.
And I’m not going on xitter just to stalk some profile of a random dude whose post I happened to see a screenshot of on the fediverse just to verify the accuracy of my initial interpretation. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Took me like 60 seconds, and I didn’t have an account.
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?
I think most of us just didn’t know the guy
Right, but when you see someone using the logos of companies mostly known for being evil at the moment to spell out “gayman” wouldn’t you wonder if this person is doing this because he thinks gay men are as evil as we think those companies are?
Excepting y-combinator, which he seems to have thrown in just to manage to spell “gay.”
Because it’s the sort of joke I can see gay people in my life making
Y Combinator is a huge driver behind the AI push, not sure why you think it’s not part of the evil empire if the rest of them are? Matter of fact, OpenAI grew out Y combinator while Altman was president.
As for the other thing, I could see how it’s a joke aiming at those rich people and NOT gay people. Some 15-20 years ago, gay was used pretty much how “cringe” is now, without sexuality even being important. I reckon a ton of people have called someone gay online without actually hating gay people.
I didn’t know anything about y-combinator since like 2008 so that one threw me off.
The person who made this calls people and things gay all the time. Now, not 15-20 years ago. I’m nearly 50, so I have a lot of experience seeing gay used as a bad thing.
Which… what you’re saying was an example of. Using gay to mean bad, shitty, awful, cringe was homophobic and insulting. That’s the reason we don’t do that any more. Except this guy does. Often. Because he’s homophobic, and so he made this homophobic meme.
This was a pain to dig up, man fuck twitter.
Anyways dude… wtf?
The first example from your screenshot is in response to another guy saying “I love you” to him and calling that gay is just accurate and is in no way homophobic. They could be dating for all we know - fuck knows it’s common for gay men to call gay things their partner does “gay” ironically.
The second one is him explaining that someone else called something he said gay (I’m not sure what, the account has been deleted I think?), he is not being homophobic by explaining that.
The third instance is calling out a real creep doing the “I identify as a straight woman” alt-right BS as the kind of person who would act gay to get into a girl’s sleepover - i.e. he would lie to convince women he is not a threat and get them to be comfortable around him, presumably to take advantage of them. That’s not homophobic, that’s based.
And there’s a fourth instance comes from him saying Alan Turing was made to kill himself because he was gay. Which… yep, and we shouldn’t stop reminding people of that.
And those are the only 4 examples I found of him using ‘gay’ outside of some comments in latinized hindi, where I think that’s just a regular word. Maybe Xcancel is just broken, maybe twitter isn’t showing all his homophobia to protect my sensibilities, but going from what he’s said… IDK dude, this guy is actually just fine.
Fuck abhinav
So that’s why they never showed the world proof of his death. Trust us, they said.
Ugh. THANKS OSAMA.
If use the softwares for managing online auctions, would it be Osama Bid Logging?
I just realized the Meta logo should depict a M, I never noticed before. What a great logo design.
Amazon is out, Apple is out, who else?
They’re too many for flashy acronyms.
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.
Most people don’t recognize Osama outside of Bin Laden.
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.
Right. A scary Muslim guy. Same like most people tie Hussein to Saddam and Trump stresses it as Obama’s middle name to push the Islamophobia panic button in his base.
Normalize separating the art from the artist.
While that’s a complex and important topic, it’s not really relevant here - the artist in this case is (rather inconveniently for our self appointed champion of the cause here) not particularly racist, nor homophobic.
You mean like JK Rowling?
I don’t see much to separate. Racist and homophobic artists made racist and homophobic memes.
This post is a counterexample to your claim
What claim is that?
That a racist or homophobic person only produces racist or homophobic content.
I never made that claim in the first place.
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.
Imagine being named Alexa, born in 1998, minding your own damn business when Amazon just completely wrecks your name as you’re entering high school.
Worse yet, imagine being named Khaleesi then JRRM comes around and ruins your life
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?
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.
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.
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.
Instead of basing all of this on your own assumptions, you could just go read his page for yourself. This is not a great person. He’s not being ironically playful, and even if he was ironic racism is still racism.
You’re free to defend racism if that’s the person you want to be, I’m free to click this button so I never have to see anything else you have to say.
I’m sorry, it appears you have eaten the onion.
I’m a tech entrepreneur, satire writer, and the fearless leader of the top venture capital firm in the world - Jabroni Capital.
Additionally, I’m not sure why blocking me is being treated as a threat - That would effectively put me in a situation where I could provide my commentary on your assertions without the need to engage with you directly. You’re largely ignoring what I’ve said already; in terms of my experience, the difference in our interactions would be minimal.
How is this racist @TrumpRapesKids?
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.
I don’t understand why you keep posting this one image and calling it ironic racism. It’s actively making fun of racists. You couldn’t find any other examples (from a confirmed satire writer) to prove your point?
I didn’t want to spend much time on his page, and that was enough.
When did the bulk of you decide that if someone says a racist thing offends them you have the right to jump in and tell them their feelings and experiences are invalid? Are you a black or brown Muslim? From the middle east?
Last time I was in college it was very much the opposite, and we were all taught that when someone says a thing is racist and is clearly bothered by it a crowd of people jumping on them and telling them they’re stupid and wrong is pretty much the most fucked up response you could give.
You have the right to be offended by absolutely anything. I know you feel like you’re being ganged up on right now, and I don’t mean to contribute to that. To be clear, I am one commentor, I have not called you stupid or wrong, I know absolutely nothing about the OP of this meme, and I am not defending them as a person. I’m not even defending the original post because I understand your argument about the greater harm it can cause.
I am only asking about the “dark mode” meme because you are using it repeatedly as an example of this person holding racist views, and it’s ok if you find it offensive, but if you’re asking other people to make decisions about whether to listen to or ignore this person, I don’t find this evidence persuasive.
Your feelings are valid. And in a scenario where someone is speaking/relating with you personally, they should avoid using material that bothers you. It is not valid to expect a crowd of strangers to only use material that doesn’t bother you.
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.
Deciding to use the name Osama to refer to a group of evil corporations isn’t an accident.
If it was Adolf, would that be Germanophobia?
If WW2 happened much more recently and the US far right responded by trying to stoke racial fear of Germans in it’s follower? Probably.
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
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?
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?
