you're never going to believe this : memes

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

If you don't want to bother with individualized pronoun choices, just don't. It's that simple. But if your problem is you don't want them to exist in the world, well that's a lot more complicated.

[–] Foxfire@pawb.social 8 points 14 hours ago

All down to bigotry of course. For fun, try earnestly writing in absence of pronouns. Perhaps a bit more challenging than expected!

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What is the first word and which is the constitution?

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

"We the people..."

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Ah the USA constitution. In the german one, its an article as the first word, excluding numbers and symbols. "DIE Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar." But technically germany has no constitution but only a basic law

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Of course the German "constitution" starts off telling you to die /s

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

Well, it's the only thing people will reliably do. Each and every last of us.

Happy weekend, I guess.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Yeah sorry, this meme struck me as very steeped in current American politics (not sure if this same nonsense is happening elsewhere) so I didn't think about other constitutions.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

you keep talking like that and soon it will be your state constitution.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

Guns?

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Coming soon to a Truth Social post near you:

"He the people..."

[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I the king ?

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 5 points 15 hours ago

Elon I, the Musk.

[–] subtext@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Babe wake up, new pronouns just dropped

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_America

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Never realized that the first sentence was so long

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Read Moby dick it has sentences as long as half a page with 5-8 commas, 3-4 semi colons, and few real colons.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago

A roman senator is running late to an important senate meeting. He arrives 15 minutes late and enters to see each seat filled, with the exception of his own, and Cicero standing in the middle of the room giving a speech.

He manages to stealthily make his way to his seat without causing too much of a commotion and leans over to the senator next to him, asking in a hushed tone, "Hey, what's Cicero talking about?"

The other senator simply shrugs and whispers back, "I don't know, he hasn't gotten to the verb yet"

[+] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone -30 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

If you ignore all the headings and contents pages, I think it's "whereas".... So what's your point? Whereas isn't a pronoun.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 33 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Constitution image that very clearly starts with 'we the people'

There are no headers before this. The "we the people" is actually quite large too

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone -4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Which constitution is this? It's not our one.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

The US constitution. Thought it said US in the post itself, but I suppose it technically didn't clarify

In any case, they more than 99% likely mean the US constitution given how US-centric social media is, and how the US constitution's start of "we the people" is fairly well known in the US

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How many Americans know the first few words of the Australian constitution? Not many. So they can't expect me to know theirs

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Knowing the wording of the US constitution is absolutely not required for guessing that its about that one.

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

How would one guess? Only americans are arrogant enough to assume the whole internet is american?

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I dont think youre as ignorant as youre pretending to be

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm not ignorant. I'm making a point, you drongo.

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How am I meant to know about every other country's constitution?

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 19 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Sure, not knowing it's the US constitution is reasonable if not from the US

However, I think one could take a reasonable guess that if the first word of a constitution wasn't a pronoun, this post probably wasn't about that specific constitution

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone -2 points 18 hours ago

Why would someone post something like OP without stating what constitution it is? Do they expect only americans to read it? Maybe keep your american jokes in american specific communities.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world -3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Its not reasonable, theyre trolling. It couldnt have been clearer.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They're obviously being facetious but it absolutely could have been clearer.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Youre technically right, it could have been clearer by explicitly stating it. Still, Im positive that 99.9% understood immediately, including them. Its like saying something about Trump and someone comments "how was I supposed to know youre talking about Donald Trump and not Carl Philipp Trump"

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Lol "it's unreasonable for foreigners to not know the text of our constitution!".

American stereotype.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Thats not in the least what Im saying. I actually had no idea about the wording of the US constitution before this post. But how many other fascist governments actively attacking LGBTQ rights in the last few weeks do you know? I honestly dont think anyone would have thought this was not about the US. Maybe if you havent watched the news once for the last month.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Australian conservatives absolutely use that rhetoric to attack LGBTQ people, but you don't know that because you don't watch Australian news, even though you expect Australians to have watched American news.

I honestly dont think anyone would have thought this was not about the US

American. Stereotype.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Still not American^^ Australian. Stereotype.

Im still not buying that 99% of news on Lemmy is about US fascism and news in almost every country report about it and Australians see a meme about fascism and assume its about them, not even doubting that it could be about an other constitution. That would say way more about Australians than Americans.
If there was a meme saying "Russian troops during the invasion:" or some shit, would Australians comment "I didnt know we are being invaded by Russia"?

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 19 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

They mean the Australian Constitution. I'll make sure I intentionally misunderstand when the fascists come for Australia next.

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What country are they taking about if not Australia? Do other countries even have constitutions?

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 hours ago

you keep talking like that and it’s going to become your state constitution.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The constitution doesn't have a contents page. It was written in the 18th century on a parchment.

The first thing in the constitution is the preamble, and the first word of the preamble is a pronoun.

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