this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
611 points (98.6% liked)

Political Memes

11678 readers
4880 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

1) Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

2) No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

3) Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

4) No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

5) No AI generated content.Content posted must not be created by AI with the intent to mimic the style of existing images

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/62631096

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 days ago

That's actually based af. The only thing it's missing is changing the patient to be Epstein

[–] Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

It's interesting to think that, if anyone was to be smited, my blaspheming rear would be far down the list.

Its crazy how much the two governments are alike.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

"THIS is how you do a Red Cross"

[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 150 points 1 week ago (6 children)

So… Trump praises Allah and the Iranians defend Jesus. Definitely did not have that on my 2026 bingo card.

[–] itslola@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're aware that Jesus features in the Quran as well as the Bible, right...? Highly respected figure in Islam, not at all surprising that Iran would be defending him.

[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yes, I’m quite aware that the background is that after being visited by the archangel Gabriel and explained that basically the Christians did not understood Jesus message, Muhammad created Islam, hence being known as “the true prophet”. I’m also aware that as a figure, Jesus has been “whitened” to the image of Zeus to please Europeans of that time. That doesn’t prevent him of bring the symbol of the Catholic religion.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

he's been whitened to the image of a Germanic man during the Christianisation of central Europe

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean if anything it would be to please the Romans, but anyway the "whiteness" of Jesus wasn't a thing that occurred all at once. It was slow and over hundreds of years. Not that strange to think illiterate medieval peasants that never traveled more than 20km from their birthplace weren't nuanced in all the "races" of the world or had a good understanding of geography. Of course they would imagine that this religious figure looked like them

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Allah is God. Why do so many people not know that?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Because according to people who don't understand the religion they claim to follow, Allah is a different god.

load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 74 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m just happy we have finally found such a productive use of AI.

All the job loss was really worth it for this.

[–] Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And the destruction of our environment and water supply too

[–] desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago

And the spike in RAM, SSD, HDD and GPU prices

[–] mech@feddit.org 68 points 1 week ago

Begun, the Meme Wars have.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 46 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I'm really fascinated by those tweets by the iranian embassies: The USA is waging war against Iran and the Iranians are allowed to spread their own war propaganda with their official accounts on US platforms.

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

first of all, it's a special military operation. So jot that down.

[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Practically everybody in the Trump administration has referred to it as a "war." Just because congress lacks the balls to assert its own authority, that doesn't make this less of a war.

But yes, "special military operation" -- noted.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I thought it was an "Excursion?" Which was really one of those things where Trump got it wrong, and everybody around him is pretending that it's perfectly normal.

Obviously, they were in a meeting early in the War, and trying to do that old trick where you try to convince the citizens that we aren't really in a War, it's only a "Police Action," or a "Peacekeeping Mission," etc. in this case, they suggested they call it an "Incursion," but since Trump is virtuosically ignorant, and has never heard that word, and doesn't know what it means, he called it an "Excursion," and then embarked on multiple explanations of how it's not a war, it's just a little trip through their country. All because he doesn't know what Incursion means, so he confabulated a new word for war, and those around him, including the media, are afraid to correct him.

I'd love the opportunity to ask him "Why do keep saying Excursion? Is it because you don't what Incursion means, so you just substituted a word you do know?"

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The true AI wars have begun.

load more comments (1 replies)

The one where the guy on the table is jeffery epstein is better.

[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

can you imagine being a historian having to study, characterize, and teach these clips to students.

like instead of WW2 tanks videos, and WW1 trench videos, we will teach these, and the context

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

They'll probably omit this to make it boring on purpose. There was a ton of hilarious and awesome stuff in newspapers in the early 20th century.

[–] TheFlopster@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I notice something new every loop.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Big fan of Trump still having on suit pants and black shoes under the robes.

And he hulked out so hard he grew a belt.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

It would be nice touch if Trumps shoes would have flown off.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

crazy how that other doctor comes out of nowhere and hits doctor trump

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Even Iran uses white Jesus? C'mon.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago

They're making these for a western audience, so yes.

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] mtpender@piefed.social 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"JESUS FROM THE TOP ROPE! BY GAWD HE HAD A FAMILY!"

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

And people claim there is no good use case for AI...

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I’m still not convinced that either of these are good uses….

What scares me is that we once had to read political platforms to elect someone and to look to the newspapers or evening news to help us stay informed. And as technology progressed, we have found dumber and dumber reasons to form opinions about global events - we don’t like someone’s voice, or they wore the wrong outfit, or the building looks shabby. And now we enter a world where we are going to judge people and events based on fabricated material, which I find terrifying.

load more comments (6 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So is part of the rapture fantasy that you have to deify an evil lunatic to lure Jesus out of his hidey hole to flip tables and take names?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

It's actually that Jesus will come at an appointed time that no one can know or decide, and when he does he'll smite the followers of the evil lunatic to hell. So no, trumpees don't even know their own religion...

[–] SourGumGum@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

wtf I love Iran now.

load more comments
view more: next ›