this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
975 points (99.1% liked)

Political Memes

8361 readers
1971 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

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.

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

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

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

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
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

For those that don't get the joke here...

This is an iconic scene that is intentionally designed to portray a very, very boring lecture from a teacher, which none of the kids want to pay attention to, that they are right to percieve this as boredom-torture.

The motherfucking actual literal topic of the lecture is how the Smoot Hawley tariffs of the 1930s massively worsened the Great Depression.

... god, Damnit.

[–] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Movie: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Actor: former Nixon speech writer Ben Stein

[–] podperson@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Voodoo Economics