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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 223 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Poor dog doesn't deserve this legacy.

[–] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 80 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Neither does Homestar Runner

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What happened to Homestar Runner?

[–] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Chozo@fedia.io 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Holy shit, I had no idea it went that far back! Good jorb finding that.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, I have a strongly worded email to send to Mr Strongbad.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

It was pretty easy, TBH (as I also pointed it out recently). It's right there on the knowyourmeme.com page.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Even the coin deserves better than this.

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[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yep, she was a good girl that definitely deserved better. Tasty treats? Yes. Becoming the face of Elon Musk's neo-fascist movement? No.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 101 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Look putting Musk's stupidity aside (and believe me, I'm absolutely livid as a former educational researcher), I need to get this unpopular opinion off my chest.

It's... actually kind of fucking funny to name an agency DOGE.

Hear me out! NPR today kept saying it over and over again with straght fucking faces (well, voices) and the whole god damned time I'm muttering to myself "it's a meme, it's a god damned meme". It's like if someone named an agency LOSS, I would fucking lose my shit. If this was any other timeline and a shitlord like Musk wasn't the one making the joke, it would be funny.

Anyway that's my guilty thought I wanted to share to you, random internet strangers. I hope in better times, President AOC has a SUS initiative or something. I just love reporters being forced to say this shit.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or the BUSSIN initiative.

Or the USDA safe beef program I Can Has Cheeseburger.

Or the protection from fake news program No Cap Fam.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or the USDA safe beef program I Can Has Cheeseburger.

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm kinda surprised there's not a standard meme response to this meme by now - it itself being an older meme.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I am altering the meme. Pray I do not alter it further.

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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if someone named an agency LOSS

They won't. Many big retail organizations have departments to make sure this will not happen...

Tap for spoilerLoss prevention

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It'll also make it easier for future history students studying the last days of American hegemony to get a grasp on what's going on. They just need to be told "They were making government agencies based on memes" to get a decent idea of the mindset of the time.

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[–] ayyy 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The problem is that this is not a joking matter. Gutting USAID suddenly has literally kills a TON of people.

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[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Just wait until we get the agency for the Treasury, Housing, Economics, General Administration and Market Enforcement

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[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N 8 points 1 month ago

You caught some heat but you are 100% right. This is encapsulated every time I watch a house hearing clip and the reps say it over and over. The context of what they’re fighting is so infuriating, but just hearing these mostly out of touch old fucks who can’t comprehend technology saying it still almost evokes a grin.

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's still too late. As a post yesterday pointed out. Doge is the result of Homestar Runner being somewhat illiterate.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Denjin@lemmings.world 8 points 1 month ago

Homestarrunner.net

Its dot coooooom

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If you would go back in time and not kill a fascist... What are you even doing!?

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If the time travel rules are that you cannot change your present you return to, then it becomes tourism.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Going back in time to the moment before the dude who invented fascism thought of it and distract them so they never actually have that thought. Bam! No more fascism and in a 100% pacifist run.

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[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I cant believe I'd say this but, if you would kill baby hitler then poor doge too had it coming

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Hell, at this point I can think of at least a dozen prominent figures that I wouldn't mind seeing experience a bit of crib death if I had a time machine.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

How about going back in time to make sure the Constitution is written with less room for interpretation? You could solve DOGE, Trump, and gun rights in one go.

[–] Corigan@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Go back and never compromise with the south during our early years. No slavery loopholes no state rights senate bullshit. Partner with George to make a 3rd party. Make a clause that no actor can become president. Would solve 2 of the worst presidents....

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[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uh... maybe?
Trump and Elon don't actually care about the constitution, you know. They pretend that they do because it's patriotic, but it wouldn't stop them from doing anything they're doing.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Do you really want a constitution written by a bunch of slave-owning, warmongering aristocrats to be more specific?

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately Doge the government thing would exist regardless of the dog

The cryptocurrency though, who knows

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean you can make up a lot of different names for an efficiency agency, I'm pretty sure Musk picked the name, as they renamed the Digital Services department to create Doge - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency

[–] parody@lemmings.world 5 points 1 month ago

Surprised for the acronym it wasn’t something like “Homeland Initiative for Technological Logistics and Efficiency Reform”

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And honestly the whole RAGE from Curtis Yarvin sounds a lot smarter and more marketable as a catchy phrase. Going with DOGE is just an edgelord move, but Musk is the best example of one I've ever seen. It drives me nuts that it seems like so few people actually think it's dumb in real life.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

That's because they don't know where the name DOGE came from; all they think it means is "Department of Government Efficiency." If they knew it was from a meme of just a picture of a dog that started having people saying "dog" in a weird way, I'm sure they also would find it incredibly stupid.

[–] Exatron@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

We should start pronouncing it dog-e to annoy the MAGATs

[–] captain_aggravated 7 points 1 month ago

It was just a funny way to say dog, kinda like the ermagerd gersburms meme. Then somebody started a cryptocurrency called "dogecoin" as a joke, but it actually started making people money, and then Elon Musk started using that to defraud his way into the eventual pseudopresidency.

22nd century history teachers are so fucking screwed trying to teach this shit.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If someone has a time machine, they can just make the world a better place by killing baby ~~Adolf Hitler~~ Thomas Malthus.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If yOu hAd a tImE MaChInE WhAt wOuLd yOu dO?

I'D ToTaLlY KiLl hItLeR BrAh

we're finding out that no one would do shit.

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah, yes. Science. That thing where going back in time to kill the scientist who discovered something guarantees that no one else will ever think of the same concept.

[–] Justas 5 points 1 month ago

Science convergers on the same truth. It's the stupid that creates uniquely dumb outcomes. If you want to change the world by time travel, do not kill the scientist, kill the fool.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Thomas Malthus was not a scientist, but an economist and a cleric.

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The title is perfect for the post

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