Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/34117495

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Original still created by @gedogfx (IG). Title source: “Inkl”

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  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
    137·
    3 days ago

    To St.Luigi we pray

    Let my dick be much longer

    Let my dick be much girthier

    Let my foreskin be the perfect size

    Grow my left ball to match my right one

    Bless me with huge tits for my lovely wife

    Better knees for both of us

    Give us health and healthcare

    Turn putin, Trump, and other evils around

    Turn them around twice at the top than the bottom

    Make all suffering become happiness

    End money

    End banks

    End wars

    End war machines

    End diseases, especially sexual ones, so we can fuck freely without fear

    Give animals their habitat back

    Give us the power to need less from the world

    Free Luigi from evil justice

    End all evil governments

    Give us useful governments

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
    1032·
    3 days ago

    Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God

    Matthew 19:24

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      I like to contextualize this in a modern form. I like to say, “there are no billionaires in Heaven. In the end, every last one of them burns.” When I see Musk, Bezos, or Trump, I see men who are literally and inevitably headed for the very literal fires of Hell. Let them have their vanity here. In the end, they’re all gonna fry.

      I don’t know what qualifies as “rich.” But I don’t think a modest 401k to support yourself in retirement is going to damn anyone. I don’t know where the line is, but by the time you get the obscene level of a billionaire, you have been consumed by greed.

      I like to imagine wealth and as an anchor. Would you die, your soul tries to ascend upward. But those with great wealth find themselves chained to a great golden weight, a spiritual manifestation of their wealth and greed on Earth. And as they try to fly upward, they instead are pulled down, down, and down. They see the surface of the Earth rise up above them like a diver descending beneath the ocean’s surface. And they do not stop falling until they reach the Pit.

      • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
        4·
        2 days ago

        The context for the original quote is Jesus speaking to a “young ruler”. The young ruler asks if he will be judged as a good person. He follows all the religious laws and is very pious. Jesus tells him to sell his possessions and give the money to the poor. Jesus promises the man that his reward will be great in heaven, but the young ruler cannot bring himself to do it.

        I don’t see this as Jesus telling everyone to live in poverty. This is Jesus testing the man’s faith. Even though Jesus himself promises the man a reward for giving up his possessions, he doesn’t trust Jesus. He doesn’t have faith that his actions will be rewarded in heaven. The warning isn’t that having possessions is inherently evil, but that one can be so tied to their Earthly possessions they can refuse a direct request by Jesus himself.

        • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          6·
          2 days ago

          I like to view it in the context of the passage about the three people donating money. One wealthy man donates a large sum of money, while a man who makes an average living donates a smaller amount, and the last is an old lady who donates something akin to $1.50. In the end, Jesus declares that the old lady gave the most because she donated all that she feasibly could while the wealthy man gave what was a mere pittance of his money and the other man gave a noticeable portion of his salary, but not enough that he would miss it.

          The effort and generosity behind a donation (whether of time or money) is more important than the donation itself, and that’s what the rich can’t understand. By the time you get to that level of wealth, you’ve spent so much energy in accruing wealth that you no longer have the empathy to see those around you who truly need aid, and to lose that empathy is to lose an essential part of what makes us human - a part of the divinity that exists within us.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      “Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.”

      https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+5%3A1-6&version=NIV

    • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      742·
      2 days ago

      If you’re on lemmy, you’re probably rich. Like worldwide rich.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17512040#:~:text=Let’s put the world’s average,bottom of the earnings league

      Edit: Yall hating on me, just like any mf from Tajikistan hates you. Yeah. That’s a real country and 1% of your income could change their lives but you’ve never thought about it because you’re trying to keep up with the Joneses and thinking about Musk

      • Linktank@lemmy.today
        393·
        3 days ago

        Oh fuck off. This is the same mentality of pushing the climate crisis off onto everybody instead of the few people causing it.

          • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
            8·
            2 days ago

            I quoted the Bible because the image in the OP is Luigi in the style of a saint. I’m not religious.

            If I said “the Sun is hot” and you said “if you live on Earth you experience temperatures hotter than most of the universe” you also wouldn’t be wrong. You’d be Neil deGrasse Tyson. Most of the universe is -270°C. Earth is 15°C. The sun is 1,000,000°C. No matter how you look at it, the Sun is hot. The Earth is only hot if you purposefully compare it to cold things.

            1/3 of the world make $2 a day. I made about $137 a day. Thompson made $27,945 a day. I am $135/d away from the poorest and $27,808/d away from Thompson. I’m not sure what the goal is of saying I am rich compared to the poor when I am 205x closer to being the world’s poorest than I am to being a multi-millionare, let alone one of the approx. 2,700 billionaires in the world.

            • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              25·
              2 days ago

              my goal isn’t about ignoring the super rich. it was more about spending one day, Xmas day, thinking more about the poor.

              • Krauerking@lemy.lol
                4·
                2 days ago

                Don’t use them as props in your arguments then and speak about them with compassion and how to raise them up then.

        • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          117·
          2 days ago

          I mean it’s true. Nothing you ever do will matter.

          Edit: Outside of luigiing, but that probably can’t work twice. And it probably does matter much either. I think the point is that it’s not what you can accomplish, which being rich in your eyes seems to make you more responsible for (you could feed a starving kid for 53 cents a day, but likely don’t ), but how you conduct yourself.

          Anyway I do find it a little hypocritical that people here on lemmy complain about the rich when they have probably never missed a meal. Yeah, there are people that could feed most of the world, but I’m not addressing them.

          • Krauerking@lemy.lol
            5·
            2 days ago

            To give you some context on at least one downvote.

            I have been homeless like proper homeless sleeping on a metal chair with a backpack outside my college for weeks using the gym to shower and working 3 jobs to afford the basic idea of the American dream of going to college and nothing else. I spent most of my childhood hungry as my incubator spent all money on her vices.

            I ended up fleeing the country via a work program that basically made me an indentured servant for a few years while I tried to get my life together in a way where I didn’t want it to end anymore.

            You speak for a lot of people you don’t know when you say sweeping statements about the audience to who you are talking to.
            But also with that said I bet most of the down votes are still people who have not lived a life nearly that rough and think that renting is an equal level of poor and don’t want to hear it.

      • papertowels@mander.xyz
        8·
        2 days ago

        The discrepancy you’re pointing out across different countries is at most 18x, according to your article.

        Let’s ignore, for a second, that “richness” needs to be considered in the context of COL. Yes, 1% of someone salary could make an impact in Tajikistan. But the cost of a meal for that potential donor could also bankrupt someone in Tajikistan. But let’s ignore that for now.

        18x an average persons salary is a fart in the wind when it comes to the rich. Take a look.

      • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
        15·
        2 days ago

        comfortably rich in [pick whatever capital city you want] is a grain of sand compared to being a billionaire though, that is the level of disparity we are talking about

        • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          15·
          2 days ago

          I understand that. the Bible makes no such exceptions and probably couldn’t imagine what we have now. we should help who we can. we live better than any king in the Bible. I know about the disparity that exists now. my only point is that everyone here on lemmy is likely above the world median but acts like they are paupers because they compare themselves to celebrities. I hear Oxfam does good work if you don’t want to work locally. I’m down with eat the rich, just please don’t mistake yourself for poor if you’re not. if there wasn’t an ocean between the usa and Africa we would probably look at wealth differently. but all that said, of course the wealth graph shouldn’t look exponentially increasing, but for a biblical discussion I think you can ignore the top 5% as a historical anomaly ignoring the usury.

    • humble peat digger@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      I’ve been using this st Luigi image as reddit profile photo - and reddit removed it with the explanation I was glorifying violence. Wtf

      • Linktank@lemmy.today
        79·
        3 days ago

        Just another butthurt “artist” looking for something to blame for their lack of creativity and latent talent.

        • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
          24·
          2 days ago

          I’m no artist, but well done for just taking a guess and posting.

          I posted what I posted because AI slop makes my skin crawl.

          In my experience, the people who are the most excited about AI are the people who are doing poorly at being a person, specifically people who have trouble interacting with other people.

          You’re using the term “butthurt” without a shred of irony in 2024, so I don’t know, man. Forget what I’m saying, go out there an prompt them LLM’s.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.world
    49·
    3 days ago

    This animation is incredible. The best AI generated animation I think I’ve seen. The only weird thing I can detect is the excessive flopping of his sleeve. But to make up for it is the way his index finger is slightly bent because you can’t tuck the rest of your fingers all the way in without doing so. Crazy stuff.

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
    428·
    2 days ago

    Hey, Americans, nothing stops your Democrat-run blue states from improving your healthcare.

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, Jersey is nicely blued, but beholden to big pharma, and I think messing with healthcare hits too close to home. Governor race is next year though and so hopefully this issue stays hot.

      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        The right wing bogeyman. If it were that simple, California would be as broke as Alabama and Louisiana would be New York.

        • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world
          15·
          2 days ago

          Really shows me how traumatized I am by United Health Care when I see UHC and it immediately brings them to mind and not Universal. I had to put in some work to understand that Acronym

        • Dragon@lemmy.ml
          26·
          2 days ago

          It’s only cheaper if you consider current healthcare costs. It would require tax increases, and under current progressive tax models, those would be disproportionately high for the upper class, for whom the increase would not offset the elimination of their healthcare premium.

          • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world
            4·
            2 days ago

            Yeah we need to deflate the disproportionately high pricing of the health care caused by insurance as well, if we could get it at the national level we could eliminate a lot of the back office overhead, and then maybe negotiate a revisit of the master charge list so that Tylenol in hospital isn’t something crazy like $250 dollars a dose. State by state this would probably be much more difficult.

          • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
            6·
            2 days ago

            I don’t know how you can say with any confidence that the increase would not offset the elimination of their healthcare premium when the system literallydoesn’t exist.

                • Dragon@lemmy.ml
                  11·
                  2 days ago

                  It depends on the state. Massachusetts actually does have a flat income tax, so maybe it would be easier to do there. But even so, wealthy people might prefer to buy private plans, and see the tax as redundant.

            • Dragon@lemmy.ml
              12·
              2 days ago

              That may be the case, but do you have any evidence or reasoning? There are a certain number of people right now who don’t have insurance or who have very bad insurance, and a universal insurance would have to have to make up what’s missing for those people.

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      241·
      2 days ago

      massachusetts did it and it works great; not as good as single payer, sure, but better than the alternative.

        • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          18·
          2 days ago

          that’s a bit of a misnomer since it was passed by the overwhelmingly democratic statehouse while romney fought it the entire time

          • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            2 days ago

            Sorry, I italicized it now. Anyone who uses that name, uses it in jest. The funniest part was during the ACA thing and him acting clueless.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      222·
      2 days ago

      nothing stops your Democrat-run blue states from improving your healthcare.

      Given the two party system, and the fact that republicans arent in power in these states, that only leaves the Democrats themselves.

      End First Past The Post voting. Introduce competition into the electoral process. FREE voters ability to choose.

      But I guess that isn’t profitable enough for some.

      Nothing lasts forever…

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          It’s certainly harder to do on a state level. There is no inter-state border control. Doing single payer on a state level is likely to bring in the worst cases from at least neighboring states.

          California might do it, but they have a few big advantages. First, their population is high enough that they can absorb a little cross state immigration without hitting the balance too hard. Second, the states near them tend to be more sparsely populated, unlike the east coast.

          Basically you’re looking at only California and New York if you want to do it on a state level. And they’re both going to face huge lobbying against it.

          If this is something you want to get done, it’s got to have a lot of public support. And if you’re able to gather that much public support, why not just do it federally? It works better that way anyway.

    • vga@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 day ago

      I could be wrong, but it seems to me that decision-makers all over the planet are absolutely horrified at the idea of making any sweeping changes whatsover to health care system, whatever it is. Because they fear the very real possibility that they will cause masses of deaths due to complications during the transition and then that will be their legacy.

      If we take at face value that there exists a change that one can just simply make to the healthcare system, and then it will all be better, there’s still going to be some kind of transition.