America last night

[dumbass@quokk.au]

We really shouldn't have made fun of his birthday parade, he got upset and is acting out.

[lyra_lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Haha, America's now got an abusive immature father. Gonna lash out at her siblings. Insane.

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

Cartman would honestly be a better president, Meteor would be even better, but his pools cratered in the last election

[iheartcheese@lemmy.world]

If any of the kids I vote butters

[cruxifux@feddit.nl]

This shit is actually not funny. Why isn’t anyone taking the beginning of world war three seriously. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

[breecher@sh.itjust.works]

This is serious, but I'm not seeing how this is the beginning of WWIII. China attacking Taiwan could be that, but this really isn't.

[no_money_just_change@feddit.org]

I think if ww3 were to happen, the memes would indeed be funny as fuck

[zerocool@lemmy.ca]

[carbonicedragon@pawb.social]

That's not how these things work, if anything, the more serious an event is, the more that thing is going to be what people make jokes and memes about, to dampen the stress of the situation if nothing else. I'm not sure there's actually such a thing as an event so serious that nobody makes jokes about it.

[dumbass@quokk.au]

Has anyone tried doing this to Trump? might make him settle down a bit.

[daggermoon@lemmy.world]

Pretty much

[saleh@feddit.org]

Well guess what the US bombing Iran makes more likely.

[jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works]

idiots in power are funny, human suffering does not change that

[callouscomic@lemm.ee]

I've been hearing about WWIII basically my entire life now. I don't give a flying fuck. I'm trying to pay bills and enjoy my measly life until I can't at all.

Worrying about shit I literally cannot control is goddamn exhausting.

The meme is a brief moment of levity.

[killeronthecorner@lemmy.world]

Oh is it world war 3 again? Crumbs it's come around fast this time hasn't it. Are we up to them securing the oil fields yet, or are they still talking about WMDs?

[fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com]

What would you have me do?

[fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com]

Look at what you made me do

[therealkuni@lemmy.world]

I heard a couple of comedians make jokes about the 787 Air India crash like two days after it happened.

They didn’t get any laughs, and even got a few mutters from the audience.

They said something like, “the plane crashed while taking off from Ahmedabad. Maybe it should be ‘Ah-plane-is-bad.’” Or maybe, “Ah-made-a-bad-plane.” I can’t remember. Crickets.

(Inside I wanted to tell them that the Boeing 787 has one of the best safety records of any commercial airliner. It’s not a bad plane. But obviously that isn’t funny either. And heckling is shitty.)

Then they said, “Miraculously one man survived. He walked off the plane, over to an ambulance, pointed back at the wreckage and said, ‘Do NOT go in there!’”

This got a few chuckles, but it was clearly uncomfortable.

I’m not sure how we know as a group what is okay and what isn’t okay to laugh about. But usually I argue humor is a good coping mechanism.

[arrow74@lemm.ee]

So the US, Israel, and Germany have been directly involved in this conflict thus far.

Russia is currently in a war with Ukraine as we know, and has announced their support of Iran. North Korea has been sending troops to this conflict. US and much of western Europe is already involved in some way.

China has been reported sending some kind of undisclosed aid to Iran already.

Currently unrelated but Pakistan and India just had a border skirmish. Pakistan does border Iran.

There's a lot of instability and World Wars worth of countries involved already. It truly wouldn't take much to start connecting some of these conflicts. If that happens it gets much bigger

[finalremix@lemmy.world]

That breakdown he had yesterday about never getting a Nobel Peace Prize was maaaaajor foreshadowing.