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Just sharing this in hopes of some great memes of these two clowns.

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[–] RealEarthHuman@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly this energy

[–] speck@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

When your twink thinks you're cruising the other twinks but you just want to get away from the loud music

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Memeable yes. But it's dangerous to think of them as clowns. There are two great coalitions of psychotic political/military forces and they might do WW3. China/Russia/N.Korea vs NATO is not a pleasant-sounding conflict.

[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can be both a clown and dangerous. The two are not mutually exclusive 😅

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't see anything clown-like in Putin. He's an ex-KGB psychopath dictator mass-murderer who might cause the apocalypse. You just want memes. This stuff is deadly serious. I'll laugh when someone makes an actual joke. But Putin is no clown.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putin might be all that, but he also believed every lie fed to him by almost everyone about the state of Russia's military, economy, and who knows what else. All that ex-KGB training didn't help him when his "special operation" got stuck in a convoy without fuel, trucks with busted tires, no comms, self-jammed air support, exploding tanks with crews drinking the coolant... come on, you have to admit he's a bit of a "head clown".

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly not even close. He's been playing the heaviest games of brutal politics for decades, an evil man playing against (and in alliance with) extremely powerful forces, very high stakes, extreme pressures. America is the most powerful nation in the world, maybe in all of history, and they see Russia as their arch nemesis.

A clown would have absolutely collapsed a long time ago. A clown couldn't hold onto power like that. Trump is a clown. Putin might be a psychopath, megalomaniac, power-hungry douchebag, mass murderer. But he's definitely not a clown.

[–] BigRedHair92@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

What you really mean is he's a bad person. And therefore "any insult applies, even if it makes no sense." And if I clarify the kind of bad person he is, you treat that like a defense.

[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Woah woah woah, he has enough people that kiss his ass already. You don’t have to volunteer 🤣

[–] zepheriths@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putin is intimidated by Kim, who has a wider face

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

They're both so puffy, though, it's hard to tell without calipers.

[–] HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aww, he's missing the third of the trio...where's Trumpie? Could someone photoshop a single sad tear, like a 70's commercial American Indian?

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

"Are we the baddies?"

[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Putin should NOT have publicly met Lil Kim. It makes him seem like a beggar, a vassal potentate paying homage to Best Korea's Living God.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Where's that Japanese guy with the homemade shotgun when you need him?

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

When your boyfriend tells you he wants to stick it in your ass.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When you hear your kids fighting behind you and know that it was their third strike which means you won't be stopping for ice cream.

Edit: Maybe put the captions over their faces

Kim: Sees the kids fighting

Vlad: Was looking forward to ice cream

[–] FrostbyteIX@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"He's probably thinking of Nuclear Weapons in other countries again...."

"There's a fat kid getting attacked by angry geese and I'm trying really hard not to laugh. Serves that kid right for starting a fight with that goose......it looks so funny!"

[–] speck@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's got vibes like the guy looking at another woman and is his partner notices

[–] HocEnimVeni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The other woman is Xi. Maybe trump

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)