this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
1003 points (96.6% liked)

Microblog Memes

5402 readers
3034 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Too many carnists with a boner for predators

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The issue is most of us would behave the same way if we were the ones with all the money. Not everyone of course, but a fair number of us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Rich nutjobs are eccentric

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I just call them leeches.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wait, elite are wealthy? I thought I was a “Coastal Elite Libtard” because I live in a coastal state, am educated, sit at a desk, and earn more than median wage even after adjusting for high cost of living. I worked hard for that college education (many years ago before inflation took it out of reach), now i have to be wealthy too?

Dammit, MAGAts have much simpler criteria and cheaper land, maybe I need to swerve hard right and land in a flyover state

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

It ain’t me..

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago

It's not the "predator" class - it's the parasite class.

Calling them "predators" will - apart from the fact that it's inaccurate - simply flatter their egos

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't call them the elite... I will continue to not call them elite if that helps.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Parasite is much more applicable.

The parasites manipulate the predators to handle the suckers they trap with news nooses.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I always thought the elite were the highly educated, not the rich.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Very few highly educated folks are poor, in fact, majority come from money.

"More than three-quarters of medical students came from families in the top two quintiles of family income"

https://www.aamc.org/media/9596/download

I am from a family in the 3rd quartile, nobody ever said I could grow up to be a Doctor. Most told me to 'go to state school and get a shitty office job and be happy with it'. In my college all the kids studying to be med students were driving used BMWs/Mercedes and paying several grand extra a year for parking, new dorms, and the like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A better example is any flavor of engineer. Usually well educated, earn well over median wage, yet are not wealthy. Are they elite?

Or what about teachers. Very well educated, are building our future, yet don’t get paid nearly enough. Elite? Or non-lite?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

depends on how wealthy their parents were.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's more of a US issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You misspelled narcissist.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Who calls them elite? Only they themselves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And the media conglomerates they own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Exactly. They use those to build this lie that they are this grand untouchable class of super beings, but if the OceanGate 2 scandal showed us anything, they are not invincible. They are mortal just like us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Anime and manga. Classroom of the Elite 🤢

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I was just going to say that!

The only time I hear it is in tv shows.

load more comments
view more: next ›