On December 14, James Harr, the owner of an online store called ComradeWorkwear, announced on social media that he planned to sell a deck of “Most Wanted CEO” playing cards, satirizing the infamous “Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards” introduced by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in 2003. Per the...
  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
    18·
    18 hours ago

    You can still order them, the shop on their site just calls them “The Cards” now and has no photo… my deck is on its way.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    311·
    22 hours ago

    Owners dont like plebs mocking their dead lap dog.

    It creates friction, CEO class will demand higher wages etc it is just bad frame of mind.

    So they took the mask off and are using all their clout to censor pro Luigi sentiment.

    Pathetic, never forget!

  • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
    27·
    22 hours ago

    Pretty bullshit when the article lists several other examples of cards that target specific people, but the billionaires of the world are supposed to be untouchable and even describing a set of cards devoted to them causes the man to essentially lose any way of making money.

    • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      22 hours ago

      I remember when the US Fucking Military did this exact same thing during the Iraq War. And they were everywhere. It was such a novelty at the time that even my bleeding-heart, anti-war hippy parents had a pack of them.