AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoConfidence men never went away, they just made their con "too big to fail"lemmy.worldimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1218arrow-down133
arrow-up1185arrow-down1imageConfidence men never went away, they just made their con "too big to fail"lemmy.worldAllonzeeLV@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareSCB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoAlso oil, unlike snake oil, is extremely useful and also real. This meme sucks. Like just write “BAD” on an oil barrel and it’s a better meme.
minus-squareAllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down15·edit-21 year ago Also oil, unlike snake oil, is extremely useful and also real. As long it’s apparently time to play the pedant game, I’m sure you can extract some kind of oil from dead snakes.
minus-squareSCB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoIt’s not pedantry. It’s literally one of the two images you put in this meme. The whole point of snake oil salesman was that what they were selling was useless bullshit. Snake oil isn’t a thing, so comparing it to actual literal oil is silly.
Also oil, unlike snake oil, is extremely useful and also real.
This meme sucks. Like just write “BAD” on an oil barrel and it’s a better meme.
As long it’s apparently time to play the pedant game, I’m sure you can extract some kind of oil from dead snakes.
It’s not pedantry. It’s literally one of the two images you put in this meme.
The whole point of snake oil salesman was that what they were selling was useless bullshit. Snake oil isn’t a thing, so comparing it to actual literal oil is silly.
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