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Lauchs@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Trying to pay rent these days...

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Trying to pay rent these days...

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Lauchs@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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    Yeah… this isn’t a meme, it’s literally children being sold.

    As I recall it, the family were facing eviction, and the kids were indeed sold, including the one she was pregnant with. A couple of them ended up basically being slaves on a farm somewhere.

    I’ll laugh at plenty of things I probably shouldn’t but this isn’t one of them.

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      My grandfather was sold into what amounted to slavery during this time period under similar circumstances. Many of these children were treated with incredible cruelty, then grew up and were shipped off to war. Mostly voluntarily, given that war was actually a quality of life improvement where they got perks like socks and food.

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      Fucking tragic: https://web.archive.org/web/20181019122147/https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/sold-off-siblings-shown-in-old-photo-tell-their-stories/article_1c095598-89f4-584b-891b-7ef48a1e2082.html

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      The consequence of edgy “ha ha slavery funny” humor. This is why punching down is never ok.

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        I must be misunderstanding, are you suggesting this lady sold her kids because of bad jokes?

        Or what is the consequence you’re talking about? The consequence of dark humour is seeing dark humour?

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          You saw this as hilarious rather than horrifying.

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            Well, I saw an opportunity to make a joke about the cost of housing.

            I don’t think it was hilarious but I chuckled and thought to contribute to our content desperate platform.

            But yeah, I do like my humour dark.

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              People don’t have to like it. Again, don’t punch down it can have disastrous consequences for people who really don’t need it.

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                I’m genuinely struggling to think of a non ridiculous chain of events that leads to disastrous consequences here.

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                  Keep wondering then. ✌️

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                    Phew, I’m glad I’m not the only one who couldn’t think of an example! I was feeling kinda silly there for a sec.

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      Feel free to contribute whatever you’d like to see to the community!

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        deleted by creator

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          Whatever works for you!

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