• Delphia@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Jim Davis consciously created Garfield as a vehicle to sell merchandise. As admitted by Jim Davis.

      So not only is the Trump comparison apt, its actually way deeper because his job is not to be funny or good, its to be broadly marketable to people with low standards using repeatable catchphrases that you can print on hats and coffee mugs.

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        10 months ago

        Oh yeah, of course I know that Jim Davis has only ever been in it for the money (which is kind of funny ngl), but I’m a person with low standards who’s autisticly latched onto Garfield as my special interest and I quite like Garfield ngl.

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      10 months ago

      .online is literally “.social 2”

      it’s entire purpose was to let people in after .social shut down because it got too big before eugen kinda stopped caring

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      10 months ago

      Funniest Trump bit was when he went to East Palestine, Ohio after the train crash and announced he’d buy everyone there McDonald’s on the house and got a large round of applause, bought himself a big Mac and then left without buying anything for anyone else.

      Really sums up his whole grift in a single moment imo