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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Google is terrible in many ways now but I begrudgingly respect Google Translate precisely for moments like this

Cropped screenshot of a Google Translate page. On the left hand side Hebrew text from the skeet above, romanized as "gei kakan oyefan yim", is copied and auto-translated into English as "Gay cock at sea" on the right.

Any anti-Zionist speakers of Hebrew are welcome to chime in and say whether Google got this one right and if this is casual homophobia

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The sort of spurious headline that screams "rage-click bait".

Low-resolution screenshot of Papyrus from Undertale, facing left and shouting "I'M NOT FALLING FOR THAT SHIT!" as his eyes apparently bleed and while standing near what I can only assume is a very poor MS Paint depiction of a large fire

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"I've done nothing but repeatedly not cater to my own audience in 15+ years."

Cropped image of the populart doodle of a girl saying "WAOW" and thinking "BASED BASED BASED...[ad nauseam]"; the person normally on the left that she's reacting to is absent.

Context: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/waow-based-based-based

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I can't not think of this when hearing something so ridiculous

Official Sugimori illustration of the Youngster trainer class from Pokemon (or illustration of the same early-gen Pokemon style), against a white background.

Invoked here in reference to Youngster Joey, a very early trainer fought in Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal who will call you and boast that his Rattata is in the "top percentage [sic]" of its species.

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The people giving this ludicrous advice, especially if they took out and/or paid off the loans between 2009 and 2021:

Famous graphic showing a top-down illustration of a plane with red dots clustered around specific areas, with other areas suspiciously absent of such red dots. Used as a quick visual shorthand for survivorship bias (aka attrition bias), a form of sampling bias which overrepresents the characteristics of members of a population which did *not* get culled from the sample.

The red dots correspond to the locations of bullet holes found among a list of surviving planes (surviving being the key word), the famous insight being the realization that any plane shot in a spot *not* represented here can never return safely, and those areas are weak spots which need to be fortified the most.

Additional context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#Military

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Or 25 minutes of this image accompanied by a constant sine wave tone

Stylized illustration of a jar of mayonnaise, plainly labeled "MAYO" in all caps. As seen in the "Wacky Delly" episode of Rocko's Modern Life

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I put far more time into writing the alt text than this response deserves

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Likewise pertinent, the most it's been since early covid:

Meme image of a woman in glasses in the Sims video sitting at a wooden computer desk in a wooden chair, the monitor clearly showing she's sending messages in an IRC.

Captioned in various goofy fonts: "Not now sweaty [sic] / Mommy's / Cyber Bullying / THE MAYOR"

For additional context: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/not-now-sweetie-mommys-cyberbullying-sims-baby-on-fire

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Seeing that list and this immediately comes to mind

Front cover image for the Weird Al Album, Straight Outta Lynwood - a play on NWA's "Straight Outta Compton", and clearly themed after the flagship "White and Nerdy" single, parodying Chamillionaire's "Ridin'".

It features Al Yankovic standing in the foreground wearing contemporary-ish gangster rapper style clothing, including a black vest with "LYNWOOD" on the front in sports jersey font, with a black dog posing by his foot. Behind him is a comically flat Chevrolet with a California license plate.

In the background, on the left, a dark large wall coated in graffiti with "WEIRD AL YANKOVIC" sprayed over the rest of it in bold white font, the album title in much smaller graffiti font. Al, his dog, and the car are on the street near a sidewalk on the left. Further in the background a few houses and street poles are visible, and the sky is ominously and dramatically cloudy, as if a storm were coming.

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Dropping mine. And realizing I forgot to cram in something about homeowner's insurance no longer existing in Florida and/or mass internal migration to the Great Lakes region

Disc Choco's 2026 bingo card.

Includes a 5x5 board with the following events:

First row, listed from first to fifth column: "Amazon workers go on strike"; "Left independent or Green candidate wins Congressional or gubernatorial race"; "Double-digit federal minimum wage"; "USPS rapidly privatized in non-rural areas"; "Double-digit CPI inflation and/or U3 for at least one month".

Second row, listed in the same way: "Erika Kirk becomes First Lady"; "Luigi walks"; "MSRP for Switch and/or PS5 breaks into quadruple digits"; "Bolsonaro finally dies"; "Age verification in all of US and/or EU".

3rd row: "NLRB unilaterally dissolved via executive order"; "Gen AI-induced stock market crash"; "FREE SPACE: Congressional Dems fumble an easy W"; "Katrina-level disaster happens in the US; gets promptly forgotten within a week"; "BLM 3.0 triggered by DHS and/ or National Guard fuckup".

4th row: "Forced covid-esque lockdown; US death toll above 500k within the year"; "Youth-led protest in at least 3 southeast Asian countries"; "Trillion-dollar Fed bailout"; "Deltarune Chapter 5 drops before April"; "Democratic rotating villain joins the GOP".

5th row: "Iraq-style ground invasion and occupation of Venezuela"; "Bari Weiss gets glass cliffed"; "Starmer survives snap election"; "Second Arab Spring"; "Blue Arctic between June and August".

In the upper right corner is an additional 2x2 grid of extremely implausible events where any two of the following is an automatic "win":
"POTUS drops at least one nuke"; "USPS wildcat strike"; "US begins to balkanize and/or Civil War 2"; "PRC collapses; Xi resigns in disgrace".

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I will only concede that GOP is (maybe) marginally more complicit in that they're the ones slamming the gas pedal more often. Dems often escape scrutiny because their role is to frustrate attempts to reverse what previous GOP admins did, cementing previous regressive change instead of going further

Political graphic with a white background, headed in bold black text:
"The Ratchet Effect: How you are being duped by by [sic] the fake two-party system."

In the center is an illustration of a red sawtoothed gear with a blue ratchet fitting snugly into one of its grooves on the upper left.

A clockwise-facing arrow arcs roughly sixty degrees around the gear from the top, suggesting the wheel can freely turn in this direction. The image is flanked by bold red text to its right:
"REPUBLICANS TURN EVERYTHING TO THE RIGHT"

Another much smaller arcing arrow (maybe ten degrees) is drawn above the tip of the ratchet, suggesting attempts at counterclockwise rotation of the gear will be prevented. To the left of the ratchet, in blue text:
"DEMOCRATS BLOCK MOVEMENT BACK TO THE LEFT"

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Anyway read State and Revolution so you can see through the kayfabe: www.marxists.org/archive/leni...

Excerpt from Lenin's State and Revolution, screenshot from the Marxists Internet Archive.

It reads as follows:

In a democratic republic, Engels continues, “wealth exercises its power indirectly, but all the more surely”, first, by means of the “direct corruption of officials” (America); secondly, by means of an “alliance of the government and the Stock Exchange” (France and America).

At present, imperialism and the domination of the banks have “developed” into an exceptional art both these methods of upholding and giving effect to the omnipotence of wealth in democratic republics of all descriptions. Since, for instance, in the very first months of the Russian democratic republic, one might say during the honeymoon of the “socialist” S.R.s and Mensheviks joined in wedlock to the bourgeoisie, in the coalition government. Mr. Palchinsky obstructed every measure intended for curbing the capitalists and their marauding practices, their plundering of the state by means of war contracts; and since later on Mr. Palchinsky, upon resigning from the Cabinet (and being, of course, replaced by another quite similar Palchinsky), was “rewarded” by the capitalists with a lucrative job with a salary of 120,000 rubles per annum — what would you call that? Direct or indirect bribery? An alliance of the government and the syndicates, or “merely” friendly relations? What role do the Chernovs, Tseretelis, Avksentyevs and Skobelevs play? Are they the “direct” or only the indirect allies of the millionaire treasury-looters?

Immediately continued from the previous.

It reads:

Another reason why the omnipotence of “wealth” is more certain in a democratic republic is that it does not depend on defects in the political machinery or on the faulty political shell of capitalism. A democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism, and, therefore, once capital has gained possession of this very best shell (through the Palchinskys, Chernovs, Tseretelis and Co.), it establishes its power so securely, so firmly, that no change of persons, institutions or parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic can shake it.

We must also note that Engels is most explicit in calling universal suffrage as well an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously taking account of the long experience of German Social-Democracy, is

“the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the present-day state."

The petty-bourgeois democrats, such as our Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, and also their twin brothers, all the social-chauvinists and opportunists of Western Europe, expect just this “more” from universal suffrage. They themselves share, and instil into the minds of the people, the false notion that universal suffrage “in the present-day state” is really capable of revealing the will of the majority of the working people and of securing its realization.

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

See quoted (part of a reply thread), and screencap: bsky.app/profile/disc...

Screenshot of various labels/tags underneath the user "Logc" (@july2022.bsky.social):
*Liberal Apologia
*Liberal Troll
*Denies U.S. Genocide Role
*Tom Nichols Follower
*Joined Aug '23

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The leaders of these movements, or at least a majority of them, are full of shit though. They will eventually devour the True Believers who think the 14 words are actually about protecting their children's future, or who actually think the Rapture is coming soon www.goodreads.com/quotes/78707...

Screenshot of a quote by Jean-Paul Sartre, with a portrait of him in the upper left hand corner:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Inb4 Trump and GOP just blatantly ignore the 22nd amendment and the Dems and SCOTUS do fuck all about it

Screenshot of an early Simpsons Halloween episode where the titular family gains access to a wish-granting monkey's paw.

Specifically, the famous shot of Bart holding up the monkey's paw (with one finger already curled downward) as he's making his wish.

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I've heard they're today's equivalent of US tourists during the Iraq War, with an unearned sense of arrogance

An exchange between Homer Simpson and a lifeguard on a beach, in a Scully-era (late '90s to mid '00s) episode where the Simpson family visits Brazil. Screenshots arranged here in a vertical three-panel form, as if it were a comic strip.

First panel:
Shot of a lifeguard perched atop his chair (left), pointing at Homer and Bart (right), gets the latter party's attention: "Excuse me, Americans!" Skyscrapers and people in swimwear can be seen in the background, facing in-land.

Second panel:
A reverse shot from a high angle, "looking" down at Homer and Bart as they face the lifeguard. Homer's at three-quarters so the pattern on his shirt isn't completely visible yet. Homer asks, "How did you know?"

Third panel:
A zoom-in on the front side of Homer's T-shirt, the image now fully visible. It depicts the head and arms of an angry Uncle Sam, mouth agape, clutching a miniaturized Earth with both hands with a huge bite leaving a hole where the Arctic Circle used to be.
The shirt is captioned, "TRY AND STOP US", the font forming a smile-shaped "line" curving around the bottom of the globe and Uncle Sam's arms. In the actual episode ominous music plays during this shot.

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I am not British enough for this. Kingdom fuckability?

Cropped panel from a shitpost webcomic in which Steve Harvey reacts, flabbergasted, to a Family Feud contestant's response.

Given the prompt: "What game would you hate for your wife to walk in on you playing?", the smug contestant answers "Meet N' Fuck Kingdom", to which Steve Harvey responds "MEET AND HUH???"

Only the last part of this exchange is visible in the image.

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Put another way: Undertale reads to me as an antithesis to zero-sum, Malthusian, lifeboat-ethics politics. It's a middle finger to the anhedonic Floweys of the world who'd kill billions to preserve the status quo, claiming their victims would have done that to you had they not intervened.

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Agree with the sentiment that we shouldn't accept this. But I can't help but ask if you were sleeping under a rock throughout the summer of 2020. Or in history class when you were taught about MLK and the Civil Rights movement. Image relevant

Screenshot of a famous tweet by user hermit_hwarang:
"american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???"
Dated 4:26 PM, 6/14/21

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This whole gangster-rapper cartoon aesthetic still makes me chuckle to this day

A low-resolution image of an unofficial illustration of Daffy Duck dressed up as a gangster rapper circa 1995-2005, complete with a "grill", baseball cap tipped sideways, a silver chain necklace, ring, etc.

Daffy is also clearly high as fuck, holding a lighter in one hand and a blunt in the other, eyes barely open with pink-tinted sclerae. The background behind him features a pattern of cannabis leaves just in case any dumbasses thought he's smoking tobacco.

This version of the image is captioned with top text in all caps, "NEVER BELIEVED IN MAGIC", followed by the bottom text "UNTIL I SAW MY DOG [dog emoji] TURN INTO A SNAKE [snake emoji]".

For any sight-impaired zoomers or alphas this sort of bootleg "gangster" Looney Tune illustration was extremely ubiquitous on T shirts in the 1990s to early 2000s. And it was as ridiculous (complimentary, not pejorative) then as it is now.

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Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

"If you abduct someone in front of their kid, you need to go to hell *before* you die"

Screenshot of the wrestler-turned-actor Captain Lou Albano, as Super Mario from the 1980s DIC cartoon adaptation, in a now infamous anti-drug PSA.

For additional context:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/captain-lou-albanos-just-say-no-psa

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