image transcript

“I sleep” meme format, with top text “israel uses U.S. weapons to kill over 31k, wound 75k, and displace 1.9M” next to a picture of Shaquille O’Neal asleep with the caption “i sleep”, and bottom text “ukraine uses U.S. weapons to strike russian energy infrastructure, raising oil prices” next to the same image of Shaq but now solarized and with glowing eyes and the caption “real shit”.

Beneath the meme is a screenshot of the first two paragraphs of this reuters article, which are:

March 22 (Reuters) - The United States has urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, warning that drone strikes risk provoking retaliation and driving up global oil prices, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The attacks helped boost oil prices that have risen nearly 4% so far since March 12, when Ukraine first started targeting Russia’s energy infrastructure. A further rally in gasoline prices in the United States would weaken President Joe Biden ratings and undermine his re-election chances.

the words “driving up global oil prices” are highlighted.

  • FiveMacs
    97·
    3 months ago

    I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if this was created by Russian trolls as a form of manipulation.

    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      123·
      3 months ago

      Really? This meme which I just made, with the detailed image transcript for accessibility?

      Please, check my lemmy history. Do you really think I’m a Russian troll? 🤣

      • BMatthew@lemmy.world
        131·
        3 months ago

        I don’t get the knee jerk Russian bot response either. The point isn’t pro-Russia, it is that we give zero fucks for killing Palestinian kids, but if we pay a few bucks more at the pump, full stop real issue to talk about. Russia and Israel are run by horrible murderous people.

      • Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social
        313·
        3 months ago

        U serve the same ends by posting this anal drip. U could be a bot, a paid human, an enslaved human, or the genuinely misguided, but the end result is the same.

            • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
              4·
              3 months ago

              do you read this meme as being either for or against the US telling Ukraine to stop bombing Russian energy infrastructure? 🤔

              • Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social
                3·
                3 months ago

                Wow. Sorry. Im a moron.

                I work a graveyard shift and should probably be more careful commenting in the dead of night. I will leave my shame up; feel free to ridicule.

                • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  lol, ok, but i’m actually still baffled as to how you interpreted this meme – both before and now

                  • Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social
                    2·
                    3 months ago

                    In my much sleepier state, i took the shaq meme as intended to be unironic.

                    Now my understanding (on the other sleepy end of my timeline :p) is that u are making a sarcastic dig at the US being upset over an adversary’s economy being hit bc its raising our oil prices while not caring one bit about the genocide going on in Gaza.

    • Kaput@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      Don’t need to be a Russian troll to see the hypocrisy. The powers at play don’t give a fuck about people. Only the money. Dead people is just one of many costs of whatever is going on. Here we have a very clear demonstration that the US government will react much quicker to the gas price than the blood price. I don’t expect better from any party currently involved.