• Maven (famous)@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    To add on to what everyone else said… This can also be a joke about the movie The Lion King where a bunch of herbivores gather around at the start to celebrate their future murderer.

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      9 months ago

      Lol yeah, that always struck me. Now that I look at it, the “circle of life” thing just sounds like a very neoliberal thing.

      NL: “The status quo is good.”

      P: “But aren’t people homeless? Isn’t systematic racism still a thing?”

      NL: “Naah, it is what it is. It’s the circle of life”