AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · edit-210 months agoConfidence men never went away, they just made their con "too big to fail"lemmy.worldimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1215arrow-down133
arrow-up1182arrow-down1imageConfidence men never went away, they just made their con "too big to fail"lemmy.worldAllonzeeLV@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · edit-210 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareAllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down16·edit-210 months ago Also oil, unlike snake oil, is extremely useful and also real. As long it’s apparently time to play the pedant game, I’m sure you can extract some kind of oil from dead snakes.
minus-squareSCB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoIt’s not pedantry. It’s literally one of the two images you put in this meme. The whole point of snake oil salesman was that what they were selling was useless bullshit. Snake oil isn’t a thing, so comparing it to actual literal oil is silly.
As long it’s apparently time to play the pedant game, I’m sure you can extract some kind of oil from dead snakes.
It’s not pedantry. It’s literally one of the two images you put in this meme.
The whole point of snake oil salesman was that what they were selling was useless bullshit. Snake oil isn’t a thing, so comparing it to actual literal oil is silly.
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