That's his boss. General Sisi was Mubarak's second. He led a coup against the first democratically elected President and murdered him in jail.
Egypt receives almost as much military aid as Israel, all to suppress their own people as an extension of the Israel occupation.
Morsi won office in a popular election, lasted barely two years, and then was couped and imprisoned.
I wouldn't call that interm period a dictatorship, if for no other reason than it stood in stark contrast to the periods immediately before and after. There was no well-defined national leader. Bureaucrats were still shuffling around and rebuilding a power base, before settling on el-Sisi.
It's a Lego kit dude. I'd be excited too. Its no different to if someone invited you to stay at theirs, you would get them a gift. And, this is a very normal one
if it was Trump, he'd probably gift them a picture of himself, or expect the other party to give him a gold trophy or some bs like that.
Trump would expect the lego bricks to be pure gold.
Yeah i can see that, they travelled to earth with spaceship and other advanced technologies, then we beat them into submission using our pointy sticks and forced them to build shit for us
I kind of feel like you are being sarcastic. Obviously other aliens likely sent down their alien slaves to build these like as transmitters or receivers for communication or possibly marking for future detonation or maybe just to fuck with the locals.
I was just trying to extend JoeBigelow's joke by suggesting that contrary to the actual pyramids, Abdelatty would actually not want to pay those who would assemble that Lego set.
So… they were free to move elsewhere and use that money for luxuries? They could go get another job?
Because being paid doesn’t mean you’re free. Or is the only type of legitimate slave the typical American kind? It’s not black and white, there’s nuances here. If the black slaves in America were paid, it wouldn’t have been slavery….? Because that’s the logic that’s being used.
It really just sounds like you’re trying to justify not calling people who aren’t free slaves when they still were by every other metric.
It sounds like you don't know very much about how the pyramids were built, and aren't interested in learning the truth. The workers who built the Pyramids engaged in some of the first labor actions in recorded history--they went on strike, multiple times, and were successful in securing higher pay and better working conditions. Many of the workers who worked on the tombs of kings were highly respected craftsmen in their own right, who often were given permission to build their own tombs nearby; in many cases, only a little bit less grand than the tombs built for the pharoahs themselves.
The Ancient Egyptians definitely practiced slavery, and also, they didn't use slaves to build the pyramids. The slaves were doing things like growing food for the people who built the pyramids.
Later that night he sat on the floor, in a onezy in front of his fireplace while his family, glowed in the enjoyment there young president had putting it together, until he fell asleep and his son carried him to bed.
I just realized how good the deal he offered was. Partial repayment of Lego value and a silly little dance is far and away the best settlement that one could hope for. And they rejected it because...
I have a theory that Mormonism plays a big role in BAM’s behavior. It makes good business sense to settle with the LEGO owner—they’re a 400 million dollar company, so 100k is a drop in the bucket. BUT, the top brass is all Mormon, so if they settle, they essentially admit to being a thief. Public moral failures lead to total social exclusion in the Mormon community, and I’d wager that any hint of an admission that you stole from old people would make you a pariah in the church.
If my theory is right, then the totally over the top behavior of the management starts to make some sense: there is potentially a lot more on the line for them than just some money and Star Wars bricks.
As long as they don’t admit it, the rest of the Mormon community automatically assumes they are innocent (because a Mormon would never do that), but if Amon does the chicken dance, then that community protection is shattered and he’d be cut off from everything he seems to value.
This honestly makes more sense than any other explanation I've heard so far. There's no reasonable way to account for this many unforced errors without veering somewhere strange.
So the community whose police department is corrupt to the core and exhibits blatant mafia tactics with nobody batting an eyelid would care about a business defrauding some poor sod?
I'm not so sure tbh...
I think so, yes. Mormon’s stick together and have a bit of a victim complex. I think, due to their assumption that another Mormon can do no wrong, they automatically defend each other to the maximum extent.
So, when Amon calls and says “this man is stalking me and he made threats”, they not only believe it completely, but also see it as a sacred duty to protect their own. Furthermore, I’d wager that part of the over the top response is so that all the other Mormon’s see how “good” they are since they are defending their Mormon brother so hard.
Right. But there are no good people in these positions:
Abdelatty is not only foreign minister but also chairs Egypt’s Supreme Standing Committee for Human Rights. At Egypt’s UN human-rights review in January 2025, he portrayed Egypt as having made major progress and did not acknowledge abuses. Human Rights Watch contrasted this with documented arbitrary detention of peaceful critics, torture, enforced disappearance, serious prison abuses and unfair mass trials and executions. Calling this record major progress while omitting those abuses can reasonably be characterized as whitewashing the government's conduct.
There is also a longer history. When Abdelatty was Foreign Ministry spokesman in 2013–2015, during the crackdown after Mohamed Morsi's removal, he publicly denied that authorities were conducting a political crackdown, saying there were "no exceptional measures" against political groups. He also defended Egypt against international criticism over the prosecution of Al Jazeera journalists and rejected European criticism of those trials. Those statements came during a period when journalists, opposition figures and protesters were being arrested in large numbers.
I don't know if it's fair to call them the Disney of Europe but they have damaged their reputation by aggressively going after competition, such as BlueBrixx.
96 Comments
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 130 pts · 1d
Smart idea, look how happy he is.
LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world · 99 pts · 1d
What do you get the dictator who already has an evil glowing orb?
brathoven@feddit.org · 26 pts · 22h
Dojan@pawb.social · 4 pts · 13h
Oh my sides! This is too good.
Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 1d
Is the photo real?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 1d
yes. I don't think the egypt foreign minister is the one in the Trump photo though
LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 17h
That's his boss. General Sisi was Mubarak's second. He led a coup against the first democratically elected President and murdered him in jail. Egypt receives almost as much military aid as Israel, all to suppress their own people as an extension of the Israel occupation.
can@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1d
yup
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1d
A good glowing orb. And then a neutral glowing orb.
Monument@piefed.world · 9 pts · 1d
I got mine at IKEA!
I put a multicolor led bulb in the orb. It’s pretty neat looking.
kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 12h
Oh, nice. Thanks for the tip, I have been looking for some new cool lightstuff, since the long dark is beginning here again.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 1d
CHAOTIC GLOWING ORB.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 1d
WAAAGH!!!!
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 17h
The longer you look at that globe, the worse it gets.
Why is Alaska a schlong?
Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 15h
Ah, the found Woody Allen's orgasmatron device, what fun
LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 14h
Solid Epstein connection.
That's actually the Express of King Salman shitting himself, not cumming. They should have read the manual.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5h
Meanwhile Melania there looking like a Jim Henson creation.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3h
She looks like they stole her from Madame Tussauds.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 1d
This would be funnier if Egypt was a democracy and not a horrifying dictatorship
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 1d
Wait, when'd they become a dictatorship??
Edit: 2013?? How am I so far behind the times on this one?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1d
Mubarak had been dominating the county since the 1980s. The 2011 to 2013 period was a brief period of not-dictatorship
snowydroopz@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1d
I'm an Egyptian, and 2011-13 was 110% a dictatorship. We've always been under one, just different people in different ways
qevlarr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23h
Morsi was elected, no?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 22h
So were Trumpp, Putin and Erdogan, no?
qevlarr@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 22h
Morsi never had a chance to a peaceful transfer of power before the military staged their coup.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 13h
Morsi won office in a popular election, lasted barely two years, and then was couped and imprisoned.
I wouldn't call that interm period a dictatorship, if for no other reason than it stood in stark contrast to the periods immediately before and after. There was no well-defined national leader. Bureaucrats were still shuffling around and rebuilding a power base, before settling on el-Sisi.
Stolas@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 15h
Well, now I'm sad.
I mean I was wondering what types of people both politicians were anyway, but still.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 16h
I'm getting tired. Like in my soul.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 22h
Dude can't wait to get it home and build it up
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 19h
Won't he have to contact the aliens to do it for him?
Agent641@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 19h
The goa'uld are pretty much all dead now
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org · 7 pts · 17h
Indeed.
fonix232@fedia.io · 7 pts · 16h
Shol'va!
Madison420@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17h
No but you will have to build a trapezoidal pyramid and then cut out a pyramid from the inside and use the outside cut blocks to build the top.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 44 pts · 16h
What a nice breath of fresh air. Goes to show that this is possible and preferable. Fuck trump and his gestapo regime.
crashex@crazypeople.online · -50 pts · 15h
Sweet summer child. Does the propaganda make you feel all cozy and warm?
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 13h
God forbid we start spreading propaganda like "people being nice to each other" that would be a real shame.
MBech@feddit.dk · 35 pts · 13h
... Are you angry that 2 countries who are not in any kind of conflict are being friendly toward eachother on a diplomatic level?
auzy1@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4h
It's a Lego kit dude. I'd be excited too. Its no different to if someone invited you to stay at theirs, you would get them a gift. And, this is a very normal one
if it was Trump, he'd probably gift them a picture of himself, or expect the other party to give him a gold trophy or some bs like that.
Trump would expect the lego bricks to be pure gold.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 39 pts · 1d
"I'm gonna make SO many slaves build this!"
nialv7@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 1d
Pyramids weren't built by slaves
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 83 pts · 1d
While its been scientifically proven that it was indeed aliens, I don't think anyone knows for certain that they weren't alien slaves.
Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1d
*alien prisoners with jobs
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
You know I hate the s-word
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 22h
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 12h
O'Neill, with two Ls. The other one doesn't have a sense of humor.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 1d
^ this man sciences.
ignotum@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 20h
Yeah i can see that, they travelled to earth with spaceship and other advanced technologies, then we beat them into submission using our pointy sticks and forced them to build shit for us
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 14h
I kind of feel like you are being sarcastic. Obviously other aliens likely sent down their alien slaves to build these like as transmitters or receivers for communication or possibly marking for future detonation or maybe just to fuck with the locals.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 15h
Until one of the aliens had finally had enough, killed a guy, then parted the Red Sea and led a bunch of slaves to freedom.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 1d
I mean, nobody is saying it was aliens. But it was aliens.
Hupf@feddit.org · -6 pts · 23h
"Yes, I just hate paying people"
Rothe@piefed.social · 14 pts · 22h
They were some of the best paid workers in ancient Egypt.
Hupf@feddit.org · 1 pts · 18h
I was just trying to extend JoeBigelow's joke by suggesting that contrary to the actual pyramids, Abdelatty would actually not want to pay those who would assemble that Lego set.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · -8 pts · 1d
They didn’t have much other option, so what do you call that other than justified slavery?
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 1d
They were paid, and rather well. It was a work program, like Roosevelt's New Deal.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · -6 pts · 17h
So… they were free to move elsewhere and use that money for luxuries? They could go get another job?
Because being paid doesn’t mean you’re free. Or is the only type of legitimate slave the typical American kind? It’s not black and white, there’s nuances here. If the black slaves in America were paid, it wouldn’t have been slavery….? Because that’s the logic that’s being used.
It really just sounds like you’re trying to justify not calling people who aren’t free slaves when they still were by every other metric.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 16h
It sounds like you don't know very much about how the pyramids were built, and aren't interested in learning the truth. The workers who built the Pyramids engaged in some of the first labor actions in recorded history--they went on strike, multiple times, and were successful in securing higher pay and better working conditions. Many of the workers who worked on the tombs of kings were highly respected craftsmen in their own right, who often were given permission to build their own tombs nearby; in many cases, only a little bit less grand than the tombs built for the pharoahs themselves.
The Ancient Egyptians definitely practiced slavery, and also, they didn't use slaves to build the pyramids. The slaves were doing things like growing food for the people who built the pyramids.
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 12h
Maybe type a few words into Google before spouting uninformed bullshit like it's fact.
BurgerBaron@quokk.au · 3 pts · 16h
The Bible is full of lies.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 37 pts · 19h
This is a man who likes to play with his grandchildren.
fonix232@fedia.io · 25 pts · 16h
And not the Trump way
OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca · 36 pts · 1d
Later that night he sat on the floor, in a onezy in front of his fireplace while his family, glowed in the enjoyment there young president had putting it together, until he fell asleep and his son carried him to bed.
But seriously love this
LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1d
Not when it's a despotic regime.
The elected President was murdered in jail by this stooge's boss.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 23h
Great vibes from this picture.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 1d
Just don’t try to sell it to Bricks and Minifigs.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1d
That kid is such a glorious nuisance. The definition of good trouble.
percent@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1d
He's still at it lol https://www.youtube.com/live/KALYYH1pWCM
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
I just realized how good the deal he offered was. Partial repayment of Lego value and a silly little dance is far and away the best settlement that one could hope for. And they rejected it because...
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1d
I have a theory that Mormonism plays a big role in BAM’s behavior. It makes good business sense to settle with the LEGO owner—they’re a 400 million dollar company, so 100k is a drop in the bucket. BUT, the top brass is all Mormon, so if they settle, they essentially admit to being a thief. Public moral failures lead to total social exclusion in the Mormon community, and I’d wager that any hint of an admission that you stole from old people would make you a pariah in the church.
If my theory is right, then the totally over the top behavior of the management starts to make some sense: there is potentially a lot more on the line for them than just some money and Star Wars bricks.
As long as they don’t admit it, the rest of the Mormon community automatically assumes they are innocent (because a Mormon would never do that), but if Amon does the chicken dance, then that community protection is shattered and he’d be cut off from everything he seems to value.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1d
This honestly makes more sense than any other explanation I've heard so far. There's no reasonable way to account for this many unforced errors without veering somewhere strange.
Ougie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21h
So the community whose police department is corrupt to the core and exhibits blatant mafia tactics with nobody batting an eyelid would care about a business defrauding some poor sod? I'm not so sure tbh...
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 16h
I think so, yes. Mormon’s stick together and have a bit of a victim complex. I think, due to their assumption that another Mormon can do no wrong, they automatically defend each other to the maximum extent.
So, when Amon calls and says “this man is stalking me and he made threats”, they not only believe it completely, but also see it as a sacred duty to protect their own. Furthermore, I’d wager that part of the over the top response is so that all the other Mormon’s see how “good” they are since they are defending their Mormon brother so hard.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Chaotic good
percent@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1d
It would be better to go to Reckless Bricks instead
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1d
Can confirm, Reckless Bricks does not steal from old people. Bricks and Minifigs, on the other hand…
SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 1d
It's only half a pyramid. (short in German: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4UIQstnZ9lo )
remon@ani.social · 2 pts · 19h
Half a pyramid is technically still a pyramid!
SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 19h
The Pharaos would probably strongly disagree :)
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 11h
What a tight fukkin gift!
1984@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 14h
Right. But there are no good people in these positions:
Abdelatty is not only foreign minister but also chairs Egypt’s Supreme Standing Committee for Human Rights. At Egypt’s UN human-rights review in January 2025, he portrayed Egypt as having made major progress and did not acknowledge abuses. Human Rights Watch contrasted this with documented arbitrary detention of peaceful critics, torture, enforced disappearance, serious prison abuses and unfair mass trials and executions. Calling this record major progress while omitting those abuses can reasonably be characterized as whitewashing the government's conduct.
There is also a longer history. When Abdelatty was Foreign Ministry spokesman in 2013–2015, during the crackdown after Mohamed Morsi's removal, he publicly denied that authorities were conducting a political crackdown, saying there were "no exceptional measures" against political groups. He also defended Egypt against international criticism over the prosecution of Al Jazeera journalists and rejected European criticism of those trials. Those statements came during a period when journalists, opposition figures and protesters were being arrested in large numbers.
torito@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 4h
And what about Denmark's PM?
saimen@feddit.org · 7 pts · 13h
Reminds me of this:
https://www.newsweek.com/japan-gifts-pokemon-plushie-new-chilean-president-1687187
Idontwanttowork@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 17h
Men are men.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 13h
my dude, my sister has the biggest lego collection of anyone i've ever met. she collected most of it as an adult.
MBech@feddit.dk · 13 pts · 13h
Your sister must be men then.
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 4 pts · 12h
Girls can totally be dudes or bros. It's a state of mind.
Idontwanttowork@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 5h
Agree.
We should all have fun aa adult regardless of gender
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 4h
girls can even be men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary#Polygender
who said you can only have one gender
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 12h
::: spoiler all of them. everywhere.
:::
Redvenom@retrolemmy.com · 4 pts · 5h
yeah boiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 4h
People need a kit to make a pyramid out of Lego?
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h
Men never outgrow Legos.
crashex@crazypeople.online · -9 pts · 15h
Lego is becoming the Disney of Europe. All cozy-looking while perpetuating and supporting evil.
wraekscadu@vargar.org · 6 pts · 12h
Asking in good faith. What evil has Lego supported?
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 2 pts · 6h
I don't know if it's fair to call them the Disney of Europe but they have damaged their reputation by aggressively going after competition, such as BlueBrixx.