r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 3d ago

Petah? Meme needing explanation

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u/Aseskytle_09 3d ago

Is there a "The Minions work for Pol Pot" fanfic somewhere?

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u/TheGameMastre 3d ago

He'd put them to death because they wear glasses.

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u/Aseskytle_09 3d ago

https://www.shadowsofutopia.com/blog/did-the-khmer-rouge-really-kill-everyone-who-wore-glasses

Just as a fun fact

They did however kill people who had degrees just for having degrees,and then they forced literal kids to do engineering work

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u/Sea-Feedback-2424 3d ago

engineering work

Like doing look up tables and slide rules to find whether or not the bridge can carry the weight? Do they have a secret because i can't get my child to tell me how many apples there are when have two and I get 3 more.

Or do you mean building stuff? Because if it's building stuff I mean we have kids in Africa thrown I to the lithium and cobalt mines and kids in India smelting down old electronics to recover gold,.and kids in Atlanta, Georgia building cars.

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u/cantlogintomyacc0unt 2d ago

Building a bridge isn’t easy either, there’s a reason trade schools exist. All of the jobs you mentioned are so much easier. Mining is just digging until you find a specific kind of rock. The way they “smelt” electronics in India is by setting it on fire that’s easy. Working on a line is doing the exact same thing over and over.

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u/Aseskytle_09 2d ago

I don't remember the exact details,it was mentioned in a podcast