Two American nationals have been arrested following a highly reckless and disruptive stunt inside a monkey enclosure at the Ichikawa City Botanical Garden in Chiba Prefecture.

“Punch” is the name of the adorable baby monkey. There was no violence, thankfully. All of the animals are unharmed.

And the point of this idiocy?

It was later revealed that this appalling stunt was orchestrated purely as a promotional gimmick for a cryptocurrency meme coin.

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I pity most Americans

    I despise a significant number of them

    I spend a lot of time in the US, my fiancée is American

    The problem is that even the good people have been beaten into submission

    They have given up, because (and this isn’t untrue) they see the problems, but they’re bigger than what they can deal with when they’re stretched close to their breaking point already

    This is by design. Those with the power know exactly what they’re doing, and it’s working.

    • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      While I agree with much of that, I think regular Americans are to blame. America became what it is because of the carelessness and naivety of the culture. Americans could have had spines decades and decades ago, but instead chose to live with arrogance as a prided cultural trait.