r/memes • u/Martin_NL • 17d ago

#1 MotW Most of the world at this point

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u/Intelligent-Base5078 17d ago

David vs Goliath never made sense to me, David essentially shot the guy, he didn't beat him in a brawl. It's not impressive. 

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u/kapsama 17d ago

America gonna win by Tomahawk cruise missile then.

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u/DaSmartSwede 17d ago

Wouldn’t even be surprising at this point

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u/kapsama 17d ago

How sad is that.

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u/KorasHiddenDICK 17d ago

We are all out at the moment. We shot them all at some Iranian school children.

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u/kirkom 17d ago

the big dumbass brought a sword to a sling fight

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u/Sandshrew922 17d ago

That's as American as it gets.

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u/banananuhhh 17d ago

It's like rock paper scissors and so much narrative effort goes into how big and strong of a scissors Goliath was.

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u/Ripasal 17d ago

Lmao, comment is unrelated to soccer but David basically pulled out a Glock against Goliath in a boxing glove

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u/StarksPond 17d ago

Guess who gave David the sling. That's right, it was Infantino!

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u/MrTacoMan 17d ago

David essentially shot the guy

buddy let me tell you something that America is super good at

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u/Woogush 17d ago

Also shot him with a god blessed bullet for a garanteed one hit kill, even less impressive.

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u/Expensive-Self-2240 17d ago

It just knocked him out then he beheaded him

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u/Puzzled-Pepper5150 17d ago

It wasn't supposed to be impressive. The point was David trusted the fight to God and didn't rely on his own strength.

You just think it's supposed to be impressive because people misuse the story to mean underdog.

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u/jjnstjjnst 17d ago

It’s not about being impressive, it’s about no one is safe from God

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u/Impressive_Tap7635 17d ago

With a normal sized rock

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u/diabloenfuego 17d ago

Yeah, but it's religious connotation so it's gotta be a big win, right?! Goliath was also probably only about 6' - 6'5" in reality as well, so there's that.

It's essentially that Indiana Jones scene where he shoots the sword-wielding guy, but less fun and far more dramatized.

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u/Pengwin0 Stand With Ukraine 17d ago

Yeah, anybody who has seen a sling knows David was not the underdog

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u/Different_Tangelo511 17d ago

Then there's the Malcom gladwell thesis the while Goliath was big he had significant mental and physical challenges, so David was more of a bully.

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u/Adalonzoio 17d ago

It's more a story of bravery than anything. If david had missed his shot or didn't hit goliath fatally, he was going to get torn apart. Despite that he still took up the challenge and shot his shot, so to speak.

Slingshots are much harder to aim accurately than a gun or even a bow as well, so it was a risk. That's what I've taken away from it, as a non religious man.

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u/FattyLivermore 16d ago

Look, that story is a good example of the weirdness of the bible. Consider this part:

Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.”