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Grandpa Racist Toward Country That No Longer Exists (theonion.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ZeroCool to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago (3 children)

We need a new word for the opposite of eating the onion... Cuz The Onion accidentally made actual news again.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/poll-41-percent-of-trump-supporters-favor-bombing-aladdins-fictional-home-of-agrabah/

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

C/theonionwasright

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ludicrously uninformed voters 🙄

Everyone knows Agrabah is formed after the nuclear apocalypse.

[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Planted the onion?

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Planting sounds like something related to disinformation

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol.

We just got new Prusa printers at work and my coworker made a few Czechoslovakia jokes…

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Which Czechoslovakia jokes?

I have one (OC):

[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Lmao

[–] dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

prussia hasnt existed for over 150 years though

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Neither has the confederacy, and millions can't seem to move past it.

[–] srecko@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

I thought so too so i looked it up on wikipedia:

It was de facto dissolved by an emergency decree transferring powers of the Prussian government to German Chancellor Franz von Papen in 1932 and de jure by an Allied decree in 1947.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Goddamn Burmese! Almost as bad as the Yugos!

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

If the dems win, Im moving to Rhodesia!

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I had a friend in graduate school who drove a Yugo. Whenever I rode in it, he was like "don't touch anything - it'll fall off."

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Probably bought a car from there but didn't put it in H.