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

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 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/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

C/theonionwasright

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ludicrously uninformed voters 🙄

Everyone knows Agrabah is formed after the nuclear apocalypse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Planted the onion?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Planting sounds like something related to disinformation

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol.

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

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Which Czechoslovakia jokes?

I have one (OC):

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Lmao

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

prussia hasnt existed for over 150 years though

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Goddamn Burmese! Almost as bad as the Yugos!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If the dems win, Im moving to Rhodesia!

[–] [email protected] 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."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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