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https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=15398

Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) released the following statement today after introducing a bill authorizing President Trump to acquire Greenland and renaming it Red, White, and Blueland:

“America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland. President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal.”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 34 minutes ago

I fully expected Trump to drag America in a farcical dictatorship if he was reelected.

I just expected it to take longer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 38 minutes ago

Are google and Apple gonna go along with this as well?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 47 minutes ago

This rhetoric is terrifying. Look at that speech. That's getting stoned on your own farts and getting them preemptively fresh speech. That's the sort of way literally only cultists and fascist governments speak. That's a dprk ass comment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 58 minutes ago

I wonder if the any Russians reading this might wonder if this was how their government sounded when they invaded Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Let’s face it, calling anything “green” is woke.

/s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

If all AOC had to do was rebrand it to the Red White and Blue New Deal to get Republicans on board, I'm going to have an aneurysm.

This nonsensical stunt is the political equivalent of jingling keys in front of a baby.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

This has to be ragebait cover for something else, right?

Like even the dimmest, least self aware, MAGA-hat-wearing dumbass would feel embarrassed to say "Red, White, and Blueland" out loud.

Right???

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 minutes ago

It's bait for the media (and everyone else) so they have something funny to feed their audience and can pretend it's just silly nonsense while ignoring the part that authorizes the "President" to acquire Greenland.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

I want to agree, but these people wore diapers for him. The only further absurdity is the war over it for the minerals and arctic claim under the guise of national security.

It’s rage bait to hide a real enemy to the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

You think too highly of them, but this is probably rage bait. If they could feel embarrassment they wouldn't have voted for Trump the first time let alone once more. One way to begin to understand the MAGA mindset is by reading Settlers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I hate this fucking country and I'm going to either get out or go off-grid as soon as I can muster it financially

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

don't worry, soon nobody will be able to do anything financially and you'll be free to raid and steal anything you need if you're not afraid to get killed for it.

land if the free (to kill minorities and commies) home of the brave (snowflake Nazi terrorists)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Sounds like a shitty theme park.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Look at this humpty dumpty orange motherfucker

“There’s glory for you.”

“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’,” Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t – till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’”

“But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

Alice considered a little. “But surely,” she said in a sudden flash of inspiration, “you simply have to agree with me that ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’, it means ‘glory’.”

“Not in the slightest bit,” humphed Humpty Dumpty, “I disagree with you totally.”

“Ah,” replied Alice cunningly, “so you do agree with me, for when I hear someone say ‘I disagree with you’, I think they mean ‘I agree with you totally’, don’t you? When I hear a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – nothing more nor less.”

“It is a most provoking thing,” Humpty Dumpty cried, breaking into a sudden passion, “when little girls make it impossible to disagree with them.”

“So,” said Alice, “now you do agree with me that ‘glory’ means ‘glory’.”

“Wrong!” Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly, “it would be alright for me to say that ‘I disagree with you’ meant ‘I agree with you’, because I believe in that sort of thing; but you don’t, or you wouldn’t be being so awkward about it! You can’t go using other people’s arguments against themselves, that’s plagiarism!”

(“He talks about it just as if it was a game!” thought Alice.) Trying hard to conceal her vexation with the phantasmagorical egg, Alice delivered her coup de grâce : “I’m afraid that you can’t get out of it like that Mr. Dumpty, it just won’t do at all. You think that words mean whatever you choose them to mean, but in order to say that I disagree with you, you have to agree with, or understand, my use of words; and if you agree with me, then you can’t disagree!”

“It’s very provoking,” Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke. “I’d rather see that done on paper.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so little.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “who is to be master – that’s all.”

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

Wittgenstein is typing...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Every other country should unanimously vote to call the USA something stupid since apparently countries can just rename other countries

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Or they should start viewing America as a rogue nation bent on taking the land of others. 👀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I mean countries have always done that, just not quite this stupid but also often very stupid. People in Japan call their country Nippon, not Japan. People in Germany call their country Deutschland. There's a ton of countries that English just straight up changed the names of for reasons varying from some form of probable racism to misunderstanding that they never bothered resolving.

I'm not defending this move, it's dumb as hell. Just pointing out that "dumb as hell" isn't new.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago

You mean that?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Dumbfuckistan, I say this as an American....it's gotten so childish here.

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

The founding fathers would be disgusted at such an unlettered (read illiterate) individual taking over the country.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Let me know when they make a flag for Dumbfuckistan and I will fly that shit.

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

I'm picturing the US flag but instead of stars it's corporate logos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

At first glance I thought this was gonna be the Fitnessgram Pacer Test.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I'll fly it and play the new anthem on repeat turned up to 11.

the new anthem?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DASLDeEIq44

can't have words that would offend the Dumbfuckistanians, so no words at all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

"Here be orange goblin"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know why they need a bill for this. Apparently the President can just sign an executive order renaming geographical features, and everyone just had to go along with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Every American. The rest of us just watch in horror, wondering why the adults in the room don't do something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I got bad news for you. We export our bullshit, and your leaders are probably lapping it up right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Yup. When it rains in the US, it drizzles in Europe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

The "adults" in the room are those parents who only give into the screaming toddler, creating a kid who cries every time to get what he wants.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's been less than a month since he's been in office and this is a visual representation on how I feel about the whole thing...

I feel so bad for Americans having to put up with this.

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