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I’m not sure why but Kissinger hated everyone. He hated the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians and was even quoted saying Arabs are savages (or perhaps barbarians). How does someone who escaped a Holocaust carry so much hate against other disadvantaged groups?
The Holocaust broke a lot of people's faith in humanity. When that hope is lost it is less a feeling of hate and more one so dispassionate and disconnected that they simply do not care about humanity.
And that can enable some hateful acts indeed.
Racists gonna racist. The people that hate immigrants the most are other immigrants
Speaking of jokes for our time:
Q: What is the main difference between succession under the tsarist regime and under socialism?
A: Under the tsarist regime, power was transferred from father to son, and under socialism – from grandfather to grandfather.
Also on point:
A man walks into a shop and asks, "You wouldn't happen to have any fish, would you?" The shop assistant replies, "You've got it wrong – ours is a dairy shop. We don't have any milk. You're looking for the fish shop across the road. There they don't have any fish!"
Although my personal favorite...
In Soviet Russia, everyone gets the joke!
Yakov Smirnoff is younger than the president, he could probably tour again with the right retooling
Can you explain the first one?
During the tsardom, tsars passed power like kings do.
Soviet union, the party chose its leader. There was a period in the Soviet times where each succeeding leader was pretty much as old as the outgoing one so they didn't last very long. It was called the gerontocracy.
Lol so basically most of congress and the presidency in the US xD
Interesting tho, hadn't heard that before, thank you for the explanation!
It was called the gerontocracy.
Missed chance to called it "geriatracy"
It's the same root word
This old Soviet joke was about Stalin
Surely not comrade
tone indicator
/j
I think you could argue there were plenty of Soviet leaders it could fit. Beria, for example.
But if the KGB asked, you meant the capitalist pig American president.
But if the KGB asked, you meant the capitalist pig American president.
"Who did you think it was about?"
It could be but famously it was understood to be Stalin.
That obituary will definitely be Putin the front page
There's only one other that could trump it.
I Xi what you did there
With all these puns, I can't understand Netanyahu guys are talking about.
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I'm hoping they found them both dead. Together, in a hotel room with Putin's dick still in Trump's mouth.
And Elon dead sitting in the cuck chair
Something that has always bothered me about this joke: Don’t news stands generally have the front page visible, to entice people? So like, you’d know well before you bought one.
Edit: I’m illiterate. I’ve heard this joke before as “guy buys a paper, looks at the front page, throws it away”. But this version actually makes sense.
'scans the front page, doesn't buy the paper'. right. that's the joke. that it's for someone important enough for their death to make the front page, which is visible without buying the paper.
Yes, that's part of the joke. The obituary he was looking for was something that would be frontpage news, implying it's an important political person.
As much as I'd have loved for the Kissinger is Dead celebrations to have been big news (and a Holiday), it went by mostly unannounced.
Because he lived so long that when he finally died, most Americans had no fucking clue who he was.
He's the guy who dropped his glasses in the toilet.
I mean, I partied. But, I am weird.
I'm here 'till thursday; try the veal and tip your server
...and please dont put your cigarettes out in the flower pots - the FSB currently has a shortage of microphones.
Yes an old joke for our times. About NEWSPAPERS.
You’re right, I’ll fix it:
[BRO] stops by the [iPAD STAND] every day, scans the [INTERNET], doesn't buy the [IPAD]. One day the vendor asks what he's up to.
[BRO] says: "looking for an obituary."
Vendor says "those are towards the back of the [RSS FEED], [RIZZLER]."
[BRO] says: "not the one I'm looking for, [BITCH]."
RSS feed
Okay boomer
Good try, but already outdated
To be honest, every time I lunch Lemmy I'm hoping for a "Trump found dead" post to be on the top.
Senselessly.
Wish Granted
TRUMP DEAD. Vance accuse the "Radical Left" of assasination. Martial Law has been declared.
c/monkeypaw
vance does not have the anything to be a threatening dictator
The Second American Civil War is one of the good timelines though.
In the bad ones, no one bothers to fight back.
Trump found dead, circumstances not suspicious says Kremlin.
Choking on Putin's junk is not suspicious, plus it's how Trump wanted to go!
Why would the Kremlin want him dead?
He disagreed with the "voluntary" annexation.
Putin just kept saying "Perhaps you think you are being treated unfairly" when he complained about it.
Fell out of a 7th floor window in the White House.
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