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[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't get the joke, could someone elucidate for me? =)

Side note: in my searching for potential context, I found a powder-coating called "rustic red texture" with the designation "PTB-1937"

Funny that trying to understand a joke about an old Bolshevik would yield results about an entirely unrelated rustic red

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out XD

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago

Stalin murdered a lot of other communists in 1937.

[-] _cryptagion@quokk.au 6 points 1 day ago

How dare you suggest the State did something wrong? That's a thoughtcrime, straight to the gulag with you!

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of an old joke:

An American tells a Russian that people in USA have the freedom of speech and that he even could go to the White House and shout:"Fuck you, Ronald Reagan!"

The Russian answers:"Oh, we also have freedom of speech. I, too, can go to Kremlin and shout:" Fuck you, Ronald Reagan!"

You can still go to the while house and say fuck you Ronald Reagan.

Some things never change.

[-] gidostro@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 day ago
[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

banned, rule 1

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago

PTB. Once you get the joke, it's a funny meme. And if you can't even poke fun at Stalin on .ml then who can you poke fun at?

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

It did get me going down a rabbit hole about Russian Political Jokes on Wikipedia, so it was an overall W

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

.ml can be assumed PTB almost all of the time. It's pretty much cheating for here.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 16 points 1 day ago

I don't get the

Oooooohhh

That's a good joke.

I also didn't get the reason for the ban, but I get that now too. That's a good joke.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago

Oh damn that post got removed? Shame, I thought it was really good!

[-] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

PTB. It's .ml after all!

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

hehe makes me laugh

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