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[-] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago

The fact that I read this headline and my first through wasn't doubt in any capacity is insane. Satire is now lamer than reality, jesus christ...

[-] drbluefall@toast.ooo 4 points 5 hours ago

The reason that is that fiction has to be coherent. It has to make sense.

Reality is under no such constraint.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 15 points 7 hours ago

Given that RFK jr was a heroin addict for decades, I was once again fooled by this and I thought it was real.

Satire has been dead for years anyway.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 points 7 hours ago

the onion actually doesn't do satire any longer.

they do prophesy now.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

Official lathe handlers

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Yeah he was on record last week saying it improved his grades as a student lol

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 61 points 23 hours ago

I actually can't tell what's a parody any more

[-] Wisely@lemm.ee 17 points 21 hours ago

Yeah I thought this was real news at first.

[-] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 92 points 1 day ago

Holy shit I was almost excited there might be one thing to make the coming cycle less shitty until I saw the community

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 59 points 1 day ago

Here's one that's real: he's promised to ban high-fructose corn syrup, which is banned in most other developed countries. It should have been banned in the US decades ago.

He might be a wakadoodle, but he might still get a few things right by accident

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

I don't think your corn growers would be very happy with that.

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Or those of the pecan pie persuasion.

[-] annHowe@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 hours ago

Fuck 'em. They'll survive on their many subsidies.

[-] jerakor@startrek.website 2 points 7 hours ago

Once they raise the global temperatures enough all of the Iowa corn farmers can just farm rice and sugar cane along the Iowa coastline.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

All the pro-small-government people I know (the ones wanting less oversight on guns) are excited for this ban and don't see the irony that they're really only small-government in the topics they want, big-government in others they decided are bad (hfcs, some red dye, banning men from women's bathrooms). We all want government protections, turns out.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, and to be clear, I'm not thrilled about him being in charge of health, but if that's gonna be one of his things that he gets right, I would be stupid not to take what little solace I can get.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 21 points 23 hours ago

Yea, except somehow we'll end up with something worse replacing it.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 28 points 22 hours ago

High fructose fentanyl syrup

[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

No no, Trump's tariffs on China are payback for not watching entanyl exportr. Just a stream of consciousness.

[-] finderscult@lemmy.ml 11 points 23 hours ago

Hell try and then we'll be reading a news story about how his brain worms finally kennedy'd him the next hour after the attempt. HFCS and the multitude of corporations producing and using it aren't some pushover industry like oil and natural gas, they have actual power.

There's a reason corn is in everything processed in the US.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 hours ago

How tf is the oil and natural gas industry a pushover? They're literally destroying the earth and getting away with it.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 5 points 23 hours ago

I don't think Canada has it banned either lol

[-] Didros@beehaw.org 1 points 7 hours ago

America Hat is part of America I thought?

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 23 hours ago

Just gotta elect a guy with a brain worm, I guess...?

[-] sulgoth@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Nah, we kinda just follow the US.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 25 points 1 day ago

I think the best we can hope for is that Trump seems unlikely to fuck with state laws regarding marijuana. That’s fine with me.

That’s not to say I wouldn’t try the Coke, though.

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

I’d def try coke-aine

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

He might try but Don Jr will be snorting it faster than the factory could add it.

And no one in the mainstream media will care.

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 6 points 20 hours ago

Damn, they almost got me lol

[-] shreddingitlater@hexbear.net 4 points 20 hours ago

NOOOOO ITS FAKE, FUCK

spoiler(I don't like coke or cocaine just thought it would be funny to say)

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Damn, just after it gets added to the BDS list.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 23 hours ago

Could shoplift it just to try

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 5 points 22 hours ago

Coke in a can: mid Coke in a bottle: okay Coke in a bag: LET'S FUCKING GO

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago
[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

We're really gonna let the brain worm run shit, huh?

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

It will be a rolled in approach. Whatever you can't roll in, you put it in the soda.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago
[-] annHowe@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago
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