Jesus Christ, people are fucking stupid.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2025
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I knew this was going to happen as soon as i saw the meme.
And then in astronomy, students are being forced to learn the Arabic names of stars (like Sirius, Deneb and Betelgeuse).
Be ready for a post-victory avalanche of hit pieces against Zohran, with the usual right-wing tactic of absurd disinformation. It doesn't need to be anywhere close to the truth, it just needs to be good at rage baiting low information/gullible people.
This is like saying he’s going to give our kids ~~hydrogen dioxide~~ dihydrogen monoxide to drink during sports and people flipping out about it.
Dihydrogen Oxide
Monoxide
We did it, team!
If you want to really scare JD Vance, the more proper term is probably Hindu-Arabic numerals.
Get me the fuck off this planet.
I was always taught that these were called "Hindu-Arabic numerals"
Newsweek is seriously trying to take a dry and completely humorless approach on this "story"
:-\