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Alt Text: buff doge on the left representing 1970s america with the caption "I've eradicated all the screw worms in North America by releasing sterile males". Crying doge on the right representing 2020s america with the caption "scary worm back"

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

A nation is as strong as the mental health of his leaders.

[–] Fossifoo@hexbear.net 6 points 15 hours ago

Come on, fighting the worm is hard. They don't believe in Christ, hide in the mountains and our superior carpet bombing is doing nothing. Now that they control the strait and are threatening our economy, we are basically in their hands. We will restart negotiations with these terrorists on Sunday!

[–] CyroSignal@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

That only happens in the United States.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 23 hours ago
[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's so much funnier to me when I think about it as fragile masculinity refusing to sterilize the males.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"They're making the frickin flies sterile!!!"

Ha this is literally what I was picturing, bright red and all.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The only war the US still knows how to win is against the working class

[–] KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago

Wrote the modern playbook.

[–] Kenvexity@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

dont lose hope! the war shall continue as long as we rebel against the epstein class!

[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 day ago

The image refuses to load beyond the upper ⅗ for me, so the alt text was genuinely helpful.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

I wouldn't say scarier, I mean it's possible that the affects of the faster earth worm will be worse long term. But the screw worms can get into our flesh if we aren't careful. No jumping earthworm is gonna be "scarier" than that