• Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
    331·
    2 months ago

    I fucking hate that I need to defend this guy, but like, have you guys seen the video? It was very clearly a joke. A joke. There are so, so many things to get pissed off about when it comes to him alone, focusing on a dumb joke is embarrassing. If a democrat said the same thing nobody here would bat an eye.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    … The Bush era joke is still holding up:

    Americans learn geography via which countries they (threaten to) invade.

    … I guess it is just fully beyond a joke and is now just completely literally true.

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      “Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people, but they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”

      • Frankie Boyle
  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    15·
    2 months ago

    Vance is such a smoothbrain, he probably thought it’s called Greenland because of how lush it is.

          • BossDj@lemm.ee
            3·
            2 months ago

            Las Vegas was lush and green when it was settled. As more people arrived, the spring water that kept it that way dried up

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          That would require learning a piece of a language other than English …. He’d be an illegal immigrant, hardened criminal, gang member. That mascara is a sure sign of Tren de Aragua membership

        • eran_morad@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 months ago

          It is legitimately harder to tell in recent days what is real, what is fiction, what is sarcastic, what is satire. Such is the pathetic state of the world.

          • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            Tell me about it. I just wish shit stayed sane but the internet makes the world so much more absurd and sad for me. I do envy people who had that pre internet/social media adulthood. I at least didn’t experience social media as a child by being born in the late 90s.

        • OwlHamster@lemm.ee
          1·
          2 months ago

          Having been on Lemmy for a year now, one stark contrast to Reddit is how much sarcasm just goes over everybody’s head here. Sarcastic comments are always down voted into oblivion, despite agreeing with the common consensus in the thread.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    5·
    2 months ago

    Fuck Vance and cheeto and Elmo

    Having said that, I genuinely believe he was just joking in this instance

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 months ago

    He is a Republican politician, in other words, he is dumb as a brick. Sentences like “It is cold here” when he is next to Santa Clause home turf are to be expected.

  • Azzu@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 months ago

    And people think they’re immune to propaganda. Probably the majority read this meme and think Vance is just that stupid.

    I mean he probably is that stupid, but not because of this particular instance of making a joke about the cold.

    • tauren@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I was about to say that we shouldn’t except factual information in a community where people post memes and jokes, but to my surprise, the rules of this community say “no misinformation”. So I guess we should expect factual information here.

  • then_three_more@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    For Greenland is a hell of a place

    It’s a place that’s never green

    Where there’s ice and there’s snow and the whalefishes blow

    And the daylight’s seldom seen, brave boys

    The daylight’s seldom seen

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    Every day my mind is blown how actually stupid these people are. I wake up tead the news and wonder if it’s The Onion or what