• @kryptonianCodeMonkey
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    17 days ago

    Reminds me of when Trump tweeted that “My daughter, Ivanka, just arrived in South Korea. We cannot have a better, or smarter, person representing out country.” and someone responded “Why not?”

    Found it:

    • @Thrashy
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      717 days ago

      I love it, but I haven’t gone back to watch it since 2016 because it felt a bit too much like current events played for laughs.

    • @moistclump
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      417 days ago

      I was so happy to see this meme format.

  • @[email protected]
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    517 days ago

    funnily enough, there actually is a species of locust that used to swarm over a large part of the US, but which a bit over a century or so went extinct.

    • @toynbee
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      417 days ago

      Cicadas still exist.

    • chingadera
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      117 days ago

      Doesn’t that line up roughly with the dust bowls?

      • @[email protected]
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        217 days ago

        the wiki article on the species Im thinking of (rocky mountain locust) suggests that one possible explanation for their extinction is their eggs being destroyed when people started plowing and farming the area they would breed in, so It might line up due to having the same general cause.