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[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A what? Genuinely what are you referring to with nomads using a nuke? Is this some kind of attempt to mock the amerikkkans that I'm just too dumb to get?

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I hate explaining jokes since it's not funny, but
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spoilerSteppe - Hanford site where the nuclear bomb was first created and tested is a steppe.
Nomad - Scientists traveled from all over the country to the Hanford site and returned back months or years later, which is a nomadic migratory pattern.

I'm just using words that colonizers use to describe native cultures in a description of the Manhattan Project. Quite accurately, in fact. That's the joke haha...

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah. So it's a healing rituals of the nacirema type thing, that I just lack the context of. Clever, unlike me

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When a reader doesn't understand something, the fault never lies with her but with the writer instead.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oooh, I thought you meant to describe The US like how history books describe barbarian tribes fucking around and breaking everything

Cause they're just barbarous colonizers

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

To be fair, America is a barbarian tribe fucking around and breaking everything. The absolute lowest amount of cultural, scientific, and social output possible compared to other hegemons throughout history. Well, with the exception of the Brits but I mentioned Americans already so I'm repeating myself.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah that's why I liked your joke so much!