this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2026
319 points (95.4% liked)

Shitposting

297 readers
67 users here now

Welcome to !shitposting@lemmy.today - a place for memes, shitposts, absurdity, cursed images, low-effort masterpieces, and whatever other internet garbage makes you laugh.

Post dumb shit. Upvote dumb shit. Don't take dumb shit too seriously.

Rules:

founded 2 months ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

why would they? esp in America/Western countries. They know who Neil Armstrong is though.

The Russian kids know who he is.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because when I was growing up in the 90s they used to teach this stuff in American schools; do they not anymore?

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

No. They don't teach facts anymore.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

I know who he is, I'm not Russian. I've have this amazing ability to be aware of the existence of people who are aunt from my country, which possibly does put me above your average American.