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Another post from betting market company Polymarket read: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." The post has almost 14 million views.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago

Fortunately, Donald Jesus (republican vesion) Trump will sign executive order banning Arabic numerals nation wide. Thanks to a political contribution from Disney, we will all be forced to use the Predator number system to help movie tickets for Badlands. All computer systems will have 1 month to update.

[–] guillem@aussie.zone 15 points 5 days ago

The fact that this article needs to exist is so sad.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 15 points 5 days ago

Ragebaiting at its finest 🤌

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

My god, the red conservatives and the blue conservatives are so incredibly hysterical.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 days ago

Newsweek is seriously trying to take a dry and completely humorless approach on this "story"

:-\

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I sure fucking hope so. They're way more common than the Roman ones.

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

O my God!

Not aribic!!!!

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Jesus Christ, people are fucking idiots.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

One of my favourite episodes of Veep had this very thing

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

The left posts the meme to point out that there are people ignorant enough to believe that nonsense. I did it yesterday. The right posts the meme because they are ignorant enough to believe it or are rage baiting people who are ignorant enough to believe it. We are not the same.

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

You voted for this! reeeEEEEEEE

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