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THE DAMN SWEDES RULE US ALL NOW (media.piefed.social)
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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mexican here. We have 3.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 13 points 2 months ago

Their relentless expansionist policy continues!

[–] Klox@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

And they've renamed Antarctica no less.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

The sun will never ~~set~~ rise on the Swedish meatball!

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I challenge IKEA to have a presence in Greenland before America.

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Who knows if they're already there or not. There's no data.

[–] FooBar@szmer.info 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not accurate, Taiwan has IKEA

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And Mexico

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 2 months ago

Also, New Zealand got its first one a few years ago

[–] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Colombia too. This picture must be old af

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

French Guiana holding down South America

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

That’s because it’s literally France though.

[–] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Colombia has IKEA, this is just an old picture

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

I'm okay with it.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

IKEA is Swedish for dominion.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We have one near us but I heard it was a gigantic warehouse you have to walk all the way through or something until you buy something I dunno

I’m kind of scared of it, but I do want to go to Costco because of the hot dog and chicken things and I’ll need a trunk full of toilet paper I guess

USA here

Damn Swedes taking over the world in the new oligarchy why didn’t I see this before!