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.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    In Germany, we have a right-wing party en par with the US Republicans: The AfD. Just as Nazi, just as nuts.

    Some time ago, someone riled them up with the “Did you know they teach Arabic numerals in school now?”, and quite a few of them blew a lid…

    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 hour ago

      You know what’s funny, the dihydrogen-monoxide bit works in part because when you tell someone “ha ha, you’re anti water” they should get embarrassed. Like, it’s impossible for them to continue arguing, you know?

      But if anyone is going to take hidden-agenda numerals at face value and still insist that we use a new, much stupider number system to get away from centuries of Arabic influence, it would definitely be nazis, lol.

    • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Well, the dihydrogen monoxide that is in your Zuchini is literally an industrial solvent!

      Have you seen what dihydrogen monoxide does to pure, strong iron?!? It corrodes iron unbelievably fast! And people just…consume it in most of their “healthy” foods!

      Wake up, sheeple! Stop drinking dihydrogen monoxide!

      ~/s - this message brought to you by Brawndo, the thirst mutilator~