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Saying the plight of white South African farmers affected him on a deeply personal level, President Donald Trump issued a statement Thursday in which he shared his own experiences as a victim of white genocide. “I’ve kept quiet about my past out of a fear that I could still be persecuted, but I too know what it’s like to live under a Black president who wants to see your entire race destroyed,” said Trump, adding that he had narrowly survived the attempt to eradicate white people and their culture by hiding for months in his 126-room Palm Beach resort. [...]

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[–] vala@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I ate the onion for sure

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I love how he emphasizes WHITE genocide, you know, the important type, not those typical ones where brown people die, these are white people so it’s serious!

[–] dotdi@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hot damn, this sounded so f*cking plausible that I didn’t even get that it was satire until I started typing a comment…

[–] Heikki@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Holy shit. It almost got me too

[–] HowdWeGetHereAnyways@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm fairly sure this was posted by a time traveler from next week

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, they were probably skipping around trying to find the exact moment catastrophic economic collapse happened in the U.S. and accidentally forgot where they were on the timeline before they posted the article, makes sense and maybe they had a school report due tomorrow they were rushing to bullshit and get done about the stunning rise of fascism in the 2030s and how it sent the world careening into war? (everybody knows that story already, it has been told a million times why is the teacher making us do this?).

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

I happened to check the community as I was opening up the article, cuz I totally ate that onion.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

i got to the link and saw it was the onion and breathed a very shallow sigh of relief

[–] dumples@midwest.social 31 points 1 week ago

President Trump also announced that construction would begin on a White Genocide Museum in Washington, D.C. once several museums commemorating the history of less important races had been razed to provide the space.

Yet again an onion article killing it with the last sentence.

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I ate this motherfucker.... Reality is getting to me.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

We can only get so hard.