this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
167 points (100.0% liked)
chapotraphouse
13446 readers
760 users here now
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Vaush posts go in the_dunk_tank
Dunk posts in general go in the_dunk_tank, not here
Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from the_dunk_tank
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I hate explaining jokes since it's not funny, but
\
spoiler
Steppe - Hanford site where the nuclear bomb was first created and tested is a steppe.Nomad - Scientists traveled from all over the country to the Hanford site and returned back months or years later, which is a nomadic migratory pattern.
I'm just using words that colonizers use to describe native cultures in a description of the Manhattan Project. Quite accurately, in fact. That's the joke haha...
Oooh, I thought you meant to describe The US like how history books describe barbarian tribes fucking around and breaking everything
Cause they're just barbarous colonizers
To be fair, America is a barbarian tribe fucking around and breaking everything. The absolute lowest amount of cultural, scientific, and social output possible compared to other hegemons throughout history. Well, with the exception of the Brits but I mentioned Americans already so I'm repeating myself.
Yeah that's why I liked your joke so much!
Ah. So it's a healing rituals of the nacirema type thing, that I just lack the context of. Clever, unlike me
When a reader doesn't understand something, the fault never lies with her but with the writer instead.