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I genuinely thought this was hyperbolic satire.

EDIT: Outlet has edited headline since time of posting.

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[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 166 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The world isn't real. This is simply too ridiculous to have happened. I have been in a coma for the last six years and this is all just a weird fantasy playing out in my mind.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 hours ago

Headline was inaccurate - they didn't bomb a place for a gender reveal. Instead they bombed a place that produced blue smoke for some other reason and joked about how it resembling a gender reveal. That's...not better but it's an important distinction - one is blowing shit up to announce it's a boy and the other is blowing shit up to blow shit up and then joking about the color of the smoke.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

wait, but does that mean i’m in a coma, or im a figment of your imagination and im in your coma?

but i agree, it’s too absurdly horrible to be plausible

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think, therefore I am. You think, therefore you are.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

well how do i know you think?

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] 7toed@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey now it's not too bad, the sea pickles get by just fine while not thinking

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

well they’re just simulations too

[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I think I think, therefore I think I am.

[–] philthi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're either in your coma or their coma, but either way, you're in a coma!

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

it’s the only plausible explanation

[–] kooks_only@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had a concussion in 2008 and I’m wondering if I didn’t wake up from it and any day now I’ll wake up in spring 2008.

[–] Gerblat@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

shakes you vigorously

“Wake the fuck up and take us with you!”

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

"I'm tired of being a figment of this dickhead's imagination!"