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[–] protist@mander.xyz 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Speaking as a...USian?...many of us know about these already and are ashamed of them.

[–] Keilik@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can assure you that you are giving the general public far too much credit unfortunately.

Remember, the #1 search on google on Election Day was “did Joe Biden drop out”

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Remember, the #1 search on google on Election Day was “did Joe Biden drop out”

Jesus fucking christ. I have not read that before, but it is the most believable thing I’ve seen all week.

I’ll look it up tomorrow. I am always curious, but I cannot handle having this fact confirmed to me right now, lol.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm going to bet that if I did one of those street interview things with the question: "Do you know what operation condor is? Do you know what the phoenix program is?" I'd get maybe 1 usonian out of 300 that would have even heard of them.

tbf i didnt recognize any the names but reading about each one was like "oh yeah that thing, i knew about that".