Newsweek is seriously trying to take a dry and completely humorless approach on this "story"
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this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2025
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Lmao, I love this kind of stuff. It makes dumb people so angry
I love that too, but I feel like we have to make them smart and not angry :(
You can't fix stupid
But you can teach the ignorant.
Only if they’re willing to learn. 😢
Willing and able, which isn't the case for any of those people.
We are fucked, aren't we 🤔
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Fortunately, Donald Jesus (republican vesion) Trump will sign executive order banning Arabic numerals nation wide. Thanks to a political contribution from Disney, we will all be forced to use the Predator number system to help movie tickets for Badlands. All computer systems will have 1 month to update.
I just checked with my local school, and they're not just making them learn these arabic numbers, they're forcing them to learn AL GEBRA!!! Sounds like foreign nonsense to me, so I'm starting a petition to have the head fired, and possibly flogged.
You should check with your local schools too. Keep this policically correct woke DEI rubbish away from our kids!
I knew the etymology was Arabic, but I was just curious to look up the etymology. Al jabr is (the Latinized version of) the original.
In universities for computer science they must learn the teachings of the muslim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi, that's disgusting.
Don't forget about the dangers of al cohol and candy!
Just like caravans, you remember how those where a thing in American politics once? What ever happened to them?
The Onion really is competing with reality to come up with good headlines.
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Jesus Christ, people are fucking idiots.
Fun fact, what we call Arabic numerals are not the numerals used in Arabic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals
The ones we use are the Western Arabic numerals
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This is like saying he’s going to give our kids ~~hydrogen dioxide~~ dihydrogen monoxide to drink during sports and people flipping out about it.
Dihydrogen Oxide
Monoxide
We did it, team!
Jesus Christ, people are fucking stupid.
The left posts the meme to point out that there are people ignorant enough to believe that nonsense. I did it yesterday. The right posts the meme because they are ignorant enough to believe it or are rage baiting people who are ignorant enough to believe it. We are not the same.
If you want to really scare JD Vance, the more proper term is probably Hindu-Arabic numerals.