Apparently in .ml's meme comm, this post gets you banned for "spam/ads"

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Godric@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Reminds me of an old joke:

An American tells a Russian that people in USA have the freedom of speech and that he even could go to the White House and shout:"Fuck you, Ronald Reagan!"

The Russian answers:"Oh, we also have freedom of speech. I, too, can go to Kremlin and shout:" Fuck you, Ronald Reagan!"

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

You can still go to the while house and say fuck you Ronald Reagan.

Some things never change.

gidostro@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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SheeEttin@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1y

banned, rule 1

Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 1y (1 reply)

PTB. Once you get the joke, it's a funny meme. And if you can't even poke fun at Stalin on .ml then who can you poke fun at?

Godric@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

It did get me going down a rabbit hole about Russian Political Jokes on Wikipedia, so it was an overall W

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes

PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au · 21 pts · 1y

I don't get the

Oooooohhh

That's a good joke.

I also didn't get the reason for the ban, but I get that now too. That's a good joke.

SheeEttin@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 1y

.ml can be assumed PTB almost all of the time. It's pretty much cheating for here.

Zagorath@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 1y

Oh damn that post got removed? Shame, I thought it was really good!

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I don't get the joke, could someone elucidate for me? =)

Side note: in my searching for potential context, I found a powder-coating called "rustic red texture" with the designation "PTB-1937"

Funny that trying to understand a joke about an old Bolshevik would yield results about an entirely unrelated rustic red

Edit: Nevermind, figured it out XD

Skavau@piefed.social · 18 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Stalin murdered a lot of other communists in 1937.

_cryptagion@quokk.au · 9 pts · 1y

How dare you suggest the State did something wrong? That's a thoughtcrime, straight to the gulag with you!

thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 1y

hehe makes me laugh

FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 322d

Tankies censoring anything that paints USSR in bad light.