Yes it is real:

https://twitter.com/SDSUCR/status/1324419964544053248

  • redthebaron [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    like i don't know as a brazilian we kinda deserve to do it once to you guys for the whole condor stuff but like the ideal system is every country in latam gets one year until we do everyone

      • No_Values [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        You're the first person not to do the stupid "how the turn tables" 'joke' for at least 16+ months

        • lvysaur [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          do you mean because he phrased it "how the tables have turned" instead of "turntables"

          I was always confused why people said that, I learned the former one

          • No_Values [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Yes

            how the tables have turned

            is the correct version, replacing it with 'how the turntables' is a joke originally from the US version of The Office, it and similar variations became a 'meme' on reddit and elsewhere as couple of years ago, and it's rare to see the correct version anymore, and your comment cements that for me

            • lvysaur [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              oh, didn't know it was from the office, but knew it was a dumb reddit thing

              IMO repeating dumb reddit things brainlessly like that is inherently fascist because you also repeat the other stuff they say

              • No_Values [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                Ah I see, I just see it so often these days that it seems conceivable the people writing it and by extension those reading it; don't realize they are making a joke/reference and believe they are using the phrase in the 'correct' way, and when it is used in an otherwise 'serious' comment/post it can be quite jarring

                • lvysaur [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Ah I see, I just see it so often these days that it seems conceivable the people writing it and by extension those reading it; don’t realize they are making a joke/reference

                  Yeah but do people really not know the phrase "how the tables have turned"?

                  • No_Values [none/use name]
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                    4 years ago

                    You would have assumed so, but a lot of kids are pretty much raised on the internet so it would not surprise me that there are a lot of people out there who do not, and I've seen it used where a joke clearly wasn't intended, I also think it's been repeated so much that some who know better have in internalized it so much they use it without realizing

                    • lvysaur [he/him]
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                      4 years ago

                      but alot of kids are pretty much raised on the internet

                      Paul Krugman is a ghoul but I wish he was right sometimes

                      imagine entire generations of kids raised on reddit

                      • No_Values [none/use name]
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                        4 years ago

                        Unimaginable horror

                        at least they're would be a sub group of kids banned from reddit and raised on ChaCha

      • redthebaron [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        LIKE It is the more likely way of you guys getting state healthcare than the democratic party doing it so it is an upgrade i feel

          • redthebaron [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            like it is pretty great

            SUS is the largest nondiscriminatory government-run public health care system in the world, by number of beneficiaries/users (virtually 100% of the Brazilian population; 220 million people), land area coverage (3.3 million square miles)

      • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        That would definitively end the US empire, so it'd be a good thing overall.