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[–] [email protected] 162 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

[✓] Small Pox

[✓] Murder Hornets

[ ] Twitter

We're almost there, humanity!

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Can't you just literally put an [X] for Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[X] The App Formerly Known as Twitter

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

[Twitter] Twitter

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, the only three problems!

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh wait someone has started unchecking all the previously checked boxes

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

IS THAT RFK WITH A FOLDING CHAIR?!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if RFK Jr. Came out in favor of murder hornets

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Small pox won't be checked for long.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Declared extinct in the wild by the WHO in 1980.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

RFK will probably support reintroduction, so....

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“Yeah, yeah, we’re totally eradicated. All is now fine, there’s nothing to worry about. Sleep well!” - Sneaky Murder Hornet.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

“Somehow, the murder hornets have returned.”

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ladies and gentlemen, we got'em.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Would have been solved much quicker if they where ceo killing hornets

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

LMAO. Its sad that this is so funny because its true.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Uhh, first win since WW2. Congrats.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How about every fucking World Series there bucko? Nice try!

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[–] SomeAmateur 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

(camera focuses on the news playing on a TV in a home in the countryside, slowly pulling back away from the monitor)

"...thanks to their efforts, experts have now stated with certainty that this threat has been eradicated..."

(the camera has pulled back enough that the screen is framed by an outside window with a tree trunk coming into frame from the right)

"...and many communities in the northwest united states can breathe easier knowing that these dreaded hornets are no longer found on our shores. Reporting from Seattle..."

(focus shifts to the tree bark. Buzzing is heard, getting louder and louder until a single murder hornet queen lands on the tree. Cut to black. Roll credits)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Coming Soon...

MURDER H4NET

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Murd3r Horn3t: The Buzz3ning

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Snakes On A Plane 4: This Time It's Hornets- A film by Chat GPT

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

Hey hey, the US actually won a war! Been a long time coming..

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yeah sure "murder hornets". Like "murder japs", "murder communists", "murder vietnamese", "murder gays", "murder blacks" or "murder arabs" before. I think I'll hold off celebrating until I know how much oil those hornets had in stock.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey man, I don't disagree with you.

However, I think if you take every article you read and turn it into, "meanwhile I am waiting for someone to fix the planer." You are not really doing much. All of us, including myself, want what you want but those are things that are irrelevant to this article and we should take to things that are relevant.

Fuck fascism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and anything else that is down right degrading to any human being who is just trying to be happy

In the same vain though, fuck hornets, fuck those little murderous monstrosities.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (6 children)

That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they're doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.

Way to tell me I'm unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Until the next ones arrive on another ship

[–] SomeAmateur 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (19 children)

America and its "wars against...."

America hasn't won any war since WWII, and that includes wars against drugs, countries, people, religions, etc. I highly doubt they won this one. I remember "mission accomplished"

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd just like to thank everyone for doing their part, posting, reposting, and fear mongering it.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

finally some good fucking food...

Anybody know where i can get some murder hornets from? (i jest, ofc)

shitposting aside, how rare is it that invasive species are eradicated before becoming a problem? Can't be that common.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never. Cause the definition of "Invasive species" includes it being a problem. Otherwise they're called "Introduced species".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah they are probably lying. They can not know with 100% certainty that these giant asian hornets have all been eradicated in the us. They couldn't get rid of something as benign as the spotted lantern fly or the marmorated stink bug but sure lets believe they got rid of a hornet as big as a humming bird that has facial recognition capabilities and can unalive people with a swarm no larger than 50 to 100 of the fuckers

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Now you gotta send help to Australia. Those damned emus are a worthy adversary.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Who to help? Australia is run by emus. They won in war.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Whew. Looks like the feds didn't find the colony of buzzy buddies I've been nurturing in the suburbs.

Can't wait for spring!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

They really didn't go with homicidal hornets? We actin' like fun alliterations just come around all the time now?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

War against Murder CEOs remains unresolved.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It was wild seeing researchers bait them with Meat and tie flags to them, but the fact that this strategy actually worked longterm is beyond wild.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It sounds stupid but I really want to imagine China was behind all this as a test run of bio warfare via invasive species and there's just some random CCP agent going Rats! We've been foiled again. Start dumping more corn syrup into our honey exports!

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