• mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works
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    24 hours ago

    So to sum up, Charlie Kirk was downplaying gun violence in the US, and using a racist dogwhistle to do so, WHILE standing under a giant fucking “prove me wrong” banner, when he was shot with a bullet labeled “OWO what’s this?” by a Mormon cop’s kid from Utah (ie, whiter than raisins in potato salad).

    That is an actual fucking series of events that actually fucking happened. We’ve gone past “the onion is reality” to “this would be too on the nose if it was an onion article and yet it’s somehow reality”.

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      12 hours ago

      this is very besides the point, but “whiter than raisins”?? i’m scared to ask, but how white are your raisins, americans?
      edit: after further research, it seems like american raisins are not white either, in which case, wtf is this saying

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        11 hours ago

        Not whiter than raisins, whiter than “[putting] raisins in potato salad.” It’s a reference to cooking. Also, I’ve never seen anyone do thay and I’m from the US south, so…pretty white I guess.

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        They said “whiter than raisins in potato salad.” It’s a meme saying that white people put raisins in potato salad.

        There’s a book by street lit author Quan Millz called Becky Put Raisins in the Potato Salad. This is actually where I heard about it and I was like “ew! Raisins in potato salad??”

        I’ve never seen a potato salad with raisins in it. Sounds gross.