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Vladimir Putin wins Oscar for Best Director of a Foreign Country (newsthump.com)

submitted 5 months ago by merdaverse@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social

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Vladimir Putin has been crowned the Best Director of a Foreign Country at this year’s Academy Awards after helming the political-comedy ‘The United States of America’.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

that was a given, since he had all the nominations

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Great voting. Best voting ever.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Netanyahu got scammed

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 5 points 5 months ago

Netanyahu scammed. Dunno about getting scammed.

[–] Shave_MyBeever@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Also winner of the Cold War!

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

You know, it's occurring to me now that we're getting our own medicine. How many governments have we controlled?

[–] m3t00@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago

buy a few hundred politicians. r is for rubles