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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was so confused for several seconds what the red planet had anything to do with this.

[–] puddlexplorer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, same. English is not my primary language, so...

mars, verb

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mar.

mar, transitive verb

To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.

To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.

To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

seeing it capitalized in the post title didn't help. 😆

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I originally read it as a variant on marching like “how autistic people may silently march trough a life of abuse”

"They're bullying autistic people on Mars now??? Why????? Wtf can we not catch a bre– oh, yeah, I definitely read that wrong."

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago
[–] Agamemnon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah... I had to read that 5 times before I brained it correctly.

[–] Persen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's because society doesn't care about individuals.