Turns out the President set the whole thing up as a publicity stunt. Very rude.

The ninjas will go away, it will be fine.

listen; i'm sure there were very fine ninjas on both sides.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the ninjas.

Can we just let them have him?

The president has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?

At first, I obviously thought I was correct.  Then I thought perhaps the spelling had changed for some reason.  Copyright/trademark law is weird, ya know?  Now I just accept I goofed. XD

See, that one directly applies to me.  Apparently, I'd been misreading and mispronouncing it wrong for over 30 years... and I still slip and do it the wrong way much of the time.

for the Internet age its the "Berenstain" Effect.

Can you root for what The Rock is cooking!?

sOmEoNe NoTiCeD-

I am the only one rooting for the rock these days?

Sour grapes for the next decade until Apophis hits.

Thank yoo for vatching hydroolic pthress chan-nel.

Hey, do you have any grapes?

I dunno... it sounds kind of quackers to me.

That would be nice....

I wish I could just sit by a pond and watch ducks for a while.

Others say Joe sat down at this pond next to these ducks but really there's just no place in this world for an old man and his ducks.

Even worse when I can produce those verifiable facts at a later point, and then the other person simply claims the argument was the other way round (as in, I was actually arguing their position and vice versa).

I can argue with people about my versus their memory of events when verifiable facts are not readily available, though, and I get really annoyed when I'm capable of presenting a precise, step-by-step summary with multiple key points that can be used for future verification, and the other person just goes "nope, wrong" without going into detail.

I forget things, and I misremember things. But when presented with verifiable facts, my reaction is more like "Huh, could have sworn it was like that", not "this reality is not my own".

I have an extremely good memory (which I have proven time and again), and even I can be mistaken.

Might be worth pointing out that it only became "Mandela Effect" and not just "I remembered this wrong" when a conspiracy theorist insisted it was proof of alternate timelines.

Incorrectly remembering Nelson Mandela's fate may be uniquely American... but is it really that strange to get South African political history wrong when you're no where near South Africa?

I always assumed the Mandela Effect was a "human thing", not an American thing.

Then there are people who outright manufacture memories for whatever reason.

The human brain is so flaky that it is extremely unlikely that a given person does NOT have any false memories.

Perhaps it's simple word association the movie Sinbad and then our minds apply the same memories to a man named Sinbad.

The Mandela Effect is the same as people remembering Sinbad in a movie where he played a genie... Of which he never did.

People that believe Mandela Effect things would rather come up with any number of reasons as to why their version doesn't have any actual evidence(like alternate timelines collapsing into our own) than just admit they remembered something wrong

Sort of. It's more that when presented with a verifiable fact, they double down because it's what they believe instead of changing their minds

"I could have sworn that ______."

I'm not arguing with either of those two statements, but they're not really connected. Mandela Effect is, to oversimplify, people being widely mistaken about what they think *is* a verifiable fact. Nothing to do with opinions.

Pretty sure the Mandela Effect in general is an American thing. Opinion > Verifiable Facts is sadly a pretty American thing

Ask these people how Apartheid ended according to their recollection, and I'm sure they'll draw a blank.

You got two black anti-Apartheid activists who were imprisoned by the oppressive regime. One died, the other was Nelson Mandela. It's not a far stretch that Americans who don't know many details about the history of other countries would mix up the two.

My own theory is that these people are simply mixing up Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko, another South African anti-Apartheid activist, who did indeed die in police custody in 1977. There was an Oscar-nominated movie about his life starring Denzel Washington that came out in 1987, the same time frame these people claim remembering Mandela dying.

I met a few people from South Africa, and they either never heard of the phenomenon at all, or only know of it from the internet. Apparently, it's completely unknown in South Africa, and it might even be entirely limited to the United States.

So does anyone remember the "Mandela Effect"? I'm talking specifically about the original case where many people vividly remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s.

Crisis of Corona.

Which crisis crossover are we on now? I lost track.

Much of the past decade has been the part of the comic series where less than stellar authors have driven the series into the ground and the editors are getting ready to either do a big multi issue crossover, leading to a reboot.

At this point I've just decided to consider 2020 "not canon."

'member Pepperidge Farm?

Before the 'member berries there was Pepperidge farm. Pepperidge farm remembers.

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@Nevermore yes.

Is $30 a good deal for Subscription Service Breakdown?

Oh dear God no. Twitter has changed it's default layout to the terrible new one. Why waste so much space on the left?