cheshireinthemiddle: siryouarebeingmocked: hominishostilis: keyhollow:godpenis: This is SUCH a goo
cheshireinthemiddle: siryouarebeingmocked: hominishostilis: keyhollow: godpenis: This is SUCH a good thread on Trump’s second amendment comments and the idea of “just joking” I guess I’m a racist sexist Nazi lovin sumbitch because I joke about those topics. Take me away. “well IIIII Wrote A THiNG and Iiiiiii have A PhD!!”, this dude is literally citing himself as an expert for his own opinion lmao Jokes are jokes. This is why most of y’all are humorless morons, you think jokes are indicative of reality. For the record, he’s a former English professor and now a lawyer. Not, say, sociology or psychology. Nothing that would actually lend more weight to his opinion, even if Appeal to Authority wasn’t a fallacy.Also, it’s kind of hypocritical to slide “jokes are subject to interpretation” in the middle of your epic manthread about how certain jokes are totally not joking. And it’s kind of odd to say “Trump wasn’t being satirical in a complex way, but he was trying to make certain ideas more acceptable through psychological manipulation of millions of people.” At that point, the only real difference is what you think his intent was. His argument lost merit after the second or third tweet. We *do* joke alone. Whether it be while we are by ourselves temporarily or when we grow up isolated. People stuck alone at sea with no one to talk to joke. People who grow up in snall villages surrounded by people just like them still joke. We even have jokes that we tell ourselves and do not reveal in the presence of others. We can joke about things we have no intention of doing. You can joke about killing someone if they are late again. You can joke about kidnapping a child as a form of mocking security. You can joke about hating your job over literally one minor inconvenience. The realm where a joke should perhaps be taken seriously is when someone has the power and intention to make it happen. “You are so dead if youre late again” laughing at your spouse as he comes back a few minutes late from an important errand is one thing. Saying it with a knife in your hand is another. -- source link