• haulyard@lemmy.world
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    And when he turned around and pointed violently at the flag in the same style? Does that make it more clear?

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      It wasn’t completely clear that my comment was pure sarcasm? Seriously?

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        That’s been the conservative line all day. Repeating a partisan lie word for word is not sarcasm.

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          Nobody conservative was defending this by saying he was pointing his thumb and the rest of his fingers violently at someone

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        I’ve found online that /s is almost always needed. May take a bit from the joke but also, clarifies for everyone that you are not actually being an asshole when you can’t visibly roll your eyes and use the proper “sarcasm inflection”

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          I’ve found that people who can’t detect obvious sarcasm are probably not worth the effort of explaining it

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            Tbh one of the things that makes detecting sarcasm vs actually just defending him hard is that normally you can use prior knowledge of a persons opinions to help, but here I have no clue who you are and what your positions are and you might just be a random Nazi.

            If you really don’t like just having the /s there, one options is to include a spoiler and put the /s in there a few lines down.

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            Fair. I’ve spent most my life working with the neurodivergent community, so even IRL I know some very intelligent people need a bit of help with implied meaning. I know I’ve had my fair share of “woosh” moments

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          Who “points their thumb” at someone “violently”? What reality is this

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        Youre talking to people whose country elected trump. Even the bright ones aren’t too bright.

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            if I may interject with a suggestion going forwards, I usually add one of these to a comment when I’m being a smartass

            for the intellectually challenged

            /s

            then again you may find it funnier to omit that, I’m not your dad, do what you want.

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              I really do find it funnier to omit clues to idiots who read my comments