Everyone stop laughing. This guy has dissected the post and found it faulty.
It’s a good thing we have him to police humor for us. Next time, please make sure all post have their stamp of approval before posting to save ourselves from this embarrassment.
But it’s not a crash. If it were a crash the driver would clearly say “oops, I certainly didn’t mean to crash”. That’s clearly the truck showing love to the barrier. The driver said so.
And in their defense they weren’t trying to be as clever as possible they were being topical. So it’s not a 1:1 analogy, it’s still absurd and speaks to the absurdity of elon. We’re taking a piss over here; not doing quantum parody.
That is my point. It doesn’t work on all 4 levels. And I never said it has to. I am saying it doesn’t because of the decisions made. My issue isn’t that it isn’t a 1:1 comparison, it is the misidentification, given that it is the counterargument of what they try to make fun off. In a way, it agrees with those that it tries to make fun off.
So is your argument is that satire isn’t a thing? Because this is rather clearly a satirical meme, and that kind of ridicule by inversion is pretty solidly a feature of satirical works.
Irl it was an obviously intentional act that was claimed to be an accident, and this is an accident that is mockingly taking something that’s clearly an accident and describing it like it was intentional but trying to claim it was an accident, to make fun of how utterly unbelievable the original claim is by contrasting it with the same argumentation of something that is very unlikely to be intentional.
I think your mistake is thinking this is a counter argument rather than just mocking their idiocy with some really dry satire.
The joke is satire and the comments to me were satire but the issue is that the satire doesn’t quite work when at the core of the issue is that both sides claim “misidentification” on the other side. Someone who believes that Elon didn’t do a salute, could make the same joke about you. That is why you see people posting pictures of e.g. AOC waving. They mock the “misidentification” of the salute.
They’re not mocking the misidentification of the salute, they’re trying to muddy the waters to dilute the accusations, like they have every single time something wants to stick. This is their standard playbook, as is the tone policing that comes with it.
Yes they are. By claiming “misidentification”… Not exclusively as it also works on people who believe that the Nazi were left wing Communist, because they might actually believe that AOC did the salute. But the primary function is to muddy the water by mocking the identification as a misidentification.
I am “complaining” on a high level here. I just happen to think that it doesn’t work as good as it could due to the inversion. No hate towards the op or towards people who enjoy the joke.
Sometimes jokes occur at multiple levels. In this case, the joke is pretending to be those people who claimed to not recognize the obvious.
I find it interesting that some people don’t get this. Not because of what it says about their inability to process complex information, that’s well known. I am interested in how such people struggle to acknowledge that others can process more complexity than they can byattempting to claim that complex processing is broken.
I find all forms of projection fascinating especially the cases where one comes up with it without prompting.
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Why are you calling it a crash? The truck just has autism. Besides, here are a bunch of photos of other trucks crashing. photos of parked trucks
Everyone stop laughing. This guy has dissected the post and found it faulty.
It’s a good thing we have him to police humor for us. Next time, please make sure all post have their stamp of approval before posting to save ourselves from this embarrassment.
“It’s a good think”
thing*
Don’t be a grammar republican.
Weirdly judgemental towards a person, because that person was judgemental towards a joke. Feels like you want to police someone, strange.
But it’s not a crash. If it were a crash the driver would clearly say “oops, I certainly didn’t mean to crash”. That’s clearly the truck showing love to the barrier. The driver said so.
Love to the Barrier is my next big track dropping on SoundCloud.
It’ll be on the soundtrack of the next cyberpunk movie.
The joke is that the car factually crashed. Elon Musk also factually did a Nazi salute.
So someone wrote a comment distorting what factually happened with the car like people do for Elons frantic hand gestures.
And in their defense they weren’t trying to be as clever as possible they were being topical. So it’s not a 1:1 analogy, it’s still absurd and speaks to the absurdity of elon. We’re taking a piss over here; not doing quantum parody.
A joke doesn’t need to work on all 4 levels. Upon seeing this, I immediately caught the joke was an inversion, not a 1:1 comparison.
That is my point. It doesn’t work on all 4 levels. And I never said it has to. I am saying it doesn’t because of the decisions made. My issue isn’t that it isn’t a 1:1 comparison, it is the misidentification, given that it is the counterargument of what they try to make fun off. In a way, it agrees with those that it tries to make fun off.
So is your argument is that satire isn’t a thing? Because this is rather clearly a satirical meme, and that kind of ridicule by inversion is pretty solidly a feature of satirical works.
Irl it was an obviously intentional act that was claimed to be an accident, and this is an accident that is mockingly taking something that’s clearly an accident and describing it like it was intentional but trying to claim it was an accident, to make fun of how utterly unbelievable the original claim is by contrasting it with the same argumentation of something that is very unlikely to be intentional.
I think your mistake is thinking this is a counter argument rather than just mocking their idiocy with some really dry satire.
The joke is satire and the comments to me were satire but the issue is that the satire doesn’t quite work when at the core of the issue is that both sides claim “misidentification” on the other side. Someone who believes that Elon didn’t do a salute, could make the same joke about you. That is why you see people posting pictures of e.g. AOC waving. They mock the “misidentification” of the salute.
They’re not mocking the misidentification of the salute, they’re trying to muddy the waters to dilute the accusations, like they have every single time something wants to stick. This is their standard playbook, as is the tone policing that comes with it.
Yes they are. By claiming “misidentification”… Not exclusively as it also works on people who believe that the Nazi were left wing Communist, because they might actually believe that AOC did the salute. But the primary function is to muddy the water by mocking the identification as a misidentification.
if you need to explain your joke in 4 bullet points then maybe it’s not a great joke lol
My joke? Their joke.
ah sorry I thought you were trying to be funny as well
I think I might understand what you mean. The joke insinuates that what happened with Elon on stage was an accident and not a deliberate nazi salute.
The opposite is probably true with the car. The driver probably did not intend to crash their car.
I think most people, myself included just accepted the joke at face value, but you are right, it’s reversed.
I am “complaining” on a high level here. I just happen to think that it doesn’t work as good as it could due to the inversion. No hate towards the op or towards people who enjoy the joke.
Sometimes jokes occur at multiple levels. In this case, the joke is pretending to be those people who claimed to not recognize the obvious.
I find it interesting that some people don’t get this. Not because of what it says about their inability to process complex information, that’s well known. I am interested in how such people struggle to acknowledge that others can process more complexity than they can byattempting to claim that complex processing is broken.
I find all forms of projection fascinating especially the cases where one comes up with it without prompting.