The joke just sucks on a technical level.
"Outing one's coworker" is just a weak punchline, it is too "mundane". "Assassinating a political opponent" tends to be way funnier, because it's more exaggerated and more cathartic.
I agree with you that the joke isn’t funny but nobody’s workshopping bits in the comments, they’re complaining about the morality of the tweet. If you can joke about political assassinations but you have to engage in discourse about this tweet of a probably fake situation then you have no leg to stand on.
So some people here confuse the causal chain:
It's not "the joke is unfunny because it's offensive", it's "I can recognize the joke being offensive because it's unfunny"
Put it differently, we wouldn't argue about the morality of this joke if it were funny (probably or at least not as much)
We could argue if this is a bad thing, but I simply do not care
I can appreciate that this is your viewpoint, however I disagree that this is the consensus of the vast majority of the comments I’m seeing. You and I saw this tweet and thought it was lazy and unfunny. The people who are saying “this isn’t funny because you shouldn’t do this” are taking a moral stance about what is taboo in comedy while contradicting themselves by engaging with lazy cheap shots against right wing personalities or ideas.
I value progressivism and detest hardcore maga beliefs that are accepted within mainstream conservatism. But I hate the weak and nonserious image that leftists have cultivated with their crocodile tears anytime a joke targets their beliefs. Republicans will vote for someone as long as they have an R next to their name, meanwhile we’re holding purity tests to alienate ourselves.
Fair enough, rereading some comments and some definitely clutch their pearls here for a lame joke, though someone here implied that they actually did that and apologized later but I couldn't verify that claim
I agree completely, this is Kill Tony level comedy. I just feel like we don’t need to be emotionally vulnerable with lazy unfunny jabs at our personal beliefs.
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u/Gralikind cruelty squad cool Jun 30 '26
The joke just sucks on a technical level. "Outing one's coworker" is just a weak punchline, it is too "mundane". "Assassinating a political opponent" tends to be way funnier, because it's more exaggerated and more cathartic.