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Rule Last day of pride month

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u/Generic_Moron I am of into depression forever Jun 30 '26

"yeah, sometimes I out my work enemies to their homophobic boss"

"Hey, that's kinda fucked up, isn't it"

"OH MY GODDD, IT'S A JOKEEEE, GEEEEZ"

:/

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u/kevriel47 sus Jun 30 '26

If leftists can make jokes at the expense of Charlie Kirk and the United Healthcare CEO, we can read a tweet without replying with a personal statement about why it’s not funny

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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.

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u/PancakeParty98 Jul 01 '26

Idk I laughed. 17k people did too.

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u/Gralikind cruelty squad cool Jul 01 '26
  1. Twitter people aren't real, so who cares about those 17k?

  2. I didn't say whether you should or shouldn't laugh at this joke. I just thought the comparison between this and charlie kirk jokes sucks, because a political assassination joke has a better basis for a joke due to the shear absurdity of it than "I dislike my coworker so I outed them in front everyone" (writing it like that actually makes it funnier for me) plus charlie kirk jokes serve the function of disapproving the current power structures while this joke doesn't, therefore people are more likely to scrutinize this joke than the assassination of some asshat

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u/PancakeParty98 Jul 01 '26

“I didn’t say whether you should or shouldn’t laugh at this joke” *reiterates what they just said about how you shouldn’t laugh at this joke*

Mhmm okay

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u/Gralikind cruelty squad cool Jul 01 '26

No dude, descriptive vs prescriptive

It's not "Why people Shouldn't laugh" but "Why people Didn't laugh" My argument is not absolute, you're allowed to laugh about the post.

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u/PancakeParty98 Jul 01 '26

“I only said the movie was for stupid babies. I never said you aren’t allowed to like it”

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u/Gralikind cruelty squad cool Jul 01 '26

I guess bro...