Weird. You’d have expected it to veer to the far-right
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.
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.
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.
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.
if you need to explain your joke in 4 bullet points then maybe it’s not a great joke lol
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.
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.
The most important thing about jokes is that they conform to reality. That’s why when I was told that when a horse came into a bar and the bartender asked him, “why the long face?” I explained that no one should have to ask why a horse’s face is long because they all have long faces and that horses don’t walk into bars, but even if they did, that isn’t the question bartenders ask humans either.
And don’t even get me started with people just saying “knock knock” rather than knocking on a door.
Where did I state it had to conform to reality? Please explain.
I don’t think a joke has to conform to reality but let’s say for the sake of argument that I did express that this joke has to. What would be a difference between a joke about a horse in a bar and this joke? Oh one is just a joke, one is a joke to propagate a perspective on political events. Would that be a good reason to have a different standard for them? Yes. Especially after we saw the right meme and joke about e.g. feminism and the negative effects. Do I hold that position? Honestly not sure, ATM I would say no, even “political” jokes don’t have to conform reality. It is just odd that you made a comparison to an obviously different category of jokes.
You mean “swasticar” FTFY
Well at least it has enough torque now to climb a median.