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Everyone except anyone who's made a joke you personally find distasteful, apparently.
When the thought police come for you, I hope no one lifts a finger.
Jokes are funny.
This, wasn’t a joke. Maybe it was frustration. But it wasn’t a joke.
Funny is subjective.
This was a joke, and so is your bullshit attempt to justify oubishing thoughtcrime.
Only thing less “funny” than this “joke” is the fact that people like you think it’s okay.
There is NO context in which this would be “funny”.
I have joked to my wife that our kids are lucky they're so cute so we don't throw them out of the window during a heavy day of misbehavior.
Obviously we wouldn't ever do that (even if they weren't so cute), so the joke is cathartic and can be funny in the right context.
The teacher in the context of school said “shoot” the kid. What a sick thing to even think. Whoever thinks that’s okay has some deep rooted issues.
Is it so much worse to say "shoot" than "throw them out the window"?
It’s a kid! You don’t say either!
Not as deep rooted as the person who thinks AI snitching and automated police response to a private conversation is ok.
I hope the thought police come for you one day. And I hope absolutely nobody lifts a finger to help you because they don't approve of whatever you were doing that the thought police came after you for.
Everyone gets outraged when someone shoots up a school then outraged again when it turns out the fbi has been watching them and “didn’t do their job”. Can’t fucking have it both ways.
Someone says “shoot” a kid, they deserve to be questioned.
Every mother fucking time
There's a difference between "the FBI is watching this person because they present a real or at least realistic threat" and "social media ratting someone out to the state bcs of a joke".
Idgaf how poor you find the taste of the joke, nobody deserves to be questioned under those circumstances.
Someone says they approve of the thought police, that person should have the entire contents of every device they own made public. Every mother fucking time.
An example that comes to mind is mockery. People generally find mockery of behaviour/ideas that they find nonsensical to be funny. So if someone proposes that everything can be solved by a good guy with a gun, you can then mock the idea by proposing it for increasingly ridiculous scenarios.