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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 189 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

You know. I supported Trump before he ever ran for president. I could look passed the grab them by the pussy thing; the racism thing; the white supremacy thing; the rape thing; the epstein thing; the incoherent speech thing; the nepotism; the criminal activity; him sucking off putin; the dictator thing; etc. etc.

But to hear him confuse Biden for Obama, I'm out.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 48 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Props for letting it ride and not editing

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Than the follow up comment seems weird.

[–] aninnymoose@lemm.ee 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

Oh Yeeeah!

Who dares summon the Kool-aid man?

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

You can leave the old version with it ~~crossed out~~. You just do two ~ on both ends of what you want crossed.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I'll just look passed it.

[–] Echrichor@feddit.uk 15 points 8 months ago

Could of look passed

Ftfy

[–] corymbia@reddthat.com 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Am assuming this is completely tongue-in-cheek.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

This case is super obviously sarcastic, but I'm going to use this to push the idea people should use irony or sarcasm punctuation, but none are available in unicode yet for some reason. That needs to change. I know we can use /s, but I hate that representation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

A sarcasm detector, what a useful invention

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

There's always SpongeBob text

[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Germans suggested using the Fe symbol for iron, get it?

Brought to notice by Harry Shearer on his Le Show in the 1990s where he reported it as a sincere submission.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

If you need sarcasm punctuation, then you're not doing it right.

[–] gaael@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Not everyone has the same ability to infer from asituation that a sentence is sacastic (especially with written speech). Sarcasm punctuation makes the joke more accessible, which I believe is a good thing.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Poe's law friend. Flat earther's started sarcastic and idiots believed them.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

If you repeat an absurdity in jest often enough, someone will actually believe it as truth. Marking it as sarcasm is a minor moral duty.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago

This is not true. Sometimes sarcasm is indistinguishable from a genuinely held belief of someone you're implying is wrong.

In spoken language we shift our tone, usually up and down randomly, while being sarcastic, which can be shown by shifting BEtweEEN CapITal anD LowErcASe. This isnt a great solution though, especially typing on mobile. Just like spoken language you can tell if someone is asking a question by the way the sentence is said, we need a marker for written language to tell the reader it's a question, which is the question mark. If written language didn't have this issue we wouldn't need a question mark either. It does have that issue and we do need a question mark and a sarcasm mark.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

It has to be. Right?

Right?

[–] SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Don's tongue between Uncle Vova's cheeks.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 points 8 months ago

Add it to the list.