• MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    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.

    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      50 minutes ago

      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.

    • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 hours ago

      I am “complaining” on a high level here. I just happen to think that it doesn’t work as good as it could due to the inversion. No hate towards the op or towards people who enjoy the joke.