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Mikhail Gorbachev has died

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970 points homarp | 4 comments | 30 Aug 22 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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kenned3[dead post] ◴[30 Aug 22 21:14 UTC] No.32655164[source]▶
ipnon ◴[30 Aug 22 21:24 UTC] No.32655307[source]▶
Let me tell you why I think this is an inappropriate comment: The point of it seems not to be collaboratively extending the line of thought proposed by the original post or the parent comment, but to make the parent commenter feel some kind of personal shame or stupidity. Good commenting is more like a team sport than a martial art.
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kenned3 ◴[30 Aug 22 21:27 UTC] No.32655337[source]▶
So like telling "jokes" at Russia's expense by a man of questionable ethics?

what is the point of his joke, if not to mock another country?

The OP posted a quote, and i posted one too?

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1. hk__2 ◴[30 Aug 22 21:42 UTC] No.32655528[source]▶
The author of the joke doesn’t really matter here; the point is that it’s funny, period. I’m not sure how you can see a mockery of any country in a joke that would work with literally any important person in any country.
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2. kenned3 ◴[30 Aug 22 21:50 UTC] No.32655613[source]▶
Comedy is subjective.

Try telling a sexually charged joke at your place of employment and see what happens.

World leaders freely slandering other countries like this is shameful, and not what you expect from a "world leader".

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3. mhh__ ◴[30 Aug 22 21:57 UTC] No.32655694[source]▶
In that case there'd be no need to mention reagan at all? most of the "Soviet" jokes people tell seem to be made up anyhow.
4. hk__2 ◴[31 Aug 22 13:06 UTC] No.32661562[source]▶
There’s nothing slandering here. As I wrote above, the joke could work with literally anyone.