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386 points italophil | 4 comments | 10 Dec 25 00:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ebbi[dead post] ◴[10 Dec 25 22:20 UTC] No.46224733[source]▶
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websiteapi ◴[10 Dec 25 22:35 UTC] No.46224930[source]▶
I'll never understand this silly take. they just took a venezuelan oil tanker. is that a joke to you? you might disagree with what they're doing, or argue they are incompetent, but joke is very strange take. they are very serious. ask some undocumented immigrants in the USA about how much they're joking.

in fact - any country seeing what trump is doing both domestically and internationally and not taking their actions potentially against them seriously is stupid imho.

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1. bravoetch ◴[10 Dec 25 22:44 UTC] No.46225028[source]▶
I think by 'joke' people mean "their actions are unreasonable to the point of ridicule, and were they less consequential would be akin to the performance of a circus clown instead of a diligent policy maker."

But the rest of us just shorten that to "joke".

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2. ebbi ◴[10 Dec 25 22:49 UTC] No.46225093[source]▶
Thank you - exactly what I meant. I thought it was a common understanding when used in this context.
3. websiteapi ◴[10 Dec 25 23:03 UTC] No.46225265[source]▶
So it’s a partisan word then and basically devoid of meaning and consistency across political lines. When hasn’t the us political class been a joke by such a definition…? Perhaps when we owned slaves, or interned the Japanese?
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