Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-222 hours agoDuring their visit to the United States, President Trump showed President Zelensky and President Macron his collection of MAGA hatslemmy.worldimagemessage-square323fedilinkarrow-up11.13Karrow-down114file-text
arrow-up11.11Karrow-down1imageDuring their visit to the United States, President Trump showed President Zelensky and President Macron his collection of MAGA hatslemmy.worldDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-222 hours agomessage-square323fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSLVRDRGN@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·2 days ago“He’s proven again and again that joking is his way of introducing particularly harmful ideas into public discourse, and they have a way to sort of become normalized because we might dismiss them as jokes,” Marx said. “So even if it’s framed as kind of a glib or ironic, we have to still take those things seriously and call them out for what they are.”
minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 day ago“it’s just a joke” has been the biggest lie of everyone that had ever said it Humor has a purpose, it introduces ideas, it hits at an undercurrent of communication. It’s never “just a joke”
“He’s proven again and again that joking is his way of introducing particularly harmful ideas into public discourse, and they have a way to sort of become normalized because we might dismiss them as jokes,” Marx said. “So even if it’s framed as kind of a glib or ironic, we have to still take those things seriously and call them out for what they are.”
“it’s just a joke” has been the biggest lie of everyone that had ever said it
Humor has a purpose, it introduces ideas, it hits at an undercurrent of communication. It’s never “just a joke”