Tony Bark@pawb.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoRepublicans shut down House floor to avoid Epstein votewww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square113linkfedilinkarrow-up1914arrow-down13cross-posted to: marchagainstnazis@lemmit.online
arrow-up1911arrow-down1external-linkRepublicans shut down House floor to avoid Epstein votewww.newsweek.comTony Bark@pawb.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square113linkfedilinkcross-posted to: marchagainstnazis@lemmit.online
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up166arrow-down2·7 days agoDear diary, Today someone was sarcastic on Lemmy and people liked it. Big day for the fediverse.
minus-squareSoup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·6 days agoThey were clear about it. Most people just write a bad take that reasonably suffers from Poe’s law and call it satire when everyone else gets mad.
minus-squarechemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up42·7 days agoI literally looked at the upvote as I was reading and had to question if it was sarcasm because it hadn’t been downvote into oblivion…
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·7 days agoI had to check if I was in a hexbear thread.
minus-squaremrgoosmoos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·edit-27 days agofr. I’ve actually been surprised by how little people around here seem to understand sarcasm
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·7 days agoWe’re a pretty neurodivergent crowd. I thrive in sarcasm, but a lot of us come with different care instructions
minus-squareLavaPlanet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up13·7 days agoThat’s not the only blockage to noticing sarcasm, there are so many people who say these / the things and actually MEAN them. We need differentiators, because the crazy levels are too high to wade through.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 days agoThat is a difficulty. Sometimes you take a risk with a joke, and if people don’t like it? Guess what, they’re right. Humour is subjective.
Dear diary,
Today someone was sarcastic on Lemmy and people liked it. Big day for the fediverse.
They were clear about it. Most people just write a bad take that reasonably suffers from Poe’s law and call it satire when everyone else gets mad.
I literally looked at the upvote as I was reading and had to question if it was sarcasm because it hadn’t been downvote into oblivion…
I had to check if I was in a hexbear thread.
fr. I’ve actually been surprised by how little people around here seem to understand sarcasm
We’re a pretty neurodivergent crowd. I thrive in sarcasm, but a lot of us come with different care instructions
That’s not the only blockage to noticing sarcasm, there are so many people who say these / the things and actually MEAN them. We need differentiators, because the crazy levels are too high to wade through.
That is a difficulty. Sometimes you take a risk with a joke, and if people don’t like it? Guess what, they’re right. Humour is subjective.