Which was, literally, a joke.https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/994971174982516736 …
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
That is revisionist history. He didn’t say it in a joking manner & his statement was on the heels of President Trump discussing critical comments Senator McCain made about one of his rallies. I rewatched the clip and I didn’t see anything that would indicate he was joking.
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Replying to @davideisaacson
It's your opinion versus a professional humorist with three decades of joke-writing experience who recognizes this as a common joke form. Aaaand I laughed hard the first time I heard it.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
True, I lack any experience as a professional humorist and you have been quite successful in that regard. So as an expert what joke form was expressed here that I missed?
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Replying to @davideisaacson
He reframed the situation from hero to loser in a way your brain reflexively recognizes as simultaneously "true but false." It uses two of the six dimensions of humor: clever and mean. More here:https://bit.ly/2FJsoQg
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
Read the article but don’t personally see the connection. One, and this is just me, I didn’t view it as a “true but false” I just saw it as a petty insult from a man who didn’t serve or sacrifice. I get the ‘mean’ part (only a hero cause he was captured), where was the clever?
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Replying to @davideisaacson
Reframing him as a loser because he got caught. It is not a valid point, but it is a clever in the nonsensical way of humor.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
He’s smiling and makes self deprecating comments. Whatever my opinion on the joke it’s pretty clear it’s intended to be received that way. Not so with his comments on McCain, which is why I believe them to be sincere (as do several of his supporters on this very thread). /4x
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I’ve described the formula of a joke, showed you this fits the formula perfectly (which rarely happens by accident), observed that the audience laughed, and I am literally an expert on the topic. We’re done.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays @davideisaacson
Yet questioning experts in fields you know literally nothing about comes so easily to you, how odd?
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