People understand that the entire thing about nincompoopery is that it's aggravating, right Like a Richard Dawkins type at his most condescending will never succeed in being as infuriating as some random barfly who loves THE BIG BANG THEORY taking the exact same tone with you
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Like it's one thing to be an asshole, right. Like _I_ love to be an asshole. But oooooooh man is there something really invidious about a STUPID asshole
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And that's the thing, right A _stupid_ asshole will take relish in your anger, thinking that they have achieved such heights via the craftsmanship of their assholeness But unbeknownst to them, the reason for their success is that they are so very, very, very fucking stupid
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And that's the perfect circumstances for a feedback loop of white-hot rage "huhr huhr huhr, doesn't it just cheese you off how much of a fucking dunce I don't know I am, look how mad you are, huhr huhr"
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Douglas Adams' archetypal example of this was Jerry Seinfeld's joke "If the black box is the only part of the plane that's engineered to be indestructible, why don't they just make the whole plane out of the black box?" Which is such a stupid fucking question
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Specifically that you can't even tell him the answer even though it's extremely obvious because then you come off as the wet blanket explaining the joke Like he said this is what made him fall out of love with comedy, the Hannah Gadsby thing about how you can't learn from jokes
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Honestly my favorite response to Seinfeldian humor was Gilbert Gottfried who has a surprisingly spot on Seinfeld impression
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Just doing the little smirking face and meandering delivery "I don't understand... buses. I mean, people get on them, they sit there for ten minutes, and then they just get off again! On, off, on, off. I don't get it"
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"And they pay money for this!"
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