Comment on Lying can be so complicated

• Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think you are underestimating the amount of near braindead people posting shit on the internet. Sometimes a person really is as dumb as you were pretending to be.

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yeah and increasingly a lot of us have to deal with people this comedy illiterate in real life, too, who think comedy is when a stand-up says a slur. naivete as a joke in 2025 just… can’t really land right unless you go full @BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz

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  • markz@suppo.fi ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sometimes a person really is as dumb as you were pretending to be.

    I mean, plot holes on this meme?

    Any chance that in hindsight those people could’ve been joking?

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• jdnewmil@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is why they invented emoticons and emoji. On the Internet, no-one can tell you are smirking unless you tell them

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  • markz@suppo.fi ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not convinced that a visual equivalent to a laugh track would’ve changed it for the better.

    So you’re telling me he slept with a clone? 🤣🤣🤣

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    • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Personally I would have used a sarcasm escape: /s

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The internet is method acting and some of us are in too deep to come out

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