@Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-26 hours agoDuring their visit to the United States, President Trump showed President Zelensky and President Macron his collection of MAGA hatslemmy.worldimagemessage-square282fedilinkarrow-up11.07Karrow-down115
arrow-up11.06Karrow-down1imageDuring their visit to the United States, President Trump showed President Zelensky and President Macron his collection of MAGA hatslemmy.world@Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-26 hours agomessage-square282fedilink
minus-square@SLVRDRGN@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish51•21 hours 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-square@SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-29 hours 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”