You simply cannot tell when someone is employing dark humor.
I would have thought that my exchange will Billthedrill would have clued you in.
One thing that is NOT dark humor, is that there ARE examples of torture in America these days. The behavior of the authorities as regards the J6 prisoners cannot be described as anything less than torture.
I would have thought that my exchange will Billthedrill would have clued you in.
Sorry, I have better things to do with my time than to revisit old threads unless it's to answer something directed to me.
One thing that is NOT dark humor, is that there ARE examples of torture in America these days. The behavior of the authorities as regards the J6 prisoners cannot be described as anything less than torture.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. So far I haven't seen a single link from either you or kiryandil. Nada. Zilch.
That Stalin meme is my favorite bit of dark humor.
With that said, it’s often impossible to identify satire or sarcasm any more, at least since the Babylon Bee. (Tom Lehrer said decades ago that satire died when Henry Kissinger got the Nobel Peace Prize. Lehrer is a liberal, but he was right on this.)
You may not have meant it to be taken seriously, but there are parts of what used to be conservativism that are trending towards authoritarianism, and it doesn’t take much for things like that to catch on.
Look how the left has been taken over by wokism. I don’t want to see something comparable happen on the right.