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Have you noticed that people who don't get the joke are unable to consider that other people might?

Jokes are funny when they punch up [at people with more power/status]; they're asinine when you punch down. This is an excellent satire, which should have become obvious when the robot shows up...



Holy crap, and as a cousin post just pointed out, it's the Soylent guy.

He's neither punching up nor down, but in: the optimal direction to punch.


It's like Rick Santorum satirizing conservatism.


Hey, Rob comes off as slightly to moderately to extremely naive, depending on who you ask. But he never struck me as utterly un-self aware.

This post, however, does seem almost too good, as if it's the greatest PR coup of all time.




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