So is your argument is that satire isn’t a thing? Because this is rather clearly a satirical meme, and that kind of ridicule by inversion is pretty solidly a feature of satirical works.
Irl it was an obviously intentional act that was claimed to be an accident, and this is an accident that is mockingly taking something that’s clearly an accident and describing it like it was intentional but trying to claim it was an accident, to make fun of how utterly unbelievable the original claim is by contrasting it with the same argumentation of something that is very unlikely to be intentional.
I think your mistake is thinking this is a counter argument rather than just mocking their idiocy with some really dry satire.
The joke is satire and the comments to me were satire but the issue is that the satire doesn’t quite work when at the core of the issue is that both sides claim “misidentification” on the other side. Someone who believes that Elon didn’t do a salute, could make the same joke about you. That is why you see people posting pictures of e.g. AOC waving. They mock the “misidentification” of the salute.
They’re not mocking the misidentification of the salute, they’re trying to muddy the waters to dilute the accusations, like they have every single time something wants to stick. This is their standard playbook, as is the tone policing that comes with it.
Yes they are. By claiming “misidentification”… Not exclusively as it also works on people who believe that the Nazi were left wing Communist, because they might actually believe that AOC did the salute. But the primary function is to muddy the water by mocking the identification as a misidentification.
So is your argument is that satire isn’t a thing? Because this is rather clearly a satirical meme, and that kind of ridicule by inversion is pretty solidly a feature of satirical works.
Irl it was an obviously intentional act that was claimed to be an accident, and this is an accident that is mockingly taking something that’s clearly an accident and describing it like it was intentional but trying to claim it was an accident, to make fun of how utterly unbelievable the original claim is by contrasting it with the same argumentation of something that is very unlikely to be intentional.
I think your mistake is thinking this is a counter argument rather than just mocking their idiocy with some really dry satire.
The joke is satire and the comments to me were satire but the issue is that the satire doesn’t quite work when at the core of the issue is that both sides claim “misidentification” on the other side. Someone who believes that Elon didn’t do a salute, could make the same joke about you. That is why you see people posting pictures of e.g. AOC waving. They mock the “misidentification” of the salute.
They’re not mocking the misidentification of the salute, they’re trying to muddy the waters to dilute the accusations, like they have every single time something wants to stick. This is their standard playbook, as is the tone policing that comes with it.
Yes they are. By claiming “misidentification”… Not exclusively as it also works on people who believe that the Nazi were left wing Communist, because they might actually believe that AOC did the salute. But the primary function is to muddy the water by mocking the identification as a misidentification.